S/W Awards
The Short Awards 2025: Nominees
Award season is here, and so is our annual Short Awards! Explore the 20 nominated films and cast your vote for the Audience Choice award.
Experimental
Heeseon Kim
The River
Two characters became victims of circumstance at a de-militarized border as a boy looks after his traumatised father.
Journal Animè
Commissioned in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, subversive animator "Milkyeyes" creates a free-form animation journal out of the pages of French daily newspaper Libération, only to confront fear and tragedy again...
Horror
Jan Verdijk
Pantser (Shielded)
Who can you trust during a global pandemic? Two sisters who live in forced isolation get suspicious when a man suddenly appears claiming he wants to help them.
News
100 Important Directors of Animated Short Films
Nothing excites the internet masses (yours truly included) like a best of list. A new one out lists a bunch of really important animation directors and their representative works.
SOTW
S/W 2017 Year in Review + Team Top Tens
A year in review for Short of the Week, + Trends, Numbers, & Top Ten favorite films from our staff of curators
Dramedy
Wong Wei Jian
Le Mannequin
A pair of window mannequins play out a calamitous scene of love on a small stage.
Documentary
Fritz Schumann
Valley of Dolls
In a deserted village in Japan, Ayano Tsukimi makes lifesized dolls to make up for those who have died or moved away.
Experimental
Robert Seidel
Hysteresis
An intimately transformative fabric is woven between Robert Seidel's projections of abstract drawings and queer performer Tsuki’s vigorous choreography.
