First Trailer for ‘Little Amélie’ Animation – Premiering at Cannes 2025

First Trailer for ‘Little Amélie’ Animation – Premiering at Cannes 2025

by Alex Billington
May 1, 2025
Source: YouTube

“The chocolate had awakened all my sense.” Ahaha yes I remember this experience, too – chocolate make everything better. France has revealed the first official trailer for an animated film titled Little Amélie or the Character of Rain, or just Little Amélie for short. This 75-minute movie is premiering at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, one of the only animated movies as part of the main official selection this year. Amélie et la métaphysique des tubes is a French production about Amélie, a Belgian child in Japan, who loves the outdoors and is caught up in the spectacular beauty of nature. The story explores life with her companion Nishio-san. Her third birthday becomes a turning point, marking the beginning of life-altering events that shape her understanding of the world. With the voices of Emmylou Homs, Loïse Charpentier, Laetitia Coryn, Yumi Fujimori, and Isaac Schoumsky. It also features a vivid painterly style with simple 2D animation. This looks so beautiful! It’s going to be a delightful film about growing up and the magic of the outdoors and everything wonderful. Click on [cc] to get English subtitles watching the trailer below. Enjoy.

Here’s the first international trailer for Little Amélie or the Character of Rain, direct from YouTube:

Follows the young Amélie – born in Japan to Belgian parents – as she navigates an extraordinary early childhood. For the first two-and-a-half years of her life, she exists in a state of pure sensation, detached from typical human experiences – metaphorically described as “a digestive tube, inert and vegetative”. But on her third birthday, a transformative event awakens her to the world. Over the next six months, she discovers language, family, a heavenly garden, Japan, water, the changing seasons and the passage of time. Drawing on the Japanese belief that children are considered divine until the age of three, the film explores how this brief period, filled with joy & sorrow, is a foundational element in shaping her identity.

Little Amélie or the Character of Rain, originally known as Amélie et la métaphysique des tubes in French, is co-directed by filmmakers Liane-Cho Han Jin Kuang (animator on The Illusionist, Long Way North, Ethel & Ernest, Calamity a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary) & Mailys Vallade (of The Lighthouse Keeper short, artist on Calamity a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary), making their feature directorial debut with this project. The screenplay is written by Liane-Cho Han Jin Kuang, Eddine Noël, Aude Py, and Mailys Vallade. Adapted from the book written by Amélie Nothomb. Produced by Claire La Combe, Edwina Liard, Henri Magalon, and Nidia Santiago. The film is premiering at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival in the Special Screenings section. Opening first in France in June 2025 this summer. No US release date is set yet.

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