''Threads'' ( no, Tråder) is a

Norwegian Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe * Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway * Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including ...

Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...

animated short film, directed by

Torill Kove Torill Kove (born 25 May 1958) is a Norwegian-born Canadian film director and animator. She won the 2007 Academy Award for Animated Short Film for the film '' The Danish Poet'', co-produced by Norway's Mikrofilm AS and the National Film Board of ...

and released in 2017. Based on Kove's own experience as an

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parent, the film depicts a woman who catches a thread in the sky which carries her to a baby girl, whom she rears and remains connected to with a red thread of love and emotional connection until the girl is a young woman old enough to go seek her own thread of connection to a baby of her own. In advance of the film's release, Kove spoke about her creative process in an interview on the

National Film Board of Canada The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; french: Office national du film du Canada (ONF)) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary f ...

's organizational blog: The film premiered at the Norwegian Short Film Festival in June 2017, and had its Canadian premiere at the

2017 Toronto International Film Festival The 42nd annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from 7 to 17 September 2017. There were fourteen programmes, with the Vanguard and City to City programmes both being retired from previous years, with the total number of films down b ...

. In December 2017, the film was named to TIFF's annual year-end

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list for short films.Regan Reid
"What made TIFF’s top-10 Canadian movies of 2017?"
'' Playback'', December 6, 2017. In 2018, Kove also published the story as a children's book.Gail Hamilton, "Threads (National Film Board of Canada Collection)". ''Canadian Review of Materials'', Vol. 25 No. 3 (September 25, 2018).

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* 2017 short films Canadian animated short films Norwegian animated short films Animated films without speech Films directed by Torill Kove National Film Board of Canada animated short films 2010s Canadian films {{2010s-Canada-film-stub