The 21st Seoul Independent Animation Festival
Seoul Indie-AniFest202518. SEP(THU).2025 ~ 23. SEP(TUE).2025
18th (2022)
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Pukkulapottas and Hours in the Forest
Takeshi YASHIRO 2021 0:15:33 Puppet, 기타This account summarizes what I experienced between spring and summer of that special year when all human and material activities came to a standstill. I had retreated to my highland forest lodging away from the city, and while I was pent up there avoiding human contact, I chanced upon evidence of mysterious creatures in my yard. So I set up a surveillance camera, which to my surprise captured images of miniature humanlike beings about 15 centimeters tall. I named them “pukkulapottas” and followed their activities daily with my camera, but as spring turned to summer and people began moving about again, I lost my ability to see them. This experience has prompted me to ask the question whether all the truths in this world are confined to what our eyes can see.
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One Last Wish
Galia OSMO 2021 0:10:20 PuppetThe Fisherman and the Fish folk tale comes to life in this bitter-sweet animation. A lonely fisherman has a magical goldfish, who grants him three wishes. He already used two wishes to help others in need. Now he is facing a grave decision; after accidentally killing a stranger, he must choose whether to keep his last wish and become a murderer. Or to use it to save a stranger's life, but in doing so he will lose the only thing that truly matters, his friend.
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The End
Alexandria SIAH 2022 0:02:26 3D ComputerAfter watching her gallant knight die before their wedding day and ending the film in tragedy, it’s up to the determined Princess Hilderose to take matters into her own hands and get back her happily ever after.
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In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-Weeny Pocket
Yoko YUKI 2022 0:06:37 DrawingWhen it shrinks, it expands. It floats and it sinks. It separates but connects. When I think I’m watching them, they're actually watching me. A charming animation rhyme that weaves together the many days of observing, recording, and experimenting.
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Playground
Samaneh Fazlollah ASADI 2022 0:08:16 2D ComputerIllness and a humdrum hospital life have left her tired and listless, until one day a very special present is delivered. But will she be able to keep it forever?
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A White-white day
Vasily CHIRKOV 2022 0:06:04 Cut-outs, 기타There are a lot of little things and stories around us. A dog’s footprints on a road, the sound of a passing train, the color of dry autumn grass. We usually pass by without noticing. But if we recognise these moments we feel how our own life is connected to them. «A white-white day» is about this.
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Lullaby
Dilshat RAKHMATULLIN 2021 0:12:49 2D ComputerA young family lives in a mountainous area near a small lake. Their baby is sick. Nothing helps. The father prays to the gods, tying ribbons to the sacred tree. He invites baksy to the house. Baksy discovers an evil spirit that strangles the life force from the child. He fights against the dark forces, but he defeats, and the exhausted baksy leaves their house, letting the helpless parents alone in their misfortune and misery. At night, the desperate mother goes to the lake and begs the great Umai Ana for help. With the rays of moonlight, the goddess of motherhood and family hearth appears in the yurt. There starts a fierce battle between good and evil for the life of a child. An ancient lullaby, intertwoven with ancient prayers, runs like a red thread through the entire film. It is the last thing the parents cling to hope in their hearts, and it becomes a hymn of victory over evil, light over darkness, and life over death.
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Black Slide
Uri LOTAN 2021 0:11:12 3D Computer, Cut-outsEviah, a young and timid kid on the brink of puberty, and his best friend sneak into the Black Slide, the most terrifying ride in Aqua Fun. There, Eviah will gain insight to prepare him for events about to unfold at home.
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Love, Dad
Diana Cam Van NGUYEN 2021 0:12:42 2D Computer, Rotoscope, 기타She finds letters full of love her dad wrote her 15 years ago. Now she fights to get that love back.
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MUI
Weng-chon WONG 2021 0:07:25 2D Computer, 3D Computer, DrawingDuring a short trip, a young man and his grandmother MUI are confronted with horrible memories. Amidst MUI’s usual nonstop nagging, it feels as if suffering persists simultaneously in the past and the present.