Experience the boundary-defying imagination of animated storytelling in Dreams in Motion: An Experimental Animation Showcase, a shorts block that pushes the limits of the medium through striking visuals, audacious ideas, and bold emotional depths. Including Bunnyhood, official selection a and winner at Cannes Film Festival 2024 and Nobody, a surreal exploration of resilience and loss in postwar Gaza, acclaimed at the Tribeca Film Festival 2025. Also featured are A Round of Applause for Death, a darkly poetic meditation on mortality, the wild stop-motion horror-comedy Nostril, the disorienting everyday adventure of Running Late, and the inventive, post-apocalyptic karaoke tale Tuna Tartare—each celebrated for originality and daring storytelling.
Bunnyhood. Mansi Maheshwari, UK, 09:07
Nobody. Msallam Hdaib, Jordan, 06:45
A Round of Applause for Death. Stephen Irwin, UK, 05:00
Nostril. Michael Dondero & Shengnan Dong, USA, 04:30
Running Late. Alistair Nicholls, UK, 06:19
Tuna Tartare. Lena Greene, USA, 10:33
Length: 43 min
Expanded Cinema Pack
For super fans of the form, experience three blocks of our best curated art house, animated, and experimental films at a discounted price. **Plus, these screenings are all happening at the same venue so why get up when you sit, relax, and watch some world class kinography. Buy tickets here
The Santa Cruz Film Festival
The Santa Cruz Film Festival supports and promotes the love of the moving-image arts within the local Santa Cruz and Greater Monterey Bay Area. SCFF is an artist-driven, filmmaker-forward festival for original films world-wide.
