Features

by Félix Dufour-Laperrière

A true animated film about invented islands. About a physical, imaginary, linguistic, political territory. About a real or dreamed country, or something in between. Archipelago is a feature film made of drawings and speeches, that tells and dreams a place and its inhabitants, to tell and dream a little of our world and times.

by Ann Marie Fleming

Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming is a 2016 Canadian animated feature film written and directed by Ann Marie Fleming (sometimes stylized with the title in parentheses or written as Window Horses without a subtitle), and a graphic novel by Fleming, Window Horses: The Poetic Epiphany of Rosie Ming. Funding for the film was raised through an Indiegogo campaign, which amassed more than $80, 000 in 50 days, from 730 contributors in 28 countries. The film was co-produced by Fleming’s Stickgirl Productions, Sandra Oh and the National Film Board of Canada.

by Karen Yasinsky

Over the course of these two stop-motion films, made by Karen Yasinsky in 1999, a woman—with the help of a pair of ruby-red slippers—delves into her fantasies and confronts good and evil before returning safely to the reality of her life.

• Drama

by Suzan Pitt

Entirely hand-painted, JOY STREET is the ambitious, astonishing story of a woman’s journey from suicidal despair to personal renewal with the help of an unlikely spirit guide. Using a Fulbright scholar award, Pitt traveled to remote rainforest regions of Mexico and Guatemala to create paintings of the nearly extinct patches of remaining virgin forest, which were later animated for the film. The music was composed by Roy Nathanson and the Jazz Passengers, with the title song recorded by Debbie Harry.

• Drama

by Milorad Krstić

A psychiatrist with a roster of criminal patients has strange demons he needs to exorcise.

by Gabriel Verdugo Soto

With the loss of his mother in mind, a scientist/painter returns to his childhood home. While he tries to find peace, a caterpillar and his fellas with superpowers are in the house on a quest of their own. They’ll eventually meet and, after a battle, the multiple links between them will be revealed.

by Michaël Dudok de Wit

A man is shipwrecked on a deserted island and encounters a red turtle, which changes his life.

by Anja Kofmel

Croatia, 7th of January 1992: In the middle of the war a young journalists’ body is being found dressed with an uniform of the international mercenary group. 19 years later, his cousin Anja Kofmel detects his story.

by György Hernádi, József Gémes, Szabolcs Szabó & others

An early spring morning, Water-Spider – who is roused from his winter sleep in a snail shell takes a bath. After an argument with the cross spider, the two spiders become close friends…

• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Adventure
• Family

by Lotte Reiniger

Hugh Lofting’s beloved children’s-book character ventures to Africa in order to cure a band of sick monkeys.

• Adventure

by René Laloux

FANTASTIC PLANET was not the first collaboration between writer-director René Laloux and illustrator Roland Topor. Presented here is a short film they made together in the mid-1960s: LES ESCARGOTS.

• Drama
• Comedy

by Hisayuki Toriumi

Fans of classic anime will delight in this awesomely retro sci-fi extravaganza teeming with pop-psychedelic visuals and whiz-bang-pow action. Assembled from a selection of episodes from the popular 1970s Japanese television series, GATCHAMAN: THE MOVIE brings together the original color-coded teenage superheroes known as Gatchaman, bird-suited ninja warriors who must fight to save the Earth from an intergalactic terrorist organization threatening world peace. With its comic-book verve, this touchstone of golden-age anime helped shape the team-superhero genre for decades to come.

• Drama
• Sci-Fi

by Aurel Klimt

The film starts in Baikonur. A female dog is captured while trying to find something to feed her puppies. She is named Laika and brought to a local spaceport. Professor Voroljov and his assistant Kokotov begin preparing Laika for space travel. On the day before the launch, Laika manages to get out of her cage and visits the space rocket. Then she returns for her puppies and smuggles them into the rocket.

by Tomm Moore

Song of the Sea tells the story of Ben and his little sister Saoirse – the last Seal-child – who embark on a fantastic journey across a fading world of ancient legend and magic in an attempt to return to their home by the sea. The film takes inspiration from the mythological Selkies of Irish folklore, who live as seals in the sea but become humans on land.

by Drew Christie

Guy Maddin narrates a surreal animated ode to the Métis freedom fighter and founder of the province of Manitoba.

