An important note when choosing which films to see at the Toronto International Film Festival: don't ignore the kids program. Heck, Wallace and Gromit were in there one year and every sees at least one title with serious potential to cross over into all age brackets. And this year that film looks like it could be Krabat. A German teen fantasy film about a youth being taught magic, it would be easy to write this off as a Harry Potter clone except that it looks far, far darker in tone than any of the Potter films have been so far, much more in line with fantasy pictures from the late eighties than anything current, only with much better production values.

We've got the trailer below the break in the Twitch Player. Watch out for the transformation shots in particular, those are fantastic.