MAF 2025 Animation Mixtape Online (15)

Available: Friday 14 Nov - Sunday 30 Nov 2025

An online selection of some of 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 some of the international short films playing in competition.

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.

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.

The Ballad of Pale Blue Dot

Dir. Duncan Rudd // United Kingdom

Starting at the atomic scale, we discover how earth was formed, its mis-spent youth, its adventures in parenting and its feelings towards us.

Brown Morning

Dir. Carlo Vogele // France, Luxembourg

A world of colour is gradually invaded by bland, brown animals. From small compromises to major cowardice, the brown animals gradually invade homes and take control. An authoritarian power with absurd laws is established. To avoid trouble, Charly complies with the rules of this colourless world and discovers the horrors of fascism at his own expense.