The Kid and the Octopus
Synopsis
South Korea. Each morning on his way to school, Jun, a lonely child, watches an octopus in a restaurant aquarium. When Jun understands the fate awaiting the octopus, he decides to run away with it to take the creature back to the sea. So begins a long adventure.
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Actors (3)
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- Executive Producer : Ysé Productions / Ysé Productions Normandie
- Foreign production company : MereCinema
- Film exports/foreign sales : Manifest
Full credits (16)
- Executive Producer : Marie Agnely
- Screenwriter : Nils Bouvyer
- Director of Photography : Thomas Rames
- Music Composer : Mike Ponton
- Assistant Director : Olbek Martel
- Editor : Nicolas Sburlati
- Sound Recordist : Jongho Jeong
- Foreign Producer : Min-Ho Ha
- Assistant Operator : Gwangmyeong Go
- Production managers : Rémi Veyrié, K. Jonathan Park
- Sound Editor : Benjamin Laurent
- Continuity supervisor : Nayeun Woo
- Animation : Lisa Klemenz
- Casting : Sunok Park
- Grader : Gadiel Bendelac
- Sound Mixer : Benjamin Laurent
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Psychological drama
- Themes : Childhood, Friendship, Travel
- Production language : Korean
- Coproducer countries : France, South Korea
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, South Korea)
- Production year : 2020
- Runtime : 21 min 32 seconds
- Visa number : 151.039
- Visa issue date : 09/06/2020
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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