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Royal College of Art

Ice Merchants

2023 14 min Portuguese M/6
Wubly rating 7.8 IMDb rating 7.6

Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.

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João Gonzalez Director

United States release February 17, 2023 · Produced in France, Portugal, United Kingdom · Languages English, No dialogue

Production

R

Royal College of Art

Production

C

COLA Animation

Production

W

Wild Stream

Production

France · Portugal · United Kingdom

Produced in

Languages

Original language

Portuguese

Spoken on screen

English · No dialogue

Release dates

France · May 24, 2022

Premiere · Cannes Film Festival

Portugal · February 16, 2023

Theatrical

United States · February 17, 2023

Limited theatrical

United States

October 20, 2022 · Premiere · Philadelphia International Film Festival

March 11, 2023 · Premiere · South by Southwest Film Festival

Argentina

April 21, 2023 · Premiere · Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema

Canada

September 1, 2022 · Premiere · Ottawa International Animation Festival

September 10, 2022 · Premiere · Toronto International Film Festival

Cyprus

October 8, 2022 · Premiere · International Short Film Festival of Cyprus

Finland

December 21, 2023 · Digital

December 21, 2023 · TV

Germany

September 11, 2023 · Premiere · BRUKIVKA International Film Festival: German Edition

Hong Kong SAR China

April 1, 2023 · Premiere · Hong Kong International Film Festival

Netherlands

March 25, 2023 · Premiere · Movies That Matter Festival

Portugal

November 13, 2023 · Premiere · Porto, Batalha Centro de Cinema

South Korea

October 23, 2023 · Premiere · Ulsan Ulju Mountain Film Festival

Switzerland

January 22, 2023 · Premiere · Black Movie Film Festival

Ukraine

October 7, 2023 · Premiere · Linoleum International Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival

September 6, 2026 · Premiere · OKO International Ethnographic Film Festival

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