Animated Shorts 2026: Program Two
DIRECTOR(S):
Bo Qing Tang, Lan Zeng; Pooya Afzali; Viktor Niksdorf; Anna Lys, Rémy Berlemont, Alice Hamel, Chen-Yun Hu, Ludivine Lebourg, Estelle Martin, Agathe Ribout; Martin Chailloux, Ai Kim Crespin, Elise Golfouse, Chloé Lab, Hugo Taillez, Camille Truding; Polina Piddubna; Bogdan Muresanu; Tobias Eckerlin; Christopher Rutledge, Magnus Igland Møller; Greg Franklin; Masha Ellsworth SYNOPSIS:
RiverRun is an Academy Award-qualifying festival in the category of Animated Shorts, meaning the winner in this category may submit for Academy Awards consideration.
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113 Words for You Today
On a frozen planet where every word costs energy, a worker endures silence, storms, and solitude, saving his w...
13 min | Bo Qing Tang, Lan Zeng | USA | North Carolina | English
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At Night
In the midst of war, a man watches his beloved one by lighting the three matches he has left. Then, in the pit...
5 min | Pooya Afzali | Iran | N/A
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Dogs of Bishkek
On a journey home from the market, a young boy is being stalked and chased by the ruthless monster dog of Bish...
2 min | Viktor Niksdorf | USA | North Carolina | Russian
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The Flowers of Malva
In a small village in the Ukrainian countryside, Nina, a grandmother deeply attached to her land, welcomes her...
7 min | Anna Lys, Rémy Berlemont, Alice Hamel, Chen-Yun Hu, Ludivine Lebourg, Estelle Martin, Agathe Ribout | France | North Carolina | N/A
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Jour de Vent
Wind appears in a park. People fly away. Student Film - École Nationale des Sciences de l'Informatique. ...
7 min | Martin Chailloux, Ai Kim Crespin, Elise Golfouse, Chloé Lab, Hugo Taillez, Camille Truding | France | N/A
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My Grandmother is a Skydiver
In 1960s Tajikistan, a skydiver gets a call from her granddaughter in 2022 Ukraine, sparking an intergeneratio...
13 min | Polina Piddubna | Germany | U.S. | Ukrainian, Bashqort, Tajik, Russian, Tatar
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The Magician
Sulina, 1910. It is the inauguration of the first electric power station in this Romanian port city. In the ju...
24 min | Bogdan Muresanu | Croatia | North Carolina | Romanian
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A Sparrow’s Song
Inspired by a true story, a widowed air raid warden in the midst of World War II struggles to overcome grief a...
9 min | Tobias Eckerlin | Germany | North Carolina | N/A
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Turbulence
First flight. No parents. Total panic. A terrified boy just wants to survive takeoff, but the plane—and its ...
3 min | Christopher Rutledge, Magnus Igland Møller | Denmark | English
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The Whistle
Cologne, Germany. 1938. Empathy, hope, courage, and compassion can be found where least expected. Based on a t...
7 min | Greg Franklin | USA | North Carolina | N/A
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Wishing Trees
A quiet meditation on love, loss, and renewal, inviting us to reflect on healing, memory, and the enduring res...
6 min | Masha Ellsworth | Canada | North Carolina | N/A
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