Animated Scottish Shorts – Outer Hebrides

Distance to the Moon – Sacha Kyle and Victoria Watson (Scotland) 
X’ embarks on a surreal and mesmerising journey into the vastness of space exploring existential isolation, connection and the profound power of the cosmos.
(9 Mins) 

Making Mountains – Sammi Duong – (Scotland) 
A chaotic stream of consciousness, expressing the escalating thoughts and feelings of a person navigating the difficulties of explaining her anxious mind. 
(2 Mins) 

The Jubilee – Wilma Smith (Scotland) 
Made from paper napkins, Mimi is a little mouse girl who struggles with her memories but through the help of a somewhat familiar old man she remembers fragments of her life through a cloud of dementia. 
(12 Mins) 

Veni Vidi Non Vici – Leonor Calaça (Scotland/Portugal) 
A short film that exposes the brutal nature of bullfighting practices in Portugal, by focusing on the cynical way real pro-bullfights arguments shock with reality.   
(3 Mins) 

Porkhampton – Louis Managh (Scotland) 
Porkhampton is an animated film intended as a remembered portrait of the director’s home town, Stretford, Manchester. Working in a layered, straight ahead, hand drawn animation style highlighting the distortion between reality and the imagined.
(5 Mins) 

Room Temperature – Roni Niu (Scotland) 
An inquisitive White humanoid journeys from a grey limbo into the technicolour unknown, where dazzling rooms hide dark intentions, and survival depends on acclimatising to the rooms’ temperatures… 
(7 Mins) 

Growin’ Pains – Sammson Orr (Scotland) 
A teenager escapes a family argument by fleeing to the garden, only to be swallowed by the earth and reborn as a green man beneath it. What seems like freedom quickly becomes a burden when the conflict still follows them. 
(6 Mins) 

Fairground Fever – Linda Hughes (Scotland) 
A hand-drawn animated film, in which three teenagers visit the Links Market (the annual fair that comes to Kirkcaldy each April). One goes on a strange, visually exciting journey, coming out the other end and back to reality. 
(6 Mins) 

Creche and Burn –
Frank O’Neil (Scotland) 
Staff at an office crèche fight to protect their children during a zombie outbreak. 
(4 Mins) 

Peace of Heart – Ana Songel (Scotland) 
After remembering a family-woven island tale, young Ailsa ventures into a dreamlike world, in search of her absent father and a way to heal their hearts. 
(11 Mins)