The Lords of the Animals, one of BOREALES’s leading productions is a 13x26’ series of documentary tales recounting the most extraordinary symbiotic relationships between man and animals.
This anthology co-produced by Boréales and Canal + continues to meet with tremendous international success and has been translated into thirty languages. Over a hundred awards including Pandas in Windscreen, a Green Oscar at the Wildlife Film Festival in Jackson Hole and an International Emmy Award.
The series revolves around the adventures of Renart (voiced by Jean-Pierre Denys), a young and mischievous fox who has just moved to Paris from the countryside, accompanied by his pet monkey Marmouset. He moves to the city to get a job and visit his grumpy and stingy uncle, Isengrim, who is a deluxe car salesman, and his reasonable yet dreamy she-wolf aunt, Hirsent. Reynard meets Hermeline, a young and charming motorbike-riding vixen journalist. He immediately falls in love with her and tries to win her heart during several of the episodes. As Reynard establishes himself into Paris, he creates a small company at his name where he offers to do any job for anyone, from impersonating female maids to opera singers.
Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, presents a gripping courtroom thriller, offering a rare and revealing inside look at a high-profile murder trial. In 2001, author Michael Peterson was arraigned for the murder of his wife Kathleen, whose body was discovered lying in a pool of blood on the stairway of their home. Granted unusual access to Peterson's lawyers, home and immediate family, de Lestrade's cameras capture the defense team as it considers its strategic options. The series is an engrossing look at contemporary American justice that features more twists than a legal bestseller.
Lava-Lava! is a french slapstick animation series by Federico Vitali from 1995. It contains a pilot and 13 episodes of about 3min each.
The main characters of the short stories are animals, humans or aliens. They go through bizarre situations ending frequently out-of-control and violently.
Lava-Lava! uses many slapstick elements and get along without spoken words.
Blake and Mortimer is an animated television series, based on the Blake and Mortimer comic book by Edgar Pierre Jacobs.
The series was directed by Stéphane Bernasconi, and produced by Ellipse, and shown in 1997.
The first nine stories were used in this series, as well as four brand new stories, devised by the creators: The Viking's Bequest, The Secret of Easter Island, The Alchemist's Will, and The Druid. New writers, mostly connected to the production company as writers, dialogists or translators, were asked to come up with original plotlines which used the characters of Jacobs' stories, respected the magical/scientific Universe, but rang interesting changes.
Saïd leads a team of young elite cops and will have to find his place within his group while preventing a gang war from breaking out between Eric's family and that of the El Hassani brothers.
Romain, 18, is a sociology student. In rebellion against his native environment and imprisoned in a toxic romantic relationship with a woman who has total control over his life, he thinks he can find in the pornographic adventure a way of emancipation. Instead he discovers a very ordinary environment.
Molang is an affectionate and humorous perspective on the relationship between an eccentric, joyful and enthusiastic rabbit, and a shy, discreet and emotional little chick. Despite their many differences, these two enjoy a unique friendship. They have great times together ranging from the mundane to the extraordinary. Whether they're flying to the moon or merely watering the vegetable patch, Molang and Piu Piu experience unexpected, even unsettling situations. Tricky incidents and misunderstandings are soon transformed into opportunities for fun moments and humor, which Molang's friends are happy to come and share in.
Following sanitary measures, the doctors holding the internal medicine service at the Raymond-Poincaré hospital find themselves confined to their homes for 48 hours. Three inexperienced interns and a medical examiner, who do not yet know each other, will have to work together to manage the service and the patients alone. But the quarantine continues...