30/5 — 5/6/2024
64th International Film Festival
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Section: International competition of animated short films for children

The Elephant and the bicycle (2014) 3

France, Belgium | 2014 | 9 min.

An elephant lives in a town among people and works as a street cleaner. One day, he sees a big billboard advertising a bicycle. It seems the perfect size for him! This is the minute the elephant's life changes: he has to get this bicycle whatever it costs him.

CountryFrance, Belgium
Year2014
Duration9 min
Rating3
LanguageNo dialogues
SubtitleNo subtitles
Directed by Olesya Shchukina
Screenplay Olesya Shchukina
Director of Photography David Toutevoix
Music Yan Volsy
Edited by Hervé Guichard
Contact Jeremy Mourlam

Biography

Olesya Shchukina (1986) is a Russian director of animated films settled in France. She studied at Saint Petersburg State University for Cinema and Television and graduated from the French school of animation La Poudriére with the short animated film The Elephant and the Bicycle (Le Vélod’élephant, 2014), which was her first professional work.This film is a part of the set Competitive animations 4.

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