Living Dolls

Barbie Uncovered: A Dream House Divided

March 2024 •English

The film spotlights the soaring success of Barbie, with sales of three hundred thousand dolls in the first year, to over two billion before Ruth Handler died. The enormous financial rewards for both multi-millionaire parents are exposed, and this leads to a surprising story of betrayal, sex, drugs and excessive partying.

Love Me, Love My Doll

January 2007 •English

This special focuses on a group of men who have fallen in love with their life-size dolls, called "Real Dolls." For these men, their $10,000 lifelike, built-to-order creations have replaced human women. For some people, finding a partner in life can be difficult. For these men, it's almost impossible. Some years ago, a small factory in California began making an alternative partner. Each one is tailored made to suit every taste. There are now 3000 real dolls across the world providing some of those with love and companionship that real women cannot.

A Doll Like Me

October 2023 •Dutch

The Amsterdam doll shop Colorful Goodies sells Barbies, boy dolls, and cuddly dolls that every child can recognize; from dolls with different skin colors and professions, to dolls with disabilities. This documentary follows three families of color who take home a doll. What does such a doll mean for your self-image if you struggle with it because you are of color, or because you have to learn to live with albinism? Is our dominant white society as tolerant as we think?

Hedgehog in Love

January 2015 •Ukrainian

Experimental cartoon which unites various techniques: puppets, sand & water (ebru) animations. About friendship, love and necessity to pay attention not only to the visual appeal.

The Doll's Revenge

March 1907 •English

A boy breaks his sister's doll and it mends, grows, tears him up and eats him.

Mint in Box

October 2025 •English

Abby awakens to find herself trapped inside a crate, with unknown figures outside and her only hope is to find a means of escape.

The Beast

February 2024 •French

In the near future where emotions have become a threat, Gabrielle finally decides to purify her DNA in a machine that will immerse her in her past lives and rid her of any strong feelings. She then meets Louis and feels a powerful connection, as if she had known him forever.

Coma

November 2022 •French

Amidst a period of unprecedented world events, an eighteen-year-old girl’s life is placed on hold. Isolated in her bedroom, she falls under the spell of the mysterious vlogger Patricia Coma. As time carries on, the lines between her dreams, fears, hopes, and reality begin to blur into one another.

The Toy Castle: Nutcracker Sweet

February 2006 •English

Storytelling through dance is an effective way to make dance accessible and exciting to young children. In The Toy Castle collections, members of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet comprise a brightly costumed cast of girl and boy storybook characters including Ballerina, Soldier, China Doll and Rag Doll who live in a toy dollhouse and come to life at night when the children are sleeping. Nutcracker Sweet presents twelve short dance stories that include themes from famous classical ballets like the "Nutcracker Suite," "Romeo and Juliet," and "Petrouchka" and holiday motifs such as "Twelve Days of Christmas," "Waiting for Santa," and "I Believe." (Ages 3 to 10)

A Lousa

June 2023 •Portuguese

Dolls

September 2025 •English

Yan, a junior private investigator, goes undercover to attend a dating workshop for trans women.

Day of a Lion

August 2025 •English

After their father's death two sisters reunite at their childhood home to uncover forgotten secrets and rip open old wounds.

Innocent

September 2023 •Portuguese

Island of the Dolls

January 2023 •English

A group of people go to the legendary Island of the Dolls to learn the deadly truth.

Wooden Athelete

July 1912 •English

Stripped-back wooden dolls put on the greatest show on Earth via the marvel of stop motion.

The Nutcracker 3D

November 2014 •Japanese

This adaptation of the Nutcracker story (by Tchaikovsky and original choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov) is updated in this stop-motion animation from the original Japanese release of 1979. The new 3-D rendering is complemented by the art direction of Sebastian Masuda who is responsible for much of Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's style. She also provides music here.

House of Dolls

October 2023 •English

Three estranged sisters return home to collect an inheritance only to confront each other and trigger a downward spiral of murder inside of a giant Doll House.

The Changeover

September 2017 •English

Laura Chant, 16, lives with her mother and four-year-old brother Jacko in a poor new suburb on the edge of a partially demolished Christchurch, New Zealand. Laura is drawn into a supernatural battle with an ancient spirit who attacks Jacko and slowly drains the life out of him as the spirit becomes ever younger. Laura discovers her true identity and the supernatural ability within her, and must harness it to save her brother's life.

Halloween

August 2021 •Czech

A short experimental film set during one Halloween night, when dolls come to life from the shelves and gather for a secret party together. But will their midnight revelry be discovered, or remain hidden in the shadows?

scratch

February 2024 •English

A nonverbal voodooist hunts unmannerly commuters while concocting an ill-fated plan to ease an unscratchable itch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhqIvQmLSlg