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OFFICIAL SELECTION (20th Edition)
June 10, 2025

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ANIMATION
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Hubris

Directed by: Sohaib Mehar
 
Category: Animation, Student

Year & Country: 2025, United Kingdom
 
Duration: 3 min
 
Synopsis: This story explores an inventor attempting to rid himself of a terminal illness by any means necessary.
Smudge

Directed by: Jake Logan Robbins
 
Category: Animation, Student

Year & Country: 2025, United States

 
Duration: 8 min
 
Synopsis: Smudge, a little eraser man, searches an empty classroom for pieces of an erased story.
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Panic Switch
Directed by: Cameron Red Howe
Category: Animation, Student
Year & Country: 2025, United States
Duration: 5 min
Synopsis:  Stop motion animation of a standup performance telling the story of the speaker, a highschool teacher, managing his class when a student finds a bag of weed. His class gets excited and speculates about who the drugs could belong to until the culprit returns to try and find the bag.
Internal Embers

Directed by: Alec Tufenkjian
 
Category: Animation, 

Year & Country: 2024, United States

Duration: 5 min
 
Synopsis: Escaping the rising tensions in his home, a young Lebanese man has lucid visions and interactions of his deepest anxieties through the smoke of a hookah.
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Crying Earth

Directed by: Lakhwinder Singh

Category: Animation

Year & Country: 2025, India
 
Duration: 18 min
 
Synopsis: There is a conflict between two families of different species living on another plant. Both of them accuse each other of creating pollution and causing problems in each other's homes. There are two astronauts from earth who land on that planet and teach them how to live peacefully and how to solve their pollution problem. They, however, ask astronauts to save their own planet earth before giving advice to others.
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Intermission

Directed by: Milo Bonnard
 

Category: Animation, Student

Year & Country: 2024, United Kingdom

Duration: 10 min
 
Synopsis: The tragicomic story of a young man goes to a concert with the hope of being moved - only to feel more detached than ever before.
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Testimony

Directed by: Su Min Ha
 
Category: Animation

Year & Country: 2024, United States
 

Duration: 8 min
 
Synopsis: One day, the police bring a young boy to a quiet monastery. The boy, named Emile, is said to have been found alone in an abandoned castle. Emile insists he lived in the castle with a vampire named Charlie and wants to return there. Concerned about Emile's mental state, the police ask Sister Angela to interview him.
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The High King's Daughter
Directed by: Joël Gibbs

Category: Animation

Year & Country: 2025, Ireland

Duration: 5 min
 
Synopsis: Ireland, 995-1014. A story of forbidden love between a young stable groom, Ruairí Ua Néill, and the youngest of High King Brian Boru’s daughters. The two grow up together: one in the High King’s court, one in the High King’s stables. The Princess loves to ride her horse, and Ruairi loves to provide her with the most well kept horse in the Kingdom. Their friendship grows over the years, and as they come of age, it turns into love. The King takes notice and warns her to not grow too fond of Ruairí as she is to do her duty to the Kingdom and marry nobility to strengthen political ties. The High King must go to war, and decides to bring Ruairí to the front-line. Ruairí fights valiantly on the battle field but is overtaken and is run through. Back at the Rock of Cashel, the distraught Princess races through fields and forests to sooth the pain, but has a tragic horse accident resulting in her death. The High King’s Daughter spirit walks across the battle field with her horse, and retrieves Ruairí and the two mount their horse together for the first time.

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