Ages 3 and up.
After the establishment of the Communist regime, Chinese animated films set out to develop children’s artistic knowledge and aesthetic sense, while entertaining them at the same time. Te Wei, at the helm of this cinema from 1949 onwards, gave impetus to the development of a “national style” inspired by traditional Chinese arts at the Shanghai Art Studios. Among his most outstanding achievements was the animation of traditional Chinese ink painting enhanced with water colors: the famous “animated washes” on mulberry fiber paper, a medium that drinks more or less ink according to the gesture – traced in a single jet – of the painter pressing his brush on the sheet. The rendering of slightly blurred outlines makes the task of decomposing the animation all the more difficult, as it cannot be done on transparent cellulos as in “classic” cartoons !
A fawn, taken in by a little girl, shares her life and her games, until the day when, having grown up, the fawn has to leave her to return to the wild…
