West Indies
The 25-minute anime horror film revolves around a young boy, Hikaro, who enters the ruins of a forbidden city with his friends to play Otokoyo, a version of hide-and-seek, where ghosts and demons kidnap the players.
The 35-minute experimental anime movie follows the story of Nyata, a kitten who travels to the land of the dead and back to save his sister’s soul.
The 45-minute short film is an engaging supernatural love story between a girl, Hotaru, who got lost in the enchanted forest, and Gin, a boy who will disappear if a human touches him.
Takao Akizuki, an aspiring shoemaker, skips class to sketch at a park on a rainy day. He meets a woman at the park, Yukari Yukino, a literature teacher at a high school. They start socialising daily, and Takao promises Yukari a pair of shoes.
It is the shortest anime movie on the list. The movie has also won the Academy Award for Best Short Film. A man relives the events from his past while searching for his favourite smoke pipe in a drowning house.
Rin, 17, lives inside a futuristic simulator in loneliness. She wakes up daily in virtual reality to create a world for herself, yet in real life. She spends her time drawing on her tablet and uses her art to create environments in the simulation. Rin’s comatose body floats through the universe, trapped forever inside a virtual simulation.