---
...
* Introduction of a video game
* Playful music
* - 3, 2, 1...
* Go ! * Engine roaring
* ---
* Machine gun fire
* He plays.
---
--- - Thomas!
Thomas!
* ---
She unplugs a plug.
- Mum ! - Here.
It's the new software. I can't take care of you during the holidays.
You are going to go to your father's house.
- At Saint-Roman? - It'll do you good.
- Is that a joke?
- No. You'll see, 5 weeks is good.
It’s going to make your head a little chilly.
- I can keep myself alone. - No.
You’ll stay in front of your screen there. You are going to your father's house.
He's blowing. - I don't want to go.
- It's the Camargue.
There are the horses, the sea. - Mosquitoes.
- Mosquitoes. - Yeah, great.
I'm not hungry. - Thomas, you're not done!
- I studied a trajectory for geese
which is less dangerous than that usually used.
I'm sure it can work! - Hello !
- It would save us the species.
Is it important to save a species? - Hello !
- It's our duty... - Christian!
I'll tell you one last time.
The department turned off the taps.
Other priorities, unemployment...
Wild geese are the least of their concerns.
The door opens.
Especially for an expedition that is unlikely to succeed.
Hello Madam.
- A threatened species,
it is as important as unemployment.
- Miss has an appointment with you, for the photo
on next month’s exhibit. - Yes OK.
(- 2 minutes !)
I'm not asking for grants, just a stamp.
It is mandatory ! - You know the procedure.
Genetic tests, analyzes before...
to stamp, as you say. - An exception...
- Even if it worked with your 20 birds,
it should be repeated with at least...
200 geese to claim to save the species.
No no. I tell you the truth,
I don't believe in your project.
- Let me explain again.
- No !
Look, I signed your leave without pay,
that's enough ! enjoy your holidays
and leave me alone with your geese!
Bring in the reporter. - Miss!
You can go. - OKAY.
- Hello, close the door, please.
Playful music
The door closes.
- No...
She's blowing. Céline,
we're going to have a coffee. - You are a fairy.
---
- Hey ! Mr. Le Tallec!
- What? - Your project is exciting.
- Ah yes ? - It's awesome !
It upsets me these people who stay in their chairs doing nothing.
Our society takes the riches of nature for granted.
If we don't take care of it, we'll destroy it!
- Of course. You listen at the doors, right?
- It's my job, I'm a journalist.
He exclaims. I can help you.
- It's good, thank you, but you saw, it's dead.
- Wait, are you going to give up like that, without fighting?
Are you going to let your geese die?
- Yes that's it. Come on, I have to go, goodbye.
Honk
- Oh ! Hey !
Take my card!
Call me ! - Yes Yes.
- Can I help you !
- Oh dear ! He's blowing.
Soft music
---
Engine roaring
--- ---
Honk
neighing
bellowing
neighing
---
creaking
Birdsong
---
Calm music
---
creak
---
beeps
---
Roaring mower
---
Birdsong
---
crash
Whore !
Engine roaring
---
- 3,500 people signed the petition!
The prefect said it would make a difference. What a slab!
You realize ? Gonna have to drain it all
for their industrial zone. They could have fucked her elsewhere!
- Sure, yeah.
- You will have to drain at least 50%.
Minimum!
It will no longer be a swamp but a pond. - I know.
Horns Oh!
Excuse me, I'm waiting for someone.
Laugh I'm glad to see you.
- Me too ! ---
Yes!
- We will find something! - Yes do not worry.
(It will be fine.)
Hello, Gérard!
He's the mayor. He's special, but he's a good guy.
- What's up, about eggs?
The account is good.
I put you 20.
To laugh
Moaning from effort
The door closes. Very soft
or we'll make an omelet and you don't have bacon.
- Always so funny, Bjorn.
- Who doesn't have a bad bacon!
- Okay. Open the door for me, instead.
Christian starts a cassette.
* Recorded whirring
* ---
Beeps - They'll be fine.
You have it ? - Yes Yes.
* ---
(Here.)
* ---
He's blowing. - If you managed to convince them,
you almost did the hard part.
You could say you won a battle.
Go.
Bjorn blows.
Come on, Christian! A last one!
Laughs
Birdsong
---
- I don't know how you manage to live in this mess.
- You take care of your eggs and I take care of my apple.
- Avoid drinking while driving.
- Come on, see you next month!
Engine roaring
---
Song of the cicadas
---
- What is that thing ?
Playful music
--- She exclaims.
- I don't think so, he's your father. - Dad ?
To laugh
It's dead, I'm not staying here.
A bottle is uncorked.
Clink of dishes
---
- Where's my blue vase?
- Broken. - Slim !
- Do you want a coke? - Is there wifi here?
- No, I had to fire the box. - What?
- Waves are bad for eggs.
- Eggs ? - Yes.
To phone,
go to the top of the observation tower.
There is network.
Finally... Sometimes.
- Shit. - Thomas!
Thomas blows.
You'll see !
It's 14 years old. - Look, it's growing!
- What is this dress?
- This is a robe.
Let me explain: when geese are going to be born,
she must recognize me immediately,
without taking me for a human.
They have to be wary of other humans.
Thanks to this,
they will trust me. I will be their father a bit.
- With this dress, they will take you for their dad.
That's it ? Their papa goose.
- It's the goal, anyway. - You...
Do you raise geese?
- You can tell me "you".
Yes, I raise wild geese.
It is an endangered species.
This is what you were watching... what you were watching.
I make you the same. What you were looking at on the map.
I'm actually studying
a new, less dangerous migratory route.
Obviously, for them to follow him,
I have to show them the way.
- How do you show the way to a goose?
- We're flying.
Go ahead, help yourself.
Distant voices
---
His computer turns on.
He puts on his video game.
- Thomas! Come down, honey, here we go!
* ---
- It was nice to meet you. - The same.
- Good luck. - Thank you.
