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The Man Who Planted Trees
L'homme qui plantait des arbres
1987 · Film · short · 30 min
Directed by Frédéric Back
The story of one shepherd's single-handed quest to re-forest a desolate valley in the foothills of the French Alps throughout the first half of the 20th century.
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The final quote, "... but often, on the ground, it’s one old farmer walking around to collect acorns. ..." reminded me of the the book The Man Who Planted Trees [1] in which a shepard single-handedly reforests a desolate valley by planting acorns and other seedlings.
The book inspired an animated film of the same name [2], which won an Academy Award in 1988. I remember seeing this at an animated film festival about 35 years ago in the Biograph Theater in Washington, DC. Today I rewatched it on YouTube [3].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Planted_Trees
[2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093488/
[3] https://youtu.be/epTqUnKsuUY
I feel compelled to mention here the 1987 film "The Man Who Planted Trees", which is essentially a 30 minute minute long animated painting with a story. Blew my mind when I first saw it.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093488/
Watch "The Man Who Planted Trees" by Frederic Bac; tremendous film, best there evere was on the subject of regrowth.
This immediately brought to mind:
"The Man Who Planted Trees" the book which was adapted into an animated film that won the Acadamy Award for Best Animated Short Film and Short Film Palme d'Or in 1987
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_7yEPNUXsU