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Torill Kove

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Torill Kove

Born May 25, 1958 · Hamar, Norway (age 68)

Torill Kove (born 25 May 1958; Hamar) is an award-winning Norwegian-Canadian filmmaker and animator. Born in Hamar, Norway, she has lived in Montreal since 1982. Three of her films have been nominated for Academy Awards®, with The Danish Poet, narrated by Liv Ullmann, winning the coveted golden statue in 2007. Kove’s films are known for her expressive designs and playful and poignant autobiograph…

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ThreadsThreads · 2017
Threads
★ 6.02017
MovieAnimationFamily
In this spellbinding hand-drawn odyssey by the celebrated Oscar-winning animator Torill Kove, a bustling urban habitat becomes an enchanting web of human connection. Threads explores how fundamental attachment is to the experience of being human.
Hocus Pocus, Alfie Atkins!Hocus Pocus, Alfie Atkins! · 2013
Hocus Pocus, Alfie Atkins!
★ 4.02013
MovieAnimationFamily
Seven year old Albert has an imaginary best friend, and thinks he is old enough to get a dog. Dad doesn't agree. Will getting to know a magician help convince dad?
Maybe ElephantsMaybe Elephants · 2024
Maybe Elephants
★ 6.12024
MovieAnimation
Three rebellious teenage daughters, a restless mother, a father struggling with potatoes, and maybe some elephants, find themselves in Nairobi. What could possibly go wrong?
Me and My MoultonMe and My Moulton · 2014
Me and My Moulton
★ 6.12014
MovieAnimation
A seven-year-old girl longs for a bicycle so that she can be more like the other kids in her Norwegian town, but her embarrassingly unconventional, modernist architect parents see things differently. Academy Award-winning animator Torill Kove weaves memory and fantasy together in this droll and charming look at the pain of childhood alienation.
The Danish PoetThe Danish Poet · 2006
The Danish Poet
★ 7.02006
MovieAnimation
A woman ponders over the strange coincidences that made her forefathers and -mothers meet and create the premises for her becoming the person that she is.
My Grandmother Ironed the King's ShirtsMy Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts · 1999
My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts
★ 6.61999
MovieAnimation
A personal interpretation of Norwegian history - starring a grandmother who during the Second World War loses her job ironing the King's shirts. Instead she gains access to the enemy's uniforms, and inspires her own brand of resistance fighters, the "Shirt Guerillas".

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