With his first short film, the animated “Yùl and the Snake,” Gabriel Harel won Europe’s Cartoon d’Or for the continent’s best animated short film, given at the 2016 Cartoon Forum in Toulouse.
Now, Harel’s awaited sophomore effort, the animated “The Night of the Plastic Bags,” competes at UniFrance’s MyFrenchFilmFestival, and is available on a swathe of VOD platforms around the world.
The short world-premiered at last year’s Cannes Festival, in Directors’ Fortnight.Trained at Valence’s celebrated La Poudrière animation school in France, Harel delivers in his second short a dark story – with the rhythm of an ecological thriller – about 39-year-old Agathe, who is obsessed with having a child in a world conquered by plastic bags.
As in “Yùl,” Harel has chosen to shoot in B&w with select objects — the devilish bags— in pop-out colors.
“The Night” is produced by French Kazak Productions, behind Manele Labidi’s “Arab Blues,
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