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Princes and Princesses

Princes et princesses (French)
Location
Main screening room
Date
October 5th, 2025
Admission
Suggested viewing age: 6 and up
Duration
67 min
Cycle
Animated Films

Animation has always been at the heart of the Cinémathèque québécoise's conservation and programming activities. This program aims to rediscover some of our heritage, and to showcase recent productions.

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Princes and Princesses
Directed by
Michel Ocelot
Language
French
Actors
Voices: Arlette Mirapeu, Philippe Cheytion, Yves Barsacq
Origins
France
Year
2000
Duration
67 min
Genre
Animation, comedy, family
Format
35 mm
Synopsis

In an abandoned movie theater, a girl and a boy meet late at night to make up stories. With the help of a former projectionist, they perform six shadow puppet stories on the theater screen.

Princes and Princesses
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Drawing on the iconography of fairy tales, this enchanting shadow theatre playfully subverts certain preconceived notions. In a mise en abyme of cinema as a collective creation, we travel through different eras and countries, marvelling at the finesse of the paper cut-out animation, and letting ourselves be lulled by the poetry of the stories.

Michel Ocelot

Michel Ocelot is a French filmmaker known for his work in animated films. He is best known for his trilogy of animated films, Kirikou, made between 1998 in 2012. He is also the screenwriter and director of the triptych Princes et princesses (2000), Les contes de la nuit (2011) et Ivan Tsarevitch et la princesse changeante (2016), made from cut-out paper. He also won awards for Azur et Asmar (2006) and Dilili in Paris (2018), which earned him the César Award for Best Animated Film in 2019.

Bio: Wikipedia
Photo: Nikeush, CC BY-SA 4.0

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