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Mohammad Shams Alireza Ghasemi‘s “Rainy Dreams” combines live action and animation to explore the dreams of displaced children waiting in limbo in Calais, France, transforming their nocturnal visions into animated sequences including a candle sealed in a crate, a circus of judgment and a boy without a shadow.
The France-Iran co-production, which won the Cannes Docs Award at When East Meets West in January, has been selected for the Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum’s Animation in Focus section. Produced by Mojean Aria, Reza Baastani and Constance Le Scouarnec through Mystic Makers, the film follows five exiled children in the northern French port city where many unaccompanied minors wait hoping to cross to the U.K. A filmmaker enters their world as an animated dog aboard a live-action ferry, while the children’s visions transform into animated sequences featuring boots that cry, a strange volcano and a flying tank.
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