For ti-årige Jess er livet en lang kamp op ad bakke; han er upopulær i skolen, hans forældre har ikke råd til at købe det nyeste og smarteste tøj til ham og Janice fra ottende er konstant ude efter ham. Men en dag flytter pigen Leslie ind i huset ved siden af og hun er også anderledes og udenfor. De bliver hurtigt gode venner og begynder at udforske skovene rundt om deres huse. Sammen skaber de et vidunderligt fantasiland kaldet Terabithia, hvor de er helte og bekæmper gnomer, kæmper og andre fantasimonstre. I Terabithia kan de klare alt, og pludselig er hverdagens problemer ikke længere uoverstigelige. Men den største udfordring af alle venter forude for Jess…
Den dag kriminalbetjent Jerry Black går på pension, bliver en otteårig pige fundet myrdet i Nevadas bjerge. Midt i hans afskedsfest kaldes patruljerne ud til gerningsstedet, og Jerry er ude af stand til at holde sig tilbage; han tager med. Her tilbyder han sin ekspertise og tager det på sine skuldre at fortælle den frygtelige nyhed til pigens forældre. Stillet ansigt til ansigt med den forfærdelige forbrydelse, forældrenes lidelser og sin egen usikkerhed om et liv efter politi-karrieren, afgiver Jerry er skæbnesvangert løfte til pigens mor om, at han vil finde morderen. Men hvor langt vil Jerry gå for at opfylde sit løfte?
Ben is an art college student in London, whose imagination runs wild as he works the late-night shift at the local supermarket. What do he and his colleagues do to pass the long, endless hours of the night?
A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in her school composition book.
John Callahan vågner op uden tømmermænd - han er nemlig stadig fuld efter den forrige nats udskejelser. Samme aften ender en druktur i en voldsom bilulykke. John mister førligheden, men ser ingen grund til at lægge sprutten på hylden. Da han alligevel lader sig overtale til at gå på afvænning, opdager han, at han har et stort talent for politisk ukorrekte avistegninger. Tegninger, hvor han kan trække på sin anarkistiske humor, og som bliver en stor succes.
A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about one of the others.
Follows the behind-the-scenes work of Studio Ghibli, focusing on the notable figures Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and Toshio Suzuki.
The short-tempered Daffy Duck must improvise madly as the backgrounds, his costumes, the soundtrack, even his physical form, shifts and changes at the whim of the animator.
Liam Liu unwittingly gets involved with a high school girl. He suddenly has to go to China after learning from his father that he has inherited his grandmother's home in Shanghai. He's not very appreciative of his Chinese roots and at first only wants to sell the house and get back to the U.S. as fast as possible. He gets a taste of the Chinese culture and ends up having some big decisions to make
Jonah vokser op med sine to uadskillelige brødre og forældrene, der slås, elsker og slås med hinanden på skift, mens de forsøger at forlige sig med den fattige arbejderklasses håbløshed. Flasket op med kærlighed, vold og en vrede, hans sind har svært ved at håndtere, forsvinder Jonah lejlighedsvis ind under sengen med sit kladdehæfte og tegner sig til en anden verden.
Moritaka Mashiro doesn't want to follow in the path of his uncle who worked as a manga artist, but ultimately died because of exhaustion. Moritaka Mashiro figures he will graduate from school and work at an office. Things change though when falls in love with a girl at school. The girl, who hopes to become a voice actress, tells Moritaka they can marry, but only after they both achieve their dreams. Moritaka then teams up with fellow classmate Akito Takagi to publish their first manga.
Look out: Beryl's back. With Affairs of the Art, British animator Joanna Quinn recounts another gloriously unhinged chapter in the adventures of Beryl, the comic everywoman she unleashed upon the world with her debut film, Girls' Night Out, which took home three major awards from Annecy in 1987.
Jess Aarons and new girl Leslie Burke create a world of their own and call it Terabithia and pretend to be the king and queen. They return to their magical kingdom every day after school.
A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.
An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.
A portrait of the artist as a "sublime demon with the archangel's face", with an innovative musique concrète soundtrack.
The odyssey of a young Cape Breton woman as she moves to the big city (Halifax) and supports herself after the birth of her illegitimate child by posing for college art classes, on her way to becoming an artist in her own right.
The story of some senior high school students in a Chinese village, their dreams, friendships and romances.
An indie documentary exploring the art form of hand-drawn animation through a contemporary lens in the digital era. Featuring insights and anecdotes by hand-drawn animation artists from around the world.
56-year-old artist Mindy Alper has suffered severe depression and anxiety for most of her life. For a time she even lost the power of speech, and it was during this period that her drawings became extraordinarily articulate.