Best professional Short Animation Film
Official Selections
In Half
By : Jorge Morais Valle
Through a child's imagination it tells the journey of a man who after falling prey to his fears, he must cross a strange world, a universe full of magic, where he will be confronted with his own fears and conflicts from the past and where he must find solutions for the future to discover his self-identity.
Memoria Colectiva
By : Cristina Colmenares, Manuel-Antonio Monteagudo
In 1983, during the darkest days of Peru’s Armed Conflict with the Shining Path, masked soldiers entered Adelina’s home and took her husband away. She would never see him again. After facing silence and contempt from the Police and Army, Adelina joins forces with the many other women who have lost their husbands and children to soldiers who were supposed to protect them. Together, they will unite to demand justice.
Find Find
By : Angela Wong, Anita So
An octopus finds her new favourite toy, a plastic cup, unaware it will carry her far from home and into the vast, dangerous yet wonderful sea.
Timosha
By : Elena Malenkina
In the happy and peaceful world of the hedgehog Timosha, trouble suddenly comes. His life will never be the same again, and he will have to leave his cozy home. Will Timosha be able to understand and accept this? This story is about those who have been forced to leave their homes and start a new life.
Spiral
By : Abbey Lynn Paccia
In her film Spiral, Abbey Paccia contemplates existential thoughts that slip through the margins of her days. The consideration of mollusk shells as containers of memory leads to the awe of small life and the connection of all beings. The poetic narrative slips between Paccia’s relationship with other life forms, drifting visions of her own memories, and reflections on living in this changing planet as a finite being.
The Epic of Enkidu
By : Mike A Smith
When the catastrophic king Gilgamesh meets the grass-fed Enkidu, things don't go according to the clay tablets. A glumly slapstick take on the ancient Mesopotamian tale, featuring doom, despair, deception, and sheep.
For the Time Being | Kochi Muziris Biennale 2025
By : Nijin Nazeem
The theme of this year’s Kochi–Muziris Biennale, For the Time Being, frames the film’s exploration of the river as both performer and metaphor for the flow of life. Its currents shift and rearrange, connect and separate, remaining timeless as they shape settlements, cultures, and movement—transporting, withdrawing, and striking back. Flowing through Fort Kochi, where the festival unfolds, the river guides viewers along winding roads and waterways, carrying them through the city’s many iconic facets toward the biennale leaving traces only for the time being.
Where Were We ?
By : Suresh Eriyat
Future Of…
By : Scott Coello
The end is near as the animal world is in revolt.
Three short stories from animals of our pillaged seas, the land we hunt upon, and the air which we overindulge.
Bird Drone
By : Radheya Jang Jegatheva
A heartfelt story of unrequited love explored through a lonely seagull struggling to accept that his newfound object of affection is a human-operated drone with a limited battery life.