- It will be fine !
Take care of him, you! - Yeah.
- Oh ! My love ! ---
It's okay ! Thank you for the welcoming.
- It went well. - Great.
- He's really nice... Paul?
- No, Julien.
---
* Recorded whirring
- Don't you want to stop your thing?
- No, the geese must get used to the noise of the engine.
- Yeah.
squeaks
---
An insect flies.
---
crash
Oh ! Mash potatoes !
He blows.
---
Birds are singing.
---
...
Reversing beeps
---
crash
He groans.
- Oh ! Whore !
A door opens.
The door slams.
Besotted ! They don't give a damn!
It will not happen like that.
Water is flowing.
- Mash potatoes ! The day, the mosquitoes, and at night, the rat!
The kind of hamster running in my room.
I can not sleep ! Fed up !
He blows.
Humming insect
---
- You're a genius!
You know you're a genius!
A genius !
* Do we have a couple of Cricetus in the menagerie in the garden?
- The hamster? Yes.
- If we find an endangered species
where construction is planned, work stops
How long ?
* - It was 3 months, it went to 6.
The time of an investigation that the prefect must order.
*- Okay ! I have a service to ask you.
Yes, thank you, Jeanne, thank you! I kiss you !
Yes!
You're here ? I'm going shopping.
You want to come ? - No it's OK.
- If you're afraid of the sun, you can stay in it.
There are your Playmobil, if you want.
He's laughing.
It's good that you're outside, you're white as an ass.
Be careful, there is mistral, it will blow your hair.
Rattling
---
Animal calls
---
Buzzing fly
- Mom, it's me.
There is nothing to do here. I am bored.
Come and get me, please.
hoots
- I told you you were a genius. - Yeah.
- This is proof that you are a genius.
- Yeah. - The noises in your room...
In the attic...
- And so ? - The hamster...
- Is that hamster droppings? - Here.
Diane Eva?
Hello. Christian Le Tallec on the phone.
You know, we met at...
Yes, that's it, yes.
Would you be interested
a subject on a species that we could save?
Hamsters.
- No one cares about rats and hamsters.
You have to stop with your nature stuff.
It doesn't interest anyone, it's more fashionable.
It's boring these stories of safeguarding wetlands.
These association tips that have been lying for years...
- Years ? This is the problem !
Because for years,
nobody does anything. For example,
global warming, the consequences are disastrous!
Let's talk about biodiversity!
The rate... - No.
- You listen to me ?
- No !
Leave me, I have work.
Mixed voices
---
- Well, it's for tomorrow. It's good, it's validated.
Engine roaring
---
Hand brake squeak
A door opens.
The door closes.
- Christian!
The work is stopped!
It's awesome ! - Hello, Gérard!
- They found droppings, do you realize?
A kind of wild hamster
who would live around here. - A hamster ?
- An association received a call, they checked
and paf! They find this rat's shit!
Ringtone About shit...
Yes, Nicole?
Yes what ? - Goodbye, Gérard!
- It's not my problem !
- He's weird anyway.
- Yes, he's weird.
* Recorded whirring
* ---
* Rhythm music in headphones
* ---
He exclaims. - Shit!
The door opens.
- Come come. Between. Thomas hesitates.
- I did something stupid. - What kind ?
---
- It's serious ? - It's not serious, it's very serious.
You know why ?
- No.
- We're going to be parents.
Horn blows
--- Ka, ka, ka!
He's laughing.
It suits you very well. - Very funny.
- Ka, ka! Horns
Ka, ka! ---
Ka! ---
Ka, ka!
Do you know why I talk to them? So that they get used to my voice.
--- Come. Come closer, look. Ka!
(Look, there. He starts to move.)
See the little black tip coming out? It's his beak.
Listen, can you hear them? Song of the goslings
---
Can you hear them? Look, they hear us there.
It is the first time they have heard. Ka!
He actually answers us.
Look at that one!
His first look at us.
Approach.
Soft music
Here. Hold this for me.
(Here.)
We're going to take it out to warm it up.
There...
Look at this.
Here.
What?
You were like that when you were born, slimy and ugly.
Birds recognize the first person they see as their parent.
It's called impregnation.
There, technically, you're his father.
- That's it !
Here, you are their father.
- Okay, I'm their father.
You are his mother.
Thomas blows.
Come on, let's put it there. Come on!
It will warm up well there.
---
The goslings roam.
---
- You're weird, you.
---
You're really weird.
What do you think if I give you a little name?
Akka? What do you think, Akka?
Hush! Smash
Cacardements
---
- Don't forget, you're her mother.
- What is he saying? I am your mother ?
---
- Stop!
It's good there.
- Is it hard to drive?
- A day like today, with the wind, it's complicated.
- And... Could you teach me?
- What? - To fly ?
- How old are you ?
- Dad, seriously! I'm 14 years old !
- The license is from 15 years old.
Maybe i can do
a derogation. If you help me, I teach you
2 or 3 things.
Start by feeding the chicks.
- 2, 3 things? - Maybe 4, 5!
- Really ?
- And put your dress back on!
- Come on, I'll give you food, come!
Calm music Ka, ka, ka!
Come on ! Come on, Akka! You too, you come!
The goslings cry.
There you have it ! Come on! Come on, it's good!
Yes ! Come on, Akka!
At table !
Ka, ka, ka, ka!
---
Beep
humming
--- ---
They chatter.
---
Engine roaring
---
Song of chicks
Akka?
Shit !
Akka? Akka?
Akka?
Akka? Akka?
Akka?
creaking
Akka?
Engine roaring
---
Akka?
---
Akka? Akka?
Akka whistles. - Ah!
---
Akka!
---
Sigh of relief You don't do that to me anymore!
Christian exclaims.
- You know, Thomas...
Bjorn got it wrong.
He mixed the eggs.
- And so ?
- So your Akka is not a dwarf goose.
It is a barnacle goose.
