Images Cinema

Presented by the Williamstown Film Festival; Tickets are $7; $5 for children 12 and under; In English

Dino is a pet cat that leads a double life. By day he lives with Zoe, a little mute girl whose mother, Jeanne, is a detective in the Parisian police force. But at night he sneaks out the window to work with Nico - a slinky cat burglar with a big heart, whose fluid movements are poetry in motion – as he evades captors and slips and swishes from rooftop to rooftop across the Paris skyline. The cat’s two worlds collide when young Zoe decides to follow Dino on his nocturnal adventures.

A Cat in Paris is a warm and richly humorous love letter to classic noir films and the stylized wit of the Pink Panther cartoons.

• Director: Jean-Loup Felicioli, Alain Gagnol
• Runtime: 1 hour 20 minutes
• Genre: Animation, Noir

A kaleidoscopic showcase of the best short film and animation from around the world, for ages 3 to 6. In English.

• Runtime: 1 hour
• Genre: Animation, Mixed Media

Starring: Will Ferrell, James Caan, Zooey Deschanel

After inadvertently wreaking havoc on the elf community due to his ungainly size, a man raised as an elf at the North Pole is sent to the U.S. in search of his true identity.

• Director: Jon Favreau
• Rating: PG
• Runtime: 97 minutes

A selection of the most entertaining, thought-provoking and visually stunning short films for ages 7 to 14, from the New York International Children's Film Festival. In English.

• Runtime: 68 minutes
• Genre: Animation, Live Action

Lotte, a happy girl-puppy, lives in a village by the sea. All the villagers are inventors. Lotte's father is the most famous of all. But this year he is rivaled by Adalbert the rabbit. There are lots and lots of inventions and one which takes Lotte and her friends all the way to Japan.

A festival winner in its native Estonia as well as Berlin, New York and Mill Valley, Lotte has won honors everywhere it has shown! (All ages)

• Director: Heiki Ernits and Janno Põldma
• Rating: For all ages
• Runtime: 1 hour 16 minutes
• Genre: Animation

Sunday/Dimanche – 10 minutes – English – Patrick Doyon
Every Sunday, it’s the same old routine! The train clatters through the village and almost shakes the pictures off the wall. In the church, Dad dreams about his toolbox. And of course later Grandma will get a visit and the animals will meet their fate.

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore – 15 minutes – No Dialogue – William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
Inspired, in equal measures, by Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz, and a love for books, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is a poignant, humorous allegory about the curative powers of story. Using a variety of techniques (miniatures, computer animation, 2D animation) award winning author/illustrator William Joyce and co-director Brandon Oldenburg present a hybrid style of animation that harkens back to silent films and MGM Technicolor musicals. Morris Lessmore is old fashioned and cutting edge at the same time.

La Luna – 7 minutes – English – Enrico Casaroasa

A fable of a young boy who is coming of age in the most peculiar of circumstances. Tonight is the very first time his Papa and Grandpa are taking him to work. In an old wooden boat they row far out to sea, and with no land in sight, they stop and wait. A big surprise awaits the little boy as he discovers his family’s most unusual line of work.

A Morning Stroll – 7 minutes – No Dialogue – Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe

When a New Yorker walks past a chicken on his morning stroll, we’re left to wonder which one is the real city slicker.

Wild Life – 13 minutes – English – Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby
Calgary, 1909: an Englishman moves to the Canadian frontier, but is singularly unsuited to it. His letters home are much sunnier than the reality. Intertitles compare his fate to that of a comet.

• Rating: Not Rated
• Runtime: 80 minutes
• Genre: Animation

Starring: Voices by Max von Sydow Stellan Skarsgård, Alexander Skarsgård

Debuted at the Cannes Film Festival

One day Moomintroll notices that something strange has happened in the Moomin Valley - everything is grey; not just the sky and the river, but the trees, the ground, the Moominhouse, too! Moomintroll runs to ask the well-read Muskrat if he knows what is happening. Muskrat declares that this is the way things tend to look like before the earth faces an awful fate coming from the sky... With the help of his father, Moominpappa, Moomintroll and his worried friends build the best raft ever and start on a challenging journey to the observatory.

• Director: Maria Lindberg
• Runtime: 1 hour 15 minutes
• Genre: Stop Motion Animation