Witness these animated wonders willed into motion by craft from scratch! Drawn, painted, modeled, and collaged, awaken your imagination as these dazzling works of art come alive. A feast of fantastic flavors for the eyes, this collection has delights and depths that you won’t want to miss!

Compared to the bustling life of London’s City, in the quiet, static suburb, lurk foxes. Suburb is a glimpse into what mischief these enigmatic creatures wreak on their man-made surroundings.

Suburb

Pele, the hot-tempered volcano goddess, races Kamapuaʻa, the shapeshifting trickster, from Puna to Hilo. Win or lose, Pele must put aside her stubbornness and realize that the journey made the destination worth reaching.

Pua Ka Uahi

Every girl at summer camp knows the legend of the Creature of Camp Calawaga... But is it just a story? 
Legend Has It follows a mischievous camp counselor who tries to spook her campers with a scary tale. Unbeknownst to her, the creature comes to life and is hungry.

Legend Has It

What's real and what's unreal? Does what we see exist or it's all just our mind?

ia ilusi?

A naive and imaginative child mistakes her dying grandfather for an astronaut.

Jii-chan

The basis of understanding the global nature is to get to know the nature within us - our own nature - and to look at the process of individual personality development as a component of a global phenomenon.
The film brings a poem to life which winds between dreams, nightmares, childhood memories, diary notes, and their adult interpretation, reflecting on the issues raised by the search for the meaning of existence and the feeling of frequent hopelessness.

Password to the *****

A fictional old commercial promoting a digital mask called ‘iScreen Pro’ implies people’s insane life under the worldwide pandemic.

Introducing iScreen Pro

Richard the Raccoon is eager to wake up on the day of his birthday party, but things take an unexpected turn.

Birthday Boy

This is a mock-up trailer for a video game demo. A character finds themselves isolated in their bedroom by their own choice and fearful of the world. Aided by sleeping medication, they can escape and rediscover memories and experiences they have forgotten in their dreams.

Inkfish

This is the story of Anatole, a character who travels the depths of his planet making wonderful discoveries. He tries to bring life back to this space that has long been abandoned with the help of his companion, a little rabbit.

Inner Path

A filmmaker is told by a six year-old that she is, against all odds, her favorite childhood superhero. This spawns an identity crisis of race and gender in this personal narrative based on a true story.

About A Bat

Vanessa gets her period at the 7th grade dance and doesn't know what to do! She turns to a giant sea spirit who gives her a ride to the pharmacy to buy her first box of pads.

Pharmacy Odyssey

Where do stolen items go? This film brings you on a journey from who and where stolen items could have gone.

Stolen

Overload-- inside a mind with faulty noise processing.

Overload

When a tree falls, it does not die.

Life Eternal

A woman has to put aside her desire to be touched. The loss and change of her familiar surroundings pushes her to her limits.

Contagious Loneliness

A visual, surrealist exploration on the absurdity and inconclusive nature of living in a double culture, personally from a Taiwanese American lens.

WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM?

In a distant future, an artificial intelligence named Aero is inaugurated as the first AI ruler of Earth. However, she soon finds important worldviews are missing from her databank, including the stories of the historically marginalized and oppressed.

Afro Algorithms

Fine Lines - Presented by Vancouver Film School

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