Sophie Colfer

"The film should resonate differently depending on your own connection to the images, your own memories. However, our intention is that Telsche’s journey from isolation to connection will feel universal: although our individual experiences of love and loss may differ, the emotions themselves are shared by us all." Set on a surreal plain of salt flats, Telsche is an abstract short film that explores memory and loss, as one girl attempts to remember someone who she has forgotten. Telsche Dir. Sophie Colfer + Ala Nunu ▶️ Watch Now 🔗 Link in Bio "What makes Telsche so striking is just how much care and precision sits behind its apparent simplicity. This is anything but effortless. Every scene carries the weight of countless hours of animating frame by frame, of trial and error and a good helping of raw talent, and you can feel it in the way the animation moves and breathes." - S/W Curator, @serafimovaserafima CREDITS: @sphancy @ala_nunu @miko_blonski @brunocaetanoanimation @cola_anima

IN THE BEGINNING is a silly film and you can swipe to learn more about it Written by Ala Nunu and Sophie Colfer @sphancy Inspired by true events Producers: Bruno Caetano @brunocaetanoanimation Bruno Simões Carlota Pou Marcin Podolec Production coordinators: Michał Benkes Inês Peres Mesquita Wiktoria Podolec Production assistant: Alice do Carmo @delirium_in_motion Art director, character designer, animation director: Ala Nunu Animation: Guilherme Bosco @guil.bosco Laura Equi @laura__equi Karolina Kajetanowicz @kojton Adrianna Matwiejczuk @ada_1.jpg Tiago Miguel @_tiago._.miguel_ Ala Nunu Cristina Pîrvu @christina.pirvu Barbara Wasielewska Replacement Animation: Carina Pierro Corso @carinacorso Cut Out Animation: Matei Monoranu @minotauro__ Clean Up and Painting: Marc Anguera @anguera.suazo Patrycja Ćmak paticmak Paulo Júnior Karolina Kajetanowicz Adrianna Matwiejczuk Mónica Marinho @monicamarinhoart Lunes Molner @lunesmolner Barbara Wasielewska Additional animation: Olga Kłyszewicz Marcin Podolec Kacper Zamarło Editing: Ala Nunu Editing Supervisor: Sophie Colfer Sound Designer, Foley Artist, Composer, Pre-Mix Engineer: Gadea @gadea_____ Singer: Marina Herlop @marinaherlop Voice cast: EN: Sophie Colfer James Morley @jamestmorley Ala Nunu Olly Scanlon @ollyscanlon PT: Vitor Hugo Barros @vt_barros Catarina Chora @catarina_chora Vier Nev @viernev Ana Iutes @anaiutes Catalan: Diana Sánchez Donoso Lunes Molner Joan Tomàs Monfort Sound mixing: Dani Zacarías Sound Mixing Studios: Insync Studio TransPerfect Inclusive Subtitles & Audio Description: Bandaparte Compositing Supervisor: Ala Nunu Color Grading: Andreia Bertini @andreia.bertini Title Design and Graphic Design: Estudi Bicoté @estudibicote (Júlia Francino, Maialen Arana) DCP: Antaviana Films Production Accountant: António Selas Accountancy: Capitalges GATSA Produced by COLA Animation Co-produced by Studio Kimchi, Yellow Tapir Films EC1 Łódź – City of Culture, Lodz Creates, Lodz City of Film Financial support: Républica Portuguesa Cultura ICA @institutodocinemaeaudiovisual ICAA @cineicaa ICEC

