Threads

Sep 7, 2017

0h 8m

★ 6.7

Overview

In this spellbinding hand-drawn odyssey by the celebrated Oscar-winning animator Torill Kove, a bustling urban habitat becomes an enchanting web of human connection. Threads explores how fundamental attachment is to the experience of being human.

Genres

Animation

Family

Production Companies

ONF | NFB

Mikrofilm

Threads Trailers

Cast

No Cast found.

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