The 21st Seoul Independent Animation Festival
Seoul Indie-AniFest202518. SEP(THU).2025 ~ 23. SEP(TUE).2025
17th (2021)
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Emulate
KIM Yong-woo 2021 0:06:40 2D ComputerA man who thinks his mother died because of him. He goes to the beach after he remembers what his mom said to him before. At the beach, he saves a woman who was about to kill herself by drowning. But the woman forces him to help her suicide because he saved her without permission.
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Cheongpadong Peoples
KIM Jae-hee 2020 0:05:25 2D ComputerEvery Friday, the blood sausage truck comes to Cheongpa-dong. As the neighbors chat with the vendor in the truck, they are comforted and feel happy before returning to their lives.
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ASHA
HAM Ho-jin 2021 0:10:15 2D ComputerHugo, who is about to cross the unknown mountain Asha and return to his hometown Seren, encounters a small monster in the mountains.
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Bad Buddy
HAN Byung-a 2021 0:09:14 2D Computer, DrawingA heartbreaking friendship story between a lonely six-year-old girl who's being raised by her grandmother and her imaginary tooth worm friend, Sweetie.
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ELEPHANT
KIM Su-jin 2021 0:07:07 2D Computer, Drawing, 기타One day, a box is delivered to a child. There is a large elephant in the box. The child imagines how fun it would be to live with a large elephant. But dad only talks about the problems that arise because the elephant is too big. Eventually, it becomes an elephant doll made as small as the dad wants and is placed on the shelf. The child keeps getting uneasy by the elephant, and…
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The Great Poop Girl
JEONG Da-hee 2021 0:07:08 2D Computer, CelRina, a middle school student, suffers from intense bowel movements every day because of her Irritable Bowel Syndrome caused by childhood trauma.Rina always gets a stomachache in class, but she doesn't say she goes to the bathroom because she cares about people's gaze. Eventually, she punches her nose, gives a nosebleed, and pretends to go to the nurse's office.On the day of her final exam, She oversleeps in the morning and takes the test without going to the bathroom. Feeling the extreme pain of twisting time and space, Rina is placed in the space she created and faces the most feared situation. Soon Rina realizes that all her pain is made by herself.
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Guts
PARK Byung-gun 2021 0:02:03 3D ComputerThe clumsy boy, Danny, is enjoying a bike ride. However, the peers nearby him make fun of him that he has no Guts to ride without training wheels. Then Guts shows up from Danny’s mouth and Guts starts training him to ride a bike without the training wheels, by taking them off. Will Danny make a ride?
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May•JEJU•Day
Jude KANG 2021 0:14:05 Drawing, Cut-outs, RotoscopeIn Jeju Island, considered the Hawaii of Korea, an incident surnamed "April 3" killed about 1 in 10 people, under control of the U.S. military government, shortly after liberation from Japanese colonial rule. In this film, the children who survived the massacre 70 years ago testify.
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Unanswered Telephone
LEE Seunn 2020 0:05:10 Drawing, Cel, Cut-outs, 기타When people speak, visible images come out from their mouths. Some people can imagine the other person's situation, but an exclusive person is unimaginative. This animation follows a flow of the main character's imagination.
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The Letter
BAN Jisu 2020 0:03:05 2D ComputerA sophomore girl in high school goes to a photography club and meets a boy for the first time. Her eyes follow him, and she wants to talk to him, but for some reason she keeps shaking. As she gets to know him, her feelings grow, and she wants to tell him how she feels, but she can’t get any closer for fear of ruining their friendship. The girl writes a letter to release her pent-up emotions. Then on graduation day, she realizes that it’s her last opportunity to share her feelings. But in the end, she is unable to give him her letter. As an adult, she comes across a trace of her past and smiles as she realizes how beautiful that time was.