The soul takes flight when we create space to unplug, and choose to live in the moment. This is a first peek at our work for @yourattentionplease_film . Directed by @saraxrobin and written & edited by @jack.lemay . A @vagrants.tv Originals Production, presented by @_humanchange , with animation by @cola_anima . @yourattentionplease_film will be premiering at @sxsw this March alongside another short animated film by the @cola_anima team: @ala_nunu ‘s ‘In the Beginning’. Animation Credits Director @sphancy Art Director @ala_nunu Animation @pierog.animation @crickitt_ @ala_nunu @anaiutes Additional Animation and Clean Up @sphancy @felogladanie @offensiveburrito @adr1an_krzyc4 @crankyneon_ @cata.reis @minotauro_ @tiago._.miguel_ @b1nstock Compositing @ala_nunu Producer @sphancy Production Consultant @brunocaetanoanimation Animation Produced by @cola_anima Production Accountant Antonio Selas

Telsche is a 2D animated short that feels like a fading memory. Directors @sphancy and @ala_nunu use a stark palette of blue, black, and white to follow a girl’s surreal descent into a void to reconnect with her mother. 🌊🌑✨ With no dialogue, the film uses visual poetry to explore the quiet, lingering nature of grief. Vast salt flats and deep underground tunnels mirror the fragility of memory, trusting the viewer to feel their way through the emptiness. It’s an immersive, award-winning look at loss that doesn’t need words to break your heart. Read the full feature on this experimental masterpiece at thegreatscape.com #Telsche #IndieAnimation #AnnecyFestival #ShortFilm #TheGreatscape VisualStorytelling 2DAnimation Grief

“My mother was a Japanese diver and my father an English sailor. One of my earliest memories with my mother was of watching pearl divers in Japan. They would dip and descend in their white uniforms, without tanks of air, and collect pearls from the depths. For centuries, these divers have scoured the same seas. The sea remains unchanged, while human lives come and go. The sea in Telsche reflects this as the site of memory that allows the character Telsche to connect with her mother, a lost diver.” - Sophie Colfer, director with Ala Nunu of #Telsche 🌊 Set on a stark salt-flat landscape and rendered in just three colors, Sophie Colfer and Ala Nunu’s 2D short follows a young girl’s search for a mother she can no longer fully remember, using stripped-down visuals without dialogue to explore how memory fades and returns. Now available to watch on YouTube! Read the full interview from @victoriadavisd on AWN.com! #colaanimation #awn #animationworld #animatedshort

Following the online release of @sphancy and @ala_nunu ’s short film Telsche on @shortoftheweek last Friday, here’s a look at some making of material! Set on a surreal plain of salt flats, Telsche is a 2D animated abstract short film that explores memory and loss, as one girl attempts to remember someone who she has forgotten. These concepts of memory and forgetting permeate the entire film, reflected visually in the contrast between light and dark and in the choice of still, wide shots, wherein the subjects are barely visible, on the verge of being seen but as of yet unremembered. There is also no dialogue and much is obscured, suggesting the fog of forgetting. The Mother’s face is covered by her white diver’s headscarf and goggles. Her white clothes sink into the white of her surroundings. The shadows in the salt house, the lack of light, and the salt fog all shroud identities and surroundings and truth. Initially, we experimented a lot with painting all of our backgrounds, with the intention to infuse the texture of salt into the film. However, we ultimately settled on the clean 2D digital style to best emphasise the stark contrasts of the world that Telsche inhabits, although the stone face — as an element not of her world — still remains rendered in paint. Swipe for texture and style tests, early concept art, unseen footage, and character designs! Catch Telsche online on @shortoftheweek or via link in bio, and for Berlin friends, the film is showing at @pictoplasma in May. /2026/03/27/telsche/ Thanks to 💙 @brunocaetanoanimation @miko_blonski @anaiutes @jakkaczmarek @agissyo @viernev @namigu_

TWO very important announcements: 1) on the 27th Telsche is going to be released online!!!!!!! Thank you @shortoftheweek ♡ stay tuned 🔥✨️ 2) BOTH Telsche and In the Beginning ARE GOING TO @pictoplasma !!! This is particularly special news for us, because Pictoplasma is where @sphancy and I met in 2018 :'))) I will be there, let's hang ♡ Sophie unfortunately is staying in HK, enough travels and jetlags for her after @sxsw

Tacos and tardigrades at @sxsw ‘26 with the world premieres for @ala_nunu ‘s ‘In the Beginning’ and @saraxrobin & @jack.lemay ‘s @yourattentionplease_film ✨🤠🌮 Film snaps by @sphancy featuring our beloved Alamo Drafthouse and the setlist for the Film & TV Opening Party.

