Spotlight on Animation at #WFA2023

After the death of his mother, Nico is in a crematorium waiting for her ashes. Nico begins working on an experiment with a virtual reality glasses to travel to a parallel universe and see his mother once again. Just like an hourglass, Nico will depend on the last grain of sand to accomplish his purpose.

This short film depicts the author’s fear of changes and distortions. How do you face these feelings in the past, present and in the future? It is as though the soul is broken into infinite pieces, but as long as we can survive, the depths of night passes eventually.

From birth to sacralization, change is the infinite path of being.

A routine errand at the dry cleaners unleashes a free-for-all of fat-shaming, body image demons and family dieting obsessions.

A naughty suitcase that wants to be free, creates a mess at the airport.

This is my report about a mysterious creature that Watashi found the year that normal came to a stop all around the globe. People were forced to stay at home in the spring of the year, and Watashi decided to stop commuting to the city and stayed home every day. One day, Watashi discovered mysterious traces in the garden and set up a camera which captured a creature about 15cm tall. Watashi named it Pukkulapottas and become absorbed in searching for it. However, as the world gradually returned to normal, Pukkulapottas disappears from sight. Is what we see, all there is to truth?

Lu and Wei are two young girls living in a village nestled on the banks of a river where some families drown baby girls in the river in order to have boys. The two girls have a special bond with this river. Together, they will find a magical strength to overcome the traumas of the past.

An astronaut travels in search of alien lifeform. When his board-computer detects a lifeform, the astronaut makes his way to the planet.

In the land occupied with the Sprayer’s army, no one has the right to grow any kind of plants either in public or private. So many of the people and soldiers do not even know how a plant grows or looks like, until one day one of the soldiers finds a seed buried deep down in the dust and his curiosity is just the beginning of something extraordinary, something big, something revolutionary.

Caught between the expectations of his Guatemalan immigrant family and his desire to live happily ever after with his boyfriend, 19-year-old Hunter “Pixel” Jimenez takes us on an energetic and colorful journey through his life as a trans teen in LA and his dreams for the future.