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The Best Tales for All

Can. 2024. Comedy by Yan Lanouette Turgeon with Antoine Bertrand, Marguerite Laurence, Mateo Laurent. An 11-year-old orphan, whose best friend is a skunk, goes to live with an uncle she never knew existed, an opera composer suffering from anxiety disorders.
Runtime: 111 min.
Can. 1985. Fantasy comedy by Michael Rubbo with Mathew Mackay, Siluk Saysanasy, Alison Podbrey. After suffering a great scare, a young boy loses and then regains his hair under fantastical conditions.
Runtime: 93 min.

The Dog Who Stopped the War

V.O.: La Guerre des tuques
Can. 1984. Dramatic comedy by André Melançon with Cédric Plourde, Julien Élie, Maripierre Arseneau-D'Amour. During winter vacation, young people play a game of war.
Runtime: 88 min.

Bach and Broccoli

V.O.: Bach et Bottine
Can. 1986. Dramatic comedy by André Melançon with Mahée Paiement, Raymond Legault, Andrée Pelletier. An orphaned girl whose custody was entrusted to an egotistical, old-fashioned uncle tries to win him over.
Runtime: 95 min.

The Young Magician

V.O.: Cudowne Dziecko
Can. 1986. Fantasy comedy by Waldemar Dziki with Rusty Jedwab, Edward Garson, Natasza Maraszek. A young boy discovers that he possesses a telekinetic power that he can't control
Runtime: 99 min.
Can. 1987. Tale by Vojta Jasny with Karen Elkin, Michael Blouin, Michael J. Anderson. Two children help a goblin recover his bag of magic powder, which has fallen into the hands of a greedy being.
Runtime: 91 min.

Tadpole and the Whale

V.O.: La Grenouille et la baleine
Can. 1988. Dramatic comedy by Jean-Claude Lord with Fanny Lauzier, Denis Forest, Marina Orsini. A young couple help a little girl who has a special affinity with marine life to fight against potential developers.
Runtime: 91 min.

Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller

V.O.: Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveler
Can. 1988. Fantasy comedy by Michael Rubbo with Lucas Evans, Anthony Rogers, Jill Stanley. Two children, miniaturized thanks to a magic formula, travel to Australia on a stamp to find an exceptional philatelic collection.
Runtime: 102 min.

Bye Bye Red Riding Hood

V.O.: Piroska és a farkas
Can. 1989. Tale by Marta Meszaros with Fanny Lauzier, Pamela Collyer, Jan Nowicki. During one of her walks in the woods, a teenage girl meets a talking wolf.
Runtime: 98 min.

Summer of the Colt

V.O.: Fierro... l'été des secrets
Can. 1989. Dramatic comedy by André Melançon with Juan de Benedictis, Santiago Gonzalez, Alexandra London-Thompson. Three children spend the summer at their grandfather's ranch in Argentina.
Runtime: 104 min.

The Case of the Witch Who Wasn't

V.O.: Pas de répit pour Mélanie
Can. 1990. Dramatic comedy by Jean Beaudry with Marie-Stéphane Gaudry, Kesnamelly Neff, Vincent Bolduc. While reading the book ""The Little Prince,"" a little girl tries to befriend an old lady who has been a recluse in her house since her husband died.
Runtime: 95 min.
Can. 1990. Dramatic comedy by Michael Rubbo with Nina Petronzio, Christopher Forrest, Paul Klerk. A young girl goes to Amsterdam to unmask the forgers who have sold one of her drawings as a work of Van Gogh.
Runtime: 100 min.

Reach for the Sky

V.O.: La Championne
Can. 1991. Sports drama by Elisabeta Bostan with Izabela Moldovan, Mircea Diaconu, Carmen Galin. The efforts of a young gymnast training to compete in the Olympics.
Runtime: 93 min.

The Clean Machine

V.O.: Tirelire, combines & cie
Can. 1992. Comedy by Jean Beaudry with Vincent Bolduc, Pierre-Luc Brillant, Delphine Piperni. Believing his father to be in financial trouble, a boy decides to go into business with a friend.
Runtime: 89 min.

The Flying Sneaker

V.O.: Moty'lí cas
Tch. 1991. Tale by Bretislav Pojar with Ludek Navratil, Katka Pokorna, Katerina Machackova. A lonely child is given a cocoon by his father which turns into a beautiful little winged fairy that can talk.
Runtime: 90 min.
Can. 1994. Fantasy comedy by Michael Rubbo with Michael Stevens, Joshawa Mathers, Heather Goodsell.
Runtime: 97 min.
Can. 1998. Dramatic comedy by Kit Hood with Natalie Vansier, Michael Yarmush, Dorothée Berryman. One summer, a little girl has various experiences that lead her to leave the world of childhood.
Can. 1998. Chronicle by Philippe Gautier with Kawadi Makbul, Jamedar Sabu Saab, Noorullah. In a village in southern India, a teenager dreams of becoming an elephant trainer like his father.

My Little Devil

V.O.: Bas Yaari Rakho
Ind. 2000. Chronicle by Gopi Desai with Rushabh Patni, Om Puri, Pooja Batra. In India, a young orphan has difficulty adjusting to his new life in a Catholic boarding school with strict rules.
Runtime: 87 min.

The Hidden Fortress

V.O.: La Forteresse suspendue
Can. 2001. Comedy by Roger Cantin with Matthew Dupuis, Roxane Gaudette-Loiseau, Jérôme Leclerc-Couture. Children wage war against a rival gang defending an enormous tree house.
Runtime: 95 min.
Isl. 2002. Musical by Maria Sigurdardottir with Sigurbjorg Alma Ingolfsdottir, Benedikt Clausen, Baltasar Kormákur. A little girl with the power to get anything she wants from others by singing sets out to neutralize a jewel thief.
Runtime: 95 min.

Outlaw League

V.O.: La Gang des hors-la-loi
Can. 2014. Comedy by Jean Beaudry with André Kasper, Guy Thauvette, Charles Gillespie. With his baseball field turned into a municipal dump, a boy on vacation from school organizes a retaliation to convince the mayor to reverse her decision.
Runtime: 90 min.

Snowtime!

V.O.: La Guerre des tuques 3D
Can. 2015. Animation by Jean-François Pouliot, François Brisson. During the Christmas vacation, two gangs of children compete in a fight to the finish for possession of a snow fort.
Runtime: 84 min.
Can. 2023. Dramatic comedy by Sébastien Gagné with Oscar Desgagnés, Joey Bélanger, Benoît Brière. A Montreal boy moves with his father to the country, where he starts a small organic egg business with a cousin and an ex-butcher with a taste for the bottle.
Runtime: 89 min.
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