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Credit: Disney Pixar

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Disney just released a painfully adorable teaser for it’s new short film Piper, which is premiering in front of Finding Dory. Check it out below!

So cute that it hurts, right?

Everyone knows that before some of its biggest animated films, Disney and Pixar release hilarious and/or adorable short films. I mean, who doesn’t remember sitting down to watch A Bug’s Life and being treated to the super funny Geri’s Game?

Fun fact: In 1998, Geri’s Game won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.

Disney Pixar’s newest short, Piper, tells the story of a baby sandpiper bird who tries his best to find food on his own, but comes to the realization that it may not be as easy as it seems without mom there to help. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, director Aaron Barillaro had this to say about the film’s story:

It’s the kid at the playground feeling. You fall down and you feel so small, but you look and see someone even smaller than you brush themselves off and tackle something, and learn from that in your own way. It was important to me to stay in the kid world and see the world from Piper’s eyes, and not be from the human perspective.

Piper will be released in front of Finding Dory, in theaters June 16.

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Nick Golden is based in Los Angeles, California where he currently works as a freelance writer and actor.