23/10/2013 - Gebeka releases on 138 screens the animated film by Marc Boréal and Thibaut Chatel amidst a panorama of hyper competitive new films

Hoping to profit from the two weeks of holidays for the Toussaint, distributors are bringing out the heave artillery with 12 attractive new films. Amongst them, an intelligent and well-made animated film, Special Mention at the Annecy Festival: My Mommy is in America and she met Buffalo Bill [+see also:
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Produced by Label Anim, coproduced by StudioCanal and Luxembourg based company Mélusine Productions, the feature is launched today by Gebeka on 138 screens. Based on the cartoon by the same name by Jean Regnaud and Émile Bravo, the film delves into the 70’s with the story of a six-year-old child with a very vivid imagination who grows up, interprets the world around him and searches for the truth about his absent mother.

While the undeniable attraction of this Wednesday is the American-British coproduction Gravity [+see also:
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Non-national European author cinema is particularly under the spotlight with Story of my Death [+see also:
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This Wednesday’s very rich panorama is notably completed by the first French feature Nos héros sont morts ce soir [+see also:
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(Translated from French)