MIA ET LE MIGOU and RAINING CATS AND DOGS - French Cinema Series

MIA ET LE MIGOU
(2008, France/Italy) Directed by Jacques-Rémy Girerd

Under the spell of Hayao Miyazaki, Jacques-Rémy Girerd crafts an enthralling animated cautionary tale about the dangers of overdevelopment. When Mia has a premonition about her father, a laborer on a construction site in a formerly pristine wilderness area, she sets off to find him, discovering on her journey a natural world alive with magic creatures fighting its destruction.

RAINING CATS AND DOGS
(La prophétie des grenouilles)
(2003, France) Directed by Jacques-Rémy Girerd

After the frogs of France predict an apocalyptic flood, an unconventional family turns its farmhouse into a modern-day ark and rescues the animals from the local zoo. But with only potatoes on onboard, the carnivores get restless and everyone has to learn to get along—or else. Jacques-Rémy Girerd's debut feature remains utterly unpredictable and charming to the last.