Father and Daughter (film)
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| Father and Daughter | |
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 Screenshot from Father and Daughter |
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| Directed by | Michaël Dudok De Wit |
| Produced by | Claire Jennings Willem Thijssen |
| Written by | Michaël Dudok De Wit |
| Music by | Normand Roger Denis L. Chartrand |
| Release date(s) | 2000 |
| Running time | 8:30 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom Belgium Netherlands |
| Language | no dialogue |
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Father and Daughter is a 2000 Dutch animated short film, made by Michaël Dudok De Wit. It won the 2000 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
The film also received other 20 wins and 1 nomination and is considered the most successful in the series of works by Michaël which attracts the biggest audiences.
[edit] Story plot
A father says goodbye to his young daughter and leaves. As the wide Dutch landscapes live through their seasons so the girl lives through hers. She becomes a young woman, has a family and in time she becomes old, yet within her there is always a deep longing for her father.
The story is a metaphor. The father leaving on a boat signifies his death and the images of the daughter watching for him to come back is signifying her always thinking about him throughout her life. Towards the end when the now elderly daughter begins to travel through the overgrown, dried up riverbed is supposed to explain that she has died and is now travelling in the afterlife to see her father once again.
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