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In wartime, a poor lumberjack and his wife live in a large forest. One day, the wife finds and rescues a little girl, bringing about an irrevocable change in the lives of the couple and those whose paths the child will cross. This is Michel Hazanavicius’ first animated film. This is the best 2024 release I’ve seen so far this year, and we’re in the middle of December 2024. It tells a story that takes place in Poland during World War II, almost like a popular story. Most of the action takes place in a forest, which is so typical of the aforementioned folk tales, and revolves around a lumberjack couple who adopt a Jewish girl who was thrown off a deportation train passing through their forest. She was disowned by her father to save her from certain death in Auschwitz. I won’t go into the details of the plot so you can see them for yourself, I will just add that the film comes to a deeply philosophical conclusion. On the technical side too, everything is perfectly done. The visuals of the film are superbly done. The drawing style is just right, neither too detailed nor too rough, mostly scenes are shown in dim lighting with predominant shades of grey, thus underlining the horrors of the most notorious war and mass destruction event in the history of mankind. And then the soundtrack, which goes with it, is sublime: the musical score, the sound effects, the narration and the voice acting (I saw the original version in French), all totally appropriate to present this gem of a film. In conclusion, it is one of the best films that deals with the issue of racism and in particular the Shoah, both through its artistic process and through the story it wants to convey.