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This section comprises animated short films, split into the following strands (indicated after the film in italics)
- International Animation
- Modest Heroes - Ponoc Short Films Theatre
- McLaren Animation 1
- McLaren Animation 2
- McLaren Animation 3
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Kanini And Kanino and Life Ain't Gonna Lose
4:3
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Ross Hogg)
McLaren Animation 2
Twelve animated films develop a rhythmic dialogue exploring the relationship between sound, image and movement using 16mm film, paint and a projector.
Almost There
(Year: 2019; Director: Nelly Michenaud), Trailer
McLaren Animation 1
Strange goings on occur during an everyday train journey quite unlike any other.
Amaro And Walden Shotting
(Year: 2019; Director: Tim McCourt, Max Taylor)
McLaren Animation 3
Short sees a pair of pals lament gentrification.
Archie
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Ainslie Henderson)
McLaren Animation 1
A tenacious dog goes on an incredible journey.
Bloomers
(Country: UK, Austria; Year: 2019; Director: Samantha Moore)
McLaren Animation 3
Animated documentary about a Manchester based lingerie factory which employs local long term unemployed people.
The Call
(Country: Romania, France; Year: 2018; Director: Anca Damian)
International Animation
A phone call, a bathroom and a woman are at the intersection of the worlds.
Chemicals: Parker Bossley
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2018; Director: Joseph Wallace), Trailer
McLaren Animation 1
Animated pop video
Chin Up
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Joanne Salmon), Trailer
McLaren Animation 1
Animated documentary about self-acceptance
Cleaning In Progress
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Grant Holdon)
McLaren Animation 1
Tensions arise between a naive young car park cleaner and his old-timer talking brush, in their differences of approach and attitude. But ultimately one cannot do the job without the other.
Concrete
(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2018; Director: Aira Joana, Luca Struchen, Nicholas Roth, Pirmin Bieri)
International Animation
A backpacker experiences a mysterious encounter in a concrete building in the middle of swampland.
Creepy Pasta Salad
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Lauren Orme)
McLaren Animation 2
A werewolf with an anxiety disorder, a ghost with low self-confidence and a lonely witch muddle through their everyday lives in this apocalyptic animation.
Dancing Frog
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2018; Director: Kim Jin-man)
International Animation
A frog goes on the run from a snake and comes to realise that everyone is connected.
Dear England
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Marta Lemos)
McLaren Animation 2
A film about the director's present struggles to reclaim my cultural identity as an Immigrant in the UK.
The Fabric Of You
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Josephine Lohoar Self; Writer: Josephine Lohoar Self)
McLaren Animation 2
A tailor struggles to come to terms with the loss of his lover in an oppressive and unforgiving world where everybody wants to look the same.
The Flounder
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Elizabeth Hobbs)
McLaren Animation 1
Animated adaptation of the Grimm tale, The Fisherman And His Wife.
Frank's Joke
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Edward Bulmer; Writer: Edward Bulmer, Andrew Eu; Stars: Spencer Brown, Spencer Brown)
McLaren Animation 1
Frank told a bad joke at work... now it's 3am and he's obsessing about it.
Gold Fish
(Country: Taiwan; Year: 2018; Director: Fish Wang)
International Animation
Animated short.
Good Intentions
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Anna Mantzaris), Trailer
McLaren Animation 3
After a young woman is responsible for a hit and run, strange and spooky things starts to happen...
Grandad Was A Romantic
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Maryam Mohajer), Trailer
McLaren Animation 3
The filmmaker says: "My grandad was a romantic. He once saw a picture of my granny and realised that she was the love of his life. One day he decided to go meet her."
Herman Brown Is Feeling Down
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Dan Castrol)
McLaren Animation 1
Herman's quiet, colourful world is suddenly interrupted by something loud and stressy.
Invisible (Tōmei Ningen)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2018; Director: Akihiko Yamashita; Writer: Akihiko Yamashita)
Ponoc Short Films Theatre
The lonely struggle of an invisible man.
Kanini And Kanino
(Country: Japan; Year: 2018; Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi; Writer: Hiromasa Yonebayashi; Stars: Fumino Kimura, Rio Suzuki)
Two crab children go searching for their missing father.
Ponoc Short Films Theatre
Ladder To You
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Victoria Watson, Chris Watson; Writer: Chris Watson; Stars: Clive Russell)
McLaren Animation 1
Eric misses his Elsie, but in his darkest moment she shows him that true love never dies.
