Wild Flowers (2024 film)

Wild Flowers
FrenchLes Fleurs sauvages
Directed byRodolphe Saint-Gelais
Thierry Sirois
Written byRodolphe Saint-Gelais
Produced byDavid Francke-Robitaille
Isabelle Grignon-Francke
Narrated byChristian Bégin
Edited byRodolphe Saint-Gelais
Thierry Sirois
Production
company
Club Vidéo
Distributed byWelcome Aboard
Release date
  • March 2024 (2024-03) (Regard)
Running time
7 minutes
CountryCanada

Wild Flowers (French: Les Fleurs sauvages) is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Rodolphe Saint-Gelais and Thierry Sirois and released in 2024.[1] Narrated by actor Christian Bégin, the film is structured as a voice mail message conveying instructions to the recipient on how to mow the lawn outside the narrator's house, while the animation uses a mixture of diagrams and anthropomorphic figures to introduce humour and comedy to a seemingly banal and mundane subject, until the film climaxes with the narrator changing his mind about having his lawn mown at all due to his love of the wildflowers that grow at that time of year.[1]

The film premiered at the Regard short film festival in March 2024. It was subsequently screened at the 2024 Sommets du cinéma d'animation,[1] and the 2024 Ottawa International Animation Festival.[2]

  1. ^ a b c Olivier Thibodeau and Claire Valade, "Les Sommets du cinéma d'animation 2024 : Partie 1". Panorama Cinéma, May 9, 2024.
  2. ^ Amid Amidi, "Ottawa Int’l Animation Festival 2024 Lineup Announced – Full List". Cartoon Brew, July 12, 2024.