Jo Jo in the Stars
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Jo Jo in the Stars is a twelve minute film that went on to win the 2004 BAFTA
Award for Best Animated Short Film. Created and directed by Marc Craste, it was inspired by "The Carny", a song by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
featured on their 1986 album, Your Funeral... My Trial
. The song is also featured in the soundtrack of Wings of Desire
directed by Wim Wenders
in 1987. As the film director said, “"The Carny" combines circus music from hell with a wonderful story about a bunch of freaks, their sadistic owner and an old horse named Sorrow. Because the lyrics read like a short story, it seemed to suggest a film - a straight visual interpretation of the text.”
The film tells the story of a silver-plated trapeze artist, Jo Jo, who is worshipped from afar by an unnamed figure who learns that love rarely ends happily. In a bleak and brutal world, two lovers make a desperate stand against those who would destroy them. Love, self-sacrifice, heroism and murderous jealousy are played out against a black and white world that is both nightmarish and hauntingly beautiful.
all to see. He, the unnamed hero, is there night after night only to see Jo Jo, the trapeze artist. One night after the show, he steals the keys of the cell where Jo Jo is imprisoned, freeing her. The two escape and start to dance a romantic waltz in the stars. But soon the two lovers are discovered and as a last desperate act, holding hand in hand, they jump of the highest window in the tower. Jo Jo, due to its ability to trapeze, holds the hand of her hero. But, due to the strong wind, the two lose their grip bad and he falls to the ground. While Jo Jo, blown by the wind on the window sill, is safe, he lies on the ground reached by a feather of Jo Jo, which was plucked out from her wings.
The rain fell for ten long years, and what was once shocking no longer amused. The cavernous halls stood almost empty. While Madame Pica is despairing, blaming Jo Jo for the disaster, and she becomes aware that he, the unnamed hero, has become a real monster, but that he is still alive. The unnamed hero is taken on as the new star of the show. The two lovers are finally reunited, and they are waltzing their love in the stars again.
, that it is featured on the soundtrack of the film Wings of Desire
. Fascinated and intrigued by the music and the wonderful story, he was suggested to make a straight visual interpretation of the text, and he started working on the storyboard.
The director's idea was to shoot as much as possible as live action and combine it with 3D animation
, heavily textured in charcoal
to match his designs. But, no one would fund the project as they felt it was technically a tad ambitious. At the moment, Craste showed the storyboard to Nick Cave and the rest of the band. Few years later, the band asked him if it would be possible to include the storyboard on their video compilation, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: The Videos (1998), but, he was living in Copenhagen
, and the project remained unrealized.
In the following years, Marc Craste made three one-minute films for Studio AKA. They were stark little sketches with gratuitous violence in them, set in a nightmarish monochrome
world of robot-like figures with bunny ears, featuring the likes of dominatrix Madame Pica, who also appears in Jo Jo in the Stars. The Studio AKA then asked Craste to make a longer film using the same characters, but without any murders.
Jo Jo in the Stars has been also influenced by films from the '70s–'80s, such as David Lynch
's Eraserhead
(1977) and Wim Wenders
's Wings of Desire
(1987).
The film has been screened at more than 80 festivals to date, including: Melbourne International Film Festival
Short Film Competition, Sydney Film Festival
, Anima Mundi
, Cinémathèque québécoise
, Prend ça court! (Montreal
), Zagreb Film Festival
, Tampere Film Festival
, Annecy International Animated Film Festival (CICA)
, Festival Némo (Paris
), Tübingen
International Short Film Festival, Wiesbaden
International Weekend of Animation, Holland Animation Film Festival, Holland Youth Film Festival, l0110 (India
), Darklight Festival (Ireland
), Cartoombria (Perugia
), Castelli Animati (Genzano di Roma
), Kraków Film Festival
, IndieLisboa, Vila do Conde, Donostia Kultura, Sitges Film Festival, SWAMP (Switzerland
), British Animation Awards (BAA), Edinburgh International Film Festival
(EIFF), Glastonbury Festival
, onedotzero
, Raindance Film Festival
(London), Rêl Institiwt (Real Institute; Wales
), Soho Shorts Film Festival, SAND, Independent Film Festival of Boston
, Los Angeles Film Festival
, Tallgrass Film Festival
, and The World According to Shorts in 2004.
Adelaide Film Festival
, Anima
, Hong Kong
InDPanda International Short Film Festival, Tehran
International Animation Festival, Skopje Film Festival
, Norwegian Film Institute, Future Shorts (South Africa
), Fantoche Film Festival (Switzerland
), Draken Film Festival (Sweden
), Stockholm International Film Festival
, Golden Horse Film Festival, Turkey British Council (tour of Turkey
), Animated Encounters (UK
), Animex
(University of Teeside), Cambridge Film Festival
, Cinemagic
, Commonwealth Film Fest (Manchester
), Hertfordshire International Film Festival (HIFF), London Institute's Arts Festival, Northern Film Network (UK), Norwich Film Festival
, Antelope Valley
Independent Film Festival, Brooklyn
In Film Fest, Milwaukee International Film Festival, Portland International Film Festival, REDCAT
, Redstick Internation Animation Festival (Louisiana
) in 2005.
