STUDENT UK ANIMATION Short Film Festival
44m
COOL BEAN, 1min.
Directed by Furter Holman, Thomas Howe
Watch as the beantastic stuntsman- er, stuntsbean, Buster Bean performs some death-defying stunts while holding two very alive and very insured eggs above his head!
HOT MESS, 3min.
Directed by Tortor Smith
Hot Mess offers an insight into ADHD in a compact and creative way, highlighting the damage and anxiety that can be caused by a well-meaning, but ultimately toxic, parent.
https://instagram.com/animatortor
PLANET TOAD, 1min., UK
Directed by Magdalena Metrycka
Roaming through the cosmic sky, a star-devouring Planet Toad grows bigger and brighter, until her appetite reaches a breaking point and reshapes the night.
https://www.instagram.com/planet_toad
A DIGNIFIED BURIAL, 2min.
Directed by Daisy Patnell
Two rats debate the ethics of taxidermy.
FROZEN LAKE, 2min.
Directed by Mohammed Shariq Puthen Peediakkal
Frozen Lake follows a young man, burdened by past trauma and anxiety, who slips into a surreal journey through his memories while ice skating with his partner. Drawn beneath the ice, he confronts haunting visions of his younger self—trapped, yearning, and broken—forcing him to face the pain he has carried for years. Though supported by his partner, he realizes that healing requires inner reckoning. Blending visual surrealism with emotional intimacy, the film portrays the fragile but hopeful steps of confronting the past and learning to move forward.
https://a2118682.myportfolio.com/
ADAHI, 4min.
Directed by Melike Üzüm
Miles and miles away from civilisation and the closest intelligent creature around having a vengeful spirit, what could go wrong?
https://www.instagram.com/viraakuu/
AGHHH!!!, 1min.
Directed by Katie Wang
A woman who is terrified of the outside world soon realises that the biggest danger to her life is actually… herself.
https://www.instagram.com/aghhh.liaf
LIKE FATHER, LIKE GUM, 4min.
Directed by Aidan Harris
Like Father, Like Gum is a short comedy about a son who's car troubles can only be fixed by his mechanically adept dad. Little does the father know, his son has already had a crack at the engine, using methods that will make any parent with mechanical sympathy cringe with horror.
https://instagram.com/likefatherlikegum
CAT-TASTROPHE, 1min.
Directed by MingHo Siu
When a giant alien CAT arrived, a SUPERHERO—forced from mid-rest and leave his house—had to confront it wearing just a TOWEL. Annoyed and impatient, he find a way—lured it away with his LASER VISION. But his aggravated aim was too strong, sending the cat crashing into the MOON with a massive explosion.
RECOIL, 5min.
Directed by Katia Lu
World War II, China. A young Chinese soldier on a chaotic battlefield is suddenly plunged into a psychological exploration of the visceral metamorphosis from child to soldier. Tranquil homes collide with the fire of their destruction; the warmth of family is shattered by the scream of falling bomb.
FADING MEMORY, 3min.
Directed by Yash Somnath Kunder
Fading Memory is a sci-fi animated short set in a future where nature has faded into myth. A grandfather captivates his grandson with the tale of a terrifying beast, only to reveal it was once a tiger, now extinct. The film explores themes of extinction and humanity’s growing disconnection from the natural world, suggesting that the creatures we know today could one day survive only in stories and imagination.
https://www.instagram.com/yashsk779/
MIND, 2min.
Directed by Cindy Sophie Solombrino
A Young girl travels down into the underground, where lack of caution may not be warranted...
OUROBOROS, 5min.
Directed by Aaron Joaquin
As a boy, he witnessed his father’s murder at the hands of a gun-wielding demon - trauma that ignited a burning desire for justice. As a man, he now struggles to walk the razor’s edge between justice and vengeance. In a neon-lit city’s dark criminal underbelly, his path of destruction begins to spiral out of control, with cash piling higher than the mountain of bodies left in his wake. But when the long-awaited confrontation arrives, the stakes shift — A snake lunges at its prey only to bite its own tail.
https://www.instagram.com/bcv.jimmy
The Trees Have Eyes, 6min.
Directed by Charlie Johnson
Among a mystical forest of ice and snow, a hunter reaps the consequences of what he sows.
https://www.instagram.com/thetreeshaveeyesfilm
Eye Contact, 4min.
Directed by Carmen Thomson
An autistic woman starts a new job where her neurotypical coworkers begin to act strangely. Seemingly everyone at the office is taking horrific measures to force their abnormal, ritualised, cult-like way of making eye contact, going so far as to turn into horrible eyeball monsters.