2024 OFFICIAL SELECTION IS HERE!
NEXT EVENT · MAY 10TH, 2024
THE BRITISH MUSEUM, LONDON
COMING SOON
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2024
MOST RECENT LINEUP
The thirteenth annual British Animation Film Festival is being held at The British Museum in the heart of London with an amazing selection of animated films.
The BAFF aims to highlight the best in British and International animated entertainment and is an incredible opportunity to meet some of the brightest up and coming animators in the world and see the work they are producing. The 2024 Official Selection has just been announced, so feel free to check out the lineup below!
SHORT FILM SCREENING 1
In a new instructional video from Luc. Industries, we join our faceless protagonist, Morris along with our Narrator as they demonstrate to us the steps required to obtain a perfect night's sleep. But as Morris falls deeper into his slumber he learns that there may be something sinister lurking in the shadows of unconsciousness…
HOW TO: SLEEP
5m | Eli Thompson & George Tucker
Through gorgeous, painterly animation and perfectly-timed humour, the film, titled OMW, tells an ill-fated tale of a young woman whose day goes from bad to worse in an instant.
OMW
3m | Emmanuelle Walker
One man's obsession with crisps becomes unhealthy - and not because he's eating them. Tom's quest for the truth takes him on a journey into the unknown in this animated comedy about nostalgia, corporate conspiracy and bear-shaped snacks.
SPECTRE OF THE BEAR
11m | Josh Hicks
When a brief comes along that allows us to push the boundaries and unleash the gloomy and the weird, we’re all in! DeathByRomy’s dark and compelling aesthetic and Adult Swim’s appetite for uncompromising content allowed us to do just that…
LATE NIGHTS (DEATHBYROMY & ADULT SWIM)
3m | Golden Wolf
Through an unreliable timeline of events, 'Araf Ddeffro' (Slowly Waking) is a film about loneliness and a dark take on the difficulty of maintaining friendships in an ever changing world. The story is told through the perspective of a hairless creature who reflects on how they have arrived at the point of complete isolation.
SLOWLY WALKING
7m | Sara Schiavone
TENNIS, ORANGES
11m | Sean Pecknold
A robotic vacuum suffering from burnout quits its job at a hospital and sets out to find community and a greater purpose on a quiet street where two lonely rabbits are stuck in perpetual loops.
THE WINTER OF 1999 WHEN I STARTED A JOURNEY
3m | Jiusi Li
This film is about a bewildering fantasy journey of a person and a frog.
A poetic ode to the flawed but compelling English seaside, where childhood memories of endless days of play are nostalgically rekindled if you look beyond the noise and take in the beauty of where sea meets land.
WISH I WERE THERE
2m | Neil Baker
An accident interrupted Lee’s dinner with his colleagues. The dark truth of the Tomato Kitchen along with Lee’s hidden past were revealed by this unexpected incident…
TOMATO KITCHEN
9m | Junyi Xiao
SHORT FILM SCREENING 2
On an ordinary night in rural Wales, Sarah's life takes an unexpected turn when she is visited by an extra-terrestrial being. Tasked with observing an average member of the human species, the being chooses Sarah as their subject. Offended by being labelled as 'average' and indifferent to the being's task, Sarah carries on with her ordinary life. Meanwhile, the extra-terrestrial being closely observes her every move.
BEYOND AVERAGES
6m | Charlie Miller
A grizzly bear escapes from the city zoo. A man works late on his wedding anniversary.
GRIZZLY BUSINESS
4m | Kyle Nelson
The story of individuals being forced by groups during the process of belonging to a group.
NALSUM
5m | Soeun Jeon
After being diagnosed with endometriosis, Alma struggles to come to terms with the disease and struggles to gain acceptance and control over her body and reality.
DIAGNOSIS
4m | Melanie Gerber
We follow a search through the Australian wilderness, and the price we pay to find what we seek.
Night and day, he marches on. But from the dark gullies below, the silhouettes return. In pursuit. In shadow
LOVE & MERCY - ANDRE WARHURST
3m | Leigh Young
SUPERNOVA
8m | Katy Wang & Gabriel Greenough
Wanderers sift through discarded remnants of a society in turmoil, collecting trinkets as their daily offerings to the sun. The surroundings echo the struggles of our contemporary world, mirroring the notion of sorting through fragments of what remains—metaphorically representing the constant effort to find value and meaning amidst the chaos.
TEMPORARILY REMOVED
14m | Dotan Goldwaser & Yoav Brill
Deep inside a municipal art museum, a single guard is the sole queen of a small exhibition. When being forced to leave the room, her exile becomes a journey in search of a new home.
A fish gets washed up onto the beach where a group of hungry seagulls await...
WASHED UP
3m | Liam J. M. Wilson
Set in Hong Kong during the late 80s, a temperamental girl tries to destroy the sun and stop it from melting her city using toys and whatever she has.
THE SUN IS BAD
3m | Sum Yee Rachel Mow
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