The 22st Seoul Independent Animation Festival
Seoul Indie-AniFest20262026 17 SEP(THU) ~ 22 SEP(TUE)
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Dariki
PARK Hyeonjeong 2024 0:03:26 2D ComputerIt was arrogant of me to think that life would go my way just because it was mine. As a child and an adult in the playground in my heart, I struggle, hesitate, and feel afraid. Even if it seems like a small ant, not me, is making me move and everything appears to be set, it is still up to me to decide and move on. Wouldn’t there be my own meaning to life at the end of it?
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Ionantha Ionantha
PARK Sohyun 2024 0:09:08 2D Computer, DrawingYoung, a plant rescuer, worries about her depressed companion plant, Ionantha. Young recalls Nokyoung, who once was a match for Ionantha, and Io, companion of Nokyoung. Once more for her Ionantha, Young heads to Io's garden where something was waiting for Young to discover. There the story begins, with the sound of 'Ionantha, Ionantha'.
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Autotomy
JEONG Jisun 2024 0:04:04 PuppetOne afternoon, I happened to encounter a lizard shedding its tail and scurrying away. Somehow, I found myself strangely identifying with that tail. Perhaps a person is made up of two selves, and maybe I’ve survived by autotomizing a part of myself, just like that lizard.
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Departure
KIM Jongyoon 2024 0:06:36 2D Computer, Drawing, CelA little asteroid lives his life orbiting the same exact path everyday. One day, he dreams of becoming a comet and hatches a risky plan to escape his orbit through Jupiter's gravity. As the cycle of Jupiter's approach draws near, the other asteroids feel fear.. Can this little asteroid break free from its orbit and become a comet?
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Coward Ноїв and ковчег
CHOI Hayoung 2025 0:06:00 2D Computer, DrawingНоїв became Hikikomori because he was afraid of war. Ноїв's room is full of symbols of war, and he sees it and believes that war will happen soon. The courier, the landlord, and his girlfriend Наташа come to Ноїв and talk to him to get out.
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Where the Rain Stops
KIM Dojin 2025 0:09:03 3D ComputerAn endless expanse of green stretches to the horizon. There, two young robot siblings live together. One day, massive rainclouds descend upon their world. Dreaming of a place where the rain stops, the siblings set off on a journey to escape the never-ending downpour.
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To My Old Nightmare
SHIN Sooyeon 2025 0:06:11 2D ComputerThe girl, trapped in a dream where she is chased by those who resent her, falls into the place where the nightmare dwells. There, she faces the old sense of guilt that has turned into the nightmare.
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Eat With
PARK Seonyeong 2024 0:10:39 2D Computer, DrawingA young cockroach left alone in the house where an elderly woman lives alone. He struggles to live, but the most unbearable thing is loneliness. One day, the cockroach realizes that the elderly woman’s loneliness is the same as his. Even though he shouldn’t be noticed, the cockroach thinks he would like to eat with a lonely elderly woman.
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Dear Yuri
JUNG Hyunjin 2025 0:06:58 2D ComputerMy crush Yuri left to new school today. Jaeha's heart desiring to hold her spreads on the picture diary. He slips into the past of unspoken love and finds Yuri.
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Dreaming HanaH
AN Hyunjung 2024 0:13:04 2D Computer, Drawing, RotoscopeHanaH, who obsessively attaches importance to the value of the good(善), descends from the (image of) heaven : idea to earth : reality as she discovers the hypocrisy in the world she lives in. In the process of falling, she goes through abortion surgery, that is, accepting death and returning to the origin - the state of nothingness(無). Returning to an empty body, HanaH stands again in front of a world that has become meaningless. On the empty canvas, HanaH paints a red old tree. She takes root in the earth through an image of the tree. Even though she lost her leg to go up to a higher place, she exists as the snake closest to the ground(life).