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Warmth in a Puddle

In a dimly lit room where only the sound is the reverberation of ventilation fan, a young man is delivered a fish. The distorted face of the fish somehow seems to resemble the young man himself.

The limp fish suddenly flops up and flies out the window as if floating in water. The young man stares at the fish disappearing into a puddle on the street, and is suddenly drawn into a strange, dark, cavern-like place.
This otherworld, in solitude and dark, somehow resembles the mental state of the young man.

A short film that expresses, through a hallucinatory animation style, the "difficulty of living" in the outside world created by the director.

Sorao Sakimura / 0:10:08 / Japan / Animation / 2024

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Butterfly

In the sea, a man swims. As he does, memories come to the surface. From his early childhood to his life as a man, all his memories are linked to water.
Some are happy, some glorious, some traumatic. This story will be that of his last swim.

Florence Miailhe / 0:14:59 / France / Animation / 2024

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The Garden of Heart

A young aspiring painter with low self-esteem is in his last round of interviews at the painting department of the Academy of Fine Arts. While waiting for his interview, his demons appear to him in the form of garden pests.

Olivér Hegyi / 0:10:32 / Hungary, Slovakia / Animation / 2022

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Minus Plus Multiply

The story explores self-discovery and healing, using containers as a metaphor for safe spaces. It constructs a poetic narrative through 2D animation and stop motion, reflecting sensibility and identity fragmentation with pottery and clay.

Chu-Chieh Lee / 0:04:10 / United Kingdom / Animation / 2023

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A Crab In The Pool

In a run-down neighborhood, Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves. A young adolescent, Zoe is a ball of anger haunted by an intimate terror. Theo, still a child, flees reality into a fantastical world.

Alexandra Myotte & Jean-Sébastien Hamel / 0:11:11 / Canada / Animation / 2023

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Maybe Someday

Sri and Yanti, two teeage girls who are blind, have been close friends since they lived in a dormitory. They are inseparable and always together. One day, Yanti announce her plan to move out of town to pursue her dream. It makes Sri angry and keep questioning: whether they even deserve to have dreams?

Praditha Blifa Rahayu / 0:22:08 / Indonesia / Drama / 2023

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Starring Jun Kunimura

Blue and White

Ryusuke, who is grieving, makes salt on the day of his wife's funeral, aiming to preserve the local salt's history.

Hiroyuki Nishiyama / 0:25:00 / Japan / Drama / 2022

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XO

Rumi, a poetry-loving recluse gets drawn into a secret game of tic-tac-toe in a library. Over days of playful exchanges, she falls in love without knowing the lover. One day the games stop and Rumi finds deeper love.

Samrat DasGupta / 0:24:50 / India / Romance / 2023

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The last whinny of a horse that had dreamt of becoming a butterfly

It's about the last days of a woman's life that her husband trying to make her dreams come true.

Mahdieh Mohammadi / 0:16:34 / Iran / Drama / 2024

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Road to Harvard

When something threatens to derail a mother's long term plan of getting her 10 year-old son to be admitted into Harvard University, she will do whatever necessary to course correct the trajectory, no matter the consequences.

Dan Chong / 0:14:19 / Malaysia / Drama / 2023

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