A Child in His Country (1967)

Directed by

Pierre Moretti

Genre

animation

Country

Canada

Runtime

13 min

Rated

G

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young immigrant boy dreams up adventures as a hunter, cowboy, hockey player and swimmer. The film shows Canada from his imaginative point of view.

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What happens

A Child in His Country (French: Un enfant...un pays) is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Pierre Moretti and released in 1967. Blending various styles of animation including drawn backgrounds and photographic inserts, the film is a portrait of Canada through the eyes of a young boy who has recently immigrated to the country with his family, and imagines himself in various situations as a hunter of polar bears, a cowboy, a hockey player and a swimmer. The film's score, by Pierre F. Brault, was noted as one of the first times Brault had ever composed a film score in a rock modality. It received an honorable mention for Best Animated Short at the 20th Canadian Film Awards in 1968, although no winner was named above it. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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