One Day at a Time

The story of two friends on the cusp of adolescence, Rachel Samson's warm-hearted animation is an ode to those special summer days that contain major changes.

A true animated film about invented islands. About an imaginary, linguistic, political territory. About a real or dreamed country, or something in between. Archipelago is a film of drawings and speeches, that tells and dreams a place and its inhabitants, to tell and dream a little of our world and times.

While filming her lively grandmother Ursule for a school project, 16-year-old Noémie discovers a strange carved wooden statuette that sparks her curiosity. Ursule's delightfully scandalous revelation then shakes the teenager's deepest beliefs about her family history, forcing her to confront the truth about her identity and opening the way to her emancipation.

After her divorce, a mother drives a rented moving truck with her daughter in the passenger seat. The two head into a new future, only to discover the pain and difficulties of leaving the past behind.

A young couple in one shared studio apartment, and muted tension and frustration.