Le Petit Cirque et autres contes (The Little Circus and Other Tales) is a 1994 French package film. [1] It is 50 minutes long and contains the following seven short films for young children and their families from the Folimage studio:
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Roch Carrier is a French Canadian novelist and author of "contes". He is among the best known Quebec writers in English Canada.
Jacques Prévert was a French poet and screenwriter. His poems became and remain popular in the French-speaking world, particularly in schools. His best-regarded films formed part of the poetic realist movement, and include Les Enfants du Paradis (1945). He published his first book in 1946.
Folimage is a French animation studio, based in Bourg-lès-Valence, Drôme, France. It was founded in 1981 by Jacques-Rémy Girerd. The studio produces animation films for cinema and TV. In 1999, the company founded an animation school, La Poudrière, also in Valence. In 2009, Folimage and La Poudrière moved to La Cartoucherie, a former munitions factory in Bourg-lès-Valence.
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