Synopsis
Eight-year-old Elisa lives alone with her mother Jeanne, in a small isolated village of the French Alps. The little girl suffers from her mother’s absence as Jeanne works every night in a bar in town. Elisa tries to fill her loneliness by constantly wearing a frightening wolf hand puppet. She is fascinated with this powerful, brave and fearless animal. One morning she hears on the radio that real wolves have been spotted in her remote mountainous area.
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- Executive Producer : Les Films du Cygne
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- Executive Producers : Jonathan Hazan, Alexandre Charlet
- Screenwriter : Alice Vial
- Director of Photography : Brice Pancot
- Music Composer : Pierre-Antoine Durand
- Editor : Nicolas Sarkissian
- Sound Recordist : Marc-Olivier Brullé
- Costume designer : Sarah Monfort
- Production manager : Héloïse Claudé
- Sound Editor : Antoine Bailly
- Continuity supervisor : Elsa Melquioni
- Production Designer : Julie Plumelle
- Casting : Fanny De Donceel
- Sound Mixer : Steven Ghouti
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- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Childhood, Fear, Mountains
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2014
- Runtime : 24 min 5 seconds
- Visa number : 140.067
- Visa issue date : 23/12/2014
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : CinemaScope
- Audio format : Digital 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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