Various · 2025 · 13+ · 75 min
Animation Is Film is immensely proud to shine a spotlight on some of year’s most extraordinary and innovative shorts across a series of four discrete Short Film Presentations. In SHORTS 3, a selection of highlights from the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, curated by our partners at Women in Animation.
AFTERGLOW (Hungary / Sophia Belleli, Lazarine Biaud, Joyanne Marquetant, Sarah Remane, Yann Tournois)
In this 2025 Annecy Ident, a group of young Hungarians wander from Budapest’s old city, uncovering its layers of history and beauty before arriving at the city’s iconic ruin bars and nightclubs.
HAIRY LEGS (Canada / Andrea Dorfman)
One question — “Why do I have to shave my legs?” — sets a 13-year-old on a journey of self-discovery, capturing the shift from carefree days to facing — and challenging — the expectations and stereotypes that shape girlhood.
OVARY ACTING (Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom / Ida Melum)
At her sister’s baby shower, a thirty-something woman is forced to confront motherhood… in perhaps the most unexpected — and literal — way possible.
SAFO (Brazil / Rosana Urbes)
Inspired by fragments of poems by Sappho (Lesbos, 600 BC) — the first known female author of the Western world — lyrical expressions entwine with the shifting interpretations of her figure across history.
SULAIMANI (France / Vinnie Ann Bose)
Two friends share a meal at an Indian restaurant in Paris, where the flavours stir buried emotions and unlock memories that slowly reveal why they left their homeland.
ZWERMEN ❊ MURMURATION (Belgium, The Netherlands / Janneke Swinkels, Tim Frijsinger)
Trapped in a nursing home — a world of bingo, pills, dentures, and dementia — an elderly man longs for freedom beyond its walls, in a magical-realist fable of longing and escape.