International Animation Shorts 1

Une Fugue (To the woods)
Agnès Patron
France/2026/15mins

Sister remembers that Brother had dark eyes, hair like her own, shoulders as fragile as a bird's wings, and that he knew the way to the river by heart. Sister has forgotten noting about Brother.

Metaphor
Basile Vignes
France/2025/7.54mins

Metaphor is an animated journey across the borders of reality, identity, and the digital unknown. In the vast, shifting landscapes of a virtual world, a figure known only as Fallen God wanders—searching, escaping, becoming. When he encounters Encre, an ethereal and mesmerising presence, their connection defies explanation. Is she a muse, a memory, a mirror—or something altogether more infinite?

What unfolds is not just a relationship, but a meditation on the many faces we wear and the truths we hide, even from ourselves. Inspired by true events and brought to life through a rare collaboration between French visionary Basile Vignes (Tutsy Navarathna) and Australian producer Jay Jay Jegathesan, Metaphor blurs the line between art and avatar, between the virtual and the deeply human.

A film that transcends continents, identities, and even death, Metaphor invites viewers to question what is real, what is imagined—and what might endure beyond both.

If/When
Courtney Westbrook Australia/2025/9:40mins

If/When is a surreal, time-bending exploration of love, fate, and what it means to hold on when everything is slipping away.

Phenomena
Emily Isabella Blake, Izel Searle-Garduno Australia/2025/5:34 mins

Phenomena is 5-minute mixed media documentary that delves into the mysterious Min Min Lights of outback Queensland. Through stylised visuals, it traces ghost light legends across cultures and history, inviting viewers to explore the unknown.

I Found a Box
Éric Montchaud
France/2026/10:00mins

One day, Guy, a bird running in the forest hits a box. And Guy asks himself : « But what can this box be used for? 

Our Choir Has Always Been Travelling
Judith Pungarta Inkamala, Marjorie 'Nunga' Williams, Nelson Armstrong
Australia/2026/9:21 Mins

This short film brings together the artworks and stories of 6 leading artists and choristers: Judith Pungarta Inkamala and Anita Mbitjana Ratara of Hermannsburg Potters alongside Marjorie Nungarrayi Williams, N. Donald, Betty Conway and Lizzie Jako of Tangentyere Artists.

Blu’s
Rajesh PK India/2025/9:60 mins

Growing up freely in harmony with nature, witnessing her beautiful environment being swallowed up by industrialisation, BLU decides to fight for the wildlife, meadows, rivers and trees before they disappear completely.

Chrysalis
Rachel Macindoe Bake New Zealand/2025/10:21mins

Alone on a desert planet, a meticulous recluse spends her days tending to the local ruins, carefully restoring the relics of a long-lost civilization. Her routine is disrupted by the discovery of a strange pebble, and a mischievous creature, who appears eager to take apart the very things she works to preserve. As the planet’s weather shifts unpredictably, she finds herself caught between a need for stability and an inevitable confrontation with change.