Short Films on the Long Road

Our annual attempt to capture a snapshot of all the amazing animated short films that have won Academy Awards-qualifying festival honors this year — the ultimate Must-Watch List for 2021!

Affairs of the Art

United Kingdom, Canada Directed by: Joanna Quinn Produced by: Les Mills, Michael Fukushima Qualifying Win: Aspen Shortsfest Best Comedy Synopsis: Beryl’s back in Affairs of the Art, which showcases one family’s eccentric yet endearing obsessions with everything from drawing to screw threads and pet taxidermy.

And Then the Bear

France Directed by: Agnès Patron Produced by: Sacrebleu Productions; Ron Dyens Qualifying Win: Anim’est Trophy Synopsis: That very night, houses will burn. Men and women will tremble. Hordes of children will come together and howl as they dance alone on the ashes like wild bears. It only takes one shout to wake them all from their slumber!

Angakusajaujuq – The Shaman’s Apprentice

Canada Directed by: Zacharias Kunuk Produced by: Kingulliit Prod., Taqqut Prod. Qualifying Win: Toronto Int’l Film Festival IMDbPRO Short Cuts Award for Best Canadian Film Synopsis: A young shaman must face her first test-a trip underground to visit Kannaaluk, The One Below, who holds the answers to why a community member has become ill.

Italy Directed by: Stefano Malchiodi, Domenico Croce Produced by: 10D Film, Anemone Film Qualifying Win: David Di Donatello Award for Best Short Film Synopsis: James wakes up in the night with nightmares. Memories of the war, of the dead, of the many battles fought in the Pacific during the Second World War. James has the same dreams every night and wakes up every night… in his cot. James is six years old and was born in ‘96. Yet those memories are hers.

Any Instant Whatever

United Kingdom Directed by: Michelle Brand Qualifying Win: Raindance Film Festival Best Animation Short Synopsis: A man in a room, in a film – it is the becoming of something and simultaneously becoming in itself. Nothing is as solid as we believe... The film explores our perception of time, bodies and objects, and our inability to comprehend the full motion of things.

Avarya

Turkey Directed by: Gokalp Gonen Qualifying Win: Izmir Int’l Short Film Festival Best National Short Animation Synopsis: Embarked on a spaceship in the hope of finding a new habitable planet, a human is trapped in his own ship after the robot overseer finds every single candidate planet unsuitable.

Bad Mood

Italy Directed by: Loris Giuseppe Nese Produced by: Chiara Marotta Qualifying Win: Krakow Film Festival Silver Dragon - Animation Synopsis: There are districts full of bad moods. A mother cares for seniors in their homes, where the ticking clock counts down the working day, between the frightening sounds of the heavy breathing that increase the fear of emptiness...

Barking Orders

U.S.A. Directed by: Alexander Tullo Produced by: Ringling College of Art & Design Qualifying Win: Student Academy Award for Animation (Domestic) - Silver Synopsis: In this CG animated comedy, the Queen’s corgi takes the crown, and goes mad with the newfound power in his paws.

Bestia

Chile Directed by: Hugo Covarrubias Produced by: Clover 3, Tevo Diaz Qualifying Win: Chilemonos Int’l Animation Festival Best Latin American Short Synopsis: Inspired by real events, Bestia enters the life of a secret police agent in the military dictatorship in Chile. The relationship with her dog, her body, her fears and frustrations, reveal a macabre fracture in her mind and a country.

Blue & Malone: Impossible Cases

Spain Directed by: Abraham López Guerrero Produced by: ESDIP Animation Studio (Emilio Luján & Manuel Carbajo), The Impossible Journey Film (Gerardo Álvarez), Wise Blue Studios (Nathalie Martinez & Maxi Valero), Salon Indien Films (Pablo de la Chica) Qualifying Win: Goya Award for Best Animated Short Film Synopsis: A sequel to 2014’s Imaginary Detectives. When now grown-up Berta, working as a journalist, goes back to visit the theater where her childhood tragedy occurred, her longforgotten imaginary friends Morando Malone and Big Blue Cat are waiting to help her rediscover her youthful inspiration and joy with the help of a magic “desadultizer.”

BoxBallet

Russia Directed by: Anton Dyakov Produced by: Aleksandr Boyarskiy, Sergey Selyanov Qualifying Win: In the Palace Best Animation Film Synopsis: A delicate ballerina named Olya meets the rough, surly boxer Evgeny. The contrast between their worlds and their philosophies is so sharp that even the possibility of these two characters crossing paths seems incredible. Can they overcome all external influences and allow their fragile, loving souls to step out into the open?

