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A family of giraffes on vacation, a forest animal race, and a zebra visiting the zoo! Short classic animal stories. Program of three short films from 2019: "Tout là-haut" by Martina Svojíková, 13' "Le dernier jour d'automne" by Marjolaine Perreten, 8' "Zibilla" by Isabelle Favez, 26'
Free adaptation or unique interpretation of a short story by Anton Chekhov.
Five wolf cubs are playing in the woods and tease Daddy Wolf who is getting ready to go out and “eat them all up”! A musical take on a famous French children’s game.
Four women share funny and intimate tales of one-sided infatuation, mutual attraction, erotic moments, and fumbling attempts at sexual expression. For them, discovering that they’re attracted to other women comes hand-in-hand with a deeper understanding of their personal identity and a joyful new self-awareness.
Lollipop Tattoo (the sweet sounding name of a mastectomy scar) explores the creator’s surreal odyssey of tackling breast cancer. Twice. Her avatar, Eva, slips into youthful memories of seaside attractions and sunshine, which morph into something dark and corporeal as she juggles family life and illness. Rosebud, her husband, struggles to support Eva emotionally and she relies on her best friend Crystal, while their son Angelo’s needs and moods change. Eva’s mom in the US, Shortie, overcome with grief for her deceased son Dean, can’t cope. A decade later, Eva comes out the other side, having been touched both mentally and physically, but still standing.
An enthusiastic young couple is astounded with modern technology's giant leaps in the fascinating field of electricity.
After her parents’ passing, eight-year-old Violet goes to live with her uncle, Regis, a gruff maintenance worker at the Palace of Versailles. Despite a rocky start, Violet and Regis learn to live and face life’s challenges together. Through complex friendships, first loves and a Christmas trip to Violet’s grandparents, they slowly create a new life rich in discoveries and tender moments in the heart of Versailles.
On a battlefield, Clovis, a knight, regains consciousness, cut in half vertically. A soldier from the opposing camp, Richard, is in the same state. Fighting, the two half-men stick together. The only thing left for them to do is to find a way of separating.
Three different epochs through the gaze of three children: Zelinda, who loses her mother to the Spanish Flu during World War I and sees the specter of Nazism loom; Assunta, who lives during the Nazi occupation between bombings, raids, and executions; Icaro, who abandons the countryside during the Years of Lead (“Anni di Piombo”) and accepts a new life. A story across the difficulties and the troubles of the 20th century between memories, affection, nostalgia, and gratitude.
1915, Anatolia, Maryam and her brother Varto, two Armenian children, are caught up in the turmoil of war. Hassan, a young Turkish man, is given the difficult mission of rescuing them. The three of them will cross a war-torn country and discover each other beyond their differences. This journey has unexpected consequences in our own time, when a young woman and her teenage son, travel from Istanbul to Paris to meet a grumpy old Armenian.
With the sea and urban Algarve as the backdrop, we follow a complete life cycle of a special shellfish called percebes, the goose barnacle.
Hands are restless, they break, they denounce, then they leave, guilty and innocent. Objects are absences from which ancient quarrels echo. Sometimes, a few happy memories resurface in the shells. A touch of warmth, enveloped in acid yellow.
The Pet Pals are put to the test when the Evil Crow Witch is determined to drain the canals of Venice. Armed with a touch of magic, the Pet Pals combine their strengths to uncover the secret code before the Evil Witch does.
Life is good in the idyllic fairytale village of Nix... until an all-devouring monster appears. Young Willy has to fight it. Alone.
A young hare named Ferdinand is playing the harmonica before the battle. Soon the signal for attack will be given, and Ferdinand will face the terrible enemy on the battlefield.
A short film adapted from the graphic novel of the same name, HARVEY depicts a young boy who candidly recalls the spring day when his world turned upside down. Filled with original little touches and told through the eyes of a child with an overflowing imagination, this luminous work by Janice Nadeau, featuring elegant music by Martin Léon, poetically examines bereavement and coping with the loss of a parent.
Predecessor of the movie Gandahar released 10 years later, only time will tell us what unfolds in this mysterious utopic universe.
A young girl falls into a mysterious, magical world, until we discover that it is not what it seems...
Cairo, 1964. Alaa, a 12-year-old boy, and his three younger siblings hear shouting from the street. Outside, the crowd is cheering for a man. The children can barely believe their eyes: the man is their father, Ibrahim.
Geppetto the carpenter carves the object of his hidden desires out of a log: a puppet that will keep him company and will be like a son to him. He will call him Pinocchio. Imagine his surprise when he discovers that the puppet moves, as if by magic, and is gifted with a life on its own.
Caroline Cherrier, director of "Horacio", retells "Prince of Darkness", one of John Carpenter's most harrowing films, in a one-minute long animation.
Every year, Brazilians gather on the beach of Salvador de Bahía to celebrate the divinity of the sea, Iemanjá.
A turbulent day in a life, painted by air.
Single mother Paulette decides to make up for her mistake by cooking a chicken with peppers for her daughter—only she can't cook and shopkeepers are on strike.
A farmer has computerised his farm but hasn't counted on bugs in the system ... and the cow wants to jump over the church.
This animated short is a touching and comical tale that pokes fun at motherhood. Without ever moralizing, it depicts the temper tantrums of a child and the efforts a loving mother makes to set her son on the right path. You don’t need to be a chicken to relate.
A little tiger decides to take a long journey in search of his stripes.
Fabio helps Dimitri so that his friend can finally meet Linda. On their way they meet a duck and her ducklings.
