The friendship between a sandman and a snowman who correspond by throwing bottles into the sea.
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Commentary on the film
A moving short film about an impossible friendship.
Snowman, an essential game for many children. Why not invite the students in your class to create, like this stop-motion film, a volume animation with sand or snow, a story based on photos?
The short film “Bottle” was selected at the Takorama 2020 festival organized by the Films pour enfants association.
Questions about the film
Understand the story and themes, express your feelings and develop critical thinking.
1Who are the main characters in the film? A sandman and a snowman.
2What do they do in the film? They communicate, establish a correspondence by sending a bottle to the sea.
3What do they communicate with? With words? By texts? They do not communicate with words but with elements of their environment. The snowman sends snow, pine needles... The sandman sends sand, algae, shells...
4Why do the two characters seek to communicate? Maybe they feel alone? Maybe they are looking for a friend?
5What is the end of the film? The two characters decide to actually meet and cross the sea as a merchant on the seabed. Unfortunately, their nature does not allow them to stay in water for long: they both dissolve.
6Today, how do we communicate most? With what tools? With telephones, smartphones, emails but also social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram...).
7What is a sender and a recipient? A sender is what sends a message and a receiver is what receives it.
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Created with the support of the French Ministry of Education and the French National Center for Cinema and Animated Images (CNC).
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