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Who Is The Zookeeper

Masha Vasilkovsky, Ruah Edelstein and Jinghan Zhang
United States, 2024, 13 min.


AIFF Award Winner:
Best Animated Short

A young soul named Lu ventures into a world of shadows reflecting a weakened state of humanity. There Lu struggles to find grounding in memories of a familiar universe governed by kindness. Despair is crushing. The escape is behind the mirror.

Category: Animation, Award Winner.

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