The Package

A man with OCD lives his life in a thoroughly ordered, antiseptic manner.  Everything is just how he needs it and as such he keeps his anxiety down to a minimum.  Although he hasn’t stepped outside his door for quite a while everything he needs is delivered to him.  Then one day the delivery man brings and unexpected package…

This is a very sweet animated short with, what you might imagine, a not very promising premise. Yet directors Vitaly Magdalits and  Daria Simkin have  produced a very human and heart-warming story here.  True, there is of course an element of having to suspend your disbelief but this is animation – that goes with the territory!

The Package

This is amazing. Set in near-future Los Angeles it tells the story of a stake out. Yes, you have probably seen a million stake out movies before, but stay with it - this short film (which clocks in at under ten minutes in legnth) is not quite like any of those others you have seen.

It looks as if the cops have the upper hand - their technology is, it seems, everything they need to track the delivery of a mysterious (but no doubt illegal package) and to arrest the traffickers.

Or so they think. 

A huge thumbs up to diretcor Calder Greenwood and everyone else involved in this taut thriller.