Breathtaking art deco-style animation illustrates a transgender person’s brave journey of self-acceptance in 1930s Berlin, just as the capital city is beset by repressive sociopolitical forces.
Some of Hollywood’s famed filmmakers, including Jewish emigres William Wyler and Billy Wilder, risk everything in a campaign to rally America behind the war effort. Seeking to foil Hitler’s pervasive propaganda, the government sent documentary crews to war zones to collect tales of heroism, the celluloid chronicling the democratic ideals for which the Allies fought.
A Jewish boy and his wounded four-legged friend seize a last chance to escape a Ukrainian shtetl under siege from Nazi invaders, in this somber, poetic and haunting tale of survival and loss.
