L'art des Thanatier

Up in Heaven

2026

At his grandmother’s funeral, a four-year-old boy is told the dead become angels in heaven. Hoping to retrieve her, he becomes a pilot and searches in a small plane. Finding her on a cloud, he ties her to bring her home, but she refuses and a guardian angel rescues her.

Contact

A short animated film “Contact” reflects on the ability to express and accept love. Living far away as an emigrant, young woman learns about her beloved grandmother’s death and dives into deep reflection. On the flight to the funeral, she must choose to repeat her parents’ cold pattern or embrace the warmth her grandmother taught her.

My Grandpa Is Hiding

2018 · ★ 5.7

A grandfather explains to his grandson that he'll have to take care of his flower garden after he dies. There follows a touching and poetic discussion about losing loved ones and on the marks they leave behind.

Goodbye Jerome!

2021 · ★ 7.8

Having just arrived in paradise, Jerome sets out to find his wife Maryline. In the course of his search, he sinks into a surreal and colorful world in which no one seems to be able to help him.

The Last Theft

1987 · ★ 7.1

A man breaks into a large, seemingly abandoned old house to plunder the gold received. But the house is really abandoned?

The Day I Depart

2007 · ★ 6

When elephants are about to die, they will leave their herd and die alone. When a person knows that he is about to die, what will he choose? It's lung cancer, and it has already metastasized. There are probably 6 months left. It's a story about a man's last few steps in his life. It's probably quite different from the elephants.

Death and the Mother

1988 · ★ 6.4

Black-and-white, etched-wood animation tale about the Grim Reaper. In a remote forest, Death in disguise calls on a woman and her baby daughter.

Los días de los muertos

2018 · ★ 6

Gonzalo, recently dead, returns to his wife's place during los Días de los Muertos. Although he'd hoped to eat burritos and potato dumplings, he discovers that Séléné has cooked him a microscopic fish.

Sainte Mort

No synopsis available.

Persona3 the Movie #4 Winter of Rebirth

2016 · ★ 7.7

Makoto Yuki and his allies have grown through the bonds they have formed and partings they have experienced. Using the power of Persona, they continue to fight to put an end to the Dark Hour, in hope that there are peaceful days waiting for them at the end of the battle. However, as the season shifts to winter, memories from ten years ago resurface and a boy believed to be their friend warns the members of S.E.E.S. that "The Fall"— an event that will destroy all of humanity is near, leaving the group with a difficult choice to be made by New Year’s Eve.

The Death of Tau

2001 · ★ 7.5

No synopsis available.

Cirque de Mortel

2024

At Cirque de Mortel, the circus artists perform thrilling acts where their lives are constantly put on the line. One day, Death arrives to finally bring them all down to the Underworld. However, he is met by the clown Mortel, who brings him inside the circus and shows him the performance of a lifetime.