GWEN AND THE BOOK OF SAND (GWEN ET LE LIVRE DE SABLE) - 1985, La Traverse Films, 64 min. "Why search the sand for answers? It has told us everything," whispers Roseline, the 173-year old desert nomad narrator of French director Jean-François Laguionie's hauntingly poetic animated feature of life after the apocalypse, where the few hardy survivors walk on stilts from well to well, scorpions glow like lanterns, and the mysterious Makou drops giant everyday objects from the skies. Into this desolate science-fiction landscape, part-DUNE, part-FURY ROAD, emerges the story's teenage heroine, Gwen, who refuses to hide in the shadows - and whose love for teenage boy Nokmoon, kidnapped by the Makou and its followers, will drive her and Roseline on an epic journey across the endless sands. A sublime and breathtaking masterpiece of world animation, GWEN... is on par with René Laloux's FANTASTIC PLANET, Hayao Miyazaki's NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND and Mamoru Oshii's ANGEL'S EGG as a visually stunning and truly otherworldly experience. Beautifully restored in 4K with the director's participation for La Traverse Films in France and released for the first time ever in the U.S. by Deaf Crocodile. In French with English subtitles.

Bonus Materials

New video interview with director Jean-François Laguionie, moderated by Dennis Bartok of Deaf Crocodile. (In French with simultaneous English translation).

New video essay by Ryan Verrill (The Disc Connected) and Dr. Will Dodson.

New commentary by film historian Samm Deighan.

Blu-ray authoring by David Mackenzie of Fidelity In Motion.

New art by Beth Morris.

First ever U.S. Blu-ray release for the film.

Blu-ray Region A