19th June (3rd Friday)

Loving Vincent

Poland | 2017 | 94 mins | Animation, Drama, Mystery

Dirs: DK Welchman (as Dorota Kobiela) and Hugh Welchman

Cast: Robert Gulaczyk, Douglas Booth, Jerome Flynn

In the summer of 1891 in France, nearly twelve months after master painter Vincent van Gogh’s (Robert Gulaczyk’s) mysterious death, Armand Roulin (Douglas Booth), the local postman’s (Chris O’Dowd’s) young son, is reluctantly tasked with delivering one of the artist’s final letters to his brother Theo, in Paris. However, when Armand discovers that Theo too met his own demise, he embarks on a mission to investigate Vincent’s untimely death, starting off from scenic Auvers-sur-Oise. Has Van Gogh committed suicide or was he murdered? As Armand’s search for evidence continues, there’s more to this enigma than meets the eye. (Source: Nick Riganas)

In 2017 and 2018 Loving Vincent was nominated for Best Animated Feature Film in the Academy Awards and won 24 of 53 other award nominations.
The world’s first fully painted animation feature. It was filmed in live-action with real actors and actresses, then each frame was painted and animated. Each of this enchanting movie’s 65,000 frames is an oil painting on canvas, using the same identical technique as Vincent van Gogh, created by a team of one hundred painters, animated with rotoscope. No AI or CGI in this masterpiece. In the end credits, the cast and sets are shown before painting.

Accompanying Short Film: Birthday Boy | 2004| Sejopng Pank