Director : Virginie Bourdin
Short film
Genres : Animated film
Subgenres : Fairy tale
Themes : Love
Production language : Silent
Nationality : Majority French (Belgium)
French release :
Runtime : 10mn
Associate production company : Les Films du Nord
Co-production : Gorgone Productions
Film export/Foreign Sales : Les Films du Nord

A spectator, a string puppet, applauds the magic tricks of the Femme Papillon, another string puppet with whom he’s in love. His clapping is so forceful that it snaps his strings. Suddenly free, he runs to the Femme Papillon, in the hope of winning her love by freeing her from her destiny.

> "Tricky Women" - 2003 :
> Aix-en-Provence - Festival Tous Courts - 2003 :
> Braunschweig International Film Festival - 2004 :
> Cannes International Film Festival - 2004 :
> Cinema Jove - Valencia International Film Festival - 2003 :
> City of Lights, City of Angels (Col-Coa) - Los Angeles - 2003 :
> Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival - 2003 :
> Espinho (Cinanima) International Animated Film Festival - 2004 :
> FICFA - International Festival of Francophone Film & Video in Acadie (Moncton) - 2003 :
> Festival of European Films on Wheels of Ankara - 2003 :
> FilmVideo - Montecatini International Short Film Festival - 2003 :
> Ghent International Film Festival - 2003 :
> Interfilm - Berlin International Short Film Festival - 2003 :
> Kinofilm - Manchester International Film Festival - 2003 :
> Larissa Mediterranean Festival of New Directors - 2003 :
> Leipzig - International Documentary and Animated Film Festival - 2003 :
> Lutin Short Film Awards - 2004 :
> Namur International French-language Film Festival - 2003 :
> San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival - 2003 :
> Stuttgart Trickfilm International Animated Film Festival - 2004 :
> Tuebingen-Stuttgart International French-language Film Festival - 2003 :
> Urban Gypsy Productions New York French Short Film Festival - 2003 :