Maybe Elephants (KD)
In the 1970s, three rebellious teenage daughters, a restless mother, a father struggling with potatoes, and maybe some elephants, find themselves in bustling Nairobi. The family will never be the same.
- Country: Norge / Norway, Canada
- Year: 2024
- Length: 17 min.
- Language: Norsk / Norwegian
- Director: Torill Kove
- Script: Torill Kove
- Editing: Alison Burns
- Sound: Håkon Lammetun
- Music: Luigi Allemano, Daniel Onyango
- Cast: Torill Kove, Andrea Bræin Hovig, Pål Sverre Hagen, Ella Øverbye, Vivild Falk Berg, Kåre Conradi, Jane Nyoike, David Wang’ang’a Njuguna, Nicholas Kilingi, Victoria Mesopir-Iossel
- Producer: Lise Fearnley, Maral Mohammadian, Tonje Skar Reiersen
- Art Direction: Magnhild Winsnes
- Contact: lise(at)mikrofilm.no
Torill Kove
Torill Kove is a Norwegian-born filmmaker and animator living in Canada. Three of her films have been nominated for Academy Awards®. My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts (1999), Me and My Moulton (2014), and The Danish Poet (2006), narrated by Liv Ullmann, which won the coveted golden statue in 2007. Kove’s films are known for her expressive designs and playful and poignant autobiographical themes. In her latest film, Maybe Elephants, Kove, at long last, faces her fear of big-eared mammals.