Ice Merchants
Online Screenings:6/6[Tue]-6/26[Mon]
- Special Screening
Online
Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from thier vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff to go to the village on the ground, far away, where they sell the ice they produce daily.
- Director
- João Gonzalez
- Time
- 0:14:33
- Country
- Portugal
- Genre
- Animation
- Year
- 2022
Awards Nominations
Director
João Gonzalez
João Gonzalez (1996) is a Portuguese film director, animator, illustrator and a musician with classical training in piano. Recipient of a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, he did a Masters at the Royal College Art (UK), after finishing his BA at ESMAD (PT). In these institutions he made 2 multi-award winning films, “Nestor” and “The Voyager”. In 2022 he became the first Portuguese animation filmmaker to be awarded at Festival de Cannes, winning the Jury Prize for Best Short film in competition at the Critics Week with “Ice Merchants”, which also became the first ever Portuguese film to be nominated for an Oscar. He has a big interest in combining his musical background with his practice in authorial animation, always taking the role of composer and sometimes instrumentalist in the films he directs, occasionally setting them to a live performance.
Screening
Screenings venue | schedule | Online Screenings / Ticket Reservation | |
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Venue | Omotesando Hills Space O | 2023.06.23 [Fri] 13:30 – 15:20 | |
Venue | Online Grand Theater | 2023.06.06 [Tue] – 2023.06.26 [Mon] |
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Joseph Pierce / 0:15:00 / France/ UK / Belgium / Czech Republic / Animation / 2022
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Piotr Chmielewski / 0:08:42 / Poland / Animation / 2022
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Achille Pasquier, Cesar Luton, Selim Lallaoui, Clémence Bailly, Axel Mechin / 0:07:52 / France / Animation / 2022
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Florentina Gonzalez / 0:11:15 / France / Animation / 2022
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Tim Main / 0:04:13 / Australia / Animation / 2022
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Tsubasa Hagihara / 0:04:20 / Japan / Experimental / 2023
BOOKTicket Reservation
- Venue
- Omotesando Hills Space O
- Dates
- 2023.06.23 [Fri] 13:30 – 15:20
OnlineScreenings
- Venue
- Online Grand Theater
- Dates
- 2023.06.06 [Tue] – 2023.06.26 [Mon]