Annecy Title ‘Cloud Girl’ Flies To International Buyers For SC Films

EXCLUSIVE: London-based SC Films International has struck a slew of international deals on animated family-adventure Cloud Girl (previously known as Girl in the Clouds).

The feature from French writer-director Philippe Riche was inspired by Romain Puértolas’ 2015 novel The Little Girl Who Swallowed a Cloud as Big as the Eiffel Tower and screened as an Official Selection of the 2026 Annecy International Animation Film Festival.

Viva Pictures will release the film in U.S. cinemas on January 8, 2027. Pan Distribution has taken rights for France, Pathé Films for French-Speaking Switzerland and O’Brother for Benelux.

The latest international buyers include Baltics (Acme), Bulgaria (Pro Films), CIS (Volga), Czech Republic & Slovakia (Bohemia Motion Pictures), Former Yugoslavia (Blitz), Greece (The Film Group), Israel (FilmHouse), Latin America and South Africa (Sun Distribution Group), Middle East (ECS), Poland (Kinoswiat), Portugal (Cinemundo), Romania (Cay Films), Hungary (ADS), Scandinavia (Mislabel), Turkey (Film Medya), Ukraine (Adastra), North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa (Pathé Touch Afrique). Sales will continue at the American Film Market next month.

Cloud Girl tells the story of an 11-year-old avid reader entrusted with a magical quill that can grant any wish it writes. When she wishes to fly and for her guinea pig, Airbag, to talk, the duo embarks on a dangerous adventure to save the planet.

The English-speaking voice cast is led by Faith Delaney (Hamnet), Hugh Laurie (House), Joseph Balderrama (F1: The Movie) Ken Nwosu (Greenland 2: Migration) and Bhavnisha Parmar (Doctor Who).

Pic is produced by Brio Films, Panama Productions, Scope Pictures, and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma, with the support of Canal +, Eurimages, and CNC. Stim Studio is the lead animation studio. Luc Bossi is producer; executive producers are Simon Crowe, Jon Goldman and Valérie Leroux; co-producers are Lhoussaïne Zammat, Geneviève Lemal, Félix Ferrand, Julien Seul, Sawsan Asfari, Audrey Abiven, Luc Hardy, Nicolas Corouge, Pascal Laik and Elisabeth Bykoff.