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Still of two-dimensional animation title ’Marona’s Fantastic Tale’. On the floor of a dim greyish-blue room, there is a colour hexagonal box, opened. A black-and-white puppy stands on the mattress in the box, looking outside the frame.

Marona's Fantastic Tale

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Programme: Fresh Eyes
Year: 2019
Director: Anca Damian
Format: DCP / Category I / 92 min.
Language: French (with Chinese and English subtitles)
Audience: Everyone
Location: House 1
Accessibility: Wheelchair
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Ticket Information

Standard: HKD 85

Concession: HKD 68

Still of two-dimensional animation title ’Marona’s Fantastic Tale’. On the floor of a dim greyish-blue room, there is a colour hexagonal box, opened. A black-and-white puppy stands on the mattress in the box, looking outside the frame.

Marona's Fantastic Tale

A petite dog Marona is hit by a car. Taking her last breath, she looks back at her eventful life through vivid flashbacks. Strolling down memory lane and recalling bittersweet moments, Marona narrates her stories on meetings, partings, and everything in-between with her three former owners. Little by little, Marona’s narrations reveal that she is more than the typical, loyal figure people often perceive. Instead, her surpassing wit and perceptiveness bring audiences enlightening lessons on happiness and unconditional love, universal to both humans and non-humans.

Executed with a range of playfully hand-drawn and collage-like visuals by Brecht Evens, Marona’s Fantastic Tale won Feature Animation Film—Grand Prize at the 2020 Tokyo Anime Award.

Still of two-dimensional animation title ’Marona’s Fantastic Tale’. Aerial view of a black-and-white dog and a young woman with only one shoe lying on their side on a busy road. With its eyes closed, the dog appears to be glowing in white light. The woman reaches out and touches its nose.

Anca Damian. Marona's Fantastic Tale, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of Charades

Still of two-dimensional animation title ’Marona’s Fantastic Tale’. At night, the gate is opened and a lorry truck is parked outside. Inside the gate where boxes are stacked sits a black-and-white dog looking up at a man. The man is crouching down, holding a plate of food and stroking the dog’s head.

Anca Damian. Marona's Fantastic Tale, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of Charades

Still of two-dimensional animation title ’Marona’s Fantastic Tale’. In a white box with a vignette of a galaxy, a black-and-white dog and different objects are floating in the air, including a spoon, a slipper, a glass bottle, and a salt shaker.

Anca Damian. Marona's Fantastic Tale, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of Charades

Still of two-dimensional animation title ’Marona’s Fantastic Tale’. Aerial view of a black-and-white dog and a young woman with only one shoe lying on their side on a busy road. With its eyes closed, the dog appears to be glowing in white light. The woman reaches out and touches its nose.

Anca Damian. Marona's Fantastic Tale, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of Charades

Still of two-dimensional animation title ’Marona’s Fantastic Tale’. At night, the gate is opened and a lorry truck is parked outside. Inside the gate where boxes are stacked sits a black-and-white dog looking up at a man. The man is crouching down, holding a plate of food and stroking the dog’s head.

Anca Damian. Marona's Fantastic Tale, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of Charades

Still of two-dimensional animation title ’Marona’s Fantastic Tale’. In a white box with a vignette of a galaxy, a black-and-white dog and different objects are floating in the air, including a spoon, a slipper, a glass bottle, and a salt shaker.

Anca Damian. Marona's Fantastic Tale, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of Charades

Still of two-dimensional animation title ’Marona’s Fantastic Tale’. Aerial view of a black-and-white dog and a young woman with only one shoe lying on their side on a busy road. With its eyes closed, the dog appears to be glowing in white light. The woman reaches out and touches its nose.

Anca Damian. Marona's Fantastic Tale, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of Charades

Still of two-dimensional animation title ’Marona’s Fantastic Tale’. At night, the gate is opened and a lorry truck is parked outside. Inside the gate where boxes are stacked sits a black-and-white dog looking up at a man. The man is crouching down, holding a plate of food and stroking the dog’s head.

Anca Damian. Marona's Fantastic Tale, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of Charades

Still of two-dimensional animation title ’Marona’s Fantastic Tale’. In a white box with a vignette of a galaxy, a black-and-white dog and different objects are floating in the air, including a spoon, a slipper, a glass bottle, and a salt shaker.

Anca Damian. Marona's Fantastic Tale, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of Charades

Still of two-dimensional animation title ’Marona’s Fantastic Tale’. Aerial view of a black-and-white dog and a young woman with only one shoe lying on their side on a busy road. With its eyes closed, the dog appears to be glowing in white light. The woman reaches out and touches its nose.

Anca Damian. Marona's Fantastic Tale, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of Charades

Still of two-dimensional animation title ’Marona’s Fantastic Tale’. At night, the gate is opened and a lorry truck is parked outside. Inside the gate where boxes are stacked sits a black-and-white dog looking up at a man. The man is crouching down, holding a plate of food and stroking the dog’s head.

Anca Damian. Marona's Fantastic Tale, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of Charades

Still of two-dimensional animation title ’Marona’s Fantastic Tale’. In a white box with a vignette of a galaxy, a black-and-white dog and different objects are floating in the air, including a spoon, a slipper, a glass bottle, and a salt shaker.

Anca Damian. Marona's Fantastic Tale, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of Charades

About the Director

Anca Damian (b. 1962, Romania) studied cinematography and obtained a doctorate in Arts, Cinema, and Media at the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in Bucharest. Damian’s works revolve around the recurring themes of love and death. Her second directorial feature Crulic: The Path to Beyond (2011) received more than thirty-five international awards, including the Cristal for Best Feature film at the 2012 Annecy International Animated Film Festival.

Image at top: Anca Damian. Marona's Fantastic Tale, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of Charades

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