Watch Award-Winning Animation Away At Picture House At Home

Newly added to our Picture House at Home online programme! Away is about a boy travelling across an island on a motorcycle, trying to escape a dark spirit and get back home. Along the way he makes a series of connections with different animals and reflects on the possible ways he ended up on the island. Part dream, part reality, Away explores our common, universal need to find a connection.

Newly listed! We’re delighted to be able to add the multiple award-winning film Away (U) to our Picture House at Home programme.

★★★★ “Dreamy, sublime… a breath-taker” TOTAL FILM

★★★★ “Wondrous and original” THE GUARDIAN

★★★★ “Simply extraordinary” METRO

RENT AWAY HERE

Directed by Gints Zilbalodis
Dialogue Free | Animation/Fantasy/Adventure | 75 min

Away is about a boy travelling across an island on a motorcycle, trying to escape a dark spirit and get back home. Along the way he makes a series of connections with different animals and reflects on the possible ways he ended up on the island. Part dream, part reality, Away explores our common, universal need to find a connection.

The multiple award-winning film took the prestigious Contrechamp Award at Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2019. Director and animator Gints Zilbalodis worked on the film for three and a half years, writing the fascinating story, creating the beautifully animated landscapes and characters, and composing and recording the enchanting music to this stunning dialogue-free film.