PRODUCTION INFO
Title: The Tower (Tornet)
Original Title: Tornet
Format: Feature
Language: Swedish
Duration: 74 minutes
Release: 2018
CREW
Director: Mats Grorud
Screenwriters: Mats Grorud, Trygve Allister Diesen, Ståle Stein Berg
DOP: Sara Sponga, Nadine Buss
Editors: Silje Nordseth, Carsten Meinich, Anders Bergland, Margrete Vinnem
Producers: Frode Søbstad / Tenk.tv, Patrice Nezan / Les Contes Modernes
Co-producer: Annika Hellström / Cinenic Film
INTERNATIONAL SALES
Jour2Fête
NATIONAL DISTRIBUTION
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FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
2019 Imaginaria (Special Jury Award), Italy
2019 Skip International D-Cinema Festival (GRAND PRIZE AWARD and AUDIENCE AWARD), Japan
2019 Anibar festival (FIRST PRIZE), Kosovo
2019 PEJA Anibar Animation International Film Festival (First Prize for the Feature Film category), Kosovo
2019 Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival (Grand Prize Award for Feature Films category), South Korea
2019 Lisbon Animation Festival (Jury Special Award and Best Soundtrack Award), Lisbonne
2019 Festival des Toiles filantes (Jury Award), France
2019 Liv Ullmann’s Peace Prize and 2nd Prize for Best Animated Feature
2018 International Children’s Film Festival, Chicago
2018 Kosmorama Trondheim Internasjonale (Best Edit award), Norway
2018 Annecy International Film Festival, France
2018 Sydney Palestinian Film Festival, Australia
2018 Helsinki Love & Anarchy Festival, Finland
2018 Bergen International Film Festival, Norway
2018 Montpellier Rencontres Nationales Ecole & Cinéma, France
2018 Busan International Film Festival, France
2018 Maputo Fast Forward Festival – Ciclo de Cinema, Mosambique
2018 Ramallah Palestine Cinema Days, Palestine
2018 Gaza Palestine Cinema Days, Palestine
2018 London Palestine Film Festival, England
2018 Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt
2018 Brussels Mediterranean Film Festival, Belgium
2018 Marrakesh International Film Festival, Marocco
2018 Karama Human rights film festival, Jordan
2018 Paris Carrefour de l’animation, France
2018 Val de Marne Ciné Junior Festival, France
2018 Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente, Argentina
SYNOPSIS
Beirut, Lebanon, Today.
Wardi, an eleven-year-old Palestinian girl, lives with her whole family in
the refugee camp where she was born. Her beloved great-grandfather
Sidi was one of the first people to settle in the camp after being chased
from his home back in 1948. The day Sidi gives her the key to his old
house back in Galilee, she fears he may have lost hope of someday
going home. As she searches for Sidi’s lost hope around the camp, she
will collect her family’s testimonies, from one generation to the next.
The film is based on interviews with Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.