Bilby

Bilby (2018) is an animated short you can watch online on iFILM, produced by DreamWorks Animation and directed by JP Sans, Liron Topaz, and Pierre Perifel. Eight minutes set in the Australian Outback: a solitary bilby — a small, burrowing marsupial with more than enough survival problems of his own — ends up saddled with a baby bird that has no business being alive out there.

No dialogue, but the comedy lands on physical timing alone, and the detail put into the desert landscape is genuinely impressive for a short of this length. A clean, funny, wordless friendship story that earns its ending without overstaying its welcome. Stream Bilby (2018) online on iFILM.