SHORTS 2:
PAUSE
Description
Time & Rating
(S) - Student film
(W) - Welsh Premiere
(UK) - UK Premiere
(World) - World Premiere
WHEREABOUTS
Dir. Suejee Lee | USA | 02:00 (UK)
Whereabouts is a riso-printed animated short following a woman’s journey through NYC—unfolding through small, intimate moments. An observation on presence, connection, and the quiet magic of simply moving through the world.
SILENT PANORAMA
Dir. Nicolas Piret | Belgium | 05:09
In this animated miniature a drawing gradually comes to life before our eyes, telling a story not only of a wild boar on the run, but also of the ways in which people occupy the places that used to belong to nature.
Based on memories of a walk in the Belgian Ardennes. This film was drawn and animated alone on a single sheet of paper as a performance.
THE SYCAMORE
Dir. Jared D. Wess| USA | 03:36 (W)
Two weary travellers seek out shade and sustenance from an idle tree. Based on the fable, "The Travellers and the Plane Tree" by Aesop.
TIME
Dir. Robert Löbel, Max Mörtl | Germany | 05:42 (W)
TIME is a dystopian and darkly whimsical animated short, unfolding in fragmented vignettes where characters collide—each caught in their own rhythm of time.
From the seemingly endless drift of an hourglass to the frantic pulse of a multitasking worker, the film paints a surreal mosaic of how time is perceived, stretched, fractured, and consumed.
FLAMINGO IN THE GARDEN
Dir. Xinhui Ma | China, USA | 12:45
A young Chinese woman's healing journey overcoming her traumatic injury at a Moroccan hospital, laced with morphine induced forbidden romance out of a dream like garden.
BOGLACH
Dir. Sarah Benson | Ireland | 01:44
A community of characters throughout a familiar green island are connected by their obsession with rain. Boglach is the Irish word for ‘soft weather’ a popular Irish term for rainy days.
MURMURATION
Dir. Janneke Swinkels, Tim Frijsinger| Netherlands | 12:30 (S)
An elderly man realises he’s suddenly turning into a bird.
LARK IN A SKY SHOP
Dir. Marie Lavis | France, Luxembourg, UK | 01:52
'Lark in A Sky Shop’ explores the depth of tension within one’s soul and life, stretched between light and darkness, day and night, oppression and freedom, and the turbulent navigation through it all.
WINDOW
Dir. Andreas Fobes | Canada | 01:30
Searching across a landscape.
WHEN THE TIDE COMES
Dir. Fêt-Nat Bailly | UK | 10:18 (S)
Within the dunes, a sand creature and a baby sea turtle meet by a sudden turn of events. Together they will journey to the ocean where they will both learn what it is to be a part of their world.
A NIGHT AT THE REST AREA
Dir. Saki Muramoto| Japan | 11:34 (S)
At a midnight highway rest area, the weary travelers each quietly relax their minds. A brief moment spent with complete strangers is lonely yet somehow comforting.