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Of Events

2011 Canadian animated short film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ105359744 ↗
Source-derived summary

Of Events (French: D'aléas) is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Mathieu Tremblay and released in 2011. Animated in black and white, the film centres on a group of people travelling on a train.

The film premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, where it received an honorable mention from the jury for the Best Canadian Short Film award. It subsequently received a Jutra Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film at the 14th Jutra Awards in 2012.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Of Events” as 2011 Canadian animated short film. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Events, Canadian and animated.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Events, Canadian and animated providing the first useful test.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q105359744. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2011 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Of Events” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.