THE GIRL WITH THE OCCUPIED EYES

27.11.2025

Children's Film Selection/ Portugal, 2024, Color, 8'

 
Details
  • Director: André Carrilho
  • Screenplay: André Carrilho
  • Music: Nuno Costa
  • Producer: Hemi Fortes, Filipe Araújo
  • Production: Blablabla Media
  • 2025 San Francisco International Film Festival Family Short-Golden Gate Award
Recap

Once upon a time there was a little girl who was always distracted. With her eyes fixed on her phone, she couldn't notice the world around or who wanted to play with her. What could be done to "disoccupy" her eyes?

Director

André Carrilho

With a professional career spanning more than 30 years, André Carrilho has received more than 100 honours and awards as an illustrator, cartoonist, animator, director and caricaturist, and has seen his work exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Portugal, Spain, Brazil, France, Czech Republic, China and the USA. His work has been published in an extensive list of publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, Independent on Sunday, Diário de Notícias and Expresso. Dinner in Lisbon (2007) is the title of his first animated film. The Girl with the Occupied Eyes and Dear Sea are the names of his two best-selling children's books.

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The Delegation of the European Union to Türkiye organises the annual EU Human Rights Film Days on the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Click here for the list of films.