The 21st Seoul Independent Animation Festival
Seoul Indie-AniFest202518. SEP(THU).2025 ~ 23. SEP(TUE).2025
19th (2023)
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Tomoya!
Masataka KIHARA 2022 0:04:39 2D Computer, RotoscopeOne summer day, a quiet boy who plays on a local baseball team has a strange experience.
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Ghost of the Dark Path
Fish WANG 2023 0:19:53 2D ComputerDuring the White Terror era, Shi Shuifang, a woman who advocated ideas bravely in an underground political organization, seemed to be a light that illuminated the times. The agent of the surveillance organization was influenced by Shi Shuifang and thus fell in love with her. However, under all kinds of unfavorable circumstances, he could only watch her hopelessly suffer various injuries.
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Stuntcat
Katya MIKHEEVA 2022 0:05:36 2D Computer, 3D ComputerStunt action buddy movie is a story about a cat working as an animator who had to become a stuntman in order to create authentic and believable visual effects.
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Cage
Max CHEN, Jiaxing LEE, Raballt DAWN, Amanda KIM 2022 0:10:54 2D ComputerA young girl, a punk couple, a 35 year old ordinary white-collar Weihang Jian, all of them are eager to buy a house. It happened that a poet decided to sell his house at a low price, so the competitive relationship between these three groups of people for it produced. Even if the poet told him in poetry that the house itself is not such important, and even if he found that his reason for buying a house was the most empty comparing with others, he still chased away other competitors by any means under the anxiety and pressure.
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Our Pain
Shunsaku HAYASHI 2023 0:16:15 Drawing, Cut-outs, etcOur common pain, although experienced individually and uniquely, is what connects us. It is the ambiguity and variety of our existence that allows us to imagine an infinity of variables, some of these alternatives may be malignant, and some benign.
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The Rubbings of Trajectories
Cheng-Hsu CHUNG 2022 0:03:58 2D Computer[The Rubbings of Trajectories] is an intimate documentation about space and memory. Drawing inspiration from travelling in different cities around the globe, the film invites the viewers to slip into a person's consciousness and experience the relationship between one's inner and outer worlds. While the surroundings constantly shift, their mind also goes through a series of transformations.
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The Parade
Ryan Benjamin LEE 2023 0:05:15 2D Computer, 3D Computer, Drawing, Cut-outs, ObjectsIn Singapore, politics is often described as a dance: one step forward and two steps back. It is a city where socio-economic change moves with incremental cautiousness. However, in this animated film, the quiet city-state transforms into a rowdy street parade synthesised by a manic flurry of pop culture, karaoke and colour.
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Bird & Shadow
LEE Hyoryeong 2023 0:03:06 2D ComputerThe bird and the shadow are born between god’s hands. God asks the shadow to never let go of the bird’s feet. The shadow feels guilty seeing how the bird aspires to fly away. The shadow agonizes between restraint and liberation.
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Coma
CHANG Hyung-yun 2022 0:13:22 2D Computer, 3D ComputerLee Joongsik, a 45-year-old middle-aged man, wakes up in a police station. He is suspected of pushing the woman beside him into the road. Joongsik doesn't know who he is or how he ended up in the police station. But he learns that someone is coming to kill him.
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The Ideal and Reality of Clay
KIM Joohee 2023 0:02:54 2D Computer, 3D Computer, DrawingWhen the clay hardens, it’s like growing up into a hard adult. But for the clay that is torn by its painful memories of the past, there’s no time to harden. This reality conflicts with the clay’s ideal of “becoming a grownup.”