L'école de l'image

The sixth short opener for the Annecy Festival, produced in collaboration with our African partners "The Animation School" and "Tshimologong Precinct."

A child fishing in a puddle using bananas as bait catches a bigger fish than he can handle and flees with the giant fish in pursuit.

After being separated for several years, a young woman invites her mother into her house. Reunions oscillate between reconciliation and violence, and reveals the personality of the girl and the one of powerful and overwhelming mother..

A trip across a megacity's streets visually revealed by an hypnotic line game..

A young soldier without experience is sent to a surveillance post in the middle of the desert.

Two men look at a woman. One wants her, the other one gets her.

A little boy speaks about hedgehogs all the time to everybody.

Losing touch with reality, a woman consults her therapist to appease her distress.

The many faces of China put together like a puzzle.

A wizard discovers a wand's wanders.

Tired park ranger Jude struggles to find her place in her team. Her determination to prove herself leads her to a place where she'll find herself lonelier than ever.

In an abandoned industrial area, a strange phenomena poisons the environment. A girl has to take care of her sick father suffering from his sickness.

In a martial arts boarding school in northern China, a little girl fights to be a champion.

"Y" hears a sound next door.

China, in the early sixties: an angry mob is persecuting a rich landowner. Mei, a young worker, who is part of the crowd. Suddenly she recognizes the victim who she secretly loves. Frightened of revealing her feelings, Mei doesn't know what to do.

It's a story about a young boy who is afraid of the sea. He finds shelter, in the house of an old woman who paints the sea.

An ambitious king seeks the help of a beaver to build him a castle.

On a distant planet, two scientists analyzing the field for its magnetic properties are facing an extraordinary phenomenon linked to the lunar eclipse.

On a renovation site in Shanghai in the 80’s, workers are waking up from their daily nap and going back to work.

A child chases after his dream.