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Sleeping with the Fishes (2013)

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