W.I.P Labs presents
Features and short films from 8+ countries, made in sand, paint on glass, pencil, VR and 3D
The thought behind the festival.
Animation is not a genre for children or a product of big studios. It is a way of seeing. With it, filmmakers show what a camera cannot: memory, fear, desire, the inside of a family.
Sand on a lightbox, paint on glass, pencil on paper, a memory rebuilt in VR, a 3D feature made by one person from script to sound. We programme films where you can feel the hand and the time behind every frame.
These films are rarely shown in Indian cinemas. We want them on a big screen, in a small room, with people who stay to talk about them afterwards.
The festival is self-funded. Every film is screened with its maker's permission, and half of every ticket goes back to the filmmakers, shared equally.
Eighteen films by student animators from India screen in the same festival as award winners from Zagreb and features from Japan, China and Brazil.
Films from
Three evening features, international and Indian short films, and eighteen films by student animators. Every session is 18+.
Opening night · Fri 04 Dec · 7:30 PM
Xi Chen
The father had once been a violent man; his abuse drove two women out of his life, and he sank into alcoholism. After his son is badly injured, the son leaves home, and on the road he crosses paths with his father's former girlfriends.
Made entirely by one artist, from script and design to animation, sound and rendering.
3D computer animation
Content advisory: Domestic violence, alcohol abuse, injury
Evening feature · day announced soon
Kenji Iwaisawa
Having no skill, money, or even a full set of drums, three high-school delinquents form a rock 'n' roll band to impress their only friend, avoid a rival gang, and jam out.
Hand-drawn and rotoscoped animation
Evening feature · day announced soon
Ducca Rios
A moving story about the hypocrisy and horrors of the Brazilian military dictatorship, seen through the eyes of a child.
Animation
Sam Kuwa
The boy takes the knife his father once gave him. Did what followed make him a "man"?
Best Student Film, Dušan Vukotić Award, Animafest Zagreb 2026.
2D analog, VR, rotoscope, sand, paint on glass
Naomi van Niekerk
A young woman recalls a day when she was attacked by three men on her way home, but everyday life must go on.
Sand animation
Advisory: Sexual assault
Stella Chen
Maxed out, burnt out and sex-starved, Amber Su falls under the spell of a glamorous self-help guru whose mentorship turns desire and ambition into different kinds of debt.
Animation
Govinda Sao
A rural family of four faces challenges as the parents prepare dinner after a joyful day. An argument unfolds in front of their children.
Jignesh Chavda
The realities of the caste system, drawn from the filmmaker's own childhood in Sindhaj, a small village in Gujarat.
Debopom Chakraborty
Short films in the afternoons, a feature every evening, opening with Girlfriends Of Father on Friday 4 December at 7:30 PM.
Full schedule out soon.
Timings will be posted here and on Instagram, @wip_labs.
Early bird prices. Student passes need a valid college or university ID at entry. Door tickets only if seats remain.
Every session, all three days.
₹2,999
Early bird
Every session, all three days. Valid student ID at entry.
₹1,999
Early bird
Book your pass. Seats are limited and seating is unreserved.
The people who chose the films.
Festival curator
Kirti is Founding and Managing Partner, and Executive Director of W.I.P Labs, where she leads the collective's festivals and programmes. She conceived Moving Otherwise and curated its features and international programme.
Curator, Indian and student films
Jignesh is an animator and filmmaker from Sindhaj, Gujarat. His film What's Your Caste? (Tame Keva?) draws on growing up in the village. For Moving Otherwise he selected the Indian short films and the student programme.
Curator's note
When we started looking for films, we kept finding the same thing: some of the most daring cinema being made today is animated, and almost none of it reaches a screen in Delhi.
Moving Otherwise is our attempt to change that, in a small way and in our own room. The films we chose move in ways live action cannot. A son walks away from his father's violence through a world one artist built alone. A memory is re-entered in VR and painted over. A day that should never have happened is told in sand, grain by grain.
We put these films next to work by students from across India, because the question they ask is the same: what can a moving image hold? Come with an open mind, and stay for the conversation after.
Produced by
W.I.P Labs is an artist-run collective and creative studio based in New Delhi. Since 2023 it has produced festivals, concerts, screenings, productions and learning programmes across music, sound, film and performance, including W.I.P altFEST and the PORTALS series at the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan.
More than 500 shows and concerts, 70+ screenings and 5 festivals so far. Moving Otherwise is its first animation film festival.
The venue
W.I.P aDDa is W.I.P Labs' studio in Lado Sarai, an alternative arts space for critical work that opens up for screenings, listening sessions, workshops and performances. For three days in December, its basement becomes a small cinema.
Visit
Anything else: write to info@wipcollective.in
An animation film festival by W.I.P Labs. Three days of animated features and short films from India, China, Japan, France, the Netherlands, South Africa, Brazil and the USA.
Anyone with a valid college or university student ID, shown at entry. Without one, you pay the difference to the general price.
Yes, if seats remain. Seats are limited, so we recommend booking ahead.
Tickets are non-refundable, but you can transfer your ticket to someone else by emailing us your booking details at least 24 hours before the session. If we cancel a screening, you get a full refund.
No. Seating is unreserved, first come, first seated.
No. All sessions are 18+, and some films carry content advisories.
Some films have no dialogue. The others play in their original languages with English subtitles.
Pass holders can re-enter between sessions with their wristband. Single-ticket holders can re-enter during the same session only.
The filmmakers will not attend in person, but some may join us online for a Q&A. We will announce these on Instagram, @wip_labs.
W.I.P aDDa is an alternative arts space. The screening room is in the basement, down one flight of stairs, and there is no lift. If you need help with access, write to us before your visit and we will do our best to help.
No. There is no food, bar or cloakroom at the venue, and food and drinks are not allowed inside the screening room.
Not during the films: they are screened with their makers' permission for this festival only. Photos in the foyer and during Q&As are welcome; tag @wip_labs.