2025 Academy Awards Shortlisted – Best Animated Short Film

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A captain suffering from PTSD, lives with his daughter & struggles with a harsh life. One day something unexpected happens.

HONOR & AWARDS

97th Academy Awards (Shortlisted for the Best Animated Short Film)

52nd Annie Awards (Nomination Best Short Subject)

80th Venice Film Festival (World Premiere)

19th Animayo Animation Festival (Grand Jury Award)

22nd Tribeca Film Festival (Best Animation)

28th LA Short Film Festival (Best Animation)

22nd Minsk IFF (Best Animation)

9th Florence SFF (Best Animation)

2024 Annecy International Animation Festival

46th Clermont Ferrand ISFF

39th Santa Barbara IFF

20th HollyShorts Film Festival

28th Animac8th Xposure Intl’l Photography & Film Festival

11th Tokyo Anime Award

13th Tehran International Animation Festival (Best Animation)

18th Ismailia International doc & short film Festival (Best Animation)

Kaboom Animation Festival 2024 (Iranian Female Filmmakers)

31st Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film

25th River Run IFF13th Chilemonos International Animation Festival (Jury mention)

Golden Kuker (Best Animation)

39th Guadalajara International Film Festival

21st In the Palace international Short Film Festival

12th Constantine’s Gold Coin

12th Insomnia International Animation Festival

12th La Guarimba FF40th Cartoon Club (Cartoon Club Award)

12th La Guarimba FF

72nd Melbourne International Film Festival

13th Bengaluru International film festival

12th Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology

CREW

Writer & Directors: Hossein Molayemi, Shirin Sohani

Producers: Hossein Molayemi, Shirin Sohani

Music: Afshin Azizi, Assistant: Arash Azizi

Animators: Azad Maroufi, Hessam Javaheri, Hossein Molayemi, Reyhaneh Sadat Mirhashemi

Additional Animators: Sepehr Momeni, Mehdi Torabi

Edit: Hossein Molayemi

Composition: Shirin Sohani

Sound Design: Hossein Ghoorchian

Storyboard, Animatic, Layout: Hossein Molayemi, Shirin Sohani

Layout Drawings: Hossein Molayemi

Character Design: Hossein Molayemi

Background Design & Color Stylist: Shirin Sohani

Cel Painting: Ameneh Monshizadeh, Zeinab Samiei, Nasrin Reyhani, Maryam Safari, Shahriyar Ghorbanian

Shadow Animators: Nazanin Ramezani, Azad Maroufi

Rendering & Inking Assistants: Haleh Madihi, Atieh Habibi

Voice: Zahra Moosavi

Additional Cel Painting: Nazanin Ramezani, Saba Mehrfar, Mahshad Sanati, Mehragin Baghi, Mehdi Torabi, Neda Hashemian, Helia Aminvand, Negin khajeh, Somayeh Mirabbassi, Shiva Aboutalebpour

Special Thanks to Fatemeh Parchekani, Mohammad Reza Karimi Saremi

Production Company: Barfak Animation Studio

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