Icarus and the Minotaur

Original Title: Icarus and the Minotaur

Country

Luxembourg

Director

Carlo Vogele

Year

2022

Run Time

76 min

Genre

Animation

Maturity Rating

U

Awards/Main Selection

Nominated for best foreign film (International Feature Film) at the 95th Academy Awards

Synopsis

Young Icarus lives a happy and humble life in the sculpture workshop of his father, the famous inventor Daedalus. The day he discovers a little boy with a bull’s head who lives hidden in the Royal palace of Knossos, a tender friendship rocks his world.

But when King Minos imprisons the “Monster” in the secret labyrinth built by Daedalus, Icarus loses his only friend as well as his trust in a beloved father. As the handsome Prince Theseus arrives in Crete to kill the Minotaur, Icarus seizes one last chance to save his childhood friend. After a fateful night of death and betrayal, his disillusion culminates in a tragic choice between light and darkness.