WORLD OF ANIMATION | Sunday, January 19 at 7:00pm | Directed by visionary science-fiction animator René Laloux (Fantastic Planet) and designed by the legendary Jean Giraud (a.k.a. Mœbius) The Time Masters is a visually fantastic foray into existentialist space adventure. A young boy survives on an alien planet, with help from radio contact with a space pilot facing his own challenges.
WORLD OF ANIMATION | Monday, February 24 at 7:30pm | Elisabeth lives a charmed life in a castle, but when she takes ill one day in the forest, and gifts her heart away, her sunny disposition quickly turns murderous and vampiric… A crown jewel of Slovak animation, this fusion of gothic horror and classic children’s animation is based on the folk tale often cited as the inspiration for Dracula.
WORLD OF ANIMATION | Sunday, March 16 at 7:00pm | A young boy in a remote medieval outpost under siege from barbarian raids is beckoned to adventure when a celebrated master illuminator arrives with an ancient book, brimming with secret wisdom and powers.
WORLD OF ANIMATION | Sunday, April 6 at 7:00pm | Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. When a megacorporation threatens to tear down the town to build an amusement park, Black and White engage in the fight of their life.
WORLD OF ANIMATION | Monday, June 30 at 7:30pm | In this a swirling, color-mad maelstrom of the Hungarian folk myth, a horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses from three evil dragons and reclaim their ancestors’ lost kingdom.
WORLD OF ANIMATION | 35MM FILM | Sunday, July 20 at 7:00pm | In the world of the Murwoks where nightmares are made, the evil Botch hatches a scheme to make bad dreams real. Only Ralph and Mumford, misfits from the cheery land of Frivoli, can stop him.
WORLD OF ANIMATION | LIMITED RUN August 28-31 | FILMMAKER Q&A Thursday, August 28 | A teenager in suburban Florida desperately hustles to make $5,000 in this dreamy and surreal animated coming-of-age comedy. With pastel 2000s video game aesthetics, aliens, the economics of fruit juice companies, and lo-fi musical numbers, The Little promises this is one of the most bizarrely-charming and original animated films you’ll see this year.
WORLD OF ANIMATION | Sunday, September 28 at 7:30pm | Flying cows, mysterious gods and lyrical pandemonium: Don Hertzfeldt has made Animation Mixtape just for you. The dazzling 85-minute program features exciting, animated shorts from up-and-coming filmmakers, Academy Award nominees and classic pieces that originally inspired Don to start making his own iconic work. Including a new animated introduction from Don and never before seen work from famed underground animator Bruce Bickford.
SPOOKY SEASON x WORLD OF ANIMATION x FAMILY FLICKS | Sunday, Oct. 5 at 12pm | When Dr Frankenstein decides to retire from the monster-making business, he calls an international roster of monsters to a creepy convention to elect his successor in this 1967 stop-motion animated film.