Synopsis
Pilar, like thousands of other Spanish people, fled Spain in 1939 to escape Franco's dictatorship. Through her story, interwoven with archival images and stop-motion animation sequences, the film looks back at the little-known story of the Retrirada and the cool welcome France reserved to those who lost the Spanish Civil War.
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- Screenwriter : Léa Monforte
- Directors of Photography : Olivier Ludot, Adrien Lhoste
- Editor : Léa Monforte
- Costume designer : Agathe Lederer
- Producer : Léa Monforte
- Sound Editor : Antoine Merle
- Production Designer : Agathe Lederer
- Grader : Marina Amaro
- Sound Mixer : Adam Wolny
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- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary, Animated film
- Sub-genre : Auteur documentary
- Themes : Exile, Exodus, Immigration, History
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2019
- Runtime : 24 min 37 seconds
- Production formats : HD-CAM - AVCHD
- Color type : Color and Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- 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.
