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Return to Hairy Hill (2023)

Return to Hairy Hill poster
Original title
Retour à Hairy Hill
Directed by
Daniel Gies
Genre
animation, horror
Country
Canada
Runtime
17 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An animated short based on a true story about a grandmother who tried to keep her siblings together after their parents left. They were eventually taken into protective custody and she never got them all back in her lifetime.

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What happens

Return to Hairy Hill (French: Retour à Hairy Hill) is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Daniel Gies and released in 2023. Blending two-dimensional, three-dimensional and puppet animation styles, the film is based on the true story of Gies's grandmother, who made an effort to keep her siblings together after they were abandoned by their parents but was ultimately separated from them after they were taken into protective custody and was never successfully reunited with all of them in her lifetime. The film premiered at the 2023 les Sommets du cinéma d'animation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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