Handbook For Gardening
Synopsis
Aria gives birth to a son, Léo, but the happy event turns into a nightmare when she discovers that the newborn is covered with thorns. Caught up in feeling guilty about being a bad mother, she hides the truth and can't manage to bond with her child, searching in vain for a solution in a gardening handbook.
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- Executive Producer : Les Films de l'Arlequin
- Foreign production company : The Hive Studio
Full credits (13)
- Executive Producer : Fariza Daguelou
- Screenwriter : Sarah-Jane Scebat-Hatooka
- Director of photography : Inbal Grossman
- Music Composer : Daniel Markovich
- Editor : Sarah-Jane Scebat-Hatooka
- Sound Recordist : Jean-Baptiste Fournier
- Foreign Producer : Amit Russell Gicelter
- Line Producers : Dora Benousilio, Amit Russell Gicelter
- Voice-overs : Caroline Ducey, Dana Ivgy
- Production manager : Fariza Daguelou
- Sound Editor : Sylvain Rety
- Production designers : Danielle Ventura, Sarah-Jane Scebat-Hatooka
- Sound Mixer : Sylvain Rety
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- Type : Short film
- Genres : Animated film
- Sub-genre : 2D animation, Psychological drama, Fantasy
- Themes : Motherhood, Childhood, Marginality
- Production language : French, English
- Coproducer countries : France, Israel
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Israel)
- Production year : 2017
- Runtime : 10 min 45 seconds
- Visa number : 146.916
- Visa issue date : 24/10/2017
- Production formats : Digital creation
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.77
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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