We are big fans of animation, and there are plenty of animated films to check out at this year’s SXSW.

Check out the Animated Short Competition lineup below:

A Crab in the Pool (Canada)
Directors/Screenwriters/Producers: Alexandra Myotte, Jean-Sébastien Hamel
In a run-down neighborhood, Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves. A young adolescent, Zoe is a ball of anger haunted by an intimate terror. (Texas Premiere)

Au 8ème Jour (France)
Directors: Agathe Sénéchal, Alicia Massez, Screenwriters: Agathe Sénéchal, Alicia Massez, Elise Debruyne, Flavie Carin, Théo Duhautois, Producer: Carlos De Carvalho
It took seven days to create the world, it only took one to disrupt its balance. (Texas Premiere)

Beautiful Men (Belgium, France, Netherlands)
Director/Screenwriter: Nicolas Keppens, Producers: Brecht Van Elslande, Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Pierre Baussaron, Joost Van Den Bosch, Erik Verkerk
Three bald brothers travel to Istanbul to have a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair. (International Premiere)

Bug Diner
Director/Screenwriter/Producer: Phoebe Jane Hart
Bug Diner serves up a feast of clandestine delights: A Mole chef with suppressed desires, a super Fly waitress, and a host of pent up animal clientele. As tensions rise and desires reach their boiling point, this isolated restaurant becomes a hotbed. (Texas Premiere)

La Perra (Colombia, France)
Director/Screenwriter: Carla Melo Gampert, Producers: Julie Billy, Naomi Denamur, Capucine Mahé, Franco Lolli
Being a daughter, being a mother, becoming a woman. (Texas Premiere)

Matta and Matto (Switzerland)
Directors/Screenwriters: Bianca Caderas, Kerstin Zemp, Producer: Joder von Rotz
In a dystopian world where touch is forbidden, Matta and Matto offer refuge to the lonely at Hotel Vaip. In the deceptive labyrinth of mind bending rooms at their transient hotel, deepest desires are fulfilled and surpassed, but this comes at a price. (Texas Premiere)

Sweetmeats (United States, Australia)
Director/Screenwriter: George Metaxas, Producers: George Metaxas, Jason Rodriguez, Bismark Fernandes
A delicious array of confectionery characters reflect on their artistic practices, upbringings, and the “why” of art with a local news reporter. (World Premiere)

Tennis, Oranges
Director/Screenwriter/Producer: 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. (World Premiere)

This is TMI (India)
Directors: Subarna Dash, Vidushi Gupta
Big boobs vs. small boobs? A group of women, over a drink, discusses who has it worse. (U.S. Premiere)

Wander to Wonder (Belgium, France, Netherlands)
Director: Nina Gantz, Screenwriters: Nina Gantz, Simon Cartwright, Daan Bakker, Stienette Bosklopper, Producers: Stienette Bosklopper, Maarten Swart, Annemie Degryse, Ben Tesseur, Steven De Beul, Annemie Degryse
Mary, Billybud, and Fumbleton are three miniature, human actors who perform in an eighties kids TV series called Wander to Wonder. After the creator of the series has died, they are left alone in the studio. With their slowly decaying costumes. (North American Premiere)

SXSW will run from March 8-16 in Austin, TX. You can purchase various badges on their website.

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