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Clara Sola
In a remote village in Costa Rica, 40-year-old Clara endures a repressively religious and withdrawn life under the command of her mother. Her uncanny affinity for creatures large and small allows Clara to find solace in the natural world around her. Tension builds within the family as Clara’s younger niece approaches her quinceañera, igniting a...
Ennio
Not recommended for young children A documentary on the legendary film composer Ennio Morricone. Official Selection – Venice Film Festival – 2021
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Leo and Remi are two thirteen-year-old best friends, whose seemingly unbreakable bondis suddenly, tragically torn apart. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes FilmFestival, Lukas Dhont’s second film is an emotionally transformative and unforgettableportrait of the intersection of friendship and love, identity and independence, andheartbreak and healing. Grand Prize – Cannes Film Festival...
Best of Annecy Kids 2022 | Films d’animation
The Best of Annecy Kids 2022 assembles funny, touching and poetic short films that children will adore! In the program:Renouveau, by GOBELINS, l’école de l’image (France)*Luce and the Rock, by Britt Raes (Belgium, The Netherlands, France, 2022) – 12 minLa Soupe de Franzy, by Ana Chubinidze (France, Georgia, 2021) – 8 min*Histoire pour 2 trompettes, by Amandine Meyer (France, 2021) – 5 minCat and Moth, by India Barnardo (Canada, United Kingdom, 2021) – 7 minBellysaurus, by Philip Watts (Australia, 2021) – 7 minLa Reine des renards, by Marina Rosset (Switzerland, 2022) – 8 min 6 years and older. *Featured Pictures
Miss Marx
CANADIAN PREMIERE En compétition – Mostra de Venise – 2020Official selection – Belgrade International Film Festival – 2021Best Producer, Best Music, Best Costume Design – David di Donatello Awards – 2021Prize Italy in the World – Globi d’Oro – 2021 With Romola Garai, Patrick Kennedy, John Gordon Sinclair Bright, intelligent, passionate and free, Eleanor is Karl Marx’s youngest daughter. Among the first women to link the themes of feminism and socialism, she takes part in the workers’ battles and fights for women’s rights and the abolition of child labor. In 1883 she meets Edward Aveling and her life is crushed by their passionate but tragic love story.
Josep
Best Animated Film – César Awards – France – 2021Official Selection – Festival de Cannes – France – 2020Best European Animated Feature Film Award – European Film Award – Germany – 2020 February 1939. Spanish republicans are fleeing Franco’s dictatorship to France. The French government built concentration camps, confining the refugees, where they barely have access to hygiene, water and food. In one of these camps, separated by barbed wire, two men will become friends. One is a guard, the other is Josep Bartolí, an illustrator who fights against Franco’s regime.
Mon père est une saucisse
Best Feature Live Action Film – Providence Children’s Film Festival – 2022 5 years old and older When Paul (Johan Heldenbergh) decides to give up his boring but steady office job as a banker, this does not go down well with his children. Their dad wants to pursue his dream and become an actor. Is it a burnout? A midlife crisis? When his ambitious wife Véronique (Hilde De Baerdemaeker) comes home from yet another business trip and hears the news, there’s no telling where it will stop. The Schutijzers are a pleasantly disturbed family, but this is going a few bridges too far. According to Véronique, Paul must come to his senses. His youngest daughter Zoë is the only one who believes in her father. She encourages him and joins him in his adventure. What at first seems to be a ridiculous plan, doomed to fail and threatening to tear the whole Schutijzer family apart, ends up being a funny, exciting and moving journey that awakens and enchants the whole family. My dad is a sausage is a feel-good comedy about pursuing dreams and the courage it takes to do so.
Best of Annecy 2021 | Films d’animation
Best of Annecy 2021 program combines a selection of shorts, mainly winning films from the latest Festival with two tailor-made opening sequences by second year students from the GOBELINS, l’école de l’image. In the program: Collection Capsule, by GOBELINS, l’école de l’image (France, 2021) – 1 min Boxballet, by Anton Dyakov (Russia, 2020) – 15 min* Hold Me Tight, by Mélanie Robert-Tourneur (France, 2021) – 6 min* Easter Eggs, by Nicolas Keppens (Belgium, France, Netherlands, 2021) – 14 min Affairs of the Art, by Joanna Quinn (United Kingdom and Canada, 2021) – 16 min* La confiture de papillons, by Shih-Yen Huang (France andTaiwan, 2021) – 6 min Écorce, by Silvain Monney and Samuel Patthey (Switzerland, 2020) – 15 min Le parc, by GOBELINS, l’école de l’image (France, 2021) – 1 min 13 years and older. *Featured Pictures
Le cheval de Saint Nicolas
Winky Wong just moved to a small seaside resort, where her parents have a Chinese restaurant. She meets Auntie Cor and her husband Uncle Siem who live on a farm and have a pony. When this pony dies of old age, there is only one thing Winky wants: a new horse. But that seems to be a dream which will never come true. Winky learns about Sinterklaas. Winky’s parents think Sinterklaas doesn’t exist and they are certain that Sinterklaas will never give her a horse. She decides not to bother with her parents. They don’t know anything about Holland anyway! Winky is disappointed when she receives a toy from Sinterklaas at school. Outside she sees a real white horse tied to her bike, Winky rides the horse to her house. Is it a present for Winky? It appears to be a misunderstanding, but at Auntie Cor’s house Winky gets the best present ever. All publics from 4 years old.*In the current context, the organization is cancelling the event.
My Life as a Comedian
QUEBEC PREMIERE Official selection, Discovery Section – Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) – 2019 Juha, 12, class clown in the suburb of Sävbyholm, Sweden. To be funny is the only thing he is good at and all he wants is to fit in the social peckingorder at school. As an adult, Juha has found success, performing the show – My Life As A Comedian – to sold out theatres where he tells the horrid and funny stories from his childhood to a delighted audience. When he gets an unexpected visit from an old friend from school, Juha is forced to return to Sävbyholm to deal with his past.