Synopsis
Nearby the river of forgetting, a lonely horserider crosses through a village in which children play and let their buried desires surface while the adults celebrate in a festive fashion. Violence and love combine and become entangled almost instinctively.
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Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : First Picture
- Film exports/foreign sales : L'Agence du court métrage
Full credits (14)
- Executive Producer : Ilan Amouyal
- Screenwriter : Dea Kulumbegashvili
- Director of Photography : Arseni Khachaturan
- Assistant director : Marina Kulumbegashvili
- Editor : Richard Marizy
- Sound Recordist : Martin Boissau
- Costume designer : Keti Kalandadze
- Co-producers : David Zerat, Rati Oneli
- Production Manager : Karlo Chikhradze
- Sound Editor : Pierre Choukroun
- Production Designer : Kote Japaridze
- Special Effects : Ève Ramboz
- Make-up Artist : Irma Datuashvili
- Sound Mixer : Thierry Delor
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- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama, Legend
- Themes : Adolescence, Monde rural, Misogyny
- Production language : Georgian
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2016
- Runtime : 15 min
- Visa number : 144.535
- Visa issue date : 05/06/2016
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- 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.
