THE BOY WHO WANTED TO BE A BEAR

Giannik Hastrup
Denmark-France, 2002, length 78΄, color

Every Day: Asteria–Olympia, 09:00–11:00

To heal the sorrow of his mate after the death of their bear child, a male polar bear steals a newborn child from a nearby man and woman. The bears bring up the boy as their own, and he learns how to live like a bear. But the woman despairs over the loss of her child, and the man hunts down the bear family and brings the boy home. The boy faces the choice between becoming a boy again or learning how to be a bear on his own.

Director: Giannik Hastrup
Script: Giannik Hastrup–Bent Haller
Art Design: Bigita Faber
Animators: Asta Sigurdardottir; Georges Stoyanoff; Karin Nielsson; Anders Nejsum; Anna Gellert; Alice Rasmussen
Music: Bruno Coulais