The adventures of a legendary hero, Sambagana, who, dazzled by the beauty of a princess, asks her in marriage. She imposes several tests, and he wins them all, but only death will eventually bring the two together.
- Adventure
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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
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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
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Meriem Bennani conjures an immersive augmented-reality world in the first two parts of a trilogy that issues a wild, up-to-the-minute commentary on diasporic cultures and the West’s dystopian immigration policies. A talking crocodile named Fiona acts as our guide though the CAPS, an island refugee camp in a future where teleportation has replaced airplanes.
- Drama
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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
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Pillow talk takes a surreal turn in a shape-shifting blend of live action and animation.
- Drama
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The spirits of life and death go for a drive in this darkly humorous fantasia featuring an original score by Quincy Jones.
- Comedy
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This short animated fable unfolds in a kingdom of frogs threatened by a monster.
- Drama
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Our narrator looks fondly back at his childhood in Liverpool and the antics of his best friend Johnno. Well known for being a showman and a keen one for joking and the like, Johnno starts to change for the worse after he announced that his father has died.
- Drama
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A woman enjoys an erotic interlude with her very well endowed lover, while various amusing objects are tossed out a window above them.
- Drama
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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
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This experimental short film presents a sick woman's nightmare involving living representations of the alphabet.
- Horror
- Experimental
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A residential building stands on the outskirts of town. A college girl named Rin has moved into one of the room in the building. One night, she sees a huge insect coming out of the arm of a woman. She goes to a library, and learnes that they are called “Spirit Bugs”, and have existed since ancient times. Rin attempts to unravel the mystery of the Spirit Bugs, but this is only the prelude to a new form of terror…..
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Martin Sheen (The West Wing) and Matthew Modine (The Dark Knight Rises) rebel against authority at their retirement home in this poignant comedy for adults. Using hand-drawn animation, Wrinkles leaves room for both tears and laughter as it pokes fun at society’s attitudes towards the elderly.
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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.
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2123. Faced with diminishing resources, the human race can only survive through a trade-off: at the age of 50, every citizen isgradually turned into a tree. When Stefan discovers that his beloved wife Nora has voluntarily signed up for donating her own body before her time, he sets out on an adventurous journey to save her at all costs.
- Drama
- Sci-Fi
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In her diary, Anne Frank addressed her imaginary friend Kitty. In his new animated film Where Is Anne Frank, Israeli director Ari Folman brings Kitty to life for the first time, telling her own story. In search of her best friend Anne Frank, Kitty becomes a witness to the Frank family’s last months in the Holocaust, and to Europe after the Second World War.
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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
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To promote their book BOSNIAN FLAT DOG, Swedish comics creators Max Andersson and Lars Sjunnesson tour the countries of former Yugoslavia with a mummyfied Marshal Tito in a refrigerator. Watching border controls turn into improvised snapshot sessions, admiring mutant iron-curtain Disney toys, buying souvenir grenade shell handicrafts and discovering sniper art in blown-out apartments, they find that truth may indeed be stranger than fiction.
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“Ce Magnifique Gâteau !” is a mid-length animated anthology film set in colonial Africa in the late 19th century. It tells the stories of 5 different characters: a troubled king, a middle-aged Pygmy working in a luxury hotel, a failed businessman on an expedition, a lost porter, and a young army deserter.