The Boy and the World
Animation
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[Machine Translation] Nominated for the 88th Academy Awards ( R ) for Best Animated Feature Film! Winner of the Crystal Award (the highest award) and the Audience Award at the 2014 Annecy International Animated Film Festival! An animated feature film directed by Ale Abreu, an up-and-coming director in the Brazilian independent animation world. The natural texture and smooth action of the brush strokes, which freely use crayons, colored pencils, cutouts, oil paints, etc., seem as if magic had been cast on a picture book, and astonish the viewer. The music is by Nana Vasconcelos, a percussionist who is the pride of Brazil. Director Abreu, who says he was also influenced by Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki, not only captivates children with its variety of movements and colors, but also addresses adult issues such as society, politics, the environment, and the economy. -The true world in which you walk out alone. A boy and his parents were leading a happy life together. One day, however, the father suddenly gets on a train and leaves for work. The boy makes up his mind. He decides, "I'm going to find my father and bring him home. The boy's journey into the unknown awaits him in a farming village where he is forced to work hard, and in a cosmopolitan city where a dictatorship is planning a war, and where life is full of glitz and glamor but no pretense. Nevertheless, the boy moves forward, relying on his interactions with the various people he encounters on his journey and the memory of the joyful melodies his father used to play on the flute...
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