38th edition
17-25 january 2026

Le Conte du monde flottant

Alain Escalle

France
2001 Fiction 24 min
Hiroshima. On the morning of August 6, 1945, a brilliant light floods the coasts of the floating world. A man remembers...
With : Kakuya Ohashi, Yuko Nakamura, Ryoya Kabayashi
Screenplay : Alain Escalle
Image : Alain Escalle
Effets visuels : Alain Escalle
Editing : Franck Magnant
Production : Mistral Films // 34, rue Sébastien Mercier, 75015 Paris, France // Tel : +33 1 45 77 57 10 // Email : mistral.paris@wanadoo.fr
Co-production : T.E.V.A., Mistral Japan
Born in 1967 in the South of France, Alain Escalle studied the applied arts and TV and radio from 1983 to 1989. A digital artist and director since 1991, he focuses on and is developing a program of graphic and visual research into animation and new technologies. After a video film in 1994, D'après le naufrage, and after various trips to Japan, he decided to deepen his understanding of the far-East and to embody it in his first short film, Le conte du monde Flottant.