Mélody Boulissière & Bogdan Stamatin
Short film, animation, 14'
Out September 2024
French title: Quelque chose du divin
Romanian title: Pur și simplu divin
Producers: Novanima, Amopix, Safe Frame - FR/RO
Synopsis:
1939. A soldier follows a woman. Their love story begins.
Two years later, the woman becomes a refugee, the soldier is called to the battlefield and their love story dissolves in the War.
2014. During a long interview, the woman remembers her past. The secrets from a forgotten time are revealed for the last time.
What remains from a love story after three quarters of a century and a World War?
Awards:
IDFA Amsterdam 2024 - Special Mention Youth Film 13+ Comp
DOK Leipzig 2024 - mephisto 97,6 Audience Award
PIAFF, Paris 2025 - First film Award
Ismailia IFF, Egypt 2025 - Jury Award
Festival International de Films de Femmes, Creteil - Audience Award: Best foreign short film & UPEC Jury Prize
Festivals:
HotDocs, Toronto, Canada
Istanbul Film Festival, Turkiye
Festival national du film d'animation, Rennes, France
Festival International de Films de Femmes, Créteil, France
One World Romania, Bucharest
Trois Jours Trop Courts, Castres, France
Beirut Animation Nights, Lebanon
Festival La Premiere Fois, France
Ismailia IFF, Egypt
Fipadoc Biarritz, France
PIAFF, Paris, France
Paris Courts Devant 2025, France
Cagliari Essay Film Festival, Cagliari, Italy
Animateka – Animated Documentaries, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Festival d'Autrans, France
Festival International du Film d'Éducation (FIFE), Évreux, France
Festival Traces de Vies, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Le Festival du Film de Famille - Saint-Ouen, France
Festival Aux Écrans du Réel - Le Mans, France
Carrefour du Cinéma d'Animation - Paris, France
IDFA - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
CINANIMA - Espinho, Portugal
Escales Documentaires - La Rochelle, France
Canlandıranlar, Istanbul, Turkye
Etiuda&Anima, Krakow, Poland
Festival du Film d'Animation pour la Jeunesse de Bourg-en-Bresse
Cinéopen Festival de Pontarlier, France
CORSICADOC, Ajaccio, France
Animest, Bucharest, Romania
Animatou 2024, Geneva, Switzerland
Research images:
“Simply Divine” is an experimental short animation film based on a true story. Its main character is Anna Florea, the protagonist of a unique love affair and the grandmother of one of us, authors of this project. The story unfolds in three time periods, the 1940s', the 1980s' and the current time. Using still photography from the "Costică Acsinte Archive" and painting, the film tries to document the space between actual events and their recollection, in an interview, 75 years later, offering a poetical interpretation on the process human memory undertakes when deciding upon what’s to be kept and what’s to be forgotten from a personal love story.
Producers : Novanima Productions & Studio Amopix from France and Safe Frame from Romania
TV broadcasters : Biptv.tv, COM TV Grand-Est, Canal_32 , Moselle.tv , Vosgestv télévision
With support from: CNC - Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, ALCA, laureat of the NEF Animation - Nouvelles Ecritures pour le Film d'Animation - Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud residency, laureat of Fifib Workout Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Région Grand-Est, l’Eurométropole Strasbourg, Procirep Angoa, laureat of the Bourse "Brouillon d’un rêve" de SCAME , Centrul National al Cinematografiei / Romanian Film Centre, selected to pitch at the festival of l’Association Française du Cinéma d’Animation de Rennes, Corto, Le bruit qui court and Tv paint
Original score composed by Pierre Oberkampf recorded with the help of Sacem
Nușa & Jean, 1941
Contact
Email: bogdan.stamatin@gmail.com
Insta: @bogdanstamatin
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