BEST ANIMATION
NOMINEES 2020
CODE
DIRECTOR: XINYUE SONG
Technology makes life easier, but not everyone can adapt to it.
Kapaemahu
DIRECTORS: HINALEIMOANA WONG-KALU, DEAN HAMER & JOE WILSON
Kapaemahu reveals the healing power of four mysterious stones on Waikiki Beach – and the legendary transgender spirits within them.
THE WINTER
DIRECTOR: XIN LI
Walking in a snowy forest, a peasant sees an unusual deer and goes to follow it. The deer allures him and the peasant even wants to catch it.
TRAP
DIRECTOR: PAUL JAMES
A young girl fights for a sense of belonging.
Winter's Blight
DIRECTOR: CLARE CAMPBELL
Spring should have arrived but the winter will not relent. It is freezing and Bill has run out of firewood which he relies on for all his heating and cooking. He has cut down all of the trees on his small plot and now must cut down the one remaining tree - a large pine tree that he planted with his father as a child.
UMBILICAL
DIRECTOR: DANSKI TANG
Shared desires for intimacy, safety, and normalcy are constantly at odds with the realities that surround us. Through a conversation as adults, the animator and her mother learn to understand each other and support one another…