Joseph Norman talks with the director of the acclaimed short Eating in the Dark, Inari Sirola.

Allison Brownmoore creates an animation short on a young autistic girl. Watch The Amazing Adventures of Awesome.

Social commitment and its lack feature in the Iranian animation short The Bystander by Sheyda Kashi.

Talented Czech animation director Marie Urbánková presents a film about family and Mom Is Always Right. Watch the trailer.

The history of a black hole in the inventive and multi-layered animation short O Black Hole! by Renee Zhan.

Sometimes a quack may indeed go too far. Here's the sparkling animation short A Quack Too Far by Irish animation director Melissa Culhane.

An animated story of love and financial necessities in the 2D animation short Louise.

A familiar but also original tale of social commitment in the animation short The Big Heinrich by Lars Kreyssig and Kim Collmer.

How does it feel to have one second left to live? Austrian filmmaker Sebastian Doringer presents the animation short One Left.