Whether you’re an animation aficionado or this is your first experience beyond the mainstream let MAF welcome you to the world of animation with our selection of international short films playing in competition.
Films in this programme:
Her Dress For The Final (Dir Martina Mestrovic, 2023)
One day my granny dyed her wedding dress black. She wanted to be buried in it.
Whatever Moves Is Alive (Dir Noémie Marsily, 2023)
While slugs wander across the kitchen floor, Noémie draws up her self-portrait, shifting and fragmented, on the edge between the intimate and the hubbub of the world.
Bye Bear (Dir Jan Blitzer, 2023)
The 80s. A run-down motel. This is where a secret club of robot friends gather regularly to live out their dreams of being something else
Love Me True (Dir Inés Sedan, 2023)
Laurence is desperately looking for love. Advised by a friend, she connects to online dating sites to find her soulmate. She becomes addicted to her phone and to a toxic man.
Shackle (Dir Ainslie Henderson, 2023)
Three archetypal woodland spirits explore the conflicting human drives of creativity, possessiveness and our desire for status.
Ninety-five Senses (Dir Jerusha Hess, Jared Hess, 2023)
An ode to the body’s five senses delivered by a man with little time left to enjoy them.
Drijf (Dir Levi Stoops, 2023)
Jeremy and Aurora are lost at sea. In the vast openness of the ocean they are cooped up together on a small tree bark. Will our castaways be able to grow while trying to make it back to shore, or will they lose a piece of themselves along the way?