Top Cast
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Marie-Christine Darah
Mother Superior (voice)
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Aymen Saïdi
Samy (voice)
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Chloé Berthier
Sister Prudence (voice)
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Julien Bouanich
Candy Boy (voice)
Overview
Children are mysteriously falling ill at an orphanage. Candy Boy, the most valiant of the orphans, investigates, but the arrival of a new boarder complicates his inquiries.
Rating
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Short film to a song of love lost and rediscovered, a woman sees and undergoes surreal transformations. Her lover's face melts off, she dons a dress from the shadow of a bell and becomes a dandelion, ants crawl out of a hand and become Frenchmen riding bicycles. Not to mention the turtles with faces on their backs that collide to form a ballerina, or the bizarre baseball game.
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The Gruffalo's Child
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Gulliver Mickey
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Heavy Traffic
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Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare"
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