• Drama
• Bio-pic

by Suzan Pitt

A melancholic physician in a Mexican hospital who prefers drinking to doctoring is transformed by the visit of a psychedelic saint. He begins to perform miracles on an odd assortment of hospital patients.

• Drama

by Lotte Reiniger

The animals of Africa pitch in to help Dr. Dolittle tend to a troop of ailing gorillas, orangutans, and baboons.

• Adventure

by Milorad Krstić

A psychiatrist with a roster of criminal patients has strange demons he needs to exorcise.

by Jonas Poher Rasmussen

This tender interview between film director Jonas and his school friend Amin, years after they first met, blossoms into an extraordinary story of love, survival and resilience. Vibrant animation paints the story of Amin’s departure from what had been a happy childhood home in Afghanistan, subsequently fractured by war, to his current life as a successful academic in Denmark. As he prepares to take the next step in his commitment to long-term partner Kasper, Amin recalls his former fears of persecution and how there wasn’t a word for homosexuality in Afghanistan.

by Jakub Kroner

A prophecy foretells the rise of Rytmaus, a rapper from a Romani settlement who becomes a national icon and runs for President of Slovakia. As Slovakia gains global power thanks to its pure water reserves, political rivalry and ancient dark forces collide. The fate of the world balances between hope and the demon Moloch.

• Comedy
• Tragicomedy
• Sci-Fi
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Áron Gauder

he vulgar, adults-only satire peppered with social critiques and references to prevailing politics, made in the same outspoken, provocative tone as South Park and Beavis and Butt-Head, is a humorous and authentic report card of the backward, post-millennium political and social apparatus of Eastern Europe as seen from the point of view of straight-talking children, that is, from the grassroots.

• Drama
• Comedy
• Tragicomedy
• Experimental
• Crimi

by Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow

An official Cannes selection and winner of festival prizes and awards worldwide, ANOTHER DAY OF LIFE is a daringly ambitious dive into the chaos of war, based on the book by the journalist Ryszard “Ricardo” Kapuściński, one of the world’s most compelling chroniclers of conflict. Intercutting a graphically bold animation style with interviews and archival footage, the visually striking film conveys a rare immediacy as it tells of the outbreak of civil war following Angola’s independence from Portugal in 1975. Against all advice, Kapuściński is intent on driving south into the heart of the bloody conflict to find the isolated rebel leader Farrusco. His animated trip through corpse-strewn roads conveys an undeniable urgency, while the documentary testimony reminds us that we are watching actual history.

by Ralf Kukula, Matthias Bruhn

Based on Hanna Schott’s chil­dren’s book this animation feature tells the story of fourth grader Fritzi in the East German city of Leipzig during the summer of 1989. She is supposed to watch her best friend Sophie’s dog for her over the summer – but she finds out that Sophie and her family have fled to the West via Hungary. Fritzi does everything she can to be reunited with her friend. With a subtle sense for pedagogy and many moving moments this film will introduce a young generation to the complex political and historical events that led to the German reunification.

by Tomm Moore

Song of the Sea tells the story of Ben and his little sister Saoirse – the last Seal-child – who embark on a fantastic journey across a fading world of ancient legend and magic in an attempt to return to their home by the sea. The film takes inspiration from the mythological Selkies of Irish folklore, who live as seals in the sea but become humans on land.

by Christian Desmares, Franck Ekinci

It’s 1941 but France is trapped in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon V, where scientists vanish mysteriously. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.

by Roger Mainwood

Based on a true story from the creator of The Snowman, Ethel & Ernest is a humorous and heartfelt tribute to an ordinary couple and an extraordinary generation.

by Jérémy Clapin

I Lost My Body (French: J’ai perdu mon corps) is a 2019 French adult animated film directed by Jérémy Clapin. It premiered in the International Critics’ Week section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, [4] where it won the Nespresso Grand Prize, becoming the first animated film to do so in the section’s history. The film was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 92nd Academy Awards.

by Viktor Kubal

Hansel and Gretel meet the witch from the gingerbread house.

by Drew Christie

Guy Maddin narrates a surreal animated ode to the Métis freedom fighter and founder of the province of Manitoba.

