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Join us for a free online short film screening that explores human-animal connections around the world.
Animalian | Adjective: Of the kingdom Animalia, which includes humans.
Step into a world where the bridge between animals and humans is crossed in unusual and surprising ways. These short-but-perfectly-formed docs take us on a journey from the ancient Turkish city of Kars to the picturesque Italian countryside of Monesiglio, the rock of Gibraltar to the Mongolian Steppe – as we witness how people in these unique places interact with their animal friends.
Programme details
Stray in Kars | Turkey, USA | 9 mins | 2022 | dir. Elizabeth Lo
Discover what the ancient Turkish city of Kars looks like from the perspective of its stray dogs.
Territory | UK | 17 mins | 2015 | dir. Eleanor Mortimer
The rock of Gibraltar is shared between two primate species: people and monkeys. The monkeys populated the upper rock long before the latest human inhabitants, the British, arrived, and now, 300 years on, there are tensions between the two. Attempts to expel the monkeys from the town with peashooters are in vain, as the animals rise to the challenges of the new game. This leads the government to resort to more drastic tactics.
The Goats of Monesiglio | Canada, Italy | 25 mins | 2023 | dir. Emily Graves
An immigrant family and Italian-born family work on a goat farm to make it a success and demonstrate the new face of Italian agriculture.
White Grass | Mongolia | 16mins | 2023 | dir. Justin Kim WooSǒk
In Mongolia, Munkhjargal dreams of following in her father’s footsteps as a horse trainer. However, her entire way of life is threatened by the extreme and unrelenting cold known as dzuds.
This screening was made accessible for free with a donation option where 100% of the income was given to the filmmakers.
HOW TO WATCH: The screening was available on our custom-built streaming site to watch from 22/12/25 10:00 GMT until 05/01/26 23:30 GMT. Only available to watch in the UK.