Who says you need hours to be entertained? Some of the best stories can be told in just a few minutes! 

Animated short films are the perfect way to get your fix of creativity and captivating storytelling. They can take you to new worlds full of human ingenuity or they can tell an expressive story rooted in the most human needs.

In a small Bosnian village, hidden amongst steep mountain cliffs, throughout the centuries, the ritual of the Great Dragon summoning takes place every spring. The Great Dragon is the village guardian. As the time goes by, the ritual gradually changes and loses its strength. The village is no longer hidden. Strange new beliefs and deities take over its people...

The ancient ritual of the Bosnian Dragon Summoning is threatened by various new beliefs throughout the ages.

Aždaja / The Dragon

The town of Backwater is cursed by regular visits of The Undertaker and one day the town decides help death along.

A multi-award-winning short film from the acclaimed university of animation, The Animation Workshop. Widely praised for its unique visual style, dark and gruesome story, black humour. Original soundtrack from Death Country legends Sons of Perdition.



Backwater is doomed by the regular visits of the undertaker and its dwellers blame a tramp.

The Backwater Gospel

The Blissful Accidental Death came alive from various personal research, "like the knitting of a burgundy sweater." It started from finding a small, old drawing in an antique shop with a love letter on the back, which implied a secret love story between a famous poet and a painter, a secret that was kept for 80 years. Luckily and extremely surprising, the painter was still alive, a fabulous character in her 105th birthday who has spanned the whole of last century, meeting the elite Romanian artistic and intellectual scene. The script does not contain the real story but rather a sum of images of the interpretation of the painter's life, framed by the real story of meeting the drawing, and imagining the moment she wrote about, when she dreamed of "a blissful accidental death." The camera movement in the film itself simulates a POV, implying that this is a personal interpretation of the events. 

A drawing found in an antique shop makes a young man to start an unusual journey to find the truth about it.

The Blissful Accidental Death

Dragons are sacred creatures; their blood can cure all kinds of illness. A courageous boy set off on a journey far from home to find a cure for his ill mother, despite risking his own life.

Dragons are sacred creatures; their blood can cure all kinds of illness. A courageous boy set off on a journey far from home to find a cure.

Dragon Blood

Earth was burning, humanity had no choice but to leave their cradle and take their chances at the stars. The Exodus would define humanity's legacy in their new home. Four worlds now stand, when once there was none; and conflict is brewing.

Humans leave a dying Earth to colonize alien worlds. However, conflict soon arises.

The Exodus

Glitch Noir is an animated story set vaguely in the future, in a paranoid world where warfare has been automated providing plausible deniability to the multinational corporations that finance and profit from weapon sales. The nameless protagonist sifts through the cracks and crevices of the global stream in a search to find the missing son of a client.

Glitch Noir is an animated story set in a paranoid, vague future in which automated warfare provides plausible deniability for corporations.

Glitch Noir

A short fantasy heist film about a brother and sister who rob a witch's house hidden beneath a wishing well deep in the woods.

Awards:
Best 2D ~ Dingle Animation Film Festival 2020
Best Writer ~ Dingle Animation Film Festival 2020
Audience Choice Award ~ Dublin Animation Festival 2019

About the Director:
Liam Fahy is an illustrator/animator who hails from the wet and windy west coast of Ireland. He left his home in the countryside to study animation on the east coast at the National Film School at IADT Dun Laoghaire.

Why wish for riches when you can rob witches?

How To Rob A Witch

This story takes place in the future, when superluminal speeds allow for travel to any point in the universe. People are hoping to find extraterrestrial life, but as of yet no one has succeeding in finding anything. One day, a lonely man finds a message in a monolith that has been drifting in space. It helps him to find a portal that leads to the home planet of those who made the monolith. He finds a giant structure, a building. But ...This place is breathing on its own. Where has everyone gone?

One day, far into the future, a man finds a message in space. Maybe it has all the answers?

