Amandine Fredon and Benjamin Massoubre. Little Nicholas

Date

Sunday, 15 November 2026 at 12:00

Venue

Museo Reina Sofía · Calle Santa Isabel, 52, Madrid

Price

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This fresh edition of the children’s film series organised by the Museo pays tribute to classical illustration as a form of love and nostalgia with the screening of Le Petit Nicolas (Little Nicholas, 2022), by Amandine Fredon and Benjamin Massoubre, one of the most acclaimed animated feature films in recent years. Hand-painted with watercolours, the film is an invitation to rediscover childhood through the life of Nicholas, a fictional boy who travels around Paris in 1960, and the story of the creators of this beloved series of illustrated stories: René Goscinny, the writer of Asterix, and Jean-Jacques Sempé, one of the great French illustrators of the twentieth century. Combining daily adventure and personal memory, the film celebrates the imagination and friendship that made this character possible. Nicholas, an eight-year-old boy, comes to life in the world of his creators, writer René Goscinny and draughtsman Jean-Jacques Sempé. Via his daily adventures — school, family, friends, mischief — the film prompts a discovery of childhood inhabited by games, discoveries and questions about the adult world. Moreover, Nicholas is not just a fictional character, but also the point of convergence between two artists and their memories and imagination. While the boy explores the world, Goscinny and Sempé reconstruct the history of a friendship and a collaboration that engendered one of the best-loved characters in French children’s literature. With animation that brings back classical illustration, the film pays homage to artistic creation and children’s capacity to transform daily life into adventure. Moon Projector is the Museo Reina Sofía’s regular film programme for young audiences. Every Sunday morning, sessions are held to introduce children to cinema and audiovisual arts, taking them on a journey of fascination, where imagination and knowledge abound, from the dawn of film language to today’s most creative and original works with future generations in mind. The programme title draws from the work of poet Federico García Lorca, a Moon Projector where dreams and early imagination reverberate, and where children’s fantasy emerges from the contemplation of projected light.

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