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Bek
An animation film by
Lucette Braune
BEK is a touching and beautifully drawn animated tale about a girl who is born with wings instead of arms and a beak where a mouth should be. Unlike a real bird though, she cannot fly because she is, after all, still a girl. Hated by her father, she is driven from home and ends up joining the circus as a freak attraction.
Adopted by a not-too-bright but friendly drunken clown she settles into her niche as a circus performer. As time goes by, she longs to be a real woman, a human, but there is no place for such a bird-creature in the world outside the circus. So, she creates her own fantasy world as she dreams about the life of a normal young woman, somewhere far away from the circus. In the end, she dreams herself away from it all leaving the audience wondering if the girl was actually there, or if it was something they may have imagined - a girl with wings and a beak.
Bek (Beak) is a film about growing up, and being an outcast . It is about not being able to express yourself even to the people you love and the ones that love you. The girl in Bek is being misunderstood and is trying to find a place for herself in the world by using fantasy and imagination. Not unlike many of the girls her age.
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 FIKE 2005 - Evora International Short Film Festival(Portugal) - Best Animation
1st Short Film Festival Animacor Cordoba (Spain) - 3rd prize
Reanimacja 2005 Festival (Poland) - special jury distinction
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Credits
English title: Beak
Original title: Bek
Running time: 12 min.
Director:
Lucette Braune
Animation:
Peter Wassink
Bouwine Pool
Sounddesign and music:
Bart van de Lisdonk
Aico Lind
Coloring and compositing:
Metropolisfilm
Producer:
Jos-marien Jansen for il Luster Productions
Executive Producers:
Arnoud Rijken & Michiel J. Snijders
Financial support:
Dutch Filmfund
City of Utrecht
Thuiskopie Fonds
RNTV
Information / sales / productionhouse:
il Luster Productions
the Netherlands
© il Luster Productions
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