Spellbound

• Animation
• Fantasy
• Family
• Adventure
• Comedy

A vibrant and whimsical animated fantasy adventure, *Spellbound* distinguishes itself through a surprisingly grounded emotional core. Rather than focusing on grand battles, the film centers on a princess grappling with the isolating responsibility of saving her family – and a kingdom – from a magically-induced predicament born of her parents’ own strained relationship. The musical numbers aren’t celebratory, but rather express her internal turmoil and desperate search for a solution, imbuing the traditionally upbeat genre with a bittersweet, melancholic undercurrent. Colorful 3D animation belies a narrative preoccupied with familial duty, the complex weight of expectations, and the courage required to confront not monstrous forms, but the underlying hurts that create them.