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Letter to a Pig
Hebrew	מכתב לחזיר
Directed by	Tal Kantor
Written by	Tal Kantor
Produced by	Emmanuel-Alain Raynal Pierre Baussaron Amit Russell Gicelter
Edited by	Efrat Berger
Music by	Pierre Oberkampf
Production companies	The Hive Studio (Israel) Miyu Productions (France)
Release dates	28 April 2022 (2022-04-28) (San Francisco International Film Festival, United States)
Running time	17 minutes
Countries	Israel France
Language	Hebrew

Letter to a Pig (Hebrew: מכתב לחזיר) is a 2022 Israeli-French animated short film written and directed by Tal Kantor. The 17-minute animated film about generational trauma has been awarded in various international film festivals, including the Jerusalem Film Festival, the Ottawa International Animation Festival, the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and the Chicago International Children's Film Festival. The film was nominated for the 2024 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

Plot

On 'Memorial Day', a Holocaust survivor reads a letter he wrote to the pig who saved his life to a classroom full of teenagers.

Whilst listening to his testimony, a young schoolgirl sinks into a twisted dream where she confronts questions of collective trauma, memory and identity.

Release

The 17-minute short about collective memory and identity premiered as part of the 2022 San Francisco International Film Festival and won the Award for Best Short Film at the 2022 Israeli Film Academy Awards. The film was shortlisted at the 2023 César Awards and has been featured in a number of international film festivals, receiving accolades such as the Grand Prize for Best Narrative Short Animation at the Ottawa International Animation Festival and the Zlatko Grgic Award at the 2022 Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films.

Accolades

Since its release, the film has been selected in various festivals around the world:

References

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2. "Letter to a Pig". Miyu Productions official website (in French). Retrieved 2024-02-20.
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13. "I Wanted to Walk Out of Kantor's 'Letter to a Pig': But This is Not What You Think". Animation World Network. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
14. Bobrowska, Olga (2023-04-05). "'Letter to a Pig' by Tal Kantor Film Review: Or How Do We Remember, Suppress, and Narrate Holocaust 80 Years Later". Zippy Frames. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
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17. "La Sélection Officielle Court Métrage d'Animation César 2023". Académie des César (in French). Retrieved 2023-09-13.
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20. "Letter to a Pig". GLAS 2022. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
21. "Letter to a Pig". festivalregard.com. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
22. Economou, Vassilis (2023-01-30). "Letter to a Pig wins at the 16th Kustendorf Film and Music Festival". Cineuropa. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
23. "ANIMA 2023 - Awards". Anima Festival – 23 February - 03 March 2024. 2023-02-26. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
24. "Behind the Line Work of Animation is Film 2023's Grand Prize Winners". Animation World Network. Retrieved 2023-11-15.
25. "Award Winners - Aesthetica Short Film Festival". 2022-04-28. Retrieved 2023-11-15.

External links

• Official Trailer on YouTube.
• Letter to a Pig at IMDb
• Letter to a Pig on Unifrance.

• 2022 films
• 2022 animated short films
• Israeli animated short films
• French animated short films
• 2020s French films
• Animated films about pigs