The Shyness of Trees

The Shyness of Trees

2025•9m•7.0/10

AnimationFantasy

Ratings

🎬TMDb

7.0/10(2)

Hélène, 40 years old, comes to visit her aging mother in the French countryside. But her mother isn't being her usual self. She seems to have formed a strange bond with the plants, insects, and the old oak tree at the end of her garden...

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Production

Gobelins

Language

FR

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

Frédérique Cantrel

Hélène's Mother

Nahla Attali

Hélène

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