Animation Mixtape: Part 2 (18)

This selection showcases the versatility and scope of contemporary animation. A mixture of techniques, storytelling and platforms, this panorama represents the breadth of animation.

This screening carries the following trigger warnings for content:
Violence, Abuse, Death/Dying
Trigger warning content categories used are courtesy of the Film and TV Charity’s advice: https://bit.ly/3EX7TA8

Films in this programme:

Her Dress for the Final

One day my granny dyed her wedding dress black. She wanted to be buried in it.

Director: Martina Mestrovic

Year: 2023

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Whatever Moves Is Alive

While slugs wander across the kitchen floor, Noémie draws up her self-portrait, shifting and fragmented, on the edge between the intimate and the hubbub of the world.

Director: Noémie Marsily

Year: 2023

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Bye Bear

The 80s. A run-down motel. This is where a secret club of robot friends gather regularly to live out their dreams of being something else

Director: Jan Blitzer

Year: 2023

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Love Me True

Laurence is desperately looking for love. Advised by a friend, she connects to online dating sites to find her soulmate. She becomes addicted to her phone and to a toxic man.

Director: Inés Sedan

Year: 2023

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Shackle

Three archetypal woodland spirits explore the conflicting human drives of creativity, possessiveness and our desire for status.

Director: Ainslie Henderson

Year: 2023

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Ninety-Five Senses

An ode to the body’s five senses delivered by a man with little time left to enjoy them.

Director: Jerusha Hess, Jared Hess

Year: 2023

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Drijf

Jeremy and Aurora are lost at sea. In the vast openness of the ocean they are cooped up together on a small tree bark. Will our castaways be able to grow while trying to make it back to shore, or will they lose a piece of themselves along the way?

Director: Levi Stoops

Year: 2023

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