KDIAF featured the works of the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival on October 26. The Clermont-Ferrand Festival is one of the world's significant short film events, bringing together a diverse range of works in terms of themes and artistic expression. Alongside local French entries, numerous captivating creations from various countries, including those tailored for children, were showcased, ensuring participation from both adults and children.

This article will introduce the screening content of the animation festival one by one.

It employs a hand-drawn line style and features smooth and rich color transitions in a frame-by-frame animation. With concise and neat strokes combined with the use of different textures, it depicts the intense story of a woman and her greyhound at a party.

The film portrays the story of a young boy lost in the forest and his encounters with the animals there. The overall style predominantly employs ink wash techniques, integrating elements of traditional Japanese storytelling, accompanied by electronically synthesized narration, creating an eerie atmosphere. The strong contrast of red and green, enhanced through 3D drawing, brings about exaggerated and rich transformations, delivering a powerful visual impact.

"Ice Merchant" 

It is primarily a hand-drawn animation focusing on lines and contrasting red and blue colors, creating a harmonious image. The plot advances through montage, depicting a father and son harvesting ice on an iceberg and sending the ice blocks below using parachutes. This father and son live a repetitive life until one day, when the iceberg melts, seemingly bringing about a significant change in their lives.

This film utilizes models of marine creatures made from plastic bags and common oceanic debris, rapidly transitioning to scenes depicting harm to marine life and satirizing the human impact on the environment.

"Pentola" 

It is a predominantly hand-drawn animation featuring distinctive character designs and exaggerated, amusing character performances, narrating the story of "Superman" meeting "Batman" and falling in love with him.

"O Homem do Lixo" 

It is a hand-drawn frame-by-frame animation primarily created using pencils, accompanied by constantly changing string music and smooth camera movements. It depicts the story of an uncle reminiscing about their migration to France due to a colonial war at a family gathering, recounting the uncle's life and the life of war immigrants.

"Bestia"

This is a stop-motion animation presented using different materials, adapted from a true event. It tells the story of a secret agent living during the dictatorship in Chile and the mental pressures he experienced during that time. The work portrays the protagonist's psychological issues and cracks through the relationships between her, her dog, her body, and her country.

This film has a gentle color tone and revolves around the theme of postpartum depression. It portrays the story of a young black woman raising her child in a country where she feels a lack of belonging. Through swimming in the sea, the woman finds emotional relief and confronts her fears in nature.

"Aaaah!"

With joy, pain, boredom, anger, fear, and helplessness, the play is threaded through with various forms of "Aah," depicting childhood experiences and the primal and pure cries of children.

"Louis 1er roi des moutons" 

It is a satirical stop-motion animation about authoritarian rule. A sheep finds a paper crown and becomes the leader of the flock. After becoming a leader, the sheep begins to address the crowd, subjugating the flock, organizing celebrations, and ranking the sheep by color, thus commencing his autocratic rule.

After the screening, the organizers of the animation festival invited the curator of the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival to answer questions related to curation. The curator provided advice for students regarding curation and suggested improvements for the animation festival event. The discussion ended with a group photo of all attendees and the curator, bringing the day's activities to a successful close.