Capybaras

Capybaras

By Alfredo Soderguit
10′ / France, Uruguay, Chili / Without dialogues
Production : Autour de Minuit, Palermo Studio, Bird
Target audience : 4 years and older

The hunting season has started.
A family of carpinchos (in French “capybaras”, a type of beaver endemic to South America) flees the hunters and tries to take refuge in a henhouse. The chickens chase away these new arrivals because they find them strange. They don’t trust them and fear losing their farm animal privileges..
But the curiosity and insistence of the youngest will create a union which will have unexpected results…