2014 · adventure · animation · sci-fi
Almost Home
Directed by Todd Wilderman4m2014
A group of aliens searching for a new planet on which to make home, with little success. Promotional short for Dreamworks Animation's forthcoming feature, Home.
Our read: Almost Home (2014) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded adventure · animation · sci-fi entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle adventure / animation, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- funny
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