Synopsis:
One of Lotte Reiniger’s final films is an animated retelling of the biblical parable of the prodigal son.
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Ben, a young choir boy who, after his voice breaks mid solo, has a crisis of faith, decides to run away from his community. He happens upon a group of nomads who take him in, though Ben hides the secret about who he really is, and must decide what to do with it.
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Abstract
- Experimental
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Soldiers in a war wait for information via a fax machine.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
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In the old Jewish cemetery in the city of Safed, people come from afar to pray on the graves of rabbis from the golden age of Kabbalah in the 16th century, sometimes with hope to find redemption to their life problems.
- Drama
- Experimental
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A troupe of clowns gather to perform a story about a Priest and a refugee but as their misguided tale unfolds, the boundaries between fiction and reality begin to fray.
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Experimental
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A robot works at a factory repeating the same operation every day. One day an unexpected visitor arrives and changes his routine.
- Drama
- Sci-Fi
- Non-narrative
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A tale of an old shaman, a spiritual leader of a primitive tribe on her deathbed. She will bid farewell to her tribe in a mystical ritual and will be buried in a ceremonial burial preceded by a feast in her honour.
- Drama
- Abstract
- Experimental
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A stranded automobile leaves its driver scanning the horizon for help. He stumbles across a centaur with a drinking problem who offers a unique repair in exchange for a favour.
- Drama
- Comedy
- Tragicomedy
- Experimental
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A day in the life of an average man in a below average country.
- Drama
- Comedy
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
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A ship sets sail on an epic voyage through malignant natural and supernatural elements from which one man alone survives.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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What will be after death? A lot of people thinking about this question. A lot of groups have very different opinion but majority of tham have one thing similar. Almost all religions are convinced that they are right. I wrote this movie, with my friend Karel Vžtrovsků, in time when we were slowly breaking out of the Christian prison in our minds, where we grew up and where we were imprisoned for a long time.
- Drama
- Tragicomedy
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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A personal quest for spiritual enlightenment leads to romance and despair.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Fantasy
- Romance
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In the year of 1672, a small community in the heart of Istria went through a mysterious series of events that even today no one likes to recollect. For sixteen years the deceased Jure Grando was blamed for torturing the village and causing suffering. In hope of liberating the villagers, restoring peace, and solving a mystery that goes beyond the grave, a local priest organises an investigation.
- Horror
- Fantasy
- Drama
