Unemployed Franz and his son Benny swindle the shady loan shark Johannsen out of a whopping 25,000 marks. But the sudden windfall makes not only his wife and mother Hilda suspicious, but also their neighbor Konrad – who happens to be a police commissioner.
Disney has kept its word and allowed a new generation of Black and/or African storytellers to tell their own original stories. The question remains, will the public keep their word?
In Deaf, the Spanish director Eva Libertad explores pregnancy and motherhood from the perspective of a deaf woman. Her movie examines how the world imposes the notion of disability on her main character while she actually does not feel disabled herself.
The original Mothra is a fun monster movie that has way stronger lore, music, and special effects than most of its contemporaries.
Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow era, the film offers layered representation.
Animation as a medium of storytelling can be thought to be open to all ages and as I hope my readings will reveal, they could be interpreted as transgender stories.
Disney has a glaring and, up until recently, unaddressed issue that spans nearly its entire lifetime - an absence of diversity.
