
Production
In 1999, Ron Dyens became the manager of the cinema l'Archipel Paris Ciné (2 auditoriums). Meanwhile he founded Sacrebleu Productions, a film production company. About fifty short films have been produced since then and have been selected in more than one thousand national and international festivals. Sacrebleu Production received prestigious honours such as: Palme d'Or in Cannes in 2010 for "Barking Island", the Cesar for the best short animated film "Sunday Lunch" (2016) the Procirep Awards of the best short films producer in Clermont Ferrand in 2010 and of the best Animation TV producer in 2013, a nomination to the Academy Awards 2011 for "Madagascar, A Journey Diary", two Annecy crystal awards for Tram & Man on the Chair... Moreover, two animated short films have been selected for Cannes 2014 at the Semaine de la critique and the Quinzaine des réalisateurs, one at the official Competition in 2015 and one at the Semaine de la Critique in 2016. Sacrebleu completed the production of the series "Faces from places" in 2013, a collection of 20 animated journey diaries co-produced with Arte. Sacrebleu produced in 2010 a feature documentary film "Free radicals, a history of experimental cinema", released in France (Niz) and in the United States (Kino Lorber). In 2016, the animation feature film Long Way North, directed by Rémi Chayé, was released in a dozen of countries. It received the Audience Award in Annecy in 2015. 250 000 spectators have seen the film in theaters in France. Sacrebleu Productions produces Rémi Chayé's new film, and also have other feature films projects in development. Alongside his production activity, Ron Dyens directed five short films, which were selected in more than three hundred festivals as in Cannes, Clermont-Ferrand, Brest...

The cycle of life. A boy whose father is a pilot imagines that his toy plane becomes the real thing, allowing him to fly side-by-side through the heavens with his father. He takes off from a tree house overlooking the sea and his father's landing strip. Their flight is graceful and full of adventure. Then, we watch the boy grow, study, marry, father a child, and become, himself, a grandfather. Holding a toy plane, he takes his grandchild to the same cliff from whence his own imagination took off years before.


Nikolaï was abandoned at birth and has been in foster care ever since. Although a family would like to give the sixteen-year-old boy a home, he decides to make one himself. He meets Camille, an intriguing fifteen-year-old wiseacre, and tries to convince her to make a child together. Nikolaï is convinced that he can handle any problem and wants to avoid at all costs that an adult thwarts his plans. Camille and Nikolaï flee together from the home and isolate themselves in the woods. In the heart of this gloomy, mysterious forest, Nikolaï will have to face his first feelings and learn to become a man. Soon, he feels that there are many things he cannot control.

Tristan found a dead cat on the corner of his street, hit by a car and left there in the gutter to rot in the rain. The young man is shaken, and the image of the dead cat begins to haunt him.

A solitary cat, displaced by a great flood, finds refuge on a boat with various species and must navigate the challenges of adapting to a transformed world together.

Weakened by a stay in an psychiatric hospital reunites with her son, Luca, who lives far away with his father now. But the joy of the reunion will be brief and Audrey will have to question her role as a mother.

When Herra, a young Czech woman, falls in love with Nazir, an Afghan, she has no idea what kind of life awaits her in post-Taliban Afghanistan, nor of the family she is about to integrate into. A liberal grandfather, an adopted child who is highly intelligent and Freshta, who would do anything to escape her husband's violent grip.

The moon shines, a young couple plays in the forest. Their game leads them to an unfamiliar garden, in the middle of a clearing. Unaware of danger, the young lovers enter the maze of a garden at midnight. Little by little, they are submerged by a intoxicating spell. They lose themselves in the strange labyrinth. Will they manage to break the spell that keeps them prisoner?

A short comedy directed by Ron Dyens.

