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Leave the Island
Animation
Honorable Mention • 2026
11 min
Taiwan and London, UK
A boy lives on an island that floats through the sky — a flying whale that is also his home. When an accident causes the whale to falter and fall, the boy begins a journey through memory and imagination, searching for what might remain when parting becomes inevitable.