Synopsis
A big white whale washes up in the middle of a city. The animal is at death’s door, people around it moan and complain, cars can’t move. In a school bus, a little girl is learning a poem for class. When she leaves the bus to see what’s happening, she decides to approach the animal in order to find a way through. The animal’s pained song, however, leads her down a different path, as she leads the townspeople to consider the animal anew in a strange, collective musical experience.
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Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Novanima
- Co-production : L’Incroyable Studio
- Foreign production company : Zorobabel
- Film exports/foreign sales : L'Agence du court métrage
Full credits (14)
- Executive Producer : Marc Faye
- Screenwriter : Adeline Faye
- Music Composer : Naowel
- Assistant director : Marta Gennari
- Editors : Catherine Aladenise, Noémie Azul Loeve
- Sound recordist : Léa Chevrier
- Foreign Producer : William Henne
- Co-producer : Johan Chiron
- Production manager : Magali Hériat
- Sound Editor : Geoffroy Cantou-Carrassoumet
- Production designers : Adeline Faye, Clémentine Campos
- Foley artist : Geoffroy Cantou-Carrassoumet
- Grader : Sarah Salem
- Sound Mixer : Geoffroy Cantou-Carrassoumet
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Animated film
- Sub-genre : 2D animation, Under-the-camera animation, Musical, Fantasy
- Themes : Imagination, Poetry, Human nature
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France (88.0%), Belgium (12.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Belgium)
- Production year : 2022
- Runtime : 11 min 50 seconds
- Visa number : 152.216
- Visa issue date : 08/06/2022
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color and Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Digital 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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