Uncle Jo's Shack

With a heavy heart, 9-year-old Lili leaves Tunisia with her mother. She is going to live with her Auntie Denise and Uncle Jo in Saint-Denis. Lili doesn’t like it there. The buildings are grey, Auntie Denise is a cleaning fanatic, Uncle Jo is uncommunicative, the five cousins are noisy and the group of kids that hang around the streets call her a "dirty foreigner". Escaping the neighbourhood hostility and her family, Lili decides to transform a piece of wasteland in the middle of the city into a luxuriant garden with jasmine, just like in Tunisia.

[EN DÉVELOPPEMENT]

Direction Script

Maud Garnier

Graphism

Marie Deboissy

Category

feature films

Length

1H20 min

Public

all audience

Production

Offshore, Folimage

Technical information

Technicals

rotoscoping, 2D computer graphics, 3D computer graphics

Process

couleur

HD

oui

Dialogues

oui

Year of production

2026

Credits

Producer(s)

Fabrice Préel-Cléach, Emmanuelle Latourrette (Offshore), Reginald de Guillebon (Folimage)

Adapted from

D'après le roman éponyme de Brigitte Smadja (Ecole des loisirs)