Don’t miss this hilarious new animated comedy from the producers of The Triplets of Belleville and The Secret of Kells (NY/SF ICFF 2010). Laurent is so good at telling bedtime stories that his kids decide to enter him in a reality-show TV contest, where the competing dads are given cues and have to invent a bedtime story on the spot. Who will tell the best story? Will it be the music-loving dad? The know-it-all professor? The dad with anger management issues? Or will it be Eric, Laurent’s manipulative, lying, cheating co-worker, who will stop at nothing to see Laurent fail? Deceptively simple animation clears space for rapid-fire joking and visual humor—as the scene shifts back and forth between the studio sound stage and the fathers’ imagined stories, where princesses ride dolphins and prehistoric cavemen sing operettas—riffing on everything from Harry Potter to Mick Jagger along the way. Inspired by the director’s own childhood memories, The Storytelling Show is a raucous tribute to the joys of imagination and the limitless possibilities of a good story. Note: Mild language.

Johnny 
Colorful stop motion, goofy live action, surreal homemade sets and a ridiculous pigeon costume come together to humorous effect in a tongue-in-cheek fable about what happens to little boys who don’t drink their milk. (Malena Modeer, Germany 2010, 5 min)


(77 min. In French with subtitles) Recommended for ages seven and up.