A collection of short films curated by Utah Film Center.

Here comes a little girl who’s more of a morning person than Morning itself… and offers us a tender and touching portrait of friendship.

Trails of the Morning

Here comes a little girl who’s more of a morning person than Morning itself… and offers us a tender and touching portrait of friendship.

Contours is a multi-disciplinary performance that celebrates the value and beauty of Great Salt Lake and all its inhabitants. 
Official Selection
2023 Great Salt Lake Collaborative

Contours

This multi-disciplinary performance celebrates the value and beauty of Great Salt Lake and all its inhabitants.

In this six-minute short, Inuit artist, storyteller, and co-director Germaine Arnattaujuq (Arnaktauyok) depicts Inuit creation stories in all their glory. Arctic Song tells stories of how the land, sea, and sky came to be in beautifully rendered animation. Telling traditional Inuit tales from the Iglulik region of Nunavut through song, the film revitalizes ancient knowledge and shares it with future generations.
Awards
Winner Best Animated Film–2022 Nunavut International Film Festival, Canada
Winner Best Canadian Short Film–2022 International Montreal First Peoples Festival, Canada
Official Selection
2022 Asinabka Festival Snowscreen, Ottawa, Canada
2022 Available Light Film Festival, Whitehorse, Canada
2022 Skoden Indigenous Film Festival, Canada
2022 Reel to Real International Film Festival for Youth, Canada
2022 Edmonton International Film Festival, Canada
2022 American Indian Film Festival, San Francisco
2022 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, Canada
2022 Montreal International Children’s Film Festival, Canada
2022 Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, Portugal
2022 Nuuk International Film Festival, Greenland
2022 Chicago International Children's Film Festival (CICFF), U.S.A.

Arctic Song

Arctic Song is a short film of Inuit creation stories expressed through song and animation, based on the original artwork of Inuit artist, storyteller, and co-director Germaine Arnattaujuq (Arnaktauyok).

Two goats wait for their big brother to kill the troll that may or may not be under the bridge they need to cross in this adaptation of Three Billy Goats Gruff .
Official Selection
Fear No Film Festival (Utah Arts Festival)

Gruff

Two goats wait for their big brother to kill the troll that may or may not be under the bridge they need to cross in this adaptation of Three Billy Goats Gruff .

Winter in a Day is a 2D animated children’s short that follows two best friends, Bear and Fox, and the adventures they have on the last day before Bear’s hibernation. Bear dreams of one day experiencing winter and is sad to be missing it once again. With the help of some friends, Fox creates winter in a day for Bear

Winter in a Day

Bear dreams of one day experiencing winter and is sad to be missing it once again. With the help of some friends, Fox creates winter in a day for Bear.

Mína and her, Toy, friend are having fun in a sandpit. Suddenly, mud pies are stamped out and the Toy is captured by cycling Totemites! Only the youngest one, Tricycler, feels sorry for the Toy. To save the Toy tied up to a high Totem seems impossible. Our heroes need to overcome risky challenges including digging tunnel under the playground and bike chasing. Finally, Tricycler gives Mína a hand and new friendship is born. 
Official Selection 
2022 Giffoni Film Festival, Italy 
2022 Kids Kino International Film Festival, Poland 
2022 Schlingel International Film Festival, Germany 
2022 Cinekid Festival, Netherlands 
2022 Cinemagic Belfast International Film Festival for Young People, Ireland 
2023 7th edition of IndieJunior - International Children's and Youth Film Festival, Portugal 
2023 Belmont World Film's Family Festival, USA

Sand Pie

Mina with her Toy friend are having fun in a sandpit. Suddenly, mud pies are stamped out and the Toy is captured by cycling Totemites!

