Synopsis
An old lady, suffering from the squirrel syndrome, accumulates at her home boxes filled with memories; She lives with a colony of cockroaches, which became her friends. Her granddaughter, who she is very dear to, visits her every Wednesday and she invents, with these accumulated treasures, wonderful stories. But the little girl grows bigger and space starts running out in the house cluttered with cardboard boxes.
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- Executive Producer : Folimage
- Foreign production company : JMH & FILO Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : L'Agence du court métrage
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- Executive Producer : Reginald de Guillebon
- Screenwriters : Chaïtane Conversat, Pierre-Luc Granjon
- Director of photography : Nadine Buss
- Music Composer : Patricia Dallio
- Editor : Hervé Guichard
- Sound Recordist : Loïc Burkhardt
- Foreign producer : Florence Adam
- Line Producer : Pierre Méloni
- Sound Editor : Loïc Burkhardt
- Production Designer : Marion Charrier
- Animation : Pierre-Luc Granjon, Antoine Lanciaux, Chaïtane Conversat, Marjolaine Parot
- Special Effects : Christophe Gautry
- Graphic designers : Chaïtane Conversat, Damien Louche-Pélissier
- Sound Mixer : Denis Séchaud
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Animated film
- Sub-genre : Paper cut-outs, Animation of objects, Psychological drama, Portrait, Drama
- Themes : Family, Sociology, Illness
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Switzerland
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Switzerland)
- Production year : 2018
- Runtime : 12 min 44 seconds
- Visa number : 146.246
- Visa issue date : 18/04/2019
- Production formats : Digital creation - HD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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