Sara Sponga

Movies

Anna & Manon Go to the Beach
Director of Photography
After a summer camp, Anna and Manon decide to go live on the beach so they never leave each other.
Vanille
Director of Photography
Vanille is a little Parisian girl who has just arrived in Guadeloupe. She will be immersed in an exotic and mysterious adventure, meeting picturesque characters and magical flowers, all embellished with a touch of Creole. These holidays promise to be rich and full of surprises!
The Kindergarten Show
Director of Photography
A master owl tries to present the kindergarten end of year show. Unfortunately the night does not go as planned, as several unforeseen events happened, one after the other, even before the curtain came up.
Melting Heart Cake
Director of Photography
Anna wants to share her chocolate cake with her friend and ends up living an adventure through the forest, where the terrible bearded giant is the new inhabitant. In fact, all the animals that she meets are disappearing. Does the giant need company?
The Falling Star
Director of Photography
The last conscious moments of Stalin, the solitary tyrant who believes himself immortal. An evocation of the mental chaos of the Little Father of the People who was suffering from delusions of persecution and untold power during the three days of his death throes. And, in fact, is he really dead? In the limbo of the Soviet past, the ghosts from the gulag dream of settling some old scores.
My Grandpa Is Hiding
Compositing Supervisor
A grandfather explains to his grandson that he'll have to take care of his flower garden after he dies. There follows a touching and poetic discussion about losing loved ones and on the marks they leave behind.
My Grandpa Is Hiding
Director of Photography
A grandfather explains to his grandson that he'll have to take care of his flower garden after he dies. There follows a touching and poetic discussion about losing loved ones and on the marks they leave behind.
Grands Canons
Director of Photography
On a drawing sheet, a brush makes colors appear in watercolor. An object of everyday life is drawn precisely by the hands of an artist. Then two drawings, then three, four, ... superimposed, condensed, multiplied, hundreds of drawings of immobile objects succeed one another on the screen. Grands Canons is an animation short film based on a series of observation drawings that, like the work of 19th-century entomologists and naturalists, systematically lists all the everyday objects that "go into the household."
On the Horizon
Cinematography
A man and a woman are doing up a boat in order to go on a cruise together. This common project brings them together. They are passionate, become very close. Their relationship is sensual and tender. Yet they grow weary after a long period of relentless work, and both their life and the boat go adrift.
Diamenteurs
Director of Photography
A jeweler tells his children the story of diamond. An existential perspective of the history of the precious stone, supported by the voice of a storyteller prone to digress…
L'horizon de Bene
Director of Photography
La petite marchande d'allumettes
Director of Photography
Conte de fées à l'usage des moyennes personnes
Director of Photography
Traumatised by a painfull breakup, Joseph decides on stepping out of his house, and finding some sugar in order to remove bitterness from his life.
Poppety in the Fall
Director
In this animated short, a terrible curse deprives Balthasar's kingdom of its stories. Taking the unicorn's horn back into The Belly of the Earth is the solution. Poppety will lead an expedition, by chance uncovering a hitherto closely guarded family secret.
Un spectacle interrompu
Director of Photography
Bonifacio in Summertime
Director of Photography
Love has packed up and left the castle. The queen has snuck back to her Kingdom of Skedaddle. But one person’s loss is a scoundrel’s gain: Bonifacio, a teller of tall tales, sees in the forlorn queen the perfect target for his hackneyed charms. As summer approaches, he changes himself into a sweet talker and sings her praises. Things would have worked out perfectly if only Princess Molly hadn’t arrived on the scene. While visiting her mother, she quickly discovers the hoax: the queen thinks she’s found a new husband in Bonifacio. But the swindling storyteller is really only interested in the kingdom’s legends.
The Kid Tintouin
Director of Photography
The Whimsical Council
Director of Photography
A young man opens the window of his attic room and discovers a lunar landscape which submerges him and threatens to imprison him in an eternal sheet of ice. He closes the window to escape this vision and hears from deep inside his soul the sound of a poem being sung.
Molly in Springtime
Director of Photography
As the mysterious “bloated belly” disease spreads through their kingdom, Princess Molly teams up with Léon the bear to outwit a conniving storyteller.
Les escargots de Joseph
Director of Photography
La vita nuova
Director of Photography
Leon in Wintertime
Director of Photography
One winter, a ravenous ogre terrorizes the land of King Balthasar. Meanwhile, a blizzard is brewing in Léon’s heart. Braving the cold, this adopted bear cub runs away from home. Léon has many an adventure during his travels. He befriends a hedgehog and an elephant, confronts an ogre, and sets Princess Molly Gingerbread free. His courage and integrity eventually lead him back to his family. In the end, the cub earns everybody’s respect.
Sombres Héros
Director of Photography