Singapore
RestFest, Bucharest
Festival, Short bl Movifest (Russia
), Kyiv
IFF Molodist Festival, Animacor (Spain
), Flip Animation Festival
(UK), and Milwaukee International Film Festival in 2006. Ankara
Uluslararasi Film Festivali (International Film Festival), Taiwan
International Animation Festival, and CineGuernsey (Guernsey
) in 2007. Berlin Film Festival, Lucca
Animation, Brussels Short Film Festival, Rooftop Films
, Fresh Film Festival
in 2008.
British Academy of Film and Television Arts
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is a charity in the United Kingdom that hosts annual awards shows for excellence in film, television, television craft, video games and forms of animation.-Introduction:...
Award for Best Animated Short Film. Created and directed by Marc Craste, it was inspired by "The Carny", a song by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are an Australian alternative rock band, formed in Melbourne in 1983. The band is fronted by Nick Cave and has featured international personnel throughout their career.-Formation and early releases :...
featured on their 1986 album, Your Funeral... My Trial
Your Funeral... My Trial
-Personnel:#"Sad Waters"#*Nick Cave – vocals, Hammond, harmonica#*Blixa Bargeld – guitar#*Mick Harvey – bass, rhythm guitar, drums#"The Carny"#*Nick Cave – vocals, harmonica#*Blixa Bargeld – guitar, other voice...
. The song is also featured in the soundtrack of Wings of Desire
Wings of Desire
Wings of Desire is a 1987 Franco-German romantic fantasy film directed by Wim Wenders. The film is about invisible, immortal angels who populate Berlin and listen to the thoughts of the human inhabitants and comfort those who are in distress...
directed by Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders
Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.-Early life:Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg and Düsseldorf...
in 1987. As the film director said, “"The Carny" combines circus music from hell with a wonderful story about a bunch of freaks, their sadistic owner and an old horse named Sorrow. Because the lyrics read like a short story, it seemed to suggest a film - a straight visual interpretation of the text.”
The film tells the story of a silver-plated trapeze artist, Jo Jo, who is worshipped from afar by an unnamed figure who learns that love rarely ends happily. In a bleak and brutal world, two lovers make a desperate stand against those who would destroy them. Love, self-sacrifice, heroism and murderous jealousy are played out against a black and white world that is both nightmarish and hauntingly beautiful.
Plot
Madame Pica is running a show of monsters and misfits forall to see. He, the unnamed hero, is there night after night only to see Jo Jo, the trapeze artist. One night after the show, he steals the keys of the cell where Jo Jo is imprisoned, freeing her. The two escape and start to dance a romantic waltz in the stars. But soon the two lovers are discovered and as a last desperate act, holding hand in hand, they jump of the highest window in the tower. Jo Jo, due to its ability to trapeze, holds the hand of her hero. But, due to the strong wind, the two lose their grip bad and he falls to the ground. While Jo Jo, blown by the wind on the window sill, is safe, he lies on the ground reached by a feather of Jo Jo, which was plucked out from her wings.
The rain fell for ten long years, and what was once shocking no longer amused. The cavernous halls stood almost empty. While Madame Pica is despairing, blaming Jo Jo for the disaster, and she becomes aware that he, the unnamed hero, has become a real monster, but that he is still alive. The unnamed hero is taken on as the new star of the show. The two lovers are finally reunited, and they are waltzing their love in the stars again.
Production
In 1986, Craste heard for the first time "The Carny", a song by Nick Cave and the Bad SeedsNick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are an Australian alternative rock band, formed in Melbourne in 1983. The band is fronted by Nick Cave and has featured international personnel throughout their career.-Formation and early releases :...
, that it is featured on the soundtrack of the film Wings of Desire
Wings of Desire
Wings of Desire is a 1987 Franco-German romantic fantasy film directed by Wim Wenders. The film is about invisible, immortal angels who populate Berlin and listen to the thoughts of the human inhabitants and comfort those who are in distress...
. Fascinated and intrigued by the music and the wonderful story, he was suggested to make a straight visual interpretation of the text, and he started working on the storyboard.
The director's idea was to shoot as much as possible as live action and combine it with 3D animation
Computer animation
Computer animation is the process used for generating animated images by using computer graphics. The more general term computer generated imagery encompasses both static scenes and dynamic images, while computer animation only refers to moving images....
