Extinct
2024 NOMINEE - BEST ANIMATED FILM
2023
Spain / Canada / Spain / Brazil
9 mins
Spanish
US Premiere
Animated Film Competition
| Raúl Díez Rodríguez | |
| Raúl Díez Rodríguez | |
| Discussion or Depiction of Self-Harm |
An astronaut returns from a failed mission to an Earth extinct from contamination. His condition of being the last of his kind torments him. He is a magical identity – the last breath of Nature, with a breath of pure air, water, the sea.

About the Director
Raúl Díez is from Spain and is a specialist in stop-motion animation who has won international awards. In 1999, he developed chapters for ‘Sesame Street’ (CTW). In 2003 he filmed the short film ‘Sr. Trapo / Mr. Cloth’, with prize from the Goya Spanish Film Academy for winning best animated short film. In 2004, he filmed the Disney series ‘Felix At The Machine’. In 2018, he filmed the short film ‘El Ermitaño / The Hermit’, which was nominated for best animated short at the Goya Spanish film academy.
