Shorts I: Everything Animated All at Once!
* Filmmaker scheduled to attend a post-screening Q&A.
How Was Your Day?
Najja Akinwole | USA | 2024 | 5 min. | English
꩜ West Coast Premiere
With mouths full of jellied food and steamy clown meat steak, join the Applebottom family for a bit of idle chit-chat and ask yourself—what bizarre thing will they say next?
Scared Shrimpless!
Abby O’Brien | USA | 2024 | 1 min.
꩜ WORLD Premiere
A curious shrimp unknowingly wanders into a kitchen... he's in for a shock!
Hunky Dory
Steven Vander Meer | USA | 2024 | 6 min.
꩜ Seattle Premiere
When we are in harmony with the beauty of nature, and the moon is as round as a banjo, that’s when you know everything is hunky dory. A visual smorgasbord juxtaposing animal life and human existence over Béla Fleck’s “My Blue Grass Heart,” meticulously hand drawn over 4,320 index cards.
This Is a Story Without a Plan
Cassie Shao | USA | 2023 | 8 min.
Two people, and an explosion.
Flower Show
Elli Vuorinen | Finland | 2023 | 9 min. | English
꩜ PACIFIC NORTHWEST Premiere
Girls have been cultivated like flowers for generations. We need more growing seasons to breed new ways into the system.
A Crab in the Pool
Alexandra Myotte & Jean-Sébastien Hamel | Canada | 2023 | 11 min. | French
꩜ Seattle Premiere
During a scorching summer day, siblings Zoe and Theo will have to burst the abscess of their relationship so as not to lose each other. 2025 Oscar Shortlist for Best Animated Short.
Gimlet
Ruth Hayes* | USA | 2024 | 4 min.
A phytogram cocktail made with three varieties of basil.
Les Bêtes
Michael Granberry* | USA | 2024 | 12 min.
A mysterious rabbit with a set of magic keys summons a host of strange creatures to entertain a wicked king and his decadent court in this dark stop-motion animated fantasy. Inspired by the works of Ladislas Starevich and composed of never-used characters from the works of storied animator, Michael Granberry (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Wendell & Wild, Anomalisa).
A Festa
Mônica Moura | Brazil, USA | 2024 | 6 min.
꩜ North American Premiere
A young woman observes every element of a child’s party carefully, from people to objects to food—everything seems to have a past, present and future of its own.
Filante
Marion Jamault | France | 2023 | 9 min.
꩜ west coast Premiere
Every night, Paulette wishes on the same shooting star in the sky: to find her mysteriously missing pet rat. When he never returns, Paulette wants to understand what's wrong with her star.
Noggin
Case Jernigan | USA, Italy | 2024 | 7 min. | English
꩜ Pacific northwest Premiere
A desperate man builds a memory palace out of paper and glass to fight brain damage from multiple sclerosis.