Similarity to another short film

This film has been widely praised and awarded by a number of film festival but after seeing it i noticed it bared a striking similarity interms of content to a short film made in 2003 called 'Gone' Directed by Matthew Thompson and written by Lucy Moore.

I would be interested to know if 'Gone' was inspiration for Runar Runarsson as the content of 'Gone' is almost exactly the same as Smafuglar

Links to 'Gone'

Imdb page

h**p://www.imdb.com/title/tt0380392/

Watch online

h**p://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/filmnetwork/A3437787