A selection of the world's best-loved, most beautiful and artistic animated feature films that explore themes of happiness, courage, friendship and self-acceptance. Whether you're a fan of anime or fairytales, this programme offers something for everyone.
Nora Twomey
PG-13 / 1 h 34 min / 2017 / Drama / Canada, Ireland, Luxembourg Language: English Eleven-year-old Parvana lives with her family in one room of a tiny apartment building in war-torn Kabul, Afghanistan. Living under Taliban rule, Parvana grows up listening to stories told by her father while helping him in the marketplace where he reads and writes letters for people to earn a living. One day, her father is arrested, and Parvana’s life is changed forever. In a time and place where women are not allowed to leave home without men, her family is left without someone who can earn money or even shop for food. To help her family, Parvana decides to cut her hair and disguise herself as a boy, turning herself into the breadwinner for the family. And though she is in danger of being discovered, Parvana resolves to find a way to rescue her father. The Breadwinner is a wonderful tale of female empowerment and imagination in the face of oppression – celebrating the culture, history and beauty of Afghanistan. Directed by Nora Twomey Screenwriters: Anita Doron, Deborah Ellis Producers: Anthony Leo, Tomm Moore, Andrew Rosen, Paul Young Company: Aircraft Pictures, Cartoon Saloon, Mélusine Productions
Linda Hambäck
G / 1 h 5 min / 2017 / Animation, Fantasy / Sweden Dubbed in Lithuanian Meet Gordon the frog. A forest detective who is dreaming about… retirement. But who will take care of the animals if he gets his well-deserved vacation? One day the old detective meets a shy mouse with a great sense of smell but no name. Gordon calls her Paddy and takes her under his wing. Now two new colleagues take on a complicated case – who stole squirrel’s nuts? Could it be the fox that took them – the biggest villain in the forest? Is the long-tailed creature really that bad? Directed by Linda Hambäck Screenwriter - Janne Vierth Producers: Linda Hambäck, Lina Jonsson Company - LEE Film
Emma De Swaef, Marc James Roels
PG-13 / 44 min / 2018 / Stop-motion animation (puppets) / Belgium Subtitles: Lithuanian, English An anthology film set in colonial Africa in the late 19th century telling 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. Directed by Emma De Swaef, Marc James Roels Screenwriters: Emma De Swaef, Marc James Roels Producers: Steven De Beul, Ben Tesseur, Koen Vermaanen Company: Beast Animation, Vivement Lundi !, Pedri Animation
Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow
<b>PG-13</b> / 1 h 26 min / 2018 / Animation, Biography / Poland, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Hungary Subtitles: Lithuanian, English Warsaw, 1975. Ryszard Kapuściński is a brilliant veteran journalist, an idealist and a friend of lost causes and revolutions. He persuades his editor to send him to Angola where a bloody civil war has broken out on the eve of the country’s independence. He embarks on a seemingly suicidal road trip into the heart of the conflict. The discovery of the sense of helplessness that was previously unknown to him will inspire to write a book „Another Day of Life“. He left Poland as a reporter, but returned as a writer. Directed by Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow Screenwriters: Raúl De La Fuente, Amaia Remírez, David Weber, Niall Johnson, Damian Nenow, Ryszard Kapuscinski Producers: Jarosław Sawko, Ole Wendorff-Østergaard, Amaia Remírez, Raúl De La Fuente Company: Platige Image, Kanaki Films 2
Kaspar Jancis, Henry Nicholson, Riho Unt
G / 1 h 20 min / 2018 / Animation, Family / Estonia, Ireland, Belgium, UK Language: English A young boy learns to take control over his life when he is shrunk to the size of an insect and has to sail his own toy boat through a flooded café. Morten has to be shrunk down before he can grow up. He builds a toy boat which he crews with insects. This is his escape from the unhappy world of the harbour café where he lives with his aunt Anna. When Morten is shrunk in a botched magic trick he finds himself sailing his own boat across the flooded café. The insect crew look uncannily like his aunt and the people she orders around. Morten has to reassess his relationships, save the crew from shipwreck and take control of his life. Directed by Kaspar Jancis, Henry Nicholson, Riho Unt Screenwriters: Kaspar Jancis, Robin Lyons, Michael Horelick, Paul Risacher Producers: Robin Lyons, Kerdi Oengo, Mark Mertens, Andrus Raudsalu, Paul Cummins Company - Nukufilm
Denis Do
