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First modification: 02/17/2026 - 18:36 Last modification: 02/17/2026 - 18:37
'Arco', the French animated film that combines science fiction and ecological awareness, has become one of the big surprises of 2026 after conquering the public at the Cannes Festival and emerging as a favorite in the Oscar race. Its director, Ugo Bienvenu, explained the process of constructing the story and the chromatic work that defines the visual identity of the film.
'Arco', the French animated film directed by Ugo Bienvenu, tells the story of a boy from the distant future who accidentally arrives on Earth in 2075 and discovers a planet devastated by fires and the destruction of nature. In his attempt to return home, he befriends Iris, who helps him face a world in crisis.
"The world is going badly right now. So with Arco we wanted to convey a message of hope. That viewers would live a true adventure and feel that we were giving them a gift of optimism; that they would leave the movie theater with concrete ideas to imagine another reality, and that they would have faith in humanity," the French director explained to RFI.
In this broadcast of Carousel de las Artes we also talk about 'Manga, a whole art', the exhibition at the Guimet Museum in Paris that covers the history of manga and its link with ancestral Japanese culture.
We spoke with Didier Passamonik, curator of the exhibition, who highlighted the connection between the past and the present through pieces such as the statue of the nine-tailed fox from the 18th century and the contemporary illustrations that inspired generations of readers of the Naruto series.
We also told you about "Norheimsund", the short film by Ana Alpizar screened at the Clermont-Ferrand Festival, which tells the dream of a mother and her daughter to emigrate in today's Cuba. A short film that openly exposes the economic and social situation suffered by the island.
And finally, in our musical chronicle we went to meet Caleb Rimtobaye, alias, Afrotronix, a musician who has modernized the traditional music and rhythms of Chad, Central Africa, to fuse them with electronic sounds.
The artist passed through Paris promoting his new album, Köde, a tribute to the traditional instruments of his country and the sounds of the Sahara, which he has mixed into a musical style that he has named “Electro Sahara Blues.”
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