Paprika

Nominated for the Golden Lion in Venice, Paprika explores the boundary between dreams and reality in an animated science-fiction thriller. In the near future, the brilliant psychiatrist Dr Atsuko Chiba uses her secret identity, Paprika, to enter patients’ dreams through revolutionary technology. When the device is stolen, dreams begin to merge with reality, threatening collective sanity. Satoshi Kon’s final film, it would later inspire the dream sequences in Christopher Nolan’s Inception.