- So what ? It doesn't matter, it's a goose anyway.
Look, she's so cute.
- Yes, it's serious.
You know, never cross species.
- This is racism, that.
- I'm sorry, but we have to get her out of the group.
- No no no ! No, never!
- Well... Come on, we'll see that later.
Next step... You are coming with me.
Soft music
---
You go ahead, imagine that the geese are behind you.
Be careful,
that geese don't get caught in the mower.
I removed the propeller, it sucks, but you never know.
- Ka, ka, ka! Horns
Come on, Akka! Don't stay behind.
Ka, ka, ka, ka!
Engine roaring
---
Horn blows
Roaring mower
Its good ? I did 3 laps!
- 2 more, little beetle!
He's blowing. - You said you would teach me
5 or 6 tips!
- It’s the demon’s haste,
that of Thomas knowing how to wait.
Mix of Turkish proverb and me.
--- - Whatever.
Ka, ka, ka, ka! Horns
- All the distances are good there.
- Why are you taking them in a Combi to the Arctic?
You could do it in U.L.M.
- It's a good question. You know why ?
In fact, birds recognize it as a place of origin...
It is their home.
Not where they are born, but where
where they will fly the 1st time.
As they are migratory birds,
instinctively,
they need to spend the winter in the south and as soon as the snow melts,
they go to the north
for a lot of reasons, you understand?
- Not really.
- It's normal, I don't explain well.
Okay, look! Here...
Here is Lapland, and here there is a protected park
where the geese can nest.
They are quiet, they risk nothing.
What am I going to do?
This is the house. We are going in Combi.
We go up.
We go that far.
There, I go down with her in U.L.M., they follow me.
I show the way. It's the blue dots.
We go through the North Sea, Denmark,
Germany, Luxembourg, not far from Hauts-de-France, at Bjorn's,
and then we go down to our house.
- Why don't you make a straight path?
- Why ? Geese, they would like
take a straight path. Except that all right,
it's dangerous for her.
They will pass through obstacles, hence their disappearance.
There are many things that are not good for them,
like airports,
electric wires, hunters, light pollution.
Do you see what it is?
- It's the cities. - There you have it.
I chose this path because it avoids all dangers.
What is crazy is that the way, they will have done it only once.
They will remember it,
as if they had a GPS.
Imagine, from year to year,
what's going to happen ?
There will be more and more geese.
The species will be saved!
That's crazy. Who is it thanks to?
Thanks to bibi.
- I will not see them fly geese?
- That would please you ?
- Yeah, too!
Engine roaring
---
Alarm
- What is this madness ? She's blowing.
- Funny, isn't it?
Horn blows
- It's not okay, right? Thomas! - You are there ?
- Come down, honey! - No stop. Everything is fine !
There is no danger, there are no wings.
- What are you doing ?
- Thomas, are you ready? - Yes !
- Good then...
I'm going to drop the geese, okay?
It's okay, you can turn on the engine!
- OKAY. ! Engine roaring
- Here !
- Hi Mom !
Hello Julien!
Cacardements
Horn blows - Come on, come on, come on!
Come on ! ---
Cacardements
Come on! Come on!
Lets' go !
Come on ! Come on! Go ahead ! Horns
Call them ! Soft music
Thomas honks. - Ka, ka, ka!
--- Cacards
---
Come on ! Yep!
Horn blows
- Come on! - Ka, ka, ka!
- Come on!
Come on... ---
- Come on ! Ka, ka, ka! ---
- Go on, go!
(- Did you see the kid there?) - Yeah.
---
- Ka, ka, ka, ka!
--- - Yeah!
- Come on! Ka, ka, ka! ---
- Looked !
- It's crazy, isn't it? - Did you see ?
- Come on, Akka! Come on!
Geese chatter.
- They follow him.
- They follow!
- At that train, they're not in the Arctic.
- Come on ! Horns
---
- They are 3 weeks old!
You realize ?
It will work, I tell you!
She laughs. Bravo, Thomas!
Thomas, you're the best, you're a champion!
He's honking his horn. No, they'll come back.
---
Christian laughs.
---
- Ka, ka, ka!
---
Ka, ka, ka!
Ka, ka, ka, ka! ---
---
Ka, ka, ka!
What are you looking for ?
To laugh
---
- My speciality ! You tell me the news.
Exclamation of delight
- It smells good ! - Thank you.
- There is still a problem. - What?
- You can't just release them
otherwise they get lost and they die.
- Ah! It makes a noise,
these pies!
- Then it's dirty. You will bring them back
in the aviary. - I serve you ?
- Gladly. With pleasure.
- Therefore ?
- And normally,
the path of migration,
it's their parents who show them.
If we make them follow the U.L.M., it's won. You understood ?
- Yes I understood.
- How long can we stay in the air?
- That's fine. 5, 6 hours, it consumes almost nothing.
Pay attention to the climatic conditions.
- I imagine so. - Very good.
Humming insect
---
Is it okay, mom?
- What?
- I can go
in Norway with dad?
There is her boyfriend!
- Who ? Bjorn? - Yeah.
He has changed a lot!
- It really reassures me that there is Bjorn.
- It's a pretty good idea,
no ?
Let him go?
- Come on, please, mom. - It's harassment there!
- Harassment! - That is true !
- The big words!
- You leave me no choice.
- He's going to Norway in Combi.
- It's far and your Combi is rotten.
Laughs
- Ka, ka, ka, ka! - You give them food tomorrow.
- As soon as I get up. - Not before noon.
- Every morning, stand 8 a.m.
- Is that so ? - It's because it interests him.
- I'm happy. - It's good.
- Here. Its good ? She's thinking.
For Norway, it doesn't fly on your thing!
- Of course.
- Huh? - You don't want to sleep there?
- No. Honey, see you tomorrow!
Kiss
- Goodbye Mom ! - See you tomorrow !
- Hi Thomas ! - Hi !
