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FUSE
"Fuse" is a hand drawn, animated short film by Shadi Adib, based on a short story by Sadeq Chubak. The Film ran for competition in over 150 renowned festivals around the world and has received several awards.
A mousetrap snaps shut, a market place awakens. A group of men heatedly discuss how to kill the animal in the little box. One after the other, they try to trump each other’s sadistic fantasies, and even a stranger’s suggestion to let the creature loose, turns out to be a sick manipulation. But as the macabre game unfolds and spirals out of control, both victim and tormentor suffer the same fate.
Starring Nick Cave, Jimmy Hibbert, David Bennett, Andreas Hykade, Shaun Lawton

Online Premiere 2020/08/01
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Festivals
AWARDS
Doc Sunback Film Festival 2019 - Winner
Animadeba 2019 - Winner New Filmmakers
Florida Animation Festival 2019 - 1st Place Student Frame by Frame
Florida Animation Festival 2019 - Honorable Mention Frame by Frame
New Jersey International Film Festival 2019 - Winner Best Animation
6th Fantastic And Terror Festival in Tàrrega 2019 - Galacticat: Millor Curtmetratag D’ Animació 
Film Fest Dresden 2019: Goldener Reiter der Jugendjury - Nationaler Wettbewerb
Chilemonos 2019: Winner of competition of animated short films of international schools
Watersprite International Student Film Festival 2019: Winner Animation
Cinemì Cinemà 10th Edition: Winner of Animation Short Film Under 30 
Deutsche Film- und Medienbewertung. FBW 2018: Prädikat besonders wertvoll 
Bucheon International Animation Festival-BIAF 2018: Best Graduation Film

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
Tampere Film Festival - Finland - 2018
ITFS Stuttgart Animation Festival - Germany - 2018
Animafest Zagreb Animation Festival - Croatia - 2018
Annecy Animation Film Festival - France - 2018
Fest Anca Animation Festival, Zilina - Slovakia - 2018
Galway Film Fleadh - Ireland - 2018
Supertoon Animation Festival, Šibenik - Croatia - 2018
Anibar Animation Festival, Peja - Kosovo - 2018
Imagaria Animation Festival, Conversano - Italy - 2018
Animanima, Cacak - Serbia - 2018
LINOLEUM Animation Festival, Kiev - Ukraine - 2018
FAB Festival of Animation Berlin - Germany - 2018
World Festival of Animated Film, Varna - Bulgaria - 2018
Viborg Animation Festival - Denmark - 2018
AnimaSyros Animation Festival - Greece - 2018
Lund Fantastisk Film Festival - Sweden - 2018
Anim’est Festival, Bucharest - Romania - 2018
Tofuzi Animation Festival, Batumi - Georgia - 2018
Timishort Film Festival - Romania - 2018
Klik! Amsterdam Animation Festival - Netherlands - 2018
TIAF Taichung Animation Festival - Taiwan - 2018
Nice Film Festival C'est Trop Court - France - 2018
New Orleans Film Festival - USA - 2018
BIAF Bucheon Animation Festival - Korea - 2018
Cartoons Underground - Singapore - 2018
Multivision Animation Festival - Russia - 2018
Epic ACG Fest - USA - 2018
Kuandu Animation Festival (KDIAF) - Taiwan - 2018
San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival - Spain - 2018
Denver Film Festival - USA - 2018
CutOut Animation Festival - Mexico - 2018
Gdansk Animation Film Festival - Poland - 2018
Alcine Film Festival - Spain - 2018
Reggio Film Festival - Italy - 2018
Cinanima - Portugal - 2018
Festival Etiuda&Anima - Poland - 2018
Les Sommets du cinema d’animation - Canada - 2018
Anchorage Film Festival - USA - 2018
Animateka - Slovenia - 2018
Bamberger Kurzfilmtage - Germany - 2019
Void Animation Festival, Copenhagen - Denmark - 2019
Oxford Film Festival - USA - 2019
Animayovka Festival - Belarus - 2019
Cairo International Animation Forum - Egypt - 2019
Animac, Lleida - Spain - 2019
Tehran International Animation Festival - Iran - 2019
Omaha Film Festival - USA - 2019
Cinécran - Rencontres du cinéma européen, Vannes - France - 2019
Watersprite International Student Film Festival, Cambridge - UK - 2019
Tokyo Anime Festival - Japan - 2019
Kontrast Bayreuther Filmfest - Germany - 2019
REGARD Short Film Festival Saguenay - Canada - 2019
