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ARIA   Official Competition
Norway - Canada
2001 / 35 mm / Color / 10 min.

In this short inspired by Puccini's opera, Madame Butterfly is a marionette living alone on an island until the handsome young sailor Pinkerton arrives. When he sails away again in his white boat, Butterfly awaits his return, yearning for a father for her child...
Script:  Berit Reiss-Anderson.    Mus.:  Normand Roger.    Prod.:  Marcel Jean, David Reiss-Anderson, Pravda Film & Office national du film du Canada, 3155, C�te de Liesse, Saint-Laurent, Qu�bec H4N 2N4 (Canada), t�l.: (514) 283-9805/06, fax: (514) 496-1895, e-mail: [email protected].    Sales:  Office national du film du Canada, 3155, C�te de Liesse, Saint-Laurent, Qu�bec H4N 2N4 (Canada), t�l.: (514) 283-9438, fax: (514) 496-1895, e-mail: [email protected].    Canadian Distributor:  Office national du film du Canada.   
Pjotr Sapegin
Born in Russia, Pjotr Sapegin has lived and worked in Norway since 1990. Among the films he has directed are: Edvard (1992), Mons de Cat (1995), One Day a Man Bought a House (1998), Snails (1999), and In a Corner of the World (1999). His films were the subject of a retrospective at 2000 Ottawa Animation Festival.


Th��tre Maisonneuve  (Les premi�res Air Canada)
Thu Aug 30,  19h00   * TM.30.1.1 *      
CIN�MA IMP�RIAL  (L'�cran VISA)
Thu Aug 30,  9h00   * CI.30.1.1 *      
CIN�MA PARISIEN 4
Fri Aug 31,  14h30   * P4.31.3.1 *