Indie Animation Shorts

Frogs, trains and people collide in the dystopian parable The Wheel Turns by New York-based filmmaker Sang Joon Kim. 

A very unusual but still challenging and mesmerizing film. Watch (mature audiences only) the French animation short Chulyen, A Crow's Tale by Cerise Lopez and Agnès Patron. 

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

Sander Joon presents 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.