WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko is an 11-minute animated short inspired by the John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 50-year-old classic song Happy Xmas (War Is Over). The film is written and directed by 20-year Pixar alum and Oscar®-nominee, Dave Mullins and Produced by Golden Globe®-Nominee, Brad Booker. Sean Ono Lennon and Yoko Ono serve as Executive Producers. Animation was produced by Peter Jackson’s Wētā FX using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. The score was composed by 15-time Oscar®-nominated, Thomas Newman.

Set in an alternate WWI reality where a senseless war rages on, two soldiers on opposite sides of the conflict play a game of chess. A heroic carrier pigeon delivers the soldiers’ chess moves over the battlefield as the fighting escalates. Neither soldier knows his opponent as the game and the war builds to its climatic final move. Whoever wins the game, one thing is for certain: there are no winners in war.