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Messages in a Bottle

12 min

A gentle, quiet little story that drifts along like the tide, leaving a soft ache of loneliness and a warm hopeful glow.

Directed by: Célia Tocco
Genres: Animation

Overview: Theo lives in a house beside the sea but often feels lonely. Hoping to find a playmate, he puts a message in a bottle and throws it into the sea. He waits impatiently in hope that his bottle, so small in the big ocean, finds him a friend…

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Directed by: Célia Tocco
Genres: Animation

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: loneliness
friendship
isolation
healing
Places: sea
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: kids
Form: animated
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none

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Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	2
Realism	6
Romance	0
Tension	2
Darkness	2
Complexity	2
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: animation
Directed by: Célia Tocco
Written by: Arnaud Demuynck
Runtime: 12 min
Languages: French

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