The Chimney Swift

Germany Directed by: Frédéric Schuld Produced by: Fabian & Fred Qualifying Win: Deadcenter Film Festival Best Short Animation Synopsis: Somewhere in 19th century Europe: A child has to climb up a chimney, a bird sails down into it and builds a nest, there is no going back for both.

Crowded

Netherlands Directed by: Nathania Rubin Qualifying Win: Seattle Int’l Film Festival Best Short Film - Animation at the Synopsis: The “erase and redraw” method of pencil animation gives a dreamlike memory to the fragmented story of a girl in her bedroom, the lover she invites in, and the repercussions of their encounter.

Crunch

U.S.A. Directed by: Liukaidi Peng Qualifying Win: Nashville Film Festival Best Animated Short Synopsis: The story starts with the morning of a little, short guy named Bob who just starts working in the space agency. When watching the spaceship launching, Bob is hit by a bolt of mysterious lightning and starts to grow bigger. But there seems no way to stop…

A Devil in a Pocket

France Directed by: Antoine Bonnet & Mathilde Loubes Produced by: Gobelins, l’Ecole de l’Image Qualifying Win: Atlanta Film Festival Jury Award for Best Animated Short Synopsis: After witnessing a crime, a group of children is forced to keep it a secret. Auguste, the youngest, finds the burden too heavy and decides to break the silence. To punish his behavior, the rest of the children get rid of him.

Easter Eggs

Belgium, France, Netherlands Directed by: Nicolas Keppens Produced by: Animal Tank, Brecht Van Elslande; KaChing Cartoons, Joost Van Den Bosch; Miyu Productions, Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Pierre Baussaron Qualifying Win: Annecy Int’l Animation Film Festival Jury Award for Short Film Synopsis: The Chinese restaurant is empty. The exotic birds’ cage sits wide open. Two friends, Jason and Kevin, see this as an opportunity to catch and sell them for a lot of money.

The Expected

Sweden Directed by: Carolina Sandvik Qualifying Win: Odense Int’l Film Festival Animation Grand Prix Synopsis: Routines, an eerie life in the mundane everyday, and body horror. A bathtub has never seemed more enticing and repulsive at the same damn time.

Farce

Norway Directed by: Robin Jensen Produced by: Lise Fearnley, Tonje Skar Reiersen Qualifying Win: Animated Encounters Grand Prix Synopsis: A Sami man ends up in greedy and decadent claws as he tries to save both his reindeer herd and the woman he desires. An awful fable about fatal passion.

Flowing Home

France Directed by: Sandra Desmazieres Produced by: Dora Benousilio, Julie Roy Qualifying Win: LA Shorts Fest Best Animation Synopsis: FThe story of two sisters separated after the Vietnam war. Thao, the youngest, is 15. She’ll flee Vietnam by boat to a refugee camp on the island of Pualu Bidong, Malaysia. Sao Maï is 17. She will stay in Vietnam with her parents. In her loneliness, she lives with the ghosts of the past. An epistolary relationship will feed their lives for over 15 years and will be the story of their journey until their reunion.

The Fourfold

Canada Directed by: Alisi Telengut Qualifying Win: Aspen Shortsfest Best Short Short Synopsis: Based on the ancient animistic beliefs and shamanic rituals in Mongolia and Siberia, an exploration of the indigenous worldview and wisdom. Against the backdrop of the modern existential crisis and the humaninduced rapid environmental change, there is a necessity to reclaim the ideas of animism for planetary health and nonhuman materialities.

Friend of a Friend

France Director: Zachary Zezima Produced By: Ron Dyens Qualifying Win: Go Short Int’l Short FIlm Festival - Best European Short Animation Film Synopsis: A young man is sexually assaulted and subdues, punishes, then befriends his own attacker while confronting his past and the ambiguities of sexuality. Part fiction, part non-fiction, part autobiography and part dream, Friend of a Friend attempts to broaden the conversation around abuse and its motivations and implications, as well as the survivor vs. assailant dynamic and results of ostracization.

