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Rene Laloux's mesmerising sci-fi animated feature is set in a distant world where tiny humans, or Oms, are kept as pets by large alien creatures, the Draags. Soon, one Om absconds with a Draag knowledge device, using the tool to foment a wild Om uprising against his captors. Inspired by the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia in the late 1960s, Laloux's breathtaking vision immediately drew comparisons to Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Planet of the Apes. Today, the film can be seen to prefigure much of the work of Hayao Miyazaki due to its political and social concerns, epic imagination and ground breaking animation techniques.