Only a Child | Animated Shorts Mixtape – Side A (15)

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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. Curated in a way that only the Festival can, prepare to be delighted by the scope and variety of animated filmmaking, discover something new in our animation mixtape that stays with you forever.

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Only a Child is a visual poem created by over 20 animation directors under the artistic supervision of Simone Giampaolo, which gives shape and colour to the original words spoken by Severn Cullis-Suzuki at the UN Summit in Rio in 1992, a child’s desperate call to action for the future of our planet. An omnibus film celebrating the environmental youth movement 30 years in the making.

Year
2020
Runtime
7 minutes
Language
English
Country
United Kingdom

Director
Simone Giampaolo

8 films in package

Affairs of the Art

59-year-old factory worker Beryl is totally obsessed with drawing, her fixation dominates the entire household.

Fledge

Elina is a young Russian immigrant who lives with her grandma in a small desert town on Israel, trying to fit in with her peers and overcome her mother's abandonment.

See Me

See Me tells the story of five-year-old Alice who is at a party for grown-ups with her mother trying to get her mother to notice her.

Easter Eggs

The Chinese restaurant is empty. The exotic bird’s cage stands wide open. Two friends, Jason and Kevin, see this as an opportunity to catch and sell them. Catching the birds ain’t as simple as it seems.

Plantarium

There is an unusual garden in a dark cave cultivated by a lonely man. One day he finds a little boy in a pot.

Bad Seeds

Bad Seeds takes us to a bizarre world populated by carnivorous plants that can change shapes the way a chameleon changes colours.

Orgiastic Hyper-Plastic

An animated extravaganza of plastic collected from beaches, roadsides, attics and junk shops.

Only a Child

Giving shape and colour to the words spoken by Severn Cullis-Suzuki at the UN Summit in Rio in 1992, these are a child’s desperate call to action for the future of our planet.