ROAD TO CRAFT ANIMFEST 2025 SCREENING PROGRAM
About CRAFT ANIMFEST
The 5th CRAFT Animfest 2025 will be held on October 28 – 01 November 2025 in the Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia.
CRAFT International Animation Festival (CRAFT Animfest) is the first festival in Asia celebrating traditional techniques in animation (stop motion, classic drawing/painting animation, sand animation, etc.) It is also the first festival in Southeast Asia to review the current artistic animation implemented in this part of the world (in that case including digital techniques).
CRAFT Animfest task is to popularize some classic techniques of animation in a computer-dominated environment. Also to appreciate artists from the Southeast Asia region. Ones who, regardless of the technique, make original and interesting films. The moments of CRAFT Animfest is also a time for a creative meeting and exchange of experiences between creators and festival goers.
CRAFT Animfest started as a biennial festival held every odd year since 2017. Starting with its fifth edition in 2025, the festival will be held annually, during the same week as World Animation Day, celebrated on October 28.
About Road to CRAFT Animfest 2025 Screening Program
Program Note:
Road to CRAFT Animfest 2025 is a series of short film compilation screenings held as a pre-event to CRAFT Animfest 2025. It aims to introduce the festival to a wider audience and to showcase the unique character and quality of the films presented by the festival. The program features a selection of the best films from the most recent edition, CRAFT Animfest 2023.
In its execution, Road to CRAFT Animfest 2025 collaborates with various communities, cultural art spaces, educational institutions, and even fellow film festivals. The program will take place at a minimum of eight venues across Java and Bali, from May to September 2025.
Program Duration: 67 minutes
Audience Age: 13+
SCREENING SCHEDULE:
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Qing Sheng Ang / Singapore / 2021 / 05:52
At a traffic junction in Singapore, the Green Man refuses to show up. Various types of pedestrians appear – the law abiders, impatient jaywalkers, government critics and clueless playful children. Will they cross the road on red? Who would they blame for the fault?
Andra Fembriarto / Indonesia / 2021 / 09:12
Two bickering siblings unite to fight pirates who want to steal their precious Sun Pearl necklace that’s needed for their family ritual.
Novella / Singapore / 2021 / 06:40
A young boy moves into a new town, when suddenly strange tears start to flow non-stop from his eyes. He devises a solution: a tank on his head. As the day goes, he realises that the tank might not be as fool-proof as he thought.
Irwan Junaidy, Maizura Abas, ‘Atiqah Mohd Abu Bakar / Malaysia / 2021 / 06:10
Two stories intertwine: one of a workaholic father and his growing impatience with his young son as they make their way to watch a shadow puppet master or dalang’s show and the other of a man who dotes on his son but secretly inflicts acts of abuse on his wife before he disappears after a violent incident.
Ahmad Saleh / State of Palestine / 2021 / 15:57
The dust of war keeps the eyes sleepless. Night brings peace and sleep to all the people in the broken town. Only the eyes of the mother of the missing child stay resilient. Night has to trick her into sleeping to save her soul.
Mochi Lin / United States / 2022 / 17:38
Spring 1976, 5-year-old Swallow is abandoned at a public boarding preschool in central Beijing. When the persimmons are ripe, Swallow masters how to cry, but doesn’t forget how to fly.
Ekaterina Ogorodnikova / Belgium / 2022 / 06:39
The birth of form is the birth of the world. From our early childhood to our last breath, we as humans learn about the world around us and try to find our place in it. One African mask can reveal a whole spectrum of human culture, its origins and the transformation that takes place to produce the art that decorates the museums of the world.
