Swimming Away
Synopsis
Sarah can’t cope with answering the telephone. She has lost her baby. Lying beside the empty cradle, she responds to nothing… But suddenly, when dipping her finger in a glass of water, she realizes that she can be transported into an unfamiliar undersea world. She is the only person to believe in her strange powers and decides to give herself over to them completely.
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- Executive Producer : La fémis
Full credits (8)
- Screenwriter : Julia Lowy
- Director of Photography : Matthieu-David Cournot
- Music Composer : Oliver Probst
- Editor : Svetlana Vaynblat
- Sound recordists : Loïc Pommiès, Jean-Baptiste Haehl
- Voice-overs : Philippe Noiret, Yamina Bachir-Chouikh
- Sound Editor : Loïc Pommiès
- Sound Mixer : Grégoire Bourdeuil
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- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Psychological drama, Fantasy
- Themes : Ocean, Solitude/loneliness
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2006
- Runtime : 11 min
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SRD
- Rating restrictions : None
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A Town Called Panic: The Christmas Log (2013), by Vincent Patar & Stéphane Aubier
The year’s end celebrations are coming. Christmas : the tree, the dinner, the presents. Indian and Cowboy are expecting their presents eagerly. Overexcited by the organisation of the celebration, they fight and destroy the Yule log on which Horse was putting the last touch. Horse is livid and cancels the gifts from Santa Claus. How will they win back the favours of Horse and The Old Bearded Man? How will they retrieve their gifts ? For Indian and Cowboy begins a long, very long Christmas Eve.
🎄🎁 This new episode of cult animated series ‘A Town Called Panic’ was selected for festivals around the world, and notable gathered the Audience First Prize at the Bologna
Future Film Festival in Bologna.
It was nominated for the 2015 César for Best Animated Short Film.
