Dans un petit village de la côte Ouest africaine, le jeune Sidi Kaba vit paisiblement avec sa famille, à l’abri des hommes de la mer qui « dévorent » depuis des siècles ses semblables.
Ce soir, le village est en fête. Les jeunes initiés ont trouvé leur animal Totem ! Sidi admire son grand frère Azou, dont l’ombre de la panthère se projette sur le rocher ancestral. Lui aussi rêve de trouver son Totem. Avec ses jeunes amis, Abdou et les jumeaux, ils se sentent prêts ! Ils ont d’ailleurs prévu de se rendre dans la forêt interdite, tôt ce matin.
Hélas, les hommes de la mer, emmenés par le terrible Capitaine Sacabas, profitent de sa naïveté pour le suivre et attaquer son village. Azou est capturé tandis que leur père agonise. Il semble qu’il n’y ait plus d’espoir. A la cime d’un arbre, Sidi voit son grand frère passer la Porte Sans Retour, embarqué de force sur le navire de Sacabas.
Inconscient du danger, il s’élance dans l’océan mais une lame de fond l’emporte. Alors qu’il sombre dans les profondeurs, la déesse Mamy Wata vient à son secours et propose de l’aider à retrouver son frère. En échange, Sidi doit la réhabiliter auprès de son peuple !
A l’abri dans le ventre d’une baleine, le petit Sidi Kaba se lance dans une incroyable aventure, où le sort de son frère et celui des esclaves de l’Ile à Sucre dépendent d’une bataille homérique entre résistants marrons, esclavagistes et divinités oubliées !
A GREYHOUND OF A GIRL
Mary O’Hara is a sharp and cheeky 12-year-old Dublin schoolgirl who is bravely facing the fact that her beloved Granny is dying. But Granny can’t let go of life, and when a mysterious young woman turns up in Mary’s street with a message for her Granny, Mary gets pulled into an unlikely adventure. The woman is the ghost of Granny’s own mother, who has come to help her daughter say good-bye to her loved ones and guide her safely out of this world. She needs the help of Mary and her mother, Scarlett, who embark on a road trip to the past. Four generations of women travel on a midnight car journey. One of them is dead, one of them is dying, one of them is driving, and one of them is just starting out.
APPLE PIE LULLABY
IN PRODUCTION
Thelma is a little penguin who is not like the others.
She doesn’t like snow very much, or freezing water, and she wishes she could fly. Was that because she was born in the Great Forest, and partially raised by her best friends, Cat Vilhelm and Mouse Sophia?
Living in the Land of Ice again, Thelma also worries about her upcoming birthday. What if Birthday doesn’t find her snow-covered house – will she have to stay four forever?
When Thelma tries to organize a Birthday Party for her forest friends, she tumbles into a great adventure that will teach her all she needs to know to become a proper penguin.
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An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn’t consider.
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Despite the ridicule of his cruel older brothers, Antis, the youngest son in his family embarks on a mission to save a beautiful Princess from the glass mountain where she has been imprisoned by the Black Mother, an evil witch who feeds on the sadness of others. On his journey, Antis meets the helpful White Father, the sworn enemy of Black Mother. However, Antis soon realises there are many more obstacles standing in his way. Will Antis’ be able to save the Princess’s through persistence and bravery and conquer the Black Mother?
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Our three little friends, Pipì, Pupù and Rosmary, travel throughout the world in search of Mapà. Pipì is a funny racoon, Pupù a joyful little bird, and Rosmary a very sensible rabbit.
Read MoreGLOBI & THE STOLEN SHADOW
Teenagers Lucinda and Benji are rock musicians. When the villain, Maestro, steals Benji’s shadow, the boy can no longer play a note. Worse, he begins, physically, to fade away. The hero, Globi, tracks Maestro to a subterranean Gothic opera house, where he discovers that Maestro steals musicians’ shadows in order to control all the world’s music. Globi and his friends must reunite the shadows with their musicians, and so save all the world’s music. GLOBI is essentially a movie for children and it therefore deals with its potentially complex premise – the theft of shadows – in a clear, accessible way. The older and more sophisticated members of the audience will be piqued by the significance of shadows … the shadow world … the shadow as an analogy for the soul … while the younger members will simply see the shadow thefts as part of the drama and the comedy. And, of course, GLOBI is at heart a comedy. Like all good comedy, it has real drama and conflict at base – but it never loses its sense of humor; it never takes itself or its characters too seriously; and it retains a great feeling for the fun in every situation. Much of the movie’s humor is physical, some of it slapstick. Its characters – particularly Globi, Maestro and the Rat, are astonishingly expressive in visual terms – that expressiveness fully exploited in the animation.
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In a little village somewhere in Africa, a boy named Kirikou is born. But he’s not a normal boy, because he knows what he wants very well. Also he already can speak and walk. His mother tells him how an evil sorceress has dried up their spring and devoured all males of the village except of one. Hence little Kirikou decides, he will accompany the last warrior to the sorceress. Due to his intrepidity he may be the last hope of the village.
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Every year at Christmas time, the good witch Befana flies on her broom delivering toys to all the well-behaved children of Italy. But this year, Befana’s assistant, the greedy Dr. Scarafoni, intends to force rich parents to pay for toys and to give nothing to poor children ! To fulfill his sinister plans, he makes Befana very sick… Dr. Scarafoni then begins to rule Befana’s shop with an iron hand. He drives out of the shop orphan boy Francesco, who was staring bedazzled at The Blue Arrow, a wonderful wooden train… Outraged, the toys decide to escape : they climb onto The Blue Arrow train which starts rolling, rolling away from Dr. Scarafoni ! Their aim is to go and give themselves to the children they were meant for. Spicciola, a special toy dog, makes a wish that his nose will lead him to Francesco. Francesco is accused of stealing the missing toys and arrested. Meanwhile, the toys on the Blue Arrow train are chased across the city by Dr. Scarafoni, meeting many dangers on their way. Finally, Befana finds out about Scarafoni’s dreadful plans and has her toymakers create more toys hastily. She gets Francesco released by the police, then rushes to deliver her gifts. As morning nears, Befana delivers toys to all the good children, rich or poor… and last but not least, turns Spicciola into a real dog for his new best friend Francesco !
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