Away

  • Year: 2019
  • Country: Latvia
  • Director: Gints Zilbalodis
  • Duration: 74min
  • Genre(s): Animation
  • Theme(s): Fantasy
  • Original language: Without dialogues

A tree on a hill, a parachute is entangled in it. A little boy wakes up, suspended in the air. A little bird will help him travel across this island on a motorcycle trying to escape a dark spirit and get back home. The spirit is a large, black gorilla giant with white, ghostly eyes. To escape him, they’ll have reach the elephants in the desert-lake. Only there, they will be able to fly away with the birds. A minimalist animation film, that has won an award at the Annecy Film Festival.

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