Doors slam.
humming
Horn blows Ka, ka, ka!
Come on!
- Paul, are you ready? - Oh !
- It's Julien! - Shit !
Julien, are you ready?
- Yes, that's it, I'm ready! She exclaims.
- Do you know how to use it?
- It's blank.
It is so that they are afraid of hunters.
- It doesn't suit you very well.
- Come on, let's go get the geese. - Yeah.
(- Ridiculous!)
An insect buzzes.
Horn blows
- Ka, ka, ka! - Yeah! Ka, ka, ka!
---
She's laughing about.
Horn blows - Ka, ka, ka!
Ka, ka, ka, ka!
Julien howls. - Ka, ka, ka, ka!
---
Help, hunters!
Hunters ! Bad hunters!
Oh dear ! Help ! He's blowing.
- You're listening daddy! - Yes.
- You don't let go! - Yes.
- You don't just eat pasta.
- I'm not just pasta.
- Yes, you only make pasta. - Yes.
- You call me if you have a problem. - Yes.
- You promised!
- Yeah yeah. - Promise what?
- You wouldn't steal.
- What? - Come on! Good road !
- Good road. Kisses
Calm music
---
- Here !
Thank you !
Moaning from effort
The wind is blowing.
---
Imagine that you are riding an invisible wave.
If you go too fast, you break, if you don't go fast enough, you fall.
- Yeah. - Let's go ?
Let's go.
We have to find the happy medium.
It's called lift.
Engine roaring Yeah!
---
Peaceful music
---
This is the windsock. It gives you the direction of the wind.
Always take off against the wind,
like that, you fly away.
He whistles.
---
Come on!
Engine roaring
--- ---
Christian shouts. Look ahead.
The wind is blowing.
What is a U.L.M. A wing and a trapeze.
You push the trapeze, what's going on?
- The wing goes up. - Here it goes and you go up.
Interro-surprise tomorrow, 8 a.m. Not really surprised at once.
Come on, my son, you're working!
It's not good, right?
This is not good.
I make pasta.
Moaning from effort
Here !
Hold on tight. Push a little forward!
Do you think I have it or not?
You can do it. Look in front of you.
Look in front of you !
Here. It's good. Go ahead.
Go on, we're going down. Slowly.
Engine roaring
There are others there. Looked.
Cacards Look at the flamingos!
--- ---
- It's beautiful !
- Pasta, what do you think?
---
- We can start!
Engine roaring
- We're going to try to land. Are you ready ? Shoot you!
Shoot you!
Come on, shoot!
Warning !
---
Hop! Oh !
---
It does not matter, we will start again. Cacardements
You guide and let yourself be guided. - Yeah.
I guide and let myself be guided.
- Here ! You guide and let yourself be guided.
---
The wind is blowing.
---
Hiss of the drill
---
Ah...
---
Come on, help me!
He closes the trunk.
It starts.
---
Or she has a cold... Laughs
Soft music
---
- Do you still love mom?
- Why do you ask me this ?
- I dunno. You love it ?
- But...
It is...
He's a nice person, yeah.
There is Paul now.
- You're doing it on purpose ? His name is Julien.
- I know but it's his fault, he has a Paul's head.
Thomas blows.
He's a good guy, huh?
- He's a good guy. - Yeah.
That's what counts.
- After, it's only been 3 months.
- Huh?
- No but I was just saying that...
He has only been living at home for 3 months.
- Ah!
Christian laughs. - What?
- No nothing.
Christian yawns.
Come on, wake up.
Wake up. We are soon there.
Birdsong
---
Engine roaring
---
Birdsong
---
So, in the 1st box, they are all microchipped.
- OKAY.
- Except one.
(- Ah! Shit.) - And yes.
This is what happens when you mix coolers, eggs, beers.
- I do not understand. A nonnette must have...
- What? Who had to lay eggs in a cooler? That must be it.
- We can't take this one! - You explain it to him.
- What are you doing exactly ?
He stutters.
- I inject them with a small electronic chip.
- Oh ! Poor people ! - No.
Look, I'm showing you.
It's tiny, it doesn't hurt them.
- Ah! Yes.
What are you doing with Akka there?
- Nothing, we scan them, in fact,
to verify that they are all identified.
Looked. You see, each one has a number.
As they are migratory geese, they must be vaccinated,
otherwise they cannot leave the Schengen area.
- Okay.
- Everything is computerized now. It's called progress.
- We advance technologically but ecologically, we go backwards.
- Yeah.
- Here, you chip it, you vaccinate it
and you write it down. She leaves with us.
Bjorn hesitates. Come on!
Christian mumbles. - O.K.
You help me, you hold it?
- Yeah.
Christian nods ironically.
It does not hurt. - And There you go.
- And There you go...
Bring it, bring it. - Here.
You bring her to the scan. - Shhh.
It's over, Akka. - Ah! Well done ! Well done.
- It's you here ? - Yeah.
- Were you hunting? Bjorn growls.
- We all hunted in the swamps. We also fished.
We used to eat.
The swamp was magnificent.
It was the good life. Christian nods.
I started to be interested in birds.
- By killing them?
- It's not incompatible.
They wanted to drain the swamp
so we fought. Of course, we lost.
I stopped hunting, but I continued with the piafs.
Engine roaring
Calm music
--- ---
Cacardements
---
(- Bjorn!) Bjorn wakes up with a start.
(I was checking if you were sleeping.)
Bjorn growls. - Nothing beats a good beer!
- Come on! Bjorn groans.
Oh ! No ! What is that ?
- You're a maniac!
I do 2, 3 hours, no more.
---
foghorn
---
To laugh
---
Ringtone - Hello? Mum !
* - What time is it for you?
- We are in the Arctic, there!
Impressed exclamation
It is always daylight.
* Looked !
--- * You see ?
* - Hush!
---
- Yes!
- Are you okay, Akka? Not too tired ?
You'll see, you'll like it here.
