9. The Left Hand of Darkness by #UTC61 & Yara Arts Group.

Ambitious but uneven. Too much respect for the source material to alter it for this medium. Le Guin’s story of a planet whose inhabitants regularly change sex is complicated enough, why not use puppets to explore these ideas rather than replicating so slavishly? Some excellent makes and techniques; too many actually, that weren’t uniformly performed artistically and made it feel hollow.

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