International Competition

Country :  Switzerland/Canada Director: Georges Schwizgebel 35mm/9'35''/2004

Director:  Georges Schwizgebel

 

Schwizgebel is born in 1944, in Reconvilier in Switzerland. Graduate of Ecole of decorative arts of Geneva. Georges Schwizgebel has carried out about fifteen animation films in three decades. Filmography: The Rapture of Frank N Stein (1982), 78 Turns (1985)

A Man without a Shadow

Synopsis: A man agrees to pact with a magician and swaps his shadow for riches. He soon discovers that the absence of a shadow can be a humiliating handicap. After fleeting to the four corners of the earth he ends up in Bali, in a theater of shadow puppets
Director: Georges Schwizgebel
Music: Judith Gruber Stitzer
Producer: Studio GDS and National Film Board of Canada/Marcel Jean/Georges Schwizgebel

Belgium, Festival, 2004, Best original music/Croatia, Zagreb, 2004, Award at the discretion of the Jury for film with outstanding qualities/France, Cannes, 2004, Regards Jeunes Award/Japan, Hiroshima, 2004, Special Jury Prize
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