Jess Aarons, un chico que se siente extraño tanto en el colegio como en su propia casa, se ha entrenado durante todo el verano para correr una carrera; pero llega al colegio Leslie Burke y le gana. A pesar de ello, pronto se hacen amigos. Leslie, aficionada a contar fantásticas y mágicas historias, le abre a Jess las puertas de un mundo dominado por la imaginación. A Jess le gusta dibujar, pero nunca había compartido esa afición con nadie. Los dos crean el reino secreto de Terabithia, un lugar mágico cuya entrada sólo ellos conocen. Allí reinan, luchan contra el Maestro Oscuro y sus criaturas y trazan planes para vengarse de los compañeros prepotentes del colegio.
En un pequeño pueblo de Nevada, Jerry Black es un solitario detective de homicidios que está a punto de jubilarse. Resignándose a dejar el trabajo, lo único que en realidad da sentido a su vida, decide hacerse cargo de un último caso cuando se descubre en las montañas el cuerpo sin vida de una niña. Tras jurarle a una madre desconsolada que hallará al culpable, comienza una investigación en la que irá más allá de las evidencias y de su horario laboral, volcándose por completo.
En el difícil camino a la sobriedad después de un accidente, John Callahan descubre el restaurador poder del arte, llevando a sus manos heridas a dibujar caricaturas cómicas, las cuales le traen una nueva perspectiva sobre la vida.
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?
Anna Madden es una chica de once años bastante solitaria y muy ensoñadora, que tiene muchas fantasías y cuya vida transcurre entre sus clases en el colegio y las visitas que hace a la solitaria casa que ha dibujado en un papel mientras echa en falta a un padre que siempre está fuera del hogar por negocios. Conforme plasma elementos en el papel, éstos se hacen realidad en sus sueños, sea una puerta, un amigo tan solo como ella o su propio padre, cada día más distanciado de su madre, con la esperanza de que vuelva a casa, pero éste no se le aparece como su progenitor sino como un peligroso asesino.
Un largometraje documental sobre el célebre estudio de cine de animación Ghibli. Con libre acceso a las interioridades del estudio, la directora Mami Sunada sigue al personal clave de Ghibli (el director Hayao Miyazaki, el productor Toshio Suzuki y el esquivo"otro" director, Isao Takahata) a lo largo de un año, mientras el estudio prepara sus nuevas y esperadas películas, El viento se levanta de Miyazaki y The Tale of Princess Kaguya de Takahata. El resultado es una mirada única al método de trabajo de uno de los más célebres estudios de animación del mundo, un retrato de sus sueños, su pasión y una dedicación que bordea la locura.
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.
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
Manny, Joel y Jonah recorren el camino de su infancia soportando el volátil y conflictivo amor de sus padres. Mientras Manny y Joel van camino de convertirse en una versión de su padre, Jonah se entrega a un mundo imaginado por su propia cuenta.
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.
An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.
The story of some senior high school students in a Chinese village, their dreams, friendships and romances.
Upon his arrival in Paris, filmmaker Tomas Cali immerses himself in learning French, as well as the language of sketching. In an art studio, he meets transgender life model Linda Demorrir, who helps him to connect with himself and his new city in a profoundly different way.
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.
Do you remember? Last summer, Illinois was confronting a series of bizarre murders. At each crime scene, police found a sketch of a house which turned out to be the location of the next murder. But detectives couldn't identify the houses in time, and the murders continued, becoming more violent until someone recognizes the latest sketch as the old Wilson farm up in Monroe. As we open, a policewoman named Crawley is being interviewed by an unseen authority figure. She tries to remember what exactly happened at the Wilson farm. She explains she was patrolling in the area and went there quickly, intending to find out what the owner knew and get him out. Instead. . . what happened was. . . if only she could remember. . .
A visual journey into the life and legacy of one of Australia's most celebrated artists, Brett Whiteley.
A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.
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.
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.