Mixed voices
(In Norwegian) - It's been a long time, Bjorn. Hold.
- Thank you. - He said what ?
- It's good to see me again.
- Well....
Do you have the documents with you? - Yes !
- Thank you.
Well...
So let's see...
We're going to take blood samples.
This time, we will do everything in the rules.
- What is he saying ?
- They want to take samples. - What?
(In English) Why?
- It is mandatory.
It will take 8 days.
- 8 days ? - Its good.
(In Norwegian) No problem.
(In English) - Listen, my goal,
is that everything is going well, okay?
But you have to follow
the protocol. - Of course.
Christian stutters.
- Can we take them to the lake?
- Yes, provided that you keep them in captivity.
- No... - Christian!
(In Norwegian) - Sure.
(In English) They will stay in the aviary.
- Do I have your word?
(In Norwegian) - Yes.
Fuck! Damn shit!
Moaning from effort
- It's okay ? - It will be fine !
The wind is blowing.
Moaning from effort
- It's not fun, Johansen.
- That is true. I didn't do everything for him to love me either.
Years ago we came here with students.
We put dwarf geese eggs in nonnette nests
to adopt them and learn about migration.
At the beginning, it went well.
But... It is blowing.
We didn't have the authorizations.
So Johansen asked us to leave and...
They killed the dwarf geese
so that they don't breed with the nonnettes.
The wind is blowing.
I'm going to find a husband for your Akka. - It's going to work.
- Yeah, it'll work. It must work.
He did everything for.
He's laughing.
Have you ever seen
a nestling in its nest?
- No...
He imitates the bird.
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Laughs
Calm music
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- Okay, come on! That's enough !
It's been 10 days, there is enough!
Geese chatter.
Here, Thomas! Put it on.
Here... Here.
I don't want to lose the impregnation.
- I gave my word to Johansen.
- It's okay, look! There is no one, we are all alone!
It's Sunday, they are at mass! - Very funny.
- Thomas, come! Let's go, ladies!
Come on, it's the exit! Come on! Horns
Call them, Thomas! Come on!
Come on!
- Ka, ka, ka! ---
- Direction the aerodrome!
Come on, let's go!
Have a beer while you wait!
Peaceful music
---
Go Go go ! - Yes, Akka!
Cacardements
--- ---
Horn blows
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Akka, Akka! Akka!
- Akka!
Cacardements
It's their 1st flight. That's it now
the place is etched in their minds.
They will come back next year
to make their little ones! Looked !
* Radio test! - I receive you.
*- I'll go. Its good ? - It's all good.
He starts the U.L.M.
Its good.
You have them in the crosshairs.
Go on, go on.
They follow, they follow.
Engine roaring
Ah! Shit !
* - Is it still there?
- No, they picked up. They don't care.
* - Fucking shit!
- They've lost sight of you, they're walking away.
They leave on the other side.
Try...
Come find them. Try a new pass.
*- What is happening ? Shit !
- I don't know.
They don't care!
---
They come back to us. At first, they follow you.
Then they come back. They don't care.
I don't know!
* - Thomas, did you see something?
Shit !
Here !
They scream.
There is something wrong, but I don't know what.
- They may not be ready. - But if.
They've flown, they're ready.
It's not that. There is something else.
- The wind ? - What, the wind? Whatever !
The wind is fine! Finally ! - Don't get mad.
- It pisses me off when you say I piss me off.
It annoys me. Engine roaring
- Oh ! Whore !
(In Norwegian) - Launch the boat.
- Hi, Johansen. - Hello, Bjorn.
- Hello ! - Hello.
What did I say?
Not to go out the geese without my authorization.
The test is positive for avian flu.
- Huh? - What is he saying ?
- The avian flu test is positive.
- They have been vaccinated!
(In English) - Normal, they got the vaccine.
- Ah... Let us take a look at the geese.
They shouldn't be outside.
- What does he do ? - Maybe they'll take them.
- No, wait!
Stop! Stop, stop!
shouting
- If you can hear me, give me a sign.
Great !
Take the geese to the middle of the lake.
Calm down ! Calm down !
(In Norwegian) There is no point in getting upset.
- I called the Museum in Paris.
They are not aware of your project.
- Apparently, he called the Museum in Paris,
they are not aware of your project, a vaccine story...
Call them.
Christian!
Oh ! Christian!
Go ahead, call the Museum! Come on!
- I signed the papers.
Engine roaring
- Whore !
Johansen is giving instructions. Christian!
Didn't you do something like that?
Christian?
*- What do I do now ?
Bjorn hesitates.
- We...
* We don't have the authorizations.
* It's up to you to explain!
- What do I do ?
- Thomas, it's dad.
I falsified the documents, you know.
I'm a con...
I did not have the authorizations of the Museum... Anyway...
They're going to take the geese. Here.
They're going to take the geese.
- How could you do that? Have you thought about the consequences?
- Yeah, but you wouldn't have given me the eggs.
Bjorn blows.
Soft music
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- Come on Akka!
Ka, ka, ka!
Engine roaring
---
Geese roam.
Intriguing music
- What are you doing, Thomas?
* Thomas?
Stop immediately ! Come back !
(In Norwegian) - Quick!
- Thomas, will you receive me? Thomas!
Thomas! - Stop him, Christian.
- Thomas!
The weather will change! Thomas!
- No ! - Stopped !
Thomas!
Calm music
He shouts.
---
- Shit, they follow!
It's not the U.L.M. they follow, it's Thomas!
- Thomas, you stop immediately, you come back!
---
Thomas!
Thomas, no!
Come down!
Engine roaring
Thomas!
Intriguing music
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(Whore !)
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* Thomas!
He turns off the walkie-talkie. - Shut up.
Engine roaring
---
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Breathing breath
OKAY...
OKAY. !
---
Engine speed: O.K.!
humming
Anemometer: O.K.!
Gas: O.K.!