Real change does not start with a headline. It starts with people. Tonight, organizations, advocates, and filmmakers are releasing the trailer for the @sxsw documentary Your Attention Please @yourattentionplease_film at the same moment. Stand for Their Attention reflects the growing network of researchers, educators, parents, clinicians, and advocates working to protect human attention in a digital world. We are standing together for a healthier digital future. Watch the trailer. Explore resources from participating voices. Take action where you can. Big thanks to the @vagrants.tv team for trusting us to bring these important stories to life, as well as to the entire animation team for all of their beautiful work on this film. We hope that this documentary will resonate deeply with audiences and spotlight the need for meaningful change and action. @yourattentionplease_film is directed by @saraxrobin and written & edited by @jack.lemay . A @vagrants.tv Originals Production, presented by @_humanchange with animation by @cola_anima . Animation Credits Director @sphancy Art Director @ala_nunu Animation @pierog.animation @crickitt_ @ala_nunu @anaiutes Additional Animation and Clean Up @sphancy @felogladanie @offensiveburrito @adr1an_krzyc4 @crankyneon_ @cata.reis @minotauro_ @tiago._.miguel_ @b1nstock Compositing @ala_nunu Producer @sphancy Production Consultant @brunocaetanoanimation Animation Produced by @cola_anima Production Accountant Antonio Selas �#StandForTheirAttention #YourAttentionPlease #ReclaimingHumanity #SXSW2026 #SXSW

To tell the story of Carson Bride in @yourattentionplease_film , we wanted to show the destructive impact of cyberbullying from the perspective of the victim. Not what is being said, but how it feels. You can see the film for the first time at @sxsw from March 12th - 14th. Get tickets here: /?search=Your+Attention+Please @yourattentionplease_film is directed by @saraxrobin and written & edited by @jack.lemay . A @vagrants.tv Originals Production, presented by @_humanchange with animation by @cola_anima . @yourattentionplease_film will be premiering at @sxsw this March alongside another short animated film by the @cola_anima team: @ala_nunu ‘s ‘In the Beginning’. Animation Credits Director @sphancy Art Director @ala_nunu Animation @pierog.animation @crickitt_ @ala_nunu @anaiutes Additional Animation and Clean Up @sphancy @felogladanie @offensiveburrito @adr1an_krzyc4 @crankyneon_ @cata.reis @minotauro_ @tiago._.miguel_ @b1nstock Compositing @ala_nunu Producer @sphancy Production Consultant @brunocaetanoanimation Animation Produced by @cola_anima Production Accountant Antonio Selas

“Imagine you know what’s going on inside of Facebook and you know no one on the outside knows.” ~ Frances Haugen Another scene from our animations for @yourattentionplease_film , directed by @saraxrobin and written & edited by @jack.lemay . A @vagrants.tv Originals Production, presented by @_humanchange , with animation by @cola_anima . Tickets for our @sxsw screenings go on sale TODAY 10AM CT. Get your ticket here: /?search=Your+Attention+Please @yourattentionplease_film will be premiering at SXSW this March alongside another short animated film by the @cola_anima team: @ala_nunu ‘s ‘In the Beginning’. Animation Credits Director @sphancy Art Director @ala_nunu Animation @pierog.animation @crickitt_ @ala_nunu @anaiutes Additional Animation and Clean Up @sphancy @felogladanie @offensiveburrito @adr1an_krzyc4 @crankyneon_ @cata.reis @minotauro_ @tiago._.miguel_ @b1nstock Compositing @ala_nunu Producer @sphancy Production Consultant @brunocaetanoanimation Animation Produced by @cola_anima Production Accountant Antonio Selas

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