37th edition
18-26 january 2025

Trona Pinnacles

Mathilde Parquet

Image Trona Pinnacles
France
2020 Animation 13 min
Gabrielle, a 19 years old, finds herself stuck near Death Valley between two parents who no longer speak to each other. The three of them, feeling trapped, try to escape the tension, in a huge scenery that feels unchangeable. The situation seems impossible, until an unexpected event comes to unravel everything...
With : Gabrielle Parquet, Aurélie Boquien, Augustin Jacob, Maïa Dennehy
Screenplay : Mathilde Parquet
Image : Mathilde Parquet
Sound : Guillaume David
Editing : Noémie Azul Loeve
Music : Marion Jamet
Production : Girelle Production
Distribution: Miyu Distribution
Contact : Miyu Distribution
Born in 1990, Mathilde Parquet studied art at l'Atelier de Sèvres, then animation at EMCA school and La Poudrière, where she directed Louis (2013) and Little Man (2015) both selected at the Annecy Festival. She then started working as an animator and storyboarder on several projects. In 2020, she finalizes her first professional short film, Trona Pinnacles wherein she explores once again the strange, or even the fantastic, to express the interiority of her characters