This Magnificent Cake!

Filmmaker Barry Jenkins has said that This Magnificent Cake!, a stop-motion animation flick directed by Marc James Roels and Emma De Swaef, was the best movie he saw last year. Featuring five interconnected stories of colonial Africa — all set in the Belgian Congo during the late 19th century — the film received acclaim when it screened at major film festivals. It makes its local debut at 7 tonight at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Two animated shorts, Niki Lindroth von Bahr's 17-minute film The Burden and Roels and de Swaef's 14-minute Oh Willy ..., will also screen. Tickets cost $10, or $7 for CMA members. (Niesel)