Warthog is proud of his head of hair, until one lock springs out of place. The more he tries to regain his pristine looks, the worse it gets!
In a family with a mother, father, two daughters, and a bulldog, the dog is neglected and taken for granted. It seeks peace under the dining table but is ignored. Eventually, the dog is banished, and a family discussion may be its final humiliation.
How had this floating street been formed? What sailors, with the aid of which architects, had built it in the high Atlantic on the surface of the sea?
In Bogota, a bird-girl leaves behind the family home, her domineering mother and faithful dog to go and explore her sexuality.
Moscow, 17th Century. As Russia is beset by internal strife and power struggles, Grigori the bear, chief of the army of the young Tsar Peter I, travels to France with his daughter Dashen'ka, a young apprentice magician to perform a twofold mission: - to meet with Louis XIV and seal an alliance with France, bringing back reinforcements and his niece Princess Agnes from Versailles, who is to be married to Peter. - to bring back a mysterious relic from the Mont Saint Michel, the broken spear that once belonged to the archangel Michael and that will be used to fight the terrible dragon of evil that was stirring in the North of Russia. Through fast-moving chases, collisions, on-ship action, magic, humour and emotion, will the Musketeers of the Tsar be able to rescue young Peter from the plot hatched by his sister the Grand Duchess Sophia, Tchernogor, her counsellor with a passion for dark magic and the ruthless wolverine Streltsys?
A group of schoolchildren playing in an idyllic natural landscape are visited by a mysterious magician who entertains them with his transformations. But he soon proves sinister as he begins to transform the landscape into a grim, unsmiling metropolis.
10-year-old Louise has just moved to Mexico. When her lizard, Kéza, escapes, Louise goes looking for him and meets Arturo. Along with Luchador Diego, they pursue Kéza and allow him to be reincarnated as the Mexican God, Quetzalcoatl.
A project as crazy as it was deadly was born in the early days of aviation in the 1920s: L'Aéropostale. They needed pilots - young guys who had everything to prove and nothing to lose. And all this to honor the promise of faster mail. Jean Mermoz, a young ex-Air Force officer, proves to be the best pioneer of the skies. Against nature and against mechanics, he always delivers mail to its destination. Captivated by his conquests and prodigies, he sees only the success of the airline: Faster. Further. The dawn of progress. But a few years later, with many pilots now dead and the world still reeling from the 1930s Wall Street Crash, l'Aéropostale is at the brink of bankruptcy. Mermoz is forced to question the true meaning of his idealism.
Snippets of conversation fly across the table as a family gathers together for lunch.
The story follows Zahir, a young boy who accidentally crash-lands on a planet covered in vast stretches of sand. Upon waking up, far from his spaceship, which was destroyed in the crash, he quickly realizes he's alone.
The last conscious moments of Stalin, the solitary tyrant who believes himself immortal. An evocation of the mental chaos of the Little Father of the People who was suffering from delusions of persecution and untold power during the three days of his death throes. And, in fact, is he really dead? In the limbo of the Soviet past, the ghosts from the gulag dream of settling some old scores.
After a long absence, Stasya returns to her hometown. She missed her father's funeral and has a hard time meeting her elder sister. While sorting out family issues, Stasya meets different local strangers on the way, who take her on a strange night trip.
Since his earliest childhood, Robert, chap rather typically French, is in love with the dentist's secretary. He lives under the same roof as her mother, possessive cruel mother who forbids him any desires, whether they are carnal or sweet, and watch his slightest actions. Robert, he, dreams about love and about independence.
In the middle of a revolution, two young workers try to claim their existences…
In an old building, lost in the middle of the swamp, live two strange women, siamese twins by one leg. At night, the Flayed has terrifying nightmares in which she sees her sister's flesh covering her own body.
A child painter sells one of his paintings to an adult who appears to be surprised.
Mei Ling, an idle young Chinese woman, lives alone in her flat, waiting for her lover. One day, she finds a little octopus in the kitchen sink. She decides to adopt it to avoid boredom. The octopus grows up.
Father Frismas lives on the top of one of the highest mountains in the Alps, and must ensure that the snow covers the whole valley and the houses of the village.
A and N, a couple of peasants create an informal metallurgy workshop in the outskirts of Bogotá in the hope of a better life. The social, environmental and organic consequences they must endure in order to adapt to the industrial capitalism that storms Latin America affects dramatically their relationship and their history.
It's Sunday. During the course of the meal, Jean observes family members. They ask you questions without listening to the answers... It is normal, Sunday dinner.
A Jewish radio announcer broadcasts the imminent arrival in France of Allied liberators; US planes flown by Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Popeye, (and defended by air gunners Goofy and Felix the Cat) receive orders to drop bombs on French civilians below.
A female capybara and her cubs are fleeing from a hunter who has settled in the lagoon where they live. Their search for shelter takes them to a nearby chicken coop, but the chickens, seeing their routine threatened, reject the capybaras and react by setting boundaries to keep them at a distance. The curiosity of the youngest, a puppy and a chick, will make them transgress the boundaries and take some risks in order to get to know each other. The situation will lead to an unexpected end that will change the lives of both species and, perhaps, that of some other animals.
Julius Caesar plans on kidnapping Getafix but Asterix and Obelix save him. Whilst attempting to scatter the attackers, Obelix accidentally strikes Getafix with a menhir, the impact of which causes amnesia and forgets the recipe of the magic potion.
Mykis, a native teenager, accidentally causes the spirit of a faceless young woman to appear. Both end up making a pact: to regain her ability to dance, Mykis will help the spirit to recover her identity.