, heavily textured in charcoal
Charcoal
Charcoal is the dark grey residue consisting of carbon, and any remaining ash, obtained by removing water and other volatile constituents from animal and vegetation substances. Charcoal is usually produced by slow pyrolysis, the heating of wood or other substances in the absence of oxygen...
to match his designs. But, no one would fund the project as they felt it was technically a tad ambitious. At the moment, Craste showed the storyboard to Nick Cave and the rest of the band. Few years later, the band asked him if it would be possible to include the storyboard on their video compilation, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: The Videos (1998), but, he was living in Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
, and the project remained unrealized.
In the following years, Marc Craste made three one-minute films for Studio AKA. They were stark little sketches with gratuitous violence in them, set in a nightmarish monochrome
Monochrome
Monochrome describes paintings, drawings, design, or photographs in one color or shades of one color. A monochromatic object or image has colors in shades of limited colors or hues. Images using only shades of grey are called grayscale or black-and-white...
world of robot-like figures with bunny ears, featuring the likes of dominatrix Madame Pica, who also appears in Jo Jo in the Stars. The Studio AKA then asked Craste to make a longer film using the same characters, but without any murders.
Jo Jo in the Stars has been also influenced by films from the '70s–'80s, such as David Lynch
David Lynch
David Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", and which is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound...
's Eraserhead
Eraserhead
Eraserhead is a 1977 American surrealist film and the first feature film of David Lynch, who wrote, produced and directed. Lynch began working on the film at the AFI Conservatory, which gave him a $10,000 grant to make the film after he had begun working there following his 1971 move to Los Angeles...
(1977) and Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders
Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.-Early life:Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg and Düsseldorf...
's Wings of Desire
Wings of Desire
Wings of Desire is a 1987 Franco-German romantic fantasy film directed by Wim Wenders. The film is about invisible, immortal angels who populate Berlin and listen to the thoughts of the human inhabitants and comfort those who are in distress...
(1987).
Personnel
- Marc Craste - Director, Writer
- Sue Goffe - Executive producer, Producer
- Pam Dennis - Executive producer
- Philip Hunt - Executive producer
- Oliver Miceli – voice
- Andrew Stirk – voice
- Mike Cachuela - Storyboard Artist (Uncredited)
- Dominic Griffiths - Animator
- Boris Kossmehl - Animator
- Fabienne Rivory - Animator
- William Eagar - Editor
- Melissa Lake – foley artist
- Ben Meechan – sound editor
- Barnaby Smith – foley editor
- Michele Woods – sound mixer
- Hilary Wyatt – supervising sound editor
- Ren Pesci - Production Assistant
- Lindsey Fraine - Production Assistant
Awards
Jo Jo in the Stars has won the following awards:| Year | Award | Category – Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Clermont-Ferrand Clermont-Ferrand Clermont-Ferrand is a city and commune of France, in the Auvergne region, with a population of 140,700 . Its metropolitan area had 409,558 inhabitants at the 1999 census. It is the prefecture of the Puy-de-Dôme department... Short Film Festival |
Prix du Meilleur Film d'Animation |
| Bradford Animation Festival | Grand Prix | |
| British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) British Academy of Film and Television Arts The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is a charity in the United Kingdom that hosts annual awards shows for excellence in film, television, television craft, video games and forms of animation.-Introduction:... Film Awards |
Best Animation Short | |
| Aspen Aspen Populus section Populus, of the Populus genus, includes the aspen trees and the white poplar Populus alba. The five typical aspens are all native to cold regions with cool summers, in the north of the Northern Hemisphere, extending south at high altitudes in the mountains. The White Poplar, by... Shortsfest |
Special Jury Recognition | |
| Copenhagen Copenhagen Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region... 3D Awards |
Digital Hero Award for the Best Short Film | |
| Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival (SICAF) | Animasia Grand Prize for Short Film | |
| Bristol Bristol Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007... International Short Film Festival (BriefEncounters) |
Best of British | |
| 2005 | Paris Paris Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region... Les Lutins du Court-Métrage |
Press Lutin |
| Cartoon d'or Cartoon d'or The Cartoon d’Or is the pan-European award for animation short films. It rewards every year the best one since only prize-winning films from Cartoon’s partner festivals can compete.... |
Cartoon d'or Cartoon d'or The Cartoon d’Or is the pan-European award for animation short films. It rewards every year the best one since only prize-winning films from Cartoon’s partner festivals can compete.... |
|
| 2007 | IFCT Awards | Most Innovative Animation |
The film has been screened at more than 80 festivals to date, including: Melbourne International Film Festival
Melbourne International Film Festival
The Melbourne International Film Festival is an acclaimed annual film festival held over three weeks in Melbourne, Australia. It was founded in 1951, making it one of the oldest in the World....
