2017 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Animation

Beast

A gripping found footage short film that delves into the nightmarish journey of a man who becomes trapped within a labyrinth of tunnels.

Anal Juice

A dream that occurs after breaking up with a boyfriend.

The Saint of Dry Creek

Patrick Haggerty grew up the son of a dairy farmer in rural Dry Creek, Washington, during the 1950s. As a teenager, Pat began to understand he was gay—something he thought he was hiding well. But one day, after performing at a school assembly, Pat learned that his father could see him much more clearly than he realized.

Big Fish & Chinese Flowering Crabapple

In 2004, Liang Xuan produced a flash short film which was the prototype of the animated film Da Yu Hai Tang, which won the DIGIID Award of Intel 2004 China Digital Festival.

Take Your Kids to Work Day

The hatchlings from the Angry Birds movies go to work with dad.

The Cat and the Magnet

Silent cartoon.

Die Stadt in der Drehtür

Animated short film

Acoustic Kitty

embah

Girl who watches something in glass. Young person who looks into it from the outside to house. Bear that held fishbowl.

A Short Circuit

Silent cartoon.

Poppety in the Fall

In this animated short, a terrible curse deprives Balthasar's kingdom of its stories. Taking the unicorn's horn back into The Belly of the Earth is the solution. Poppety will lead an expedition, by chance uncovering a hitherto closely guarded family secret.

Burnout

Work too hard, and stress might crawl out of your head and destroy your room. Pixilation meets plasticine in a stop-motion tangle of mind and matter.

Jazzoo

A flying hippo on a quest to find the nearest pond. A fish behind the wheel, fleeing from a shark. A little koala who wants to hop like the kangaroos, and a raucous mob of elephants throwing a party – which drives the monkeys up the wall. There's never a dull moment in these four colourfully animated episodes from the animal kingdom, enlivened by the groovy jazz sounds of award-winning Swedish quintet Oddjob.

Zing

Day in, day out, Mr. Grimm is busy with his job as the Reaper, harvesting people's lives. One day, his monotonous existence is interrupted by the doorbell. It's a little girl. She wants her cat back. Little does she know that she's the next life on Mr. Grimm's list.

Circular

A story about obsession and yearning for the infinite.

Rabbits Under the Shed

After a disagreement with her mom, 8-year-old Natalie runs away — all the way to her backyard, where she meets a family of rabbits and decides to move in with them. Songs are sung and friends are made in this sweet, funny short film about building trust, overcoming fear, and connecting across difference to make room for everyone.

Umbilical

An animated documentary exploring how a mother's abusive relationship shaped the director's own experiences in boarding school.

Ruth

This is the story of a woman whose name has become synonymous with love and fidelity. In a moving tale, Ruth follows her mother-in-law Naomi back to Naomi's native Bethlehem after the sad deaths of both women's husbands. Working hard in the fields to feed herself and Naomi, Ruth finds her feelings for her kinsman Boaz run deeper than gratitude for his help with the work. Prepared to marry him for Naomi's sake, Ruth's loyalty touches Boaz and he decides to challenge the claim of a closer relative for Ruth's hand. The grace and simplicity of Ruth's story are conveyed perfectly by wonderful model animation.

Die Erfindung des Kabeljaus

Animated short film

Wondermilk

A tale about water fireflies, colorful cows, small wooden houses, wondrous river and some moody folk not aware of all these things.