Sometime, not so long ago in the early decades of this century, there were southern parts of France that people would escape from, if they could. Dry winds, isolated hilltop provincial towns, stretches of lonely, barren space. Hardly the post-card haven of lavender fields we see now.

In "The Man Who Planted Trees" we follow the true story, told in understated narration and rendered in mystical animation, of a zen-like man of the land who transforms a stark and arid wilderness into a haven of beauty, one tree at a time, one decade at a time. Through world wars, through puzzled and pompous governments, through the temptations of loneliness.

This 30-minute animation may leave you very quiet, yet inspired like the rustle of a quaking aspen or the scent of fresh lavender.

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