Ani WIP

The 2025 Seoul Indie-AniFest’s work-in-progress program “Ani WIP” aims to discover Korean and Asia independent animation projects and support their creation and distribution. Independent animation projects currently in production were selected for this program. These projects are provided with development funds and expert mentoring in domestic and international production, post- production, marketing, and distribution.

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  • [Wind from Water]
  • NAMGUNG Min

  The protagonist, who chose swimming because they hate sweating, floats like a krill shrimp—until the sudden appearance of an orca man pulls them into a strange underwater world. The familiar scenes of the swimming pool soon fill with fantastical creatures, and even a simple pimple patch begins to feel like a bubbling clam soup. Imagination reaches its peak.

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  • [All That Glitters]
  • LEE Cody

  Sein, a ninth-grade girl, hasn't started menstruating or developing breasts despite entering puberty. Her best friends Doha and Seungju have grown much taller than her during the vacation. A few days later, Sein finally starts her period, but is shocked to discover that sparkling gems come out of her body instead of blood.

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  • [The Echo Jar]
  • KIM Hanna

  When a gnome discovers a jar that can capture sound, he goes off on an adventure to the city to collect different noises for his friend the old tree, who has never been able to leave her home on the quiet hill.

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  • [The Special Pigeon]
  • JEONG Bora

  This is a charming story set in Paris, where a pigeon who believes he is a model and a woman feeling bored and lonely in her life meet and grow together.

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  • [An Apple]
  • AN Hyunjung

  In the vastness of space, when the lifeline tethered to her body is severed, Mia is freed from the pull of gravity. As she ascends, she comes to realize the latent truth.

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  • [Ever Breathing Landscape]
  • Chihiro YAMANAKA

  Faced with the death of a perceived landscape, I seek a way to let it breathe again through animation. This film weaves together the anonymous collective memory held by AI with the physical act of human drawing, recreating landscapes in which time and memory accumulate frame by frame – eternal, yet fleeting – offering an experience of “heaven in this very moment.”

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  • [Mycelial Reverie]
  • Chanya HETAYOTHIN

  An abstract journey through the meditative rhythm of fungi, where decay becomes a gesture of ecological hope.