The Cardiff Animation Festival (CAF) team toured a programme featuring nine award-winning animated short films. The programme included quirky Welsh comedy, inspiring animated documentary, a dark plasticine love story and more, giving audiences a unique chance to see an eclectic selection of some of the best new shorts from the global animation festival circuit.
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Affairs of the Art
Winner: Audience Award
Director: Joanna Quinn
Country: UK
Time: 16mins
Beryl’s back! One family’s eccentric obsessions with everything from drawing to pet taxidermy.
Other Half
Winner: Best Student Short
Director: Lina Kalcheva
Country: UK
Time: 13mins
As an Individual Being in a world comprised of Merged Couples, Ren longs to find his other half and become complete.
Sauna
Highly Commended: Student Short
Directors: Anna Lena Spring, Lara Perren
Country: Switzerland
Time: 4mins
Ava enters the Sauna for the first time. She is overwhelmed by the nudity, her thoughts, and the physical sensations. The other guests go about their routines. With the rising heat Ava starts to relax. Finally, she melts away and dissolves into complete ecstasy.
Freedom Swimmer
Winner: Best Short
Director: Olivia Martin-McGuire
Country: UK
Time: 15mins
The story of a grandfather’s perilous swim from China to Hong Kong that parallels his granddaughter’s own quest for a new freedom.
In Nature
Highly Commended: Best Short
Director: Marcel Barelli
Country: Switzerland
Time: 5mins
In nature, a couple is a male and a female. Well, not always! A couple is also a female and a female. Or a male and a male. You may not know it, but homosexuality isn’t just a human story.
Shift
Winner: Young Jury Award
Director: Cam Swartz
Country: USA
Time: 6mins
When a simple boulder’s peaceful existence is disturbed by the presence of a big rowdy bird, he finds himself forced to make a choice between his own stability and the lives of others.
NOMINO SUKUNE
Winner: Best Micro Short
Director: Ryotaro Miyajima
Country: Japan
Time: 1min
In ancient legend, “NOMINO SUKUNE” was the creator of Japanese Sumo wrestling. He also aborted the live human sacrifices in the tombs of the emperor and made terra-cotta clay sculptures instead.
Crafty Witch
Highly Commended: Micro Short
Director: Laura-Beth Cowley
Country: UK
Time: 1min
After years of prosecuting and torturing innocent women, Hopkins (the self-proclaimed Witch Hunter General) is about to get his just desserts at the hands or rather the magical finger of Winny.
Blending In
Winner: Quick Draw Competition
Director: Bethany Powell
Country: UK
Time: 1min
