Ages 9+

• Mars 3752

  On a bright night, a young boy lies down in the grass, staring at the Milky Way. Then, Just like a shooting star, the helmet of an astronaut falls from the sky.

  (Nicolas Bianco-Levrin, France, animation, 2015, 1 min, nonverbal)

• PythagoraSwitch: The Marble Brothers’ Great Adventure

  North American premiere!
  Three marble brothers travel round and round in a Rube Goldberg machine, perpetually escaping dangers posed by the nefarious Black Ball Army.

  (Euphrates, Japan, live action, 2017, 10 min, Japanese with English subtitles)

• Hypertrain

  Seattle premiere!
  On a train trip through spatial and temporal dimensions, the traveler suddenly comes across himself, and also, a cat.

  
  (Etienne Kompis & Fela Bellotto, Switzerland, animation, 2017, 3 min, nonverbal)

• Einstein-Rosen

  Summer 1982. Teo says he has found a wormhole. His brother Óscar does not believe him – at least not at first.

  
  (Olga Osorio, Spain, live action, 2016, 9 min, Spanish with English subtitles)

• The Red Thunder

  When Sarah, a nerdy teenager, borrows her mom’s car to go on a date with a boy she likes, she finds out important things about herself, but even more important things about her mom.

  
  (Alvaro Ron, USA, live action, 2016, 7 min, English)

• Beyond the Books

  Seattle premiere!
  In an immense library, an old librarian and a young fan of comic book ride a tidal wave of tomes.

  (Jérôme Battistelli, Mathilde Cartigny, Nicolas Evain, Maéna Paillet, Robin Pelissier, Judith Wahler, France, animation, 2016, nonverbal)

• The Inksect

  Seattle premiere!
  In a futuristic world, a bug becomes the master of his destiny, though his love of letters.

  (Pablo Calvillo, Mexico, animation, 2016, 9:30 min, nonverbal)

• Anna

  Seattle premiere!
  Spring 1941: a plane crashes in the Canadian Rockies, and a little girl is adopted by a puma.

  (Alexia Rubod, Antoine Poyard, Jordann Jacobé, Alexis Choquard, Sophie Bracmard, Yunhan Liu, France, animation, 2016, 8 min, nonverbal)

• Scrambled

  Seattle premiere!
  When a girl misses her train and kills time playing a fast-paced, flashy game on her smartphone, a vintage Rubik’s Cube challenges her attention.

  ​(Bastiaan Schravendeel, The Netherlands, animation, 2017, 7 min, nonverbal)

• Blue Cherry

  North American premiere!
  Skaters soar through a 3D world, until they spy someone who doesn’t get around as easily as they do, and decide to help.

  (Nathan Jurevicius, Australia/Canada, animation, 2017, 5 min, nonverbal)

• Nimbus the Cloud Catcher

  Seattle Premiere!
  A boy captures low-hanging clouds to make water for his village, but one day a cumulus catastrophe sends him on a journey skywards.

  
  (Marco Nick, Brazil, animation, 2016, 16:35 min, nonverbal)

Content advisory: “Einstein Rosen” contains two mildly coarse words, and “The Red Thunder” has a one mildly vulgar word and a crime scene where a thief holds a gun.