The natural world plays a central role in most of these clever gems. The sun, the sea, the wind and rain are ever present in the ebb and flow of animated life. The story of each film relies on the way we interact with our environments and says something fresh about the way we live and breathe.

The short films in this programme are:

• Another Season
  Germany, 4m 27s Dir: Anna Lytton
• Aubade
  Switzerland, 5m 25s Dir: Mauro Carraro
• Evanescent
  UK, 4m 39s Dir: Alice Parkes
• If The Cuckoo Don’t Crow
  UK, 1m 50s Dir: Steve Kirby
• L'Île Noire
  Switzerland, 6m 30s Dir: Nino Christen
• I Walk with Sun and Rain
  UK, 1m 6s Dir: Toby Suda
• A Place in the Sun
  UK, 5m 50s Dir: Amalie Vilmar
• The Walk
  UK, 1m 37s Dir: Stephen Middleton
• My Seashell Memory
  UK, 10m Dir: Yanlai Chen
• Islander’s Rest
  Switzerland, 18m Dir: Claudius Gentinetta
• To Build a Fire
  Belgium, 4m 58s Dir: Olivier Vanden Bussche
• Ship
  Germany, 5m 30s Dir: Franka Sachse
• Birds
  USA, 1m 13s Dir: Miyoung Kim
• Dead Air
  UK, 17m Dir: Robert Bradbrook

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