FILMS

In 2075, a ten-year-old girl named Iris witnesses a mysterious boy dressed in a rainbow suit fall from the sky. His name is Arco, and he’s come from an idyllic, distant future where time travel is possible. Iris takes him in and will do whatever it takes to help him return to his own time. An animation gem arriving fresh from the Annecy Film Festival, where it won awards for Best Feature Film and Best Original Soundtrack.

Arnold is a middle-aged mouse caught in an existential crisis. His marriage is falling apart, his life seems absurd to him, and he’s beginning to suspect that everything around him is a big sham. When his best friend dies under suspicious circumstances, Arnold becomes convinced that something doesn’t add up. What begins as everyday paranoia turns into a desperate escape towards something that resembles, even if only a tiny bit, freedom.

Until the age of two-and-a-half years old, Amélie describes herself as a digestive tube, inert and vegetative. Then comes the crucial event that throws her headlong into the world of childhood. For the next six months, she discovers language, her parents, her brothers and sisters, the paradise of her garden, her passions (Japan and water), her aversions (the carp), the seasons and time. Everything that, from the age of three, shapes the human person for the rest of their lives.

Maya and her dad, Michel Gondry, live in two different countries. In order to stay in touch, her dad asks her every evening, «Maya, give me a title». Based on her answer, he creates a short animated reply in which Maya is the hero. Michel Gondry brings to life a poetic and amusing journey that will have the little ones dreaming… and the grown-ups smiling.

Olivia, her little brother Tim, and their mother Ingrid are evicted from their home and have to start over in a new neighborhood. While Ingrid juggles to sort out the situation, Olivia creates a protective fantasy for her brother and herself: nothing they’re experiencing is real—they’re just shooting a movie.