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What’s a story only you can tell? Inspired by this prompt, a diverse group of artists bring their personal stories to life across a spectacular range of animated styles and genres, including horror, comedy and fantasy.
Set in early-2000s SoCal, Smoking Tigers follows a Korean American girl as she navigates derision and growing tensions while balancing the duality of her low-income family and wealthy, elite high school environment.
Set in a mountain town in Mexico, the story centers on 11-year-old Cocoi, a curious and impulsive boy deeply attached to his older sister, Xiomara. With their father consumed by rigid traditions and a growing debt burden, Xiomara is Cocoi’s only source of comfort and guidance. But when Cocoi discovers that Xiomara secretly plans to leave the ranch to escape their oppressive life, he becomes desperate to keep her close.
A college freshman finds herself unable to fit in with everyone else, then gets inspired by David Bowie to change her persona constantly until she finds the right one.
A dizzying tale of forbidden love between three individuals from the Republic of Synkie. With a flourishing kelp industry that is turning the country’s capital into Kelpital, the bearing of a Kelpitalocene upon the contemporary struggles of the Synkie people is reflected through the lives of Eden, Yasmyn and Wan Ting. In a non-linear ocean of visual fantasy, eco-enterprise, cult economy and alternative imaginings of spirituality, the protagonists find themselves mired in a “rupturing apocalypse of the harrowing heart”.
