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POV: you're strolling through brightly lit and pleasantly crowded galleries when suddenly the artwork itself begins to move.


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An aging grandmother loses her five senses, one after the other before finally becoming a wooden chair. Throughout her transformation, she realizes that her housekeeper is not the wild animal she once thought she was.


This film is in the Animated Short Competition.


MEET THE FILMMAKER: NICOLAS FATTOUH

Nicolas Fattouh (born 1994 in Monsef – Lebanon) is a visual artist and director.

He participated in many local and international exhibitions. He graduated from Academie Libanaise Des Beaux Arts in animation. In 2018 his debut project “How grandmother became a chair” received The Film Prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung for a German-Lebanese co-production. In 2019 he opened the Fattouh Art Gallery in Monsef.

  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    10 minutes
  • Language
    no dialogue
  • Country
    Germany, Lebanon, Qatar
  • Director
    Nicolas Fattouh
  • Screenwriter
    Nicolas Fattouh
  • Producer
    Fabian Driehorst, Nermine Haddad