30. Film Festival della Lessinia
Bosco Chiesanuova (Italia)
23 August - 1 September 2024

At night, as family members prepare to sleep with strange rituals, a child summons a wolf from a small box hidden under his bed. Materialised by the sleep of the sleeping, disturbing sheep besiege the boy's bedroom door, while the wolf leads him on a journey suspended between dream and memory. Reversing the stereotype that associates the wolf with evil and the sheep with innocence, Marion Lacourt creates a sophisticated and dense animation, in which evocative yet strangely familiar images guide us along with the protagonist through nocturnal and dreamlike lands. Among rustling turntables, moving woods and car races, the shadow of a quiet absence, of affections that are interrupted or, perhaps, moved to other planes of being, makes its way.

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  Marion Lacourt

  Marion Lacourt is an illustrator and director. She studied theatre and cinema at the University of Strasbourg, lithography at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg and graduated from the ENSAD-École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Moutons, Loup& Tasse de Thé… received the Prix Emile Reynaud 2019 and has been selected at numerous festivals, including the Locarno Film Festival.