Father and daughter

Sinopsi

After the farewell, the father moves away from his daughter in a boat to the horizon. The desire, the wait and the longing, endure over time as the landscape, until the life goes to its end. The daughter continues looking at the sea while she becomes a teenager, a woman, a mother and later on an old women. The same hill, the same hope, the same shadows of the trees are witnesses of the pass of time. Until the sea gets dry and the longing becomes the encounter.

Michale Dudok de Wit is capable in this short film worthy of an Oscar; a BAFTA, Annecy Big Prize, Animafest Zagreb and much more festivals, creates a story about emotions with faceless characters. With the Dutch landscape in the background and the music of Normal Roger he achieves a maximum deepness in this poetical narration.

Michael Dudok de Wit was born in 1953 in Abcoude, Deutschland. In 1978, he got graduated at West Surrey Art School in England. After work in Barcelona, he moved to London where he directed and animated advertisements. In his filmography there’s films as “Tom Sweep” (1992), “The Monk and the Fish” (1994) or “The Aroma of Tea” (2006), apart from the popular “Le Moine et le Poisson” (1994) and “The red turtle” (2016), nominated to animation best Movie at the Oscars. Apart from his audio-visual career, Dudok de Wit also writes and illustrates children books and teaches animation in art schools in England.