Marona’s Fantastic Tale

L’Extraordinaire voyage de Marona

60th TIFF: Greek Premiere

“Dog-wise, happiness is exactly the opposite compared to human mentality: we want things to stay put, while people are constantly in search of something new. They call it dreaming, I call it not knowing how to be happy,” argues our titular heroine, and who dares to prove her wrong? Marona has been abandoned, rescued, sold, adopted, renamed and left astray countless times, and her adages are overflowing with condensed wisdom. A visually exquisite animated fairy tale, which imparts the rocky question of identity, the search for happiness, the confrontation of loss, wrapped up in an endearing, moving story.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.


Direction: Anca Damian
Script: Anghel Damian
Editing: Boubkar Benzabat
Sound: Clément Badin, Régis Diebold
Music: Pablo Pico
Actors: Lizzie Brocheré, Bruno Salomone, Thierry Hancisse
Production: Aparte Film
Producers: Anca Damian, Ron Dyens, Tomas Leyers
Co-production: Sacrebleu Productions
Executive producer: Marc Goyens
Sets: Brecht Evens
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: France, Romania
Production Year: 2019
Duration: 92΄
Contact: Charades, sales@charades.eu

Anca Damian

Filmography

1996 Eminescu, truda întru cuvânt
2008 Întâlniri încrucisate | Crossing Dates (fiction)
2013 O varã foarte instabilã | A Very Unsettled Summer (fiction)
2015 La Montagne magique |The Magic Mountain
2018 Moon Hotel Kabul (fiction)
2019 L’extraordinaire voyage de Marona | Marona’s Fantastic Tale (fiction)