Male and female creators of animated films are brave beasts. They are not afraid of long hours spent on one production. Hours? Sometimes even years! Yes, yes ... making a full-length animation is a real challenge. It can take a few or even dozen years.
And what full-length films are on our schedule this year?
Inés, a Spanish artist, lives in India and stumbles upon Sultana's Dream a science fiction story written by Rokeya Hossain in 1905. It describes Ladyland, a utopia in which women rule the country while men live in seclusion and are responsible for household chores. Fascinated by the story Inés embarks on a journey across the country to search for the one place where women can live in peace.
We’re in the suburbs with Billy 5000, an aimless teen doing his best to fill his days and fill his pockets. Billy has just dropped out of high school, and he’s content to spend his time slacking, shoplifting, and occasionally making a delivery for a food-on-demand app. The gig economy has its ups and downs, and it brings Billy into contact with a series of oddball characters, some of them harmless and others quite menacing. But if he can pull together a quick $5,000 before New Year’s he’ll have what he needs to get his life on track. He’s got it all worked out.
Grace Pudel is a lonely misfit with an affinity for collecting ornamental snails and an intense love for books. At a young age, when Grace is separated from her fire-breathing twin brother Gilbert, she falls into a spiral of anxiety and angst. Despite a continued series of hardships, inspiration and hope emerge when she strikes up an enduring friendship with an elderly eccentric woman named Pinky, who is full of grit and lust for life.
The life of 12-year-old Ben, who sings in a rock band, is full of good humor and a love for cooking, but a revolution is coming. Not only does he fall in love with a classmate, but he also decides to lose weight.
