Synopsis
Is there an age to cope with grief for the first time? Paloma is twenty years old. She has just lost her grandfather. Her whole family gets together the night before his funeral in the grandparents' home, filled with childhood memories. Without her seeing or understanding it, Paloma is here led to confront her grief. As though this end of summer marks the end of carefreeness.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (7)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producers : H Rouge Productions, Incendie Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : L'Agence du court métrage
Full credits (14)
- Executive Producers : Arthur Beauvois, Antoine Olla
- Screenwriter : Pauline Garcia
- Director of Photography : Martin Roux
- Assistant director : Costanza Mezzano
- Editor : Nobuo Coste
- Sound Recordist : Jean-Christophe Lion
- Costume designer : Camille Nogues
- Assistant Operator : Arthur Schwarz
- Sound Editor : Antoine Bertucci
- Continuity supervisor : Amandine Derdoukh
- Production Designer : Margot Kraatz
- Grader : Laurent Ripoll
- Make-up Artist : Emma Franco
- Sound Mixer : Clément Laforce
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Portrait
- Themes : Family
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2019
- Runtime : 19 min 22 seconds
- Visa number : 149.901
- Visa issue date : 09/09/2019
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 2.39
- Audio format : 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
News & awards
Selections (1)
Resources
Festivals Listing(1)
Movies and programs to discover
MyFrenchShorts
Full movie to watch for free!
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.