Short 6

Purdee & Pals: Baby Bee's Boot 05:00

United Kingdom 2024
Directed by: David van Marten
Screenplay: David Burns
Production/School: David Burns
Dialogue language: English



In the wonderful world of Purdee and all her pals, Baby Bee, on his first day out with Daddy Bee, loses his boot. It takes Purdee and all her friends to help him find it. Richard Kinsey's wonderful characters include Waddles and Twaddles, the 2-headed caterpillar, Wiggledy, the skateboarding worm, Melvyn, the snail, and Hoppington, the tea-serving orchestra-conducting grasshopper.



The Big Girl 06:01

Russia 2023
Directed by: Anastasiia Chikerlan
Screenplay: Anastasiia Chikerlan
Animation: Yulia Saenko, Daria Akimova, Anna Shvets, Vera Vyugina, Olga Pyatnichko, Anastasiia Chikerlan, Boris Meerov
Technique: 2D animation
Music: Simon Khristenko
Production/School: Nikolay Makovsky
Dialogue language: No Dialogue



The main character is a giant girl who likes ships a lot. One day a strong storm broke out in the port. One of the ships could not enter the port due to strong wind. The girl helps to moor the ship. One of the rescued sailors falls in love with her and tries to get her attention.

Pufferfish / Kugelfisch 03:37

Germany 2022
Directed by: Julia Ocker
Screenplay: Julia Ocker
Production/School: Thomas Meyer-Hermann
Dialogue language: No Dialogue



In an ocean full of big, bad fish, the pufferfish is trying to seem as big and strong as possible.

Rhino 03:37
Germany 2022
Directed by: Julia Ocker
Screenplay: Julia Ocker
Production/School: Thomas Meyer-Hermann

The rhino is looking forward to his date with the rhino lady.
Faryad's Group 10:00

Iran 2024
Directed by: Farhad Abasnejad
Screenplay: Behrouz Salemi, Mehdi Asadzadeh
Production/School: Yousef Bachari
Dialogue language: Persian



Four characters named Java, Dara, Mana and Parva live in the same neighborhood and each of them has their own characteristic and ability. When Mr. Faryad, the new teacher for sport comes to the school, a group is formed to solve the problems of the neighborhood together.

Little Other 12:00
Estonia 2024
Directed by: Andres Tenusaar
Screenplay: Andres Tenusaar
Production/School: Kerdi Oengo, Märt Kivi

In our film two babies are about to be born. One of them is bound to be a regular kid. The other is destined to be a trickster. There's the rub - how to determine which is which, since the birth of identical twins in itself is a trick performed by Nature! Nobody is aware of what is about to happen next - the existing of life have unanimously been abolished. The new ones are yet to be established.
La Bee de Beeley 01:20
United Kingdom 2023
Directed by: Sacha Beeley
Production/School: Proyecto Ace Residency, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Everyone is jelly of Queen Bee. She loves laying eggs all day! Without her, all the bees would be stuck! She loves having everyone rely on her
St. Vitus Dance / La danse de saint Guy 12:00
France 2023
Directed by: Bhopal
Screenplay: Bhopal
Animation: Bhopal
Technique: Painting
Music: Jo Cimatti
Production/School: No production
Dialogue language: French
Subtitles language: English

Two brothers in search of an area of freedom, before the walls of the disease become too high.


Night of the Dancing Cranes_24fps / 鶴が舞う夜に 09:45

Japan 2023
Directed by: Erina Kawai
Screenplay: Jun Misaki
Production/School: Rei Tsukahara
Dialogue language: Japanese
Subtitles language: English



At one summer vacation. Masaki and his grandfather head for Hokkaido to search for the crane that grandfather remembers from his memory. While following the crane at night, Masaki gets lost in the forest, but is guided by the light of fireflies and meets a mysterious white-haired young man. Will Masaki be able to see the cranes with his grandfather?

Tennis, Oranges 10:53

United States 2023
Directed by: Sean Pecknold
Screenplay: Sean Pecknold
Production/School: Sean Pecknold
Dialogue language: Mandarin Chinese



A robotic vacuum suffering from burnout quits its job at a hospital and sets out to find community and a greater purpose on a quiet street where two lonely rabbits are stuck in perpetual loops.

Moonless / चंद्रहीन (Chandraheen) 24:13
India 2023
Directed by: Adheep Das
Screenplay: Avanti Basargekar
Animation: Adheep Das
Technique: Traditional 2D, Digital 2D, 3D, Stop Motion
Music: Shivpal Singh Kang
Production/School: ThinkArts Foundation
Dialogue language: Hindi
Subtitles language: English

A bull flees from his herd. The moon goes missing from the sky. The bull runs across this new moonless world, looking for its limit. Instead, he finds different people and their many endeavors, and in them, discovers their limitlessness. He learns of his own penchant for poetry and finds a way to transform his quest.