Screening times:
Sunday, June 14, 5:30 PM

Michael Arias | Japan | 2006 | 111m
Japanese with English subtitles

Lucid Toons is your monthly animation fix, bringing animated films to Carbon Arc! Lucid Toons is a spin-off of Carbon Arc’s annual Animation Festival of Halifax (AFX), which occurs every May! We just celebrated AFX’s 15th Birthday and we had a ball -we’re excited for next year already!

Black, a boy who seeks to bend the city to his will through strength, and White, his innocent counterpart, are two orphaned street kids living in the slums of Treasure Town. When real estate developers threaten to transform Treasure Town into a massive theme park, its very existence is put at risk. Determined to protect both White and their city, Black takes on the yakuza and assassins, gradually losing his innocence as he confronts a dark manifestation within himself.

Tekkonkinkreet is a Japanese animated coming-of-age fantasy action drama film, directed by Michael Arias and produced by Studio 4°C. Adapted from Taiyō Matsumoto’s manga Tekkonkinkreet: Black & White, the film is notable for being the first major Japanese anime directed by a non-Japanese filmmaker.

"In the anime Tekkonkinkreet, two orphans of life's storms sail through the air like birds, like superheroes, like Jackie Chan." - Manohla Dargis, New York Times

"Borrowing in equal measures from innocuous child fantasies and Street Fighter, the colorfully imaginative world of Tekkonkinkreet has its fair share of marvels." - Eric Kohn, New York Press

Winner: Best Animation Film - Award of the Japanese Academy, 2008
Winner: Best Original Story (Taiyô Matsumoto) - Tokyo Animation Award, 2007

Tickets $12 ($11.40 at the door if available)