VAF Best Short Film - Programme 1

The VAF Best Short film program showcases an impressive diversity and interesting new examples of animated short films from around the world. The best animated short films are marvels of concision, condensing complex ideas and emotions into brief, satisfying bursts of storytelling. 

The films in this program are visionary, humorous, absurd, sad, and thoughtful. The filmmakers experiment freely with animation techniques: hand-drawn animation, 3D animation, cut-out, puppet animation. The VAF Best Short program is designed to reflect the impressive diversity found within new animated short films from around the world. 

VAF Best Short highlight films that manage to touch us deeply in a very short time. The category is open to all internationally produced animated films of any genre. The length of the film is at least 25 minutes including credits.

All the exciting films in the program have been nominated for a VAF Best Short Film Award and participants will have to wait until the award ceremony on Friday to learn, if they are the winners or not.

The nominated for VAF Best Shortfilm Programme 1:

• Wander to Wonder – Nina Gantz
• Summer 96 – Mathilde Bédouet
• My name is Edgar and I have a cow – Filip Diviak
• Bye Bear – Jan Bitzer
• Bluebird in the Wind – Ellis Kayin Chan
• Baigal Nuur – Lake Baikal – Alisi Telengut
• LACK – Paweł Prewencki
• Shoes and Hooves – Victoria Traub