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| Title | CHICKEN FOR LINDA! |
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| Original Title | Linda veut du poulet! |
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| Country | France, Italy |
| Production Year | 2023 |
| Movie Length | 73’ |
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| Production Designer | Margaux Duseigneur |
| Music | Clément Ducol |
| Produced by | Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Flaminio Zadra, Marc Irmer, Pierre Baussaron |
| Production | Dolce Vita Films Miyu Productions France 3 Cinéma (Francia) Palosanto Films (Italia) |
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CHICKEN FOR LINDA!
Paulette realizes she has unfairly punished her daughter Linda. To make up for it, she promises to cook her chicken with peppers, even though she cannot cook at all. But where to find a chicken on a strike day, when all the shops are closed?
Director's Bio
Chiara Malta – Sébastien Laudenbach
Chiara was born in Rome in 1977. She directed numerous short films selected and awarded at various international festivals such as Clermont-Ferrand, Pesaro, Rome, and Montréal. In 2008, she directed the documentary ARMANDO E LA POLITICA, which was presented at the Torino Film Festival and later broadcast on the channel La Lucarne (Arte/ZDF). After spending time as an artist-in-residence at the French Academy in Rome at Villa Medici, she made his first fiction feature film, SIMPLE WOMEN, in 2019, starring Jasmine Trinca and presented at Toronto and then at TFF. In 2023, she co-directed CHICKEN FOR LINDA! with Sébastien Laudenbach, which premiered in the Acid section of the Cannes Festival.
Sébastien Laudenbach (born in Arras, France, in 1973) is a director, illustrator, and professor at Ensad (École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs). He has written and directed around a dozen short films that have been selected and awarded at numerous international festivals. He has also created animated sequences for titles and music videos. In 2016, he directed the animated feature film LA JEUNE FILLE SANS MAINS (The Girl Without Hands), which was presented at the Cannes and Annecy festivals and nominated for the César Awards. CHICKEN FOR LINDA!, directed with Chiara Malta, premiered in the Acid section of the Cannes Festival.
Director's Note
“CHICKEN FOR LINDA! is a sweet and funny film the whole family will enjoy: a film that speaks of childhood from a child’s perspective, without being overly sentimental or exaggerating, with humor, mischief, and poetry. In this film, there are no fantasy worlds: the story takes place in the present day in a small, ordinary housing project, on the day of a general strike. There are no witches, no missions to save the world, and the only character that can fly is a… chicken!”