Children are mysteriously falling ill at an orphanage. Candy Boy, the most valiant of the orphans, investigates, but the arrival of a new boarder complicates his inquiries.
Direction
Vincent crams feature-length dread into 13 minutes
Writing
Candy Boy's name isn't even the weirdest thing
Director
Pascal-Alex Vincent
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of early-2000s French shorts using animation to smuggle queer narratives into festival circuits where live-action faced harsher scrutiny.
The marijuana keyword isn't recreational—it's ecological. The river's contamination mirrors real French industrial scandals of the era.
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