Emma Magenta

Narrated by Emmy Award-winning actress Toni Collette and created by artist Emma Magenta, The Gradual Demise of Phillipa Finch is an animated story of love, beauty and hope. Phillipa Finch delves into her emotional history to uncover how she "died". She reflects on her first love with childhood friend, Fragile Boy, and searches for that perfection again. After encountering Journey Man, Mr Lonely Planet, the Dark Lord, Skater Boy and Piano Man, Phillipa is overwhelmed by her bruised heart and dies. Then her forgotten self, who knew how to love properly, returns and instantly there is hope. Phillipa steps in to her new emotional future, calmly knowing that it isn't going to be perfect.

For Agatha, Christmas triggers sadness. She yearns for freedom laced with imagination, when magical creatures were part of a game played with friends in the forest. The death of her parents after a 1978 Christmas Party still haunts Agatha. She sees similarities between her parents' unhappy marriage and her own. The Black Madonna statue from her childhood visits Agatha, escalating her anxiety and goading her towards change. The discovery of a mysterious portal offers Agatha the possibility of resolving her grief and saving her crumbling marriage.

A stunning and cinematic documentary, NIGHT explores the universal nature of its namesake and how the people of the world experience it. A combination of beautiful and arresting imagery that accurately captures the mystery, mood and magic of the night, this film unveils the pleasure, the pain, the reality and the fantasy behind the darkness.