What goes through your mind when you are on the verge of dying? What happens when you stop trusting your intuition and you just get stuck? What happens when you are born with eyes so dense that it takes the light 7 years to travel through them and hit your retinas?

We are all looking for answers. Some of us are staring at the stars. A collection of diverse, funny, moving and heartfelt stories explored in this fascinating bunch of shorts.

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Return (Chile 2022 Dir: Marcos Sanchez 2’00)

Iizuna Fair (Japan 2021 Dir: Sumito Sakakibara 11’30)

Slow Light (Poland 2022 Dir: Katarzyna Kijek, Przemysław Adamski 10’55)

Airborne (Poland 2022 Dir: Andrzej Jobczyk 7’35)

Of Wood (USA 2022 Dir: Owen Klatte 7’00)

Your Mountain is Waiting (UK 2022 Dir: Hannah Jacobs 7’45)

Magnified City (Japan 2022 Dir: Isaku Kaneko 11’30)

My Father's Damn Camera! (Slovenia 2021 Dir: Milos Tomic 6’35)

Garisani (South Korea 2022 Dir: Jin Woo 7’40)

Dealing with War (Germany 2022 Dir: Andreas Hykade 1’25)

The Flying Sailor (Canada 2022 Dir: Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby 7’50)

The London International Animation Festival (LIAF 2022), the UK’s largest, longest-running and most eclectic animation festival returns for its 19th year with a mammoth 10-day celebratory feast of forums, screen talks and over 250 of the best recent, historical and retrospective animated shorts and features from around the world.