Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light

Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light is a beautiful stop-motion animated family film by director and artist Filip Pošivac. This visually enchanting film is full of puppets and textures - dynamic camerawork and detailed animation give each shot the feeling that you can touch the world. The film won the Jury Prize in the Contrechamp competition at Annecy and was awarded the Czech Lion for Best Animated Film of 2023.

Eleven-year-old Tony has a unique feature he was born with - he glows. His controlling parents try to keep him at home to protect him from the outside world. Before Christmas, a peculiar girl named Shelly moves into his house and turns his world upside down. For the first time, Tony has a real friend. He introduces Shelly to the fantasy world inside his pillow bunker and she shows him her secret treasure: a magical torch. With its light, they create amazing pictures and worlds that only they can see. Thus, they embark on an adventurous search for the origin of the mysterious tufts of darkness which suck the sunshine out of their house. Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light is a film about what it's like to be different, it is a story about friendship and imagination, about light and darkness.

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