Laniakea

After discovering a planet with the remains of a lost civilization, Al returns to Earth with the monolith to uncover the mysteries behind it. Inside, scientists find a strange crystal—a compass pointing deep into the heart of the universe, to a place known as the center of Laniakea.

Accompanied by his dog Martin, Al embarks on a new voyage.

What he finds will change everything we know about time, existence, and what lies beyond...

After taking the monolith back to Earth, they discover a compass inside it.

Laniakea 2 

The Lingers Home is a short stop motion animation which offers a magical look into the characters who appear as the lights go off.

Ever wonder who lives in your dollhouse once the lights turn off?

The Lingers Home

A short one minute film about a group of crows holding a funeral for a dead friend.
Awards:
- Best Animated Super Short (About 1 min) - Golden Kuker Sofia
- 2nd place - Galway Film festival 'One Minute Film Festival' 2019
About the Director:
Liam Fahy is an illustrator/animator who hails from the wet and windy west coast of Ireland. He left his home in the countryside to study animation on the east coast at the National Film School at IADT Dun Laoghaire. He enjoys exploring the limits of Black and White design in his illustration and stamp work.

A short one minute film about a group of crows holding a funeral for a dead friend.

Mourning Murder

Radha, at its core, is a film about love and sacrifice. You will be taken on an emotional journey through the eyes and lives of two distinct characters. One chasing dreams and the other rooted still. Yet the distance just makes the heart grow fonder.

We draw inspiration from the timeless bond of Radha and Krishna—in their enduring emotional connection. According to Hindu mythology, Krishna may have left Radha behind in Vrindavan, but he never truly left her spirit. The Puranic texts speak of their bond as one that transcends physical presence. Such is the nature of unconditional love: indivisible, eternal, ever-present.

Our story is set in Calcutta and revolves around Radha, an elderly lady who nurtured a young boy and loves him with all her heart. Time, however, separates them and though she longs to see him, she waits patiently.

The young boy, with his innocence and playful charm, brought joy to Radha’s world. To him, she was everything—his mentor, friend, and idol. She gave him the strength to dream and the courage to face life’s uncertainties. And he, in return, made her laugh.

Through this tender relationship, Radha raises a series of deeply human questions:
Does true, selfless love ever fade or is it eternal?
Do we ever truly lose those we love or are they always by our side, even when we can’t see them?

And most importantly: Can a bond forged in pure love ever break or does it simply evolve?

We don’t claim to have the answers. But what we offer is an ode to the ones who wait for us back at home, reminding you to reach out to them with love.



The film is an ode to the ones who wait for us back at home, make you reach out to them with love.

Radha

This story follows a kind tree spirit forced to leave his home forest due to people cutting down his trees.

A short animation about the impacts of deforestation.

Roots

In the distant future, a world exists solely inhabited by artificial intelligence. GEFF 325520-BD, a fixer unit in a factory, begins to question his identity after being gradually replaced, part by part, during repairs. Determined to seek answers about his existence, he sets out to find his creator and confront him with profound questions about identity and purpose.

 In a future AI world, a robot, rebuilt piece by piece, seeks its creator to preserve its identity.

Sileo

Faith is a wide-eyed young woman, who moves to Paris to attend a prestigious dance academy, wants nothing more than become a famous ballet dancer in the next big production "The White Nightingale." But soon she realises that it will be harder than she thought, as money, a job, physical stamina and mental health in the family puts weight on her shoulders.

An optimistic young woman moves to Paris to attend a prestigious dance academy.

White Nightingale

When a Wizard sets out on a grand adventure - he is forced to wait in a forest where he meets a sentient tree that changes everything.

The Wizard in the Woods

2019 Sheridan Animation 4th year Graduation Film. A father sacrifices himself to save his 9 month old son from a wolf attack, only for another wolf to take the orphan child as his own.

A father sacrifices himself to save his 9 month old son from a wolf attack, only for another wolf to take the orphan child as his own.

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