In a festive and fairytale atmosphere, animals from around the world are brought together through five poetic and humorous adventures to celebrate Christmas and wintertime. They will learn about the importance of helping each other, being generous and rediscovering the beauty of nature.
The Fatiha is the first sura of the Koran. In Muslim tradition, it is also the name used for the ceremony to pay tribute to the deceased. Today, it's Amir’s Fatiha, Feurat Alani’s father, a French and Iraqi journalist. It’s the opportunity for his friends and family to reflect on Amir's story, and for Feurat to revisit his own story and Iraq's history.
In a desert world where both demons and humans are suffering from the severe drought, fiend Prince Beelzebub, demon Thief and the human sheriff Rao team up and set off on an adventure in search of the Legendary Spring somewhere in the desert.
Dark forces are planning to kidnap the royal heirs, to force the prince to abdicate his throne to an evil wizard. To the rescue comes... a 17-year-old, immature, over-ambitious kid-goat, Arthur!
Adaptad from"Ganbatte Ikimasshoi" by Yoshiko Shikimura.
A high-school girl, Etsuko, just spends her days without any aims or purpose, until one day, Riina, a transfer student, asks her help to set up a boat club. Although Etsuko reluctantly accepts after hearing Riina speak passionately about her dream, she gradually starts to embrace the club after spending time with her teammates.
"That’s a hassle." That was second-year high-schooler Nagi Seishiro’s favorite phrase as he lived his dull life. Until Mikage Reo, a classmate who dreamed of winning the World Cup, discovered Nagi’s hidden skill, inspiring him to play soccer and share his outstanding talent. One day, he receives an invitation to the mysterious Blue Lock Project. What awaits him there is an encounter with the finest strikers assembled from across the country. Nagi’s dream of becoming the best, alongside Reo, will take this prodigy to a world he’s never known.
This documentary explores the lives and work of six independent animators: Jim Blashfield, Rose Bond, Joan C. Gratz, Zak Margolis, Joanna Priestley and Chel White. Their animated films span a period of over 40 years and include a range of techniques from scratch-on film, puppet animation, photocopy, clay painting, motion graphics to AI. They pioneered many of these techniques.
Christophe, the 10-year-old son of a farmer, has problems with his balance, possibly due to his bitter, neglectful father. Christophe is stuck in an orthopaedic brace. The boy must create a new life for himself, away from his family and their farm, which is facing forced modernisation and threatened by bankruptcy. Christophe is confronted with a dilemma: should he carve his own path or attempt to reconnect with his father?
