Films for kids and the young at heart
LATVIA, Poland | 70 minutes | 2019
Seven-year-old Jacob wants to be an architect. While his father is away on business, he grudgingly agrees to spend a week with his cousin Mimmi in a suburb of Riga. As the boy explores his new environment, he unexpectedly runs into a pack of talking dogs. With Mimi and his new canine friends by his side, Jacob tries to save the neighbourhood from a huge real-estate development. An environmental fairy-tale in cut-out animation adapted from a book by renowned children’s author Luize Pastore (The Missing Monkey). CANADIAN PREMIERE.
BFI London Festival
No biography
2019 Jacob, Mimmi and the Talking Dogs2017 Pigtail and Mr. Sleeplessness, short2014 Isle of Seals, short2012 Choir Tour, short2012 International Father’s Day, short2010-2015 Shammies2009 Springtime in Crow Street, short2007 Little Birds Diary, short
Violette is an eight-year-old orphan. She moves in with her uncle, Régis, a maintenance worker at the Palace of Versailles
Short film
FRANCE | 29 minutes | 2019
The dachshund doesn‘t get why its behind always has to pee.
GERMANY | 4 minutes | 2018
A small tiger decides to take a long trip in the hope of finding its stripes.
FRANCE, SWITZERLAND | 9 minutes | 2018
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