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New Orleans Film Society

Magic Realism

The Black Balloon

USA 21 min.

Directors, Editors
Benny and Josh Safdie
Writer
Andy Spade, Red Bucket Films
Cinematographer
Sean Price Williams
Producers
Andy Spade, Sam Lisenco

Synopsis

While moving 40 kids, all by himself, across six New York City blocks, a stressed man accidentally loses a bouquet of a hundred balloons. A lone black balloon in the bunch learns that humans are complicated creatures with extreme highs and lows, but full of life nonetheless. The Black Balloon is in one part a children’s film and the other a Sci-Fi.