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In the 1990s, 8 years-old Agata leaves Poland for Belgium. Anxious about her journey, the little girl writes a letter to her father back home, but her pencil falls out and gets lost on the bus. Forced to overcome her shyness, she crawls between the seats in search of the pencil, plunging into a fantastic world populated by strange half-human, half-animal passengers. At the tender age of 8, her eyes transform the reality of migration into an initiatory experience.

GENRE:
animation
COUNTRY:
Francja, Belgia
RUNNING TIME:
17'
YEAR:
COLOUR:
colour
DIRECTING:
Sylwia Szkiłądź
SCRIPT:
Sylwia Szkiłądź
DOP:
Damien Favreau
EDITOR:
Jérôme Erhart
MUSIC:
Barbara Drazkov
SOUND:
Michał Jankowski, Maria Conterno
ANIMATION:
Gaspar Chabaud, Evelien De Roeck, Evelien De Roeck, Pierre Le Brun, Agathe Sollier, Anne Escot, Ronni Shalev, Dina Hendrick
PRODUCTION:
Ozù Productions,, Amopix,, Vivi Film & Novanima

Sylwia Szkiłądź »

 Sylwia Szkiłądź is a director of short animated films. She was born in 1987 in Podlaskie (in Poland), which she left at the age of 8 with her parents to live in Brussels. However, Podlaskie was and remains one of her most important artistic inspirations. Her film productions include: ‘Limaçon et caricoles’ (2012) co-directed withNim Gamboa, ‘La Soupe aux fraises’ (2014) and ‘Le Renard minuscule’ (2015) co-directed with AlineQuertain. She works freelance on various forms of animation: video clips co-directed with Jessica Poon ‘TheSkeleton band’, ‘The Midnight Secret socks party’, animations created with Marion Sellenet for the series‘Les Chroniques végétales’. She shares her knowledge and experience of animation with children and adultsby organising workshops in centres and schools. She currently lives and works in Belgium, France andPoland.