The second feature film from acclaimed director Julie Bertucelli, The Tree stars Award-winning actress Charlotte Gainsbourg (Melancholia, Antichrist) newcomer Morgana Davies, and Martin Csokas (The Lord of the Rings)Dawn (Gainsbourg) and Peter live together with their children in the Australian countryside. In the middle of their garden stands the kids' favorite playground : a massive Moreton Bay Fig tree, whose branches reach high towards the sky and roots stretch far into the ground. When Peter crashes into the tree and dies, Dawn is left alone with her grief and four children to raise. All of them natually go looking for comfort in their protective tree, but can daughter Simone really hear her father whispering to her through the leaves?
They are Irish Senegalese Brazilian Moroccan Chinese...They are between eleven and fifteen years old and have just arrived in France. For a year they will all be together in the same 'reception class' of a Parisian secondary school under the supervision of their teacher Brigitte Cervoni the driving force behind the film. Twenty-four students twenty-four nationalities... In this multicultural arena we see the innocence the enthusiasm and inner turmoil of these teenagers who caught in the midst of starting out on a new life learning a new language and adapting to a different culture question our preconceived ideas and give us hope for a better world and a better future...
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