About Best of Ottawa

Each year, The Ottawa International Animation Festival curates a selection of short films, both award winners and audience favorites, for our Best of Ottawa Program. The Best of Ottawa Program highlights achievements in the art of animation and represents the myriad of styles, techniques, and perspectives that animation is uniquely capable of realizing. 

Organize a screening at your school, theatre, or community space! Best of Ottawa works on a tiered pricing model to make it more feasible for small arts organizations while still ensuring that filmmakers are paid.

Small Organizations: $100 CAD

Medium to Large Organizations: $300 CAD

Both in-person and virtual screenings can be arranged, however not all films are available for virtual screenings. A DCP screening file can be provided for an additional transfer fee.

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Best of Ottawa 2024 Program

 

Title Duration
OIAF 2024 Signal Film 00:43
Percebes 11:30
Carrotica 13:04
Gina Kamentsky’s Pinocchio in 70mm 03:12
Martyr’s Guidebook 08:50
In the Shallows  04:18
I Died in Irpin  11:28
Corridor ‘Jump Cut’ 03:54
La Voix des Sirènes 19:53
you’ve got a friend in me 02:12
TOTAL 01:18:21

OIAF 2024 Signal Film

Lei Lei

00:43 | Canada

Lei Lei’s Signal Film features a young girl traveling across the city to catch an owl, having amazing experiences along the way. The cinema is where she finally ends her journey.

Percebes

Alexandra Ramires & Laura Gonçalves

11:30 | Portugal, France

Craft Award for Best Design

With the sea and the urban Algarve as a background, we follow a complete cycle of the life of  a special shellfish called PERCEBES, goose barnacle.

*Note: Percebes is only available for in-person screenings.

Carrotica

Daniel Sterlin-Altman

13:04 | Germany

Wacom Public Prize

 

A teenage boy is writing an explicit gay erotica in secret in his bedroom and his mother is falling in love with a carrot. They’re doing okay…

Gina Kamentsky’s Pinocchio in 70mm

Gina Kamentsky

03:12 | USA

 

 

Pinocchio felt a longing deep within him. Someday, he would become a real girl and live a life beyond the confines of make-believe.

Martyr’s Guidebook

Maks Rzontkowski 

08:50 | Poland

Bento Box Award for Best Student Animation

 

Tony is the ultimate good guy, sometimes to a fault. From nabbing the smallest slice of cake in grade school to guiding lost strangers in the city, his kindness knows no bounds. He also lives with an angel.

In the Shallows

Arash Akhgari

04:18 | Canada

DGC Award for Best Canadian Animation

 

A deep dive into the shallow and fragmented world of news, entertainment and ads, where we can easily drown in the dangerous allure of mass media intoxication.

I Died in Irpin

Anastasiia Falileieva

11:28 | Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine

Craft Award for Best Script

 

I survived escaping Irpin but I feel like I’ve never really left.

Corridor ‘Jump Cut’

Winston Hacking

03:54 | Canada

Best Commissioned Animation
Honourable Mention: DGC Award for Best Canadian Animation

 

Our video reflects the song’s theme of grappling with the overwhelming influence of technology and feeling adrift in its wake.

La Voix des Sirènes 

Gianluigi Toccafondo

19:53 | France, Italy

Grand Prize for Short Animation

 

In the heart of the seabed, between rocks and corals primitive seaweed ripples, cradled by the muffled sound of roiling currents. Up there, on the surface of the water, something extraordinary has just appeared: a voice so soft… and seductive.

you’ve got a friend in me

Peter Millard

02:12 | United Kingdom

Best Non-Narrative Short Animation

 

“Boy, and as the years go by
Our friendship will never die
You’re gonna see it’s our destiny
You’ve got a friend in me”

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