PG-13 / 1 h 24 min / 2018 / Animation / Belgium, Cambodia, France, Luxembourg Subtitles: Lithuanian, English Funan recounts the life of Chou, a young Cambodian separated from her son Sovanh in the early days of the Khmer Rouge revolution in 1975. Like so many others, Chou will be deported and sent to a forced-labour camp. One by one, her closest people will be torn from her. She will experience injustice, dismay and helplessness. She will have to face hunger, fear… death. As a woman, a mother and a wife, Chou will have to find the strength to exist, to decide and to survive. To resist the daily atrocities imposed by the Khmer Rouge, she will have to force herself and learn to be assertive. Then the couple she forms with her husband Khuon will acquire a much broader dimension. In suffering and adversity, they will tear each other apart, rediscover and love each other, and they will learn to fight. Together. Chou will become an entirely new woman in order to find this son the regime has taken from her. Strong and determined, she will reveal herself. To others, but also to herself. Despite missing her son and being powerless, she will never give up. Because somewhere out there, Sovanh needs her. Directed by Denis Do Screenwriters: Magali Pouzol, Denis Do, Elise Trinh Producers: Sébastien Onomo, David Grumbach, Annemie Degryse Company - Les Films d'Ici
Mats Grorud
PG-7 / 1 h 20 min / 2018 / Animation / France, Sweden, Norway Language: English Beirut, Lebanon. Today. Wardi, an eleven-year-old Palestinian girl, lives with her whole family in the refugee camp where she was born. Her beloved great-grandfather Sidi was one of the first people to settle in the camp after being chased from his home back in 1948. The day Sidi gives her the key to his old house back in Galilee, she fears he may have lost hope of someday going home. As she searches for Sidi’s lost hope around the camp, she will collect her family’s testimonies, from one generation to the next. The film is based on interviews with Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. Directed by Mats Grorud Screenwriters: Mats Grorud, Trygve Allister Diesen, Ståle Stein Berg Producers: Frode Søbstad, Patrice Nezan, Laurent Versini, Annika Hellström Company: Tenk.tv, Cinenic Film, Les Contes Modernes <B>Meet the director Mats Grorud after the screening on Saturday</b>
Gustavo Steinberg, André Catoto, Gabriel Bitar
<b>PG-7</b> / 1 h 13 min / 2018 / Drama, Action / Brazil Live voice-over in Lithuanian Tito is a shy 10-year-old boy who lives with his mother. Suddenly, an unusual epidemic starts to spread, making people sick whenever they get scared. Tito quickly discovers that the cure is somehow related to his missing father’s research on bird song. He embarks on a journey to save the world from the epidemic with his friends. Tito’s search for the antidote becomes a quest for his missing father and for his own identity. Directed by Gustavo Steinberg, André Catoto, Gabriel Bitar Screenwriters: Gustavo Steinberg, Eduardo Benaim Producers: Gustavo Steinberg, Daniel Greco, Felipe Sabino Company - Bits Filmes
Jean-Christophe Roger, Julien Chheng
G / 48 min / 2017 / Animation, Adventure / France Live voice-over in Lithuanian Ernest is a big bear from Charabie. He likes playing music and eating marmalade. He lives with Celestine, a little orphan mouse, and they share his house. Our two friends never get bored! When the first snowflakes start to fall they need to prepare for Ernest’s hibernation: they must take care of Bibi, their wild goose, who will fly away before the big winter, prepare cakes for Ernest and go to the mice’s ball to celebrate the first day of winter. Directer by Jean-Christophe Roger, Julien Chheng Screenwriters: Jean Regnaud, Gabrielle Vincent Producers: Didier Brunner, Henri Magalon, Vincent Tavier Company - Mélusine Productions
Milorad Krstić
<b>R</b> / 1 h 36 min / 2018 / Animated Crime, Thriller, Adventure / Hungary Language: English Ruben Brandt, a famous psychotherapist, is forced to steal 13 paintings from the world’s renowned museums and private collections to prevent his suffering from terrible nightmares he has as a result of subliminal messaging he received as a child. Accompanied by his four patients, he and his band of thieves strike regularly and with great success: the Louvre, Tate, Uffizi, Hermitage, MoMA… “The Collector” quickly becomes the most wanted criminal in the world. Gangsters and headhunters chase him around the world while the reward for his capture keeps rising, approaching a hundred million dollars. A cartel of insurance companies entrusts Mike Kowalski, a private detective and leading expert on art theft, to solve the “Collector Case.” Directed by Milorad Krstić Screenwriters: Milorad Krstić, Radmila Roczkov Producers: Milorad Krstić , Hermina Roczkov, Peter Miskolczi, Janos Kurdy-Feher, Radmila Roczkov Company - Ruben Brandt Production