WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko

WAR IS OVER! (2023) is an animated short you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Dave Mullins and inspired by the music of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. It took home the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film at the 96th Academy Awards.

Set in an alternate World War I, two soldiers on opposite sides of the front have never seen each other — they play chess through the lines, with a carrier pigeon making the runs over the battlefield. The game inches toward its final move as the war around it escalates. Eleven minutes. Stream WAR IS OVER! on iFILM.