All These Creatures | |
Director: | Charles Williams |
Producer: | Charles Williams Elise Trenorden |
Starring: | Yared Scott Mandela Mathia |
Narrator: | Melchisedek Nkailu |
Music: | Chiara Costanza |
Cinematography: | Adric Watson |
Editing: | Dan Lee Charles Williams |
Production Companies: | --> Simpatico Films |
Distributors: | --> |
Runtime: | 13 minutes |
Country: | Australia |
All These Creatures is an Australian live-action short film written and directed by Charles Williams.[1] It was awarded the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.[1] [2] [3]
The film was shot in Dandenong[4] in Victoria, Australia on 16mm film.[5]
An adolescent boy attempts to untangle his memories of a mysterious infestation, the unraveling of his father, and the little creatures inside us all.[6]
The film was awarded the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.[1] It later went on to make its North American Premiere at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.[7] and win more than 50 other international awards[8] including Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Best Short Film.[9]
Catherine Bray at Sight & Sound reviewed the film as one of the best of Cannes, stating that "What sets Williams’s piece apart is a sense of wonder in the smallest details".[10] Vulture Hound gave All These Creatures five stars out of five describing it as "utterly beautiful" [11] and Nouse described it as "One of the most important short films of the year"[12]