2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Animation

LIFTED is an animated tale of awakening and transformation, following one man’s fantastical journey aboard an elevator.

Director(s): Daniel Robichaud
Writer(s): Daniel Robichaud
Producer(s): Daniel Robichaud

Country: United States

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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama

A disabled wheelchair user tries to solve the biggest question in physics, a solution to the theory of everything, while struggling with the cigarette butts and other rubbish falling onto his apartment balcony from the neighbours above.

Writer(s): Alyson Croft
Producer(s): Actor’s Cartel
Key Cast: Alyson Croft, Hunter Bodine

Country: United States
World Premiere

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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Animation

A lonely alien searches for intelligent life in the Galaxy.

Director(s): Ari Flesch
Writer(s): Ari Flesch
Producer(s): Ari Flesch

Country: United States

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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Drama

A young dancer is torn between her lifelong love for ballet and a new passion that has emerged in her life. Is this passion truly new, or is it merely a reflection of years of trauma? She falls in love at first sight with the most beautiful pair of red high heels she has ever seen, but the only available pair is too small for her feet. The more she wears them, the more they hurt her. Eventually, she faces a difficult decision: should she choose ballet pointe shoes or the alluring red high heels?

Director(s): Rafaela Goncalves, Leandro Stephan
Writer(s): Rafaela Goncalves
Producer(s): Rafaela Goncalves
Key Cast: Rafaela Goncalves, Sagan Barbour, Leandro Stephan, Nathalie Zagar

Country: United States

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2025 Official Selection: Short Film – Animation

A Duck’s surreal journey in its quest for bread, or something more.

Director(s): Nick Zweig
Producer(s): Noah Pardo
Key Cast: Marianna Hersko, Ben Bishop, Richard Micheals, Nick Zweig

 

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