3 Hour Animated Short Film Compilation to help Palestine | To Gaza with Love
2025 All audiences 180 min
Synopsis:
The Global Animation Community unites in solidarity with Gaza to form AC4PAL. AC4Pal was created to support the work of Haneen Koraz, an animator based in Gaza who has been running animation workshops with displaced children and women across the region. The project “To Gaza with Love: A Global Anijam” brings together 329 short films from over 50 countries, created by animators, students, and studios in a collective act of solidarity with the people of Gaza.
- Director:
- Various directors
- Year:
- 2025
- Country:
- Palestine
- Running time:
- 180 min.
- Technique:
- Cut-Out Animation, Hand-drawn Animation, 2D Animation
- Production type:
- Professional
- Producer:
- .
- Animator:
- Various animators
- Distribution:
- Youtube
- Tags:
- Political, Relationships
- Audience:
- All audiences
- Language:
- Arabic
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Hula Hoop
2017 7+ 2 min
by Barbara Bakos
For Christmas, a little girl gets wall bars instead of a hula hoop, which she asked for. Animated short film based on Zita Murányi’s poem.
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Family
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Every Child
1979 7+ 6 min
by Eugene Fedorenko
This animated short follows an unwanted baby who is passed from house to house until he is taken in and cared for by two homeless men. The film is the Canadian contribution to an hour-long feature film celebrating UNESCO’s Year of the Child (1979). It illustrates one of the ten principles of the Declaration of Children’s Rights: every child is entitled to a name and a nationality.
- Drama
- Comedy
- Tragicomedy
- Family
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Me and my Grandmother’s chickens
2025 10+ 3 min
by Hiba Al-Sayed, Dima Al-Sayed, Dana Abu Zanadeh & others
The story is about a boy waiting for the food trucks to enter Gaza, only to learn the crossings will remain closed. His grandmother is evacuated and moves in with him and his father, bringing her beloved chickens. With chicken no longer available in the market, the boy tries to persuade his grandmother to let him eat one of hers, but she refuse as they are like family to her! However she promises him a chicken if he fulfils her wishes, leading to an unexpected turn.”
- Drama
- Family
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My Grandfathers Magical Cane
2025 10+ 3 min
by Jana Al-Rantisi, Lamar Abu Nasser, Judy Al-Rantisi & others
Fatima takes great care of her late grandfather’s walking cane – so much so that it decides to transform into a magic wand and grant her family’s wishes. Made by a group of children from the Amal Refugee Camp in Deir al-Balah, Gaza.
- Drama
- Family
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Bad Weather
2017 7+ 2 min
by Iván Tamás
Musical animation to the poem of Noémi László, focusing on the theme of bad weather from children’s point of view.
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Family
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Somebody Ask Us
2021 10+ 1 min
by Daniel Bird
Our children face ever greater threats as the climate crisis accelerates. It’s their future, so why aren’t we talking to them about it?
- Drama
- Music Videos
- Family
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Vladimír Mišík & Blind Boys of Alabama: Šedesátá léta
2021 Adults 4 min
by Michaela Pavlátová, Alexandra Májová, Martin Máj
Music video to “Šedesátá léta” by Vladimír Mišík & Blind Boys of Alabama
- Drama
- Music Videos
- Musical
- Tragicomedy
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Umbrellas
2020 7+ 12 min
by José Prats, Álvaro Robles
In a faraway land where the rain never stops, six-year-old Kyna spends her days playing carelessly with her dog Nana under the protective “umbrella beard” of her father, Din. He let it grow in order to shelter Kyna, who developed fear of rain on the day she was born. One night, Kyna’s life turns upside down when Nana disappears. To find her, Kyna will have to embark on an adventure of self discovery and she will be bound to face her great fear, the Rain.
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Family
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A Gong
2018 10+ 6 min
by Zozo Jhen, Marine Varguy, Yen-Chen Liu & others
A journey of a 7 year-old boy’s acceptance of his grandpa’s death in a traditional Taiwanese funeral.
- Drama
- Family
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Betti
2018 16+ 5 min
by Zsuzsanna Ács
Since the 1980s, Betti Forgó has made her living as a taxi driver. Sitting in her car, she recalls 25–30 years of stories from the world of taxis: from negative stereotypes and the taxi blockade of the ’90s, to the protests against Uber — and how she herself was present in all these moments.
- Drama
- Tragicomedy
- Experimental
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Red Apple
2018 7+ 8 min
by Ana Horvat
Adopted girl is telling us a story about how families come to be. But sometimes that can be different – as she tells us in a story about her own, special family.
- Drama
- Family
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The Bystander
2017 16+ 8 min
by Sheyda Kashi
An old man is living with a window in front of his eyes. He sees a cold, black and white, and fragile world from behind the window. But the window was not always there. While the man was a young active participant in a big revolution…
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Abstract
- Experimental