2021 Oscar Nominated Short Animation Films

The misture of noimees this year is really all over the board and only one of them is really 100% suitable for children. My choice for the winner is If Anything Happens I Love You. It is a pictoral representation on the grief that runs through a house when there is a school shooting and a child dies. The parents are separated by their grief and it is hard for them to be a team, to refind their relationship once something so senseless and completely American tears them apart. In this they have no other children, but imagine trying to parent the surviving siblings. It is just unbearable. My second choice in this category is Erich Oh's pachinko machine like representation of how the rich get richer and the poor do all the work. It is breathlessly beautiful and grim at the same time. Burrows is the only kid friendly where a rabbit burrows through the earth in search of a home of her own, only to find that neighbors are where it is at. Yes People is an Icelandic film featuring an eclectic collection of inhabitants in an apartment buildings and the events they are intertwined with throughout the day. Sounds benigh enough, but warning, not for kids. The category is rounded out by Genius Loci, a brightly colored panopy of an LSD inspired dream, with a woman floating through secen after scene.