Ma grand-mère repassait les chemises du roi

Torill Kove (2000)

Sinopsi

Torill Kove’s grandmother used to tell him tales. One of them was about how she ironed the shirt of the king of Norway and how that became a secret action of the resistance against the Nazi invasion.
The film mixes historical facts with imagination and humour to build a family myth.

Torill Kove was born in Oslo in 1958. She lives in Monreal, Quebec, Canada since 1982. She moved to continue her studies in urban planification at Concordia University. She didn’t start with her animation career until her thirties. When she was unemployed in 1991, instead of looking for a job, she spent her time watching films. It was then when she discovered her love for animation and started getting some rewards film own films as “Ma gran-mère repasaré las chemises du roi”, which was nominated at the Oscars in 2000. In 2013 she directed the coproduction “Hocus Pocus Alfie Atkins”, based in the books of the children author Gunilla Bergström. The animated short film “Me and My Moulton, is an autobiographic film about the desire of a little girl to participate at Toronto International Film Festival. Apart of directing animated short films she has also illustrated some children books. On the 3rd of September in 2015 she received the Anders Jahre Art Award, the most important cultural prize in Norway.

Ma grand-mère repassait les chemises du roi

Torill Kove (2000)

Canadà

10'

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