Synopsis
A little boy is in the kitchen with his grandmother, preparing dishes to be placed on the ancestral altar. When his grandmother starts cutting up live crabs for a recipe, the boy becomes obsessed with the animal and death.
Credits
Directors (6)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : École des Nouvelles Images
- Film exports/foreign sales : Miyu Distribution
Full credits (3)
- Executive Producer : Julien Deparis
- Music Composer : Matthieu Gomez-Mancini
- Sound Mixer : Pierre-François Renouf
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Animated film
- Sub-genre : 3D animation
- Production language : No dialogue
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2022
- Runtime : 7 min 6 seconds
- Production formats : Digital creation
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Digital 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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