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Completed - SPANISH - Animation, Black comedy, Drama - 90 minutes

Log Line

Antonio Farfán, a lawyer in a notary’s office, has always believed he is a failure because he is bald, short and fat. But someday a new notary arrives, a fatter, balder and shorter man, successful and loved by others. Faced with his own fears, Antonio ends up living pretty unexpected situations.

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2010 (Debut)
  • AFM 2010 (Line up)
  • Ventana Sur 2011 (Premiere)
Full history

Year of production : 2011

Director(s) : Carlos OSUNA
Writer(s) : Carlos OSUNA, Juan Mauricio RUIZ
Cast : Alvaro BAYONA, Elkin DÍAZ, Ernesto BENJUMEA, Fernando ARÉVALO, Jairo CAMARGO, Julio MEDINA, Marcela MAR, Nicolás MONTERO, Sandra REYES, Florina LEMAITRE, Juan Felipe ORTIZ

Producer(s) : Juan Mauricio RUIZ, Carlos OSUNA

Synopsis

“Fat, bald, short man” is a dark humored animated movie telling the story of Antonio Farfán, a 46 year old lonely man working in a Notary’s office, rejected by his colleagues, who has always believed that his personal and professional failure is because he is bald, fat and short. However, someday a new notary arrives, Mister Enriquez, a shorter, balder and fatter man that, unlike Antonio, has a successful career and earns people’s respect pretty easily.
After seeing this, Antonio realizes that his existential failure is not because of his looks and begins reproaching himself the kind of life he has lived so far. He now desperately tries to find out the reasons behind his failure and constant defeats and concentrates on this task obsessively. He looks at the world over and over again and concludes that people cannot be happy as their lives are mostly unfortunate and undesirable. Hence, they all have to be pretending.
One day, by chance, he meets Pedro, his neighbor, a senile eighty year old man with severe heart problems. Antonio takes care of the elderly man treating him as an old friend just to test his recently discovered idea. As time goes by, Antonio discovers the importance of pretending, so he uses this knowledge to make various social experiments: joining a self-improvement group, exercising the Canadian army routine, and many other things. Doing all this allows him to make some apparent progress in his life though he still feels as sad and stressed out inside as before.
A complex series of events make him face his fears and complexes. Antonio, a man with short height, baldness and overweight, now turned into some kind of urban hero, will fight against the banalities of the world, changing his everyday life into a parallel reality in which every little action becomes a heroic deed.

Production

Country(ies) : COLOMBIA, FRANCE

Festivals and Awards

L'Atelier 2015
Warsaw FF 2011 (Free Spirit. Honorary Mention.)
Amiens IFF 2011 (Official selection)
Int'l Film Fest. Of india, Goa 2011
Bogota IFF 2012 Muestra
FICCI Cartagena 2012
BAFICI (Buenos Aires) 2012


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