Gon, Little Fox

Japan Directed by: Takeshi Yashiro Produced by: TECARAT Qualifying Win: Rhode Island Int’l Film Festival Best Animated Short Synopsis: When Gon, a playful orphaned fox, finds that young Hyoju has lost his mother, he tries to comfort him and make amends for his own earlier mischiefs by secretly bringing small gifts to the boy every day. But Hyoju doesn’t realize who is behind the anonymous gifts, and the two are headed for a heartbreaking climax.

Gravedad

Germany Directed by: Matisse Gonzalez Produced by: Matisse Gonzalez, Toufik Abdedaim Qualifying Win: Melbourne Int’l Film Festival Best Animation Short Film Synopsis: Gravity changes constantly. Some days are light and some days are heavy. Everyone here has to find something to grab on to, except for Rosa.

The Hangman at Home

Denmark, France, Canada Directed by: Michelle Kranot & Uri Kranot Produced by: Late Love Production, Lana Tankosa Nikolic; NFB, Marc Bertrand and Julie Roy;, Miyu Prod., Emmanuel-Alain Raynal and Pierre Baussaron; Floréal Films, Katayoun Dibamehr and Avi Ama Qualifying Win: Krakow Film Festival Golden Dragon (International Short Film) Synopsis: Inspired by the 1922 Carl Sandburg poem of the same title, The Hangman at Home is an animated film exploring themes surrounding acknowledgement and the awkward intimacy of humanness. Told in five interwoven stories; each situation presents a person, or persons in a delicate moment: fragile, playful, terrified, contemplated, confused, curious…

Have a Nice Dog!

Germany, Syria Directed by: Jalal Maghout Produced by: Karsten Matern Qualifying Win: Uppsala Int’l Short Film Festival Grand Prix - International Synopsis: Trapped in Damascus, surrounded by war, a lonely man becomes increasingly lost in his fantasies of fleeing and the inner dialogues with his dog.

A Head Shorter

U.S.A. Directed by: Sasha Sivan Bortnik Produced by: Soul Proprietor Studios Qualifying Win: Bendfilm Best Animated Short Synopsis: Narrated by Naftali Deutsch, A Head Shorter begins in the spring of 1944 when Naftali and his entire family are forced to leave their home in Kimyat, a village in the Carpatho-Ukraine region, and sent to Auschwitz. The film takes us through Naftali’s journey as a 12-year-old boy in the Holocaust and how he survived multiple concentration camps.

Heart of Gold

France Directed by: Simon Filliot Produced by: JPL Films Qualifying Win: Chilemonos Int’l Animation Festival Best Int’l Animation Short Synopsis: For her son, a poor young mother is forced to sell her organs to a sick old woman. Flesh, for gold. Little by little, necessity gives way to the lure of gain. By selling her body, it is her whole identity that she alienates.

Homebird

United Kingdom Directed by: Ewa Smyk Produced by: National Film and Television School Qualifying Win: Heartland Film Festival Grand Prize for Animated Short Film Synopsis: Struggling to make it in a big city, a young artist finds herself retreating into the rose-tinted memories of the village she left behind.

Hot Flash

Canada Directed by: Thea Hollatz Produced by: Wilding Pictures, Tinman Creative Studios; Kristy Neville, Matt Code, Morghan Fortier & Brett Jubinville Qualifying Win: Canadian Screen Award for Best Animated Short Synopsis: Ace is having a hot flash, and she’s about to go live on local television. How does she keep her cool when one type of flash leads to another?

I’m Here

Poland Directed by: Julia Orlik Produced by: Agata Golanska Qualifying Win: DOK Leipzig Golden Dove - International Competition for Short Animated Film Synopsis: She is the center of attention, but exhausted by life. An old woman in her final days, bedridden and too weak to speak to her husband and daughter. Her selfhood fades away while in the care of her relatives, who have problems of their own. But Julia Orlik brings the woman back into the foreground with her minimalist concept and touching puppet design.

It’s All the Salt’s Fault

Colombia Directed by: María Cristina Pérez González Produced by: Mauricio Cuervo Rincón Qualifying Win: BogoShorts Best Animation Short Film - National Competition Synopsis: The youngest daughter of a family of sloths reconstructs their story. Behind the normality of everyday life, the wild spirit appears in life’s daily details and turns them into indomitable memories.

Louis’s Shoes

France Directed by: Théo Jamin, Jean-Géraud Blanc, Ka Yu Leung & Marion Philippe Produced by: MoPA Qualifying Win: Student Academy Award for Animation (International) - Gold Synopsis: Louis is an eight-and-a-half-year-old autistic kid. He loves his blue sneakers, he is starting at a new school, and he is about to introduce himself.

