A warm story about an unlikely encounter that grows into a friendship between a musician bear named Ernest and a girl mouse Celestine who studies dentistry in an underground mouse town. Ernest is an artist who often finds himself in trouble with the law and Celestine herself is an artist too, a painter whose talents are pushed into the background in a community that lives off of collecting and repairing teeth.
Awards: Special Mention for Best Screenplay, Director’s Fortnight, 2012 Cannes, 2013 César for Best Animated Film
Stéphane Aubier (1964) is a Belgian director and screenwriter of animated films in which different animation techniques are used. He is also an editor, cinematographer and actor. His work and career are tightly linked to the name of Vincent Patar with whom he co-directed many films, such as Pic Pic André shoow – Le deuxième from 1998 and Panique au village from 2009.
Vincent Patar (1965) is a director and screenwriter who met his future professional colleague Stéphane Aubier at the Institut des Beaux-Arts de Saint-Luc in Liège. Later on the two of them attended the École supérieure des arts visuels de La Cambre in Brusselas, which was followed by a years-long prolific cooperation.
Benjamin Renner, an award-winning animator and director of two films – Ernest & Celestine and La queue de la souris from 2008.
Dates:
Saturday, 13. July in 10:00, Cinema Valli
