Michel Hazanavicius signs here his first animated feature film for which Waooh took charge of the storyboard, animation and background layout and color stage. This is the adaptation of Jean-Claude Grumberg’s novel published in 2019 by the Éditions du Seuil.

In a vast snowy forest, a poor woodcutter and his wife, desperately looking for a child, lead a hard and lonely life. One day, a father, in a desperate act of love, throws his daughter off a freight train carrying victims to concentration camps, hoping to offer her a chance at survival. The little girl, taken in by the couple of woodcutters, becomes “the most precious of cargoes” for them. This tale is a story of survival, love and resilience in the face of the horror of war.

This film is co-produced by Agat Films, Exnihilo, Studio Canal, Les compagnons du cinéma and Les Films du Fleuve. Presented in competition at Cannes, it received the Prix du Cinéma Positif in 2024. It will also be the opening film of the Annecy Festival that same year.