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The experimental animated film, El Canto de las Moscas, translates the desolation caused by the violence of the Colombian armed conflict through the poetic voice of Maria Mercedes Carranza (1945-2003) and the audiovisual dialogue between 9 Colombian women. In 24 places that are visited during the course of a day, a map of terror is drawn where massacres took place in Colombia in the 1990s. Archival images, the artists’ personal memories and the use of loops and analog materials bring to life the landscapes ravaged by violence and build a polyphony of memory and mourning, a universal song of pain.

“Symbols” is a short animation for introducing the LIAF Abstract Showcase program. It's about text, symbols, language, and communication, trying to explore the concept of abstract through the conversion between natural language and constructed language in a more relaxed and simple way. When text symbols are isolated from their linguistic contexts, how could they be understood and communicated in a chaotic contemporary context?

Omar, a young teenager commits suicide. Then we go back in time to discover the events that pushed him to take his own life.

The film is about the cycle of violence in the world, a vicious circle from which it is impossible to get out, stop and look at yourself from the outside.

A horror story that was popular among schoolchildren in the USSR. Never forget Grandma's instructions.

The short film mainly talks about the dream Pirate who travels around in different housing estates in Hong Kong to look for the dream photon. On the way, he meets a child who has a relationship with him and encounters the threat of the dream eater. Will it save him or continue to escape?

Deep in the wet forest, breezes and sand leaves, rain flowers fell on the nose of the little squirrel, began to rain.

«The Cuckoo Calls» tells a story of Barry, a bird who lives and works together with his friendly robot companion. Until one day a bird from the outside world is calling Barry to join him outside. At this point Barry will be faced with the conflict of wanting to explore the outside world but also wanting to stay with the robot in his comfortable happy bubble. Even though the robot is sad about the bird wanting to leave, he knows he has to come up with a solution that could work for both of them.

On a wild island live four women in harmony. A bra from different times, washed ashore on a stormy night, violates the balance of life on the island and causing chaos and destruction. The new object becomes the focus of a quarrel. "Carried away" is a parable of the immense power inherent in the female collective and its destructive potential.

Inspired by the terrible killings, hatred, and division of 2020; here’s a friendly reminder from your besties at House of Chai to please love one another and celebrate our differences.

A beautifully intense visual mash-up. StarGAN2 run in a feedback loop creating Chaos theory.

An undersea explorer called Goar dives into the bottom of the sea to save her robot friend.

Animated short film

A grieving woman comes to terms with the loss of her baby by welcoming wild animals into her garden.

Depicts the childhood memory of Blyth trying on his father’s boxers at age eight, before leaving for Brownies still wearing them under his uniform. This memory is one of many that have contributed to Blyth understanding that his gender identity did not align with the sex he was assigned at birth, leading to the artist coming out as transgender at eighteen.

A brief tour through images of visual culture in our daily lives.

This excerpt from a poem by Russian-American Nobel Prize winner Joseph Brodsky is a description of the Soviet Empire of the 1980s, a metaphorical reckoning with a technocratic regime, and a nightmarish illustration of war.

A monkey named Gregory finishes writing a play for his master and wants credit for it, but his master forbids it.

A training potty and a boy are very good friends. One day, however, the training potty realizes that the boy will one day grow up and leave the training potty behind. With me, you will never grow up, for your sake, I'm leaving you.

This piece does radical justice to the widely observable tendency of increasingly shorter communication sequences by offering four short films at once, tinged in the aesthetic of a commercial break on TV: Attack the System, a blessing for your enemies; Zabrinor, the ultimate drug for the modern world; We Shall Overcoat, an argument over a revolutionary rainbow; and Evil Man, a study of why bad things happen. (tr)

A metaphor about national identity and migration as a mangrove seed and its journey.

A patient goes to the doctor for surgery, but soon, his inner self and superego clash over the future of sickness, merging identities with the performing surgeon.

The protagonist, who has a too big body for the house, goes through all sorts of hardships outside the house, and finally finds the house fit for the body.

"The Gods of Tiny Things" thinks poetically and urgently about the current array of threats to life; the shift to the right across the political world, the tolls of colonialism, climate catastrophe, human profligacy; and conversely the dynamic, kaleidoscopic pleasures and desires of life itself, at all scales, in all its teeming, prancing, hectic, clamouring fertility. We are dancing at the end of time.

In a futuristic world, an average guy with a jellybean-loving sweet tooth waits in line for a new limited flavour release, but fortune presents him with a quest to instead steal the rare flavoured jelly candy from under the nose of a jellybean-plantation-farmer-giant who lives in the sky.

