[TOMT] Surreal movie about and narrated by a little girl who travels the desert
I've had this movie stuck in the back of my mind for years. I watched it when I was very young, probably 6 (so around 2013?) on a CD.
I am Polish, but the movie took place in Britain maybe? Or potentially France (again, I was very young at the time and didn't know much geography but it seems right).
The movie starts in a city, I think somewhere near water, with a restaurant. The main character is a little girl (around 10?) but she has a very neutral facial expression through out pretty much the entire film. She also doesn't talk to anyone, only narrates everything to the viewer.
At some point she ends up alone in the desert - that's the part that made me think back to this movie so often, because of how bizarre it was. She sees some fennec foxes at one point, then there's a scene with some kind of colourful sand? It's like a small circular rainbow bursting out into all kinds of hues, but its all made out of sand. I think the girl touches it and maybe that's what takes her back home?
At some point she introduces another little girl (I think she's black?) saying "that's my friend", who she met in the desert. The friend also has a mom that is on screen for like a second and doesn't say anything. They then show the audience their "house" which is literally just normal indoor appliances (like an oven and a dinner table, etc), but all the walls are gone. It's literally just an average european house but with no walls.
The whole thing reminded me of The Little Prince, since the "uncanny child walking through the desert and seeing surreal characters" is pretty spot on.
EDIT: additional information
- IT WAS A CHILD FRIENDLY MOVIE!!! Very abstract and disjointed but it was for kids
- The narrator was a young girl, around 10. She is alone, I dont remember her having any companions long term.
- The girl was white I'm pretty sure. With blondish straight, kinda short hair.
- The movie was very calm and definitely more modern, around the 2000s. It was just this one girl who calmly narrates everything but never speaks or even looks at the camera, if i remember correctly. Not sure if there even was a plot to it. Seemed more like some kind of surreal auto-biography where things just happen and we're along for the ride
- Also, the more i think about it: It might not have been a full movie? Again, it was very disjointed and probably not nearly enough content for a full kids movie. It's possible that was I saw was only a section of the film.
For example, the old teletubbies had these cameos for kids to show whatever activity of the day. In Polish, those were dubbed with a "lektor" which is just a grown man/woman speaking over the original audio (which can still be heard in the background, making for a pretty eerie and uncanny effect). The movie I remember had a similar thing going on. With the girl just suddenly appearing in a desert with nonsensical plot and playing with her friend. The strange narration also would make sense if it was supposed to be read by a lektor.
Obviously, I doubt that what I'm thinking of was a teletubbies cameo. It just doesn't fit the show at all. But I think it might have been something similar, maybe?