
screens:
Friday, April 20, 2012 - 10:00
Friday, April 20, 2012 - 11:45
location:
Vancity Theatre
1181 Seymour Street
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Director:
Co Hoedeman
length:
9min
year:
2011
country:
Canada
Based on a poem by Marie Jacobs, this animated short by Oscar-winning director Co Hoedeman pays tribute to the ingenuity of the Dutch people during a dark period of their history – the winter of hunger in 1944-45. It's the closing months of the war in occupied Holland. Some women unravel a beautiful bedspread in order to knit 55 socks to barter for food. Reaching back into his childhood memories, Hoedeman has made a simple, poetic film of rare beauty.
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