The Moon is Essentially Gray (2016)
• May 2nd, 2016 • 0h 4min
Animation, Drama
Overview
“The Moon Is Essentially Gray” is a 3-minute CG animated short about a young child, her makeshift rocket, and her fantastic flight to the moon. The film explores the role escapism plays in the lives of children who suffer some form of neglect or abandonment by their caregivers. It is ultimately about the struggle to gain (or regain) personal power, joy, and freedom.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
The Red Baron
Released on: 2008-03-29
Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes f...
Annaluise & Anton
Released on: 1953-08-26
Family, Drama, Comedy
Despite their social differences Luise, called Pünktchen, a girl from rich parentage befriends Anton...
Tough Enough
Released on: 2006-03-09
Drama, Thriller
From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that ...
A Grand Day Out
Released on: 1990-05-18
Family, Animation, Comedy
Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese, and this provides an excellent excuse for the duo to take...
Ad Astra
Released on: 2019-09-17
Science Fiction, Drama
The near future, a time when both hope and hardships drive humanity to look to the stars and beyond....
Apollo 13
Released on: 1995-06-30
Drama, History
The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the l...
A Bite of Love
Released on: 2006-01-12
Comedy, Drama, Family
Khao Niao, a young girl, is left at her relatives' house by her mother. Although she is surrounded b...
Rosy
Released on: 2019-06-18
Drama
An experimental short film about a girl's troubled relationship and dance which is her only escape f...
Moon
Released on: 2009-06-12
Science Fiction, Drama
With only three weeks left in his three-year contract, Sam Bell is getting anxious to finally return...
The Manxman
Released on: 1929-01-18
Romance, Drama
A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.
Happy Flight
Released on: 2008-11-15
Comedy, Drama
A variety of aviation professionals such as pilots, flight attendants, the ground crew, mechanics, d...
The Spirit of St. Louis
Released on: 1957-04-01
Adventure, Drama, History
Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his 1927 New York to Pa...
Bones and All
Released on: 2022-11-18
Drama, Horror, Romance
Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of A...
The Whale
Released on: 2022-12-09
Drama
A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged t...
Blush: An Extraordinary Voyage
Released on: 2022-10-18
Documentary, Animation
For 18-year-old Finnish–Kosovan Fatu, a simple visit to the grocery store feels as nerve-racking as ...
Impression
Released on: 2023-02-18
Drama
Impression and interpretation: A film that relies on sensory techniques to tell a story about depres...
Destination Moon
Released on: 1950-06-27
Science Fiction, Adventure, Drama
A team composed of an aerospace scientist, an ex-Air Force general, and an industrialist conceives a...
The Moon’s Milk
Released on: 2018-07-23
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Animation
At a time when the moon could be reached by ladder, Captain Millipede, his daughter, a deaf milk min...
A Ship of Human Skin
Released on: 2019-02-07
Drama, Horror, Mystery, Crime
A gothic tale of mysticism and violent crime. Two women go out into the fringe of rural culture to s...