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Carlotta’s Face

Germany, 2018, 5 minutes, Color, German; Turkish subtitled, Turkish Sign Language


2019 Atlanta FF Best Animated Short Cinefiesta Puerto Rico Short FF Best Animation  2018 Flensburg Short FF  Best Animation  Fano FF Best International Animation  Leipzig DOK Festival Short Animation - Audience Award

Director:  Valentin Riedl Frédéric Schuld

Screenplay: Valentin Riedl, Frédéric Schuld
Cinematography: Frédéric Schuld
Editing: Valentin Riedl, Frédéric Schuld
Music: Simon Bastian
Production: Fabian&Fred, Filmstahl

As a child, Carlotta didn’t expect the people around her to have faces. She doesn’t even recognize her own face. Years later, she learns about a rare, untreatable deficit of her brain. It was art, after all, that offered her a way to finally recognize herself.