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Coming back to his hometown in hopes of reconnecting with his past, a young man encounters the place completely stopped in time. Moving through the familiar streets, memories disorient him as he faces what he once left behind.
In a small village ruled by ridiculous laws, three singing sisters and their dog rehearse for the Annual Autumn Festival. But an unexpected event will disrupt their plans.
The 1,600 surviving pandas are fighting, in their very own special way, for the perpetuation of their species.
The story of Icarus, son of Dedalus, imprisoned in the labyrinth, but with a twist...
As every morning, men get on the tram to go to work. But on that day, to the rhythm of the tickets inserted in the ticket-stamping machine, the vehicle gets erotic and the conductress’ desire turns the reality into a surrealistic and phallic fantasy.
A group of youths are driving along in an open-top car with music blaring. They suddenly stop to let someone cross the road, who nods in thanks to them for their curtesy.
Marguerite experiences a triple loss: her mother who dies in childbirth, the dog she inherits, and then her nanny, who her father lets go. Alone after these losses, she finds solace in nature at Mont Noir, which shapes her path to becoming a writer.
A summer night, in a red house with blue shutters bordered by the forest. We hear the river flowing from the room where Sister, four years old, wakes Brother, ten years old. Because she has decided: tonight they will go swimming. Through the open window, the two children slip into the darkness. They slip between flowers, brambles, trees... And finally it is the water, the reflection of the stars, their two bodies at rest. But in the distance the storm is rumbling. It is already necessary to return. Brother and Sister go hand in hand. Suddenly, Brother disappears. Sister chases him, runs out of breath, spins around, despairs. Is it a game of hide-and-seek? A trick of the forest? Or is it her memory which, years later, plays a cruel trick on her ?
Princess Lucette hires a dragon to stage her own kidnapping, only to discover that forging fairytales is trickier than it seems.
Ten year-old Anthony has red hair, as did Antonio Vivaldi. For his birthday, his grandfather gives him a book. He would have preferred a video game, but what can you expect from a grandfather who spends his time building violins in his workshop? But this is a magic book! When you draw in it, it plays the Four Seasons: it’s an activity book, a herbarium, a sketchbook... The orchestra playing the music is inside the book, on the other side of each page... drawings come to life and join the orchestra in an imaginary space. The book accompanies Anthony throughout the seasons until his eleventh birthday.
Tonio, the son the bears King, is kidnapped by hunters in the Sicilian mountains. Due to the harshness of a winter that threatens famine, the Bear King decides to invade the land of men (in the hope of finding his son). Thanks to his powerful army and the help of a wizard, while he will succeed at both quests, he will soon find out that bears are not meant to live among men.
I can tell you about my father's voyage on his boat, because I was with him all the time. It was a rather strange voyage, with no ocean or sea crossing, not even a lock to pass through... The boat stayed at home and so did my father. But that does not mean there was no adventure...
Le chant du Styrène is a 1958 French documentary film directed by Alain Resnais. The film was an order by French industrial group Pechiney to highlight the merits of plastics.
It’s safer inside – less crazy too. But when you do have to go out, go in a crowd and go in a rush. It’s the only way.
Nine short videos that poetically introduce ecologically important themes: the travels of a drop of water, le un-loved, le magic root, the ladybird and the aphid, the mountain of wrapping paper, the hedgehog who was in love, 20 millimeters under the earth, and more...
In the Alaskan wilderness, Tracy Petrikoff, a lonely and fierce 17-year-old girl, lives with her father Bill and brother Scott in a deteriorating house away from the city. Since her mother, famous musher Hannah, vanished under strange circumstances, everything went wrong. Tracy grapples with uncontrolled outbursts, sleep disorders and mysterious visions, unaware that her inherited gift connects her to nature and wild animals on a level she can't imagine yet. Everything changes when Tracy rescues the unconscious Jesse during a hunting trip. Saving Jesse seals both girls' fates, and to overcome the looming danger, Tracy must now harness her gift and find the balance between her human and wild sides.
When Apollo, a kindhearted cricket, lands in the village of the Funny Little Bugs, the whole kingdom is about to be disrupted.
