LEAVING SCHOOL
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G • 33 min • 2023 • Short animated films • France • Live voice-over in Lithuanian
Tenth and final season of the collection of short films dedicated to poetry and a breeding ground for new animation talents for 10 years, LEAVING SCHOOL bows on the theme of friendship. The opportunity to discover 11 new animation talents from the best French animation schools and as many different perspectives on poetry here at children‘s level. „All the greatness of this world is not worth a good friend“, Voltaire.
1. Tomorrow is Sunday
A lonely child meets his imaginary friend. With him, everything is possible.
2. Shelter
At summer camp, two friends are caught by surprise in a thunderstorm. To overcome their fear, they invent a world with their hands.
3. You Are...
Two pebbles meet in an unreal landscape and form a moving friendship. They walk together until they become one.
4. Friendship
Holidays, summer heat, boredom. And suddenly, a voice is heard, like the promise of a friendship.
5. Bouquet
Sometimes friendship is born from a bouquet of flowers, and from the encounter between childhood and old age.
6. The World
Alittle boy, accompanied by a chickadee, explores a great mystery: the friendship of the world.
7. To Alfred Tattet
Adisenchanted magician finds joy in life thanks to his oldest friend, a wacky and tireless pigeon. Together they celebrate friendship.
8. To the Chosen Friend
In this operetta, two children who witness an argument discover that friendship is a refuge to overcome their fears.
9. The Gamma Friend
Is a shepherdess of stars a friend of her stars? A journey to the heart of the relationship with oneself and with others.
10. Arbres de Noël
Two trees separated by an entire world make friends through their roots!
11. He Was a Good Friend
An old school photo, memories and the journey of a man looking for a lost friend.
The live voice-over is performed by Beata Venckaitytė.
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