Napo (2021)
Napo
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Brazilian animated short film 'Napo' is an explosion of sensitivity and delicacy in just 16 minutes. With a distinctive and well-produced animation style, the short shows the relationship between a boy and his grandfather, an elderly man suffering from Alzheimer's. However, those who think the film is specifically concerned with the disease are mistaken. 'Napo' is actually about communication. When the boy and his grandfather cannot understand each other and cannot find ways to talk, drawing becomes the solution. Strokes become words, colors become emotions. And with that, the short film gains scale, in a message that transcends the less than twenty minutes of duration. Beautiful and sensitive, it is another example of how animation in Brazil is gaining more and more strength.
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Unable to understand the illness that takes his grandfather between the past and the present, João stumbles across an old album full of photographs and lets the images guide his imagination, transforming his grandfather's memories into interpretations of drawings. Drawings that shape their relationship in a story of remembrance and memory construction.
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