A Trailer for João Gonzalez’s Animated Short ‘Ice Merchants’ Follows a Cliff-Jumping Father and Son



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Chosen as a single of 10 initiatives for the Intercontinental Critics’ 7 days at the Cannes Film Festival, João Gonzalez’s “Ice Retailers” is a frigid and precarious tale about a father and son. As the title implies, the pair sells the frozen substance, whilst to reach the current market in the village under, they have to grab their parachutes and leap from their cliff-aspect dwelling each individual day.

Gonzalez, who also carried out and composed the accompanying soundtrack, designed “Ice Merchants” in a small type identical to his award-successful “Nestor” and “The Voyagers.” He shares about the new movie in a statement: “Something that has normally fascinated me about animation cinema is the independence it delivers us to make some thing from scratch. Surrealistic and bizarre eventualities and realities can be made use of as a metaphorical software to talk about anything that is frequent to us in our extra ‘real’ truth.”

Enjoy the trailer previously mentioned, and abide by the Portuguese director on Instagram to remain up-to-day on future viewing possibilities.

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