Music and drama event, live from Leeds in front of an audience of 12,000, which explores Mary Shelley's story through contemporary performance and cutting-edge musical content.
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Music and drama event, live from Leeds in front of an audience of 12,000, which explores Mary Shelley's story through contemporary performance and cutting-edge musical content.
Two young girls find themselves alone in the forest but for a gaggle of goblins with mischevious intent. Adapted from the Christina Rossetti poem, The Goblin Market is a tale of two girls, their relationship and how it is affected by temptation and the pull of the woods. Keeping Rossetti's characters but altering their relationship slightly, Daisy Adders creates a film full of whimsy and woodland joy with a dark, mystical side to it.
Ten-year-old Raphaël spends his days staring at the ceiling. In his mind, he imagines a strange movie about life after death.
After watching “Něco z Alenky” a child begins to travel, fantasizing about crossing space and time, just like the film character.
Neumeier's dance version of the Shakespeare play about the trials and tribulations of love has lost none of its freshness over three decades after its premiere. With his selection of music, which ranges from Mendelssohn Bartholdy to György Ligeti to traditional barrel organ music, John Neumeier shows his dramaturgical sensibility by integrating three different musical styles into his choreographic narrative.
Sat backstage for the biggest audition of his life, Matty sticks out like a sore thumb. Surrounded by violins, clarinets and flutes, his love of drumming is a far cry from the musical elite. And there's one other thing - Everyone's voices have been swapped with their instruments.
On a cold winter night, Laura reads her brother David the story of a strange creature that attacks children. Suddenly, a shiver runs Laura's body, feeling a strange presence in the house. It's him.
Inspired by the Poem by John Keats, "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" follows the accounts of a dying man (Morgan Holgate) who encountered a mysterious woman (Maribel James-Corral) in the woods. When she goes missing, he must search for answers as to why, as he gradually grows weaker.
On the Tanua Island, the shaman announces the approach of the Nagol Ritual. Sowa, a young dreamy Melanesian, has to honor her father and the ancestral traditions. But she doesn’t feel ready to face the consequences of this challenge.
The poor ghost of Sir Simon Canterville has been roaming his castle searching in vain for a brave descendant who will release him from the Canterville curse by performing a brave deed. An American family moves in and finds the ghost amusing, but a young girl in the family can release him - if she dares.
A four-year-old is laughed at by two older girls. Fueled by thoughts of revenge, his imagination suddenly becomes tangible, turning his childish game into bitter reality.
After a silent, masked individual encounters a man with a television for an arm; horror, euphoria and madness ensue.
Astrid lives torn between two worlds: a boundless, sterile office and a desolate blue realm composed of trash she struggles to recollect. When she finds a door to her childhood bedroom, she feeds what’s left of it to her only friend, Crow, who wonders how much longer she can live in these fragmented realities.
A tourist group is shown the latest in Soviet virtual reality technology through the Potemkin.
Following the mysterious death of his dad, Mathew, a Wall Street financial engineer, has to build a columbarium by the family cottage with his younger brother Simon.
A seductive nymphet lives between good and evil, it is not known to what extent she is aware of it.
Beth's new house is supposed to be a fresh start, but eerie disturbances make it feel anything but home. Then she meets Melissa-an alluring designer who offers her help. As they work together, Beth finds herself drawn to her in ways she can't explain. But as strange events intensify, so do Beth's doubts. Is she losing her grip on reality, or is something far more unexplainable at play?
After a century of genocidal ideologies and destructive speciesism, animals have enslaved humans and taken over the world. In a wave of hope, the statues of the past have been removed but new ones are being erected to suppress the will of the people. This is now a planet of apes, boars and lions, and a zoological revolution is reversing and recreating the atrocities of the 20th century.
A porcelain doll’s explorations of a dreamer’s imagination.
Every night, in a cold hospital room, time stops for Nora as she jumps to another time in a Fantasy world. Accompanied by Null, a gigantic gorilla, she will have to undertake a dangerous journey to another dimension to find her destiny. It will be her last hope to continue living.
