
Lines
Six poems written by six young prisoners animated to tell their stories, thoughts, fears and hopes.
Director: Claire Fleming
Actors: Adepero Oduye, Jodie Turner-Smith, Letitia Wright, Michael Kenneth Williams, Riz Ahmed
Country: United Kingdom
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
Pop sensations Alvin, Simon and Theodore end up in the care of Dave Seville’s twenty-something nephew Toby. The boys must put aside music super stardom to return to school, and…
Mardock Scramble: The First Compression
Rune Ballot is a down-and-out teen prostitute in Mardock City. One day, she’s picked up by an ambitious casino manager named Shell who gives her everything she could want. Renewed…
My Fairy Troublemaker
Violetta (337), a curious and cheeky fairy, gets lost in the human world. To find her way back to the fairy world, she teams up with the human girl Maxie…
An Optical Poem
A dance of shapes. A title card tells us this is an experiment in conveying the mental images of music in a visual form. Liszt’s “Second Hungarian Rhapsody” is the…
Twittering Birds Never Fly: The Clouds Gather
The sexually masochistic yakuza boss, Yashiro, isn’t the type to warm up to others easily. But when Chikara Doumeki, his newly hired bodyguard, catches his interest, he reconsiders his “hands-off”…
The Breadwinner
A headstrong young girl in Afghanistan, ruled by the Taliban, disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.
L’affaire Jeanne d’Arc
Speckles: The Tarbosaurus
The story is set 70 million years ago, when dinosaurs ruled the Korean Peninsula the same way they ruled the rest of the earth. Spotty is a curious and playful…