In 330 AD, in Anatolia during the Roman Empire, bishop Saint Nicholas spots a girl sitting on the streets and gives her a wooden doll as a gift. Her happiness inspires him to open up a shop to make toys to give as a present to kids.
"The Legend of Santa" is a quiet, gentle and touching little animated short film without any dialogues, aimed at telling its story only visually, using opulent watercolor-style animation to give the film a dreamy, innocent look. Its central theme about awakened compassion dwells on some timeless efforts to improve life through little things in history, on what every individual is able to do what is in his or her power. Despite its compact running time of 6 minutes, the director Andrew de Burgh is able to achieve an optimistic vision of humanity, and make the transitions of time an interesting symbol for the protagonist's path to the best version of himself.
Grade:+++
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