Away

classified U
Film

Please note: This was screened in Sept 2020

Director
Gints Zilbalodis
Details
75 mins, 2019, Latvia
Primary language
None

After a mysterious crash landing, a young boy travels across an exotic island on a motorcycle, trying to escape a dark spirit and return home.

Along the way he makes a series of connections with different animals and reflects on the possible ways he ended up on the island. Part dream, part reality, Away explores our common, universal need to find a connection.

Written, produced, directed, scored, and animated entirely by award winning Latvian filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis, Away was beautifully crafted over three and a half years and developed from a previous short Zilbalodis had been working on. The story, told without dialogue over a series of breathtaking backgrounds, is equally inspired by reality, dreams, and waking fantasies.


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