Down the Road
17 minutes /
Ages 17+ /
2007 /
Denmark /
Average:
Animations / Foreign / Thrillers
A dark thriller in animation.
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Anders Berthelsen
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Priest Henry, who picks up a mysterious hitchhiker in the middle of the night. The hitchhiker claims to be psychic and it's revealed that he knows a lot about Henry's personal thoughts and secrets. What seems to be a coincident meeting evolves into a dangerous matter of life and death.
Cinanima -- Best Short Animation (Nominated)
Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival -- Honorable Mention (Nominated)
Nordisk Panorama -- Official Selection (Nominated)
Vendome Short Film Festival -- Official Selection (Nominated)
Anima Mundi Animation Festival -- Official Selection (Nominated)
Odense International Film Festival -- Official Selection (Nominated)
Bradford Animation Festival -- Best Short Animation (Nominated)
Holland Animation Film Festival -- Special Jury Award (Nominated)
Traildance Film Festival -- Best Short Animation (Nominated)
Eugene Film Festival -- Best Short Animation (Nominated)
China International Cartoon and Digital Art Festival -- Best Short (Nominated)
Aarhus Film Festival -- Best Short (Nominated)
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2 months, 1 week ago
The genius of this movie is its ability to capture a story in so well a fashion, in such a short span of time, without loosing intensity. Although the final is up to the audience to assume, yet, nothing is actually given away. Also excellent about the story is that it's not just a mere a thriller, it has few pebbles of moral questions thrown at us--about those little or large skeletons we all keep either hidden or inconspicuous in our various sized closets. Four and half star; if I gave five, the writer will be spoiled, and I want him to do better. So 4 stars have to do for now. Thank you.
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3 months, 2 weeks ago
Very cool.
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5 months, 3 weeks ago
awesome
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6 months, 4 weeks ago
This film creeps me out. It's pretty cool that an animation can do that.
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9 months ago
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10 months ago
Wow, the best short animation film I saw in a while! Effectively and beautifully done. The voices and sounds in particular are haunting.
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10 months ago
I absolutely love this film! incredibly well crafted.
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2 years, 10 months ago
The animation is great, but it is the calm foreboding of the script and music I most liked. The voices, too, were wonderful, particularly the hitchhiker's. Because the ending was obvious nearly from the start, the in-car claims of the hitchhiker weren't as intriguing as they might have been--I would have liked the writers to be a bit more creative in that single aspect.