Synopsis

This metaphorical surrealist tale is an allusion. Nightingales in Decemberis a trip into the memories, and the fields of the current realities. What if the Nightingales were working, instead of singing and going south? Is innocence the only saviour of bird’s songs? There are no Nightingales in December... What is left is only the history of our beginning and our end.

Theodore Ushev

Theodore Ushev (1968, Kyustendil, Bulgaria) first made a name as a poster and graphic designer, before moving to Montreal in 1999. In the past 15 years, he has worked for the National Film Board of Canada. His creative biography contains more than 15 films, which brought him over 200 international awards, including an Oscar nomination for best animated short film for Blind Vaysha in 2017 and making it into the short list for the same award for The Physics of Sorrow in 2019. Physics of Sorrow won the Grand Prize - Crystal of Annecy in 2020.