Clear your mind and set aside eight minutes to get lost in La Diplomatie de L’éclipse, the lyrical, thoughtful, and impossibly resplendent short from five fifth-year animation students at Ecole MoPA in Arles, France.

Played out in a series of dream-like settings that straddle surreality and magic realism, the film follows a diplomat sent by The World Council to negotiate with the Sun and Moon after learning humanity will vanish when the two align in a total eclipse.
 
 

 
School: Ecole MoPA
Director/animator: Clémence Bailly, Sélim Lallaoui, César Luton, Axel Mechin, Achille Pasquier

Music: Titouan Gramain
Sound design: Pierre Duchesne-Bénéteau
VO: Nathaniel Williams