How The Bird’s Placebo Brought Tunisian Animation to Sundance | Rami Jarboui Interview

At Sundance, animation isn’t just spectacle, it’s language. And few films in the Animated Shorts program speak as poetically as The Bird’s Placebo, a surreal and deeply human short from Tunisian animator and filmmaker Rami Jarboui.

In The Chimney Sweeper, filmmaker Jack Raese offers an intimate portrait of tradition and craftsmanship, following a family trade passed down through generations in his Sundance documentary debut.

In Mangittatuarjuk The Gnawer of Rocks, animation director Evan DeRushie reflects on stop motion as a form of cultural stewardship, translating Inuit oral tradition into a tactile and atmospheric Sundance animated short.