2005. 14 minutes 18. Modern tale from Vietnam.
Script, design, direction, editing: Stephanie Lansaque & Francois Leroy.
Animation: François Leroy, Stephanie Lansaque, Amanda Sun.
Sound: Denis Vautrin.
Broadcasting: ARTE (France and Germany). Independent Film Television (Cable TV France, Belgium, Switzerland). Shorts TV (Cable TV France), VTV4 (Vietnam), Cinefil (Japan).
Distribution: Catalogue RADI.
Support: CNC. Procirep. Angoa.
Hai, a little boy, catches a bird. Long, cyclo driver, carries a fish for the account of the mysterious Mister Chu. All over Vietnam, people prepare to celebrate lost souls festival.
That night, under lantern’s light, Hai and Long will take the fish and the bird for a last ride…
PRIZE LIST
Awards:
– Grand Prize: “Tous courts”, Aix-en-Provence International short film festival, France.
– Grand Prize: Festival Reanimajca, Lodz, Poland.
– Special Jury Prize: Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival, Korea.
– Best Animation: L’Alternativa, Barcelona Independent film festival, Spain.
– Best fiction: Environment film festival, Bourges, France.
– Grand Prize and Emile Raynaud Prize: French National animation festival, France.
– Grand Prize: “Premiers plans” Festival, Angers, France.
Selections and screenings:
2006
– French cultural centers in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Screening.
– Cine-junior, Young audience film festival, Val-de-Marne, France. Competition.
– Valenciennes Film Festival, France. Competition.
– Rencontres 10/10, Pleneuf-Val-Andre, France. Non competitive festival.
– Itinerances Festival, Ales, France. Competition.
– Espace Kodak, Paris, France. Screening.
– Cafe des images, Herouville-Saint-Clair, France. Program «Animavores».
– Reanimacja: Animated Film Festival, Lodz, Poland.
– Inventa un Film: Concorso di Cortometraggi a Tema, Lenola, Italia. Competition.
– Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival, Korea. Competition.
– Terra festival, Environment Film Festival, Guadeloupe. Competition.
– “L’avis de Chateau”, International Shirt film festival, Chateau-Chinon, France. Competition.
– Anima Mundi, International Animation Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Competition.
– Festival Internacional de Cine de Monterrey, Mexico. Competition.
– International Short Film Festival in Drama, Greece. Competition.
– Morbegno Film Festival, Italia. Competition.
– AniMadrid: Festival Internacional de Imagen Animada, Spain. Competition.
– Sienna International short film festival, Italia. Competition.
– “Le Court s’anime”. Screenings in France.
– Environment film festival, Bourges, France. Competition.
– Grand Palais, Paris, France. Screening in the context of Disney Exhibition.
– Interfilm: Berlin International Short Film Festival. Germany. Program « Asianima ».
– Rencontres internationales de cinema de Pontarlier, France.
– Court c’est court, Cabrieres d’Avignon, France. Program “Animated shorts”.
– “Musique a Piles” Festival, Saint-Denis, France. Big screen.
– Sedicicorto: Festival del Cortometraggio Forli, Italia. Competition.
– Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht, Holland. Competition.
– Leeds International Film Festival, UK. Competition.
– Festival Internacional de Filmets de Badalona. Spain. Competition.
– Olympia Festival for children and youth, Athens, Greece. Competition.
– L’Alternativa: Barcelona Independent Film festival, Spain. Competition.
– « Cinema d’ici et d’ailleurs », Sainte Livrade sur Lot, France. Competition.
– Castelli Animati, International Animated Film Festival, Roma, Italia. Competition.
– Cinema le Balzac, Paris, France. Screening.
-“ Les Nuits Magiques”, International Animation festival, Begles, France. Competition.
– “Tous Courts”, Aix-en-Provence International short film festival, France. Competition.
– Screening for the benefit of the association “Mekong, Mekong”, Nancy, France.
– “Off shortz”, Divan du monde, Paris, France. Screening.
– International Animation Day. Screenings in Vire, Falaise, Dives sur Mer, Villedieu-les-Poeles, France.
2007
– Vaulx-en-Velin Short film festival, France. Panorama: “Vietnam short side”.
