Films for children 5+

A little girl is at the zoo with her mom, who seems rather busy. She takes advantage of her mom’s inattention to make friends with a gorilla thinking they can play, she can braid his hair or read a book together. That way, neither the little girl nor the guerrilla will be bored. A funny film about an unexpected friendship told through dynamic, classic and simple illustration.

During a Laplander marathon, in a snowy wasteland with freezing temperatures, Always Last lines up at the starting line and quickly realizes this race has its own strange rules. Unexpected accidents, surprising breaks, magical meetings will all get in our protagonist’s way, on her road to capturing her prize in a colorfully sublime, moody and metaphoric animation about winning and losing.

The Moon wolves wake up at night and stare at the huge shining disc. They like anything that shines in the dark – fireflies, candles on the cake, and lightbulbs. One night, they can’t resist the silver glow and decide to travel to the Moon. In this animation, the unusual mood flows from the incessant play of flashing light and deep darkness in a tale of irresistible temptation and desire for beauty.

Once upon a time, a little girl happily lived with a family of buffaloes. One day, she found a little boy whose soul was a bird that made everyone happy with his song. When night came, dark and evil, everyone hurried home to close their windows and doors. Once, when they forgot to do it, the bird disappeared, in this moving story about the sadness of solitude and joy of being together.

Mommy Lady Bird is enjoying a beautiful day on the meadow with her baby ladybirds. Suddenly, everything changes as night falls because the ladybug lands in a matchbox. The brave mother does not give up and looking for a way out. She finally extracts herself from the box only to discover she is inside a pocket, a pocket inside coat, a coat inside the closet… The world itself is one huge box.

An alarm goes off in the forest because a tree poacher has illegally axed some trunks! The animals call a council to consider how to catch the rascal and decide to set a trap. The perpetrator quickly gets caught, but it turns out he did not have bad intentions. From the imagination of Eleanor Stewart, who specializes in paper animation, the cardboard forest pulses with life, surprises with colors, while its residents move our hearts.

A princess meets two knights on her walk and both are beautiful. Unfortunately, both immediately fall in love with her and there is only one thing for a brave knight to do in such a situation: duel. Little remains of the two after the combat, but the Princess knows exactly what to do and uses what is left of the two youths to compose one perfect knight. An amusing story stylized to be a folk fairytale.