Aidan Hickey

Slim Pig is a two-dimensional pig living in a three-dimensional world. Because Slim is inquisitive, as well as flat, there’s no such thing as a simple walk outside his pigsty – wherever Slim goes, he finds an adventure. But because Slim is intelligent and creative, not to mention thin, he always gets home safely.

This experimental animated short tells the moving story of a boy who saves a sandpiper with a broken wing from some vicious seagulls. After caring for the wounded bird, he returns it to its habitat.

In the Vatican, the Pope prays for a vision.