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Awards Season, Film Festivals, Films

Yves Piat’s Award-winning comedy Nefta Football Club

Yves Piat’s live-action short film stars Lyes Salem (Munich) and won a series of Audience Awards, including the Best Comedy award at Aspen Shortsfest. This wonderful film shares the story of two boys who stumble on something unusual which creates unexpected events. In the south of Tunisia, two football fan brothers bump into a donkey lost in the middle of the desert on the border … Continue reading Yves Piat’s Award-winning comedy Nefta Football Club

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Awards Season, Film Festivals

Quadruple Oscar-qualifying animation ‘Guaxuma’

Nara Normande’s beautiful animated short Guaxuma shares the story of a blossoming childhood friendship that is cut short. This award-winning film mixes several animation techniques all connected to sand and has won prizes at SXSW, Palm Springs, Hamptons, Cinequest, selected at TIFF, Annecy, LA Shorts. Tayra and I grew up on a beach in the northeast of Brazil. We were inseparable. The sea breeze brings me back happy … Continue reading Quadruple Oscar-qualifying animation ‘Guaxuma’

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