The history of empire. A British bulldog answers his mistress’s call. He tacks down the Union Jack to cover the British Isles, then begins playing with a small ball that’s the world. Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Animated Film 1994.

The animation technique uses coloured pencils on frosted cels, with pastel backgrounds. French writer Jean Giono was an environmentalist who was ahead of his time. Animator Frédéric Back came across Giono’s story in the magazine Le sauvage in 1974. It won the Grand Prize (shared) at the International Animation Film Festival, Annecy, France 1987.