France is known for its innovative filmmaking with great and ambition animation schools: Gobelins and Supinfocom. Their students produce award-winning animated films year after year. 

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Skhizein (Jérémy Clapin,2008)

Skhizein won the audience award at Annecy, the Kodak award at Cannes, and just recently took home “best short” at the Manhattan Short Film Festival: the first time an animation has taken that prize I believe. It's great connection with story, design and animation. It has a limited color palette and a great examination of  figures.

Un Tour De Manége

Un Tour De Manége (Merry-Go-Round) tells about a young girl who hops aboard a floating merry-go-round only to be separated from her mother. It's a lovely animation with symbolic imagery and stunning rainbow water-colours of animation. As great as all french films.