How My Grandmother Became A Chair
Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage
Nicolas Fattouh / Short Narrative / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / 8 min / Original Language: Arabic / Interests: Animation
Synopsis
The heartless sea is relentlessly approaching poor grandmother’s house. By losing her five senses one after the other, she gradually becomes more and more wooden. Until one day, she transforms completely into a chair while waiting patiently for her greedy children to visit her. Rose, her thorny housekeeping beast tries her best to prevent this transformation but fails. In the end, Grandmother discovers the soft human being hidden under the surface of the beast and eventually realises that Rose is the kind of family member she was always waiting for.
Credits
- Director
- Nicolas Fattouh
- Screenwriter
- Nicolas Fattouh
- Producer
- Nermine Haddad, Fabian Driehorst
About the Director
Nicolas Fattouh was born in 1994 in Monsef, north Lebanon. In 2012, he began studying animation, before graduating in 2015 from the Academie Libanaise des Beaux Arts, first of his class with his short animation 'Le voleur de casseroles'. The film went on to win the Best Animation award at the festival ZUMEFF in Abu Dhabi, and it was screened at several national and international film festivals. His project 'How My Grandmother Became a Chair' was awarded at the Arab Animation Forum (Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film, 2017), and won the Robert Bosch Stiftung prize in 2018.
Contacts
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Main Contact
Nermine Haddad
- Company:
- Freelancer
- Phone:
- +961 396 3524
- Email:
- nerminehaddad@hotmail.com