Berlin Review: Papaya is a colorful, musical vibe with a message
One of my favorite animated movies from last year was Dandelion's Odyssey, a sci-fi adventure following a group of dandelion seeds in search of new places to plant themselves in the vast expanse of space. Now, here I am once again falling in love with a wordless movie about a seed, albeit one that couldn't be more different from Dandelion's Odyssey if it tried. Priscilla Kellen's Papaya , playing in the Generation Kplus section at Berlin this year, is a colorful symphony of a movie that traces the grand journey of a humble papaya seed who isn't quite ready to put down his roots. He has his eye on the sky, wanting to join the various flying creatures and objects that seem so free, so happy, so untethered. Obviously, the heavens aren't generally the playground of a seed (at least not for any meaningful stretch of time), but that doesn't stop our plucky hero from giving it all he's got. From the jump, this movie is such a vibe. It's an absolute explosio...
