The 21st Seoul Independent Animation Festival
Seoul Indie-AniFest202518. SEP(THU).2025 ~ 23. SEP(TUE).2025
ASIA ROAD1
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Shadows
Rand BEIRUTY 2024 0:12:20 2D ComputerAt a crowded airport, Ahlam, a 14-year old mother, is running away from Baghdad, the only place she’s ever known. As she fights the shadows lurking around her, she reflects on her journey to reclaim her life.
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Son
Zhanna BEKMAMBETOVA 2025 0:20:55 3D ComputerThe story of a boy and his dad who live in a small house on the edge of the steppe. The boy is confined to a wheelchair and can't even take a spoon with porridge. The dad is close to despair, but everything changes when one day the TV shows the landing of the newest robot on Mars… This tale is dedicated to all parents who don't give up.
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Urban Duo
Hongyu YUE 2024 0:06:20 3D ComputerIn the bustling noise of Shanghai, Longchang Apartment, a century-old building, seems like a haven from time. A father experiences a peaceful, slow life here, where neighbors live in harmony. His son, on the other hand, is caught up in the fast pace of the city day after day. Their lives are parallel yet starkly different.
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Holiday
Naohiro ZAMA 2025 0:06:04 2D ComputerThere is a way to spend holidays for each person, and we rest a heart with a body by various methods. This work is the animation that expressed the previous night on my holiday. I made a favorite hobby in animation by a favorite expression.
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The Shyness of Trees
Directed by Bingqing Shu in collaboration with six co-directors 2024 0:08:56 2D Computer, DrawingHélène, 40 years old, comes to visit her aging mother in the French countryside. But her mother isn't being her usual self. She seems to have formed a strange bond with the plants, insects, and the old oak tree at the end of her garden...
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Veils of Landscape
Chihiro YAMANAKA 2025 0:05:10 2D Computer, 3D Computer, DrawingThe east wind begins to blow, carrying warmth into the water. Landscapes merge without boundaries, and in time, the mountains drift into slumber.
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thóo-kong-á
Tzu-Yun HUANG 2025 0:06:00 기타[thóo-kong-á] is a stop-motion short film centered on the Taiwanese tradition of “bone collecting.”The story follows a boy who was raised by his grandfather, a professional bone collector. Since childhood, he was often asked to help with the ritual, though he never understood its meaning — only finding it exhausting and unpleasant.But through repeated experiences, he gradually comes to see that bone collecting isn’t something taboo — it is a gentle, meaningful practice. It’s a way for the living to say a proper farewell to the dead.In the end, with newfound understanding and respect, he personally performs the final bone collecting for his grandfather.
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Love & Peace & Beaver
Stephen REDMOND 2025 0:08:38 기타A young beaver living in the forest dreams of achieving great things. But how will he react when his home is threatened by a mysterious figure...?