Independent Animation Shorts

Vassilis Kroustallis reports on Anima Festival 2020 and selects 10 Belgian animation shorts to watch in 2020.

Sander Joon presens online his animation short Sounds Good, where a boom operator is trying to record the sound of mushrooms.

Hideous Henk is a Dutch animated pilot directed by Junaid Chundrigar. It is made for (young) adults, and is about a little ugly Chihuahua who gets adopted, making his life surprisingly worse than before.

You need to stay home. 5 indie animated short films that investigate our relationship with one of our basic needs: being at home, safe, protected and loved.

Following the sun is a personal journey, but what happens if you have a kid to accompany you? Dina Velikovskaya beautifully explores contrasting desires in the puppet animation short Kukuschka.

UK animation director presents her animation documentary shorts Bloomers on a Manchester garment factory. Watch the film and read her interview.

A travelogue of women in cut-out animation takes place in the short animation film Ayam (Days) by Sofia El Khyari.

A street art project that turned into an animation short. Here's the presentation of Urban Sphinx directed by María Lorenzo Hernández, and produced by Enrique Millán.

In a version of Kolkata, India rendered unlivable by sea-level rise, things take a dark turn when a family of climate change refugees is attacked by a tiger on the flooded streets. Here's the new 2D animation film Wade by Upamanyu Bhattacharyya & Kalp Sanghvi (Ghost Animation).