Adèle moves into granddad’s house to sort things out. In the meantime, he takes his frustrations out on the nursing home staff. Totems reveals the gruff, yet impassioned relationship between grandfather and granddaughter as well as their shared obsession: the French state’s moral failings during World War I.
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This Place Is Every Place
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Cambodia 2099
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The Golden Triangle
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Film details
- Country of production
- France
- Year
- 2014
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2015
- Length
- 28"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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