Many hundreds of years ago, Siegfried snatched his invisibility cloak from the dwarf Alberich. Understandable that this is not good to speak Siegfried. But he always likes to tell how it happened. And also of all the other dangerous adventures of Siegfried. How he defeated the dragon and became almost invulnerable, there would not have been a small linden leaf. The kidnapping of Brunhild from Iceland and why Hagen von Tronje became Siegfried's mortal enemy. And of course Gunther's betrayal of Siegfried. And one question Alberich still has to this day: what really happened to the treasure of the Nibelung? Is he still lying on the bottom of the Rhine?
The first feature-length animated film in Canada. The story of a new village somewhere in Abitibi, it's people, it's church and a werewolf causing trouble.
Chesa, a young girl, can predict earthquakes. After one of them weakens her village, she leaves to seek help from her grandmother who lives as a hermit in the mountains. Along the way, she travels through a world where the tremors are multiplying. As she searches for the origins of her power, Chesa discovers that the earth is shaking because of the Dark Teeth, a landless people who feed on anthracite. Driven by their ever-increasing hunger, they dig into the earth and accelerate continental drift.
After a glamorous career as a successful model, Gaby must start a new life, away from the catwalk and the limelight. But she cannot bring herself to accept that the peak of her career is now behind her. In an effort to lift her spirits, Dan, her manager, lets her spend a week in his country house. Very quickly, Gaby starts to feel a strange presence in the house. She has the eerie sensation of being watched. Dan suspects that her fear of becoming invisible to the world may be driving her mad.
Television adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairytale.
Anna, the witch girl, has one short leg and one long leg and is therefore only called the hobble witch. Anna trains until she is far superior to all the others in both running and sneaking races. When she even reaches the end of the world and outwits two clumsy giants who do not want any creature to escape from this terrible place alive, she realises that she can be proud of herself.
Haselwurm is a short fantasy/horror film inspired on the one hand by some mythical stories of the region of Trentino, Italy, on the other hand by the narrative literature of Howard Philip Lovecraft. The main characters are a woman and a man striving to unveil a mystery as old as the mountains where the story is set. With the recklessness of a rifle shot, they make the mistake of killing a creature unlike any other. The consequences of this reckless act will soon reveal themselves and the price will be high ...
In the fall of 2005, a mother does her best to comfort her young son as he copes with the temporary absence of his older brother. Torn between the silence of the adults around him and a vivid imagination that’s starting to run wild, the boy struggles to make sense of his brother’s mysterious departure while confronting the shadows it casts in his life.
On Top - Iceland, a lighthouse, a cold winter evening. Her thoughts drift back to that summer ... to bathing in the hot springs ... to when they first met ... and embraced. Down Under - Australia, the desert, a blistering heat wave. His pickup stops at an icehouse ... he lays the blocks neatly on the buckboard ... and drives off haunted by a aching memory. Without dialogue or comment, save for verses from a sonnet by John Keats, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson links the thoughts, the emotions, the sensual longing of young lovers at opposite ends of the world. A tone poem, a collage of sight and sound.
The gloomy dungeon of the Santo Oficio gaol in Logroño, northern Spain, is packed with prisoners accused of witchcraft. The sound of mystical chanting drifts out through the bars. It is a desperate cry for help that travels through valleys and mountains until it reaches the hamlet of Zugarramurdi. A young boy wakes up suddenly in the middle of the night...
The Chaser navigates the hostile and surreal world of a recurring nightmare in pursuit of happiness, encountering shifting landscapes and confronting strange entities.
Clara appears naked and defenceless in a dense and mysterious forest just after a meteorite falls to Earth. With Pablo's help she lives again, falls in love, while trying to remember who she was and how she ended up there that night.
The film narrates about a girl who, by mistake, becomes the owner of the collection of sunsets preserved in tin cans.
Satire on 19th-century class relations and thinly veiled commentary on the failure of the 1968 political revolution.
