Michael Dudok De Wit is a cartoonist, illustrator, animation director. Here is his most famous work which is “father and daughter” it won the Oscar award, British Academy Film Awards, Annecy awards and a series of other awards.
The story of a father who leaves his daughter and rows off into the ocean, it commences with two figures riding their bicycles, the smaller of the wheels in perfect symmetry with the larger. The father and daughter climb to the top of a hill at which point the father hugs his daughter before climbing down to the seashore. He cannot resist running back and holding the girl one last time before rowing off towards the distant horizon. The girl runs up and down against the skyline as the sun gradually sets. There is no explanation. She returns again and again to her vantage point on the cliff to peer out to sea for his return. Each return marks a passage in her life from child to adolescent, mother and eventually old woman and then meets her father in the afterlife.
A very moving and touching piece of animation about life, loss and love. That no matter how many years pass we still yearn to be with the ones we love.