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Maybe Elephants

Three teenaged sisters and their parents move to Kenya and find themselves changed forever.
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A family is forever changed by a spontaneous move across the globe. From Oscar®-winning animator Torill Kove (The Danish Poet), Maybe Elephants is an autobiographical ode to family, adolescence and the therapeutic power of memories, however unreliable.

Families Women Tourism Psychology and Psychiatry All subjects
  • script
    Torill Kove
  • direction
    Torill Kove
  • art direction
    Magnhild Winsnes
  • animatic
    Torill Kove
    Dyveke Skøld
  • animation layout
    Hyun Jin Park
    Jo Meuris
    Torill Kove
  • animation
    Jo Meuris
    Hyun Jin Park
    Louis Bodart
    Torill Kove
    Parissa Mohit
    Kamil Chajder
    Jenny Galewski
    Eva Cvijanovic
    Simon Cottee
    Lori Malépart-Traversy
    Herl Joshua E. Lara
    Magnhild Winsnes
    Kanza Belali
  • backgrounds
    Magnhild Winsnes
    Torill Kove
    Julia Torjak
    Katerina Pantela
    James Martin
  • colouring
    Herl Joshua E. Lara
    Kanza Belali
    Sunniva Fluge Hole
  • compositing
    Cathinka Tanberg
    James Martin
    Konrad Hjemli
    Kristian Pedersen
    Herl Joshua E. Lara
    Melrouss
    Alexandre Roy
  • intern
    Michelle Kotsiuba
  • editing
    Alison Burns
  • animatic editing
    Xi Feng
  • creative consultant
    Nicholas Kilingi
    Jane Nyoike
    Victoria Mesopir-Iossel
  • language consultant
    Mohamed Komeja
  • swahili adaptation
    Nicholas Kilingi
  • French adaptation
    François Godin
  • narration
    Torill Kove
  • cast
    Andrea Braein Hovig
    Adrianne Richards
    Pål Sverre Hagen
    Brett Schaenfield
    Ella Øverbye
    Frances Wheeler-Hugues
    Vivild Falk Berg
    Jenna Wheeler-Hugues
    Torill Kove
    Kåre Conradi
    Jane Nyoike
    David Wang’ang’a Njuguna
    Nicholas Kilingi
    Victoria Mesopir-Iossel
  • additional voice
    Mats Brånå
    Aksel Hegge
    Simen Håbu
    Henriette Neksum
    Ingeborg Mjelve
  • English voice direction
    Alex Ivanovici
  • original music
    Luigi Allemano
  • musician
    Daniel Onyango
    Staffan Bråsjö
    John Sadowy
    Tobias Andersson
    Morgan Moore
    Kebba Jobateh
    Valérie Lacombe
  • music recording
    Luc Léger
    Willem Bleeker
  • music recording - assistance
    Basma Jabbar
    Bernard Belley
  • sound design
    Hakon Lammetun
  • sound re-recording
    Hakon Lammetun
  • additional sound design
    Anna Nilsson
  • voice recording
    Hakon Lammetun
    Geoffrey Mitchell
    Luc Léger
  • foley artist
    Rune van Deurs
  • foley recordist
    Liana Degtiar
  • technical direction
    Éloi Champagne
    Cathinka Tanberg
    Mathieu Tremblay
  • technical support
    Alexandre Roy
    Johanne Ste-Marie
  • technical coordination
    Luc Binette
  • colour grading
    Camilla Host Vea
  • credits
    Cynthia Ouellet
  • production manager
    Laetitia Seguin
    Ragna Midtgard
  • production coordinator
    Dominique Forget
    Barry Ahmad
  • administration & operations
    Victoria Angell
    Rosalina Di Sario
    Lise Fearnley
    Camille Fillion
    Anne Vollstad
  • marketing
    Judith Lessard-Bérubé
  • publicist
    Nadine Viau
  • producer
    Lise Fearnley
    Maral Mohammadian
    Tonje Skar Reiersen
  • executive producer
    Robert McLaughlin
    Michael Fukushima

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