Sirocco et le Royaume des courants d’air: dir Benoît Chieux (2023)

This slightly trippy animation features two intrepid sisters, four-year-old Juliette and eight-year-old Carmen, who discover a passage into the extraordinary world of their favourite book, Kingdom of the Air Streams. Transformed into cats and separated from each other, the girls will have to be bold and daring to find their way back to each other and to their real world; but they have to deal with Sirocco, the master of winds and storms. Is he as scary as they fear? The Variety review suggested the film could be seen as France’s answer to a film like Spirited Away — “and yet, there’s an originality to it that keeps things surprising”. Unusurprisingly, it’s in French.