International Shorts Competition - SEAF 2025
Friday, September 12, 2025 - 6:00 PM - MICA Falvey Hall Theatre
Runtime = 91 minutes
Q&A with animators in attendance after the screening
FREE Admission!
International Shorts Competition features incredible animated short films from 9 countries.
Ostrich
Director - Marie Kenov
Country - Switzerland
Time - 8:32
Day in and day out, a sparrow sees images of ostriches everywhere: on posters, in ads, and on its smartphone. In awe of the ostriches, with their long necks, dazzling eyes and muscular legs, the little bird wants to be just like them.
Mis-Angel
Director - Wyatt Carson
Country - United Kingdom / United States
Time - 5:29
Mis-Angel is a love story between two people who will never meet. A transgender girl explores an overlap of gender and sexual fantasy as she recalls a brief interaction with a stranger at a bus stop.
Foxwarren - "Listen2Me"
Director - Winston Hacking
Country - Canada
Time - 2:43
Bats among blossoms, moon masks wired to speech, dancers on the brain. Insects open winged eyes as collage breathes, each frame propelling through a restless mind.
Ordinary Life
Director - Yoriko Mizushiri
Country - Japan
Time - 9:48
Ordinary life repeats itself every day while the succession of moments that we repeat over and over again is never the same.
Play Fight!
Director - Katrina Larner
Country - United States
Time - 7:39
Five little girls are monkeying around. They play games, tell secrets, brush hair, run around, dress up, and jump, and giggle, and jump and jump and jump and jump and...
Mãe Da Manhã (Mother of Dawn)
Director - Clara Trevisan
Country - Brazil
Time - 8:09
In the void of night, a hungry creature looks for food and perpetuates an everyday cycle.
The Last Drop
Director - Anna Tőkés
Country - Hungary
Time - 10:42
​Kata, is a member of the national rhythmic gymnastics team that is exposed to extreme coaching techniques. The pressure on her is building, and the finals are near. 
Turbulence
Director - Christopher Rutledge & Magnus Igland Møller
Country - United States / Denmark
Time - 3:32
First flight. No parents. Total panic. A terrified boy just wants to survive takeoff, but the plane—and its deranged passengers—have other plans. As the plane bucks and twists, so does reality—faces stretch, limbs flail, and gravity calls it quits. Trapped at 30,000 feet in an airborne freak show, the boy must hold on for dear life… or completely lose it.
Hun Tun
Director - Magdalena Hejzlarová
Country - Czech Republic / France
Time - 14:58
A young woman measures her strength against the king of chaos himself. The more she wants to win, the less she succeeds. Through a mythological story, the author looks back to the time when she discovered that there are things in life she will never control.
Yummy
Director - Martinus Klemet
Country - Estonia
Time - 8:44
Julia works as a dog food tester. However, after a breakup, dog food will never taste the same.
Ducks
Director - AJ Jefferies
Country - United Kingdom
Time - 4:45
A perfectly normal day in the park.
This Is Not An Emergency
Director - Sydney Agans
Country - United States
Time - 6:36
​Alex and Christy make a horrible mistake when picking up from their plug. How could it get any worse?