Miniscule, Les Petits Cailloux Win the 2015 Césars

The 40th César Awards, which honor excellence in French cinema, presented awards to two animated films.

Miniscule: The Valley of the Lost Ants, a burlesque 3D action adventure into the world of ants, won the French award for best animated feature.

Directors Thomas Szabo and Hélène Giraud first conceived it as a TV series, and along with producer Philippe Delarue turned it into a feature film. Miniscule won the Oscar-nominated Irish film Song of the Sea by Tomm Moore, by Cartoon Saloon, and the mechanical 19th-century adventure of Jack and the Cuckoo Clock Heart.

Les Petits Cailloux by Chloé Mazlo (production: Les Films Sauvages)  won the César for best animated short film. Les Petits Cailloux is a 15-minute animated and live-action short. It tells the story of a mysterious illness that befalls the young Chloé, a pain she must get rid of as soon as she can.

The 40th César awards ceremony took place on 20 February 2015 (Théâtre du Châtelet).