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In rural France, Christophe (11) tries to live up to his rigid, distant father on the family farm. But the young boy starts to lean over and collapse without warning, on the tractor, at school, at dinner. A doctor finds the solution: Christophe must wear an iron corset to keep himself upright. Forced to reinvent his life away from the farm, he discovers a new passion for music, meets a new friend, and follows her into his first mischief. But will any of this really fix what is out of balance?<\/p>\n
\nDirected by:<\/strong> Louis Clichy Christophe is a character I wanted to keep mysterious. You don\u2019t understand everything that happens to him right away, but piece by piece, as the film unfolds. The family reticence he has inherited slowly loosens, and he begins to find his voice. I also wanted him to be slight and unremarkable, not the stereotypical farm boy, but not a completely withdrawn kid either.<\/p>\n What interested me above all was that transition, which I find deeply mysterious, from childhood to adolescence. You feel a desire for elsewhere, a longing for something other, new impulses, while still clinging to the things of childhood. A kind of innocence survives, but it is destined to fade.<\/p>\n The corset then becomes the expression of a body in transformation, one we are not yet comfortable with. I found it interesting to explore that metamorphosis, intensified by this physical constraint. By definition, entering adolescence is already a physiological constraint.<\/p>\n Finding the film\u2019s visual signature was not easy, because I didn\u2019t want to soften what the region actually is: a flat land with enormous power lines, rare patches of woodland, square enclosed farmsteads built to shelter from the wind. That aspect is revealing: it mirrors a kind of social withdrawal too. I quickly realised that even though I was more comfortable in black and white, I would have to introduce colour, something vivid and fairly vibrant, because there were seasons to tell. Watercolour then seemed interesting to me: large white reserves, vast skies, a clean horizon line. The skies are what brings enormous richness to the image.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text] [vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_column_text] IRON BOY France, Belgium | 2026 | 90′ 11+ In French with Slovenian and English subtitles ABOUT THE FILM In rural France, Christophe (11) tries to live up to his rigid, distant father on the family farm. But the young boy starts to lean over and collapse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template_page-builder.php","meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2026\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2026\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2026\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2026\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2026\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2026\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28814,"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2026\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28813\/revisions\/28814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2026\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWritten by:<\/strong> Louis Clichy, Franck Salom\u00e9
\nArt Director:<\/strong> C\u00e9cile Guillard
\nAnimation Director:<\/strong> Chlo\u00eb Aubert
\nEditing:<\/strong> Vincent Tricon
\nSound Editor:<\/strong> Selim Azazi
\nProducers:<\/strong> C\u00e9line Vanlint, Nicolas de Rosanbo
\nProduction:<\/strong> Eddy Cin\u00e9ma, Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes Cin\u00e9ma, Beside Productions
\nCast:<\/strong> Gary Clichy, Rod Paradot, Dimitri Colas, Aur\u00e9lie Vassort, Brune Moulin, Alexandre Astier, Jean-Pascal Zadi
\nDistribution in Slovenia:<\/strong> Fivia\n<\/p>\nDIRECTOR’S STATEMENT<\/h2>\n
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