An old woman apparently tormented by people in the street comforts herself in her room with memories of her youth.
Prof. Adam Rosenberg is a renowned plant researcher. When his favorite flower begins to wither one day, Adam tries everything he can to prevent it. But like all living things, plants cannot live forever. The secret behind the purple flower leads Adam to make a decision that will change his life.
A grief-stricken 18th-century Venetian gentleman is thwarted in love and placed in suspended animation. When he wakes up 200 years later, he finds the experiment has more serious unexpected consequences.
Spain, 1602. The knights of the order of the sword of Joan of Arc have been defeated. After generations of fierce fighting against the herald of hell, El Caminante, who has broken the armors and hearts of the generals of the Faith. Possessing the most celibate and virtuous of them all the ulterior enemy has achieved what no thousand leviathans and witches they never dreamed.
Brothers Grimms' fairy tale about Hansel and Gretel, brother and sister, who struggle against the witches.
Two years after the Fukushima accident, orphans Akiko & Otani live with their grandmother Obasan in a refugee camp. When Obasan dies and a distant uncle pops up to take them back to Tokyo, Otani convinces his sister to run away. They must go and lay their grandmother’s ashes at the family altar located in Tomioka, in the heart of the forbidden zone. Otani, reserved child who only communicates with Yokai, and Akiko, the little beauty blogger, embarks on an initiatory journey. Pursued by a taciturn policeman, passionate about butterflies & their hurried uncle, the children rediscover the strange province of Fukushima where nature gradually takes back its rights. Assisted by an eccentric old man who chose to help the animals in distress, the brother and sister are confronted with a brand new Yokai born of radioactivity.
In a black-and-white world reminiscent of Édouard Boubat, in Montmartre, a little girl dressed in red, accompanied by her dog. When they meet her, sad and overly serious people are moved and grab her red cheeks. The child guides them to Sacré-Cœur, where the world becomes colorful.
"The Cunning Man" is inspired by a real Cunning Man, John Harries (c.1785 – 1839). It’s an enchanted tale of compassion in the face of callous greed.
Harmesh and Soumili move into their dream home, unbeknownst to the spate of mysterious suicides plaguing the area and local police force. Perplexed and alarmed by the high rate of unexplained deaths, the pair seek answers from Detective Barun Rai, a specialist investigator famed for unravelling paranormal crimes.
A girl is looking for herself, and yet she does not know, herself is looking for her as well.
Johanna is just twenty years old but struggling with her boring and aimless existence. Disturbing visions start the day she gets fired from her job. Soon Johanna is carried off into a different world beneath the city where people live in a parallel universe full of darkness and magic rituals. The denizens of this world are inspired and guided by a mysterious woman, The Mistress. Drawn into her cult through an extravagant initiation ceremony, Johanna encounters fascinating characters: People like Simon, the collector, with whom she embarks on an obsessive affair. As Johanna plunges deeper into the occult her old world slowly collapses...
A man finds himself in a pub where the laws of time and space don't exist.
In a peaceful house, the Domovoï family spend all their time taking care of Irène, an old woman lying motionless in bed.
Inès, a young architect, is in charge of a new building site in a village she knows nothing about. She is surprised by a carnival whose central figure is a man dressed as a bear. When she meets his gaze, she feels an unsuspected form of desire rising within her.
The Garden of Eden expands into vast fields in the communities of artists, writers, thinkers and cultural ac- tivist of diverse background. They share the common grounds of ancient myths, antique and historic sources digging up fallow land for revitalization understanding the contemporary world while gazing back at the past.
A vacation at last for Martin, but he can't quite get a break: things literally "heat up" in the room next door as the lover starts to burn during lovemaking. Martin puts out the fire and saves the couple, but the mysterious incidents continue: the islanders seem to have made a pact with the volcano demon Guayote to heat up the tourists.
A lone humanoid creature explores the darkness of a mysterious gun-metal labyrinth.