An old shaman was telling a story to 3 young children. Ages ago, some human beings had big troubles because the sky was too low. Birds could not fly and men were bended. One day, small children decided to change things and attempted to raise the sky with stocks.
Somewhere between Montmartre and Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Jean-Jacques Sempé and René Goscinny lean over a large white sheet of paper and bring to life a mischievous and endearing boy, Little Nicolas. From schoolyard games and fights to summer camp pranks and camaraderie, Nicolas lives a merry and enriching childhood – and brings friendship and newfound life to his creators, too.
Every child knows full well that losing a tooth is only the prologue to a magical experience—namely, a night-time visit from the tooth fairy and the gift she leaves behind. So why, in this case, is the tooth fairy a no-show? These are the sorts of questions a father needs to be able to answer for his son… In this brilliantly simple animated short, Quebec cartoonist Guy Delisle brings to the screen the titular parent of his popular series, Le guide du mauvais père (A User’s Guide to Neglectful Parenting), published by Delcourt. Inspired by a common childhood experience, Delisle uses his trademark wry humour to reflect on the vagaries of parenting. A slice of everyday life, courtesy of the Comic Strip Chronicles.
A young corporate executive is kidnapped from his apartment. He wakes up in the middle of a forest only to be stalked by a mysterious hunter.
A young woman tries to overcome her anxiety, which is personified by a crocodile.
Animated short. Set in a contemporary society of mice and rats, Hubert, a young observing rat, recites slam poetry full of hope within his head as he passes by individualistic strangers in the Parisian metro. Hubert´s poetry remains optimistic and persistent, despite the harsh reality of the world he lives in.
A story about a warrior, a dragon, and a princess.
One winter, a ravenous ogre terrorizes the land of King Balthasar. Meanwhile, a blizzard is brewing in Léon’s heart. Braving the cold, this adopted bear cub runs away from home. Léon has many an adventure during his travels. He befriends a hedgehog and an elephant, confronts an ogre, and sets Princess Molly Gingerbread free. His courage and integrity eventually lead him back to his family. In the end, the cub earns everybody’s respect.
Based on one of Colette's novels, a young woman cannot remember the dog that visits her in a dream.
A routine work trip for married couple Hana and Kornel suddenly turns into an adventurous struggle for survival. In a remote forest, far from civilization, they are forced to face not only the wilderness, but also the fragile terrain of their long-term, stagnant relationship.
In a kitchen, a mother and a child struggle to establish dialogue.
In a cabin of the deep of the forest, a child and his father lead a wild and hard life in utmost isolation. The child grows up fearing and admiring his father, with the ghosts haunting the forest as his only companions. Until the day he discovers the neighbouring village and meets a young girl there, Manon. At her side, he discovers that love exists. From then on he won't cease to search for the place where his father's love for him is hiding.
Screaming too loud is what got Horacio killed, with his murderer Guillaume now released from prison, what will he do next?
In a near future, a lonely man is addicted to a product called ‘’Best Friend” which offers him perfect virtual friends.
Today is the big day: Andrea stars as the Blue Bird in her school play. But stage fright strikes, and she flees backstage, where a magical cape transports her to a golden palace in the clouds. There, she meets quirky friends: Slipper, Klutz, and Light who welcome her warmly. But when a Bird reminds her of the waiting audience, Andrea must choose between safety and courage. With a little help, she learns that to fly, you have to spread your wings.
An imaginative surrealist journey of young Jay Jay and his mother Edie. Their inner city dreams are illuminated by the New Moon accompanied by magic of Aretha Franklin playing on a summer's eve on a transistor radio in a backyard in West Philadelphia.
In a buffet restaurant, a diverse group of characters access a wide variety of exquisite delicacies without being aware of the serious sin that gluttony represents.
