Synopsis
Baptiste Bessette went to Hiroshima to question the city about the shadows of its past and the cogs of its future. A vital lead: the ginkgo biloba, this prehistoric tree about which we say that it is the only one to have survived the disaster and its leaves remind us of a butterfly.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (3)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : Zeugma Films
Full credits (9)
- Executive Producer : Michel David
- Screenwriter : Baptiste Bessette
- Director of Photography : Nicolas Rey
- Editor : Kenji Lefèvre-Hasegawa
- Sound Recordist : Rémi Stengel
- Voice-overs : Osamu Otsuki, Baptiste Bessette
- Production managers : Marilyn Belbenoît, Diane Veyrat
- Sound Editor : Rémi Stengel
- Sound Mixer : Rémi Stengel
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Auteur documentary, Research - Experimental
- Themes : Nature, History
- Production language : French, Japanese
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2010
- Runtime : 36 min
- Visa number : 119.619
- Visa issue date : 05/10/2010
- Production formats : Super 16 - DV-CAM
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 4/3
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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