Spring Season / 1st Quarterly Qualifier

SDSFF Animated Short Films

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SWiM
A low-cost, Tenzing model mountain droid with serious artistic aspirations, embarks on her never-ending and sometimes perilous journey into creativity.
Jesus's Last Supper in America
This is a short, animated film that imagines what would happen if Jesus came back today and visited the United States. It is based on the contradiction that is being debated in modern Christianity in this country, where many of the current laws being pushed by conservative Christians seem go against Jesus’s actual philosophy and teachings.
You Hit Like A Girl
Saikou hunts down a biker gang.
The Decline and Fall of Holly Dew and Walter Melon
A haunting meditation on fame, failure, and redemption asks, what does it mean to truly be seen?
Ceol
An old Irish man plays the Bodhran, setting off a sequence of events through music, place, and time.
Figures
Even a simple conversation can help.
Mae-Mea Someone Else
A fully synthetic pop star, architected from a week of deep learning and data curation, performs her debut single in a world built by algorithms.
Enemy Heroes
Enemy Heroes “Because... sometimes it is not easy to tell... Who is the Enemy?.. Who are the Heroes?”
Process Architecture of Sound
Process is an audiovisual composition structured in four movements.
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A collection of animated short films in contention for official selection, nomination as Quarterfinalist for both genre and technical categories. One will win the Quarter Final and be named BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM of the 1st Quarter of 2026! Audience Choice balloting is open. Your vote counts!

After a disastrous fashion runway walk, Maggie, a low-cost, Tenzing model mountain droid with serious artistic aspirations, embarks on her never-ending and sometimes perilous journey into creativity. This time, she’s guided by Robert, the brilliant mind behind the Tenzing project at CIT (Cupertino Institute of Technology), and Blu, a destructive Morpho peleides butterfly. Together, they explore the works of Goethe, Kafka, Beckett, Sant'Elia, Philip K. Dick, and more, delving into the joys and pitfalls of artistic creation, the absurdist way.

Will Maggie overcome her AI limitations and achieve her artistic dreams? Find out in SWiM.

  • Year
    2026
  • Runtime
    17:03
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Director
    Ivo Venkov
  • Screenwriter
    Ivo Venkov
  • Producer
    Ivo Venkov
  • Filmmaker
    Ivo Venkov
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