Artist's talk ONF x Sommets | Torill Kove
We know the event, the festival organized by the Cinémathèque québécoise presenting the best of animation film. But the Sommets also host a series of animated events held at the Cinémathèque or elsewhere, and which showcase new releases as well as memorable films from the past, short and feature films, screenings at the indoors and outdoors, film lessons and other events.
To be kept up to date with its annual programming, visit the Sommets website.
The NFB, in partnership with the Sommets du cinéma d’animation, is pleased to invite you to an Artist’s Talk with Torill Kove.
Torill is an award-winning Norwegian-Canadian director. Her film The Danish Poet, narrated by Liv Ullmann, won the Oscar® for Best Animated Short in 2006. My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts (1999) and Me and My Moulton (2014) were both nominated for an Academy Award®, and Threads (2017) won a Special Prize at the Hiroshima International Animation Festival.
During this event, the filmmaker will discuss the creative process behind her latest animated short, Maybe Elephants, co-produced by Mikrofilm and the NFB. Following on Me and My Moulton, Torill explores another epoch in her family’s life. Restless with their seemingly routine lives in Norway, Kove’s mother uproots the family and relocates to Nairobi, Kenya. This is a story of that adventure and misadventure, about the long road travelled—sometimes together, sometimes alone, and often without a map.
This lesson will be given in English
Please email d.forget@nfb.ca prior to December 6th.
Thursday, December 7th at 4 p.m.
National Film Board of Canada
1501 Rue de Bleury
NFB
