Original Title |
YOU KAI |
Spanish Title |
YOU KAI |
English Title |
YOU KAI |
Year & month of production |
2023 |
Duration |
14 Facebook |
Country of production |
Luxembourg |
Genre |
Fiction, Animation |
Language |
English, French |
Subtitles |
English |
Trailer |
https://vimeo.com/843166273 |
Web |
https://www.ptd.lu/production/youkai |
Facebook |
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Hana, a young isolated migrant, survives as best she can in a refugee camp in northern France. In order to escape the violence that surrounds her, she embarks on an imaginary journey to her dream country: You Kai. But the storm rises. England doesn't want her either.
A hybrid animation/paintings/documentary footage/ fictional short film. A dark allegorical tale of the 21st Century.
BUCK FRÉDÉRIQUE
A journalist by training, Frédérique Buck works as an author and director. She is, among other things, the author of the publication "I'm not a refugee" (Finalist of the Amnesty Medienpraïs 2017, double winner of the letzebuerger Buchprais 2017). She wrote, produced and directed the feature documentary Grand H (special mention Amnesty Medienpraïs 2018) as well as the short documentary La nuit, je rêve which was selected by some fifteen international film festivals. She also co-directed the experimental short film Aftermath, Afterpath.
Her work revolves around speech (inaudible and fragile), what interests her are people, their words, their silences, their attempts to exist, to resist, to survive. She has a particular interest in the development of new, creative and original narrative means - in image as well as in sound.