Ahead of its return to the Southern California desert, the Palm Springs International Animation Festival December 14-15, the Jury Award winners have been announced. Covering 37 categories and honoring the vast diversity of techniques, genres and themes possible in animated storytelling, PSIAF 2019 will present a program of more than 250 films, picked from thousands of selections from more than 100 countries.
Learn more at psiaf.org.
Cannes Critics Week and Annecy award-winning Oscar contender I Lost My Body added to its impressive list of accolades with the Jury Award for Best Animated Feature. Directed by Jérémy Clapin, the moving and surreal story revolves around Naoufel, a young man who is in love with Gabrielle, and his severed hand which escapes from a dissection lab, determined to find its body.
The Jury Award-winning short films, in alphabetical order, are:
24 | Brian Yulo Ng Animated Documentaries
Ad Lib | Leire Acha LGBT Animated Shorts
Alone Together | Benjamin Marchal Experimental Art and Abstract Animated Shorts
Animal Behaviour | Dave Fine & Alison Snowden 2D Animated Short – Odd and Twisted Comedy
Artifice | Judicaël Ceva, Adrien Douay, Coline Della Siega, Coraline Hun, Diana Lao 3D Dark Drama Animated – Tragic Tales of Life
At First Sight | Sjaak Rood Watercolor Animated Shorts
Avarya | Gökalp Gönen 3D Powerful Darky Mystery Animated Shorts
Bavure | Donato Sansone Dark Stop-Motion 3D Experimental Abstract Animated Shorts
Bird | Wu-Ching Chang Hand Painted Animated Shorts
Broken Things | Panni Gyulai 2D Dark Mysterious Hand Drawn Drama Animated Shorts
Candy Shop | Patrick Smith Global Issues & Environmental Concerns Animated Shorts
Code of Freedom 1991 | Andrius Lekaviciu VR Animated Shorts – Dark Adventures
Daughter | Daria Kashcheeva Amazing Animated Stop-Motion — Life, Love, Loss and the Bizarre
Don’t Know What | Thomas Renoldner Abstract Animated Shorts
A Double Life | Job, Joris & Marieke 3D Animated Shorts Twisted and Odd Comedy
Exceptional Minds Animation Block (The Adventures of Salt Man, Robot Love, Dungeons & Dairy, Morphing Time, Maggie’s First Snowman, etc.) | Howie Hoffman, Jacob Lenard, Craig Hills, Naseem Sabokpey, Stephen Storti, Michael Yochim, Carter Capps, Craig Hills, Michael Shiu, Dylan Carbonell, Andrew Turney, Jacob Olsen, Stephen Storti, Michael Yochim, Carter Capps, Jessica “Jess” Jerome, Jacob Lenard, Dan Lenard, Alyssa Maxwell Zelman, Dylan Carbonell Academy of Dream Awards
A Flowering Tree | Meera Krishnamurthy Geographical Story Telling Animated Shorts
The Hidden River of My Life | Kate Woodward Animated Music Videos
Holly | Katia Augis, Filipe Alves, Hannah Florestano, Valentin Janvier, Chloé Martin, Moné Sisoukraj Sci-Fi Futuristic Dark Abstract Animated Shorts
hook, line & sinker | Ivan Farkas Animated Shorts by Children Directors
Kino Ratten | Peter McCully VFX Live Action/Animated Shorts
The Kite | Marin Smatana Fun Heartwarming Stop-Motion Shorts
The Last Cruise | Hristina Belousova 2D Animated Shorts Drama / Complicated Lives
Light Work | Scott Kawczynski Paper Animated Shorts
Luz | John Banana 3D Amazing Animated Drama Shorts
M52 | Yves Paradis 2D Abstract Animated Shorts
Maestro | ILLOGIC, Bloom Pictures Powerful Brilliant 3D Animated Shorts
Metamorphosis | Juan Fran Jacinto, Carla Pereira Dark and Disturbing Stop-Motion Animated Shorts
Minutes | Neda Valavi Hand Drawn Madness Animated Shorts
A Moonlight’s Tale | Ron Spivak, Andrew Noh, Elena Spina, Aarif Attarwala, Tony 3D Fantasy Adventure Animated Shorts
Nothing to Say | Aubry Mintz 2D Children Animated Shorts
o28 | Otalia Caussé, Geoffroy Collin, Louise Grardel, Antoine Marchand, Robin Merle, Fabien Meyran 3D Animated Fantasy Comedy
Opus | Luce Grosjean Classic Animated Shorts
Patchwork | Maria Manero Muro Experimental Satire Animated Shorts
Relation•Ship | Zoey Lin VR Animated Shorts – Fantasy
Rhizoma | Santiago Pérez Rodríguez Hand Drawn Animated Shorts
Skyvision | Nicolas Mayeur, Alice Letailleur, Yanis Belaid, Lisa Vicente, Nathan Peyren Urban Hip Hop Hand Drawn Shorts
The Steppes of Khazar | Sofiia Melnyk 2D Animated Shorts – Stylish Dark Tales
A Tinsel Township Christmas Tale | Marion Wilson Winter/Christmas Animated Shorts
why Z? | Asher Horowitz 3D Kids Animated Shorts
