A baby polar bear searches for his missing mother, while a force much colder than the frozen tundra searches for him.
Direction
Hannah Lee packs feature-film storytelling into 180 seconds.
Sound
Sound design does heavy emotional lifting.
Director
Hannah Lee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Premiered at CalArts, part of a wave of student animated shorts using environmental horror to process climate grief.
The title 'Barely There' refers to both disappearing ice and the thin line between survival and extinction — the mother's fate is intentionally ambiguous.
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