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6 films in package
Bird in the Peninsula
Bye Little Block!
Roads
Inglorious Liasons
Bodies of Water
We Were a Sterile Bomb
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Calgary's Quickdraw Animation Society's Giant Incandescent Resonating Animation Festival is a celebration of independent animation; a showcase of inventive, beautiful, mind-altering and unexpected animated films from Canada and around the world.


The 18th edition of the festival offered nearly 90 short films and the best of GIRAF18 presents a selection of this year’s best international films as selected by Siloën Daley.


Note: short film The Garbage Man is not available for online viewing.



Curator, Siloën Daley has an art studio where something is always in the works. Her short expressionistic animated films have screened internationally. As founder and director of both Halifax's art house cinema, Carbon Arc, and The Animation Festival of Halifax, Siloën enjoys regularly watching films with the cultural community.

The boys are rehearsing a dance for their traditional initiation ceremony into adulthood; their teacher instructs them. A girl observes the scene but is not allowed to join in. When one of the boys chases after a strange bird, she follows him without knowing why. One day, the boy will no longer be able to see the bird either.
  • Year
    2022
  • Runtime
    16 minutes
  • Language
    French, Japanese
  • Country
    Japan
  • Director
    Atsushi Wada
  • Producer
    Nobuaki Doi
  • Co-Producer
    Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Pierre Baussaron
  • Editor
    Atsushi Wada
  • Animator
    Josselin Facon, Margot Barbé, Marilou Soller, Chikako Iwasaki
  • Composer
    Mio Adachi
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