Movies: Vivement Lundi

Recounted mostly through animation to protect his identity, Amin looks back over his past as a child refugee from Afghanistan as he grapples with a secret he’s kept hidden for 20 years....

Tom (4 years old), Suzanne (8) and Derek (10) spend the weekend with their grandparents. But nothing is as usual: Grandpa seems to be elsewhere; Tom wonders where Grandma has gone, she who always tells him incredible stories; Derek is hard at work re...

Early 20th century, in the Ughetto family's home village, Ughettera, Northern Italy. Life in the region had become very difficult and the Ughettos dreamed of a better life abroad. Legend has it that Luigi Ughetto crossed the Alps and started a new li...

Everyone has seen a Trumbull sequence in Stanley Kubrick's "2001 A Space Odyssey", Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" or Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". Recognized and respected SFX maestro, he has also directed two full-length fi...

Yuku is a young mouse who lives with her family in the cellar of a castle. Her grandmother passes on the family values by telling her timeless folk tales. Injured in a tussle with a cat, the old mouse is bedridden and she tells her children that she ...

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 giraf...

In 1885, Africa is a succulent cake destined to be wildly divided and everyone wants a piece. A disturbed European king, a Pygmy working in a luxury hotel, a successful but lonely businessman, an enslaved porter, a young army deserter, a ghostly clar...

Locked in a room with a fan, a Bird teaches a Little Bird how to fly, even though he has no wings. The appearance of a mysterious briefcase will ruin Bird’s plans, and will reveal to Little Bird an unexpected possibility of escape....

Aging painter Louis and his wife Michelle struggle to cope with Louis' advancing dementia....

Short stop motion animation film based upon the work of Pierre Corneille....

Olivia, a 12-year-old middle class girl, is forced to reorganize her basic needs when her family (mother, little brother and herself) is evicted and forced to live in a squatted apartment on the edge of the big city, in a rough neighborhood. Her moth...

Forced to return to his naturist roots, Willy bungles his way into noble savagery....

The posh MARGUERITE, the clumsy ROSINE, the fearful CLARISSE, and the chatterbox AGNES are getting ready for the agricultural fair where every year Marguerite defends her rosette for the Most Beautiful Cow of Brittany. What they do not know, is that ...

In a society where the greatest concern is the size and power of one’s wings, nihilist Ciobeck tries to protect Moann. But how can one survive in a barren land populated by imprisoned-mind people?...

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A young man opens the window of his attic room and discovers a lunar landscape which submerges him and threatens to imprison him in an eternal sheet of ice. He closes the window to escape this vision and hears from deep inside his soul the sound of a...

On a moonless night, a character with overlong arms walks. Preceded by his shadow, he goes to an arena where he is about to perform a ritual....

Rosine, Marguerite, Clarisse and Aglae graze peacefully in their fields. They have never had the opportunity to go on an adventure and do not know much about the world around them. One beautiful spring morning, they unexpectedly discover a hairy crea...

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Robert Mitchum lives in a deserted movie set....