Jeeeeeeebus.

A robot cowboy on an unidentified planet sacrifices its life to save the last seed, a Groot-like conscious plant being that escape the evil Pteranodons and starts new life on a new planet. Short, pointed, beautiful and meaningful.

When you are rooting for the two dystopian-era mining robots to work together to find the minerals, and get depressed because greed destroys their partnership (and themselves), you know you might have stumbled onto a metaphor of something or other.

CHAPPiE meets I Am Legend in this dystopian animated horror short. Effective.

a hilarious animated short which dares to ask the question: what if Ice Age met the LOTR, but just the bit at the end when Mordor is destroyed?

A beautifully rendered animated short about a wealthy man, a nun, and a homeless man in a cafe. The moral is fairly straightforward and expected, but still well done, comical, and wonderfully animated. You can almost taste and smell the coffee.

An animated short in which a society of rats desperately pursues happiness through consumption, entertainment, addiction, and work. An explosively short but powerful metaphor of the human condition.

Whoa. An animated short in which animals play the part of humans, engaging in typical late-modern human activities, leading to the extinction of homo sapiens, who play the part of animals in the world today. Quick, brutal and effective messaging.

Kubo defeats his grandfather the Moon King with an epic guitar solo.

Holy crap. Ren and Stimpy meets Requiem for a Dream, with a dash of Godzilla and the soundtrack of the German series Dark. In Spanish.

A beautiful Irish animated short. A young man dies suddenly, but his soul longs for more, though death appears and tells him it’s time. Death agrees however to show the soul more - memories and moments from his life, and from all life. It speaks of life’s need to insist, but also the boundary of death that we all of necessity share.