Iranian wakes up to demonstrate against the cruel. The Internet and news blackout, and the blood of over 1500 adult, teens and bystanders has been shed on the ground. This film tries to document and show one scene from this disaster to all people around the world.

A lighthearted animation about a not-so-everyday postal worker on her fantastical journey to deliver a not-so-everyday letter.

This film is about losing a loved one and the memories you cherish after they’re gone. It’s always the little moments that seem to matter the most.

A man checks in at a hotel at the end of the day, then walks into a few bistros and bars where he eats and drinks to excess. He then returns to the hotel where he falls asleep and dream’s tumultuously.

How a culture and community that believe in Shaman is being destroyed by mainstream religions. By using the panda allegory it is told with a magical realistic narrative.

A farm of instrument animals welcomes a new member who finds a different way to fit in.

For most Raindrops, there’s no greater purpose than jumping from clouds.

A moment of transition in the life of Luigi, a child from fourteenth-century Florence. A weaver’s precious embroidered blanket brings to life the adventures of young Tristan, which inspires Luigi to take on the skills and code of knighthood.

Whirlwind is a hand-drawn animation consisting of over 700 ink drawings, rendered during the early months of the global pandemic. The film’s visuals were elicited by unfolding events. The process of drawing this film, frame by frame, coincided with a unique sense of time and space that emerged during the pandemic. The unique flow of time experienced during the first half of 2020 provided a new type of lived experience—proper for reflection through hand-crafted animation.

On a foggy morning, two Kung Fu fighters compete to occupy a tree for their beloved pet birds, until something unexpected happens. This genre-defying animated short film combines Kung Fu and comedy elements with a poetic touch. In the film, traditional Chinese ink-wash painting is beautifully animated in a contemporary approach.

Twisted story about the health crisis during the COVID pandemic.

A group of rabbits cross a bridge in search of a new accommodation. The god of life decides to land in the empty town at the end of the bridge and so this will become their new home. Once everyone had gotten used to their new environment, a new face enters the city, completing the system, the god of death.

Kind of an illegal sleepover, a clumsy burglary, two best friends and sharp nails.

Ivan who is a barber, one morning find a nose in the bread , and the same day his customer Kovalyov realizes that his nose is out of place. Kovalyovis looking for his nose. Ivan throws the nose into a river, but the police officer notices. He follows the nose and arrests the nose while he is trying to escape in disguise and returns him to Kovalyov.

A woman deemed guilty for killing a young girl is executed. An experimental film that questions the nature of innocence, I Am Innocent juxtaposes the purity of childhood innocence against the desperate pleas of a convicted adult.

A meditation on the dissolution of boundaries between the human form and its surrounding environment.

None, nothing, and struggling. TRANSPARENT DRAGONFLY is an experimental animation about non-feeling.

In a world where the only from of communication is with musical instruments, or creating sounds with their body, it is difficult to make connections. Following through a luscious green and mossy landscape, a small man attempts to play his rhythmic tunes in order to create a loving bond with someone special.

The chest medals represent not only the prestigious and righteous decorations but also the heavy guilt. A veteran chased the stealing medals and started recalling the life with getting these medals. It reveals the ambiguous righteous under the medals.

After a car crash in a land of nowhere, a man got lucky when hitching a truck ride. Somehow, he didn't want to be just a passenger but decided to take over the driver's seat. Everything seemed smooth along the road until something looked suspicious.

A journey across the desert leaves two individuals with hopes and dreams but with a tough decision to make.

In a presurizing world where Ed wants to live more freely, thus ending up being ostracized by society. One day, whilst walking in line to work, Ed hears a sound, turns around, and sees a hole in his own shadow; revealing a mystical world below. Ed embraces the difference, and decides to jump into the unknown.

A funny plasticine story about how you can easily understand fractions using the example of cutting a cake. And even remember what kind of fractions exist.

The dad of the plasticine family sets up experiments right at home. And all the household members suddenly exchange their bodies: children, grandmother. But mom absolutely doesn't like it. She makes Daddy return everything as it was.

Once upon a time, the world was perfect, exactly the same people lived around the world. But once aliens arrived on the Earth. And life has changed. Everyone has become different!

Two girlfriends-cats, hungry, leave the house in search of a delicious dinner in the forest. But they meet a monster, which turns out to be just an owl! And on the advice of the owls, they return home to the smell of a ready-made dinner.

Once a very curious daughter was born in the family of ladybirds. Parents tried to cure her of curiosity, but they did not succeed. And now the little ladybug torments everyone with her questions.

The worm decided to go into space. And the apple he gnawed was perfect for space flight. But after a collision with a hungry planet, very much like an angry apple, the worm decided to return quickly home.