Life Ain't Gonna Lose (Samurai Eggu)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2018; Director: Yoshiyuki Momose; Writer: Yoshiyuki Momose; Stars: Sôta Shinohara, Machiko Ono, Kentarô Sakaguchi)
A child learns to cope with being allergic to eggs.
Ponoc Short Films Theatre
Mad Dogs
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Steve Boot), Trailer
McLaren Animation 2
Stop-motion animated film inspired by the kitsch paintings of dogs playing pool that once hung in pubs across the country.
Le Mans 1955
(Country: France; Year: 2018; Director: Quentin Baillieux; Writer: Julien Lilti; Stars: Nathan Willcocks, Nathan Willcocks)
International Animation
Animation considers motorsport's most worst disaster.
Meteorlight
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Jonny Eveson)
McLaren Animation 3
In a world where light powers everything, a curious child is finally allowed to visit the factory that their parent owns. But the dark secret they uncover inside this factory threatens to tear their whole world apart.
Music & Clowns
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Alex Widdowson), Trailer
McLaren Animation 2
Despite being close to nonverbal my brother is funny, charming and perceptive. I discuss with my parents what it was like raising a child with Down syndrome.
My Best Friend (Ends)
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Will Anderson, Ainslie Henderson)
McLaren Animation 2
Third part of a trilogy about a couple of shape pals.
My Best Friend (Explodes)
(Year: 2018; Director: Will Anderson, Ainslie Henderson)
McLaren Animation 2
The clock is ticking on the relationship between two buddies.
My Best Friend (Rewinds)
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Will Anderson, Ainslie Henderson)
McLaren Animation 2
A friendship goes backwards.
One Liner
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Matthew Lee; Writer: Melanie Barnes, Megan Cowley, Matthew Lee; Stars: Martin Trenaman, Neil Fitzmaurice, Emma Tate, Wayne Forester, Martin Trenaman, Neil Fitzmaurice, Emma Tate, Wayne Forester), Trailer
McLaren Animation 2
A has-been comedian attempts to make his comeback on board a cruise liner.
Quarantine
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Astrid Goldsmith)
McLaren Animation 1
A post-Brexit pagan dance fantasy about a troupe of Morris-dancing badgers forced to confront the animals quarantined in a facility built above their burrow.
Short Changed
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Zoe Hutber)
McLaren Animation 3
A couple struggle against the system in a world where everyone is literally made of money.
Soy Una Tumba
(Country: Spain; Year: 2018; Director: Khris Cembe; Writer: Khris Cembe)
International Animation
Every night a boy watches his father unloading a cargo of contraband tobacco. But that night it’s not tobacco…
Stitch
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Siobhán Smith; Writer: Siobhán Smith)
McLaren Animation 2
Stitch is an animated short film which highlights the need for change in the way we treat the sick and disabled in the UK.
That Boy Emil (Emil & Ida i Lönneberga )
(Country: Sweden; Year: 2013; Director: Alicja Björk, Lasse Persson, Per Åhlin; Writer: Hans Åke Gabrielsson; Stars: Elisabeth Carlsson, Siw Carlsson, Rebecka Englund, Gustav Föghner, Gustav Föghner, Hans Åke Gabrielsson, Hans Åke Gabrielsson, Lindy Larsson, Astrid Lindgren, Tilda Ramde, Tilda Ramde, EwaMaria Roos, Allan Svensson)
McLaren Animation 3
Little Emil just wants to help, but then everything always goes wrong. Banned to the shed, he’s supposed to think about his misdeeds – that is, until he gets into mischief again.
The Thing I Left Behind
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Chiarra Sgatti), Trailer
McLaren Animation 3
Two points of view clashing, a nostalgic, terminally ill patient, against a cold and pragmatic robot caretaker.
Under Covers
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Michaela Olsen; Writer: Michaela Olsen; Stars: Dylan Stephen Levers, Robert Kovacs, Jade Shames, Emily Collins, Dylan Stephen Levers, Robert Kovacs, Jade Shames, Emily Collins)
International Animation
The spooky secrets of a small town are revealed on the night of a lunar eclipse.
We Lie To Ourselves
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Owen Rixon)
McLaren Animation 3
A mouse, forced to work for a prey-killing corporate machine run by cats, takes drastic action against his oppressors.
What's Next
(Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Bunny Schendler), Trailer
McLaren Animation 2
Animated Piroshka pop video.
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