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

Recent films, previews, previously unreleased films

 

Linda, Linda, Linda

From age 10

Previously unreleased

Nobuhiro Yamashita / Japan / 2005 / Fiction / 1h54’ / 35mm / Original version with French subtitles

A music band of schoolgirls must play at the school festival, but the singer has a little accident and cannot perform. A young exchange student from Korea accepts to cover for her, but she can’t sing and her Japanese isn’t quite perfect yet! An award-winning music film (Ciné-Junior Festival).

Contact: Bitters End, Inc

At the Olympic Cinema in Le Mont-Dore

Opening Ceremony, Friday 13 June, 9pm

Monday 16 June, 2pm

Wednesday 18 June, 2pm

African Experience 

Preview

Laurent Chevallier / France / 2008 / Documentary / 1h34 / Beta SP / In French

In his latest film, Laurent Chevallier follows African music band Fölifö during their artist residency at the jazz school in Marciac, France, and then the young students from Marciac as they travel to Guinea to meet with the band. This musical exchange turns out to be an unforgettable experience for the young people and becomes an initiatory journey for both groups, one discovering a continent, the other exploring the African roots of jazz music.

At the Casino Theatre in La Bourboule

Saturday 14 June, 8:30pm in the presence of Laurent Chevallier

Almost Adult

The story of two teenage girls who come from different countries and speak different languages but grow to be like family. The two girls meet at a bus station in Birmingham after arriving in the UK as unaccompanied minors in search of asylum. Mamie, the elder of the two, takes Shiku under her wing. In doing so, she resolves to be the younger girl’s big sister. A deeply moving account of immigration.

Contact: Bankside Films

At the Olympic cinema in Le Mont-Dore

Sunday 15 June, 8:30pm

Wednesday 18 June, 10:30am

Chop Shop

From age 13

Preview

Ramin Bahrani / USA / 2007 / Fiction / 1h24’ / 35mm / Original version with French subtitles

Alejandro, a tough and ambitious Latino street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard on the outskirts of Queens, New York. In this chaotic world of adults, young Alejandro struggles to make a better life for himself and his 16-year-old sister, Isamar. A film discovered at the “Directors’ Fortnight” during the 2007 Cannes Festival.

Contact: Pierre Grise Distribution

At the Roxy Cinema in La Bourboule

Sunday 15 June, 6pm

Tuesday 17 June, 8:30pm