International Shorts Showcase #2 – REPEAT
A terrific selection of new animated shorts from all over the world screening throughout the day. Curated into two programs to showcase the diversity of styles, genres and stories that only animation can deliver.
All the films in this program are truly inspired examples of works that push the unique properties of animation to the limits of imagination. In animation, if you can imagine it you can show it… and these filmmakers can imagine some pretty amazing stuff!
Territory
Barbara Magdalena Synak
Poland, 6’47, 2025
Kidnapped by her own body, a woman is drawn into an emotional maze chasing – and escaping from – an abstract red ball, charting a jagged course through feelings about body, food and power.
Armpit Hair Cat
Jeong Shin
South Korea, 4’47, 2024
Dinner service takes a sharp turn for the surreal when a not-so-secret new ingredient turns up in the burgers.
After Ark
Chih Hao Shen
Taiwan, 5’00, 2025
A strangely enchanting return to a broken, unsettling Eden, transformed by forces unseen.
Freshwater
Olivia Wilyman
Canada, 2’51, 2025
A beautifully crafted personal collection of childhood memories, recalling not just moments in time but how they are navigated and processed by the younger self.
The Eye In Nothing
Michael Edwards
USA, 5’43, 2024
Is it the eye in nothing or is the nothing in I? A metaphysical visual poem about the failure of speech, the burden of articulation, and the lurking intimations of absence in human experience.
Larval
Alice Bloomfield
UK, 12’10, 2025
Channelling a retro Aeon Flux chique, a woman tumbles through a vortex of her own fantasies as she dreams up ways to assume the looks of her celebrity idol.
This session is classified: Unclassified (M) Mature, not recommended for viewers under 15 years.
Please note that Backlot is NOT fully accessible. There are stairs with handrails, but no lift to the second floor where the cinema is located.