The 21st Seoul Independent Animation Festival
Seoul Indie-AniFest202518. SEP(THU).2025 ~ 23. SEP(TUE).2025
Asia Panorama
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Misplaced Analogy
Kasra YAZDANI 2022 0:04:05 2D ComputerI tried to compartmentalize the narrative that I created into pieces and handed it over to my friends so they could put it together one by one and have their own stories. 25 different films were produced. Some of the altered stories inspired by the 25 individuals were actually much more interesting than my narrative. Surprisingly, the stories had many similarities; strangely enough, even some of the scenes were arranged in exactly the same order. This film is the result of those 25 films. texts were added later.
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The Loach
Xi CHEN, Xu AN 2022 0:07:00 2D ComputerA woman is crying out for help to two men, with a child in her arms, but what comes next is mixed with good omen and misfortune, with felicity and fatality.
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Moon Monsoon
Shu-tzu LIN, Liang Jie CHEN 2021 0:09:29 2D Computer, Drawing, 기타If I lose you now, how can I live my life? You just come to me. Let us start a brand new life. Some words are difficult to blurt out in close relationships. We keep imposing our imagination and pressure, which is pushing each other away, while forgetting that the most important thing is our time together.
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A Forest Fire
Izumi OGAWA 2021 0:07:11 2D Computer, Rotoscope, 기타Japan about 150 years ago. Four days when a forest fire approaches a small village.
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Crab Soda
Chuchu GUO, Lingbo FEI 2021 0:10:56 2D ComputerA short film in which a daughter observes a frustrated middle-aged father and eventually empathizes with him. After a long period of family cold war and debt collection disputes, the father finally gave up his business.
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The Vessel
Kasturi 2021 0:06:52 2D ComputerSinhora is a traditional container for vermilion powder which is typical of Indian Hindu wedding traditions, specifically in the eastern states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. The film portrays the story of my old grandfather as he recalls the journey from the first moment he saw my grandmother dressed as a bride to seeing her one last time, exploring the parallels between rituals at Indian Hindu weddings and funerals.
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Far Away from Home
Jiawei DING, Rongrong GUI, Ziyue WANG, Crane XU, Jade ZHANG 2021 0:05:02 2D Computer, Drawing, 기타As the oilfield declined, people went to different places to continue their development, but children who left from oilfield will bloom different flowers in the future,and they will grow up with the mark of oilfield families.
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Preserved Vegetables
Wen-rui WU, Ho CHUANG 2020 0:04:16 DrawingRough weather on a typhoon night. A middle-aged man living in an urban high-rise is making a pot of pork rib & preserved cabbage soup. The aroma of steaming soup evokes his memories; his memories turn into a cat, who travels back to the sunny Huofang of the old days. Outside the Huofang, Hakka women are busy making preserved vegetables. As the cat progresses, his blurred childhood memories become unclouded, step by step. He recalls the everyday life on a Taiwanese traditional farm, where people preserve foods and save seeds, in a cycle of the seasons.
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Pukkulapottas and Hours in the Forest
Takeshi YASHIRO 2021 0:15:33 Puppet, 기타This account summarizes what I experienced between spring and summer of that special year when all human and material activities came to a standstill. I had retreated to my highland forest lodging away from the city, and while I was pent up there avoiding human contact, I chanced upon evidence of mysterious creatures in my yard. So I set up a surveillance camera, which to my surprise captured images of miniature humanlike beings about 15 centimeters tall. I named them “pukkulapottas” and followed their activities daily with my camera, but as spring turned to summer and people began moving about again, I lost my ability to see them. This experience has prompted me to ask the question whether all the truths in this world are confined to what our eyes can see.
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One Last Wish
Galia OSMO 2021 0:10:20 PuppetThe Fisherman and the Fish folk tale comes to life in this bitter-sweet animation. A lonely fisherman has a magical goldfish, who grants him three wishes. He already used two wishes to help others in need. Now he is facing a grave decision; after accidentally killing a stranger, he must choose whether to keep his last wish and become a murderer. Or to use it to save a stranger's life, but in doing so he will lose the only thing that truly matters, his friend.
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The End
Alexandria SIAH 2022 0:02:26 3D ComputerAfter watching her gallant knight die before their wedding day and ending the film in tragedy, it’s up to the determined Princess Hilderose to take matters into her own hands and get back her happily ever after.