Celebrating Our 20th Anniversary!
by Alex Billington
June 18, 2026
Source: YouTube
After playing on the festival circuit for the last 3 years, this lovely animated short is now available online for everyone to enjoy. 🌩️ Nube is a wonderful 7-minute short film created by two Mexican filmmakers that is about a mother & daughter cloud. This first premiered at the Morelia Film Festival in Mexico where it won the Best Animated Short. “What would you do to stop your child from falling?” Nube is an Oscar-qualified 2D animated short film about motherhood, fear, and sacrifice. After witnessing an ancient storm cloud weep its final raindrops and dissolve into sorrow, Noma, a billowing big white cloud, senses with dread that her daughter Mixtli, a shadowy storm cloud, is in danger of raining too soon. Nube is a story of nurturing and the delicate cycles of life, capturing the balance between maternal protectiveness and the natural flow of change. Through rich, painterly animation, this tender short film takes viewers on a visual journey of loss, renewal, and the beauty inherent in each phase of life. Aside from Pixar’s classic cloud short Partly Cloudy from 2009, this reminds me of so many other great animated shorts above parenting. Another must watch.
Thanks to Catsuka for the tip on his short debuting online. Original intro via YouTube: “After witnessing an old dark stormy cloud painfully rain and die in sorrow, Noma, a puffy white cloud realizes that Mixtli, her daughter, a dark stormy cloud, is in danger of raining prematurely.” Nube is an animated short film written and directed by Mexican filmmakers Diego Alonso Sánchez de la Barquera Estrada and Christian Arredondo Narvaez. Both are graduates of the Gobelins animation school in France. You can follow the short film on Instagram @nube_film. This is French–Mexican–Hungarian co-production. Made by Avec Ou Sans Vous, CUB Animation, Gobelins. Produced by Valentin Maupin, Aristote Douroudakis, Bálint Farkas Gelley, Bella Szederkényi, Diego Alonso Sánchez de la Barquera Estrada, and Christian Arredondo Narváez. Featuring sound design by Théophane Bertuit; and original music by Thibault Cohade. This short initially premiered at the 2023 Morelia Film Festival in Mexico. For more info on the project, visit the film’s official site or head to its YouTube page. To discover many more unique short films, click here. What did you think?
