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“For nearly 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 ”


Souvenir Souvenir is a French short film by animation director Bastien Dubois.

The film relates Bastien’s multiple and unsuccessful attempts to initiate a dialogue
with his grand father using an excellent combination of art styles to lay out a story
of war trauma, family conflict, creative process and ultimately filial love...

Between 1954 and 1962 there was a war between France and colonized Algeria.
“War of Independence” on the Algerian side. “Peace Operation” on the French side.
Approximatly 400,000 Algerian civilians were killed during this conflict, which was the scene of numerous and widely documented atrocities : murders, rapes, torture...
My grandfather took part in this conflict from 1956 to 1958 as a french conscript.

Since childhood I have tried to communicate with my grandfather... What is his
history in Algeria ? But to no avail. Each time I was treated to the same version :
Friends, partying, gazelle hunting in the desert...

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As a director, I took this conflict as a subject and several sketches for films emerged. But every time something went wrong, I gave up for mostly valid reasons.
Maybe I didn’t want to make this movie ? Maybe I didn’t want to know if this man who almost raised me might have taken part in the worst atrocities ?

I started to understand as I got older what I was facing, the breadth of the subject, what was at stake for the balance of my family and my own balance. Little by little the film has become a family psychoanalysis, the “making-of” of a film that does not exist. I pretended I wanted to make a movie but secretly hoped I didn’t have to.
I wanted to spare this man I love, my family and especially myself. I was in denial.
Unable to question him frankly brought us to this situation of mutual handicap : He didn’t know how to relate, I didn’t know how to ask... This led us to the taboo.

With this film I want to bring the viewer into the journey, the failed acts, the failures, the questioning, the encounters, the unspoken and the taboo that I have experienced over the years and share this life experience.



Souvenir Souvenir is about my relationship with my grand father who was a soldier during war bettween France and Algeria.

The film design is based on Jorge Gonsales art. Animation has been made in Angouleme at studio 3.0 Studio and Train Train studio in Lille.
This film is produced by Blast production, ARTE France and Pictanovo and get the support of Région Hauts-de-France / ville de Paris / Département
de la Charente (Pôle Image Magelis) / Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine / CNC

For press kit and HD images, follow this link

 

AWARDS

Sundance Film Festival with The Short Film Jury Award: Animation
Annie Award : Best Animated Short
Bogoshorts (Colombia) Best animation short film
Les Sommets du cinéma d’animation (Canada) Grand prix
Golden Pegasus ANIMATOR Poznan
Grand prix Festival International du Court Métrage de Lille
Prix du meilleur court métrage international au festival Weird (Espagne)
Grand Prix Courts Compet’ FICAM 2021 (Maroc)
Prix Jury Jeunes 26e Festival du film de Contis (France)
Prix du meilleur court métrage WAR ON SCREEN (France)
ANIMALAB Award Forlì International Film Festival (Italy)
Prix de la Critique du syndicat français de la critique de cinéma
Prix Emile Reynaud - Talent 2021 Fete du court metrage
Prix André-Martin (France)
Prix SACD Festival International du Court-Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand
Festival du film franco-arabe (France) Animation jury award
Anim’est (Romania) Best documentary
Bridge Film Festival : Best Short Film
Drim Short 2021: Best short film
Französische Filmtage Tübingen-Stuttgart (Germany) Best international short film
Un festival c’est trop court ! (France) Best script and Audience award in European competition
Festival de Las vegas - BEST ANIMATION - Award of Excellence + Best of the month
Talent 2021 Fete du court metrage
Festival Européen du Court-Métrage de Bordeaux Prix animation du jury étudiant
Festival du film franco-arabe (France) Animation jury award in Short films competition
Anim'est - Festivalul International de Film de Animatie (Romania) Best documentary
Seattle International Film Festival (USA) Short Film - Documentary Grand Jury Award
Egyptian Animation Socierty Price at Ismailia Documentary and short film festival (Egypt)
Woods Hole Film Festival 2nd Price

