After being made redundant in the COVID-19 pandemic, journalist Lucy Smickersgill teamed up with textile artist Charlotte Tweedy and learned stop-frame animation. Using felt, they created this optimistic and cheerful micro-short, set to music by Lucy’s daughter, electronic musician Carmel Smickersgill.

Emily Wong, a filmmaker from Hong Kong, created this film in 2019 during the pro-democracy protests in her country. This stop-motion animation encapsulates the chaos and conflict of the time within a hopeful love story between a sack of flour and a broken tree trunk.

Oscar, a young autistic man, experiences the world in his own unique way. Every morning he goes into the same cafe, orders the same coffee, and sits at the same table. Every morning he falls a little bit more in love with Daisy, who works in the cafe.

Mary is living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and is in respite care. Her daughter, Nicole, clinging to pre-MS memories of her mom, only visits Mary when necessary. Then, in classic body-swap style, they’re forced to spend a day in the other’s shoes. A comedy that looks at some of the tougher aspects of life in our 50s and beyond.

Jayne’s son Bob died suddenly from Dengue Fever while he was backpacking around South East Asia. As part of her grieving process, Jayne retraces Bob’s journey across Vietnam and Thailand, staying in every hostel he slept in, experiencing the sites he saw, and meeting the people he had befriended along the way. A story of grief, motherhood and memorial.