Spotted in Cannes then sacred to Annecy 2025, the first feature film of Ugo Bienvenue intrigues, fascinates and already promises to be cult. Arco, This is the story of a young boy from the distant future, in the year 2932. His first temporal adventure was wrong, and he lands in 2075, in a France where technology infused our daily lives. Collected by Iris, a ten -year -old girl dreaming of the way, Arco will do everything to find her time.
Together, the two heroes will cross a world populated by nannies-boots, dome houses and holograms, in a futuristic world, incarnation of a high-tech society that is both fascinating and freezing. Dystopia lovers should appreciate, Arco succeeds in evoking the future with coldness and optimistic, in a poetic fable and hopeful. Behind the coldness of the universe portrayed by Ugo Bienvenu, friendship, remains the most powerful of the engines. The trailer, broadcast a few days ago, already promises a deep immersion in a very high flight production.
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An already impressive record
Ugo Bienvenu develops with Arco A science fiction at the height of a child: the film poses the question of progress as much as poetry, in a 2D animation of very high flight, where each line seems alive, direct legacy of the art of Miyazaki, with the resolutely pop and contemporary claw of the director.
Even before its national release, Arco already displayed an enviable list. Selected in a special session at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, the film won the Crystal of the feature film in Annecy, And the Sacem Prize for the best original music. He is also in the running to receive the Oscar 2026 for the best international film, alongside The little last of Hafsia Herzi, New wave de Richard Linklater, A simple accident of Jafar Panahi, already palm of gold in Cannes this year, and Privacy by Rebecca Zlotowski. The film could thus succeed Emilia Pérez by Jacques Audiard who had been chosen last year to represent France during the Hollywood ceremony.
Why do we already love?
Do not trust his anime airs. Arco Condense alone all the geek culture which forged the kids of the 1980s. Facked with references and winks to the worlds which made us vibrate younger, the footage shines with the coherence of its universe, the graphic finesse of its line, as much as by its emotional power. A classic in the making, expected on October 22, 2025 in dark rooms.
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