2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

Animated Shorts

CCFF is proud to showcase these amazing animators. Join us for a night of handcrafted stop motion, digital experimentation, and audacious visual storytelling.

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  • The Sprayer
  • Canman
  • Ikigai
  • As Time Goes By
  • Where are you?
  • Light
  • Flower by Man
  • Repair
  • 45 Degree
  • Bridge
  • Roped
  • The Plankton
  • Pussy Love
  • 5-Stars
  • The Egret River

The Sprayer

In the land occupied with the sprayers army, no one has the right to grow any kind of plants either in public or private. So many of the people and soldiers do not even know how dose a plant grows or look like, until one day one of the soldiers finds a seed buried deep down in the dust and his curiosity is just the beginning of something extraordinary, something big, something revolutionary

  • DIRECTOR
    Farnoosh Abedi
  • YEAR
    2022
  • RUNTIME
    9 Minutes
  • COUNTRY
    Iran, Islamic Republic of

Canman

A production line is one that runs machines day in and day out. An unexpected journey, the order begins to disintegrate step by step. It makes the protagonist unconsciously begin to reflect on the mechanical work of the factory. Finally, he decided to escape this boring life like a dead end.

  • DIRECTOR
    Yu-Ping Chang
  • YEAR
    2022
  • RUNTIME
    5 Minutes
  • COUNTRY
    Taiwan

Ikigai

Leuconoe, don’t ask, we never know, what fate the gods grant us,
whether your fate or mine, don’t waste your time on Babylonian,
futile, calculations. How much better to suffer what happens,
whether Jupiter gives us more winters or this is the last one,
one debilitating the Tyrrhenian Sea on opposing cliffs. (Horace, “The Odes” I, 11)

  • DIRECTOR
    Tzu-Fei Yang
  • YEAR
    2022
  • RUNTIME
    3 Minutes
  • COUNTRY
    Taiwan

As Time Goes By

In 2020, Covid-19 became a pandemic and hurt the world.
From then on, our daily life changed.
Hope you can take comfort in this film and treasure every moment you have.

  • DIRECTOR
    Hao-Xuan Tan
  • YEAR
    2022
  • RUNTIME
    3 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    No Dialogue
  • COUNTRY
    Taiwan

Where are you?

Nessa has been passionate about clothes since she was a little girl and she always likes to draw many gorgeous clothes on the wall to put them on her own shadow. After growing up, she becomes a fashion designer. She was able to enter the fashion capital “Paris” and joined a famous fashion design company. But her personality, her clothes and everything she wore were in great contrast to the city. From the design of each season, it was obvious that the color she used and her ideas were very different from other designers. After numerous rejections from the design director, Nessa, who was originally unique, began to compromise. In the last design, she still put the bright ribbon capriciously, which was her last hope. In the end, her hopes fell along with the ribbon as it was mercilessly torn off by the director”¦

  • DIRECTOR
    YING-HENG HUANG
  • YEAR
  • RUNTIME
    4 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Mandarin Chinese
  • COUNTRY
    Taiwan

Light

“King Boat started the procession ceremony after the shipwright finished it. Starting from the street, King Boat followed the floating paper money to a surreal world. King Boat passed by the sunflower field and came to Fire Mountain. The carp surrounding King Boat turned into flames. Back in the real world, the crowd stared at King Boat was burned up in the fire.
The original meaning of burning King Boat is dispelling plague or something terrible, but now it has become the activity that prays for peace and prosperity. The change of scenes and weather symbolizes each person’s experience. Finally, King Boat sailed smoothly, representing the end of the epidemic, and the sailors symbolized the first-line medical staff and those who lost their lives. I hope to remind the audience that no matter what life is like now, there is still full of hope for the future.”

