Jeremy, Where are the Lifejackets?
Festival Year: 2025
Le Charade
After his final performance, a lonely mime faces a psychotic episode when his imaginary best friend breaks up with him.
Dancing in the Rain
Fish Thunder
A boy who wants to be as loud as thunder faces a storm, looking to contest the sky. His guardian angel fish looks over him.
The Refusers
A mattress laments. An old paper dances.
Bug
Parents’ actions impact the lives of children.
Charlotte’s Web Reimagined: Making a New Classic
Our Student and Industry Showcase kicks off with a keynote from Olexa Hewryk, VP of Animation at Sesame Workshop, who will take us behind the scenes to gain an exclusive first look at the exciting new adaptation of the timeless classic book, Charlotte’s Web, a new limited series launching in late 2025 on Max/Warner Bros. Discovery.
Gleeful Beasts
The Gleeful Beasts are a motley bunch of incompetent but lovable characters. Journey with us into their wonderful world (keep your eyes peeled for these delightful monsters sprinkled throughout all of NYICFF’s short film programs).
The Final Day
Yadira, a creative young Cuban girl, struggles packing on her final day home. Her suitcase feels too small to carry everything her heart holds.
Impossible Maladies
Traveling by cart, Doctor Rabarbaro and his assistant Tosse travel from house to house to cure absurd illnesses with their ingenious remedies.
Amplified
When Karate star Hind has her world distorted, she sways between tenderness and pain, silence and noise, the hidden and the manifest.
Splish, Splash, Splosh!
Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass—it’s about learning to dance in the rain!
Just Little Imps
A little girl struggles to fall asleep. Every time she closes her eyes, small impish creatures appear from the darkness.
Just One
Struggling musician Amaru meets mischievous ball of energy Shai while performing at his local community center. When Shai’s parents don’t pick him up, Amaru is tasked with taking him home. If only Shai remembered where he lives.
Scrap Fabric
Fearing disapproval, a teenage trans girl secretly sews a prom dress from her mother’s scrap fabric.
Cartagène
Paul relives the memories of his childhood spent with his grandfather.
Directed by Léa Berbach, Fabien Bernard, Lou Buisson, Paola Couturier, Marine La Villa, Théo Nouare, Marie Pacreau, & Abla Saigh
Directed by Léa Berbach, Fabien Bernard, Lou Buisson, Paola Couturier, Marine La Villa, Théo Nouare, Marie Pacreau, & Abla Saigh
Dragfox
Sam’s search for identity gets interrupted by a mysterious neighborhood fox.
The Constructor
Elizabeth, an impossibly precocious seven year old Lego constructor, struggles with “imagination blur” as her three year old sister attempts to free her from her rigid thinking.
Have I Swallowed Your Dreams?
A poetic conversation between an immigrant daughter and her mother about sacrifices and dreams.
Nube
A puffy white cloud realizes that her daughter, a dark stormy cloud, is in danger of raining prematurely.
Underground
The last shovelful plunges the shot into darkness.
Spotlight: Maya, Give Me a Title
Maya, Give Me a Title
Because Maya’s dad is always traveling, they keep in touch via nightly calls, creating stories in which she is the star. Because Maya’s dad is also renowned filmmaker Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), we get these stories in all their inventive, stop-motion glory. Her assignment is simple: all Maya has to do is provide a concept and a title, and her Papa will do the rest. The result is a collection of inventive and enchanting animated fantasies that remind us of the great distances our imaginations can take us. Paper cutouts bring their shared stories to life in a series of vignettes, many with a wink and nod to the fourth wall or a behind-the-scenes look at the stop-motion process. Maya’s dad uses his trademark wit, whimsy, and mixed media to tell tales about mermaids, volcanoes, and anything else the two dream up.
Clearly crafted with great care, Maya, Give Me a Title serves as a love letter to animation, filmmaking, parenting, and storytelling.
Moominvalley
¡Salta!
Living Large
Savages
Winners
Shorts for Tots
Created for our youngest and first-ever moviegoers, but beloved by grown-ups, Shorts for Tots is sure to delight all audiences.