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.