Subliminal Films has announced the upcoming U.S. release of Away, the feature debut of Latvian filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis, who spent over four years single-handedly animated, scoring, editing and producing a film described by The Hollywood Reporter as “somewhere between Hayao Miyazaki and Terrence Malick”.
The film, told entirely without dialogue, follows a young boy who mysteriously crash lands on an exotic island and has to travel across it on a motorcucle in order to escape a monstrous dark spirit and return home.
Watch the trailer for Away here…
Away is set for release in Los Angeles and online on November 29th.