About two hundred little girls were auditioned for Simone's role and a thousand fig trees were visited before the perfect one was found.
Julie Bertuccelli loved Judy Pascoe's book "Our Father Who Art in the Tree" but Australian producer Sue Taylor had already bought the rights to screen it. Julie Bertucelli and her producer Yaël Fogiel decided to contact Sue Taylor and the three of them chose to make the film in partnership.
Alice Attal's debut.