Following its World Premiere at Cannes Film Festival 2025, Audience Award win at the prestigious Annecy Animation Festival 2025, San Sebastián International Film Festival Audience Award for Best European Film and preview screenings at Toronto International Film Festival 2025 and BFI London Film Festival 2025, LITTLE AMÉLIE’s unique, toddler-eyed view of the world comes to UK and Irish cinemas on 13 February 2026. Special previews will also take place nationwide on 7 and 8 February 2026.

The world is a perplexing, peaceful mystery to Amélie until a miraculous encounter with chocolate ignites her wild sense of curiosity. As she develops a deep attachment to her family’s housekeeper, Nishio-san, Amélie discovers the wonders of nature as well as the emotional truths hidden beneath the surface of her family’s idyllic life as foreigners in post-war Japan. 

A tender, poignant and visually stunning story about the healing power of human connection,  with a highly original animated style from directors Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han (The Little Prince, The Illusionist, I Lost My Body), LITTLE AMÉLIE is adapted from the bestselling memoir THE  CHARACTER  OF  RAIN by Amélie Nothomb (published by Faber in the UK).