The 21st Seoul Independent Animation Festival
Seoul Indie-AniFest202518. SEP(THU).2025 ~ 23. SEP(TUE).2025
17th (2021)
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Dayfly
Baoxingchen YI 2020 0:14:05 2D Computer, DrawingA dayfly is born at 0 o'clock and dies at 0 o'clock the next day. It in a short day, inadvertently passed many people's lives.
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Spinning
Tzu-hsin YANG 2021 0:04:49 2D ComputerAfter hearing a trip proposal from grandma, Hao Hao and his grandparents venture on a journey to explore the fun places of Taichung, and certain locations that hold cherished memories of the past. The director made a successful attempt of telling a heart-warming Taiwanese family life story with original songs by combining unique art style with flowing animation.
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My Grandmother is an Egg
Wu-ching CHANG 2021 0:08:07 2D Computer, Cut-outs, Objects, Rotoscope, 기타My grandmother was a T'ung-yang-hsi. T'ung-yang-hsi is the traditional practice of pre-arranged marriage, selling a young girl to another family to be raised as a future daughter-in-law. From microscopic to macroscopic, from personal witness to general phenomenon in society, the audiences may glimpse the long past, imagine women's situation in our own times, and look forward to striving for real gender equality in the future. Eggs are fragile, but at the same time tough. My grandmother is an egg.
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How My Grandmother Became a Chair
Nicolas FATTOUH 2020 0:09:55 2D ComputerAn ageing grandmother loses her five senses, one after the other before finally becoming a wooden chair. Throughout her transformation, she realizes that her African housekeeper is not the wild animal she once thought she was, but the caring and loyal family member she was sadly lacking. A poignant story about illness and growing old which employs imagination and metaphor to show the difficult and painful process of departing.
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THE FOURTH WALL
Mahboobeh KALAEE 2021 0:09:50 2D Computer, Objects, 기타Home and family, relationships, desires, wishes and everything are summarized in a kitchen. The stuttering boy is alone there, playing with his imagination.
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Emsahar
Hassan Al-JAHNI 2021 0:07:20 2D ComputerFATIMA (10) tiptoes through the family home one night, peering through a door to see her father BABA (38) tending to her dying GRANDMA (92). Baba asks Fatima to say one final goodbye, but she flees to her bedroom filled with sorrow and despair. Sitting sadly by the window with her trusty cat, Fatima hears the traditional drumming of the approaching Ramadan announcer EMSAHAR (65). To her amazement, the magical energy beams emitted from the Emsahar’s drum illuminates the monochrome world they inhabit, bathing the neighbourhood in colour and light. Fatima hatches an ambitious plan to harness the powers of the Emsahar and resuscitate her ailing grandmother.Despite her best efforts, nothing can revive Fatima’s grandmother and she dies that night. Fatima and her father say a tearful goodbye but are soon jolted from their grief by a familiar voice outside. Running outside into the neighbourhood, Fatima is delighted to meet her Grandmother once more, now transformed into a benevolent, ghost-like Emsahar. Tears of sorrow are replaced by tears of joy as Fatima makes one final connection with her beloved Grandmother, before she watches her march away, drumming and singing into the dawn light.
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Orchestra Rehearsal
Tatiana OKRUZHNOVA 2021 0:06:30 2D Computer, 기타The musician is late for the Philharmonic. And there is no one else to leave his daughter with ...In the meantime, the orchestra had already started the rehearsal.
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Pet Fishes
Oleon LIN 2021 0:04:52 2D Computer, Drawing, 기타A boy and his mum lived in a sub-divided flat in Hong Kong. One day his mum brought back a fish tank and pet fish to answer the boy’s pet wish. However, gradually, they found the life condition of these pet fishes was a mirror of themselves…
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This One is Sweeter
Li-yu LIU 2021 0:07:23 2D Computer, Drawing, 기타The grandma from the country seems to have magical superpowers. As time goes by, the boy gradually discovers…
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Full Circle
Su-Xian YEOW 2021 0:11:14 2D Computer, 3D Computer, Drawing, 기타Full Circle is an animated short film that presents the Moon and Earth’s relationship through a narrative medium. It journeys through a sleepless night, conquering the semi-conscious moonlit world and the retrospective nature of the night. The personal stories of twenty experts and enthusiasts in astronomical fields construct the narrative and its landscapes — coffee tables, paper planes, corridors, among other things. This anecdotal format seeks to present science through the eyes of humanity, prompting the audience to experience scientific information through the familiar mundanity of life. The humanistic vision of science acts as a launchpad for curiosity and allows the audience to access science through their own experiential libraries.