Ice Merchants

[1] The 14-minute short about family love is the first ever Portuguese animation to be awarded at the Cannes Film Festival,[2] where it premiered as part of the 2022 Critics' Week (Semaine de la Critique).

[5][6] Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their house on a cliff to go to the village, where they sell ice.

The boy's mother has passed away some time ago, but her presence is still on the mind of the father and son, whether by her unused mug or her empty space in the bed.

One morning, the temperature is so warm that there is no ice to sell, and melting snow falls heavily on the house, breaking it away from the cliff.

The father and son miraculously land on the massive pile of hats that have accumulated on the forest floor below the house and are saved.