“The Jubilee”
This stop-motion animated short tells the moving story of Mimi, a little mouse girl created from paper napkins at a wedding anniversary party. As she journeys through a delicate paper world filled with confusion and fleeting impressions, the film gradually reveals a deeper emotional reality: Mimi is an elderly woman living with dementia, trying to make sense of fragments of her life and memories. With the help of Elder, her devoted husband, memories begin to resurface against the backdrop of their 60th wedding anniversary celebration. Blending poetic animation with themes of love, memory, ageing, and loss, the film offers a tender and visually imaginative portrait of dementia and enduring companionship. It is a heartfelt animated vignette about romance, remembrance, and the fragile beauty of a shared life.
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Wilma Smith is a Scottish writer and director with more than 20 years of filmmaking experience, having started making films as a teenager. She studied at the Glasgow School of Art in 2000 and went on to build a distinctive career in independent cinema, particularly through low-budget and artist-driven film projects.
In the early 2000s, she co-wrote and co-directed several zero-budget feature films that screened internationally, including Four Eyes and My Life as a Bus Stop, both of which were nominated for the Michael Powell Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Wilma Smith also edited the viral video for the comic Kick-Ass before it was adapted for Hollywood. Her later work includes the Bridging the Gap documentary The Review (2016) and the stop-motion animated film The Jubilee (2024), commissioned through Sharp Shorts, highlighting her versatility across documentary, animation, and independent filmmaking.