Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman directed by Pierre Földes will open the Kuandu International Animation Festival which will take place from October 22 – 28, 2023 in Taipei, Taiwan.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Pierre Földes – France, Canda, Luxembourg | 2022 – 100 minutes
A giant talkative frog, a tray cat, and a tsunami help a bank employee, his wife, and a schizophrenic accountant save Tokyo from an earthquake and find meaning in their lives.

The creative origin of this animated film begun with the director initially approaching Murakami to adapt on of his novels. However, Murakami provided him with this collection of short stories instead. Thery selected several stories with the intention of creating an anthology. As they worked on the screenplay, the director saw the potential to treat the characters from each story as different facets of the same character at various life stages. This lead to the experiment of intertwining the stories and characters into a cohesive narrative. (KDIAF 2023)

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About the director:
Pierre Földes is a composer, painter, and filmmaker. He was born to Hungarian-British parents and raised in Paris, where he studied piano and composition at the École Normale de Musique de Paris and the Sorbonne, mainly working in New York. He has composed video games, commercials, TV series, and films. The film “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman” directed by him, is an award-winning adaptation of a short story by Haruki Murakami. It has received great recognition and acclaim at international film festivals.

For more information, please visit: https://kdiaf.animation.tnua.edu.tw