Nearest and Dearest is a film about these moments in life when you have to bid farewell. It’s about that scary feeling when your mind knows that life moves on even though your heart would give everything to stop it. You know that you gonna lose.

Nearest and Dearest is Max Stöhr’s and Michael Sieber’s first co-direction. After having finished the animatic Michael stayed true to the book and left with a heavy heart to help our studio and become the animation supervisor on The Amazing World of Gumball in 2012. Max heroically finished the short on his own. For sure there must have been times when he felt lonely.