Plants and living creatures are shown as you’ve never seen them before. Mating firefly squid drift through space like fluorescent airships. Spouting sea urchins become pulsating planets, and in an ice palace a heavily pregnant frog gives birth to her spawn, which rapidly grows into tadpoles as large as whales.
Using sets built from miniature objects, Japanese-French director Momoko Seto creates vast, awe-inspiring landscapes. Reality and imagination merge seamlessly, immersing you in a hidden, magnified universe of nature and carrying you along in a wondrous ecological epic.
The heroes are the seeds of the humble dandelion. After Earth is destroyed, they embark on an unexpected interplanetary journey. Through a black hole, they arrive on a frozen planet in search of a new home. The planet thaws, seeds begin to sprout, and insects come to life. Slowly, a new green world emerges—inviting, dangerous, and full of adventure.
Succulents, mosses, ferns, mushrooms, and dandelions were captured in time-lapse footage. Glaciers and frozen caves were filmed in Iceland, while sea creatures and extraordinary landscapes were shot in the Pacific Ocean, Brittany, and Japan.
Momoko Seto brings all of this together—including animated dandelion seeds—into an epic animated film that aims to foster empathy and an awareness of interdependence between audiences and the plant world: the Earth and everything on it as one living organism.
Without words, without humans, but with a deeply immersive sound design by Oscar winner Nicolas Becker, known for Sound of Metal, Arrival, and Interstellar. Whenever he introduces the film, he says: “It’s incredible that this film even exists.”
