Films for children age 3 - Films for children age 7 - Films for children age 12 

Short films in competition 1 from age 3

Comics in cinema from age 3

A tribute to hungarian cinema from age 3

Recent films, previews, previously unreleased films from age 3 

Spud

A programme of 5 animated short films with no dialogue or in French

56 minutes

His Head in the Stars (La tête dans les étoiles)

Sylvain Vincendeau / France / 2005 / 9' / 35 mm

Yearning to contemplate the stars, a young man leaves the city and settles down in a tent on a hilltop. He is very happy...

The Genie in a Tin of Ravioli (Le génie de la boîte de raviolis)

Claude Barras / France / 2005 / 7' 34'' / 35 mmArmand works on the assembly-line of a tinned pasta factory. One evening he opens a tin of ravioli. Much to his surprise, a Genie jumps forth, promising to fulfil any two wishes.

Circuit Marine

Isabelle Favez / France / 2003 / 7' 50'' / 35 mm

A ship on the high seas, sailors who fish, eat, drink... and sing. The cat looks at the parrot, the parrot looks at the pretty fish in its bowl, the cat looks at the fish... Who will eat who?

The Other Kids' Castle (Le château des autres)

Pierre Luc Granjon / France / 2004 / 5' 55'' / 35 mm

During a school field trip to a huge castle, one of the children stops for a moment to contemplate a statue and gets separated from the group.

Spud and the Vegetable Garden (Patate et le jardin potager)

Benoît Chieux, Damien Louche-Pélissier / France-Germany / 2001 / 26' / 35 mm

The movie centres on four comrades Spud the potato, Broccoli, Leek and Carrot. When the Gardener doesn't show up one day, the fortified foursome venture outside the vegetable patch to discover a whole new world they have never seen before...

Contact : Folimage

Beezes and Friends

A programme of 9 animated short films / 46' / Beta SP / no dialogue

Do you remember the Beezes, those strange creatures who shared their crazy adventures with you during last year's festival? Meet them (again) in four colourful stories - Lion Tamer, Gone Fishing, Say Cheese, Timber (Bizgeci / Grega Mastnak / Slovenia / 2006 / 4x4'30'' / MDC International). Meet also the snowman with his carrot nose and his new adventures (The Carrot at the Theatre, Teatriporgand / Pärtel Tall / Estonia / 2006 / 6' / Nukufilm). In Utoptic (Utoptique / Etienne Boguet / France / 2005 / 5'15'' / ENSAD), discover a world of black and white stripes and the strange creatures that live there. In Kazkahuette (Pierre-Sylvain Gires, Sophie Devred, Brice Bergeret / France / 2005 / 5'20'' / Premium Films - Supinfocom) five animals set off in pursuit of a peanut. (Point of View)³ ((Point de vue)³  / Gustavo Almenara / France / 2005 / 6'30'' / ENSAD) will prove that reality always depends on one's point of view. To finish with, little Miriam is having a hard time with her feathered friend in Miriam's Nest Box (Miriami pesakast / Riho Unt / Estonia / 2006 / 5' / Nukufilm).

Wednesday, June 14, 4 pm in the video room of the Casino in La Bourboule

Friday, June 16, 2 pm in the video room of the Casino in La Bourboule

Saturday, June 17, 9:30 am in the video room of the Casino in La Bourboule

Suitable for 5-year-olds and up

The Three Musketeers

Jánis Cimermanis / Denmark-Latvia-UK / 2006 / Animation / 1h10' / Beta SP / in French

This is the very first adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' novel in puppet animation! Arriving in Paris, d'Artagnan becomes friends with the three musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Together they will fight against Richelieu, the power-seeking Cardinal, and meet the beautiful Constance Bonacieux... A swashbuckler of a film for all ages featuring the puppets that children at our first festival saw before anyone else!

Contact: Cinéma Public Films

Friday, June 16, 9:30 am at the Casino theatre in La Bourboule

Suitable for 5-year-olds and up

Winky's Horse (Het Paard van Sinterklaas)

Mischa Kamp / Netherlands - Belgium / 2005 / Fiction / 1h30' / 35 mm / in French

Six-year-old Winky Wong and her mother have just joined her father in the small Dutch seaside town where he owns a Chinese restaurant. At first, Winky finds it difficult speaking a new language and trying to make new friends. At school, she learns about Sinterklaas (St. Nicholas), an old, bearded man who gives presents to good children... Winky knows immediately what she will ask for - a horse.

Contact: Les Films du Préau

Wednesday, June 14, 2 pm at the Roxy theatre (in La Bourboule)

Sunday, June 18, 2 pm at the Olympic theatre (in Le Mont-Dore)

Suitable for 5-year-olds and up

The Kid Brother

Lewis Milestone, Ted Wilde / USA / 1926 / Fiction / 1h24' / 35 mm / silent

Together with Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd is a king of burlesque comedy, as will prove this film, in which he plays dreamy Harold Hickory, a beanpole of a boy, the youngest of a family of tough, strong lumberjacks. By chance, he becomes the sheriff of his little village. His first mission is to deal with an accusation of theft against his dad. The clumsy hero must now show what he is made of.

Contact: Carlotta Films

Saturday, june 17, 8:30 pm at the Casino theatre in La Bourboule