The Rain Children

The Rain Children (Les enfants de la pluie, 2003) is a hand-drawn French fantasy feature you can watch online on iFILM. Director Philippe Leclerc builds a world split in two by the elements themselves.

The Pyross worship the sun and treat water like acid; rain, to them, wakes the dragons and brings death. Their enemies, the Hydross, are the opposite — only rain revives them, while sunlight hardens their bodies into stone. For ages the two peoples slaughter each other on the same endless loop. Then one march changes it: Scan, a young Pyross warrior, crosses the desert to kill and instead meets Callisto from the other side. It's a love-across-the-divide story with a melancholy streak and imagery too strange for small kids. Watch The Rain Children (2003) online on iFILM.