2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

Animated Shorts

*MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY*

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  • The Astronaut's Journal
    The Astronaut’s Journal
  • Down Escalation
    Down Escalation
  • SOG
    Sog
  • Good Boy
    Good Boy
  • Spark
    Spark
  • Alternative Facts
    Alternative Facts
  • Lemon & Elderflower
    Lemon & Elderflower
  • Patrioska
    Patrioska
  • Changyou's Journey
    Changyou’s Journey

The Astronaut’s Journal

“Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.”

― Stanisław Lem, Solaris

  • DIRECTOR
    Marina Belikova
  • YEAR
    2018
  • RUNTIME
    5 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    Germany

Down Escalation

A caterpillar fell down and dissolved. The flesh and blood are melted down. Delving into deeper layers of itself, it starts metamorphosing in the shell.

  • DIRECTOR
    Shunsaku Hayashi
  • YEAR
    2018
  • RUNTIME
    7 Minutes
  • COUNTRY
    Japan

Sog

After a flood, some fish got stuck in old trees. In danger of drying-out they scream sharply. Woken up by the noise, the inhabitants of a nearby cave don‘t feel happy about the unintended gathering.

  • DIRECTOR
    Jonatan Schwenk
  • YEAR
    2018
  • RUNTIME
    10 Minutes
  • COUNTRY
    Germany

Good Boy

A hopeful man goes on a blind date with the women of his dreams expecting to have the best night of his life. Things seem to be going perfect, until the night take an unexpected turn.

  • DIRECTOR
    Rachel Beltran, Nicole Myers
  • YEAR
    2018
  • RUNTIME
    7 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    United States

Spark

A girl finds someone to spark her flame.

  • DIRECTOR
    Aharonit Elior
  • YEAR
    2018
  • RUNTIME
    6 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    United States

Alternative Facts

An ordinary and uncommentable nature show exploring the wildlife of beautiful Kenya. May be considered strange if shown during a different political climate.

  • DIRECTOR
    Pasha Nielsen
  • YEAR
    2018
  • RUNTIME
    3 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    Australia

Lemon & Elderflower

Two sibling hummingbirds have to build different inventions in order to solve their “big” problem: to take flight with other birds.

  • DIRECTOR
    Ilenia Cotardo
  • YEAR
    2017
  • RUNTIME
    3 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    Italy

Patrioska

Five deities of power gather in an Underground Secret Society to discuss major themes about world domination and status-quo. Mr. Visionarius has Machiavellian prospects for the future of mankind, but he is warned by the Angel Auditivus about the spiritual awakening present in some avenues of Western society.

  • DIRECTOR
    Tiago Araújo
  • YEAR
    2018
  • RUNTIME
    9 Minutes
  • COUNTRY
    Portugal

Changyou’s Journey

A cancer-stricken father reminisces his life through the animation film by his young son.

  • DIRECTOR
    Perry Chen
  • YEAR
    2018
  • RUNTIME
    6 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    United States
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