Spotlight
Wondering which films to watch? Spotlight presents thematically grouped, must see films, hand-picked by Fandor's curators.
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Kirikou and the Sorceress
Mars
An Anthropo-Cynical Farce
A Country Doctor
La Lupe i en Bruno
A Town Called Panic
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
Acapulco Gold
Alois Nebel
Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then
A Family Portrait
Adventures in Animation
From hand-drawn to stop-motion, these animated delights will take you places you could only dream of. This mixture of shorts and features from almost every type of animation shows just how special and unique the genre can be. With some rare cinematic gems and fascinating animation styles, let these animated classics inspire you. Because cartoons aren’t just for kids.
Selected Films
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An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
With arresting insight, vulnerability and a delightful sense of humor, AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY utilizes a mix of live action and animation to capture the relationship between Terence (Nance) and a lovely young woman (Namik Minter) as it teeters on the divide...Watch Movie
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The Pettifogger
A year in the life of an American gambler and con man circa 1963. A diaristic, first person montage full of glimpses, glances, decaying ephemera and elliptical narrative. An abstract crime film and, like many other crime films involving larceny, a sensorial exploration of the virulence of...Watch Movie
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The Last Flight of Petr Ginz
By 14 he had written five novels and penned a diary about the Nazi occupation of Prague. By 16 he had produced 170 drawings and paintings, edited an underground magazine in the Jewish ghetto, written numerous short stories and had walked to the gas chamber at Auschwitz. Slight...Watch Movie
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Alois Nebel
Inspired by classic film noir and rendered in mesmerizing black-and-white rotoscope animation (à la Richard Linklater's WAKING LIFE), this dark-hearted Czech drama traces the haunted memories and mysterious visions of a troubled train dispatcher through the shifting cultural and political...Watch Movie
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Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then
GRAVITY WAS EVERYWHERE BACK THEN is the ballad of Leonard Wood, who built his house as a healing device to cure his wife. Filmmaker Brent Green has created many animated shorts but for his first feature-length film he built a full scale replica of Wood's house in the yard...Watch Movie
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Mars
A new space race is born between NASA and the ESA when Charlie Brownsville, Hank Morrison and Dr. Casey Cook compete against an artificially intelligence robot to find out what's up there on the red planet. MARS follows these three astronauts on the first manned mission to our galactic neighbor....Watch Movie
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A Town Called Panic
Hilarious and frequently surreal, the stop-motion extravaganza A TOWN CALLED PANIC has endless charms and raucous laughs for children from eight to eighty. Based on the Belgian animated cult television series (which was released by Aardman Studios), PANIC stars three plastic...Watch Movie
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Linnea in Monet's Garden
Here she comes, right from the pages of the best selling book! The charming tale of a little girl's love affair with Impressionist Claude Monet's paintings is now brought to life in full animation. Join Linnea and her friend Mr. Bloom as they set off to Paris, and then to...Watch Movie
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Vittorio
Made as part of a Triton Gallery show to publicize the poster art of Canadian artist Vittorio Fiorucci, filmmaker Wakefield Poole cut apart posters and hand-animated the film using his 8mm camera to create stop-motion. The film was combined with dancers, lighting and projections to create and...Watch Movie
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A Hot Stone
Based on a story by WWII-slain Soviet popular author Arkady Gaidar, this moral tale drawn in a distinctive, heroic storybook style finds a delinquent young boy trying to redeem his wrongs against a saintly village grandpa. But instead of accepting the supposedly magic, youth-restoring stone...Watch Movie
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Fantasmagoria
Émile Cohl was already 50 by the time he made his first breakthrough work for Gaumont. FANTASMAGORIA's squirmy chalk drawings are infused with the same anarchic spirit which inspired his earlier work as a caricaturist and art provocateur. Pointedly crude, the animation skewers a bourgeois lady at...Watch Movie
