Sea Slug Animation Festival

Sea Slug Animation Festival

Opens March 7, 2025

Presented by Sea Slug Animation Festival.

A new film festival in Seattle celebrating the ingenuity, creativity, and weirdness of independent animation for adults. Sea Slug's Larval Edition includes two features, two shorts blocks, an artist alley, and mixers.

PASSES: $40 | $20 Student Price
Pass provides access to all screenings

INDIVIDUAL TICKETS: Select showtimes on film detail pages to purchase.

SIFF year-round passes and vouchers are not valid for this event.

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Your Pacific Northwest hub for independent animation!

Sea Slug Animation Festival is a film festival in Seattle celebrating the ingenuity, creativity, and weirdness of independent animation for adults.

Sea Slug showcases all animation forms and mediums, with a special emphasis on film. We strive to empower animators and animation fans local to British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and parts of NorCal to form personal and professional connections around animation, and to take pride in the talent right here in this neck of the woods.

Enjoy Sea Slug's "Larval Edition" mini-festival, including two shorts programs, a new feature, a retrospective feature, an artist alley, and chances to meet up with animators and animation fans alike.

Visit seasluganimation.com for full details about the event.

Opening Spotlight: Boys Go to Jupiter & Miisufy

USA | 2024 | 101 min. | Julian Glander

March 7, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Kick off the festival with Miisufy, a Tamagotchi-inspired short, and the Seattle premiere of Boys Go to Jupiter, a dreamy new feature made entirely in Blender that stars Julio Torres, Cole Escola, Sarah Sherman, and more.

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Shorts I: Everything Animated All at Once!

76 min.

March 8, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Come alive in 2D, stop-motion, strata-cut and more with these 11 mind-bogglingly colorful tales of life animated.

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Shorts II: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

86 min.

March 8, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Plunge into an alternate state of mind with these 10 bizarre and otherworldly shorts.

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Closing Retrospective: Allegro non troppo & Gina Kamentsky's Pinocchio in 70mm

Italy | 1977 | 88 min. | Bruno Bozzetto

March 8, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Close out the festival with Gina Kamentsky's explosive analog short about Pinocchio's greatest wish, and Allegro non troppo—a raunchy and rarely seen spoof of Disney's Fantasia. Co-presented by Unstreamable.

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