PRODUCTION:
Les films d’ici Méditerranée, Les films du poisson rouge, Tchack, EJT, Lunanim BVBA, B-Water animation studio
DIRECTOR:
Aurel
SCRIPT:
Jean-Louis Milesi
TECHNIQUE:
2D Animation
YEAR:
2019
DURATION:
85 mins
February 1939. Overwhelmed by the arrival of Republican fighters fleeing Franco’s dictatorship, the French government decides to hold the Spanish refugees in internment camps, where many refugees will perish. Here, two men who are separated by a barbed wire fence form a friendship. One is a guard, the other is Josep Bartoli (Barcelona 1910 – New York 1995), anti-Franco combatant and cartoonist.
Work done by Les Films du poisson rouge : Executive production / animation under Hoodoo et MOE
Annecy festival 2019, Prix de la Fondation GAN à la distribution
Festival de Cannes 2020, Sélection Officielle
Coup de coeur AFCAE Cinémas d’art et essai
AIFF Athens 2020, Audience award & Best screenplay award
FIFF Namur 2020, Prix Spécial du jury
Valladolid International Films Festival 2020, Best director award
Festival International de Cine Guadalajara 2020, Best animated feature film
European Film Awards 2020, Best animated feature film
Prix Louis Delluc 2020
César Meilleur long-métrage d’animation 2021
