The 2018 edition of the Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival is once again overflowing with S/W alum - we take a look at the new films from previously featured filmmakers and flag-up a few shorts we hope to bring to the site in the not-too-distant future.
Many filmmakers look at short films as their teenage yearshappy to get past them and on to something bigger. Jossie Malis is one of the few who understood the power he'd created with his minimalist animated short Bendito Machine and has spent the past 6 years building a franchise around it.
A tiny and mysterious cat-like creature awakes in the remains of his smouldering spaceship and finds himself on a journey through a beautiful and dangerous world, in a quest for answers.
The ground-breaking 60's experimental film that influenced "12 Monkeys". In the wake of WWIII Paris, a team of scientists experiment with time-travel in order to provide hope for their future.
Gorgeously garish lighting accentuates this sci-fi piece by renowned auteur Wong Kar Wai. Agent 006 is undercover to catch the mysterious, charismatic "Light", but wrestles with her own feelings in doing so.
An overweight kid struggles to connect with a girl in a world where he's pegged as an outcast.
Catch up on the achievements of Short of the Week featured filmmakers in the month of November
A stirring profile of Future of Storytelling featured speaker Clint Smith. Teaching poetry to prisoners, he uses storytelling to transcend race, gender, and class to allow us to engage in shared humanity.
We close out our SXSW Shorts Week coverage by highlighting 5 of our favorite films from the program that you should keep en eye out for in the coming weeks and months.
At the end of 21st century, mankind were facing global resource depletion. Space Rovers were sent out to find potential inhabitable planets. A visually impressive Sci-fi short by one-man animation team Shawn Wang
