Synopsis
A film where two tales interweave, one to do with a television soap, the other about a young woman who watches the program in her home in Saigon. The story of a child looking for his father in the Mekong Delta is superimposed with the daily life of the Vietnamese woman who follows the camera. The film plays with the distances and criss-crossings of these two stories, thereby confronting the Communist collective imagination with the everyday life of urban existence in full expansion.
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- Executive Producer : Atopic
Full credits (10)
- Executive Producer : Antoine Segovia
- Screenwriter : Christelle Lheureux
- Director of photography : Christelle Lheureux
- Music Composer : Cham Vao
- Editor : Christelle Lheureux
- Sound recordist : Christelle Lheureux
- Voice-over : Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran
- Sound editor : Christelle Lheureux
- Sound mixer : Christelle Lheureux
- Narrator : Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran
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- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Auteur documentary, Fairy tale, Research - Experimental
- Themes : History, Media
- Production language : Vietnamese
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2007
- Runtime : 33 min
- Production formats : Mini DV
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.33
- Audio format : Stereo
- 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.
