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Maybe Elephants

2024 16 min
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Three rebellious teenage daughters, a restless mother, a father struggling with potatoes, and maybe some elephants, find themselves in Nairobi. What could possibly go wrong?

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In the ’70s, 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.

Created by Oscar®-winning animator Torill Kove (The Danish Poet), Maybe Elephants is a playful and loving autobiographical homage to family, adolescence and the therapeutic power of memories, however unreliable.
  • script
    Torill Kove
  • direction
    Torill Kove
  • art direction
    Magnhild Winsnes
  • animatic
    Torill Kove
    Dyveke Skøld
  • animation layout
    Hyun Jin Park
    Jo Meuris
    Torill Kove
  • animation
    Jo Meuris
    Hyun Jin Park
    Louis Bodart
    Torill Kove
    Parissa Mohit
    Kamil Chajder
    Jenny Galewski
    Eva Cvijanovic
    Simon Cottee
    Lori Malépart-Traversy
    Herl Joshua E. Lara
    Magnhild Winsnes
    Kanza Belali
  • backgrounds
    Magnhild Winsnes
    Torill Kove
    Julia Torjak
    Katerina Pantela
    James Martin
  • colouring
    Herl Joshua E. Lara
    Kanza Belali
    Sunniva Fluge Hole
  • compositing
    Cathinka Tanberg
    James Martin
    Konrad Hjemli
    Kristian Pedersen
    Herl Joshua E. Lara
    Melrouss
    Alexandre Roy
  • intern
    Michelle Kotsiuba
  • editing
    Alison Burns
  • animatic editing
    Xi Feng
  • creative consultant
    Nicholas Kilingi
    Jane Nyoike
    Victoria Mesopir-Iossel
  • language consultant
    Mohamed Komeja
  • swahili adaptation
    Nicholas Kilingi
  • French adaptation
    François Godin
  • narration
    Torill Kove
  • cast
    Andrea Braein Hovig
    Adrianne Richards
    Pål Sverre Hagen
    Brett Schaenfield
    Ella Øverbye
    Frances Wheeler-Hugues
    Vivild Falk Berg
    Jenna Wheeler-Hugues
    Torill Kove
    Kåre Conradi
    Jane Nyoike
    David Wang’ang’a Njuguna
    Nicholas Kilingi
    Victoria Mesopir-Iossel
  • additional voice
    Mats Brånå
    Aksel Hegge
    Simen Håbu
    Henriette Neksum
    Ingeborg Mjelve
  • English voice direction
    Alex Ivanovici
  • original music
    Luigi Allemano
  • musician
    Daniel Onyango
    Staffan Bråsjö
    John Sadowy
    Tobias Andersson
    Morgan Moore
    Kebba Jobateh
    Valérie Lacombe
  • music recording
    Luc Léger
    Willem Bleeker
  • music recording - assistance
    Basma Jabbar
    Bernard Belley
  • sound design
    Hakon Lammetun
  • sound re-recording
    Hakon Lammetun
  • additional sound design
    Anna Nilsson
  • voice recording
    Hakon Lammetun
    Geoffrey Mitchell
    Luc Léger
  • foley artist
    Rune van Deurs
  • foley recordist
    Liana Degtiar
  • technical direction
    Éloi Champagne
    Cathinka Tanberg
    Mathieu Tremblay
  • technical support
    Alexandre Roy
    Johanne Ste-Marie
  • technical coordination
    Luc Binette
  • colour grading
    Camilla Host Vea
  • credits
    Cynthia Ouellet
  • production manager
    Laetitia Seguin
    Ragna Midtgard
  • production coordinator
    Dominique Forget
    Barry Ahmad
  • administration & operations
    Victoria Angell
    Rosalina Di Sario
    Lise Fearnley
    Camille Fillion
    Anne Vollstad
  • marketing
    Judith Lessard-Bérubé
  • publicist
    Nadine Viau
  • producer
    Lise Fearnley
    Maral Mohammadian
    Tonje Skar Reiersen
  • executive producer
    Robert McLaughlin
    Michael Fukushima