National Gallery of Art

South Africa, Animation
Jeremy Collins, Kelly Dillon, 2018, 5 min.
One girl is determined to make a very big splash, but will she have the buoyant courage to pull it off?

France, Animation
Animation, Nicolas Bianco-Levrin, 2019, 4 min.
You have heard of night owls and bookworms? Well, both perfectly describe this mouse who must find a way to continue his exciting bedtime reading after lights out.

Switzerland, Animation 
Nils Hedinger, 2018, 7 min.
If you have ever been the youngest of the group, you’ll sympathize with the little tadpole who always falls a tad behind in the charming KUAP. 

USA, Animation
Jamy Wheless & John Helms; 2017, 6 min.
Pig may be up high, but his nimble new neighbor, Duck, shows how the most important spot of all is one next to friends.

Australia, Documentary
Olivia Peniston-Bird, 2018, 9 min.
Brushing up on penmanship is the name of the game if you want to graduate from pencils.

Russia, Animation, 
Sergei Ryabov, 2018, 3 min.
Checkers may seem a game of child’s play, but can a losing cat nab a comeback? 

United Kingdom, Animation
Hend Esmat & Lamiaa Diab, 2018, 5 min.
Little ones are in charge and grown-ups get to play when the hilarious Flipped reworks the script.

Guatemala, Animation
Giselle Pérez, 2018, 2 min.
Like everything Abuelita does, her tamales are filled with love, especially when her granddaughter gets to help in the kitchen.

USA, Animation
Nancy Kangas & Josh Kun, 2018, 2 min.
Samuel serves up some poetic proclamations about life, as definitively drawn from the three-foot perspective.

Colombia, Animation
Alex Budovsky, 2017, 4 min.
NYC’s biggest borough gets the Busby Berkeley treatment in this charmingly upbeat ode to industrial Brooklyn that will have you tapping your steel-capped toes!

USA, Animation
Hanna Kim, 2018, 4 min.
Nighttime is a breeze for a nocturnal creature, but a spotlight shines in more ways than one in this Student Academy Award winner.