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Sea, sun, beaches and family holidays. But what if the hotel isn't as stellar as promised, your room has a bit of a naughty view, the dinner is surprisingly exotic and your luggage travels elsewhere?
Jun 2024
For Hugo, visiting Chernobyl’s forbidden area is not a commemorative trip. If this young tourist wanders through radioactive ruins, it is mainly to feed his Instagram account. This absurd quest will lead him to discover a population he never knew existed.
Jun 2025
Jul 2012
Camille's life is ruled by the ring of the alarm clock each morning. Her well-ordered life consists of preparing her cat's meals, and hearing the familiar sound of the automatic till in the store where she works as the cashier. But one day, a man enters her home without her knowing and starts living there during the day while she's at work. Little by little, he will free her from her chains.
Mar 2016
Recounted mostly through animation to protect his identity, Amin looks back over his past as a child refugee from Afghanistan as he grapples with a secret he’s kept hidden for 20 years.
Jun 2021
Olivia, a 12-year-old middle class girl, is forced to reorganize her basic needs when her family (mother, little brother and herself) is evicted and forced to live in a squatted apartment on the edge of the big city, in a rough neighborhood. Her mother can no longer bear the situation and falls in a depression, so Olivia has to replace her. It means caring for her brother and her own mother, while dealing with the feeling of an emotional earthquake. But she is not alone, Olivia will make friends that will help her to see her own life from other points of view. Because things don’t always happen the way we want, but we can choose the way we live them.
Nov 2025
It is winter. The snow is falling heavily on the mountain. Heidi, Lucie, Léonie and Nickie, the yodelling marmots, are looking for a shelter to hibernate in for the next five months. On their way, they meet Denis, a solitary and taciturn mountain goat, who just wants calm and peace.
Dec 2020
Claudie is passionate about her unusual job: scanning the cosmos for signs of extraterrestrial life, hoping to make contact. Completely absorbed in her mission, she gradually loses touch with those around her, and even reality itself could fade away.
Aging painter Louis and his wife Michelle struggle to cope with Louis' advancing dementia.
Jun 2019
Tom (4 years old), Suzanne (8) and Derek (10) spend the weekend with their grandparents. But nothing is as usual: Grandpa seems to be elsewhere; Tom wonders where Grandma has gone, she who always tells him incredible stories; Derek is hard at work renovating the old apple tree hut. So following in the footsteps of her ancestor, Suzanne improvises herself as a storyteller to illuminate the house with imaginary and wonderful stories and try to fill the absence of Grandmother. The movie is an adaptation of three tales written by Arnost Goldflam.
May 2025
Since their parents fell asleep before finishing their bedtime story, Yaya, Mo and Pic, three little marmots, venture into the snowy mountains to ask Horrifox to get to the end of tale since they can't wait for their first hibernation. Let the adventure begin!
Feb 2024
Dec 2022
May 2001
Short stop motion animation film based upon the work of Pierre Corneille.
Nov 2006
The posh MARGUERITE, the clumsy ROSINE, the fearful CLARISSE, and the chatterbox AGNES are getting ready for the agricultural fair where every year Marguerite defends her rosette for the Most Beautiful Cow of Brittany. What they do not know, is that for this new edition there will be a grease haired and white rice flavoured surprise who will take them from their quiet meadow to the hectic life of the sacred cow country: India!
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Bastien and his two friends enter the forbidden zone. Among the ruins and the toxic fog, something lies in wait.
Sep 2018
Apr 2026
Documentary short following French-Vietnamese artist Marcelino Truong on his journey back to Vietnam for the research on his 'roman graphique' 'Une si jolie petite guerre' (A Lovely Little War). Truong looks back to when his family lived in Saigon from 1961 to 1963 when his father served as a translator to then president of the Republic of Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem. The film follows Truong as he ruminates over memories, photos and films, and also conducts a host of interviews with Vietnamese relatives and officials to present a personal and long awaited Vietnamese perspective to the war.
Oct 2012
It's raining in the horned quartet's field. Marguerite, Aglaé, Clarisse and Rosine are grumbling about the bad weather. When it's raining you can't have any fun! Isn't that right Charly?