The Hat (French: Le Chapeau) is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Michèle Cournoyer and released in 1999.
[1] Told entirely without dialogue, the film centres on an exotic dancer's flashbacks to childhood memories of sexual abuse.
[3] It was also screened at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival,[1] where it was named the winner of the award for Best Canadian Short Film.
[4] It subsequently won the Jutra Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 3rd Jutra Awards in 2001,[5] and was later named as one of the 100 best animated films of all time in a critics' survey by Variety.
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