Norsk filminstitutt

Short film Me and My Moulton
(Moulton og meg)

One summer in 1960s Norway, a seven-year-old girl asks her hopelessly out-of-touch parents for a bicycle, but the unconventional ways of these modernist architects soon prove to be a source of quiet embarrassment and anxiety for the young girl.

This witty and colourful animated short by Torill Kove, director of the Academy Award-winning The Danish Poet,views the creativity and forward-thinking attitudes of the parents through the eyes of their introspective young daughter, who envies other normalfamiliesand whose sensitive nature makes it difficult for her to be completely honest with those she loves most.

Production and distribution

Production Year:
2014
Production country:
Norway
Co production country:
Canada
Release date (international):
2014-06-10
Production company:
Mikrofilm AS
Co production company:
National Film Board Canada
Executive producer:
Lise Fearnley
Michael Fukushima
Roddy McManus
David Verrall
Producer:
Lise Fearnley
Co producer:
Marcy Page
Sales agent:
KurzFilmAgentur Hamburg e.V.
National Film Board Canada

Director

  • Torill Kove

    Torill Kove (b. May 25, 1958) was born and raised in Norway but now lives with her family in Montreal, Canada. In 2000 her first short film My Grandmother Ironed the King´s Shirts was nominated for an Oscar (Academy Award). Torill's breakthrough as a director came when she won the Oscar for her next short film The Danish Poet in 2007. Torill Kove has directed the feature film Hocus pocus, Alfie Atkins (2013). In addition to directing and animating, Torill has also written and illustrated several children's books.

    Torill Kove

Awards

2014:
Ottawa International Animation Film Festival
Honorary Mention
2014:
DOK Leipzig - International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film
Audience Award
2014:
Bradford Animation Festival
Special Mention
2014:
Nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Short Subject
2015:
Nominated for the Academy Award - Animated Short Film
2015:
Canadian Screen Award Best Animated Short
2015:
London International Animation Film Festival
Best of the Festival Award

Festivals

2014:
Annecy International Animation Film Festival
2014:
The Norwegian Short Film Festival
2014:
Animafest Cyprus
2014:
Fantoche International Animation Film Festival
2014:
Toronto International Film Festival
2014:
Buster - Copenhagen International Film Festival for Children and Youth
2014:
Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival
2014:
Kristiansand International Children and Youth Film Festival
2014:
Encounters Film Festival
2014:
Ottawa International Animation Film Festival
2014:
Nordisk Panorama
2014:
Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
2014:
IndieCork
2014:
Uppsala International Short Film Festival
2014:
Femmina International Film Festival
2014:
DOK Leipzig - International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film
2014:
Fredrikstad Animation Festival
2014:
Denver Film Festival
2014:
FICFA - Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie
2014:
Bradford Animation Festival
2014:
Animated Dreams
2014:
Kort
2014:
Ale Kino! International Young Audience Film Festival
2014:
Animateka International Animation Film Festival
2015:
Flickerfest International Short Film Festival
2015:
TIFF - Tromsø International Film Festival
2015:
Göteborg International Film Festival
2015:
Festival Anima - Brussels International Animation Film Festival
2015:
New York International Children's Film Festival
2015:
Tricky Women International Animation Film Festival
2015:
Hong Kong International Film Festival
2015:
Aspen Shortsfest
2015:
Go Short International Short Film Festival Nijmegen
2015:
ViewFinders: Atlantic Film Festival for Youth
2015:
Filmfest Dresden - International Short Film Festival
2015:
Kristiansand International Children and Youth Film Festival
2015:
Minimalen Short Film Festival
2015:
IndieLisboa International Film Festival
2015:
Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film
2015:
Animafest Zagreb - World Festival of Animated Film
2015:
Nordisk Panorama Film Festival Belgrade
2015:
Canadian Sport Film Festival
2015:
International Short Film Festival Hamburg - Mo & Friese
2015:
Big Sur International Short Film Screening Series
2015:
Curtas Vila do Conde - International Film Festival
2015:
IFI Family Film Festival
2015:
New Horizons International Film Festival
2015:
Sarajevo Film Festival
2015:
Kulturhusfestivalen
2015:
Love & Anarchy - Helsinki International Film Festival
2015:
Meetings of Young European Cinema
2015:
Anim'est International Animation Film Festival
2015:
Internationalen Trickfilm-Wochenende Wiesbaden
2015:
Abycine - Albacete International Film Festival
2015:
Brest European Short Film Festival
2015:
FILMETS Badalona Film Festival
2015:
Les Nuits Magiques
2015:
London International Animation Film Festival
2016:
Cine Junior, Cinema Public, Paris
2016:
TICFF - Taiwan International Children's TV & Film Festival
2016:
Zubroffka International Short Film Festival
2017:
IndieJunior Allianz: International Children's and Youth Film Festival of Porto
2019:
Brest European Short Film Festival
2020:
Ottawa International Animation Film Festival

Crew

Director:
Torill Kove
Screenplay:
Torill Kove
Editor:
Alison Burns
Composer:
Kevin Dean
Sound Design:
Håkon Lammetun
Animator:
Morten Pedersen
Bjarte Agdestein
Magnhild Winsnes
Yin Ko Lee
Jens Hahn
Torill Kove
Linda Manouan
Jo Meuris
Jonathan Ng
Hyun Jin Park
Narrator:
Andrea Bræin Hovig

Technical information

Genre:
Animation
Format:
DCP 2k
Screen ratio:
1:1,85
Colour:
Colour
Sound format:
Stereo 5.1
Length in min's:
13'
Language:
English

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