Sirocco and the Kingdom of Air Streams

Benoit
Chieux

Graphic designer of My Little Planet (UNICEF Award 1995, Prix fondation de France), graphic designer and scriptwriter of Charlie’s Christmas (L’Enfant au grelot) (Jury Award Stuttgart 1997, Cartoon d’Or 1998) and co-director with Damien Louche-Pélissier of Patate et le jardin potager (Pulcinella d’Or 2001), Benoît Chieux contributed for several years to the success of the Folimage studio. He then became the author of the Mica series (Ricochets Productions), and in 2004 joined Jacques-Rémy Girerd’s team for the feature film Mia and the Migou, for which he was graphic designer and art director (released at the end of 2008). In 2013, he co-directed the feature film Aunt Hilda with Jacques-Rémy Girerd. In 2014 he directed his first short film Tigers Tied Up in One Rope (Tigres à la queue leu leu), produced by les Films de l’Arlequin (Jury Prize and Audience Award SICAF 2015). In 2016, he directed Midnight’s Garden (Le Jardin de Minuit), his first collaboration with Sacrebleu Productions, nominated at the 2016 César Awards in the Best Animated Short category.

Juliette (4) and Carmen’s (8) neighbor, Agnes, writes children’s books that take place in a fantastic world, the Kingdom of the Air Currents. The two sisters discover a passage between their world and this extraordinary universe. Once there, the two girls take on the appearance of cats, and discover the existence of Sirocco, a terrifying character capable of controlling the wind.