Father and Daughter (film)

Father and Daughter ( german " Father and Daughter " ) is an eight-minute animated film from the year 2000. Directed the award winning short film, which works without any dialogues, conducted by Michael Dudok de Wit, who also designed the script and the animations. CinéTé Filmproductie BV and Cloudrunner Ltd.. produced the film.

Action

A father and his daughter ride a bike on a Dutch landscape. They stop at one point. The father goes to the sea and gets into a boat, dismissing from his daughter. The child is then regularly return to the point, to wait for his father. It elapse days, months and years without the father comes back. The daughter gets married, has children and is old.

The grown old daughter goes after years of waiting and hoping down at her father to return to the sea, which is now dry and overgrown by plants. The daughter goes on in the grass and discovered her father's washing over sand boat. She lies down in the boat and looking at the sky. Suddenly she sees on the parched landscape her father. She runs up to him and is always younger. They embrace.

Awards

At the Ottawa International Animation Festival 2000, the film won the award as the best OIAF Independent Film and the Audience Award. At the Festival d' Animation Annecy 2001, the film with the main prize, the Cristal d' Annecy was excellent. Also the top prize went to the movie on the Hiroshima Kokusai Animation Festival 2002.

Awards received Father and Daughter at the following festivals:

  • Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart 2002
  • Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films 2002
  • World Animation Celebration in 2001
  • Odense International Film Festival 2001
  • Nederlands Film Festival 2001
  • DOK Leipzig Festival 2001
  • Filmfest Dresden 2001
  • Krakowski Festiwal Filmowy 2001
  • Clermont- Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2001
  • Cinanima 2000
  • Anima Mundi Animation Festival 2001

At the Academy Awards in 2001 Father and Daughter was awarded Best Animated Short Film, and could thus prevail against, among others Don Hertz Feldt Rejected. At the British Academy Film Awards 2001, the film won in the same category. The European Cartoon Forum drew from the movie with the Cartoon d'Or.

Screenplay Film score 73rd Academy Awards Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film Don Hertzfeldt BAFTA Award for Best Short Animation
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