38th edition
17-25 january 2026

The Shirley Temple

Daniela Sherer

Image The Shirley Temple
United Kingdom
2014 Animation 10 min
The boundaries between childhood and adulthood become blurry for a kid at his mother's cocktail party. In this experimental-narrative short, characters, symbols and abstractions interchange to examine the relationships between children and adults, escapism and sexuality.
Screenplay : Daniela Sherer
Image : Daniela Sherer
Editing : Daniela Sherer
Sound : Joe Tate
Music : Duncan Thum
Production : Royal College of Art
Daniela Sherer was born in Tel Aviv. In 2009, she graduated from the University of Southern California with a BA in Animation and Digital Arts and in 2013 from the Royal College of Arts with a MA in Animation