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Sirocco et le royaume des courants d’air

Benoît CHIEUX
5-12 years old School 2023 80 min France, Belgium
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Synopsis

A beautiful journey into a world as mysterious as it is poetic

Four-year old Juliette and eight-year-old Carmen are adventurous sisters who discover a secret passageway to enter the Kingdom of the Winds, their favorite book. As they are transformed into cats and separated from one another, they will have to display courage and audacity to find their way back to each other and to the real world, with the help from Selma the opera singer. They will also have to stand against Sirocco, master of winds and storms… but is he as terrifying as they imagine him to be?

Benoît Chieux is one of the names to watch in French animation. Sirocco and the Kingdoms of the Winds takes the viewer on an unexpected journey and into a world as mysterious as it is poetic. Wonders unfold in this world of imagination where creatures of all kinds make their way.

Cast/Avec

  • Loïse Charpentier
  • Maryne Bertiaux
  • Aurélie Konaté

Screenplay

  • Alain Gagnol
  • Benoît Chieux

Cinematographer

  • Benoît Chieux

Sound

  • Gurwal Coïc-Gallas

Music

  • Pablo Pico

Production

  • Sacrebleu Production

Screenings

Tuesday 11 March 2025 09:15
Lieux : Ciné Utopia
Audio : French
Subtitles :
Screening : School Screening
Thursday 13 March 2025 09:00
Lieux : Cinémathèque
Audio : French
Subtitles :
Screening : School Screening

Critics

"It’s in the character of Selma – the beauty of her voice and of her empathy – that the film finds its soul. The score, by Pablo Pico is gorgeous throughout, lush, sweeping and richly orchestrated. But when Selma sings – French-Cameroonian jazz vocalist Célia Kameni provides her voice – it is spine-tingling. A velvety purr that gradually builds, soaring and pure, it’s a voice that legitimately could have come from another world.’
Wendy Ide Screen Daily 12/06/2023

Benoît CHIEUX

Benoît CHIEUX
Benoît CHIEUX

Benoît Chieux is the graphic designer of Ma petite planète chérie, and graphic designer and scriptwrite of L’Enfant au grelot, and the Mica series. He joined Jacques-Rémy Girerd and his team in 2004 for the animated feature Mia and the Migoo, and he kept working with Jacques-Rémy Girerd in 2013 when they codirected his first short, Tigers Tied Up in One Rope.
He directed Midnight’s Garden in 2016, which was nominated at the César Awards in the best animated short segment.

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Filmography

  • Sirocco et le royaume des courants d’air 2023
  • Le Jardin de Minuit (court métrage) 2017
  • Tigres à la queue leu leu (court métrage) 2015
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