Benoît Chieux

Nine short videos that poetically introduce ecologically important themes: the travels of a drop of water, le un-loved, le magic root, the ladybird and the aphid, the mountain of wrapping paper, the hedgehog who was in love, 20 millimeters under the earth, and more...

Agnès, Juliette and Carmen's neighbour, writes children's storybooks that take place in a fantasy world, The Kingdom of the Winds. The intrepid sisters discover a passageway between their world and this extraordinary universe. Once on the other side, the girls take on the appearance of cats and discover Sirocco, a terrifying character who can control the wind.

One night Mia has a premonition. So after saying a few words of parting at her mother’s grave, she sets out on a cross continent journey, though mountains and jungles in search of her father, who has been trapped in a landslide at a construction site on a remote tropical lake. In the middle of the lake stands the ancient Tree of Life, watched over by innocent, bumbling forest spirits called the Migoo, who grow and change shape as they please, morphing from small childlike beings to petulant giants. The Migoo have been disrupting the construction to protect this sacred site – and now together with Mia they join in a fight to find Mia’s father and save the Tree, with the future of life on Earth hanging in the balance.

Plant loving Hilda has created a museum where she preserves endangered and rare plants from all over the world. Meanwhile, Attilem, a new genetically modified cereal, is launched on the market. Growing with little water and fertilizer while generating high crop field, Attilem looks like an ideal solution to eradicate starvation and provide an alternative to diminishing oil reserves. But nothing is at it seems...

Back in the age of kings and queens, there lived a sweet little princess called Cornebidouille, who didn’t like eating soup…. One birthday, she received an invitation from a mysterious aunt, Cracrabidouille the witch. She set off to meet her, but Cracrabidouille had a hideous surprise in store for her: she fed her soup cursed with a wicked spell that turned Cornebidouille into a vile witch, terrorizing everyone around her. One day, she discovered that children across the world were reluctant to eat their soup. She decided to punish them tirelessly, prowling the Earth for centuries thereafter, before arriving in the present day, in a small town where Peter lives: a strong-minded little boy who doesn’t want to eat his soup either…

Violette lives in an apartment with her boyfriend. A tension has long driven them apart, the dialogue seems worn-out. While she is in the bathroom brushing her teeth, Violette is called out by a strange silhouette which looks right at her through the drain (of the sink): a living finger, which has taken up residence in the pipes. The finger seems to show itself only when Violette is alone. Her boyfriend, who seems now to hold nothing more than contempt for her, is no source of support. Refusing to tolerate the strange creature's intrusion, she is going to make every effort to put an end to this psychosis. But are things more real than we might think?