When Life Departs

Når livet går sin vej (translated: When life comes to an end ) is a Danish animated short film by Stefan Fjeldmark and Karsten Kiilerich from 1997 The film uses real interview footage of students from the Copenhagen Skolen i Charlottegården as a basis for the animation. children's drawings is similar. The film score is kept optimistic in spite of the topic.

Action

Children talk about their thoughts about death. The little brother of a girl who died and she tells how cold he felt and how much she cried when he was buried. She wishes that her brother, for example, a dog came back to her and pray often to talk just a minute with him.

Other children share their thoughts on the rebirth ( one rising from the grave just in an elevator, one again returns to the earth's surface ), about God ( he looks like an old king of ), and the devil, and the life in heaven (you can running on clouds and playing football ). A girl finds at the end that they are no great thoughts about death do because they have their whole lives ahead of them.

Awards

Når livet går sin vej received at the 1997 Corto Imola Festival took third place in the category "Best International Commercial". On the World Animation Celebration of the film received the UNICEF Award and won in the category " Best Animation Produced for Educational Purposes ".

The film was nominated in 1999 for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film ", but could not prevail against Bunny himself.