In a madcap musical, a catstronaut travels the galaxy looking for the meaning of life when she encounters a space pup eager to help but only gets them into trouble at every turn.
● Neeraja Raj
● 9'
● United Kingdom
Ten-year-old Gabriel loves to sing and has one desire: to sing in the local choir. The group rides kicksleds through the snowy landscape of Northern Norway and is known for their kindness and charity towards the village refugees.
● Torfinn Iversen
● 18’
● Norway
Growing up on the magical Isle de Jean Charles, two siblings reflect on relocating from their home as the Louisiana coastline slowly submerges underwater. This rapturously photographed film captures the fading majesty of losing one’s homeland to climate change.
● Sandra Winther
● 22’
● USA
Through innovative animation techniques, a feast of plastic garbage, collected from beaches, sidewalks, warehouses and yards mark the end of humanity's love and hate relationship with this "beautiful poison", plastic.
● Paul Bush
● 7'
● Denmark, UK
"Does our modern world reach its limits? A disturbing observation of our society’s downward spiral and its consequences on our world."
● Swann Chesnel, Yoann Chesnel (both men, brothers!)
● 5'
● France
In a heavily polluted world, a young woman mourns the disappearance of animal species. When she falls ill due to a bacterial infection, nature appears to send her a message in her hallucinations.
● Arjan Brentjes
● 10’
● Netherlands
Ready to leave her UK boarding school and enter the working world, a young Black woman faces pressure to change her name and natural hairstyle.
● Ethosheia Hylton
● 15'
● United Kingdom
In an interestingly subliminal way, many young girls are taught how to watch and not how to do. Girls are led on to think that they are more fragile and weak. Stoke Chasers aims to get women to stand up and fight this notion of just watching and to break the connection between being feminine and being fragile.
● Jo Anna Edmison
● 8'
● USA