England, 19th century. 12-year-old Mary is passionate about the fossils that she collects and sells with her father. When he accidentally dies near the fossil cliffs, Mary, her brother and her mother struggle to make the payments for the family house, meaning they will probably have to leave the seaside that Maëlys loves so much. But her father left a mysterious message: what was it that he saw on the cliffs before he died? With some help from her friends, Mary will fight to save her home and continue to do what she loves, searching for fossils, in the midst of a society where girls should not “behave like men”. Mary doesn’t know it yet, but she’s going to go down in history…
Accompanied by his extraordinary confidant Doudou, T'choupi discovers with wonder the small village of the seaside where he will live. The beautiful days of summer, the beach, freedom - Very quickly, the holidays are rich in encounters and adventures. He shares with Doudou all the events of his life, where joy and jealousy mingle; the family is growing, T'choupi now has a little sister, Fanny. But a mysterious shadow disturbs the happiness of the village children by stealing their favorite toys. With Pilou and Lalou, his new friends, T'choupi will conduct a thrilling investigation to unmask the culprit.
In Dunkirk, during the carnival, a strange man find himself alone in the deserted streets. He wanders around, finally arriving on the beach where he discovers that the noises of the carnival come from the sea.
In Lisbon, a German married couple get aboard the legendary tramway no 28.
After witnessing an old dark stormy cloud painfully rain and die in sorrow; Noma, a puffy white cloud realizes that Mixtli, her daughter, a dark stormy cloud, is in danger of raining prematurely.
While her husband is away, Bluebeard's seventh wife sets out to discover all the secrets hidden in the castle using the keys he has given her. But she fails to see that by doing so she will be instrumental in creating a series of tragic events.
Having been struck by a 150-ton meteorite, Henry has to adapt to living precisely ninety-one centimeters from himself.
Agnès, Juliette and Carmen's neighbour, writes children's storybooks that take place in a fantasy world, The Kingdom of the Winds. The intrepid sisters discover a passageway between their world and this extraordinary universe. Once on the other side, the girls take on the appearance of cats and discover Sirocco, a terrifying character who can control the wind.
One night when the moon was blue, in the land of the Smurfs, a stork left a strange little basket containing a baby Smurf on the doorstep of a house.
The film is a TV zapping that presents various programmes inspired by Morocco’s television landscape. The main programme is an animated series opening credits. The scene is set on an eccentric family and their numerous adventures, taking inspiration from narrative codes and visuals from a Moroccan sitcom.
Tintin and Captain Haddock travel to Peru in search of an abducted friend.
A little hedgehog finds a magnificent apple in the woods. He rolls it behind a rock where he can enjoy it at his leisure. But there are some uninvited guests at the feast.
In a Parisian suburb, a promising young boxer must find a way to finance the future of his little sister, a piano prodigy.
Alex, an art student, dreams of joining Eve, the "Elite’s Visual School". Together with her best friend Kimmy, they train hard to pass the notoriously impossible entrance exam. Alex's training turns into an obsession, compromising her friendship with Kimmy.
I, Barnabé takes a luminous look at a desperate man’s existential crisis. During a night of stormy drunkenness, he receives a visit from a mysterious bird and is forced to reconsider his life.
Delicately flirting with eroticism, the animated film The Banquet of the Concubine, by young Chinese director Hefang Wei, recounts one of the most famous love stories of Imperial China. In this tale of bitter jealousy, nothing can sweeten the heart of an abandoned mistress, not even the luscious lychee.
1863, a convoy in the American West, Martha Jane needs to learn how to take care of horses to drive the family wagon. Except she ends up wearing pants and cutting her hair. The scandal that its stark character provokes will force to face all the dangers in a gigantic and wild world where everything is possible.
Kakomando is the leader of a group of mischievous kids free running on the streets of New Town. To complete their hideout on top of the old mining hill, the young commander must take a high risk to get the one thing missing to complete their dream.
1889. Having come to France as part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show Tour for the Paris World Fair, Rahimé Valladier, known as the Mexican, sets off in search of the Holy Spirit, a treasure supposedly left behind by his ancestors, Protestants from the Cévennes who had fled Catholic repression following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685). Back on his ancestral land, and despite the new-found freedom of religion, he discovered the Cévennes people's struggle to survive: after the boom in silkworms and mining, the Cévennes became impoverished from the mid-19th century onwards. At the same time, a law imposed the French language on schools, to the detriment of Occitan. A culture was dying.