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Ce qu'on laisse derrière

Directed by Jean-Sébastien Hamel and Alexandra Myotte
Canada, 2025 (animation, 11 minutes, colour, French)
Also known as "What We Leave Behind"
Ce qu'on laisse derrière
Image: © Travelling Distribution

Film Description:
"In Alexandra Myotte and Jean-Sébastien Hamel's visceral and gutting animation, a man returns to the site of a harrowing childhood trauma to heal the gaping hole in his neck and find a part of himself he left behind."
-- Toronto International Film Festival (source)

Film Description:
"Dan has a gaping hole in his neck that won't heal. Why? He can't remember, nor talk about it. Back in the sinister arena of his childhood, he must find the part of himself he once left behind that prevents him, now an adult, from being whole."
-- Travelling Distribution (source)


Film Credits (partial):
Written by: Jean-Sébastien Hamel, Alexandra Myotte
Produced by: Jean-Sébastien Hamel, Alexandra Myotte
Principal Cast: Jack Hackel, Jean-Sébastien Hamel
Animation: Alexandra Myotte
Film Editing: Jean-Sébastien Hamel
Production Company: Sémaphore Films
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