Souvenir, Souvenir

For ten years, I've pretended to make a movie out of my grandfather's Algerian war souvenirs. Today, I’m not sure I want to hear what he has to say.

About the filmmaker

Born in 1983 in Lille (France), Bastien Dubois earned his diploma in CGI Directing from Supinfocom Valenciennes with his graduation short AH in 2006. Bastien is a keen traveler, and it was after he hitchhiked from the north of France to Istanbul that he had the idea of making an animated travelogue. His first independent film Madagascar, a Journey Diary was based on a one-year trip to the Great Red Island. This film was well-received and screened in more than two hundred international film festivals, including Sundance, and garnered an Oscar nomination in 2011.

In 2012 he directed a TV program based on Madagascar, a Journey Diary called Faces From Places, a series of twenty animated three-minute travelogue films featuring various countries. In 2013, Bastien released, Cargo Cult an animated short film set in Papua New Guinea during the Second World War.