Drôles d'oiseaux

Eli is a ten-and-a-half-year-old girl who has just moved to Saumur with her loving mother and is in sixth grade at school. She is shy and doesn't talk much unless it is to talk about her favourite subjects, which she can talk about for hours! She knows a few people by now, but she is not yet part of any group of friends. Her great passions are nature and animals, especially birds. This leads her to spend a lot of time with her nose in books, especially ornithology books. The school librarian, a lady named Ana, who is in her fifties, is curious about the student, and soon a relationship of complicity develops between the two of them. When Eli arrives one day at the library to return a book and sees that it is closed, she decides to go to her house to give it to her. She then sets off on a journey of several kilometers to Anne's house, who lives isolated on an island in the Loire River, an island full of birds.

Charlie Belin directs this animated short film intended for the whole family and writes its screenplay with Mariannick Bellot. The Island of Birds' is produced by Doncvoilà productions and Camera Lucida and has participated in the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and the Festival National du Film d'Animation de Rennes.

• Animation