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Felix and the Treasure of Morgäa (2021)

Felix and the Treasure of Morgäa poster
Original title
Félix et le trésor de Morgäa
Directed by
Nicola Lemay
Genre
children's film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 25m
Rated
PG
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 14 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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A 12-year-old boy named Felix sets out to find his father, who disappeared on a treasure hunt to the Island of Eternal Night. He leaves the Magdalen Islands with a lighthouse keeper to travel to the island and solve the mystery.

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What happens

Felix and the Treasure of Morgäa (French: Félix et le trésor de Morgäa) is a Canadian animated adventure family film, directed by Nicola Lemay and released in 2021. The film centres on Felix, a 12-year-old boy who has been living with his mother on the Magdalen Islands since his father's failure to return from a voyage to find treasure on the Island of Eternal Night; when his mother goes off on vacation and leaves him and his infant sister, Mia, in the care of their aunt, he enlists the help of lighthouse keeper Tom to travel to the island in search of his father. The film's French voice cast includes Karine Vanasse, Gabriel Lessard, Guy Nadon, Marc Labrèche, Catherine Proulx-Lemay, Éveline Gélinas, Louis Lacombe-Petrowski, Antoine Durand, Tristan Harvey, Kim Jalabert, Geneviève Bédard, Frédéric Desager, Jean-François Beaupré and Jérôme Boiteau, while its English voice cast includes Vanasse, Boiteau, Daniel Brochu, Vlasta Vrána, Holly Gauthier-Frankel, Angela Galuppo, Wyatt Bowen, Terrence Scammell, Richard M. Dumont, Arthur Holden, Marcel Jeannin, Mark Camacho, Elizabeth Neale and Eleanor Noble. Lemay originally conceived the project as a graphic novel, before instead pitching it to 10th Ave. Productions as an animated film. The film premiered on February 26, 2021 as the opening film of the Montreal International Children's Film Festival, before being released commercially in both English and French. In advance of the film's release, children's author Édith Bourget published a novelization of the film. The film received a Prix Iris nominations at the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2021 for Best First Film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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