Short Film Competition, Sydney Film Festival
Sydney Film Festival
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, Anima Mundi
Anima Mundi (event)
Anima Mundi is a competitive Brazilian video and film festival devoted exclusively to animation, held every July in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil.-History:...
, Cinémathèque québécoise
Cinémathèque québécoise
The Cinémathèque québécoise is a film conservatory in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1963, its mission is to "preserve and document film and television heritage in order to make it available to an ever-growing and diversified public."...
, Prend ça court! (Montreal
Montreal
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), Zagreb Film Festival
Zagreb Film Festival
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, Tampere Film Festival
Tampere Film Festival
The Tampere Film Festival is a short film festival held every March in the Finnish town of Tampere. It is accredited by the film producers' society FIAPF, and together with the short film festivals in Oberhausen and Clermont-Ferrand, it is among the most important European short film festivals.The...
, Annecy International Animated Film Festival (CICA)
Annecy International Animated Film Festival
The Annecy International Animation Film Festival was created in 1960 and takes place at the beginning of June in the town of Annecy, France. Initially occurring every two years, the festival became annual in 1998...
, Festival Némo (Paris
Paris
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), Tübingen
Tübingen
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International Short Film Festival, Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden
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International Weekend of Animation, Holland Animation Film Festival, Holland Youth Film Festival, l0110 (India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
), Darklight Festival (Ireland
Ireland
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), Cartoombria (Perugia
Perugia
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), Castelli Animati (Genzano di Roma
Genzano di Roma
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), Kraków Film Festival
Kraków Film Festival
The Kraków Film Festival is one of Europe's oldest events dedicated to documentary, animation and other short film forms. It has been organised year after year since 1961....
, IndieLisboa, Vila do Conde, Donostia Kultura, Sitges Film Festival, SWAMP (Switzerland
Switzerland
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), British Animation Awards (BAA), Edinburgh International Film Festival
Edinburgh International Film Festival
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(EIFF), Glastonbury Festival
Glastonbury Festival
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, onedotzero
Onedotzero
onedotzero is a contemporary, digital arts organisation with a remit to promote innovation across all forms of moving image and motion arts....
, Raindance Film Festival
Raindance Film Festival
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(London), Rêl Institiwt (Real Institute; Wales
Wales
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), Soho Shorts Film Festival, SAND, Independent Film Festival of Boston
Independent Film Festival of Boston
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, Los Angeles Film Festival
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, Tallgrass Film Festival
Tallgrass Film Festival
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, and The World According to Shorts in 2004.
Adelaide Film Festival
Adelaide Film Festival
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, Anima
Córdoba International Animation Festival - ANIMA
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, Hong Kong
Hong Kong
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InDPanda International Short Film Festival, Tehran
Tehran
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International Animation Festival, Skopje Film Festival
Skopje Film Festival
The Skopje Film Festival is a film festival held in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. The five-day-festival takes part every year in March. Over 50 films are shown at this event, mostly from Macedonia and Europe, but also some non-commercial film productions from all over the world.- External links...
, Norwegian Film Institute, Future Shorts (South Africa
South Africa
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), Fantoche Film Festival (Switzerland
Switzerland
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), Draken Film Festival (Sweden
Sweden
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), Stockholm International Film Festival
Stockholm International Film Festival
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, Golden Horse Film Festival, Turkey British Council (tour of Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
), Animated Encounters (UK
United Kingdom
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), Animex
Animex
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(University of Teeside), Cambridge Film Festival
Cambridge Film Festival
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, Cinemagic
CineMagic (film festival)
Cinemagic is an international children's film festival in Belfast, UK, and in Dublin, Ireland, founded in 1988 that bills itself as the World Screen Festival for young people. The organisation is a company Limited By Guarantee and a registered charity....
, Commonwealth Film Fest (Manchester
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), Hertfordshire International Film Festival (HIFF), London Institute's Arts Festival, Northern Film Network (UK), Norwich Film Festival
Norwich Film Festival
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, Antelope Valley
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Independent Film Festival, Brooklyn
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In Film Fest, Milwaukee International Film Festival, Portland International Film Festival, REDCAT
REDCAT
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, Redstick Internation Animation Festival (Louisiana
Louisiana
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) in 2005.
Singapore
Singapore
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RestFest, Bucharest
Bucharest
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Festival, Short bl Movifest (Russia
Russia
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), Kyiv
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IFF Molodist Festival, Animacor (Spain
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), Flip Animation Festival
Flip Animation Festival
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(UK), and Milwaukee International Film Festival in 2006. Ankara
Ankara
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Uluslararasi Film Festivali (International Film Festival), Taiwan
Taiwan
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International Animation Festival, and CineGuernsey (Guernsey
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) in 2007. Berlin Film Festival, Lucca
Lucca
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Animation, Brussels Short Film Festival, Rooftop Films
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, Fresh Film Festival
Fresh Film Festival
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in 2008.