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Maybe Elephants
202416 min 44 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Torill Kove
Production: Lise Fearnley (Mikrofilm As)Maral Mohammadian (National Film Board of Canada)Tonje Skar Reiersen (Mikrofilm As)Robert McLaughlin (National Film Board of Canada)Michael Fukushima (National Film Board of Canada)
Script: Torill Kove
A co-production of Mikrofilm AS and the National Film Board of Canada.
Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Torill Kove narrates the story of her formative teenage years growing up in a loving family who must suddenly navigate the strong pull of individual needs. The parents and three sisters swap a safe and predictable life in Norway with the fresh unknowns of vibrant 1970s Nairobi, Kenya. Featuring the return cast of Me and My Moulton, Maybe Elephants explores the many ripples flowing from a mother’s restlessness, and how this impacts her family.
Bursting with wit, a joyful colour palette and an energetic soundscape, Maybe Elephants is a vivid homage to Kove’s time spent immersed in Nairobi’s bustling culture. The animated short wraps rich nostalgia around memories of eventful family trips, timeless teen antics and those inevitable moments of adolescent epiphany. Reframing a complex upbringing, Maybe Elephants illustrates that within an imperfect memory lies a perfect, if subjective, truth.
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Subject categories
- Families > AdolescentsFamilies in Foreign CountriesParent-Child Relationships
- Women > Health and Illness
- Tourism > Travel and Travellers
- Psychology and Psychiatry > Women
Credits
- script
- Torill Kove
- direction
- Torill Kove
- art direction
- Magnhild Winsnes
- animatic
- Torill Kove
- Dyveke Skøld
- animation layout
- Hyun Jin Park
- Jo Meuris
- Torill Kove
- animation
- Jo Meuris
- Hyun Jin Park
- Louis Bodart
- Torill Kove
- Parissa Mohit
- Kamil Chajder
- Jenny Galewski
- Eva Cvijanovic
- Simon Cottee
- Lori Malépart-Traversy
- Herl Joshua E. Lara
- Magnhild Winsnes
- Kanza Belali
- backgrounds
- Magnhild Winsnes
- Torill Kove
- Julia Torjak
- Katerina Pantela
- James Martin
- colouring
- Herl Joshua E. Lara
- Kanza Belali
- Sunniva Fluge Hole
- compositing
- Cathinka Tanberg
- James Martin
- Konrad Hjemli
- Kristian Pedersen
- Herl Joshua E. Lara
- Melrouss
- Alexandre Roy
- intern
- Michelle Kotsiuba
- editing
- Alison Burns
- animatic editing
- Xi Feng
- creative consultant
- Nicholas Kilingi
- Jane Nyoike
- Victoria Mesopir-Iossel
- language consultant
- Mohamed Komeja
- swahili adaptation
- Nicholas Kilingi
- French adaptation
- François Godin
- narration
- Torill Kove
- cast
- Andrea Braein Hovig
- Adrianne Richards
- Pål Sverre Hagen
- Brett Schaenfield
- Ella Øverbye
- Frances Wheeler-Hugues
- Vivild Falk Berg
- Jenna Wheeler-Hugues
- Torill Kove
- Kåre Conradi
- Jane Nyoike
- David Wang’ang’a Njuguna
- Nicholas Kilingi
- Victoria Mesopir-Iossel
- additional voice
- Mats Brånå
- Aksel Hegge
- Simen Håbu
- Henriette Neksum
- Ingeborg Mjelve
- English voice direction
- Alex Ivanovici
- original music
- Luigi Allemano
- musician
- Daniel Onyango
- Staffan Bråsjö
- John Sadowy
- Tobias Andersson
- Morgan Moore
- Kebba Jobateh
- Valérie Lacombe
- music recording
- Luc Léger
- Willem Bleeker
- music recording - assistance
- Basma Jabbar
- Bernard Belley
- sound design
- Hakon Lammetun
- sound re-recording
- Hakon Lammetun
- additional sound design
- Anna Nilsson
- voice recording
- Hakon Lammetun
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- Luc Léger
- foley artist
- Rune van Deurs
- foley recordist
- Liana Degtiar
- technical direction
- Éloi Champagne
- Cathinka Tanberg
- Mathieu Tremblay
- technical support
- Alexandre Roy
- Johanne Ste-Marie
- technical coordination
- Luc Binette
- colour grading
- Camilla Host Vea
- credits
- Cynthia Ouellet
- production manager
- Laetitia Seguin
- Ragna Midtgard
- production coordinator
- Dominique Forget
- Barry Ahmad
- administration & operations
- Victoria Angell
- Rosalina Di Sario
- Lise Fearnley
- Camille Fillion
- Anne Vollstad
- marketing
- Judith Lessard-Bérubé
- publicist
- Nadine Viau
- producer
- Lise Fearnley
- Maral Mohammadian
- Tonje Skar Reiersen
- executive producer
- Robert McLaughlin
- Michael Fukushima
Awards
- Short Film Category Audience PrizeInternational Animation Festival
- Prix animé TVA Abitibi-TémiscamingueFestival du cinéma international en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
- Prix du meilleur court métrage canadienFestival International du film pour enfants (FIFEM)
- Audience VoteFrame by Frame - the Oslo Animation Event
- Best Nordic-Baltic Animated Youth AwardAnimation Festival
- Best Canadian FilmSpark Animation Festival