From Above
OPENING NIGHT PROGRAM—FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4—7:00 PM
Directors: Julien Jousse, Arthur Damiano, Vincent Hébrard, Léonard Haug, Antoine Thiaucourt, Hector Dao, Nathan Baussois
Producers: ARTFX, Francois Heiser
France
Animation, 2021, 7 min.
On Christmas Eve 1916 on the Vosges frontline, a French soldier is sent to scout for an unknown object fallen from the sky in the no man’s land. He meets a German soldier near the crash spot. Out of the smoke, a huge silhouette walks and turns out to be Santa Claus, wounded by his accident..
FROM ABOVE is receiving its US premiere with this festival.
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