G.P.S. : OKAY. !
You are there ! Warning !
Ah! You too !
You stay well with me, girls.
Must find a lake
to ditch before it gets too rotten.
---
Ah! Over there !
He shouts.
Engine roaring
---
The wind blows strongly.
OKAY...
I guide and I let myself be guided.
---
crash
Jerky breaths
Engine roaring
Alarm
I don't want to hear you anymore, don't you understand?
I need the battery for the GPS. !
So... Hop!
Airplane mode and voila!
Chatter
He cuts the engine.
Water lapping
Geese roam.
He blows.
Good... Must think about the following. Come.
Cacardements
---
- He's not answering me...
He won't have enough food. - Do not worry !
- Must land... Must...
Oh ! Whore ! Whore...
- He's a smart one. He's a smart one, your son!
The policeman knocks on the window. - Yeah...
(In English) - The Museum will file a complaint
against you for using a forgery.
And you,
you gave me your word!
- I don't give a damn!
I don't give a damn about your stuff! My son is outside!
You leave me in peace! - You're screwing us in the shit!
- My son is outside! You understand ?
I'll go get it, you understand?
Stop, it's okay! - Stop it, Christian!
You screw us even more in shit!
(In Norwegian) - I'll speak to the chief.
Keep them in custody. Ringtone
- Okay.
Christian blows.
The phone is ringing.
- Yes, Paola?
- I can shift.
If Marc replaces me on the plan part.
- No, Julien, thank you but I...
You got the job done, I'm going to go alone!
- I'm going to shift, I'm going to work out. - Julien! No !
I'm going to settle this with the family!
- However you want...
Panicked moan
She blows.
Water lapping
grunt
The geese screech.
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grunting
---
- Go away !
---
Thomas howls.
---
Go away !
Breathing breath
---
Police sirens
---
Hubbub
---
Sad music
---
- Where is my son?
You promised me !
- Yes I know...
- Damn, you promised me!
Let me go, where is my son? She's screaming.
She's crying.
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---
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---
Engine roaring
---
- Shit...
The wind is blowing.
---
We're going to land on the beach
that we saw. Fasten your seatbelts.
Raise your seats, store your luggage.
Let's go !
Engine roaring
---
crash
Cacardements
---
Brake squeaks
She exclaims.
Cacardements
---
Hello !
---
Speak English? - "Hallo"?
- French?
(In Norwegian) - These are your geese?
- Ah...
Essence!
Petrol, no. Fuel ?
Fuel for the machine. - Gasoline?
(In English) - Yes, that's it! But where ?
She thinks.
- My father's... boat.
- Great ! Does your father have gas?
- Yes !
- Great !
He hesitates.
Where ?
- Over there !
Water lapping
- Awesome. Thank you. Thank you very much !
Great. - What's your name ?
He thinks.
- Nils. Nils Holgersson.
She laughs.
Peaceful music
---
I go.
Thank you very much !
(In Norwegian) Thank you.
Kiss
(In English) Look at me!
---
Engine roaring
--- ---
She laughs.
---
She blows.
---
- Yes. You just told me it was going to take time
to call the Norwegian authorities.
I call her... Excuse me, but I call the embassy if necessary.
A telephone rings.
(- I don't know who it is.) - Answer.
---
(In English) - Can I answer?
- Sure, but stay here. - OKAY.
Hello?
- I knew it ! You couldn't give up!
- It's not the moment.
* - It's all these idiots...
- Diane... * - You will show them!
- My son is missing.
- Faded away ? What do you mean, disappeared?
- My son is 14, okay? 14 years old !
- He left with the geese in U.L.M.
- This is your son ?
He hasn't disappeared at all! He's there, he's flying!
- What? Or ? *- In the video !
* There are 150,000 views. - Which video ?
- You haven't seen the video. *- Which video ?
- Of course.
- Diane, what video?
- Did you teach him to fly? * - Diane!
- Yes excuse me ! Wait.
We put ourselves on speakers. I'm sending you a link.
* You have it ?
- Yes. * - Click.
- Video...
- You talk to me about delay, it's completely...
They laugh.
- Come come ! Thomas!
- I remember you.
- I'm transferring the geographic coordinates to you.
Wait for me, I'm coming!
- Thomas!
Come ! - What, Thomas?
- Look, he's alive! She's screaming.
He's alive, look! She laughs.
---
- Where is he ?
Where is he ? - He can't hear you there.
- They all follow him!
Exclamations of joy
(In Norwegian) - I know where the kid is.
---
- The.
He cracks a match.
Soft music
---
Intriguing music
Alarm
(In Norwegian) * - A fire has been located.
- Well received.
---
(In Norwegian) - The results are negative.
- The rest is outside my jurisdiction.
Let them go. Case closed.
- Who is this girl ? - A journalist.
- Yeah. Well...
- How did you find him?
- It was not complicated. Who is this Johansen?
- He's the guy in charge of the parks. He left to slaughter the geese.
- For Thomas, where are we? - I dunno.
- Does he have a laptop? - Yes.
On messaging. - Give me yours.
Paola blows.
When he turns it back on,
you will know exactly where it is.
Its good.
Take care of him, I take care of Johansen.
- How are you going to do it? - I'll manage.
Go for it! - Go ahead.
Geese roam.
---
Beep
A bird sings.
They scream.
---
Intriguing music
---
Engine roaring
--- ---
Fairy music
---
Cacardements
---
Thomas shouts.
---
- It's my island!
* My island alone.
I am the king of this island!
I can do anything!
Ka, ka, ka!
---
Whirring of the helicopter
(In Norwegian) - You can't come with me!
beeps
humming
---
Breathing breath
---
(In English) How's it going, miss?
- Bring me back! Bring me back!
(In Norwegian) - We're almost there, drop us off!
- On board, I'm in charge.
Here FGHL,
I go back to the base.
---
Alarm
- It's Thomas! - Ah!
