This movie was additionally an official Cannes selection in the ACID program, and following a sold-out Work-in Progress session at the 2022 Annecy International Film Festival, it went on to win the Annecy Grand Cristal in 2023. The film was also awarded both the Grand Prize and Audience Award at last year’s Animation is Film Festival.
Synopsis
Paulette feels guilty after unjustly punishing her daughter Linda and would do anything to make it up to her. Linda immediately asks for a meal of chicken with peppers, which reminds her of the dish her father used to make. But with a general strike closing stores all across town and pushing people into this streets, this innocent request quickly leads to an outrageous series of events that spirals out of control, as Paulette does everything she can to keep her promise and find a chicken for Linda.
Directors Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach (The Girl Without Hands) unleash a unique visual marvel of hand-painted animation with bright, color-blocked characters, and a story that is an intoxicating blend of slapstick comedy, musical, and family drama, as Paulette and Nina ultimately confront the grief of an unspoken tragedy, and the meal that could finally bring them closer together.
Chicken for Linda! Movie Trailer
Opening April 5
- New York City – The Angelika Film Center
Opening April 12
- Los Angeles – Laemmle Royal
Opening April 19
- Washington D.C. – The Mosaic Theater
- Dallas – The Angelika Film Center
- San Diego – The Angelika Film Center Carmel Mountain
- Honolulu – Consolidated Theaters, Victoria Ward
- Portland, ME – The Maine Film Center
- Vancouver – VIFF Centre
Opening April 26
- Seattle – Grand Illusion Cinema
- Milwaukee – Oriental Theater
- Chicago – Gene Siskel Film Center