Animation Mixtape: Part 2 (18)

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.

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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