  • DIRECTOR
    Wei-Zhu Hong
  • YEAR
    2022
  • RUNTIME
    6 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    No Dialogue
  • COUNTRY
    Taiwan

Flower by Man

In the creamy white workshop, the protagonist sculpts the work and gradually ignites the passion for creation. The scene changes to red, and the enthusiasm makes the protagonist not feel the passage of time and immerse himself in the creation. When the scene changes to blue, the protagonist sees many beautiful flowers and feels that his work looks monotonous and pitiful. Not only does it make him feel inferior to his work, but it also represents other frustrations he has encountered. The protagonist broke the white flower in a fit of rage. When he looked at the broken work, he suddenly felt regret. In the final green scene, the protagonist meets his other self and they look at each other. The protagonist looks back on the process of creation and eventually finds a balance that calms his emotions. Finally, he finished the work, which is not the most perfect, but unique.

  • DIRECTOR
    Shawn Yee
  • YEAR
    2022
  • RUNTIME
    5 Minutes
  • COUNTRY
    Taiwan

Repair

Humans have discovered a new source of energy. The two doctors in charge of the energy projects have different opinions. Both of them supports their own viewpoints on energy, so that while they are making great contributions to humanity, they are also facing the greatest conflicts that humanity will ever face. The REPAIR project, which had been forgotten, has surfaced again. The protagonist, REPAIR, will go to the LightStar and try to avert the crisis of losing control.

  • DIRECTOR
    HONG-ZHI CHEN
  • YEAR
    2022
  • RUNTIME
    1 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    Taiwan

45 Degree

The boy hates this angle worship world, and an opportunity brings him to a completely different environment. As he began to think about the rightness of the system, he was immediately faced with a choice. Will this choice finally save him or will he fall into the abyss?

  • DIRECTOR
    Zi-ting Zeng
  • YEAR
    2022
  • RUNTIME
    7 Minutes
  • COUNTRY
    Taiwan

Bridge

An ordinary high school boy is chatting with his mother on the way home from school as usual. The same way home and the same scenery along the way, but the conversation is a little different than before.

  • DIRECTOR
    Jun-Wei Zhang
  • YEAR
    2022
  • RUNTIME
    5 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Mandarin Chinese
  • COUNTRY
    Taiwan

Roped

Mother and Daughter are roped for life by an eternal bond that heals and hurts, and that is perpetuated when Daughter becomes a Mother.

  • DIRECTOR
    Carmen Córdoba González
  • YEAR
    2022
  • RUNTIME
    10 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Spanish
  • COUNTRY
    Spain

The Plankton

We all work hard for our childhood dreams and goals, and even if we encounter setbacks and failures, we will continue to persist in our dreams. When the goal is accomplished, we seem to have fallen into a hole and lost the goal of living. We will find the next goal for ourselves to live, then achieve it and find another goal again. We seem to be moving forward, but we are just trapped in a cycle, always looking for a new goal to drive ourselves. However, the fact is really like that?

  • DIRECTOR
    Xin-Yashi
  • YEAR
    2022
  • RUNTIME
    3 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    No Dialogue
  • COUNTRY
    Taiwan

Pussy Love

Cool Cat invites you! To join the world of Pussy Love. Enjoy a show of lust and laziness! Let’s have fun with tits and dicks. The claws are sharp, the soda is sparkling and the fur is getting wet. Romance is kitsch. But even the most jaded cat can still be lost for love.

  • DIRECTOR
    Linda Krauss
  • YEAR
    2023
  • RUNTIME
    4 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    Germany

5-Stars

An award-winning sushi chef is out of desperation to serve the crude puffer fish. Puffer fish do not know how to appreciate food and art at all, they only know how to gobble it up. One day, his knife broke down, he bought a magical high-tech knife. The robot will fly out of the knife to help him handle the ingredients, the robot quickly finished cutting the ingredients, but the blade turned to the puffer fish…

  • DIRECTOR
    James Wei
  • YEAR
    2022
  • RUNTIME
    4 Minutes
  • COUNTRY
    Taiwan

The Egret River

Among the tall buildings of the city, the lonely guard hides a beautiful field that no one knows, and meets an egret there; but the expansion of the city never stops, one day the field is destroyed, the egret escapes without a trace, he begin to see mysterious illusions

鷺鷥河 The Egret River|預告片 Trailer from Liuacow on Vimeo.

  • DIRECTOR
    Wan-Ling Liu
  • YEAR
    2022
  • RUNTIME
    20 Minutes
  • COUNTRY
    Taiwan
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