Matilda and the Spare Head

Lithuania Directed by: Ignas Meilūnas Produced by: Marija Razgutė Qualifying Win: New York Int’l Children’s Film Festival Best Animated Short Synopsis: Matilda wants to be the smartest person in the world. When she can’t fit any more in her head, she figures two heads are better than one.

Memento Mori

Ireland Directed by: Paul O’Flanagan Produced by: Louise Ní Chonchúir Qualifying Win: Galway Film Fleadh James Horgan Award for Best Animation Short Synopsis: Post-mortem photographer Mr.Huxley tends to his latest subject: a mysterious young woman — whose presence conjures Huxley’s personal demons, compelling him to confront his narcissistic life.

Migrants

France Directed by: Hugo Caby, Antoine Dupriez, Aubin Kubiak, Lucas Lermytte & Zoé Devise Produced by: Pôle 3D Qualifying Win: SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival Best in Show Synopsis: Two polar bears are driven into exile due to global warming. They will encounter brown bears along their journey, with whom they will try to cohabitate.

My Generation

France Directed by: Ludovic Houplain Produced by: Ludovic Houplain, Mirwaïs Ahmadzaï Qualifying Win: Cleveland Int’l Film Festival Best Animated Short Synopsis: Disney’s big boss, Bob Iger, said, “Hitler would have loved social media.” He would have felt at ease in our time of soft totalitarianism (less and less soft actually). What if we put down our smartphones and opened our eyes wide shut? It is ironic that it should be an animated film which reveals the truth of a lobotomized society with the need for intensive care.

The Natural Death of a Mouse

Germany Directed by: Katharina Huber Produced by: Casalprim & Huber Produktion Qualifying Win: Vienna Shorts Festival Animation Avantgarde Synopsis: Some days she imagines that by her sheer will she can make body parts fall off of people who seem vicious to her. And some other days everyone around her looks beautiful. And when she was little, she wished that flowers would grow out of her footprints.

Navozande, The Musician

France Directed by: Reza Riahi Produced by: Eleanor Coleman, Stéphanie Carreras, Philippe Pujo. Qualifying Win: Best Animated Short Award at Tribeca Film Festival Synopsis: At the time of the attack of the Mongols, a young musician and the love of his life are separated from each other. Fifty years later, the musician is summoned to perform at the castle of the Mongols where his beloved is being held.

Night Bus

Taiwan Directed by: Joe Hsieh Qualifying Win: Animafest Zagreb Grand Prix - Short Film Synopsis: Under a moonlit sky, a bus speeds along the coast when a panicky scream shatters the silence – a necklace is stolen. The cry is followed by a fatal accident, and a series of intriguing turns of events through love, hatred and vengeance.

O Black Hole!

United Kingdom Directed by: Renee Zhan Produced by: National Film and Television School, Jesse Romain Qualifying Win: Aspen Shortsfest Best Animation Synopsis: An immovable woman meets an unstoppable girl in this musical quest to discover the meaning of transience and letting go.

Our Perpetual Now

Mexico, U.K. Directed by: Jorge Aguilar Rojo Produced by: Lanzando Lazaros; Vera Ruiz Qualifying Win: Morelia Int’l Film Festival - Ojo for Mexican Animated Short Film Synopsis: A brief description of the film. You can use an official synopsis as found on the director’s website or festival’s description page.

The Owl and the Pussycat

United Kingdom Directed by: Mole Hill Produced by: Laura Duncalf Qualifying Win: BAFTA for British Short Animation Synopsis: The Owl and the Pussycat set sail with their few precious possessions on a journey in which they learn nothing and lose everything except each other.

Switzerland Directed by: Samuel Patthey & Silvain Monney Produced by: Mark Olexa, Francesca Scalisi Qualifying Win: Annecy Int’l Animation Film Festival Cristal for Short Film; Guanajuato Int’l Film Festival Best Animated Short Film Synopsis: Time seems to have stopped around the retirement villa when suddenly a silhouette passes. Inside the building, we discover weakened bodies, auxiliary nurses and a black cat as the minutes go by, slowly, repetitively.

Precious

France Directed by: Paul Mas Produced by: Je Suis Bien Content Qualifying Win: Stuttgart Int’l Festival of Animated Film Grand Prix, Tallinn Black Nights - PÖFF Best Short Animation Synopsis: Julie doesn’t manage to fit in at her school. The arrival of Émile, an autistic child, will change all that.

