Go Away, Alfred!

Célia
Tisserant

Born in 1995, in France After obtaining a DMA at the ESAAT, Celia Tisserant worked with Nicolas Liguori on his film ‘The Wind in the Reeds‘. In 2018, she co-directed with Celia Tocco her first short film, ‘The Golden Tortoise‘, and in 2019, her second short film, **‘**The Little Red Chick’. She co-directed her 1st medium-length film with Arnaud Demuynck, 'Old Mother Snow' in 2020. All these films were released in short film programmes in the French cinemas.

Arnaud
Demuynck

Born in 1966, in Belgium Arnaud Demuynck is a film director, producer and scriptwriter specialized in short and medium-length animated films. Since his ‘L'Ecluse’ (The Lock), a short choreographic fiction film made in 2000, he has written and directed many animated films, including a choreographic trilogy made up of ‘Signs of Life’ (2004), ‘The Shadow of the Veil’ (2006) and ‘Breakout’ (2007), followed by a poetic trilogy co-directed with Christophe Gautry ‘La Vita Nuova’, ‘The Lunatic Council’ and ‘An Interrupted Spectacle’. With ‘Under Blue Skies’ (2009), he started writing films for younger audiences, either based on traditional stories and nursery rhymes, or adapting kid's books to animation. In 2022, he released his first animated feature film, 'Yuku and the Himalayan Flower', co-directed with Rémi Durin.

Alfred had to flee his country because of the war. Without housing, he wanders from rejection to rejection. One day he meets Sonia, who offers him a coffee.

This film screens as part of the programAlfred and Other Animations.