30/5 — 5/6/2024
64th International Film Festival
for Children and Youth

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Section: International Competition of Short Animations for Children

A Stone in the Shoe (2020) -

France, Switzerland | 2020 | 11 min.

When a pupil turns up to his new class for the first time, it’s clear he’s a little different. He’s a frog in a class of rabbits.

CountryFrance, Switzerland
Year2020
Duration11 min
Rating-
LanguageNo dialogues
SubtitleNo subtitles
Directed by Eric Montchaud
Screenplay Eric Montchaud, Cécile Polard
Director of Photography Nadine Buss
Music Pierre Bastien
Edited by Santi Minasi
Contact Mikhal Bak

Biography

Eric Montchaud studied at the Poudrière Animation School in Valence in 1999. He specialised in stopmotion technique. His student film entitled “Les Animals” and his first self-produced short called was “The wet dog smell”. He took part in the animation of Michel Gondry’s “Mood Indigo” and “The Science of Sleep”. “Anatole’s little saucepan” was his first professional short film.This film is a part of the set Piropiro and Other Animations.