“9” is one of the confirmed features that will open the IndieLisboa section, IndieJúnior. Directed by the Academy Award-nominated Shane Acker, produced by Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov, the animation film will have its premiere in Portugal at IndieLisboa. Afterwards, it will be exhibited in the Portuguese cinemas distributed by Zon Lusomundo.
The time is the too-near future. Powered and enabled by the invention known as the Great Machine, the world’s machines have turned on mankind and sparked social unrest, decimating the human population before being largely shut down. But as our world fell to pieces, a mission began to salvage the legacy of civilization; a group of small creations was given the spark of life by a scientist in the final days of humanity, and they continue to exist post-apocalypse.
Another of their own, 9, emerges and displays leadership qualities that may help them survive and possibly even thrive. With their group so few, these “stitchpunk” creations must summon individual strengths well beyond their own proportions in order to outwit and fight against still-functioning machines. Giving voice to the stitchpunk group are Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly and Christopher Plummer.