ASIFA

An animated film compiled by David Ehrlich consisting of 27 animators from different countries all explaining themselves through their animation.

Dreading the present, thirty-one animators entered the jungle on their imagination to honor José Eustasio Rivera’s Novel, THE VORTEX, published in 1924. Musicians, producers, and composers joined in this cacophonous journey, immersed in the gloom of The Vortex’s legacy to create the works you see in here.

After a year of distance learning, it's not easy for Michele, a 10-year-old child who started middle school in front of a monitor, to return to the classroom and meet his classmates for the first time. Michele feels small and lost: his insecurities come to life and he sinks into his fears. Until a voice brings him back to reality...

Above a noisy city, in the sky, hidden among the clouds, the wind keeper is playing his instrument. His quiet life is interrupted by flying elements: a bag, a kite, a balloon, a plane. The guardian gets angry, takes up his air tool and blows everything away. Suddenly, from behind a cloud, a flock of birds comes out. A little bird breaks away from the flock and flies towards the instrument...

In a school of magical arts, Violetta and her classmates are intent on listening to their first levitation lesson. But the exercise just doesn't succeed to Violetta...

Lucia is a little insect that comes out of her hiding place at night because only in the dark she is not afraid of other animals.

A little galago needs to learn how to hunt, but his fear of falling out of trees stops him. The main themes of the short are the fear of failure and the chance to turn failures into opportunities.

On a dark night in the woods, a chick runs away scared: something threatening chases him and he fears it's the monster the adults at the tree café are talking about. A journalist robin tries to find out more, but everyone says different things and the identikit that emerges is somewhat unlikely. Despite this, the adults march out of the café to take justice into their own hands, but when they arrive in the woods they come across something unexpected...

The story of children’s emotions during the first Covid-19 lockdown. For the first time we have to stay at home, we have to stay far away from each other. However, this sudden empty time full of fears also creates a place to play with imagination. Through a child’s eyes, we discover again the ability to observe small household events with wonder.