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THE DANISH POET (clip)
A Danish poet is so moved by a love story from a famous novelist that he arranges a trip to visit her. It is on this journey that he encounters true love of his own.
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The Danish Poet |
| Inspired in part by the story of her own parents, animator Torill Kove tells the tale of a blocked poet who goes on a pilgrimage to meet famed Nobel Prize-winning novelist Sigrid Unset. En route he meets and falls in love with a Norwegian farmer's daughter, who is already engaged to another. Liv Ullmann narrates this wise and witty modern fairy tale about fate and personal choice, which won an Oscar® for Best Animated Short of 2007. | |
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In Short: 2007 Academy Award® Shorts |
| BINTA AND THE GREAT IDEA Javier Fesser's Oscar®-nominated short tells the story of Binta (Zeynabou Diallo), a seven-year-old from Senegal, who devises a plan to help her cousin Soda (Aminata Sane) attend school to become a doctor or a teacher. Coincidentally, Binta's fisherman father hatches a plot of his own. (2004) THE DANISH POET Inspired in part by the story of her own parents, animator Torill Kove tells the tale of a blocked poet who goes on a pilgrimage to meet famed Nobel Prize-winning novelist Sigrid Unset. En route he meets and falls in love with a Norwegian farmer's daughter, who is already engaged to another. Liv Ullmann narrates this wise and witty modern fairy tale about fate and personal choice, which won an Oscar® for Best Animated Short of 2007. (2006) ÉRAMOS POCOS Borja Cobeaga's "darkly amusing" (San Francisco Chronicle) Oscar®-nominated short film follows the fortunes of Joaquín (Ramón Barea), and his son (Alejandro Tejerías), after his wife suddenly walks out. After trying to manage the house on his own, Joaquin decides to invite Lourdes (Mariví Bilbao), his mother-in-law, to leave her nursing home and move in as cook and maid. While this may be the perfect solution, Lourdes has her own agenda. (2005) HELMER & SØN Søren Pilmark's darkly comic Oscar®-nominated short film presents the story of a dysfunctional Danish family in crisis. Jess (Steen Stig Lommer), an overworked businessman overseeing the family business, rushes to his father's nursing home to discover that the patriarch (Per Palleson) has locked himself in a large wardrobe. Sure to resonate with boomers who have had to deal with aging parents. (2006) MAESTRO In Hungarian animator Géza M. Tóth's delightful and wordless Oscar®-nominated short, a tuxedoed maestro prepares for his big performance. (2005) THE SAVIOUR Thom Campbell plays an elder of the Mormon Church in Peter Templeman's dryly humorous Australian short, which was nominated for a Best Dramatic Short Film Oscar®. While visiting the suburbs on a missionary crusade, Malcolm (Campbell) is confronted with a spiritual dilemma when he falls for a woman (Susan Prior) whose marriage appears to be in trouble. (2005) WEST BANK STORY Appeared at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival With an affectionate nod to WEST SIDE STORY, filmmaker Ari Sandel presents an all-singing, all-dancing comic parable about feuding falafel stands — the Palestinian Hummus Hut versus Kosher King ("the chosen restaurant") — in Israel's occupied territory. Winner of the Best Live Action Short Oscar® of 2007. "A hoot" — San Francisco Chronicle. (2005) |
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