Le vieil homme et la mer

In an explosion of stunning imagery, painter-director Alexandre Petrov transports us into the heart-stopping battle between an old fisherman and a giant swordfish. the struggle is illustrated through 29,000 hand-crafted images painted in oils on sheets of glass. The stunning animation follows a fascinating documantary-fiction, the Portrait of Ernest Hemingway, directed by Erik Canuel. It's a film about the events that shaped the life and work of Ernest Hemingway.