GIRAF20 Feature Announcement

Nov 16, 11 pm at the Globe Cinema

Romania’s first animated feature, Delta Space Mission, is truly an 80s energetic trip. Tantalizing psychedelic rotoscoped loops over top Richard M Power’s-like sci-fi painted environments, all fuzed together with a multi-layered analog synth score that would make even Calgary’s own TONTO beep with envy. Celebrating its 40th anniversary, Deaf Crocodiles did a beautiful 4K restoration print of this film highlighting this amazing feat of animation history. This film is like a crazy quilt-like adventure that invites its audience to space out as its overwhelming charm washes over you.

A self-learning supercomputer fixates on an intergalactic reporter, Alma, and spawns Stone Monsters, Water Beings, and Robots intent upon abducting her. Stranded on a hostile planet Alma is protected by her alien dog Tin whose appetite for metal plays a vital role before the climactic confrontation between human and AI.

Nov 16, 7pm at the Globe Cinema

A mini-series by the renowned Chinese animation studio Nice Boat, Lantern Blade is adapted from the mange of the same name as it merges martial-arts adventure and Lovecraftian horror. With captivating fight scenes and a worldview spanning decades, the series carefully selects the most impressive moments from the original comic book, reorganizing them to create a powerful clash between truth and falsehood, kindness and evil - Xige Yi

'Lantern Blade is what you get if John Carpenter and Yuen Woo-pin sat Phil Tippit down and said, "we've got this crazy idea for a story and we need you to animate it" and Phil Tippit replies, "You had me at 'we've'". - Andrew Mack Screenanarchy

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PRECEDING THE FILM WILL BE A SPECIAL PRESENTATION FROM MO FAN TAI CHI ACADEMY

Nov 15, 9pm at the Globe Cinema

An aimless teen doing his best to fill his pockets hastily drops out of high school to spend his time slacking, shoplifting, and occasionally making a delivery for a food-on-demand app.During a routine fast food dropoff, he becomes the caretaker of a bizarre Donut-shaped creature from another world. Things spiral and he finds himself having to make hard choices about love, friendship, and the most important thing of all: cash money dollar bills.

Boys Go To Jupiter is a dreamy coming-of-age story packed with heart, humor, and banger lo-fi musical numbers.

The voice cast of Jack Corbett, Julio Torres, Sarah Sherman, Joe Pera, Cole Escola and Elsie Fisher is a perfect collection of weirdo comedic flair, adding to the charmingly strange vibe.

“Bizarre, hilarious, and boasting refreshingly distinct animation, Boys Go to Jupiter is a wonderfully absurd experience.” -Mashable“If Stand by Me, ET, and The LEGO Movie had a baby it would be Julian Glander’s Boys Go to Jupiter (and that’s a good thing)”-Popverse

Nov 14, 9pm at the Globe Cinema

One day, the adventurous Juliette and her sister Carmen find an enchanted toy and get swept away into the Kingdom of Winds. They are transformed into cats and find themselves in a fantastical new world full of flying divas, technicolor dragons, and other mind-melting creations.A psychedelic fairy tale years in the making comes with captivating creatures and a vibrant Seussian world, Sirocco and the Kingdom of Winds is a kaleidoscopic fantasy adventure bursting with charm and wonder. “A Truly spectacular psychedelic excursion in the vein of head-trip classics “The Fantastic Planet” and “The Yellow Submarine.” It’s been roughly half a century since those two movies demonstrated just how liberating the medium of animation can be, but you wouldn’t know it to watch Chieux’s hand-drawn curio, which takes the mesmerizing dream logic of such projects and applies is to an “Alice in Wonderland”-style plot.” - Peter Debruge The Variety, 2023