Festival national du film d'animation 2010

No One Is an Island

October 2024 •English

Through an animated conversation, scientists explore if everyone can live well without harming the environment and reveal how hope and creativity can inspire change.

Good Old Cuttlas

January 1990 •Spanish

Stick-figure animation makes for a witty genre send-up of the Western.

William Wilson

January 1999 •Spanish

Edgar Allan Poe’s ill-fated hero meets his double.

Dimitri in Ubuyu

May 2014 •French

Dimitri, the little bird from northern Europe, has landed on the plain of Ubuyu in Africa. Every day he learns to overcome his fears and discover a world full of surprises. In Ubuyu being different is an asset that he will share with Makeba the giraffe, Oko the zebra and Pili the meerkat.

Ways and Means

January 1970 •English

Eastern Bloodthirsty Hugo

February 1997 •Czech

The film animation technique of pixilation was used in this short comedy. The notorious criminal Bloodthirsty Hugo has broken out of prison again. He is an arsonist, has no respect for old people and absolutely no maiden in the region is safe with him on the loose. In order to catch him his pursuers set a trap with irresistible bait: a lovely maiden bending over her washing by a stream...

Japanese Kitchen

January 1999 •Japanese

In 1999, Tabaimo exhibited her undergraduate thesis work, Japanese Kitchen and was awarded the prestigious Kirin Contemporary Award, marking the beginning of her international career.

Secrets de lac

January 2006 •French

Happy End

September 2017 •Czech

A splendid chain of unlikely encounters. Hunters, a tractor driver, a disco boy, and a corpse.

Suicide

January 1973 •Polish

A black-humored short story of a suicide attempt that ends abruptly (ain’t that always the way!). Short black and white animation on 8mm.

The Thread and the Kitten

February 1974 •Ukrainian

Late at night, when all household members had gone to bed, a kitten woke up and felt that it overcohasmes insomnia. How to have fun? The playful kid went to investigate. It turned out that coiled balls of yarn did not sleep too, and there was a sky-blue thread, cheerful and kind, which, like the kitten, wanted to play. Will they make friends with the kitten?

Wet Paint

January 1977 •English

[The] Insinuation of accidentally spilled ink that would be running across the paper in random, aleatory oozes displaces the graceful liquidity of the careful animated choreography. - William Moritz

Summer 96

May 2023 •French

The eternal August 15 picnic on Callot Island. But this year, Paul, his family and their friends find themselves trapped by the tide. Paul, upset, stuck between the world of adults and that of children, becomes aware of his individuality.

Ça ira - The song of the french revolution

January 1973 •French

Short animated by György Kovásznai and musicalized by the popular song "Ça ira" that illustrates through paintings, the events that made up the french revolution and its multiple founders.

Metamorphoses

June 1965 •Hungarian

Animated look at an ever-changing portrait of a man and a woman

Under Your Fingers

July 2015 •French

The day of the cremation of her grand mother, Emilie, a young mixed-race Asian girl, buries herself into her grandmother memories. She discovers the Indochina of Hoa, her romantic encounter with Jacques (a French colon), the birth of Linh (Emilie's mother) and her tragic departure to France in 1956. She relives with Linh the arrival into the camp of Sainte-Livrade, the exploitation of the Indochinese women by the market gardeners of Lot-et-Garonne. Between memories, dance, anger and traditional rituals, Emilie learns to accept this heritage.

The Elephant and the Whale

January 1985 •French

An elephant saves an unfortunate whale from being paraded in front of the public and takes it away with the circus caravan to put it back into the sea.

Le nez à la fenêtre

January 2001 •French

La solitude est un animal de compagnie

October 2019 •French

In the Shade of the Old Applesauce

October 1931 •English

This short animation is dubbed a "Paramount Screen Souvenir" is a lost Fleischer Studios Screen Song featuring Betty Boop and Bimbo.