• Drama
• Bio-pic

by Suzan Pitt

A woman enjoys an erotic interlude with her very well endowed lover, while various amusing objects are tossed out a window above them.

• Drama

by René Laloux

FANTASTIC PLANET was not the first collaboration between writer-director René Laloux and illustrator Roland Topor. Presented here is a short film they made together in the mid-1960s: LES ESCARGOTS.

• Drama
• Comedy

by Makoto Shinkai

A lonely young woman adopts a cat on a rainy day.

• Teenage

by Leah Shore

For more then 20 years Charles Manson has refused to communicate to the outside world. Until now. These are actual never before heard phone conversations between Canadian best selling author Marlin Marynick and Charles Manson.

• Bio-pic

by Dalibor Barić

Martin tried to fight the system, and now he’s on the run. Sara is a conceptual artist. Together they join a revolutionary commune in the countryside, with the police on their trail. Inspector Ambroz knows the right questions are more important than the answers. Because maybe none of this is true.

by Lotte Reiniger

Lotte Reiniger applies her charming cutout animation technique to this early advertisement for the Nivea skin care company.

• No genre

by Lotte Reiniger, Carl Koch

Widely believed to be the very first animated feature film, Lotte Reiniger’s astonishing 1926 adaptation of tales from “One Thousand and One Nights” uses striking silhouette cutouts and gorgeous color tinting to bring to life the story of an Arabian prince who is whisked away on a flying horse to an enchanted land where he tangles with an evil sorcerer, rescues a princess, and joins forces with none other than Aladdin. Painstakingly composed frame by frame by Reiniger over the course of three years, this landmark work is both an enchanting storybook saga and a retina-delighting triumph of visual imagination.

• Drama

by Moustapha Alassane

A sly political satire realized through charming hand-drawn animation, BON VOYAGE SIM features one of director Moustapha Alassane’s many beloved cartoon frogs as Monsieur Sim, the president of the Republic of Toads, who faces a crisis when he returns home from a “diplomatic” trip abroad.

• Drama

by Paul Fierlinger, Sandra Fierlinger

My Dog Tulip is an animated film about the true account of a middle-aged man’s adopting an Alsatian dog he named Tulip.

• Drama
• Tragicomedy
• Bio-pic

by Dalibor Barić, Tomislav Babić

A secret Foundation is financing the work of a parapsychological phenomena and mental film research institute. Correspondence between the Foundation and the institute runs through a chosen reporter. In order to be informed objectively and confidentially, the Foundation uses agents with induced synthetic identity. This process temporarily curbs the agents’ true personality. Reporter Isidor Dukas arrives to the institute. Facing one of the test subjects, something which was supposed to be routine control turns into an infinite labyrinth…

• Drama
• Experimental
• Sci-Fi
• Non-narrative

by Leah Shore

Pillow talk takes a surreal turn in a shape-shifting blend of live action and animation.

• Drama

by Kōji Yamamura

Here, everything is The North. This is an account of the people I met in The North. However, my fragmented memory doesn’t capture the essence at all.

by Drew Christie

Guy Maddin narrates a surreal animated ode to the Métis freedom fighter and founder of the province of Manitoba.

• Drama
• Bio-pic

by Jakub Kroner

A prophecy foretells the rise of Rytmaus, a rapper from a Romani settlement who becomes a national icon and runs for President of Slovakia. As Slovakia gains global power thanks to its pure water reserves, political rivalry and ancient dark forces collide. The fate of the world balances between hope and the demon Moloch.

• Comedy
• Tragicomedy
• Sci-Fi
• Abstract
• Experimental

by David Lynch

This experimental short film presents a sick woman's nightmare involving living representations of the alphabet.

• Horror
• Experimental