Sleeping with the Fishes

2013
10m

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Sonja lives a lonely life as a fishmonger, more at ease with her fish than her customers, until one day a delivery man turns up who looks like a rainbow trout.Sonja lives a lonely life as a fishmonger, more at ease with her fish than her customers, until one day a delivery man turns up who looks like a rainbow trout.Sonja lives a lonely life as a fishmonger, more at ease with her fish than her customers, until one day a delivery man turns up who looks like a rainbow trout.

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Won 1 BAFTA Award
- 1 win & 2 nominations total

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Sarah Farinha

Sonja
(voice)
(as Sarah Woolner)

Nikola Medic

Bruce
(voice)

Director
- Yousif Al-Khalifa
Writer
- Sarah Farinha
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Sensitivity animated on paper

Sensitively animated on paper, 'Sleeping with the Fishes' brings you into a world where fishmongers fall in love, fishes become cupidons and lovers cuddle in the middle of the sea.

Yousif Al-Khalifa's animation brings you far away from 3D, with a traditional animation made on paper, where poetic characters tremble gracefully through the narration and blotches of color elegantly move on the page. One discovers again the beauty of anti-stereotypes imagery; not only a courageous choice but also a decision fitting perfectly to this story where fishmongers fall in love. Youssif Al-Khalifa's skillful pen scratches give to this animation all its emotion.

A very justified 2014 BAFTA win - Romain Hemeray