Little Amélie (Amélie Ou La Métaphysique Des Tubes)

Amélie is born into a Belgian family residing in Japan. She is a silent baby, too busy observing and figuring out the world around her to grant her family with the usual first words. In fact, until the age of two and a half years old, Amélie describes herself as a digestive tube, inert and vegetative. Then comes the crucial event that makes her leap into childhood. She discovers language, parents, brothers and sisters, a heavenly garden, passions (Japan and water), aversions (to carp), seasons and time. Everything that, from the age of three, constitutes the human person forever. Because at that age, everything resonates at peak levels of emotion, happiness as well as tragedy.

Adapted from Belgian writer Amélie Nothomb's memoirs, Little Amélie is a marvel of soft colours and poetry, enjoyable by young and older children, and their parents as well.

Recommended Age: 8+

This screening is supported by the French Embassy in Ireland and he Embassy of Belgium in Ireland.