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Bear With Me

A short animated documentary on immigrants who left their home and crossed borders for love.

  • Daphna Awadish Golan
    Director
  • Martin Fondse
    Music
  • Bram Meindersma
    Sound
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Documentary, Experimental, Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 50 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 13, 2019
  • Country of Origin:
    Netherlands
  • Country of Filming:
    Netherlands
  • Language:
    English
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - St. Joost Master Institute of Visual Cultures
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film
    Stuttgart
    Germany
    May 1, 2019
    Fantastic Award
  • Jerusalem Film Festival
    Jerusalem
    Israel
    September 28, 2019
    Best Animation Award
  • Animasyros Festival

    Greece
    #ThisIsEU - European Values award
  • Athens Animafest
    Athens
    Greece
    March 15, 2019
    Special Mention
  • Palm Springs International ShortFest
    Palm Springs
    United States
    June 19, 2019
    North American Premier
  • Arizona International Film Festival

    United States
  • Monterrey International Film Festival

    Mexico
  • interfilm Berlin- 35th International Short Film Festival
    Berlin
    Germany
  • Québec City Film Festival

    Canada
  • La Guarimba International Film Festival

    Italy
    August 8, 2019
  • International Animated Film Festival Animocje

    Poland
    April 7, 2019
  • Melbourne International Animation Festival

    Australia
  • Anibar International Animation Festival

    Kosovo
  • Turku Animated Film Festival

    Finland
  • LINOLEUM International Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival

    Ukraine
  • Taichung International Animation Festival

    Taiwan
  • International Student Film Festival Opavský páv

    Czech Republic
  • BIDEODROMO Internacional Experimental Film and Video

    Spain
  • Animaphix, International Animated Film Festival

    Italy
  • Warsaw Animation Film Festival

    Poland
  • Festival du film d'animation de Savigny

    Switzerland
    June 22, 2019
  • Lublin Film Festival

    Poland
  • Thessaloniki Animation Festival

    Greece
  • Boston Jewish Film Festival

    United States
  • Tricky Women

    Austria
  • Primanima World Festival of First Animations!

    Hungary
  • CINANIMA

    Portugal
  • Kaboom Animation Festival

    Netherlands
  • Palm Springs Int. Animation Festival

    United States
  • PÖFF Shorts

    Estonia
  • Animateka International Animated Film Festival

    Poland
  • Sommets du cinéma d'animation

    Canada
  • ANIMASIVO

    Mexico
  • International Animation Film Festival - Gdansk

    Poland
  • CutOut Fest International Animation and Digital Art Festival

    Mexico
  • CEME DOC

    Mexico
  • International Film Festival of Larissa

    Greece
  • Short Film Day-Moderna Museet Malmö

    Sweden
  • International Film Festival ZOOM – ZBLIŻENIA

    Poland
  • International Film Festival Assen

    Netherlands
  • Chicago International Children’s Film Festival
    Chicago
    United States
  • MONSTRA

    Portugal
  • International Changing Perspectives Film Festival

    Turkey
  • CINENOVA

    Portugal
  • Japan Media Arts Festival

    Japan
  • Rising of Lusitania - AnimaDoc Film Festival

    Poland
  • Flatpack

    United Kingdom
  • FluXus Animation Film Festival

    Netherlands
  • Miami Jewish Film Festival

    United States
  • Ce l'ho Corto Film Festival

    Italy
  • Animatricks Festival

    Finland
  • Chaniartoon 2020 - International Comic & Animation Festival

    Greece
  • New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival

    Japan
  • Alexandre Trauner ART/Film Festival

    Hungary
  • Macau International Short Film Festival

    Macao
Director Biography - Daphna Awadish Golan

Daphna Awadish is an Israeli filmmaker and illustrator living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She specialized in creating animated documentaries and works as an independent illustrator and animator. Her last two short films ‘Journey Birds’ and ‘Bear with Me’ were screened at several international festivals and won a number of awards such as the Best Animation Award- Jerusalem Film Festival and the Fantastic Award in Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film.

Having lived in different countries herself, Daphna explores the meaning of 'home' in her work and is currently developing a new animated documentary funded by the Dutch film fund. She uses mixed media to portray personal narratives in a unique and intimate manner. 
Daphna graduated from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (BA) and from AKV St. Joost Master Institute of Visual Cultures (MA). She is also a curator of different programs for film festivals and leads creative workshops

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Director Statement

At the beginning I wanted to create a film about love. I started to interview people in the Netherlands and after a while, I noticed that I am choosing to interview immigrants and more specifically couples of immigrants. how moving to a new country influences their relationship? What happens when one follows the other?
In those days my boyfriend was preparing to move to the Netherlands to join me as I was studying there. The different situations from a very passionate romantic meeting every few months to living together in a foreign country are ambivalent: on the one hand the happiness of sharing our life together and on the other hand, dealing with the problems of immigration that get worse since one followed the other. Does immigration damage the relationship or rather opens up new possibilities as in the case of some of my interviewers? In the movie, there are interviews with the people who were the first to immigrate and with their loved ones that followed. Finally, despite the prices, the difficulties and challenges the movie is about love.