Le Livre Magique

Following a fall during mistletoe picking, Druid Getafix decides that it is time to secure the future of the village. Accompanied by Asterix and Obelix, he undertakes to travel the Gallic world in search of a talented young druid to transmit the Secret of the Magic Potion.

Eliane Walther's puppet theater has been presenting fairy tales for children since 2008. She creates a magical and poetic world with simple means. Everything is created by hand in miniature form, from the witch's house, the protagonists and the books to the vegetable garden. During theatrical performances, Eliane Walther varies her own voice for each character. This brings the wonders and adventures of the stories to life and delights her audience.

A young boy named Nicholas is about to become the next Santa Claus, but must first avoid a crisis that's threatening the magic of Christmas before he can succeed in his new role.

Characters from a large magic book come to life.

Robert and his fiancée Lucienne were due to go on vacation together to a tented village in Sicily. Robert is forced to postpone his trip and only joins Lucienne a few days later, taking advantage of the departure of a following group. During the train journey, he befriends Thérèse, a young Sicilian living in Paris, who wants to make a pilgrimage to the land of her ancestors. Lucienne is away from the camp when Robert arrives, so he can continue to see Thérèse, and little by little they discover that they love each other. When Lucienne returns, an explanation and reconciliation take place, then Robert changes his mind and, with the vacations over, leaves Lucienne alone to live in Sicily with Thérèse, who wants to stay in her family's homeland.

A remarkable early short silent movie that shows what may be achieved with the technology of the day. A woman sits in front of her dressing table mirror, looking at her jewellery and her reflection in the mirror. Suddenly, another woman appears in the mirror. As the woman watches, the image changes to other women. As the woman looks at her jewellery, women's faces begin to appear in the jewellery stones.

TV short for the ORTF.

Tunisia's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1995

Showing a weird invention, called hypnotic mirror, in action. Placed before anyone the polished surface reflects the actual thoughts within their minds. Its uses in the court room, the home and the school house are cleverly shown. When the mechanism tells a wife the truth about her husband, something commences.

Émile Cohl mixes live-action and stop-motion animation in this charming evocation of the power of imagination. A magician shapes his cane into a hoop with strange properties for a young girl. Costume changes and city promenades give way towards greater abstraction as the film becomes absorbed by what goes on inside the ring.

Adam is a young 8-year-old boy who is passionate about horse riding. When he and his father get into a car accident which leaves him paraplegic, Adam will have to adapt to his new life in a wheelchair and face others’ insensitivity and questions about his difference. Between dreams and reality, daily life and amazing adventures, spanning the range of human feelings, this story plunges us into the extraordinary journey of a disabled child who will discover that his difference can also be his greatest strength!

French celebrities host a special concert in Disneyland Paris.

The Jawi are the descendants of the former Malay sultanate of Patani, annexed in 1909 by Siam (became Thailand). Since then, the situation has been generating a bloody endemic guerrilla in these provinces of Southern Thailand. The memory of the famous past hindouist kingdom of Langkasuka, predecessor of Patani, is still living among the Jawi, in the guise of their legendary and divine White Elephant with Black Tusks.