- "Everything is fine, I'm going back to the park at Bjorn's."
- What? - "Chez Bjorn..."
- But it's me !
- But in France? - No no.
- Call him. - He won't go to France!
- Tell him to stop anywhere!
- So ? - It's messaging!
Cacardements
- Come on Akka! We have to find something to eat for the crossing!
A rooster crows.
Come on, let's go!
They chatter.
---
Hush! Make no noise!
Intriguing music
---
He sucks.
He spits.
Engine roaring
---
- What is happening ? - Nothing.
- What is happening ?
- No, but it's okay. It's Thomas.
- What, Thomas?
- He's going to cross the North Sea. - Is that a joke?
- No, but it will be fine!
- You don't know if it's going to be okay, Christian!
When we know nothing, we are silent! You know nothing !
I entrust my son to you 3 weeks!
You can't even take care of it for 3 weeks, damn it!
Stop lying to yourself. Stop lying. She's screaming.
Engine roaring
---
Birdsong
Engine roaring
- There, I have the point.
Bjorn
He's there.
- He made 50 milestones.
It is already more than half.
The wind must make it drift.
- He has to straighten east because otherwise...
- Otherwise what ? - Otherwise... look.
It's full sea there.
Paola is crying.
---
- He's strong, Thomas. He will get there.
---
Engine roaring
Thunder rumbles.
---
Cacardements
Engine roaring
---
Thunder rumbles.
Geese are whistling.
---
Engine roaring
---
The storm breaks.
---
- Do not move away! Stay with me !
Oh !
Thomas shouts.
The wind is blowing.
---
He shouts.
The wind is blowing strongly. Soft music
--- ---
wailing
---
The wind is blowing.
Calm music
---
Geese roam.
--- ---
Akka!
---
Haven't you seen her?
Where's Akka?
Where is she ?
---
Akka!
Akka whistles.
---
Engine roaring
---
Come on!
She whistles.
---
Come on!
---
Come on, Akka!
Don't be afraid, come here.
You are going to rest.
---
Soft music
---
- The last time we located it,
it's this way. Sound
- Oh ! There is a point! There is a point there!
- Where ? - The ! Hold on.
- Ah! I do not see anything ! (- Wait, wait.)
Shit ! That's it ! Its good ! There you have the correspondence!
- So ? - He's there.
- He crossed ! - He succeeded!
- Yeah? They're laughing.
Come on ! - Let's go !
- Lets' go ! - Over there !
Bjorn, the menu!
- Yes Yes ! - Come on, Bjorn!
(In Norwegian) - Look, look!
Engine roaring
---
Cacardements
He blows.
- Look !
- It's him, he succeeded!
- Come here !
Come !
(In English) - Can you help me?
- Yes. - Thank you.
Akka cockade.
Come.
Go join your girlfriends.
---
(In English) - Give me your hand.
foghorn
---
Thomas is blowing. Are you okay?
Geese roam.
- Hello. - Hello.
(In Norwegian) He doesn't look well.
He sniffs.
- Gasoline. She nods.
- Take this too.
(In English) - Thank you.
Thank you.
(In Norwegian) Thank you.
foghorn
- Fill him up!
- Okay !
Calm music
---
Cacardements
---
--- ---
---
Engine roaring
- A dwarf goose, a hazelnut, a small nut.
It also makes a dwarf goose.
- Yeah.
- There's the connection.
- We're going to eat ? Laugh
Calm music
---
Chatter
---
Engine roaring
---
Geese gossip.
- I'll take it. - I can wear it.
- Thank you ! Thank you very much !
- Come on, here we are. Its good.
- Thomas, hello, please!
Peaceful music
---
- You sleep !
Bjorn laughs.
---
- Christian!
Christian! - Yeah?
humming
Paola exclaims. - Thomas!
What?
Thomas?
- Thomas! - Honey !
- Thomas! - Thomas! The helmet, wait!
Answer me, darling! ---
Breathing breaths
- What's wrong with him? Go get some water.
- Thomas?
- Thomas! Shit ! What's he got?
beeps
---
- You're in the hospital, honey. You slept 20 hours!
You were dehydrated, we put a probe on you.
- Where are the geese?
- They are safe at the park,
at Bjorn.
Thomas...
I need to tell you something.
Thomas nods. We will...
We will stop everything there.
- What?
Do we stop there?
(- Yes.)
- And...
Where are the geese going?
- They're going to go nowhere.
Sad music
- I do not understand.
- We don't have the right to continue. And...
We're going to cut their flight feathers.
- It's not the moment.
- Shall we cut their flight feathers?
- It won't hurt them. Anyway, we have to,
otherwise you have to keep them in a cage and that is...
It's worse.
- Worse than cutting off their wings?
- I'm sorry, Thomas.
I shouldn't have gotten you in there, it was too dangerous.
I didn't realize.
Here. He's blowing.
And...
- Is that the solution you found?
Are you going to stop everything like that? Abandon you?
After all we've done?
- I am sorry.
Christian blows.
- My love !
Honey, do you know the good news?
You can go out tomorrow!
- I do not care.
Cacardements
---
- You can always start over.
- Don't you think that's enough?
---
- Do you want me to do it? - No.
It's up to me to do it.
What was this expedition,
we agree ?
I sacrificed everything for what?
For that ? For geese?
You realize ?
I think at my face, she is right.
- No.
No.
- Stop saying no to everything!
- I think so. - I almost killed my son!
You understand ? I almost killed him. - Your son is fine.
- I'm a jerk. - No. You screwed up but you did
something great.
Your experience worked.
The geese followed the U.L.M.
They followed Thomas but they followed, huh?
I'll tell you something, buddy.
You have to catch up.
Animal calls
---
- It can wait for that. - Yeah yeah.
I thought about it. He's already missed school enough.
No more bullshit!
Speaking of bullshit... Without that, it can't take off.
---
When is he going out? - Tomorrow they keep it overnight.
