Linda veut du poulet !
by Chiara Malta et Sébastien Laudenbach
Animation, Fiction | France, Italy | 2023 | 1h16
No, Linda's not the one who took the ring of Paulette's mom! This punishment is totally unfair!...And now Paulette would do anything for forgiveness, even cooking pepper chicken, even if she doesn't know how to cook. But how to find chicken on a general strike day?... From a chicken coop to a watermelon truck, zealous cops to allergic truckers, grandmas to floodings, Paulette and her daughter will go on a quest for chicken, stringing along all of "Linda's band" and eventually the entire neighborhood. But Linda doesn't know that this chicken, which her dad used to cook so well, is the key to her lost memories... By th way, does anybody know how to kill a chicken?
With Mélinée Leclerc, Clotilde Hesme, Laetitia Dosch, Esteban, Patrick Pineau and Claudine Acs
Chiara Malta has directed several short films, including a trilogy dedicated to childhood, selected and lauded in several international festivals. Following the feature documentary Armando and politics for la Lucarne (Arte/ZDF), she joined the Villa Medicis residency. Her first feature film, Simple Women, with Jasmine Trinca and Elina Löwensohn, was the opening film of the TIFF's Discovery section in 2019. She regularly directed episodes for the French series Un si grand soleil and is currently in Italy, shooting the first season of a series produced by Grøenlandia and Fidelio.Linda veut du poulet! is her first animated feature.
Director, illustrator and teacher at ENSAD (École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs), Sébastien Laudenbach is the author of a dozen of short films selected and lauded in several international festivals, as well as credits and video clips. With the feature film La Jeune Fille sans mains, screened at Cannes, awarded at Annecy and in competition for the César, Sébastien Laudenbach developped a movement-based writing, lively and unique while remaining economical.
