Commissioned Shorts

45 minutes

An anthology of the very best commissioned shorts of the past year.

Commissioned Shorts

For hire: an animator. Result: 100% creativity and satisfaction! Companies and initiatives frequently ask animators to help out in order to get their messages across. Luckily, that means that we get quality content for this program! Enjoy an anthology of the very best commissioned shorts of the past year, including films on animal cruelty, Covid-19, the infamous Attica Prison Rebellion, disinformation, the shortage of clean water and so much more. 

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2022

Showing in this program

Animafest Zagreb 2020 Festival Trailer

Animafest Zagreb 2020 Festival Trailer

  • Yoriki Mizushiri
  • Japan / Croatia, 2020

30th World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb 2020 official festival trailer.

Breast Cancer Now “A Love/Hate Relationship”

Breast Cancer Now “A Love/Hate Relationship”

  • Anna Ginsburg
  • United Kingdom, 2020
CHANEL – LOGNON

CHANEL – LOGNON

  • Mathilde Loubes / Antoine Bonnet
  • France, 2022

The hour is coming. Through the folds and boxes of the Lognon workshops, Akon makes her way backstage where she meets the other models. The fashion show is about to begin.

CHANEL – MASSARO

CHANEL – MASSARO

  • Adam Sillard
  • France, 2021

Among a multitude of shoes, one of them comes to life. Rianne sets off in pursuit of it, in a frantic race that leads her to the heart of the Massaro workshop.

CHANEL – MONTEX

CHANEL – MONTEX

  • Josselin Facon
  • France, 2021

Pan contemplates and wanders with enchantment through fantastic sceneries. Strange and wonderful landscapes, full of precious minerals. As if on a journey to another planet: that of the embroideries of the Montex workshop.

Clipphanger: What is the Yo-Yo Effect?

Clipphanger: What is the Yo-Yo Effect?

  • Erik Butter
  • The Netherlands, 2020

Clipphanger explains the effect of the Yo-Yo effect on your body.

Consolidate: Reattach Loose Paint

Consolidate: Reattach Loose Paint

  • Michaël Veerman
  • The Netherlands, 2021
  • 2 min.

explaining how paint gets loose from a painting and how restorer reattach the paint

Disinformation in the world

Disinformation in the world

  • Tingyi S. Lin
  • Taiwan, 2021
  • 3 min.

In the information explosion time, disinformation secretly affects people’s cognition and judgment of politics, economy, technology, and environmental ecology. True and false information on the Internet becomes the globally concerned issue.

Int-Night

Int-Night

  • Juan Pablo Zaramella
  • Argentina, 2020

Spot for Bit Bang 2020 Animation, Games and Digital Art Festival VI Edition Online, at home.

LINOLEUM 2020 Becoming Human

LINOLEUM 2020 Becoming Human

  • Mykyta Lyskov
  • Ukraine, 2020
Lunar Love & Ever

Lunar Love & Ever

  • Gabriel Gabriel Garble
  • Sweden, 2021
  • 2 min.

A full moon keeps everyone awake, especially one moon-obsessed ladybird.

Moholymotion

Moholymotion

  • Éva Darabos / Melinda Kádár / Lili Korcsok / Borbála Mákó
  • Hungary, 2020
  • 2 min.

Commissioned by Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest

Physical Distancing Explained

Physical Distancing Explained

  • Salvador Maldonado
  • Burkina Faso / United Kingdom, 2020

This animated explainer about Social Distancing was commissioned by DMI (Development Media International), the video was targeted to all the African continent. Produced By Mosaic film and Just films.

Prima Ballerina

Prima Ballerina

  • Erik Butter
  • The Netherlands, 2020

Prima Ballerina tells the story of grandma Catherina and her passion for ballet.

Save Ralph – A Short Film with Taika Waititi

Save Ralph – A Short Film with Taika Waititi

  • Spencer Susser
  • United Kingdom, 2021
  • 3 min.

Voices: Taika Waititi, Ricky Gervais, Zac Efron, Olivia Munn, Pom Klementieff

TED-ED: How the Monkey King Escaped the Underworld

TED-ED: How the Monkey King Escaped the Underworld

  • Mohammad Babakoohi / Yijia Cao
  • United States, 2020
  • 4 min.

The Monkey King, a legendary troublemaker hatched from stone and schooled in divine magic, had stolen the Dragon Lord’s most treasured weapon: a magical staff. Returning to his kingdom to show off his treasure to his tribe of warrior monkeys, he finds himself caught in the clutches of two soul collectors, dragging him to his death. Shunan Teng details the Monkey King’s journey to the underworld.

TED-ED: The Myth of the Stolen Eyeballs

TED-ED: The Myth of the Stolen Eyeballs

  • Mohammad Babakoohi / Yijia Cao
  • United States, 2020
  • 5 min.

Deep in the Amazon rainforest in the river Nea’ocoyá lived a school of particularly big and tasty fish. When the rains came and the water rose the fish appeared, and swam away as the waters fell. Villagers along the river followed them to a lagoon and set up camp. But their young shaman soon sensed they might not be completely alone. Nathan D. Horowitz details the Siekopai myth of the air goblins.

The Girl Who Built a Rocket

The Girl Who Built a Rocket

  • Neeraja Raj
  • United Kingdom, 2021

In February 2021, three space missions went into the Mars orbit, with the 𝗮𝗶𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘁. This film, however, was made to bring a new angle to the water crisis - here on Earth. The Girl Who Built a Rocket tells the heart-warming story of Fara, a young Madagascan girl who imagines building a spaceship to go to Mars and find water for her dry town...

The Present Problem

The Present Problem

  • Mads Thøgersen
  • Denmark, 2020

On a journey through history, we see how reuse has been the norm up until now. How will history judge us?

What Really Happened During the Attica Prison Rebellion

What Really Happened During the Attica Prison Rebellion

  • Tomas Pichardo Espaillat
  • United States, 2021
  • 5 min.

Dig into the Attica Prison Rebellion, where prisoners took control of the facility in response to inhumane living conditions, and the violent retaking that followed.

When I Grow Up

When I Grow Up

  • Aithihya Ashok Kumar
  • India, 2020
  • 4 min.

A growing girl's wild imaginations of what she wants to be when she grows up