Planets The review week in Cannes was a beautiful ending and the Paul Grimault Prize was awarded again at the Annecy 2025 festival, where we exchanged with Momoko Seto. The director of the CNRS managed to produce a film at the crossroads of genres. Children of the 90s who grew up with Microcosmos, also presented at Cannes in 1996, will recognize this fascination for all forms of life. If one likes to look up at the stars, modern man too often forgets to look at what is at his feet. It is this macro and micro approach that the French-Japanese director combines in this animated film at the crossroads of reality and fiction.
Our interview with Momoko Seto
A terrible starting point, the nuclear destruction of the Earth, dandelion achenes take off; Some manage to leave the atmosphere and then start an epic to colonize other stars. These achenes have their own language. Together they communicate with nature and constantly seek where to find refuge. Metaphor of refugees and the sense of life where humanity is just a drop of water in world history, Planets is an invitation to consider the living other than man's prism. The timelapse makes the earth breathe, which is contracted to the screen when a young pioneer shoot emerges from the ground. An extraordinary style film that reminds us that « Life always finds its way »Like old Ian Malcolm would say. Release scheduled for March 11, 2026.
Momoko Seto, director
Born in Chiba in Tokyo Prefecture, Momoko Seto will spend his youth in Japan before joining Marseille School of Fine Arts. She studied in parallel with Ay California College of The Arts in San Francisco. Between 2006 and 2008 she resides at Fresnoy – National Studio of Contemporary Arts in Tourcoing. As early as 2006, she worked at CNRS as an engineer for filmmaking studies. She then made scientific portraits in the humanities and social sciences. She loves real shots, animation, time-lapse and macro. His film Planetes closed the week of the criticism of the Cannes 2025 festival.
Filmography
- 2026 : Planets
- 2021: OJIICHAN
- 2019 Edgar Morin, a thinker in Paris
- 2018 Planet
- 2016 I Don的t Want to Sleep with You I Just Want to Make You Hard
- 2015 Planet
- 2013 Arekara – The Life After
- 2013 Shrimp Orgy
- 2012 Prawn Red Hot Love: a Tuesday morning on your bed
- 2011 Octopus Love Affair
- 2009 Planet A
Trailer
[...] Alexandre Aja, Nadav Lapid, Ugo Bienvenu, Lucile Hadžihalilovic, Galder Gaztelu Urrutia, Momoko Seto, François Ozon, Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani and many others. [...]