Engine roaring
---
- It's you ?
It does not make any sense !
You're completely oblivious, my poor girl!
It is bullshit !
Anything big!
He's just a kid. - He's more of a kid.
- I look stupid, right?
- I know well. - The Camargue, all that...
* - It's the story of a teenager... - Wait!
* - Who flies with birds.
* An expedition in the footsteps of the trip
* by Nils Holgersson... - Hush!
* - Which made readers dream. It is a dream that father and son
* are doing.
* Departed from the Arctic 20 days ago, they will cross France
* from north to south to the marshes of Saint-Roman,
* guiding around twenty dwarf geese from Lapland.
* It is an endangered species they hope
* relocate to wild life.
* This scientific and human experience,
* this adventure has an extraordinary impact
* and fully deserved.
* Watch the report by Eric Orlay.
cheers
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- Mr. the prefect.
- We let it happen, we don't really have a choice.
He's just a kid who flies with geese!
We have more serious things to deal with. We close our eyes.
Peaceful music
---
They shout.
Engine roaring
shouting
---
- You're too beaufiful !
- You too !
---
- Everything is fine !
---
Crackling flames
Geese roam.
---
- Come on, Akka! Let me sleep.
---
Water lapping
---
- I know I mustn't tell you, but you are careful!
- Don't worry. - Is it tight enough?
- Yes it's good.
- Do you hear everything? - Yes everything is fine !
- Your little hands...
My dear love ! Watch out.
- All Saint-Roman awaits us! - Yes Yes.
- He's not a kid anymore!
- Yes !
- Come on!
- Can you push me? - Yes !
Go ahead, darling! Groan of effort
Kiss
- Come on, you have to go! - Yeah yeah !
- He's much faster than us, you know!
Whirrings of the U.L.M.
---
Engine roaring
- Girls, this is our last trip together.
Next, you will be alone.
I'm going to turn off the engine, it's not a breakdown.
It's just for us.
He turns off the engine.
Cacardements
Soft music
---
It restarts.
---
- It's going to be good !
Hubbub
---
- I can't hear, it's windy!
Huh? What?
35 minutes? No, 5 minutes?
Okay ! OKAY. ! 5 minutes !
He's coming in 5 minutes!
The crowd is agitated.
5 minutes !
- Hello ! Excuse me.
- Hello.
- Where does it land exactly?
- Do you see where it says "Thomas, hero"? Where is the heart?
- It's for the camera.
- Okay. - Thank you.
- Shift a little!
Shift!
The crowd screams.
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Triumphant Music Cheers
--- ---
- Here it is !
--- ---
- Thomas!
---
- THOMAS! THOMAS!
THOMAS! THOMAS!
---
The crowd howls.
---
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- Come. Come !
--- ---
---
Engine roaring
---
Calm music
--- ---
The mayor laughs. ---
---
- Why did he go there?
---
Engine roaring
---
- Hold on !
Hold on ! - Come !
- What? - It's just for us, that.
---
Look at him !
---
Look at it there!
Breathing breath
Cacardements
---
He cuts the engine.
Paola is out of breath.
She laughs.
Thomas blows.
- Mum ! - Well done, darling! You did it !
She laughs.
Soft music
---
Oh !
Christian is crying.
---
- Come on, stop, there! Oh ! Paola laughs.
Hubbub
---
- Confess, your geese, to save our marshes,
it's better than your rat droppings!
- No, but he's a hamster, Pichon!
- Yes Yes. - A hamster !
- It's us ! * - The director of the Museum...
* Thanks for being with us. Good evening.
* Can we talk about a great adventure?
* - You know, in reality...
* It’s more like dressage
* that of real scientific experience.
* How to resuscitate
* geese who took humans as parents?
* They will probably never return to nest in the Arctic.
* So, well... It was probably a great adventure.
* And in fact...
* But we cannot scientifically speak of...
* of migration registry, as claimed by Mr. Le Tallec.
- Christian, is it true what he says?
As long as they don't leave, is it worth anything?
- Yes. If they don't go back to the Arctic, it's done.
If it works, I will leave with lots of birds!
You know what, Pichon? I'm going to save a species.
Pichon hesitates. - When are they supposed to leave?
- End of March at the latest. Pichon blows.
* - In reality, to save a species...
The wind is blowing.
---
- So ?
- I saw something there but it was ducks.
Yeah.
- I'm sure they'll come back. - I have a doubt.
Bjorn blows.
Moaning from effort
They should be there, right?
- Yeah. What do you want me to tell you?
The wind is blowing.
Moaning from effort
They may have decided to nest elsewhere.
They're free, huh.
Don't worry, I'm sure they're fine.
Soft music
---
- Geese are coming!
Bjorn jumps.
Cacardements
It’s them!
It’s them! Dad ! They are there !
It’s them! It’s them!
They are there !
Dad, look!
It worked ! It worked !
Laughing moved - It worked!
- Akka, I'm here! Akka!
---
Akka! Laugh
- It worked, you were right!
Bjorn is crying. ---
- Oh ! - It worked, buddy!
Laughs
Crying It's too hot! You were right !
Geese roam.
---
Yes! Yes! Laugh
It is too beautiful. It is too beautiful !
--- ---
---
Applause
- It's a little thanks to you!
- Welcome home !
---
- Over 420 million birds have disappeared from the European sky
in less than 30 years,
while concrete gains 80,000 hectares per year
in a country like France.
Today it is a question of remembering this Indian proverb:
"We do not inherit the land from our ancestors,
"we borrow it from our children."
Peaceful music
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Cacardements
---
creaking
---
Cacardements
---
- No... Please, no.
Engine roaring
---
- It's okay ?
Look in front of you ! She exclaims.
He blows.
- Stop kidding me!
She moans.
They exclaim.
Slowly ! - The !
- What? - Looked !
Right in front of you! Looked !
- Yes ! The ! - Here !
Calm music
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