A full short of short animated movie 'Weekends' that fantastically depicts the shaking feeling of a boy who crosses the divorced father and mother's house for free is being released

" Weekends " is a short animated film directed by Trevor Jimenez who has been making animation for more than 10 years at Pixar · Animation · Studio and Studio such as Walt Disney · Animation · Studio . This work fantastically depicting the warmth of hand-drawn animation and the mind of an unsteady boy is screened at the " Short List Film Festival " held in Los Angeles, and the full length of about 15 minutes is displayed on August 22, 2018 It is available for free for a limited period of time.

A trailer movie of about 1 minute has also been released, so if you look at the following, you can see what kind of work "Weekends" is.

Weekends (Trailer)


The trailer of "Weekends" begins with a fantastic scene in which a T - shirt fly as if a cloud breaks in the sky as if it were torn.

From the bedroom where the protagonist's boy sleeps, you can see the night city through a window glass, and a model of a horse is placed facing the windowpane.

The boy got up from the bed with a muffle whether she felt asleep or not.

It is a strange Western-style room where Kozaki and a neck are long model of birds, Japanese swords and others are decorated, and the main character is spending time with two fathers. My father is playing a TV game wearing a gown, the hero wears 3D glasses and is watching TV screen.

Apparently my father seems to be very wealthy. The boy distracted his eyes from the screen and gazed at the camera.

"Weekends" is set in Toronto in the 1980s. My father's house is near Chinatown ... ...

The boy and his father seem to be coming to this town from a black passenger car from somewhere.

Two people eat together in Chinatown.

The boy has a sword and wears a Japanese sword and leaves him alone. The boy seems to be having fun, but I do not feel the mother's sign.

Japanese swords are too heavy, it seems that they are too much in the hands of boys.

Father and boys headed to the car ... ...

A house in the suburbs where mothers and boys live. The boy 's father and mother are divorced, and the boy lives with his mother during the weekday. On Friday my father comes to pick up a boy and heads to an urban building where my father lives, and on Sunday my father lives a life to send a boy to his mother.

Fathers and mothers seem almost like death from divorce, and when we pick up a boy, we do not talk to each other as we approach each other.

In "Weekends", a fantastic sight in a dream is often drawn as if to describe a boy's mental scenery.

Good relationship between mother and boy ......

There are some smart scenes such as a boy joking at a newspaper rounded up by a mother.

Raccoon that appears in the garden of the house where she lives with her mother ......

It is a favorite of a boy.

However, the mother has a new boyfriend, and he often comes to the house where the hero and mother live.

The face of a new boyfriend is hardly drawn from the mouth to the top. The mother seemed to forgive her lover, and without disturbing herself even before the hero, she reclined to the lover's shoulder.

The hero who plays by himself looks at the state of these two people.

The mother's boyfriend seems to seem strange and scary and hero ... ...

It appears as an eerie and threatening existence in the hero's dream.

When the weekend ends, the hero spends with his father ......

Every Sunday comes back to the suburban house where the mother waits. How are discontinuous lives of fathers and mothers handled in boys among them?

In the dream, the boy looks down on the horse and the town before dawn.

"Weekends" became a short film that sports hand-drawn animation and calm background music, with the family who decomposed for the sake of parents' circumstances, in a slowly changing environment while the boy is puzzled while living.

"Weekends" are screened at "ShortList Film Festival" to be held in Los Angeles from 8th to 22nd August 2018. On the official website, the full length of about 15 minutes is limited only for the period of August 22, 2018 Since it is published in, please be sure to check it if you are interested.

Weekends - The ShortList The Wrap's Short Film Festival