SPECIAL MENTION

Prix UniFrance du court-métrage Special jury award
Off-Courts Trouville (France) Jury mention
Special mention in the Silver Lynx Competition FEST – New Directors (Portugal)
Doc Edge International Documentary Film Festival Auckland (New Zealand)
TIAF Jury distinction award in International competition (Taiwan)
Plein la Bobine ! Mention spéciale de la compétition Grands enfants
Prix Jeunes Talents France Télévisions Special mention

SELECTIONS

2020.08.04 > 09 Flickers' RIIFF - Rhode Island International Film Festival (USA)
2020.09.01 > 05 Pixelatl (Mexico)
2020.09.01 > 06 Fantoche - International Animation Film Festival (Switzerland)
2020.09.28 > 10.09 Animafest Zagreb - World Festival of Animated Film (Croatia)
2020.10.01 > 10 Animatou Genève (Switzerland)
2020.10.01 > 10 Edmonton International Film Festival (Canada)
2020.10.02 > 10 KROK International Animated Film Festival (Russia/Ukraine)
2020.10.03 > 11 IFF Curtas Vila Do Conde (portugal)
2020.10.07 Festival Cinémonde (Berck sur mer)
2020.10.07 > 11 Alter-Native - Festivalul International de Film de Scurt-metraj (Roumania)
2020.10.10 Courts-Bouillon (France)
2020.10.11 Edmonton International Film Festival (Canada)
2020.10.11 > 10.24 Insomnia - International Animation Film Festival (Russia)
2020.10.16 > 24 Cinemed - Festival international du film méditerranéen (France)
2020.10.19 Cinémathèque Paris soirée ARTE
2020.10.23 > 27 BIAF - Bucheon International Animation Festival (South Korea)
2020.10.29 > 11.01 Spark Animation (Canada)
2020.11.09 > 20 Bit Bang International (Buenos Aires)
2020.11.11 > 12.13 Interfilm, International Short Film Festival (Berlin)
2020.11.13 > 29 PÕFF Shorts (Estonia) - Black Nights Film Festival
2020.11.19 > 25 Festival du film français (Czech Republic)
2020.11.20 > 23 New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival (Japan)
2020.11.25 > 29 Anilogue - International Animation Film Festival (Hungary)
2020.11.30 > 12.9 Animateka (Slovenia) selection Best of the world
2020.12.01 > 06 Festival Tous Courts - (France-Aix-en-Provence)
2020.12.03 > 08 Passaggi d’Autore - Intrecci Mediterranei (Sardaigne, Italy)
2020.12.02 > 06 žUBROFFKa - Miedzynarodowy Festiwal Filmów Krótkometrazowych (Poland)
2020.12.07 > 12 Dakar Court - 2020 (senegal)
2020.12.09 > 13 Carrefour de l'animation (France)
2020.12.10 Festival du film français (Japon)
2020.12.27 > 30 Piccolo Festival Animazione (Italy)

2021.01.12 > 17 Paris Courts Devant (Paris)
2021.01.18 > 24 FIPADOC - Festival International Documentaire (France-Biarritz)
2021.01.28 > 02.03 Sundance Film Festival(USA)
2021.01.29 > 02.6 Festival International du Court-Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand (France)
2021.02.05 > 15 FIAF Animation First Festival (USA)
2021.02.12 > 21 Anima - The Brussels International Animation Film Festival (Belgium)
2021.02.20 Soirée du court YABETTE (La Réunion)
2021.03.04 > 14 Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival (online)
2021.03.17 > 04.04 MONSTRA online (Portugal)
2021.03.22 > 04.01 Akbank Short Film Festival (Turkey)
2021.03.22 > 04.22 MECAL (Barcelone)
2021.03.23 > 04.11 PCMMO-Panorama des cinémas du Maghreb et du Moyen-Orient (Paris)
2021.03.23 > 04.09 Festival international Ciné-Jeune de l'Aisne
2021.03.27 > 04.04 Kaboom Animation Festival (Netherlands)
2021.04.04 > 09 Hong Kong international film festival
2021.04.05 > 09 Ciné-Rebelle : Cinémas Chaplin Denfert (Paris) et à Nanterre Les Lumières.
2021.04.05 > 11 GLAS Berkeley (USA) 5 au 11 avril
2021.04.07 > 20 Festival national du film d'animation (Rennes)
2021.04.09 > 18 Vues d'Afrique (Montreal)
2021.04.16 Annie awards
2021.04.16 > 17 NewFilmmakers (Los Angeles)
2021.04.19 > 23 1ère Marche - Festival du Film Court (France-Berck-sur-Mer)
2021.04.24 > 30 Fête du Court-Métrage (France)
2021.05.05 > 09 Helsinki International Film Festival
2021.05.06 > 20 Milwaukee Film Festival
2021.05.13 > 20 Wisconsin Film Festival
2021.05.15 > 22 Festival Visions Sociales (France) Mandelieu-La Napoule (Cannes)

