Animation Mixtape 1 (15)

Wednesday 12 Nov 2025 - 20:30
HOME - Cinema 2
Runtime: 80 mins (approx.)

The best animated short films from around the globe playing in competition at MAF. Whether you’re an animation aficionado or this is your first experience beyond the mainstream, let MAF welcome you to the world of animation with our selection of international short films playing in competition.

The winner of the festival’s Short Film Award will be eligible for consideration in the Short Films competition of the Academy Awards® without the standard theatrical run, provided the film otherwise complies with the Academy rules. We are thrilled to to be the only animation-dedicated festival in the UK to hold this honour, and can't wait for you to enjoy these potential Oscar nominations.

This screening carries the following trigger warnings for content: Pregnancy and childbirth, Miscarriage, Child abuse.

Trigger warning content categories used are courtesy of the Film and TV Charity's advice: https://bit.ly/3VUsEF4

Films in this programme

The Girl Who Cried Pearls

Dir. Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski // Canada

A haunting fable about a girl overwhelmed by sorrow, the boy who loves her, and how greed leads good hearts to wicked deeds.

Impossible Journey

Dir. YUCA // Brazil, United States

The journey of two storks on an ordinary workday reveals an urgent crisis in maternal health care in the United States.

Dog Ear

Dir. Péter Vácz // Hungary

After witnessing his parents' violent fight, eleven-year-old Berci struggles with his anger and emotions; finding a way to release them through his interactions with his dog.

Bread Will Walk

Dir. Alex Boya // Canada

A devoted sister flees with her brother: a benevolent, loaf of bread-turned zombie. A mob pursues, mouths agape. Streets twist into mazes, reason dissolves, hunger reigns. Can love defy appetite?

Voiceless

Dir. Samuel Patthey // Switzerland

A young raver faces a fundamental change in his life — swapping EDM-fueled oblivion for connection to the world, prompted by the simple gaze of a baby.

Dédé

Dir. Yasmine Djedje-Fisher-Azoume // United Kingdom

The filmmaker delves into diasporic female identity through an exploration of her Bété ancestry, a tribe in central Ivory Coast. Dédé examines the divine female figure in West African sculpture, translating them into animation through charcoal drawings and frame-by-frame relief engraving on copper.