Athens Animfest - Greece - 2019
Ca’ Foscari Short Film Festival, Venice - Italy - 2019
Monstra Animation Festival, Lisbon - Portugal - 2019
Animation Dingle, Kilkenny - Ireland - 2019
Festival du Film de Fontenay-le-Comte - France - 2019
Underexposed Film Festival yc, Rock Hill - USA - 2019
Trinationales Filmfestival am Oberrhein - Germany - 2019
Go Short, Nijmegen - Netherlands - 2019
SHORTS Trinationales Filmfestival Offenburg - Germany - 2019
Skepto International Film Festival, Caligari - Italy - 2019
ClujShorts - Romania - 2019
Animocje Animtion Festival, Bydgoszcz - Poland - 2019
Filmfest Dresden - Germany - 2019
Arizona International Film Festival - USA - 2019
Cinemicinemà Short Festival, Arezzo - Italy - 2019
Blon Animtion & Games Festival, Klaipėda - Lithuania - 2019
Capital City Film Festival - USA - 2019
Dallas Film Festival - USA - 2019
Dead by Dawn Scotland's International Horror Film Festival, Edinburgh - UK - 2019
Sehsüchte Student Film Festival, Potsdam - Germany - 2019
Brussels Short Film Festival - Belgium - 2019
Animex Awards, Middlesbrough - UK - 2019
Twister Alley Film Festival, Woodward - USA - 2019
Galacticat Fantastic Film Festival, Tarrega - Spain - 2019
Anifilm, Trebon - Czech Republic - 2019
Chilemonos Festival - Chile - 2019
LISFE Leiden Short Film Experience - Netherlands - 2019
Fantaspoa Film Festival, Porto Alegre - Brazil - 2019
New Jersey International Film Festival, New Brunswick - USA - 2019
Doc Sunback Film Festival - USA - 2019
Florida Animation Festival - USA - 2019
Nahal International Student Film Festival - Iran - 2019
Animación Animadeba, Deba - Spain - 2019
Euganea Film Festival, Padua - Italy - 2019
Open World Animation Festival, Allentown - USA - 2019
Animation Volda - Norway - 2019
Cartoon Club, Rimini - Italy - 2019
Insomnia Animation Festival, Moscow - Russia - 2019
Frozen Film Festival, San Francisco - USA - 2019
Elche Independent Film Festival, Alicante - Spain - 2019
Alpinale Short Film Festival, Dornbirn - Austria - 2019
La Guarimba Short Film Festival, Amantea - Italy - 2019
HollyShorts Film Festival, LA - USA - 2019
Bengaluru International Short Film Festival - India - 2019
We Like ‘Em Short Film Festival, Baker City - USA - 2019
Lviv Short Film Festival Wiz-Art - Ukraine - 2019
Macabro Horror Film Festival, Mexico City  - Mexico - 2019
307 Film Festival, Laramie - USA - 2019
NFMLA New Filmmakers Los Angeles - USA - 2019
Warsaw Animation Festival - Poland - 2019
Carton Animation Festival, Buenos Aires - Argentina - 2019
Cinequest Film Festival, Provo - USA - 2019
Quebec City Film Festival - Canada - 2019
/slash Film Festival, Vienna - Austria - 2019
Bit Bang Animation Festival, Buenos Aires - Argentina - 2019
Gig Harbor Film Festival - USA - 2019
Animario - Spain - 2019
World of Film Festival Glasgow - UK - 2019
Santa Cruz Film Festival - USA - 2019
Festival de Cine de Madrid - Spain - 2019
Thessaloniki Animation Festival - Greece - 2019
Chaniartoon Animation Festival, Chania - Greece - 2019
Rennes Fantastic Short Film Festival - France - 2019
TOHorror Film Fest, Torino - Italy - 2019
Santa Fe Independent Film Festival - USA - 2019
Sapporo Short Film Festival - Japan - 2019
Kerry International Film Festival - Ireland - 2019
Filmets Badalona Film Festival - Spain - 2019
Celtic Animation Film Festival, Liverpool - UK - 2019
Contact - International Student Film Festival, Izmir - Turkey - 2019
TOHorror Film Festival, Torino - Italy - 2019
CRAFT Animation Festival, Yogyakarta - Indonesia - 2019
St. Cloud Film Festival - USA - 2019
Norwich Film Festival - UK - 2019
Ax Wound Film Festival, Brattleboro - USA - 2019
Flensburger Kurzfilmtage - Germany - 2019
DukaFest Student Film Festival, Banja Luka - Bosnia and Herzegovina - 2019
Poitiers Film Festival - France - 2019
Palm Springs Animation Festival - USA - 2019
Filmkreis shorts, Darmstadt - Germany - 2020
CineClass Student Film Festival, Paris - France - 2020
Ivy Film Festival, Providence - USA - 2020
Bastalavista Genre Film Festival, Hannover - Germany - 2020
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