8. La Détente
Directors: Pierre Ducos, Bertrand Bey (France) Put simply, La Détente is the greatest war film Pixar never made. A soldier lies in a trench, trembling with fear. The camera then swoops inside his mind to uncover a war fought by toys; a multi-coloured melee of painted dolls and plastic soldiers. A visual onslaught somewhere between Speed Racer and Saving Private Ryan
, all without showing a single drop of blood. Dazzling, disarming but also destructive, each frame rumbles with marches, airstrikes or exploding mines. Its Hell through Hamleys window. But before we get too cosy in this cotton wool- clad conflict, were hurled back to the frontline with a reveal that hammers the point home; right between the eyes.