Dimanche (film)

Dimanche is a Canadian animated short film by Patrick Doyon from the year 2011. Additional titles are English Sunday or additionally as a German festival title Sunday.

Action

It's Sunday: A little boy puts a coin on the rails. When the train is about gone, the coin is flat and long. His mother brings him from the rails, ties him to a tie and goes with him to the fair. The boy puts the coin in an envelope and place it in the collection. After the service, the family goes to the grandparents. The adults talk to each other and enables us to match the crows cawing outside. The boy is bored. He sees how the grandmother a fish for the soup heads, who had him before nor winked. Also, the bear's head on the wall makes a lively impression.

The boy leaves the house to lay a stolen grandfather coin on the rails, and sees that the bear has actually only fit his head through the window into the house and now is stuck. The boy puts the coin on the rail, the back side shows a Canadian bears. The Stuck in the house bear manages to pull away. He hurries to the train tracks and sits between the rails, even though the boy wants to stop him. The train comes and rolls over bears and coin. When the boy now picks up the coin, its pattern has changed: it shows on the front and back of the clamped in the house bears from outer and inner vision. The bear on the coin is dead The mother brings the boy and the family moves back home.

Production

Dimanche was the first animated film that Patrick Doyon created as a director, screenwriter and animator. The film was animated as drawing on paper.

The film had its premiere at the Berlinale in February 2011 and ran around the world in the wake at various festivals. In November 2011, the film was released as part of the NFB Animation Express 2 series on DVD.

Awards

Dimanche received at the Berlinale 2011, a Special Mention of the International Jury of Generation Kplus. At the World Festival of Animated Movie in Varna Dimanche was awarded in September 2011 with the Best Children Film Award and received in November 2011 at the Denver Film Festival the ASIFA - Colorado Awards for the Best Animated Short.

The film was nominated in 2012 for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film ". He also received a nomination in the category "Best Animated Short Subject" at the Annie Awards 2012.