Synopsis
Main hero is a singing boat refugee – orange boy Maroc. He dreams about freedom. Lemon girl Lisa collects singing seashells and dreams about love. Lisa’s father is a businessman, owner of a ketchup factory and tomato plantation. He loves money. And so the opera begins: Poor Maroc escapes from his homeland and defying stormy waters take a boat across the sea to the “promised land”. Upon arrival he is forced being a slave worker in a tomato plantation instead of freedom, democracy, wealth and parties he had hoped for. Despite of initial let down our orange boy is destined to gain happiness – selfish Lisa falls in love with him and sets him free. We see orange revolution – houses are blown up and tomatoes are made from ketchup, all in the name of democracy! Movie that is full of rebellion and love has happy ending – we will see sour-sweet culmination of lemon girl’s and orange boy’s love.
Interpretation
Life is movement!
Director
Technique
Classical puppet
Year of production
2013
Duration
73′
Target audience
Family
Produced by
Nukufilm OÜ (Estonia), Bufo OY (Finland)
Awards
2015/ 15th Lisbon Animated Film Festival MONSTRA Portugal 12.-22.03. – JURY HONORABLE MENTION at the Feature Competition
2014/ 6th International 3D Festival (I3DF ) Liege Belgium 10.-11.12. – „LUMIERE“ AWARD – EUROPE OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT
2014/ 8th Dimension 3 Festival Sevres France 28.-30.10. – PRIZE for CREATIVITY
2014/ 11th China International Animation and Digital Arts Festival ( CICDAF ) Changzhou China 28.09.-01.10.
GRAND Prix for BEST FOREIGN FEATURE FILM
2014/ Monterrey International Film Festival Mexico 26.08.
BEST INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED FEATURE FILM AWARD