Production: |
Claes Olsson / Kinoproduction Oy, Pasilan vanhat veturitallit, 00520 Helsinki, puh./tel 09 6850 460, fax 09 6850 4610,email: kino@kinoproduction.fi |
Synopsis: |
The Father and the Boy live together in a small board cabin by a detour. The Boy works in an automated slaughter house, turning joysticks and spends his nights watching the oxygen gauge of the sickly Father who is sulking on the sofa. The Father almost seems like a vegetable, an old man who has lost his spirit.
A stubborn Cow causes confusion to the Boy´s routines at the slaughter house, and to get rid of the problem, he lets the Cow lose. The Cow then appears in the yard of the Boy and Father´s cabin and acts strangely; it whines as if it were crying for help. The Boy tries to chase the animal away but he nearly gets crushed by the Cow.
The Father saves the Boy, solves the problem about the Cow and gains back his self esteem. The Boy realizes there are values which cannot be detected with a gauge or on a monitor screen.
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Festivals: |
FESTIVAL DE CANNES, FRANCE, 12.–23.5.2004
Brief Encounters, 10th Bristol International Short Film Festival, 17.–21.11.2004
Tampere International Short Film Festival, 9.–13.3.2005
I Castelli Animati International Animated Film Festival, Genzano di Roma, Italy, 30.11.–4.12.2005
Flickerfest 15th International Australian Short Film Festival, 6.–15.1.2006 , IN COMPETITION
Taiwan International Animation Festival, Taipei, Taiwan, 1.–10.9.2006
14. Internationales Trickfilm-Festival, Stuttgart, Germany, 26.4.–1.5.2007
Festival du Court Métrage de Bruxelles, Belgium, 27.4.–6.5.2007
Animation Days, Finnish Institute in Paris, France, 10.–12.5.2007
Hiroshima Animation Film Festival, Japan, 7.–11.8.2008
Alcine, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, 6.–14.11.2009
Animateka International Animation Film Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 7.–13.12.2009
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