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SEP 26, 2022

The Bear Upstairs

a heartwarming fable of urban life about love and inner choice

The bear and the girl live together in a small town in a residential building. The girl leaves early and returns late, meticulously caring for the bear. As time passes, the bear grows more and more yearning for the freedom of the forest, and their initially peaceful life gradually produces waves...


With full and rich oil paintings, this heartwarming fable of urban life tells the story of love and inner choice between a bear and a girl, and explores the wonderful emotional connection between people.

Specification

Title: The Bear Upstairs

Chinese: 楼上的熊


Text & illustration by: Chen Chen


Chinese, Hardcover, 49p, age 4+

Jieli Publishing House, March 2021


Rights sold:

CHI-ENG (Singapore)

Indonesian (Indonesia)

Spanish (Chile)


English translation available.


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About the author

Chen Chen, born in Heilongjiang in 1982, graduated from Renmin University of China and the E’cole d’Animation de Valence-La poudrière. In 2010, his animation work "Eyes in a Cage" was selected for animation festivals such as Annecy in France, Hiroshima in Japan and Zagreb in Croatia. In 2016, another animation work "Old Bear" won the Best Animated Short Film Award at the Lisbon International Film Festival, the first prize at the Italian Visual Film Festival and the Visual Effects Conference and other honors. In 2018, he planned to hold the 7th Independent Animation Forum "Metaphors of Deformation". In 2019, as one of the initiators, he founded "Finage Beijing Animation Week".

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