And Yet We're Not Super Heroes

During the Himalayan winter, a bear cannot fall asleep. He thinks too much and is in the doldrums. When a white monkey suggests him going to eat some honey at his aunt to change his ideas, a beautiful winter night opens upon them.

A tragic musical comedy about an Ogresse who lives alone in the woods until a young man determined to kill her arrives and fatally wins her heart.

A small fire is crying into the night. Its friends, animals and other funny creatures are trying to cheer it up by throwing a party with dances, toys, fireworks and cakes!

At once fanciful and disquieting, “Tiny Big” presents a series of seemingly unrelated vignettes expressed through simple black-and-white line drawings, punctuated with occasional surprising bursts of color. Underscored by a soundtrack featuring the sounds of nature – wind, waves, crickets – the film eschews narrative, challenging viewers to draw their own conclusions about the significance of ritualized actions in a world that’s both hauntingly familiar and decidedly strange.