BOOM | Augerai, Augier, De Figueiredo, Di Cicco, Jacquin
We follow a couple of dumb birds trying their best to protect their eggs from a volcanic eruption. Chaos ensues as they try to come up with increasingly silly ways to escape the island. Will they all make it out in one piece?

Letter to a Pig | Tal Kantor

Letter to a Pig won Best Animation at Aesthetica 2023. Here, a man reads a letter he wrote to the pig who saved his life. A school girl hears his testimony in class and sinks into a dream that confronts identity and humanity.

Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó | Sean Wang
Nai Năi is my grandma. Wài Pó is also my grandma. Together, they are a grandma super team that dances, farts and stretches their sorrows away. Sean Wang’s short won Best Documentary at Aesthetica 2023.

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Good Boy | Tom Stuart

Out of money and out of luck, a desperate Danny (portrayed by BAFTA-winner Ben Whishaw) attempts to rob a bank with the help of his wholly anarchic mum, Jackie (played by SAG-winner Marion Bailey).

Yellow | Elham Ehsas

In Taliban controlled Afghanistan, Laili walks into a Chadari store in Kabul to buy her first full body veil from a Talib shop-keeper. Ehsas’s topical film Yellow is the story of navigating a future governed by oppression.

Invisible Border | Mark Gerstorfer

Set in Vienna, Austria, the film explores a deportation in the middle of the night. Police officer Nancy and her colleague Albert have the task of evicting a family. The short won Aesthetica’s Best Drama Award in 2022.