Letting Go
hand drawn animation, stop motion
year: 2019
format: DCP, HD
duration: 6'33"
production: Virage Film
distribution: Bonobostudio
Country of production: Switzerland
More About the Film
Lah gah (Letting Go) lets us dive into sunny childhood memories, when a girl is singing and cooking with her father. An intimate moment, so simple. But they’re swept along by the wafting mass of dough into the emotional depths of loss and disappearance. Helpless, the child is trying to grasp what is not tangible.
A very personal view on the experience of loss and letting go, the exploration and expression of accumulated emotions such as isolation, regret, deep sadness but also relief and still hope and happiness. How can life still be the same? What is memory and where is the border from being to not-being?
Scriptwriter, Director: Cécile Brun
Script Consulting: Claudius Gentinetta, Michael Frei
Animation: Charlotte Waltert, Cécile Brun
Compositing: Rafael Sommerhalder
Sound Design, Foley: Thomas Gassmann
Sound Mix: Jacques Kieffer
Colour Grading: Roger Sommer, Patrischa Freuler, 8horses
Voices: Bruno Amstad, Maya Zurbuchen
Producer: Saskia von Virág
Production: Virage Film
Co-production: SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen / SRG SSR
Cécile Brun (1986, Uster, Switzerland) graduated her Bachelor of Design in Animation in 2011 at HSLU D&K. In 2010 she completed an exchange at the Comic Department at ESA St. Luc, Brussels. In 2015 she won the residency at Abbaye de Fontevraud, France. She works as an independent director, illustrator and film projectionist in Zurich. Cécile Brun's short films have been screened and awarded at many international film festivals.
Filmography
Lah gah (2019), Zmitzt drin (2011), Yuri (2010)
Awards
- Special Mention, Primanima World Festival of First Animation, 2019
- Special Mention, Animateka International Animated Film Festival, 2019
- Special Mention, Tricky Women/Tricky Realities, 2020
- 1st Place, Florida Animation Festival, 2020
- Special Mention, TIFF - Tatsuno International Film Festival, 2020
- Special Mention, Prague International Indie Film Festival, 2020
- Special Mention, Santiago del Estero Film Fest, 2021
Festivals +
Fantoche International Animation Film Festival (3/9-8/9/2019)
Primanima World Festival of First Animations (30/10-2/11/2019)
Kaboom Animation Festival (9/11-17/11/2019)
Animateka International Animated Film Festival (2/12-8/12/2019)
Solothurner Filmtage (25/1/2019)
Tricky Women/Tricky Realities International Animation Film Festival (11/3-15/3/2019)
Monstra Lisboa Animation Festival (18/3-29/3/2019)
Speechless Film Festival (27/3-28/3/2020)
Filmfest Dresden (21/4-26/4/2019)
Festival du Film d'Animation de Savigny (16/5/2020)
Florida Animation Festival (11/6-14/6/2020)
La Truca, Festival Internacional de Animación (31/7/2020)
Imaginaria International Animated Film Festival (18/8-23/8/2020)
La Guarimba Film Festival (7/8-12/8/2020)
BUSHO Budapest Short international Film Festival (1/9-6/9/2020)
River Film Festival (1/9-15/9/2020)
Bali International Short Film Festival - The Minikino Film Week (4/9-12/9/2020)
Chaniartoon International Comic & Animation Festival (11/9-20/9/2020)
Seoul International Food Film Festival (18/9-23/9/2020)
World Festival of Animated Film in Varna (9/9-13/9/2020)
International Short Film Festival of Cyprus (10/10-16/10/2020)
StopTrik International Film Festival (8/10-11/10/2020)
FAB Festival of Animation, Berlin (9/10-11/10/2020)
Animafilm International Animation Festival, Baku (14/10-18/10/2020)
Edinburgh International Film Festival, 2020
Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival (23/10-30/10/2020)
Balkanima European Animated Film Festival (20/10-25/10/2020)
Banjaluka International Animated Film Festival (24/10-28/10/2020)
Filem'On International Film Festival for Young Audience (28/10-7/11/2020)
ANIMASIVO International Animation Film Festival (27/11-29/11/2020)
Tatsuno International Film Festival (21/11-29/11/2020)
Palm Springs International Animation Festival & Expo (22/12/2020-2/1/2021)
Prague International Indie Film Festival (12/2020)
AniMate International Animation Film Festival (20/2/2021)
Animatricks International Animation Festival (20/5-23/5/2021)
VAFI & RAFI International Children and Youth Film Festival (27/5-29/5/2021)
Cabriolet Film Festival, Beirut (4/6-6/6/2021)
Santiago del Estero Film Fest (22/6-27/6/2021)
ShorTS International Film Festival (2/7-10/7/2021)
GBiennale21 / GIFF Geelong International Film Festival (3/7-31/7/2021)
Insomnia Animation Festival (15/7-19/7/2021)
Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival (9/8-15/8/2021)
Animist Tallinn International Animation Festival (18/8-21/8/2021)
Flanimation Film Fest (20/8-21/8/2021)
The Animattikon Project (6/9-12/9/2021)
ZOOM Zblizenia International Film Festival (4/10-10/10/2021)
Overcome Film Festival (23/10-29/10/2021)
CRAFT International Animation Festival (25/10-30/10/2021)
International Short Film Festival Canton (29/10-1/11/2021)
Chicago International Children’s Film Festival (5/11-14/11/2021)
Annual Copenhagen Film Festival (5/11-6/11/2021)
Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival (12/11-21/11/2021)
International Animated Film Festival Tindirindis (25/11-30/11/2021)
Los Angeles Animation Festival (4/12/2021)
Feinaki Beijing Animation Week (7/12-12/12/2021)
ANIMAZE Montreal International Animation Film Festival (1/12/2021-22/1/2022)