– Premiers Plans, Angers, France. Competition.
– Program “Shorts in the hospital”, France.
– CON-CAN Media plaza, Online short film festival. Competition.
– Cinema “La Enana marron”, Madrid, Spain. Reruns “l’Alternativa”.
– Clermont-Ferrand Short film festival, France. Competition.
– Tehran International Animation Festival, Iran. Competition.
– Animac: Mostra Internacional de Cinema d’Animació de Catalunya, Lleida, Spain. Competition.
– French cultural centers in Muscat, Oman. Screenings.
– Mostra de Curtmetratges de Sagunt, Spain. Competition.
– Festival Internacional de Jóvenes Realizadores de Granada, Spain. Competition.
– China International Cartoon and Animation Festival, Hangzhou, China. Panorama.
– French cultural center in Hue, Vietnam. Screening.
– French National Animatited Film Festival, Auch, France. Competition.
– Festival d’un jour, Valence, France. Non competitive festival.
– Toulouse, Clermont-Ferrand, Angouleme and Saint-Etienne Cinematheques; Cinemas “MK2 Quai de Loire” and “le Denfert” in Paris; Cinema Pandora in Acheres, France. Screenings
– Trickfilm, Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, Germany. Panorama.
– Les Rencontres Cinemaginaire, Argeles-Sur-Mer, France. Competition.
– Fantasia International film festival, Montreal, Canada. Panorama: “Ze very meilleur of France”.
– Jordan Short Film Festival, Jordan. Competition.
– French embassy and National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA. Screenings.
– Best of shorts, La Ciotat, France. Competition.
– Girona Cinema festival, Spain. Competition.
– International Animation Day, Porto, Portugal. “Best of Reanimajca”.
– Silhouettes Festival, Paris, France. Competition.
– Festival du Film de Saint Paul Trois Chateaux, France. Competition.
– Carte Blanche J.F. Laguionie, Georges Pompidou Center, Paris, France.
– “La pellicule ensorcelee”, Charleville-Mezieres. Screenings.
– Aarhus Film festival, Denmark. Competition.
– Asian Connection Festival, Lyon, France. Competition.
– Festival du Court Metrage de la Reunion. Competition.
– Brest European short film festival, France. Non competitive festival for animation.
– Kinoproba Festival, Yekaterinburg, Russia. Panorama.
– Open air screenings in Viens, Velleron, Lagnes, Cabrieres d’Avignon… France.
– «Rayons frais» screening in “Elysee Biarritz” Cinema, Paris, France.
2008
– Anima, Brussels International animation festival, Belgium. Competition.
– “Courts mais trash”, screening in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France.
– Cinechanges, screening in Paris, France. “Beyond animation, at the border of documentary”
– « Ile courts » Festival, Ile Maurice. Non competitive festival.
– International Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults, Hamedan, Iran. Competition.
2009
– Image par image, Enghien-les-Bains, France. Program “Subtils decalages”.
– Voix d’etoiles, Port-Leucate, France. Competition.
2010
– Cafe Lit and Cafe Himiko, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Screening and meeting.
– « L’emotion n’est pas que sur l’ecran », program screened in cinemas in Picardie. France.
– French cultural centers in China: Beijing, Dalian, Jinan, Qingdao, Xian, Nanjing… Screenings.
– Aniwow, Student Animation Film Festival, Beijing, China.
– Image par image, Enghien-les-Bains, France.
– Louis Lumiere Center, Paris. Screenings around “family” theme.
– Biennale du cinema d’animation, Pontarlier. France.
– “Artistes a Meudon”, France. Open air screening.
2011
– Future shorts: Australia, Romania, Russia, Sweden, UK, USA, Vietnam, Indonesia…. Non competitive.
– Screening for the benefit of Saigon’s Children’s Charity Association, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
– Star Cinema, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Program ” Back to childhood”
– International Animation Day. Program “Un air de fête”.
2012
– Croq’Anime Festival and Peniche Cinema, Paris. Screenings.
– Cycle “Cinema de poche”, La Cinematheque Francaise, Paris, France …
2014
– International Animation day. Special guests. Program « Animomes » travelling around France.
