La Tortue Rouge
France, Japan, 2016
Without words
Director: Michaël Dudok de Wit
Distributor: Aerofilms
The story of a castaway on a tropical island inhabited by turtles, crabs, and birds is also a universal story of crucial moments in human life. Oscar director Michaël Dudok de Wit recounts a dialogue-less story of self-knowledge, love, and changing of generations only through perfectly crafted animation. This magical story, well understood across generations and continents, won Un Certain Regard Special Prize at Cannes Film Festival and it is the first collaboration project between Japanese Ghibli studio and European co-production.