Award-winning animation filmmaker Shira Avni continues her deeply personal animated documentary journey to explore motherhood, fragmentation, neurodiversity, trauma, and healing through the infinitely laborious, handcrafted frame-by-frame filmmaking process. Two-One-Two mixes archival video, sound recordings, experimental, shimmering clay on glass, under-camera, and rotoscoping animation in this intimate, experimental animated documentary love letter to motherhood, parenting on the spectrum, and two headed monsters everywhere. <a href=" https://filmfreeway.com/TwoOneTwo" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Film Website</a>

Two One Two

Two One Two, by animation filmmaker Shira Avni, combines shimmering clay on glass animation with personal archives in this deeply intimate, experimental animated documentary love letter to motherhood, parenting on the spectrum, and two headed monsters everywhere.

Based on George Orwell's 1946 essay and read by Tilda Swinton, Some Thoughts on the Common Toad is a fierce defense of finding delight and beauty in Nature in times of crisis - a Nature free from romanticization and full of political radicalism.

Some Thoughts On The Common Toad

A collaged found-footage manifesto against political cynicism and environmental alienation.

In 1939, a young Romanian woman meets a soldier and falls in love. After he's deployed to the front, they exchange passionate letters until her relocation breaks their connection. Unable to forget him, she continues to wonder: will fate ever bring them together again? <a href="https://bogdanstamatin.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Film Website</a>

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Simply Divine

Through beautiful oil painting-style animations and archive footage, 91-year-old Nușa recounts her wartime romance with a soldier from her youth. Though they lost contact while he served at the front, his memory has stayed with her ever since.

A beautiful Japanese shrine was restored using ancient techniques.These techniques have been passed down by craftsmen for 1000 years.Their work is rational and beautiful.This film expresses how craftsmanship is based on Japanese aesthetics, which in turn are connected to Bushido and the Japanese view of life. <a href="https://satoruokabe.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Film Website</a>

Continuations

As Grey Falls traverses the dikes and mudflats of the Fraser River Delta in British Columbia, the shared home of millions of birds and 2 million people. A place that has been grievously damaged over the past 175 years, it is still a full of intense beauty and wonder. <a href="https://www.christopherpavsek.ca/copy-of-as-grey-falls" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Film Website</a>

As Grey Falls

As Grey Falls is a stunningly photographed experimental documentary film about the deeply entwined worlds of humans and wild animals on the Fraser River delta in British Columbia.

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SDFF 2025 Virtual is a selection of short & feature-length, indie docs curated from the live version of the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival. SDFF aims to engage viewers in the diverse realities & experiences captured by our docs. SDFF is an Oscar® qualifying festival for documentary shorts.

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