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Drops, Naissance des oasis, Suzie in the garden, Il pleut bergère, Some thing. A garden full of mysteries, rain drops gathering in a fleeting community, a funny and fully colored oasis, and a sheperdess dancing with the clouds...
Two Octopi fight for their lives with a stubborn restaurant cook in a comical escape through the streets of a small Greek village.
Marcel, the mayor, decides to ban love stories: it only causes problems and makes everyone unhappy! Banning love stories? Jean-Michel is not too much for it and his girlfriend Gisèle even less... Unfortunately, the repression begins. Our heroes decide to join the resistance so that love is once again allowed in the village.
Émile Cohl mixes live-action and stop-motion animation in this charming evocation of the power of imagination. A magician shapes his cane into a hoop with strange properties for a young girl. Costume changes and city promenades give way towards greater abstraction as the film becomes absorbed by what goes on inside the ring.
An animation based on the beginning of the film L'Atalante by Jean Vigo.
Two children, Pierre and Jeanne, register their father into a televised contest of papas storytellers. Terrified, Laurent, the father, will have to redouble his imagination to look good next to his ruthless competitors.
Simply put, 6 eclectic and diverse animation styles present some surprisingly adult little vignettes that, in theory, add up to a film. An apparent festival favorite.
Moonlight reflected in water: the forms and lines are continually rearranged by the currents.
Anna wants to share her chocolate cake with her friend and ends up living an adventure through the forest, where the terrible bearded giant is the new inhabitant. In fact, all the animals that she meets are disappearing. Does the giant need company?
Two young women are about to receive the great honor of being sacrificed to their Mexica gods; but the cruel and bloody ritual does not go as expected.
We follow the daily life of Yulia, a “Night Witch” aviator, and the one of her friends. In between the moments of glory of the regiment and the most tragic events, we’ll see that Yulia’s fascination and passion for aviation is deadly linked to the horrors of war.
Lost lights and shadows in a deserted cloister. The fourth instalment of the Ghost World Series, with music by Manuel Adnot.
In a world that has become extremely materialistic, objects have now taken the place of humans, who are, at best, thrown away.
Film directed from the play "Orpheon", directed by François Tanguy, played by the Compagny of Raft.
Suzanne is a film about the life of Suzanne Noël (1878−1954). As a pioneer in the world plastic surgery and a militant feminist from the early 20th century, Suzanne Noël has recently become a popular figure. “Plastic surgery” and “feminism”, two notions one would not expect to see side by side. In Paris, from the Belle Epoque through the Roaring Twenties by way of the First World War, this film explores the unconventional and extraordinary journey of Suzanne, a woman who dreams of freedom while being referred to by many as “doubly insane”.
Several unique specimens of highly ornamented porcelain are shown in series. In each case the various pieces of ware are in reality formed of living people. After a short time has been allowed for admiration of each article, it disintegrates into the individual models, who pose in various figures and dances. In the following pictures are seen a powder box, a clock, candle sticks, a loving cup and a vase, all of wonderfully ornate design, beautifully colored. (Moving Picture World)
In Aix-en-Provence, feminist slogans dot the walls of the city. This is the work of "Les colleuses". Their goal: to claim their place in the public space, and to denounce patriarchal violences. For a month, we follow young Ameline and her friends. They tell us about their process, the reasons for their commitment, their doubts and their hopes.
This film presents a devastating portrait of a society rife with corruption, as experienced by a young boy in Kinshasa trying to survive.
Jaya sets out to hunt the spirit of the mountain, a sacred beast with valuable feathers. As she approaches the heart of the mountain, she’s interrupted by her younger sister, Amala, devout on protecting the spirit.
The surprising story of how a french law punishing the failure to assist a person in danger was created by Vichy France during World War II.
An elephant saves an unfortunate whale from being paraded in front of the public and takes it away with the circus caravan to put it back into the sea.
A little girl working as a carnival dancer is given a gift of a caterpillar as a joke. She spares the caterpillar's life, and becomes the Queen of the Butterflies. The film combines live-action sequences starring the director's daughter Jeanne (aka Nina Star) with puppet animation. Full of special effects, as with Starevich's previous films he used deceased insects as the protagonists of the film.
