The Ash Postman
A Provençal postman delivers letters found in the ashes of a fire and discovers that each one predicts the next evacuation route.
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The story
After the hillside fire, postman Luc refuses to abandon his route. He gathers letters fused by ash and delivers them by bicycle to families living in temporary shelters. The letters describe roads that will close tomorrow, and Luc becomes the only map the valley trusts.
- Original title
- Le Facteur des Cendres
- Country / region
- France · Belgium
- Genres
- Drama · Thriller
- Language
- French
- Year
- 2027
- Runtime
- 88:00
- Director
- Julien Moreau
Creative process
The director, editor, rights manager, French dialogue publisher and European festival delivery lead, and producer validate creative, legal, and cultural releases.
Narrative development, script polish, casting bible, and rights control led by the human team; Runway Gen-4.5 for main cinematic plates; Google Veo 3.1 Flow for physics, camera cutting, and motion passes; Runway Aleph 2.0 for shot transformations and continuity fixes; finishing with Blender, Houdini, DaVinci Resolve Studio 20, Pro Tools, French proofreading, and C2PA export.
- AI participation (source-declared)
- 75%
- Creative method
- Live action with AI
- Format
- Feature film
- Resolution
- 4K
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39:1
- Frame rate
- 24 fps
- Delivery format
- 4K DCP, ProRes 4444 XQ master, and validation H.265 screener.
- Subtitles
- English · Korean · Thai · French · Spanish · German · Arabic