A Town Called Panic (film)

A Town Called Panic
Theatrical release poster
Directed byStéphane Aubier
Vincent Patar
Written byStéphane Aubier
Guillaume Malandrin
Vincent Patar
Vincent Tavier
Based onA Town Called Panic
Produced byPhilippe Kauffmann
Vincent Tavier
StarringStéphane Aubier
Jeanne Balibar
Nicolas Buysse
Véronique Dumont
Bruce Ellison
Frédéric Jannin
Bouli Lanners
Benoît Poelvoorde
CinematographyJan Vandenbussche
Edited byAnne-Laure Guégan
Music byDionysos
French Cowboy
Production
companies
La Parti Productions
Coproduction Office
Beast Animation
Distributed byCinéart (Belgium)
Gébéka Films (France)
Release dates
  • 21 May 2009 (2009-05-21) (Cannes)
  • 17 June 2009 (2009-06-17) (Belgium)
  • 28 October 2009 (2009-10-28) (France)
Running time
76 minutes
CountriesBelgium
France
Luxembourg
LanguageFrench

A Town Called Panic (French: Panique au village) is a 2009 internationally co-produced stop-motion animated adventure fantasy comedy film directed by Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar from a screenplay co-written by Aubier, Patar, Guillaume Malandrin and Vincent Tavier. The film is based on the French-language Belgian series of the same name and stars Aubier, Jeanne Balibar, Nicolas Buysse, Véronique Dumont, Bruce Ellison, Frédéric Jannin, Bouli Lanners, and Patar, among others.[1]

It premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and was the first stop-motion film to be screened at the festival.[2] The film was released theatrically in Belgium on 17 June 2009 by Cinéart and in France on 28 October 2009 by Gébéka Films. The film received generally positive reviews from film critics.

  1. ^ Bradshaw, Peter (7 October 2010). "A Town Called Panic - review". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
  2. ^ Punter, Jennie (19 February 2010). "A Town Called Panic". The Globe and Mail. Toronto: Phillip Crawley. Archived from the original on 25 October 2012. Retrieved 22 July 2011.