Synopsis
Two foreign women, one Russian, the other Chinese, live in France and get by doing casual work. Olga and Mai, each so different from the other, both share the same reality of being an immigrant. It's nothing to dream about. And yet!!!
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Actors (7)
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- Executive Producer : Sotavento
Full credits (12)
- Executive Producers : Antoine Roch, Jérôme Zajdermann, Paulina Marino
- Screenwriters : Natalia Reyes, Sandrine Dumas
- Director of Photography : Marc Tévanian
- Composers : Delphine Ciampi-Ellis, Anne Millioud-Gouverneur, Diane Sorel
- Editor : Barbara Bascou
- Sound Recordist : Jean-Paul Mugel
- Costume designer : Judy Shrewsbury
- Production Manager : Julien Decoin
- Sound editor : Anne Gibourg
- Continuity supervisor : Marie Prual
- Production Designers : Cécile Vatelot, Leonardo Haertling
- Sound Mixer : Emmanuel Croset
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Themes : Adolescence, Family, Identity, Immigration, Solitude/loneliness
- Production language : French, Russian, Chinese
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
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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.