The 22st Seoul Independent Animation Festival
Seoul Indie-AniFest20262026 17 SEP(THU) ~ 22 SEP(TUE)
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The History of the Pitiful Humanity
JEON Youngchan 2025 0:10:31 2D ComputerHumans appeared on Earth and have made endless efforts to survive. As if there’s no tomorrow, they’ve been enjoying life to the fullest while causing harm to the planet. But now, the game that once seemed infinite is nearing its end.
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A Woman Wrapped in Layers of Clothing and the Man with the Whip
KIM Ayoung 2025 0:08:42 2D Computer, 기타Born and raised on the streets, a woman wrapped in layers of clothing begs in front of the "Happiness Department Store." She has never known love, and so she is always cold. No matter how many layers she puts on, the chill never leaves her. The year-end streets are loud and dazzling. People walk out of the store with shopping bags in both hands, their faces glowing with joy. The woman tries to enter the store too, but collides with someone rushing by and loses consciousness. She wakes up later in a pile of garbage outside the closed department store. Through a side door left open by mistake, she makes a sudden dash inside.
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Indigestion
HAN Hyeonji 2025 0:09:31 2D ComputerEun-sang, a no-name artist, creates art that features a fly. She is eating convenience food as usual when she senses a strange texture and learns that it was a fly. Soon, she is plagued by anxiety from believing that the fly is living in her stomach and makes all kinds of efforts to digest the fly.
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Doraeji
SEO Pyoungwon 2025 0:09:00 2D ComputerNa-yoon, a designer working in Paju Book City, is in the middle of a custody dispute. As the deadline for a book cover design approaches, she returns to Suncheon, where she used to live, to watch migratory birds once again.
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Million Lucky Bath
HAN Byung-a 2025 0:21:10 2D Computer, 3D ComputerMillion Lucky Bath is a public bathhouse where everyone’s naked story is laid bare: a wealthy mother, a poor mother, a mother who lost her child, a friend who lost her hometown, a girl who loves humanity but is saddened by her own helplessness. In the end, they all feel love and longing. The heartbreaking affections of humanity are captured in these bathhouse tales.
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Stay Alive
PARK Jaebeom 2025 0:12:22 Puppet, 기타In Suncheon Bay, Felix, a bowed fiddler crab who lives alone and is tired of competition, survives an attack by a spoonbill with Madeleine, becomes a couple, and gives birth to a son, Sonny.
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Spore Love
KIM Seung-yeon, PARK Jeesun 2024 0:06:36 2D Computer, Cel, Cut-outs, 기타An ant and a spore cross paths with each other among countless beings, and embark on a journey together. As the spore gradually takes over the ant, the ant becomes captivated by its constantly changing appearance, exposing itself to numerous dangers. The spore yearns to be fully acknowledged by the ant and dreams of stepping into the outer world to meet the ant directly. The spore blooms into a cordyceps. It finally confronts the ant, but the ant, now lifeless, is unable to see the spore.
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Virtual and Real
PARK Sehong 2024 0:07:04 3D Computer, Drawing, PuppetThe same character expressed in three different animation techniques.
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HOOING
CHOI Jeehee 2024 0:14:38 2D Computer, Drawing, RotoscopeIn the near-deserted town of Dalpodong, on the verge of complete extinction, 98-year-old Malbun Lee is its last remaining resident. Her days are spent quietly, leaning on walls to support her frail body as she tends to a small vegetable garden in front of her house, awaiting the end of her life. One night, a piercing scream awakens her. Following the sound to the communal bathroom of a nearby apartment building, she encounters Jia, a desperate 17-year-old girl who has come to abandon her unborn child. Drawing from a lifetime of experience, Malbun helps Jia deliver the baby safely. However, unable to accept her reality, Jia leaves the newborn behind and flees. Faced with a crying, feverish infant fighting for its life, Malbun embarks on the longest journey of her life. With fading consciousness and a body barely able to take a step, she sets out to save the abandoned child.
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Supper
Erick OH 2025 0:05:53 2D ComputerVarious symbolic objects such as a fish, an apple, an hourglass, a diamond, and a heart, are nicely cooked and displayed on the dining table for a god-like creature. The eternity we yearn for, the meaning we seek, is just one of the daily meals he enjoys.