Synopsis
Lu and Wei are two young girls living in a village nestled on the banks of a river. As the one-child policy has led some families to drown baby girls, they both have a special relationship with this river which looks like a cradle of tragic stories.
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- Executive Producer : Les Valseurs
- Foreign production company : Beyond Frozen Films Co.ltd
- Line production : Gao Shan Pictures
Full credits (10)
- Executive Producers : Damien Megherbi, Justin Pechberty
- Screenwriter : Weijia Ma
- Music Composer : Pablo Pico
- Editor : Jérôme Bréau
- Sound Recordist : Corvo Lepesant-Lamari
- Foreign producer : ShanShan Li
- Line Producers : Arnauld Boulard, Hélène Bastian-Rolin
- Voice : Yifei Chen, Mingen Zhang, Guifen Zhang, Ganfeng Zhu, Ninghu Wei, Zhuocheng Zhao, Chen Zhenhui, Nina Picard
- Sound editors : Didier Falk, Théo Serror
- Sound Mixer : Benjamin Lecuyer
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Animated film
- Sub-genre : 2D animation, Drama, Children's films, Fantasy
- Themes : Friendship, Childhood, Politics
- Production language : Chinese
- Coproducer countries : France (93.75%), China (6.25%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, China)
- Production year : 2020
- Runtime : 14 min 50 seconds
- Visa number : 150.879
- Visa issue date : 16/03/2021
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.77
- Audio format : Digital 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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Awards (5)
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http://lesvalseurs.com/danslariviere/
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