Synopsis
In a country where the inhabitants feed, literally, on letters and on words picked in trees, reading is vital if they do not want to die from boredom. But certain books are forbidden because of their emotional contents and physical transformations which they provoke. Nadal, a lumberjack of words, has an encounter which changes his life definitively.
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- Executive Producer : Folimage
- Film exports/foreign sales : Gonella Productions, L'Agence du court métrage
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- Executive Producer : Pascal Le Nôtre
- Screenwriters : Isabelle Blanchard, Olga Marchenko
- Director of photography : Claude Garnier
- Editor : Hervé Guichard
- Sound Recordist : Loïc Burkhardt
- Voice-over : Serge Avédikian
- Production Manager : Pascal Le Nôtre
- Sound Mixer : Loïc Moniotte
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- Type : Short film
- Genres : Animated film
- Sub-genre : Fairy tale, Legend
- Themes : Minorities, Exile, Poetry
- Production language : French, English, Chinese
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2009
- Runtime : 11 min
- Visa number : 121.908
- Visa issue date : 29/06/2009
- Production formats : Digital creation
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : CinemaScope
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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