The Suicide Shop (Le magasin des sucides) by Patrice Leconte is an anomaly: a film that is so warm that belies its subject-matter, but also contrived and stereotyped.

Approved for Adoption (Couleur de peau: miel / Skin color: honey) by Jung and Laurent Boileau  is a welcome study of a neglected area in child development, but minimizes all the harsh edges of the adoption predicament it describes.

A group of students from the French Gobelins School of Image has made this sweet and psychologically relevant film about timidity.

The new artistic director of the International Animation festival of Annecy, the Canadian Marcel Jean, explains the new changed policy of the celebrated festival.

Joanna Lurie presents two bubble characters in her Partir (Leaving).

When animation can be creative in the most unexpected, instant way. Watch the adult-themed Instant Excitations by Adrien Weber.

A group of students at Supinfocom Arles school, France, have directed a short about a calm but strange funeral. Watch Le Taxidermiste.

The French film Day of the Crows is a most welcome, beautiful and well-constructed story of a savage environment with its long-hidden secrets.

The French directors Julie Rembauville and Nicolas Bianco-Levrin investigate what happens in a society that revolves around the letter R.  Watch the film

Interested in Jean Genet? Watch the experimental Holy Water by Tunc Gencer.

Watch an inventive, and brain-worthy little film: Je m' appelle Nathan (My name is Nathan) by Benoit Berthe.

7 directors tell a romantic death story between a skeleton, a woman, and a dog. Watch  Le fantôme de l'apéro.

The French feature film A Monster in Paris is in reality a paean to Paris, but not to its citizens.

Benjamin Renner presents his César-nominated, La queue de la souris (A Mouse Tale). Watch the film.

Sometimes visual deficiencies become a challenge for animators. Read the info about and watch the  Astigmatismofilm, now Annecy-selected.