Gwen, le livre de sable

"Gwen ou le livre de sable" (Gwen, or the Book of Sand) is a 1984 animated feature film written and directed by Jean-François Laguionie and his studio La Fabrique, using gouache.The main character, Gwen, is a young girl adopted by a nomad tribe in a desertic post-apocalyptic world. In the desert, were only few animals, like ostriches or scorpions, can survive, a mysterious entity regularly drops gigantic replicas of everyday life objects from our world (bags, telephones, clocks, armchairs...). When a young boy, Gwen's friend, is kidnapped by said entity, Gwen and an old woman called Roseline start on a trip to find him back. They will eventually encounter an other people living in an isolated city and preserving remains of the old civilisation in quite strange ways.

The film won the Grand Prix de la critique in the Festival d'Annecy, and the feature-length film award in the Los Angeles festival.

ee also

*List of animated feature films