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I feel like there’s bees in my head 🤦🏽‍♀️Wait, there is a bee in my head! 🐝
A girl searches for a flower to sniff in the middle of a busy, noisy city. A bee brings her a flower as a gift, and we journey inside her head, following the pollen as it travels through her mind.

Come see the short film Cover Your Mouth When You Sneeze directed by Jiwoo Kim at the Alberta Indie Film Throwdown: Spooky Edition!

⏰: October 18, 2026 from 2 p.m. - 5 p.m.
📍: The Plaza Theatre, 1133 Kensington Rd NW, Calgary
🎟️: Free!!

Cover Your Mouth When You Sneeze will also be screening at the Festival of Independent Animation at the Globe Theatre in Mid-November!

See you there, if you dare 👻

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𝗚𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗚𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀
Sunday, October 18 at 4:00pm
Part of SERIES 3 @thecinematheque

🎟️ Ticket links in our bio!⁣
🌐 2026.SMALLFILE.CA

Be reborn through degrading pixels. Passing from the familiar to the unknown, this program will take you through the unclear limits of life, death, and rebirth. Curated by Alma F. Garcia Angeles.

Screening works by Adolfo Bermudez, Ximena Baeza, Tadeo Morales, Ian O’Neill, Daniel R. Smith, Mickey Neal, Jeffrey Liu, Jorge A.G. Moya D., Adam W George, Jiwoo Kim, and Jana Rankov⁣.

⁣The seventh annual Small File Media Festival takes place on Saturday, October 17 and Sunday, October 18 at @thecinematheque (1131 Howe St, Vancouver).⁣ All programs will also screen online on-demand at SMALLFILE.TV in glorious low-res between October 31-November 7, 2026.

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@adolfo.bdz @ximena.baezag @jtadeoamadeo @variopint0 @kodiak_sights_and_sounds @thenanoforest @wheresmickey.ca @fixert @adamwgeorge.creative @jiwoo.ookim

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Come show Alberta’s indie filmmakers some LOVEEE!

Oct 18
2-5pm
@theplazayyc
11 shorts
Filmmaker A&A
Networking
Costume contest 🧌👻🕷️

Tickets are FREE but they do sell out so lock yours down now with the link in our bio!!

Thanks to Patty the Pumpkin and @ptwcraig for the siiccckkk promo 😝 (both will be in attendance)!

#yycevents #calgaryevents #supportindiefilm #horrorfilms #scarymovies

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Premiering @jiwoo.ookim
bonkers GIRAF 22 Signal Film with sound created by @sean_more_like_bean

Jiwoo takes inspiration from her own reaction to late season allergies while reveling in the irritant creatures that may live inside our sinuses. Expel the snot with a giggle and prepare for GIRAF 22 - a celebration of independent animation, showcasing the best of what’s being created here in Canada and around the world.
From Nov 12 to the 15th, we will be highlighting the most astounding, inventive, beautiful, mind-altering and unexpected animated films out there!

🤧 🦒 GIRAF 22 is a little over a month away make sure to visit our EARLY BIRD tickets linked in the bio! 🐝 🦒

GIRAF proudly acknowledges our funders
@calgaryartsdev
@afa.1991
@canada.council
@telefilm_canada

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Sept 12
2:50 PM
Globe Cinema - 617 8 Ave SW
Free Entry!

Head over to the globe this Saturday to check out a stop motion animation showcase! 7 shorts from Soviet-era Estonia! And be the first to view the signal film for GIRAF 22 by @jiwoo.ookim

Doors: 2:50pm
Intros: 3:20pm
Screening & Live performance: 3:40pm - 5:00pm

Presented by @quickdrawyyc and curated by @eternalfamilytv with a live improvised score from @bugincision

Hosted by @yycbeltline

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Little preview from the GIRAF 22 Signal Film created by @jiwoo.ookim with sound by @sean_more_like_bean

Make sure to come early for the premiere of the GIRAF signal film Saturday Sept 12th at the Globe Cinema. This is a free screening and part of a curation of films in partnership with @eternalfamilytv @albertaculture and hosted by @yycbeltline

#sneezeface 🤧

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🚨 Venue and time change‼️

I don’t know if you looked BUT it’s September! Fall is upon us. Because of that we are moving this FREE event to our favourite @globecinema_yyc !!

