For Group Tickets <a href="https://facets.formstack.com/forms/cicff39_group_screening_reservation_request" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> Take a literary journey through the creative interpretation of story and verse. From the work of Edward Lear to a different andmated take of Old Man and the Sea. For Ages Teen 14+ | 73 minutes | Presented in English, nonverbal and original languages with English subtitles

The Crow A crow, tired of living among other crows and their small community, decides to leave and follow an eagle. As the crow follows, he comes across several trials before the eagle accepts him and allows him to travel beside him. Returning from his journey, the crow returns to the other crows and presents his new form, inspiring another crow to begin the journey.

The Crow

A crow decides the leave his group and follow an eagle to a new life.

Arctic Song The sky, the mountains, the land, and the sea. We see them every day, but how did they come to be? "Arctic Song" explores just this by retelling traditional Inuit creation stories. The stories are as ancient as the Iglulik region of Nunavu itself, but the film tells them in a fresh, eye-catching way that are sure to inspire a new generation of storytellers.

Arctic Song

The Inuit stories of the world’s creation put to song and visuals.

The Dong With The Luminous Nose Sometimes Victorian poems can be difficult to visualize. However, this adaption of Edward Lear's nonsense verse, The Dong with a Luminous Nose, envisions the lonely Dong who has lost his love. As Tilda Swinton provides an eerie, gripping narration of Dong's journey, the absurd poem soon comes alive.

The Dong With The Luminous Nose

Narrated by Tilda Swinton, this adaption of Victorian poet Edward Lear's nonsense verse, The Dong with a Luminous Nose, applies fitting visuals to Lear's absurd lyrical imagery of the poor Dong who has lost his love.

THE BLACK reCAT As an adaptation of the novel "The Black Cat," the film reveals the truth of the main character's hallucination about a black cat.

THE BLACK reCAT

A stop motion animation revisits the novel “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe.

flooded daisies Combining images and spoken word poetry, this film depicts a young person's experience living with clinical depression. While admiring a field of colorful daisies, a girl is suddenly swept away by a treacherous flood. She struggles to swim to the surface, where she finds drifting daisies symbolizing her fragile sense of hope. Riding waves of emotional imbalance time and time again, the girl learns that the flood will eventually pass, and that her life is a cycle of coexisting pain and beauty.

flooded daisies

Living with clinical depression, a girl feels as if her life is a never-ending cycle of turmoil. While riding the waves of emotional imbalance, she holds on to her flickering sense of hope, and learns that beauty and chaos can coexist in life.

Santiago ﻿Based on Hemingway’s ‘The Old Man and the Sea,' we see the friendship between an old fisherman and a child. Through Santiago's journey, we learn the lengths that people will go to in order to achieve their goals as well as the consequences of this steadfastness. But in the end, we learn that the relationships we have with other people should be valued above all else.

Santiago

OrHoDa In the taiga forest along the Amur River, a group of Jurchen hunters were searching for an elusive and spirited root.

OrHoDa

New Moon Based on the play by Colman Domingo, one starry summer night, young Jay Jay and his mother Edie sit together on their front porch, sipping ice tea and listening to the radio. Under the soft light of the new moon, Jay Jay joins his mother as she embarks on a magical journey to rediscover lost dreams, find forgiveness, and nurture new hopes. Now an adult, he recalls this extraordinary night and the wisdom Edie passed on to him, reflecting on the importance of reaching for a better future while remembering one's roots.

New Moon

Jay Jay and his mother Edie spend their nights together listening to music and telling stories. When they witness a new moon one night, JayJay learns the importance of hope and believing in himself.

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