Detours Ahead

short film

2024

A road trip traces a transition of grief to acceptance through valleys, junctions, and detours. It is a meditation on solitude, and articulates my shifting relationship with place.

Length: 7 minutes 45 seconds
Aspect Ratio: 5:2, 4k
Country of production: Canada
Medium: Animation
Genre: Coming of age, slice of life, non narrative

Film by Esther Cheung.
Sound by Ambrose Yu.
Funded by British Columbia Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts.

Download press package Where to watch

Best Animated Short

Air Canada Short or Video Award

Where to watch

Los Angeles Animation Festival

Shorts Program 6

Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival

Wee Asian

Future Film Fest

Shorts in Competition - Program 3

Animalcoi

Chilliwack Independent Film Festival

Animation Films

Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival

The Journeys that Shape Us

Norwich Film Festival

Animation

Past screenings

AS Film Festival

Animation Now!

Vancouver Asian Film Festival

From Dreamscapes to Disruptions to Disassociation Virtual Animation Program

Forest City Film Festival

Shorts Program: Good Grief

SPARK Animation

Short Films: Made in Canada

Cartoons Underground

International Competition

Ajayufest

Animation Nights New York

Storytelling Time - #98

Sweaty Eyeballs

International Block 3

Taichung International Animation Festival

Short Films in Competition 2

Flicker's Rhode Island International Film Festival

Under the Stars - Animated Shorts

ANIMAZE - Montreal International Animation Film Festival

ABI Film Festival

International Competition

Ottawa International Animation Festival

Canadian Panorama

World Festival of Animated Film Varna

1st Competition Programme

esther cheung 2024

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