The Archive Cat
An archival cat reorganizes city hall files every night to reveal promises never kept.
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The story
In Rouen, an archivist allergic to cats finds a grey animal sleeping among the registers. By morning, the files have been moved according to the lies they contain. The cat becomes a suspect, then an ally, when residents discover that its piles of paper draw the map of a school promised thirty years ago.
- Original title
- Le Chat des Archives
- Country / region
- France · Belgium
- Genres
- Comedy · Drama · Fantasy
- Language
- French
- Year
- 2028
- Runtime
- 84:00
- Director
- Sabine Faure
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 · Japanese · Thai · French · Spanish · German