Annecy International Animated Film Festival - Short films

Alice lives at her parents' place at the age of 27 with no private life or a relationship. It takes a bicycle accident and a short coma to make her realize that it's time to move out.

After losing his fiancée and his good looks in a freak accident involving an evil Santa Claus gnome, Clyde must confront his inner demons.

Time seems to have stopped around the 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.

A saga of childhood reveries and adult regrets that is also the first-ever fully animated film using encaustic painting.

An aging painter and his wife struggle increasingly to cope with his advancing dementia.

Inseparable best friends spend their last summer holiday of childhood amusing themselves around the house. As summer progresses their bodies start to morph and shift and an awkwardness descends on their friendship. Puberty seems determined to interrupt their bond.

A dark musical enacted in a market place, situated next to a freeway. The employees of the various commercial venues deal with boredom and existential anxiety by performing cheerful musical turns. The apocalypse is a tempting liberator.

Jacqueline ha perdido un poco la cabeza, pero decide viajar hasta la costa sola, como si fuera una chica mayor.

Two cosmonauts, two friends, try to do their best in their everyday training life to make their common dream a reality. But this story is not only about the dream.

Man on the chair is tormented and constantly doubts his very own existence.

Forgetting somebody's name is the starting point for a mind-bending romp through the unconscious.

On her morning route before the break of dawn, a conscientious but lonely tramcar conductress lets herself go, turning her overpowering impulses and her wild wet fantasies into a phallic and utterly surreal delirium.

Una invasión de pixels invade Nueva York; los clásicos arcades como Tetris, Pacman, Space Invaders o Froggy cobran vida y empiezan a pixelar la ciudad.

A boy finds a strange creature on a beach, and decides to find a home for it in a world where everyone believes there are far more important things to pay attention to.

We were abducted my mother, father, sister and me. Then they killed my parents and separated me from my sister. I was five. Abuk tells us in a low voice. I stayed with one of the men who kidnapped us and took care of his goats. Slaves is about Abuk, nine, and Machiek, fifteen. Like thousands of other children they were taken from southern Sudan by government sponsored militia in Sudan and used as slaves. They were later liberated by the organization CEAWC (Committee for the Eradication of Abduction of Women and Children) now in South Sudan headed by James Aguer. This took place before South Sudan was a nation of its own. Slaves is based on an interview made in 2003 and is the second film in a series of animated documentaries with and about children in difficult and dangerous situations.

To save his house from rising flood waters, an old man uses bricks to build it higher, then he relives events from his past while searching for his dropped pipe.

Un relato animado ambientado en la suite musical de Prokofiev.

A girl whose heart beats faster than normal and so loudly that it bothers the neighbors seeks both acceptance and escape.

En un mundo de dirigibles de hierro y computadoras a vapor, Jasper Morello, un navegante aéreo caído en desgracia, huye de su hogar plagado de plagas en un viaje desesperado para redimirse.

Un gato glotón y egocéntrico, Lorenzo, es castigado por su egoísmo cuando su hermosa cola gigante desarrolla una personalidad propia.

A sad rakugo of a stingy old man experiencing the unforeseen consequences of eating a few cherries whole, without throwing the pits away.

A father says goodbye to his young daughter. Time passes and the daughter moves through life age by age, but within her there is always a deep longing for her father.

An old fisherman goes out on his fishing trip and makes a huge catch, the biggest of his life.

A chance encounter, a juicy yellow lemon and an unfortunate twist of fate will reveal that the symbiotic relationship between people is inextricable.