Return to Hairy Hill (2023)
- Original title
- Retour à Hairy Hill
- Directed by
- Daniel Gies
- Genre
- animation, horror
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 17 min
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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