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Film Festival - Screening of "Dilili in Paris" (2018) + Q&A with filmmaker Michel Ocelot [Registration on External Link]
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Thu, Apr 23, 2026
7:30 PM – 9:30 PM EDT (GMT-4)
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For the closing night of the fourth edition of the Princeton French Film Festival, you are invited to the special screening of Dilili in Paris (2018), followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Michel Ocelot.
🏆 Winner of the 2019 Cesar for Best Animated Film.
Logistics: In French with English subtitles. Open to everyone upon registration.
Synopsis: With the help of her delivery-boy friend, Dilili, a young Kanak, investigates a spate of mysterious kidnappings of young girls that is plaguing Belle Epoque Paris. In the course of her investigation she encounters a series of extraordinary characters, each of whom provides her with clues that will help her in her quest… After Kirikou and Azur & Asmar, Michel Ocelot returns with an enchanting new tale of brave young heroes, mysteries and discoveries, kidnappings and ordeals, extraordinary places and magical encounters, in which good must challenge dark forces and triumph.
Organized by the Princeton University's Princeton Film Festival organization. We thank our sponsors and partners for their support (complete list here). Open to everyone regardless of identity. All rooms are wheelchair-friendly and attendees can contact us at filmfestival@princeton.edu for special accommodations (preferably 48 hours before the scheduled event). Please be aware that pictures might be taken before, during, and after the event.
Speakers
Michel Ocelot
Born on the French Riviera, Michel Ocelot spent his childhood in Guinea and grew up in the Loire valley before settling in Paris. He has devoted his entire career to film animation. From the beginning, all his works were based on his own scripts and graphics.
Among his short films, he directed The 3 Inventors (1980 Bafta for Best Animated Film, London), followed by The Legend of the Poor Hunchback (1983 César for >Best Animated Short, Paris).
In 1998, Michel Ocelot became known to the general public with the success of his first feature film Kirikou and the Sorceress. He went on to make Princes and Princesses, fairy tales in a shadow theatre, using cut-out animation, and Kirikou and the Wild Beasts, co-directed with Bénédicte Galup. Azur & Asmar (2007), his 4th feature film, is another fairy tale, set on both sides of the Mediterranean. It was selected for the Director’s Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival
At the end of 2008, he released a compilation DVD of his short films, The Hidden Treasures of Michel Ocelot, his life and work before Kirikou…In July 2011, and for the first time in 3D, Tales of the Night, another silhouette film, was released. It was the only French feature film to be selected for the main competition at the 61st edition of the prestigious Berlin Film Festival. In 2012, Michel Ocelot finished filming new Kirikou adventures, Kirikou and the Men and Women.
"Dilili in Paris", set in the Belle Epoque, won the 2019 Cesar Award, France's highest film honour.
His last feature film, "The Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess", which consists of three very different stories, was released in October 2022.
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Co-hosted with: French and Francophone Society, Princeton Undergraduate Francophone Society