Tricky Women/Tricky Realities 2022: La Traversée

In her first feature-length film Florence Miailhe, the grande dame of French animated cinema, tells a timeless tale of flight and displacement. Blending the history of her own family with the migration flows of our time, she has created a powerful and universally resonant story. The film is dedicated to her ‘grandmother who had to flee the pogroms in Odessa with her ten children in 1905’ as well as ‘all those who leave their country hoping to find a better future elsewhere,’ says Miailhe.She also took inspiration from the sketchbook of her mother, a painter, who had to flee from the Nazis during World War II. These drawings are also shown in the film.