Pierced. Pierced. Pierced. Pierced. Pierced.
But the moose keeps on…
Animated Short Film
Ball Lightning
Ball Lightning is the true story of a refugee who fled the personal and
social effects of Soviet-run East Germany after the end of WWII and immigrated to
the United States in the 1960s, told through the eyes of the surrogate daughter she
raised after being forced to give away her own infant daughter as the iron curtain
rose. The film is an intergenerational love story and is dedicated to her lost
daughter, demonstrating that children separated from families because of
war are never forgotten.
INSIDER
A treasure hunt through memory and self leads the panda to embrace the long-forgotten version of himself.
So He Grabbed the Knife
The boy takes the knife his father once gave him. Did what followed make him a “man”?
Foxing: Kitsuné-tsuki
Shinano is a character designer drifting through a monotonous routine.
Her work is absorbed into a commercially driven system, and on social media, she fails to find a sense of belonging, deepening her loneliness.
One day, Koyami—a fox-masked character born from her old doodles—appears. Soon, other discarded characters emerge, blurring the boundary between Shinano’s creative world and reality.
After wandering through a labyrinth of her own mind, Shinano realizes that Koyami and the others
My Grandmother is a Skydiver
Alfyia, a joyful young woman in 1960s Central Asia, is actively parachuting and studying to become a midwife, when she receives an extraordinary phone call from her granddaughter in 2022. She is worried about her grandmother’s safety amid the invasion of Ukraine. In this intergenerational conversation across time and space, the granddaughter tries to rethink family memory and her own ethnic identity, break the endless cycle of collective trauma and reflect on the meaning of human life.