Little Otik (35mm)
Thu 16 Apr
|Tyneside Cinema
A hauntingly dark folk tale horror from surrealist Czech animation luminary Jan Švankmajer (Alice), fusing live action and stop-motion, Little Otik follows a childless couple who fashion a baby out of wood - with nightmarish consequences...
Time & Location
16 Apr 2026, 19:45 – 22:00
Tyneside Cinema, 10 Pilgrim St, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 6QG, UK
About the event
Little Otik (35mm)
A hauntingly dark folk tale horror from surrealist Czech animation luminary Jan Švankmajer (Alice), fusing live action and stop-motion, Little Otik follows a childless couple who fashion a baby out of wood - with nightmarish consequences...
When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife’s pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However, the woman takes the root as her baby and starts to pretend that it is real. When the root takes life they seem to have gained a child; but it’s appetite is much greater than a normal child.
Screening as part of Moving Parts Puppet Film Fest!
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Genre: Horror
