French Animation
Humans and fish compete for attention in the tender Ride Toward the Sea by Damien Stein.
The world of high heels and how not to leave your child unattended. Watch the charmingly deviant The Red Heels.
Benoît Delaunay, Albane Hertault Lacoste, Maïwenn le Borgne, and Alexia Provoost present a dramatic tale of three cats.
A new version of the prince waiting to be kissed. Watch the Gobelins students short, The Dauphin Dolphin.
A new feature in production details the story of troubled times in Cambodia, and finds French distribution. Director Denis Do talks to Zippyframes.com about Funan.
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.
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.
A Roman soldier is asked to deliver a message through the forest, but has to pass through a bear guarding its own space. Watch Dum Spiro.
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.
