Congratulations to "The Shyness Of Trees" team, winners of the Student Academy Award 2025

The graduation film made by Sofiia Chuikovska, Loïck du Plessis d'Argentré, Lina Han, Simin He, Jiaxin Huang, Bingqing Shu and Maud Le Bras (graduates of the Master’s programme in Character Animation and Animated Filmmaking en 2024) has won an award in the "Animation" category of the 52ᵉ Student Academy Awards, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

The awards ceremony will be held on October 6, 2025 in New-York, during the New York Film Festival. The three winning films in this category will be awarded gold, silver or bronze medals.

This award enables "The Shyness Of Trees" to be potentially nominated for the 98ᵉ Academy Awards in the Animated Short Film category.

Hélène, 40, is visiting her elderly mother in the French countryside. But her mother is behaving strangely. The old woman seems to have formed a strange bond with plants, insects and the old oak tree at the bottom of her garden...