Animation Special, Audience Award Ceremony & Live Comedy with Fay Walsh

Animation / Documentary / Experimental / Comedy / Drama

In Pursuit of Magic (Animation), D.: Art&Graft, 4 Min.
An animated Journey for those responding to the creative call – whatever obstacles may stand in the way.

Dragfox (Animation), D.: Lisa 'Lee' Ott, 8 Min.
Sam's search for identity gets interrupted by a mysterious neighbourhood fox.

Liminal Roots (Animation), D.: Aliyah Harfoot, 4 Min.
A journey through the memories of a young girl struggling to come to terms with the complexity of her mixed-raced identity.

Green Lung (Animation, Experimental), D.: Simon Hamlyn, 3 Min.
The history of Derby Arboretum, Britain’s first public park, commissioned by mill owner Joseph Strutt, and opened in 1840.

Deaths Peak (Animation, Comedy, Drama), D.: Willy Fair, 9 Min.
Desperate for connection, David digs up his brother’s corpse. With their trusty red wagon, they ascend a treacherous mountain in pursuit of their childhood dream.

Dede (Animation), D.: Yasmine Djedje-Fisher-Azoume, 3 Min.
An exploration of diasporic female identity through the Bété ancestry of central Ivory Coast.

The Dog in the Long Grass (Animation), D.: Seb Cox, 5 Min.
A man has a fleeting glimpse of a mysterious black dog in the long grass which he believes to be Death.

Circle of Life (Animation), D.: Peter Millard, 3 Min.
Every species has their own life cycles.

BUS! (Animation), D.: Asta Azopardi, 2 Min.
An ex-bus driver wakes up in purgatory and is promptly sentenced to hell. But eternal damnation? Not her style.

Portrait of My Rose (Animation), D.: Zixin Yin, 5 Min.
A painter steals red as paint to complete the painting of a rose. After winning fame with the rose, the painter abandons it.

Pops (Animation, Documentary), D.: Ned Knight, 3 Min.
A grandfather passes down his life story at the dinner table.

Knot (Animation), D.: Zihan Chen, 4 Min.
A girl in a boarding school gets accused by her teacher of stealing a classmate’s glasses.

Keith (Animation, Documentary), D.: Steven Fraser, 8 Min.
"Keith" tells the story of the filmmaker who found a dead body behind the rubbish bins, at his flat in Glasgow.

Point (Animation), D.: Ari Sohn, 6 Min.
A poetic tale of cycles and return: A young violinist born on the moon meets a mysterious white hand that transforms her into a moth.