Portraits of Voyages: Lithuania - The Hill of Crosses
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A short animated telling of the Hill of Crosses in Lithuania, a place of pilgrimage consisting of a formidable accumulation of crosses that was often razed during the Soviet period. Coming to replant a cross was then an act of resistance.
Poland, early 80's. Olga is 7 years old. One day, to comfort her after watching her pet cricket die, her father tells a strange story about a giant whose eyes are two diamonds.
A Tasmanian tiger wanders around in his zoo enclosure. A glacier is slowly melting. Facing its predicted disappearance, nature exerts its fury, bursts over the frame and resists its extinction by transformation.
Bonifacio is a clumsy and shoddy countryman. After losing everything, he travels to the city with his little daughter Hilda and their piggie Tulipán, to chase his dream, everyone has a calling and his is the best one: being a truck driver.