Synopsis
Set in the rural plains of Lesotho, the film documents a day in the life of children living in a Buddhist orphanage, leading to an exploration of shifting power relations and moral value systems.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (2)
- Co-production : KinoElektron
- Foreign production companies : Day Zero Film UG, Day Zero Film
Full credits (9)
- Screenwriter : Teboho Edkins
- Director of Photography : Samuel Lahu
- Foreign producers : Teboho Edkins, Don Edkins
- Line Producer : Don Edkins
- Co-producer : Janja Kralj
- Production Manager : Rebeatsoe Rasephei
- Sound Editor : Johannes Kunz
- Grader : Eric Giese
- Sound Mixer : Johannes Kunz
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary, Experimental
- Sub-genre : Portrait, Research - Experimental, Video art
- Themes : Ethnography, Religion, Immigration
- Production language : Mandarin
- Coproducer countries : Germany (40.0%), South Africa (30.0%), France (30.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Minority French (Germany, South Africa, France)
- Production year : 2020
- Runtime : 8 min 27 seconds
- Production formats : AVCHD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- 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.
