How My Grandmother Became A Chair

film type animated film Production Country Germany, Qatar, Lebanon production year 2020 runtime 9'55 colour
screening format DCP aspect ratio 2.35:1 (CinemaScope) sound format Dolby Surround
screening format Media File (ProRes, mp4, mov) aspect ratio 2.35:1 (CinemaScope) sound format Dolby Surround

Grandmother loses her five senses one after the other until she transforms into a wooden chair. This story is about life, death and the truths revealed when social stigmas subside.

https://fabianfred.com/how-my-grandmother-became-a-chair/

Official Trailer: https://vimeo.com/394137866

director Nicolas Fattouh Animation Adrian Jaffé, Agustina Morici, Alba Dragonetti, Florian Maubach, Friedrich Schäper, Till Machmer, Yann Le Bot Bildgestaltung / DOP Till Machmer Original-Filmmusik / Original Score Cedric Kayem Szenenbild / Production Design Nicolas Fattouh Drehbuch / Script Nicolas Fattouh Schnitt / Editing Frédéric Schuld Produktion / Production Fabian Driehorst, Nermine Haddad Tongestaltung / Sound Design Francois Yazbeck
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Festivals
2020 Kraków Film Festival, Poland
2020 Giffoni Film Festival, Italy
2020 Animator - International Animated Film Festival, Poznan, Poland
2020 Kaohsiung Film Festival, Taiwan
2020 KROK International Animated Films Festival, Russian Federation
2020 Valladolid International Film Festival, Spain
2020 Kuandu International Animation Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 BANJALUKA International Animated Film Festival, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2020 interfilm Berlin: Internationales Kurzfilmfestival, Germany
2020 Ajyal Film Festival, Doha, Qatar
2020 New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival, Sapporo, Japan
2020 BOGOSHORTS Bogotá Short Film Festival, Colombia
2020 ANIM'EST International Animation Festival, Bucharest, Romania
2020 Filem'On - International Film Festival for Young Audiences, Brussels, Belgium
2020 ReAnima - Bergen International Animation Festival, Norway
2020 Les Sommets du cinéma d'animation, Montreal, Canada
2020 Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Production
  • Fabian&Fred
  • Fabian Driehorst
  • Elbchausee 28
  • 22765 Hamburg
  • +49 176 24313418
  • https://fabianfred.com
Sales
  • interfilm Berlin Management GmbH
  • Cord Dueppe
  • Straßburger Str. 55
  • 10405 Berlin
  • Deutschland
  • +49 30 25942903
  • http://www.interfilm.de

Nicolas Fattouh

Born 1994 in Monsef, Lebanon;
is a visual artist and director;
graduated from Academie Libanaise des Beaux Arts in animation;
in 2018 his project HOW MY GRANDMOTHER BECAME A CHAIR received the Film Prize for International Cooperation of the Robert Bosch Stiftung

Filmography
2015 Le voleur de casseroles