2021.06.01 > 09 festival Itinerance (Alès)
2021.06.02 > 08 Psarokokalo Athens International Short Film Festival
2021.06.02 > 25 Festival de courts-métrages de Rouen et Mont-Saint-Aignan
2021.06.02 > 22 Doc Edge (New Zealand)
2021.06.08 > 18 Compétition Festival Plein la Bobine (Issoire & La Bourboule)
2021.06.09 > 19 Pantin : COTE COURT > panorama
2021.06.09 > 13 Festival du Film Subversif de Metz
2021.06.17 festival Côté court (Panorama) Pantin
2021.06.17 > 22 PyeongChang International Peace Film Festival (Korea)
2021.06.22 > 27 SorsiCorti Short Film Festival
2021.06.22 > 27 AFI DOCS 2021 (USA)
2021.06.22 > 28 Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films (USA)
2021.06.24 > 07.04 Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival
2021.06.25 > 27 Festival Séquence Court-Métrage (Toulouse) Cinéma ABC
2021.06.30 ANIMAKOM FEST (Bilbao, Spain)

2021.07.01 > 04 Rencontres du film documentaire de Mellionnec
2021.07.02 > 08.16 Tournée Cinévillages, projections en plein air (Vaucluse)
2021.07.10 Festivalul International de Film de Animatie Bucuresti (Romania)
2021.07.14 > 17 Bridge film Festival. Verona (Italia)
2021.07.15 > 18 Festival du film court Partie(s) de campagne à Ouroux en Morvan
2021.07.21 > 24 Universocorto2021 Pisa (Italia)
2021.07.21 > 08.01 MONSTRA festival (Portugal)
2021.07.23 > 30 ANIBAR (Kosovo)
2021.07.23 > 27 San Giò Verona Video Festival (Italia)
2021.07.27 > 08.01 ANIMAPHIX International Animated Film Festival. Bagheria/Palermo/Sicily (Italy)
2021.07.29 > 08.01 The Drim Short Film Festival. Struga, North Macedonia.
2021.07.30 > 08.08 Almagro International Film Festival. Almagro (Spain)
2021.07.31 > 08.07 30th Woods Hole Film Festival (USA-MA)

2021.08.04 > 08 Festival Inventa un Film (Lenola Italia)
2021.08.06 > 14 DokuFest Int'l Shorts Prizren (Kosovo)
2021.08.18 > 25 Edinburgh International Film Festival
2021.08.25 > 29 Turku animation film festival (Finland)
2021.08.30 > 09.12 OFF21 (Odense. Danemark)

