Dreams of the City at The Mockingbird is a season of animated urban visions, where the city becomes more than a setting. It’s a character, a machine, a memory, a playground, a nightmare. Across these films we dive into neon skylines, towering architecture and crowded streets that feel alive with possibility, following drifters, dreamers and outsiders as they move through futures imagined and pasts remembered.
Expect a mix of sci-fi, action and heartfelt coming-of-age stories, with worlds that shift between reality and fantasy, waking life and dream logic. From sleek space-age metropolises to Tokyo at Christmas, these screenings celebrate animation’s power to capture the feeling of a city: its speed, its loneliness, its beauty, and the strange magic that flickers in the gaps between the crowds.