Father and Daughter

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Movie
German title Father and Daughter
Original title Father and Daughter
Country of production Netherlands
Belgium
Great Britain
Publishing year 2000
length 8 minutes
Age rating FSK without age restriction
Rod
Director Michael Dudok de Wit
script Michael Dudok de Wit
production Claire Jennings
Willum Thijssen
music Denis L. Chartrand
Normand Roger

Father and Daughter (Eng. "Father and Daughter") is an eight-minute cartoon from 2000 . Michael Dudok de Wit , who also designed the script and animations, directed the award-winning short film, which does not require any dialogue . CinéTé Filmproductie BV and Cloudrunner Ltd. produced the film.

action

A father and his daughter ride a bike across a Dutch landscape. They stop at one point. The father goes to the sea and gets into a boat, saying goodbye to his daughter. The child then comes back regularly to wait for his father. Days, months and years go by without the father coming back. The daughter marries, has children and grows old.

After years of waiting and hoping for her father's return, the now old daughter goes down to the sea, which has now dried up and overgrown with plants. The daughter walks on in the grass and discovers her father's boat washed over with sand. She lies down in the boat and looks at the sky. Suddenly she sees her father on the parched landscape. She runs up to him and gets younger and younger. They hug each other.

Awards

At the Ottawa International Animation Festival 2000, the film won the OIAF Prize for Best Independent Film and the Audience Award. At the Festival d'Animation Annecy 2001, the film was awarded the most important prize, the Cristal d'Annecy . The film also won the main prize at the Hiroshima Kokusai Animation Festival in 2002.

Father and Daughter also received awards at the following festivals:

At the 2001 Academy Awards , Father and Daughter was named Best Animated Short Film and was able to prevail against Don Hertzfeldt's Rejected , among others . The film won the same category at the 2001 British Academy Film Awards . The European Cartoon Forum awarded the film the Cartoon d'Or .

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