👀 🆂🅲🅷🅴🅳🆄🅻🅴: 👀
2:50pm Doors
3:20pm Intros + GIRAF 22 Preview with @jiwoo.ookim and @sean_more_like_bean
3:40pm Live Performance
3:50pm Shorts
5:00pm End

This screening is hosted by @yycbeltline in partnership with @eternalfamilytv @bittymeg

This screening is FREE and open to the public as part of the @albertaculture

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Yipee yipee

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INTERNATIONAL ANIMATIONS

Homeynessless

dir. Neala Yakub

An animated documentary revealing the emotional landscape of home for international people.
Through the perspective of participants aged 5-50, the film navigates the fluidity of identity,
memory, and belonging across borders.

Little October

dir. Matas Pakutinskas

In Soviet-occupied Lithuania, two young pioneers – one a true believer, the other a skeptic – are promoted to serve on the legendary ‘Red Wall’. But as they journey through a decaying industrial nightmare, they uncover a horrifying truth: the Wall is built from living flesh. Faced with eternal torment, they make a desperate bid for freedom.

How to reclaim my own image

dir. Ruta Vizbaraite

Placed in a digital landscape, the narrator reflects her relationship with aesthetic images found online. Romance and nostalgia suddenly shifts as the main character (cursor) gazes into the horizon. Cursor anxiously enters the new era of image - full of digital colonizers, artificial uncertainty and cloned bodies.

Little Pecker

dir. Maisie Race

John values his work as a litter picker more than anything, but it’s not just a job - it’s his passion. In his spare time, he is a proud artist, creating sculptures with the litter he finds. Some may view John’s lifestyle as mundane, but he sees beauty in the little things.

A place too small for longing

dir. Balazs Janka Sara

The harmony of a childhood memory is disrupted. In a parallel
world, an ecosystem is dying.

Cowman

Dir. Jiwoo Kim

On a quiet farm, a farmer and his beloved cow encounter an alien abduction that sparks a series of strange transformations, blurring the line between the absurd and the unknown.

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🧺 QAS Members ANIMATOR PICNIC was a hit! 🐝

🌭 So awesome to get together, bask in the summer weather, talk about animation + future projects, pet a dog, slam a glizzy, and be a weenie 🔥🐶

Photos by @simonchanister @heckinweens and @von_hagler

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Hey, look at me! 📸 Justin just sent over these photos he took of us on film, and they turned out so perfect, thanks Justin @beamish.draws for capturing these candid moments!
Swipe to see me and my neighbor Ann @afu.arts just having fun and enjoying the moment while painting our barriers and Justing also help me paint a bit one of my barriers for the @yycbump - BUMP Road Works Program back in May 2026. 🚧✨ Painting with great neighbors makes the work feel like pure play!

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ANNOUNCING THE GIRAF 22 SIGNAL FILM ARTIST :
~ @jiwoo.ookim ~

After her wonderful premiere of COWMAN at GIRAF 21 we are beyond excited to have her create this years festival identity. Jiwoo brings surrealism, humour, weirdness, and technical craft through her artwork and storytelling. We cannot wait to see what she creates this year!! 🤧🦠🌷

👋 Hi! My name is Jiwoo Kim, and I am a Korean animator based in Calgary, Alberta. My animation work is surreal, playful, and a little unhinged. My artistic practice focuses on retelling everyday experiences and struggles in surreal and comical ways. For example, my debut film, COWMAN, tells the story of a farmer and his cow and their bizarre and dramatic transformation on an otherwise peaceful farm. Through my work, I aim to bring smiles to people’s faces and tell stories that make difficult situations feel a little more bearable.

Above all, I hope my films make people laugh, have fun, and feel seen. For GIRAF’s 22nd Signal Film, I will be creating something inspired by a relatable daily struggle of mine: allergies. Apparently, I sneeze really loudly, and my friends point it out all the time. I thought it would be fun to create something funny and relatable for the festival.

For the visual style, I am aiming for a mixed media approach. I love adding lots of texture to my films. As I did in COWMAN, I will animate in a 3D claymation inspired style, but I also plan to incorporate different animation techniques and mediums. By combining these styles, I hope to create something visually exciting and unique for GIRAF’s 22nd Signal Film. 🐛

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