The 22st Seoul Independent Animation Festival
Seoul Indie-AniFest20262026 17 SEP(THU) ~ 22 SEP(TUE)
ASIA ROAD2
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It Might Even Be Real
Yael BONNE 2025 0:07:09 Objects, Rotoscope, 기타Investigating the mechanisms at the heart of cinema and animation, an Israeli animator seeks to convince her mind to embrace the illusion of hope—just as it embraces the illusion of movement.
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jam
Keiichi YONEHARA 2026 0:06:44 2D Computer, 3D Computer, DrawingThe animated short film 'jam' is a deeply personal work born from the director's own experience with family caregiving, following a father who suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and a mother who devotedly supported him. The title 'jam' symbolizes the conflicting emotions in family life: the 'congestion' of a life with no escape, the 'sticky' weight of anxiety, and the 'sweet relief' found in a mother's resilience.
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The Mirage of a Dream
Kalyani B 2026 0:13:04 2D Computer, 기타Filmmaker Aami returns to her ancestral home in Kerala after her grandmother's death. As she mourns, a childhood story once told by her grandmother resurfaces, leading Aami to uncover something from her grandmother's younger years.
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My Winter Berry
Yu TAKEHARA 2026 0:08:58 Drawing, 기타My grandmother, now living with dementia, is losing pieces of her world bit by bit. Will her love fade along with her memories? And someday, will the grandmother I carry inside myself also begin to disappear?
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Where Were We?
Suresh ERIYAT 2026 0:04:17 2D ComputerThe film expands an awkward moment into a surreal micro-odyssey. A deep dive into an oceanic terrain of essentials and reminiscences transforms the familiar into the extraordinary, gently blurring the line between the world we’re in and the worlds we carry.
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Ramen
Maru3 2025 0:04:30 2D ComputerLet there be Ramen, and there was Ramen, with two castways inside...
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things that i was gathering
Ekaterina ZHUZHLEVA 2025 0:06:30 2D Computer, 기타i am gathering things for my detained friends, who were protesting against the war — books, plush toys, food. once, twice. now the list never ends, and i am gathering my own things.
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My Grandmother is a Skydiver
Polina PIDDUBNA 2025 0:13:00 2D ComputerAlfyia, a joyful young woman in 1960s Tajikistan, is actively parachuting and studying to become a midwife, when she receives an extraordinary phone call from her granddaughter in 2022. She is worried about her grandmother's safety amid the invasion of Ukraine. In this intergenerational conversation across time and space, the granddaughter tries to restore and rethink family memory and her own ethnic identity, break the endless cycle of collective trauma and reflect on the meaning of human life.