The 22st Seoul Independent Animation Festival
Seoul Indie-AniFest20262026 17 SEP(THU) ~ 22 SEP(TUE)
ASIA ROAD4
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A Bird's Wish
Gan DE LANGE 2025 0:09:10 Puppet[A Bird’s Wish] is an award-winning short film about a bird whose deepest dream is to become a mother. She longs to lay an egg, but while the branches around her fill with the chirping of newborn chicks, her own nest remains painfully empty. As she embarks on a journey of medical tests and fertility treatments, she is drawn into a physically and emotionally grueling process, where her longing for motherhood is pushed to its limits. How much will she sacrifice, and what challenges will she endure, to finally become a mother?
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In Our Flesh
David LEHAN 2025 0:05:14 Puppet, Objects[In Our Flesh] is an anthology of three stories set in a surreal world of earth, flesh, and metal. Through constant transformation in animation, it explores the cycles of life, creation, and sacrifice, blurring the boundaries between beings, elements, and emotions.
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There once was a tiger
Dmitry MOSYAGIN, Marina VERIK 2025 0:12:23 2D Computer, DrawingThe story of an extraordinary friendship between a tiger and a goat in the zoo, and how a playful goat helped a bored tiger gain freedom. Based on a true story that happened in 2015 with the tiger Amur and the goat Timur in a safari park in Primorye in the Far East of Russia.
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I Hear Everything
Shahar ARAPOV 2026 0:10:00 DrawingFor Shahar (30), the world sounds different. He suffers from Misophonia, a disorder that transforms everyday sounds like chewing or honking into a torture of rage and anxiety. The condition has already alienated him from his family and now threatens his relationship with his partner. The film follows his desperate, unsuccessful search for a cure, leading him to seek refuge in the silence of the desert town of Yeruham. But it is there that he will encounter the most jarring noise of all.
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Where My Father Remains
Yasuteru OHNO 2026 0:11:30 2D Computer, PuppetAn animated film exploring the theme of “where we find proof that those who have passed away once truly lived.” After losing his father, the protagonist gradually begins to heal from the deep emotional wounds left in the immediate aftermath. Yet as time passes, he realizes that his memories of his father are slowly fading—and he finds himself pausing, unsure of how to hold on to what remains.
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After Spring
Jodi LAI 2026 0:06:44 2D ComputerFrom days to seasons, seasons to years, an elderly couple drifts through a shared life within the walls they built together, slowly fading. But beneath the quiet routine lies an unspoken weight — a lifetime of pain absorbed in silence. When she is left alone, she must reckon with a life that was never quite her own, and a season that has yet to come.
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A Day at Monkey Hill
Misaki FUJIWARA 2026 0:08:18 2D Computer, DrawingOne day, I went to Monkey Hill to look at the monkeys. In this artificial and peculiar space, both people and monkeys do as they please.