A comment left by Kris here led me to go looking for this film and I’m not sure if it’s the one Kris was asking about but I can’t think of any others that fit the description. It’s “The Man Who Planted Trees” a Canadian film by Frédéric Back from 1987. It won the Academy Award for Best Animated film and is widely considered to be one of the best short films ever created.
Thanks for reminding me of it Kris, even if it’s not the one you meant, I’ve not seen it in years! If I’ve got the wrong one let me know.
Link to Google Video page in case the embedded one doesn’t work.
8 replies on “The Man Who Planted Trees”
Wow, that is a brilliant find. I haven’t seen that in years. In fact the last time I saw that was back in grade school in Canada. Thank you!
What a beautiful film. I’d never seen it before. Thank you so much for sharing it.
Glad you both liked it, I was pretty happy to find it again myself.
That’s the one. Thank you so much for finding it. I saw this movie years ago and planned to make an animated film like it in film school(same style), but never got around to it. Maybe someday. Thanks again.
Please can you send me the link – or repost this for me – the google site is saying that it’s no longer there and I would very much like to view it.
Thanks so much.
I’m sorry Suzette, it looks like Google has taken it down. A lot of the films that were on Google and YouTube are disappearing now.
Found it again 🙂
That’s the one. Thank you so much for finding it. I saw this movie years ago and planned to make an animated film like it in film school(same style), but never got around to it. Maybe someday. Thanks again.