Screening List：
SUZAN PITT ANIMATED SHORTS COLLECTION:
ASPARAGUS
JOY STREET
EL DOCTOR
VISITATION
PINBALL
SUZAN PITT: PERSISTENCE OF VISION
THE BREADWINNER
EUREKASEVEN HI-EVOLUTION 1
PRINCESS ARETE
YO-KAI WATCH SHADOWSIDE: RESURRECTION OF THE DEMON KING
KIKORIKI. DEJA VU (3D)
HAVE A NICE DAY
BILAL
RELEASE FROM HEAVEN
ASPARAGUS
Release year: 1979
This film shows a strong sense of femininity through a colorful and lively dream. The astonishing cel animation pushes the blank-faced protagonist into the fantasy field of asparagus. In muddiness, the artist opens her Pandora's Box to release rare wonders....
ASPARAGUS not only made itself the winner at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany, but also catapulted maker Suzan PITT to the front ranks of indie animation.
JOY STREET
Release year: 1995
In a house on Joy Street, the lonely heroine spends her life with spirits and cigarettes, but could never resolve the grief deep inside. In a long night, the person who she could never reach on the other end of the phone makes her cut her wrist. At this moment, the monkey ornament on the table is given life in the woman's dream; it turns on the radio, and sad tears flood the fallen woman. The monkey carries the woman out of the house. Eventually, the woman is awakened under a big tree and feels the joy of life in the chaotic reality.
JOY STREET was honored best short film awards at the Sundance Film Festival and New York Film Festival.
EL DOCTOR
Release year: 2006
The film tells the story of a Mexican drunkard doctor, who misses his youth and longs for death. However, in his hallucination after drunkenness, he witnesses miracles in his patients and is thus enlightened by God to reconcile himself with the past.
The film is based on a series of cartoons by Suzan PITT, and written by her son Blue KRANING. The production of the fantastic and splendid landscapes in the film is more complex than those in the previous two short films. It is also the first time for professional dubbers to appear in her work.
VISITATION
Release time: 2011
VISITATION originated from Suzan PITT's illusion influenced by the American fantasy novelist Lovecraft. This film marks the beginning of her new creation stage. Compared with her previous animations, the storyline in the movie is reduced, with working method closer to the DIY form in her early career.
PINBALL
Release year: 2013
PINBALL is the first digital work of Suzan PITT. Through the fast montage and “Ballet Mecanique” music, she tried to convey the intense pain of the characters. Compared with her film works, the visual experience presented by this digital short film is quite different.
SUZAN PITT: PERSISTENCE OF VISION
Release year: 2006
Directed by Suzan's children Blue KRANING and Laura KRANING, the documentary records the behind-the-scenes stories of Susan PITT’s winning film ASPARAGUS, as well as JOY STREET and EL DOCTOR, exploring the creative expression from which her films have evolved throughout her career.
THE BREADWINNER
Release year: 2017
Directed by: Nora Twomey
Plot:
The Breadwinner tells the story of 11 year old Parvana who gives up her identity to provide for her family and try to save her father's life. Parvana's father Nurullah had told stories about history and imagination to Parvana as she helped him in the marketplace of Taliban controlled Kabul in the year 2001. When he is arrested Parvana finds the courage to look for him when everyone else had given up hope. She becomes a storyteller. Every day is a challenge as Parvana tries to bring home enough food and water to support her mother, sister and little brother. She meets a fellow girl in disguise called Shauzia and together, they form a bond that will give them the strength to endure the war that comes to their doorstep in the Fall of 2001.
EUREKASEVEN HI-EVOLUTION 1
Release year: 2017
Directed by: Tomoki Kyoda
Plot:
Ten years ago, an earth-shattering incident took away Renton’s father. With the mysterious pilot Eureka by his side, only Adroc Thurston could undo his own mistake, sparking the event that changed everything and earned him the title of a hero. Now, ten years later, Eureka lies in critical condition as Renton leaves the crew of the Gekko. But when he finds himself in the care of his father’s old friends, he has a choice to make. Either stay with the loving family he’s always wanted, or earn the love he seeks.
PRINCESS ARETE
Release year: 2001
Directed by: Sunao Katabuchi
Plot:
Confined in the castle tower by her father, Princess Arete spends her days watching the world outside her window. Sometimes she sneaks out. Prospective suitors are sent on quests to collect magic treasures to win her hand in marriage.
YO-KAI WATCH SHADOWSIDE: RESURRECTION OF THE DEMON KING
Release year: 2017
Directed by: Shinji Ushiro
Plot:
Taking place 30 Years after the events of the anime, there was once a boy who can control Yo-kai using a mysterious watch and did his duties maintaining the relationship between two races. His role did not last long as he cannot see Yo-kai when he grows up and the watch the boy once owned was buried within space and time. 30 years later, a strange comet draws near the Earth. An epidemic Yo-kai virus known as Onimaro started affecting people with malevolent intentions and is spreading indefinitely, turning them into Kaodeka Oni and causing chaos throughout the city. With the end near, only the ones chosen by the new Yo-kai Watches can stand up against the upcoming threat and would save both Yo- Kai and humans from certain destruction.
KIKORIKI. DEJA VU
Release year: 2017
Directed by: Denis Chernov
Plot:
Krash decides to throw his best buddy Barry an unforgettable birthday party. He contacts the DejaVu Agency, which organizes exciting time travel adventures. A cataclysmic accident occurs after the Kikoriki crew fail to follow the rules and scatter the group across time. Krash has to find and retrieve his friends through the ages with the help of his alter ego from another time and place who materialises out of the rupture in the space-time continuum.
HAVE A NICE DAY
Release year: 2017
Directed by: LIU Jian
Plot:
HAVE A NICE DAY revolves around the journey of Xiao Zhang, a young driver working for a construction group, who steals a bag containing a million yuan from his boss to fund his girlfriend's plastic surgery and save their relationship. Several gangs are dispatched by the boss to go after Xiao Zhang, but drawn by the fortune; they all scramble to get their hands on the loot. However, great danger lurks behind the greed. Lives of complete strangers with diverse backgrounds are interwoven with a series of coincidences and confrontations, while the story comes to an unexpected end.
BILAL
Release year: 2015
Directed by: Khurram H. Alavi
Plot:
A thousand years ago, one boy with a dream of becoming a great warrior is abducted with his sister and taken to a land far away from home. Thrown into a world where greed and injustice rule all, Bilal finds the courage to raise his voice and make a change. Inspired by true events, this is a story of a real hero who earned his remembrance in time and history.
Release from heaven
Release year: 2017
Directed by：Ali Noori Oskouei
Plot:
In a war torn country, a female teacher and comic writer lives with her students in a boarding school.To calm horrified children who have no hope in our terrifying world, she keeps telling them a story every night. Stories about her childhood imaginary hero who has become a part of her life. But one night the school is attacked and destroyed so she has to accompany two of her students to find their parents. They start a journey during which she finds some signs of her imaginary hero in real world. Up until that time she thought that man who had become her hero was just a part of her stories but now with these signs, she knows that he's real. She is determined to find him but she has a big problem, she knows nothing about him.
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