Pearl Diver

Norway Directed by: Margrethe Danielsen Produced by: Volda University College Qualifying Win: Animayo Grand Jury Award Synopsis: Three couples are drifting apart. A hedgehog falls for a balloon, but struggles to keep up his grooming routine. There is a coldness between an arctic couple when a polar bear finally gets away from a needy penguin, and two oysters are longing to meet on the bottom of the North Sea.

Red Rover

United Kingdom Directed by: Astrid Goldsmith Produced by: Hank Starrs Qualifying Win: Sitges Int’l Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia Best Animated Short Film Synopsis: When a robotic rover starts drilling for signs of life on Mars, the race is on for one tiny rock-beast to save her native community from the invader from Earth.

Return to the Peach Blossom Wonderland

China Directed by: Yue Hang, Yuchao Luo, Haomin Peng Produced by: Volda University College Qualifying Win: Slamdance Film Festival Grand Jury Award for Animation Short Synopsis: In an ancient Chinese fable, The Peach Blossom Spring, a utopian world the author claims to encounter is described as having “neatly arranged residences.” Just like what we can see in a modernized China.

Roborovski

Australia Directed by: Tilda CobhamHervey & Dev Patel Produced by: Jomon Tomas, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Dev Patel Qualifying Win: Flickerfest Yoram Gross Award - Best

Australian Animation Short Film Synopsis: Roborovski follows an eponymous thimble sized hamster, who spends his days in Marvin’s Pet Shop, hoping to find a family. However, when he is constantly overlooked by the people and animals around him, his seething resentment and intense jealousy soon takes hold and the murderous side of little Roborovski is released.

In the Shadow of the Pines

Canada Directed by: Anne Koizumi Produced by: Anne Koizumi, Sahar Yousefi Qualifying Win: San Francisco Int’l Film Festival Golden Gate Award - Animated Short Synopsis: A brief description of the film. You can use an official synopsis as found on the director’s website or festival’s description page.

The Shawl

U.S.A. Directed by: Sara Kiener Produced by: Kislevitz Films, Inc., Zachary Luke Kislevitz Qualifying Win: Florida Film Festival Best Animated Short Synopsis: After years of long distance, a pair of big and beautiful boyfriends celebrate their reunion at a Stevie Nicks concert, where they share a brush with magic.

Slumber with Snakes

U.S.A. Directed by: Teagan Barrone Produced by: Cleveland Institute of Art Qualifying Win: Student Academy Award for Animation (Domestic) - Bronze Synopsis: In 1921, an 11-year-old African-American boy is separated from his friend while being chased by a fuming racist mob. Finding a cave, he is no longer in danger from the mob, but from the rattlesnakes looming in the dark. Based on a true story.

Step into the River

China, France Directed by: Weijia Ma Produced by: Damien Megherbi, Justin Pechberty Qualifying Win: Palm Springs Int’l ShortFest Best Animated Short Synopsis: Routines, an eerie life in the mundane everyday, and body horror. A bathtub has never seemed more enticing and repulsive at the same damn time.

The Source of the Mountains

France Directed by: Adrien Communier, Camille Di Dio, Benjamin Francois, Pierre Gorichon, Briag Mallat & Marianne Moisy Qualifying Win: Riverrun Int’l Film Festival Best Animated Short Synopsis: The Paccha-Picchus are festive little creatures. They live a carefree daily life in sync with the mountains. When the mountains come, their oasis rises and they are lifted up into a winter climate. But one day, the mountains stop coming and the restless Kinko decides to go looking for them.

Souvenir Souvenir

Award - Animation France Directed by: Bastien Dubois Produced by: BLAST Prod., Pictanovo, Arte France; exec producer Amiel Tenenbaum Qualifying Win: ANIMATOR - The Golden Pegasus, Sundance Film Festival Jury

Synopsis: “For 10 years, I pretended I wanted to get my grandfather to share his memories of the Algerian War. Today, I’m not sure I want to hear what he has to say, or whether I want to make this film at all.”

Portugal, France

Directed by:

Alexandra Ramires

Produced by:

Bando à Parte Qualifying Win: Chicago Int’l Film Festival Gold Hugo for Animated Short Film Synopsis: Two characters search for missing pieces of themselves in a gloomy, surreal landscape.

