Soar
2014 · 6m · Estados Unidos
Directed by Alyce Tzue
Genres: adventure, animation, fantasy
A precocious young girl befriends a diminutive pilot who falls from the sky in a broken plane, and must work against the clock to get him back to his people before her new friend is stranded on Earth forever.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
It's a whimsical premise that could've been saccharine dreck, but Tzue somehow threads the needle between earnest tenderness and genuine stakes—the ticking clock of an alien stranded on Earth shouldn't work this well in six minutes, yet it does, which is either frustrating or brilliant depending on your mood.
Alyce Tzue positions herself squarely in the lineage of hand-drawn fantasy shorts that balance wonder with emotional specificity—the film's restraint in animation, its careful pacing, and the way it refuses to overexplain its world show a curator's hand at work.
The decision to keep the pilot visually small and imperfect—broken, fragile, genuinely grounded in the frame—transforms what could've been a generic rescue fantasy into something that lands because of that single formal choice, making the relationship feel earned rather than cute.