Ashes
Synopsis
Max is a forty-year-old Parisian cab driver. Naoko is a young Japanese pianist. One fall evening, Max is driving along the beltway, haunted by the recent death of a relative. He ends up picking up a fare: Naoko.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (2)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : GREC - Groupe de Recherches et d'Essais Cinématographiques
Full credits (12)
- Executive Producer : Alice Beckmann
- Screenwriters : Paul Costes, Gabriel Costes, Mahmoud Chokrollahi
- Director of Photography : Nessim Saheb Ettaba
- Editors : Anaïs Enshaian, Paul Costes
- Sound Recordist : Olivier Roux
- Costume designer : Pauline Kieffer
- Voice-over : Bernard Blancan
- Production manager : Sabine Beulin
- Sound Editor : Rémi Sampic
- Continuity supervisor : Cécile Rodolakis
- Production Designer : Martin Tronquart
- Sound Mixer : Vincent Villa
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Literary adaptation , Drama, Legend, Burlesque comedy, Film noir
- Themes : Encounters, Death
- Production language : French, Japanese
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2008
- Runtime : 23 min 14 seconds
- Visa number : 119.719
- Visa issue date : 05/11/2009
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Dolby SR
- 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.
