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Ice Merchants

Ice Merchants

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Ice Merchants

2023

0h 14m

7.8(68 votes)

Animation

Drama

Overview

Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.

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COLA Animation

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Directed by: João Gonzalez
Written by: João Gonzalez
Produced by: Michaël Proença
Bruno Caetano

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