Consumed by desire, a candle blurs the lines between love and obsession as it risks everything to possess someone it can never truly have, unaware that its own light could lead it into darkness.
A singing alien from the planet 0E0E0 comes to earth, seeking happiness after his home was destroyed in a brutal intergalactic war. With the help of a kind little boy, he is able to fulfil his lifelong ambition of experiencing a corporate Casual Friday, and finds some peace in the small joys.
A samurai arrives at a shrine in search of the person responsible for mysterious disappearances. There, she finds Byakko, the white tiger, but fails to harm him. Some flowers save her and guide her to a destroyed shrine, replaced by prey. She discovers that Byakko is a furious deity. While he tries to kill her, the samurai must calm his anger and purify him. Following the flowers, she destroys the prey, restores the shrine, and returns peace to Byakko.
During a train ride, Ariel and Paul pass the time sketching their deepest fears. Their game takes an unexpected turn when Gilda, a mysterious passenger, intrudes on their exchange. Yet, her relationship with fear seems far less innocent than their playful drawings.
A woman walks down the sidewalk, avoiding the cracks in the pavement like a child. Her body remains on high alert, remembering the horrors of a war that continues to haunt her. The Sounds of Things Ablaze is a charcoal-drawn animated short film about the resilience of women.
Noe finds herself stuck in a haunting nightmare and struggles to persevere through trials and tribulations that challenge her will to live. RISD FAV '25 Senior Thesis Film
500 years after humanity fled a ruined Earth, a lone traveler returns—not for glory, but for hope. As her spacecraft nears home, Sarah records a final message to the child she’ll never meet. Through memories, confessions, and quiet revelations, she tells the story of a civilization lost… and the fragile chance to begin again.
When a young man named ScumWillie learns a shocking truth about his home, he is forced to choose if he should leave all he's ever known, or brave the world outside
A summer night, in a red house with blue shutters bordered by the forest. We hear the river flowing from the room where Sister, four years old, wakes Brother, ten years old. Because she has decided: tonight they will go swimming. Through the open window, the two children slip into the darkness. They slip between flowers, brambles, trees... And finally it is the water, the reflection of the stars, their two bodies at rest. But in the distance the storm is rumbling. It is already necessary to return. Brother and Sister go hand in hand. Suddenly, Brother disappears. Sister chases him, runs out of breath, spins around, despairs. Is it a game of hide-and-seek? A trick of the forest? Or is it her memory which, years later, plays a cruel trick on her ?
The ancient warrior Ako is sent by the ancient gods to the present day to save the world from the evil general Atar, who has plunged it into his malevolent and warlike universe. Finding the brave Juanita, they embark on a crusade to bring Atar's victims to safety, but they understand that this is only the beginning of their mission.