Approximate rating: PG-13. The themes tackled in this year’s Animated program are quite heavy — the death of a parent, Alzheimer’s, China’s one child policy, and more.
Director: Daria Kashcheeva
Synopsis: In a hospital room, the Daughter recalls a childhood moment when as a little girl she tried to share her experience with an injured bird with her Father. A moment of misunderstanding and a lost embrace has stretched into many years all the way to this hospital room, until the moment when a window pane breaks under the impact of a little bird.
Directors: Matthew A. Cherry, Everett Downing Jr. & Bruce W. Smith
Synopsis: HAIR LOVE is a heartfelt animated short film that centers around the relationship between an African-American father, his daughter Zuri, and the most daunting task a father could ever come across — doing his daughter’s hair for the first time.
Director: Rosana Sullivan
Synopsis: KITBULL, directed by Rosana Sullivan and produced by Kathryn Hendrickson, reveals an unlikely connection that sparks between two creatures: a fiercely independent stray kitten and a pit bull. Together, they experience friendship for the first time.
Director: Bruno Collet
Synopsis: Recently, Louis, a painter, is experiencing strange events. His world seems to be mutating. Slowly, furniture, objects and people lose their realism. They are destructuring, sometimes disintegrating…
Director: Siqi Song
Synopsis: A man thinks back to his childhood memories of growing up with an annoying little sister in china in the 1990s. What would his life have been like if things had gone differently?
