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By Benoit DELEPINE, Gustave KERVERN

FUNNY BALLOONS - as SALES All rights, World

Comedy - Completed 2004


    • Year of production
    • 2004
    • Genres
    • Comedy
    • Countries
    • BELGIUM, FRANCE
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Benoit DELEPINE, Gustave KERVERN
    • EIDR
    • 10.5240/5774-65DB-3B30-7E34-393D-F
    • Producer(s)
    • Jean-Luc ORMIERES (OF2B), Vincent TAVIER (la Parti Production)
    • Synopsis
    • Ben & Gus, one farmer and the other a commuter, are neighbours in a small village, but they cannot stand each other. A coincidence leads them to a fight and an accident on a agricultural machine that leaves them both paralysed from the waist down. Having to spend the rest of their lives in wheelchairs, they undertake a strange journey to Finland that will change their relationship and their view of life…
    • Partners & financing
    • VPRO Tiger Competition in Rotterdam 2004; Audience Award in Cluj Film Festival June 2004 (Romania). Telluride Film Festival 2004
      Fipresci Award London 2004. Tribeca Intl. Film Festival 2005