2021.09.01 > 05 Linoleum Animation Festival (Kiev, Ukraina)
2021.09.01 > 08 Mexico International Short Film Festival (Mexico) (secret jusqu'au 22 juillet???)
2021.09.01 > 30 Encounters Film Festival 2021 (UK)
2021.09.10 > 25 Prague International Indie Film Festival
2021.09.15 > 19 26e Festival de Contis (Landes - 40)
2021.09.16 > 26 34th HIFF - Love & Anarchy
2021.09.17 > 26 Festival International du Court métrage de Lille
2021.09.17 > 26 Guanajuato International Film Festival (Mexico)
2021.09.20 > 25 Linz International Short Film Festival (Austria)
2021.09.22 > 10.02 7th International Short Film Festival SHORT FORM (Serbia)
2021.09.22 > 26 Animasyros International Animation Festival (Syros Island - Greece)
2021.09.24 > 10.03 3D Wire Fest (Segovia Spain)
2021.09.24 > 26 RISING OF LUSITANIA - ANIMADOC FILM FESTIVAL. Gdansk (Poland)
2021.09.27 > 10.03 Viborg Animation Festival (Danemark)
2021.09.28 > 10.03 Festival War on Screen (Châlons-en-Champagne)
2021.09.30 > 10.10 Reykjavík International Film Festival (hors compet)

2021.10 > 11 Ateliers de médiation culturelle AFLAM (Marseille)
2021.10.01 > 10 Forlì International Film Festival (Italie)
2021.10.14 > 20 Festival Internacional de ! Cine Político (Buenos Aires)
2021.10.14 > 19 GwangHwaMun International Short Film Festival (Seoul, Korea)
2021.10.15 > 18 Szczecin Film Festival (Poland)
2021.10.15 > 31 Kaohsiung Film Festival (Taiwan)
2021.10.20 > 31 Philadelphia Film Festival (USA)
2021.10.22 > 31 FILMETS Badalona Film Festival
2021.10.23 > 27 Festival du film d'animation pour la jeunesse de Bourg en Bresse, (hors compet)
2021.10.25 > 31 40th Uppsala Short Film Festival (70 selections over 6000 entries!) (Suède)
2021.10.26 Best of de films primés au festival de Roanne (cinémathèque de saint-Etienne)
2021.10.27 > 11.06 Filem'On-The International Filmfestival for young audiences (Belgium)
2021.10.28 > 11.08 Big Cartoon Festival (Russia)

2021.11.01 > 07 Arab Film Festival (Michigan - USA)
2021.11.03 > 06 GwangHwaMun International Short Film Festival (reprise on-line) (Seoul)
2021.11.03 > 14 Denver Film Festival
2021.11.04 > 06 Animanima festival (Serbia)
2021.11.05 > 14 Ojai Film Festival California
2021.11.05 > 06 24fps International Short Film Festival (Texas)
2021.11.05 > 08 Ojai Film Festival - LIVE (L.A. USA)
2021.11.05 > 12 50th edition of ALCINE (madrid)
2021.11.06 > 13 Fenêtres sur courts - Nuit de l'animation (hors compétition)(Dijon)
2021.11.08 > 14 45th CINANIMA (portugal)
2021.11.09 > 14 Ojai Film Festival - ONLINE (L.A. USA)
2021.11.11 Festival Interférences (Lyon) Programmation non-compétitive
2021.11.16 Programmation d'automne de Ciclic Animation à Vendôme
2021.11.18 > 9h15 Les Oeillades - CGR Albi (France)
2021.11.20 > 28 Festival Du grain à démoudre (le Havre)
2021.11.24 > 24 Düsseldorf Film Festival
2021.11.24 > 28 Festival du Court Métrage d'Auch (France)
2021.11.30 > 12.05 Festival Feinaki (Beijing)

2021.12.02 > 19 CINEMAMED (Bruxelles)
2021.12.09 Carrefour du cinéma d'animation - Forum des images (Paris)
2021.12.01 > 12 30eme Nuits Magiques au cinéma LE FESTIVAL de Bègles.
2021.12.04 > 12 Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival, China (GZDOC)
2021.12.16 > 24 (hors compétition) HiShorts! (China)
2021.12.20 Festival Terre(s) d'Image (Louroux)

2022.01.08>09 15th ARKANSAS SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL (Hot Springs, AR)
2022.01.12 > 18 15th Vilnius International Short Film Festival (Lithuania)
2022.01.14>22 22ème Festival Un poing c'est court (Vaulx-en-Velin)
2022.01.19>23 Courtoujours (Lannion)

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