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The programme in 2009
The programme in 2010Films for children age 3 - Films for children age 7 - Films for children age 12
Recent films, previews, previously unreleased films
Suitable for children aged 7 and up
Just So Stories (Histoires comme ça) previously unreleased
1h08’
A selection of previously unreleased European animation short films, including three episodes from Just So Stories, an adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s stories, narrated by Daniel Pennac.
Just So stories : How The Leopard Got His Spots (Histoires comme ça : Le Léopard et ses tâches)
Jean-Jacques Prunès / France / 2008 / Animation / 13’ / Beta SP / In French
Do you know how the leopard got his spots?
Contact: Les Films de l'Arlequin
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Big Plans (Grosse Pläne)
Irmgard Walthert / Switzerland / 2008 / Animation / 3’59’’ / Beta SP / No dialogues
Despite well designed plans, it is very hard to build a machine which sells apples. But a great idea could solve the problem…
Contact: HGK Lucerne
The Musical Bicycle (Le Son du pignon)
David Martin / France / 2008 / Animation / 2’23’’ / Beta SP / No dialogues
A bicycle repairman absorbed in a dull everyday work is swept over by the repetitive rhythm.
Contact: ENSAD
Just So stories: How The First Letter Was Written (Histoires comme ça : La Première Lettre)
Jean-Jacques Prunès / France / 2008 / Animation / 13’ / Beta SP / In French
When a caveman's spear breaks while fishing, his daughter composes the world's first letter and sends it home to her mother requesting the delivery of a new spear.
Contact: Les Films de l'Arlequin
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Colchique
Jean-Luc Gréco / France-Canada / 2008 / Animation / 10’ / Beta SP / In French
A few fleetingly poetic, melancholy moments from the life of Fernand, a little boy who lives with his mother Josette, his aunt Louise and a waggish dog named Colchique.
Contact: Les Films à Carreaux
Let Them Grow (Arrosez-les bien !)
Christelle Soutif / France / 2008 / Animation / 7’51’’ / Beta SP / In French
Gustave lets a farm seed salesman convince him to buy Gerblo corn, a veritable weapon against caterpillars. Unfortunately, the corn doesn’t just destroy caterpillars…
Contact: The Pumpkin Factory
The Finger Trap
Julia McLean / UK / 2008 / Animation / 4’29’’ / Beta SP / No dialogues
The elderly Wilson Brown becomes stuck in his Chinese finger trap toy whilst preparing a surprise for his wife.
Contact: Julia McLean
Just So stories : The Elephant’s Child (Histoires comme ça : L’Enfant d’éléphant)
Jean-Jacques Prunès / France / 2008 / Animation / 13’ / Beta SP / In French
The story of an irrepressibly curious baby elephant.
Contact: Les Films de l'Arlequin
Sunday 14 June, 11am - In the Video Room of the Casino, La Bourboule
Monday 15 June, 6pm - Casino Screen, La Bourboule
Tuesday 16 June, 6pm - In the Video Room of the Casino, La Bourboule
Wednesday 17 June, 11am - In the Video Room of the Casino, La Bourboule
The Perfect World of Kai (Piano no Mori) preview
Masayuki Kojima / Japan / 2009 / Fiction / 1h41’ / 35mm / In French
A gentle tale about two boys from very different upbringings: Kai, the son of a prostitute who has played an abandoned piano in the forest near his home ever since he was young, and Syuhei, the son of a family of prestigious pianists. Their common bond with the piano eventually causes their paths to cross.
Contact: Eurozoom
Thursday 11 June, 8:30pm – At the Olympic Cinema in Le Mont-Dore
Mr Hulot’s Holiday (Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot) preview
Jacques Tati / France / 1953 / Fiction / 1h36’ / 35mm / In French
Pipe-smoking Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati's endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati's wildly funny satire of vacationers determined to enjoy themselves includes a series of precisely choreographed sight gags involving dogs, boats and firecrackers.
The first entry in the Hulot series is a masterpiece of gentle slapstick.
Tati’s masterpiece of gentle slapstick on restored print.
Contact: Carlotta Films
Sunday 14 June, 8:30pm - Casino Screen, La Bourboule
Suitable for children aged 10 and upThe Girl (Flickan)Fredrik Edfeldt / Sweden / 2009 / Fiction / 1h35’ / 35mm / Original version with French subtitlesIn a lonely house in the countryside a ten-year-old girl has to spend her summer with her bohemian aunt when her parents go to Africa to work on an aid project. But when her aunt goes sailing with a man she has just met, the young girl must look after herself. A coming-of-age story with the stunning performance of young actress Blanca Engström.
Contact: Swedish Film Institute
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Saturday 13 June, 8:30pm
Monday 15 June, 9:30am
At the Olympic Cinema in Le Mont-Dore