Tales of the Night (film)
| Tales of the Night | |
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| Directed by | Michel Ocelot |
| Written by | Michel Ocelot |
| Produced by | Christophe Rossignon Philip Boëffard |
| Edited by | Patrick Ducruet |
| Music by | Christian Maire |
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| Distributed by | StudioCanal |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Box office | $1.8 million |
Tales of the Night (French: Les Contes de la nuit) is a 2011 French computer silhouette animation feature film directed by Michel Ocelot. It is a compilation movie for movie theaters of five episodes of Dragons et Princesses in stereoscopic 3D and one additional, until then unseen story, "The Girl-Doe and the Architect's Son" ("La Fille-biche et le fils de l'architecte"), for a total of six. It premièred in competition for the Golden Bear at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival on February 13, 2011 before its general release in France by StudioCanal on July 20.
It has been licensed for the United States by GKIDS and for the United Kingdom by Soda Pictures, both for a general release in 2012, with its UK release date having now been announced as Friday, 6 April 2012. In Japan, it is the fourth feature directed by Ocelot in the Ghibli Museum Library, and was shown at the 2012 Tokyo International Anime Fair, and released in June 2012.