Luxembourg City Film Festival

La Ferme de Lena

Credits

Original title :
Lenas Hof
Country :
Germany
Year :
2025
Director :
Elena Walf
Version :
without dialogue
Duration :
40 minutes
Format :
digital
Awards :
Prix du Jury pour une série TV, Festival d’Annecy 2025
Age classification :
EA | Recommended from age 3 and up
A programme of animated short films

synopsis

Tucked away in the forest, Lena’s Farm is home to a lively mix of animals whose days brim with laughter and surprises. Each short, dialogue-free adventure celebrates friendship, empathy, and the joy of discovering life’s little wonders together.

La Ferme de Lena

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Sens dessus dessous

Credits

Original title :
Drënner an Driwwer
Country :
Lettonie
Year :
2024
Version :
without dialogue
Duration :
40 minutes
Format :
digital
Age classification :
EA | Recommended from age 3 and up
A programme of four animated short films

synopsis

In the heart of nature live creatures who, although not human-sized, each play a role in our ecosystem in their own way. Let’s take a walk in the woods and, through these four stories, meet characters as small as they are kind.


Programme :

Touche pas à mon champignon ! Ēvalds Lācis | 8’
Le petit gland Dace Rīdūze | 10’
La Carotte sanglante Inese Pavēne | 10’
Sens dessus dessous Dace Rīduze | 12’

Sens dessus dessous

Ce programme forestier combine charme désuet des marionnettes et finesse d’observation entomologique, dans la lignée de Ferda la fourmi – classique tchèque signé Hermína Týrlová.

Télérama

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Le Grand jour du lièvre

Credits

Country :
Lettonie 
Year :
2015
Director :
 Dace Rīdūze et Māris Brinkmanis 
Version :
without dialogue
Duration :
48 minutes
Format :
digital
Age classification :
EA | Recommended from age 3 and up
Animated short film programme | almost no dialogue
🗣️ Short introduction to the film by the Cinema Paradiso team

synopsis

In this animated program, little peas venture outside their pod, a family of hares busily runs its Easter egg factory, love blossoms between two pastries, and a speck of dust reveals an unsuspected world.

Through these films, let yourself be transported into a magical world where very small heroes live great adventures!

Le Grand jour du lièvre

Ce programme s’est construit sur plusieurs années, les films produits par le Studio AB de Riga nous parvenant au fil de l’eau. Depuis toutes ces années, les marionnettes animées par les magiciens lettons nous emportent dans leurs univers drôles et tendres où tout est possible.

Cinéma Public Films, distributeur

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Safety Last!

Credits

Country :
USA
Director :
Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Version :
without dialogue
Duration :
70 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother
Age classification :
EA | Recommended for ages 7 and up
🎶 Live piano accompaniment by Hughes Maréchal

synopsis

A humble department store clerk, Harold lets his fiancée believe he’s part of the management team. Eager to impress his superiors, he comes up with a publicity stunt to attract customers: a daredevil scaling the store’s skyscraper. But fate has other plans…

Visuel : Safety First !

Le film le plus connu d’Harold Lloyd et un sommet du cinéma burlesque muet.

Guide des films, Éd. R. Laffont

The comic genius of silent star Harold Lloyd is eternal. Chaplin is the sweet innocent, Keaton the stoic outsider, but Lloyd – the modern guy striving for success – is us. And with its torrent of perfectly executed gags and astonishing stunts, Safety Last! is the perfect introduction to him. Laugh-out-loud funny and jaw-dropping in equal measure!

Criterion

One of the best of Lloyd’s thrill-comedies, a superb example of his ability to mix suspense and slapstick.

TimeOut

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Kino mat Häerz... a mat Kaffi!

Modern Times

Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1936
Director :
Charlie Chaplin
Version :
without dialogue
Duration :
87 minutes
Format :
digital | film muet sonorisé 
Actors :
Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard
Age classification :
Recommandé à partir de 6 ans

synopsis

A special screening for the whole family, with Christmas cookies and punch!

Charlie is a factory worker in a huge industrial plant, but the machines and assembly-line work make him ill. He quits his job and soon meets a beautiful vagabond…

 

 

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Flow

Credits

Original title :
Straume
Country :
 Lettonie-Belgique-France
Year :
2024
Director :
Gints Zilbalodis
Version :
without dialogue
Duration :
85 minutes
Format :
digital
Awards :
Best Animated Feature Film, Oscars 2025 ; Best Feature Film, Festival d’Annecy 2024
Age classification :
EA | Recommandé à partir de 8 ans

synopsis

In a flooded world, a lonely cat boards a boat with other animals. But getting along with them proves even harder than facing his fear of water... 

 

A movie brimming with sentiment but not sentimentality, this is one of the most moving animated films in recent memory, and, beyond that, groundbreaking too.

Indiewire

Magnifique et immersif, Flow convoque avec un mélange d’humour et de gravité la survie des espèces qui resteront après notre départ. Une fable inspirée sur le vivre-ensemble des animaux, et sur notre responsabilité dans la catastrophe écologique en cours.

Écran Large

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Le Bal des lucioles

Credits

Country :
Latvia
Year :
2008
Version :
without dialogue
Duration :
43 minutes
Age classification :
EA | Recommended for ages 3 and up
A program of 4 stop-motion short films
🗣️ Petite introduction au film par l'équipe Cinema Paradiso

synopsis

A picnic disaster on a snail’s back, a summer firefly ball, a hectic back-to-school day at the insect academy, and a very special magic show by the magician wolf Loudini: the animated characters in this program of short films — most of them animals and insects — take you along on their adventures, offering a funny and poetic journey for children and adults alike. Off we go!

Three good reasons to see the film, according to Benshi.fr:

  1. For the visual and sound creativity of the little creatures imagined by the directors of the famous AB Studio in Latvia.

  2. For the amusing and poetic anthropomorphism that will charm both young and old.

  3. As poetic as it is funny, you’ll discover a series of short films guaranteed to lift your spirits!

Visuel du Bal des lucioles

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