Ahead of the animated function’s North American premiere as a part of the Centerpiece program at Toronto International Film Festival in September, world company Indie Sales has secured quite a lot of offers to distribute Dandelion’s Odyssey around the globe. The function movie debut of Japanese director Momoko Seto premiered at Cannes Critic’s Week, successful the FIPRESCI Award, and went on to display screen at Annecy, the place it took dwelling the Paul Grimault Award.
The worldwide offers cowl Switzerland (Praesens), Greece (Cinobo), Poland (Best Film), Baltic States (GPI), Ex-Yugoslavia (MCF Megacom), Latin America (Cinetopia), Indonesia (PT Falcon) and Philippines (Crystalsky Multimedia).
Gebeka will launch Dandelion’s Odyssey in France in March 2026. A Benelux launch can also be arrange by way of Bantam.
Synopsis: Dendelion, Baraban, Léonto and Taraxa — 4 dandelion achenes that survive from a collection of nuclear explosions destroying Earth — are propelled into the cosmos. After crash-landing on an unknown planet, they set out in quest of soil the place their species would possibly survive. However, they need to face numerous obstacles: the weather, fauna, flora, the local weather.
The non-dialog, CG-hybrid eco-fantasy is directed by Seto, who wrote the screenplay with Alain Layrac, and animated by Guionne Leroy (Toy Story), with manufacturing design by Nils Dupré. The music was scored by Nicolas Beckre and Quenten Sirjacq.
Dandelion’s Odyssey is produced by Miyu Productions (France) and Ecce Films (France), in co-production with Umedia (Belgium), Arte France Cinema, CNRS (France) and Reepost (France/Belgium). Producers are Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Pierre Baussaron and Emmanuel Chaumet.
[Source: Variety]
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