The Hat | |
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French | Le Chapeau |
Directed by | Michèle Cournoyer |
Written by | Michèle Cournoyer |
Produced by | Thérèse Descary Pierre Hébert |
Cinematography | Pierre Landry |
Edited by | Fernand Bélanger |
Music by | Jean Derome |
Animation by | Michèle Cournoyer |
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Running time | 6 minutes |
Country | Canada |
The Hat ( French: Le Chapeau) is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Michèle Cournoyer and released in 1999. [1] Told entirely without dialogue, the film centres on an exotic dancer's flashbacks to childhood memories of sexual abuse. [2]
The film was screened in the International Critics' Week section of the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. [3] It was also screened at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival, [1] where it was named the winner of the award for Best Canadian Short Film. [4]
It subsequently won the Jutra Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 3rd Jutra Awards in 2001, [5] and was later named as one of the 100 best animated films of all time in a critics' survey by Variety. [3]