Ecology, Animated!
Saturday, May 3, 2025 | 3:30 p.m. | The Hollywood Theatre
Includes the winner of our 2025 Best Short Film Award, PERCEBES.
Remember when watching cartoons all day on Saturday was a thing? We do! Now we are excited to present the Portland premieres of eight new animated ecological films from around the living world. (Approximate running time of program: 84 minutes)
Appropriate for all ages! Family friendly pricing: $6 per ticket!
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PERCEBES
Portugal | 2024 | 12 minutes | Dir. Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves
Winner of the 2025 Best Short Film Award
A vibrant portrait of the resilient percebes goose barnacle alongside the native people of the region, who share perspectives on their customs, shedding light on the delicate balance between nature, tourism, traidition, and survival.
PROGRESS MINING
United Kingdom | 2024 |16 minutes | Dir. Gabriel Böhmer
Feed the monster. Have a cup of tea. And if it's your first day, don't pay attention to anything peculiar in Sector 3. Nick shows a new worker around the crumbling Progress Mining Company, while Mary tries to get it closed for repairs.
I WALK WHILE GLACIERS MELT
Peru | 2024 | 9 minutes | Dir. Lucia Lambarri Barberis
Animation and live-action footage combine forces to guide us through the Andean mountains and snowy peaks of Cusco, Peru, reflecting on walking as a means to embrace life’s fragility and constant transformation. Like a ritual itself, it summons powers of relational animism and pilgrimage to help us interrogate modernity while celebrating the shared journey with others.
LIA BY THE SHORE
Uruguay | 2024 | 10 minutes | Dir. Bianca Vazquez
While on a boring vacation in a land of consumerism, Lia gets swept out to sea, where she encounters a tribe of nature spirits who teach her a valuable lesson to take back to the shore.
ASHEN SUN
France| 2024 | 13 minutes | Dir. Camille Monnier
Under a scorching sun, Charlie is bored stiff, and dreams of going to the seaside. But she's forced to stay in a dingy motel with her cousin Jess, who slouches in her deckchair. On the radio, the monotone voice of an eminent researcher in collapsology predicts the imminent end of the world. The pool is empty, the sun is beating down and the tension is mounting: the apocalypse announced on the airwaves suddenly becomes real.
THE LITTLE ANCESTOR
Canada | 2024 | 11 minutes | Dir. Alexa Tremblay-Francoeur
On a windswept hill, an ancestral house builds itself, becomes a home, then unveils its long life of one hundred and fifty years. Brick by brick and beam by beam, each action, big or small, reveals part of the story. We feel the passage of time, the transformations of the surroundings, and the home’s vulnerability in the face of urban growth.
QUOTA
The Netherlands | 2024 | 3 minutes | Dir. Job, Joris & Marieke -
When every global citizen is required to have their CO2 emissions tracked, it makes little impact. That is, until they discover the consequences of reaching their designated QUOTA.
NO ONE IS AN ISLAND
United Kingdom | 2024 | 10 minutes | Dir. David Bunting
Through animated conversations, scientists explore whether or not everyone can live well without harming the environment, revealing how hope and creativity can inspire change.
