As part of the Lunchtime Series at the Atwater Library, the award-winning Torill Kove will present her latest animated short, Maybe Elephants, and discuss the process of making it.

Maybe Elephants |Torill Kove | 2024 | 17 min

In the ’70s, three rebellious teenage daughters, a restless mother, a father struggling with potatoes, and maybe some elephants, find themselves in bustling Nairobi. The family will never be the same. Created by Oscar®-winning animator Torill Kove (The Danish Poet), Maybe Elephants is a playful and loving autobiographical homage to family, adolescence and the therapeutic power of memories, however unreliable.

Maybe Elephants | TRAILER

Torill Kove is a Norwegian-born filmmaker and animator living in Canada. Three of her films (including My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts and Me and My Moulton) have been nominated for Academy Awards^®, with The Danish Poet, narrated by Liv Ullmann, winning the coveted golden statue in 2007. Kove’s films are known for her expressive designs and playful and poignant autobiographical themes. In her latest film, Maybe Elephants (2024), Kove, at long last, faces her fear of big-eared mammals.

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FREE SCREENING
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