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Tournier's work has been shown at film festivals in Latin
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In 2012, following a succession of short films and television miniseries, he directed the first full-length animated picture to be made in
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to tell the story of a father who tries to make his young daughter understand the reason for his incarceration as a
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newspaper as "a visual delight that is rarely found in a movie that is not
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until 1985. There he dedicated himself to archaeology, which he studied at the
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Tournier was involved in the production of the following films:
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to present the life of 18th-century
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official movie website of
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217:(2003). In 2002 he received the
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