Thugs with no legend

2013 – A 14′ short film
Animated painting and live-action
Written and directed by Gianluigi Toccafondo
A coproduction Les Films de l’Arlequin / Archimede Films Italie / Arte France

With his wife as an accomplice, a sly farmer rips off two of his tyrannical creditors, flogging them first a donkey that shits money, then a saucepan that boils without fire, and finally a straw that enables men to raise their dead wives to life.
The two suckers stab their wives to death and are then arrested when the police find them blowing painfully in the so-called magic straw.

Some awards in festivals : Special Mention for Music at Bruz – Special Mention at Terra di Cinema – HAFF award… Some selections in France : Vendôme – Brest – Annecy … Some selections abroad : Palm Springs – Circuito Off in Venice – Ottawa Animation Film Festival – Animatou – Animpact in South Korea – Bogota Short Film Festival – FICAM at Meknès in Morocco – Monstra in Portugal – Larissa’s Festival in Greece – Animix at Tel Aviv – Mumia Festival in Brazil…