IMAGINE

IMAGINE

Rating: PG   (Mild themes and coarse language)
Duration: 84 mins
Director: Tyson Yunkaporta, Jack Manning Bancroft
Cast: Taika Waititi, Yolande Brown, Radical Son, Yael Stone, Taylor Schilling, Wayne Blair, Ian Thorpe
Genre: Drama, animation
Opens: JAN 26

 

A co-created film by over 400 people guided by indigenous Australian systems changers Jack Manning Bancroft and Tyson Yunkaporta.

Starring all-star voice cast including Taika Waititi, Yael Stone, Wayne Blair, Yolande Brown, Ian Thorpe and Tai Hara.

A phone-obsessed teen is pulled into a vortex in this genre-bending fable that asks: what might we discover if we finally look up? Imagine is a ground-breaking animated film blending Indigenous knowledge with cutting-edge technology.

Like many teens, 15-year-old Kim is overwhelmed by digital noise, constantly called back to bouts of scrolling by the pings of their phone – until a claw rips through their bedroom and drags them off to a kaleidoscopic otherworld. There, a sardonic alien dog called Jeff sets Kim on a cryptic quest for freedom: to travel to five islands over the course of 24 hours. Guided by Aboriginal Elders and crossing surreal, symbolic realms – a sentient library, a battlefield of ideologies and an ocean of memories – Kim confronts their fears and addictions.

Official Trailer