A music box ballerina frees herself from the mechanism that imprisons her.
As children play hide and seek, they witness a crime. Only Auguste, the youngest amongst them, no longer wants to carry the burden of keeping the grave secret. A poetically crafted miniature about guilt, betrayal and loyalty.
The opera diva Bianca Castafiore spends a few days with Tintin and his friends at Marlinspike Hall, where a mysterious theft is perpetrated.
Olla decides to take a moment for herself. Her "cheat meal," an instant noodle soup, is waiting for her on a little tray above a hot bath. However, nothing goes according to plan.
A chicken coop set up at the foot of a nuclear power plant sees its daily life turned upside down by a series of comic, cartoon-style mutations.
In London, a group of guards are headed for high-flying hijinks when an unexpected member joins their band.
Abstract animation by Boris Labbé
Aline and her mother Chanda live together in a French suburb. Aline discovers that a parent-student reunion is coming up.
Big Wolf lives quite contentedly alone under his tree. One day he sees a Little Wolf approaching him who seems determined to keep him company. But Big Wolf has no need for his company. He likes the quiet life and his routine. At least, that’s what he thought… Loosely based on the kid’s book by Nadine Brun-Cosme & Olivier Tallec, published by Flammarion jeunesse
A story about two symbolic characters who sway to the song Alouette.
In the depth of winter, two rabbits discover that their store of carrots jam is empty. But nobody has ever said that carrots can only be found in gardens! Certainly not their uncle Robert who has left them a precious treasure map...
At the beginning of autumn, a squirrel prepares its reserves for winter, harvesting acorns, chestnuts and hazelnuts. As he finishes his inventory, he realizes that he is missing one nut. When he finds it, a crow flies at him, triggering a frantic chase through the branches in the forest.
Indian and Cowboy finally pass their exams. Horse buys them tickets for the County Fair. But at the last moment, he slips and comes crashing down on his head. He wakes up with no idea where he hid the tickets. So begins a race against time for them two to find the passes before it's too late.
The tumultuous school day is filled with cries of „Aaaah!“: cries of anger, of boredom, of joy and surprise – in short, the full spectrum of young emotions. A charmingly grotesque animated short about an uproar in a world that dances to the tune of the adults.
If you’re a tiny drop of water in the middle of a hot, dry desert, you need to be fairly clever about how you spend your day.
A solitary fox finds itself improvising fatherhood for a freshly hatched baby bird. Two paths cross and a family is formed, until fate reminds each of the life it is meant to lead.
A charming illusionist, an adventurous queen of hearts and an evil green man journey through early cinema, film magic and love. Back to the Moon celebrates the artistry of film director and magician Georges Méliès.
A young girl runs for her life while cameras broadcast the action.
A small creature travels through a well, hanging on a bubble and encountering various other strange life-forms.
A fire breaks out in the Amazon rainforest, and frightened animals leave their habitat to take refuge on the other bank. Only a little hummingbird persists in fighting the fire when he spots a sloth and its young trapped in the flames.
An experimental short film by Yoram Gross.
A little boy steps in to a new world. The mother of the four-year-old Jonas brings him to his first swimming lesson. Jonas is scared and wants to go home. While trying to escape, he falls into the deep bath and nobody notices him. While floating on his swimming wings he has to try to rescue himself.
In the light of the moon, a young terero leaves his village to go and fight “Toro.” An accomplice, dreamlike confrontation, where the interplay of shadows and silhouettes bring back the splendor of bullfighting mythology.
Man has evolved from the invention of the comb to the first step on the moon, but he still made a large box in the event of a cataclysm.
The tension is mounting, the race for prizes is in full swing, some artists in the running are starting to have vapors. A tribe of creatures, all driven by one and the same goal, want to announce at the risk of their lives to all animation enthusiasts the event "Annecy 2007".
The world of nursery rhymes has turned on its head. The three little pigs are monsters, the old woman who lives in a shoe has sold her children into slavery, and pieces of Humpty Dumpty still lie scattered all over the road. Duck Ugly and his motley army stage a mutiny...