A little polar bear Ursa is alone in the cold dark Arctic and looking for his mum. He walks through a blizzard, through icy cold tundra and sharp ice hummocks, towards the northern lights and the magic song in hope to find his mother. On his way Ursa meets different Arctic animals - friends and enemies, and after many challenges comes to the edge of the earth. In front of him is only the sea and the northern lights. And there in the distance, in the northern lights he sees his mum. Little polar bear is floating to her on an ice floe, and a big blue whale pushes him ahead. The floe becomes smaller and smaller and eventually melts. But Ursa still manages to reach the edge of the northern lights and there he meets his mum. And they are floating together in the sky and become into two constellations - the Great Bear (Ursa Major) and the Little Bear (Ursa Minor). AwardsBest Norwegian Short Film, Barnefilmfestivalen 2021, NorgeBest Short Film Made for Kids, Golden Kuker Iaff, Sofia, Bulgaria 2021The Best Children Film, Tiaf, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2021Special Mention -Best Film for Children, Reanima, Bergen, Norge, 2021Best Animation for Children, Laaf, Los Angeles, Usa, 2021Audience Prize 4+, Cine Junior Ff, Paris, France, 2022Best Animation Short 4+, Psaroloco Int. Cildren´s and Youth Ff, Pireaus, Greece,20228+ Best Short Film - School Jury Award, Cactus Cildren´s and Youth Ff, Aosta, Italy, 2022Honorable Mention Lantern &amp; Light Icff, Melbourne, Australia, 2022Award Vinner 3-6 Y.o Kinodiseea Icff, Bucharest, Romania, 2022Best Animation Award Bridge of Peace, Paris, France, 2022 Official SelectionSeoul Guro Int. Kids FF, South Korea, 01-07.07. 2021ZLIN Int. FF for children and youth, Czech Republic, 09-15.09.2021ANIBAR Int.Anim Festival, Peja, Kosovo, 23-30.07.2021GIFFONI children and youth Int. Film Festival, Italy, 27.07 - 01.08 2021La Guarimba Int. Film Festival, Italy, Calabria, 7-12.08.2021AniFest ROZAFA IFF for children and young people, Tirana, Albania, 09-13.08 2021FANTOCHE Int. Anim. FF, Baden, Switzerland, 03 - 08.09 2021The Norwegian IFF HAUGESUND, Barnefilmprogram, 21-27. 08 2021TIFF Junior, Tromsø, Norway, 01 - 05.09. 2021Film Festival della Lessini, Verona, Italy, 20-29.08.2021Family Film Festival, Irland, Dublin, 27-29.08.2021Universal Kids Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey, 02-06.09 2021Kino Dzieci - Kids Kino IFF, Warszawa, Poland, 25.09-03.10.2021BUSTER Copenhagen IFF for Children and Youth, Danmark, 27.09.- 10.10 2021Zero Plus IFF, Tyumen, Russia 27.09-03.10.2021ANIMATOU IAFF, Geneva, Switzerland, 28.09- 09.10 2021International Animated Short Film Festival “AJAYU”, Puno, Peru , 29.09-02.10.2021Reykjavík International Film Festival, Island, 30.09 - 10.10 2021Le Chouette Festival, France, 1-4.10.2021Animare (shorts for children), Italy, 1-10.10.2021Cinemagic Belfast Film Festival, Ireland, UK, 01 - 31.10 2021Animafest Gdansk IAFF, Poland 14-17.10.2021Fredrikstad Anim. Fest. Norway, 21-24.10.2021CINEKID, Amsterdam Netherlands, 7-23.10.2021TOFUZI: Int. Fest. of Animated Films, Georgia, Batumi, 25-30.10.2021Uppsala International Short Film Festival (Children’s Film Festival), Sweden, 25-31.10.2021FILEM´ON International Children´s FF, Brussels, Belgium, 28.10-06.

Ursa - The Song of the Northern Light

A beautiful and melancholic story about one little polar bear who is alone in the cold dark Arctic and looking for his mum.

Janwaar celebrates a rambunctious group of kids whose lives are transformed when a skatepark is built in their small village in India. Raw talent, creativity, and unadulterated childhood find a home on four wheels, and manage to break down generations of caste and gender barriers in the process.
Awards
Winner Best Short–Coast Film 
Winner Best Utah Film–Fear No Film 
Winner Best Short Doc–International Sport Film Festival 
Official Selection
Mountainfilm Film Festival 
Fear No Film 
Port Townsend 
Charlotte Chagrin 
Doc Fest 
Chicago International Children's Film Festival 
BendFilm 
Washington West Film Festival 
Paris Surf and Skate Film Festival 
Coast Film Fest 
Walla Walla Movie Crush 
Lookout Wild Film Festival 
VIMFF 
Providence Children's Film Fest

Janwaar

Skate. Educate. Build community. These are the pillars of Janwaar – the greatest skatepark you’ve never heard of.

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