Synopsis

While the spring carnival is in full swing in the capital of Balthazar's kingdom, the "bloated belly" disease is spreading. Princess Molly, who has her doubts about the true intentions of Bonifacio the storyteller, enlists the help of her friend Léon the bear. The young couple investigates and outwits the Machiavellian plans of the would-be doctor. The key to this whole affair is perhaps simply in the fields: a healing flower...

Pierre-Luc Granjon

Pierre-Luc Granjon studied at the Applied Art School of Lyon. In 1998, he began his career in animation in the Folimage studio and made his first two stop-motion films: A Little Adventure (2001) and The Other Kid’s Castle (2003). After that, he directed two cutout paper films, The Child With No Mouth (2004), and The White Wolf (2006), which was awarded at festivals worldwide. With Antoine Lanciaux, Pierre-Luc Granjon has also directed and written four 26-minute puppet films: The Four Seasons of Leon. He then made The Big Beast (2013), Je ne fais que passer ( a film made in plaster) and The Dog (made on Alexeïeff and Parker’s pinscreen, 2018). In 2019 he released his first feature The Inventor, directed by Jim Capobianco.