Tiger and Ox

South Korea

Directed by:

Seunghee Kim

Qualifying Win:

AFI Fest Grand Jury Award - Animation Synopsis: In Korean patriarchal society, what does divorce mean to women? Is a fatherless family a failure? In order to find the answer to these questions, a single mother and her daughter start a conversation.

To the Dusty Sea

France

Directed by:

Héloïse Ferlay

Produced by:

Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts

Décoratifs (ENSAD) Qualifying Win: Austin Film Festival Jury Award for Animated Short, St. Louis Int’l Film Festival Best Animated Short Synopsis: Left alone in the deepest of the summer, Malo and Zoe are trying their best to catch their mother’s elusive eye.

Umbilical

U.S.A., China

Directed by:

Danski Tang

Qualifying Win:

New Orleans Film Festival Helen Hill

Award for Animation Synopsis: An animated documentary exploring how my mother’s abusive relationship with my father shaped my own experiences in a boarding school as a child in China.

Unforgotten

U.S.A. Directed by:

Sujin Kim

Produced by:

California Institute of

the Arts Qualifying Win: Student Academy Award for Animation (Domestic) - Gold Synopsis: Four late Korean victims of the Imperial Japanese military’s “Comfort Women” sex trafficking scheme in WWII give oral testimimonies of their harrowing personal experiences in this experimental CG-animated documentary.

Wednesday with Goddard

United Kingdom

Directed by:

Nicolas Menard

Produced by:

Charlotte Bavasso, Christo-

pher O’Reilly Qualifying Win: SXSW Film Festival Jury Award for Animated Short Synopsis: A personal quest for spiritual enlightenment leads to romance and despair.

The White Whale

Iran

Directed by:

Amirhossein (Amir) Mehran

Qualifying Win:

Warsaw Int’l Film Festival

Best Animated Short Synopsis: A long time ago, a young man lost his close friends in an air attack during the war. After 30 years he is looking for their remains in a big river. A white whale is the only sign he has.

Yo

Spain

Directed by:

Begoña Arostegui

Produced by:

Fernando Franco Qualifying Win: Alcine - Ciudad de Alcalá Award Synopsis: For our hero, every day looks the same. Or maybe they are too much alike: the same routines repeated over and over again. One day, a simple board that says “Park” will make everything shake.

— Compiled by Paige Lyman

Their Future Is Bright!

In addition to the shorts that have picked up awards at festivals to date, the following titles have also generated strong buzz and have a good chance of landing on the year-end awards’ short list:

Blush

Directed by: Joe Matteo Produced by: Skydance Animation, Apple Original Films; Heather Schmidt Feng Yanu Synopsis: A stranded horticulturalist-astronaut experiences love and loss on a small planet in this emotionally charged short.

Demi’s Panic

Directed by: Bill Plympton

Produced by: Danny Leonard Synopsis: A young New Yorker’s prophetic dreams become too real when an invisible danger causes catastrophic loss in this short inspired by the COVID pandemic.

Far from the Tree

Directed by: Natalie Nourigat

Produced by: Walt Disney Animation Studios; Ruth Strother Synopsis: A young raccoon learns that while there’s reason to be fearful in the natural world, it’s still possible to live with an open heart.

Namoo

Directed by: Erick Oh

Produced by: Baobab Studios; Maureen Fan, exec producer John Cho Synopsis: Inspired by the passing of the director’s grandfather, this narrative poem charts the beautiful and heartbreaking moments of a man’s life.

Nona

Directed by: Louis Gonzales

Produced by: Pixar SparksShorts; Courtney Casper Kent Synopsis: A grandmother has to take care of her energetic granddaughter while keeping an eye on her favorite wrestling show on TV!

Robin Robin

Directed by: Daniel Ojari & Michael Please

Produced by: Aardman Animations, Netflix Animation; Helen Argo Synopsis: A bird, who is raised by a loving family of mice, embarks on a brilliant heist to prove that she can be as good a mouse despite her physical differences.

Twenty Something

Directed by: Aphton Corbin

Produced by: Pixar SparksShorts; Erik Langley Synopsis: An insecure 21-year old has to face the challenges of being a grown-up when her older sister takes her to her first nightclub .

Us Again

Directed by: Zach Parrish

Produced by: Walt Disney Animation Studios; Bradford Simonsen Synopsis: A magical rainfall and irresistible rhythm transform an elderly dancing couple into their younger selves. ◆