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Title: Midnight Snack
Runtime: 3 min
Country: USA
Director: Abdulmalik Usama Bukhari
Placement: Best Animated Short
Competition: December, 2025
Synopsis: Joe is an ordinary man with an extraordinary problem: every night he wakes up starving only to find his fridge completely empty. One morning, however, he enters the kitchen to find it in utter chaos — scattered grocery bags everywhere, half-cooked food and mysteriously prepared meals. Driven by curiosity, he sets up a surveillance camera to discover the shocking truth.