Synopsis
In the 1990s, eight-year-old Agata leaves her Polish homeland to take a bus to Belgium by herself. Anxious about the journey, she begins to write a letter to her father who has stayed behind in Poland. When she drops her pencil and it rolls away, Agata is forced to overcome her shyness. Searching for it, she weaves her way between the rows of seats and plunges into a fantastical world inhabited by strange half-human, half-animal passengers. Agata’s perceptions transform the reality of migration into an imaginative experience of initiation.
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Production and distribution (3)
- Foreign production companies : OZÙ Productions , Vivi Film
- Film exports/foreign sales : Miyu Distribution
Full credits (12)
- Screenwriter : Sylwia Szkiłądź
- Music Composer : Barbara Drazkov
- Sound recordists : Michał Jankowski, Paweł Łuczak
- Foreign producers : Christophe Beaujean, Jérémie Mazurek, Viviane Vanfleteren
- Voice : Natalia Wolska, Henryk Niebudek, Elzbieta Gaertner, Marcin Pempuś, Lidia Sadowa, Barbara Jonak, Mariusz Ostrowski, Konrad Beta, Anna Senuik, Ewa Borysewicz, Michał Jankowski
- Co-producers : Marc Faye, Mathieu Rolin
- Sound Editor : Antonin Vivet
- Production designers : Noémie Marsily, Sylwia Szkiłądź
- Casting : Ewa Borysewicz
- Grader : Audrick Mercier
- Sound Mixer : Damien Favreau
- Sound design : Florian Fabre
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Animated film
- Sub-genre : Cartoon, 2D animation, Stop-motion, Adventure, Fantasy, Children's films
- Themes : Travel, Fantasies, Adolescence
- Production language : French, English, Polish
- Premier pays de production : Belgium
- Coproducer countries : Belgium (67.19%), France (32.81%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Minority French (Belgium, France)
- Production year : 2025
- Runtime : 17 min 27 seconds
- Visa number : 160.698
- Visa issue date : 31/07/2025
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.78
- Audio format : Stereo
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