A wide range of animated styles and storytelling made by professional and student filmmakers. Including:

Spring and Sprong (directed by Cady Leigh Stalvey): A short series of four 20-30 second non-sequential episodes about two clay-animated creatures getting up to mischief. A very quirky, lighthearted, and comedic array of animations. (2 minutes)

Fowl Encounters (directed by Caroline Westfall): A series of claymation shorts about the hijinks that Chicken Knight and his twin, Dark Chicken Knight, get up to. (2.5 minutes)

SnowBugs (directed by Jenny Schuermann): During a snow day, three girls find themselves in a tricky situation after one of them accidentally goes too far during their snowball fight. (2.5 minutes)

Menders (directed by Martha Barron Griffith): An art conservator is torn between preserving a polished ideal and its unvarnished past. Menders invites viewers to see restoration as a dynamic process of making, unmaking, and remaking, through hand-made mixed-media animation. (4 minutes)

Nuno (directed by Nuno Taborda): NUNO, young man who tries to understand how his destiny is connected with his long-dead uncle's story, NUNO, who he never met. (4.5 minutes)

Dobrina (directed by Hannes Rall): Lotte Reiniger meets Sergio Leone in this animated short, where desire burns as bright as the desert sun. (5 minutes)

Single Use (directed by Jonney Zomberg): Set in a far polluted future, a scavenger resourcefully creates to survive in this stop motion film. (5 minutes)

Sunrise in Prison (directed by Quincy Bowie Jr.): Elizabeth "Leesa" Nomura describes her experiences as an incarcerated woman, the community she built, and the power they discovered together. (5.5 minutes)

Labyrinthine (directed by Megan Wilbert, Davis Finn, Jules Mortensen, and Sarah Helgerud): Jesse finds herself in a strange, dream-like Labyrinth after a relationship ending argument with her girlfriend. In order to escape, she must confront her own faults. (6 minutes)

Poise (directed by Luís Soares): A sad and restrained man lying on the bed in his empty room. Hesitates, ponder hypotheses in a cycle without deciding, stuck. In exhaustion all anguish equals. Another man is sitting at the window: he looks at him and to the street. Characters in broken situations. The key positions, the suspended sequences, are shown. The man almost decides - and they almost return, inside and out, to them and to the city, time and movement. Infinite dawn. (7 minutes)

I Was Still Here. (directed by Dennis Büschemann): Germany, 1941. In a world ruled by silence and fear, two boys share a bond beyond words. Together, they find a way to pass on a hidden warning — a message that will save lives. I Was Still Here is a poetic animated short about friendship, quiet courage, and how empathy can become an act of resistance. A story of one boy who couldn’t speak — and another who truly listened. (10 minutes)

Draft Paper (directed by Olivia Moon): Modeled after the real-life practice of US sailors being forced to censor their pin-up tattoos during World War II, Draft Paper tells the story of an unfulfilled fashion designer who has to face the moral and personal implications of creating his art during a tumultuous time in history. (15.5 minutes)

In Half (directed 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. (24 minutes)