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MONSIEUR AZNAVOUR is a tribute to one of the icons of French chanson, Charles Aznavour, who was born in Paris in 1924, the son of Armenian refugees. Focusing on the period from his early years to his international breakthrough, the film biography shows the quest for recognition of a determined artist. The film highlights his unique ability to capture the essence of Parisian life in his songs. Each song outlines a part of his life, his struggles and triumphs, against a backdrop of social and cultural changes in France and the rest of the world in the 1950s.

MONSIEUR AZNAVOUR stands out for its realistic and moving approach, highlighting not only the artist on stage, but also the man behind the legend. The film will premiere on 12 December, simultaneously with the re-release of François Truffaut’s 1960 TIREZ SUR LE PIANISTE, which stars Charles Aznavour in the lead role. (bw)

Cat is a solitary animal, but as his home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species and will have to team up with them despite their differences. Cat teams up with a sleepy capybara, a lemur obsessed with shiny objects, an overly friendly Labrador, and an enormous, crane-like bird. The unlikely menagerie has no choice but to stay together on a rickety boat as they navigate the strange and rapidly changing new environment they find themselves in. The animals even learn new skills from each other, strengthening their chances of survival.

Combining beautiful animation with a captivating and stirring score, the world that director Gints Zilbalodis has created is lush, intriguing and mesmerising. Adults and children alike will love both the drama and humour that stem from acute observations of real behaviour exhibited by each animal.

FLOW is a love letter to the natural world that not only holds a mirror up to our own conflicted reality, and particularly the human tendency to focus on individualism, but also beautifully examines the complex inner lives of animals.

Winner of four awards at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, widely regarded as the world’s premier animation film festival.

Starring James Stewart as George Bailey, a man who has given up his dreams in order to help others and whose imminent suicide on Christmas Eve brings about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody. Clarence shows George all the lives he has touched and how different life in his community of Bedford Falls would be had he never been born.