Synopsis : "Caramel Words" tells the story of Kori, a young deaf boy, and Caramel, a camel, in a refugee camp in the Sahara. Kori, who is learning how to read lips, starts reading Caramel's lips, transcribing it into stories and poems. But one day, Kori is told that Caramel has to be sacrificed. 

Feature animation film - 80' - Literary Adaptation. 

Director : Salvador Simó. 

Writers : Salvador Simó, Eligio R. Montero. 

Coproducers : Sygnatia, Koniec Films.

Selected at the Mifa Pitches for the Annecy International Festival of 2024 ! 

Directed by Salvador Simó

Director and writter, Salvador Simó has followed film animation studies at the LA's American Animation Institute. He has worked for Bill Melendez Prod Studio and Disney, while being a student at the CECC. He then worked for MPC on projects such as Narnia, Prince of Caspian, The Werewolf, The Prince of Persia, and James Bond : Skyfall. In 2014, he takes the lead on animation sequences for movies such as Jungle Book, and Pirates of the Caribean : Salazar's Revenge. In 2016, he joins Sapna in order to produce his first feature animation film, "Buñuel en el laberinto de las tortugas", presented at the 2018 Animation Film Festival in LA, where it gets the jury's award. The movie also gets the European Movie Award for best animation movie in 2019, and the 34th Goya award for best animation film. 

Literary Adaptation

Caramel Words is a feature animation film adaptation from a book of the same name, written by Gonzalo Moure, and considered to be a classic from the genre. "Here is the story of a deaf boy who lives in a Haimas camp in the Sahara. His mother teaches him to read lips, and sign language. His best friend is a camel named Caramel."

The book was published by Anaya, illustrated by Fernando Martín Godoy, in 2002.