The Girl With The Occupied Eyes
Section: International Competition of Short Animations for Children (up to 12 years of age)
Director: André Carrilho / Portugal / 2024 / 8 min
No dialogues / No subtitles
With a professional career spanning more than 30 years, ANDRÉ CARRILHO has received more than 100 honours and awards as an illustrator, cartoonist, animator, director and caricaturist, and has seen his work exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Portugal, Spain, Brazil, France, Czech Republic, China and the USA. His work has been published in an extensive list of publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, Independent on Sunday, Diário de Notícias and Expresso. Dinner in Lisbon (2007) is the title of his first animated film. The Girl with the Occupied Eyes and Dear Sea are the names of his two best-selling children’s books.
A girl wanders through the city, countryside, beach, always clutching a phone from which she never takes her eyes off.
This film screens as part of the programMamajee and Other Animations.