sad fairytales

Storybook surfaces with grief underneath. A man with scissors for hands, a wooden boy in Mussolini's Italy, a claymation pen-pal friendship across thirty years. These films keep the invented worlds, bright palettes and fable logic of children's stories, and use them to say something a realist film could not say without flinching.

Films here also carry Found Family, Coming of Age, Loneliness & Isolation, Identity Crisis, Nostalgia & Longing.