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Coco Farm

2023 film directed by Sébastien Gagné

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ126667954
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Coco Farm (French: Coco ferme) is a Canadian children's comedy film, directed by Sébastien Gagné and released in 2023.

The 25th film in the long-running Tales for All (Contes pour tous) series of children's films and the first new film in the series to be released since Dominic James acquired the Productions la Fête studio from founder Rock Demers in 2015, the film stars Oscar Desgagnés as Max, a young boy who moves to a small town with his father Éric (Simon Lacroix) after the death of his mother; initially unhappy with his new reality, Max soon joins with his cousin Charles (Joey Bélanger) and classmate Alice (Emma Bao Linh Tourné) in a bid to reverse the family's fortunes by acquiring 500 chickens to launch an egg farm.

The cast also includes Benoît Brière, Mia Garnier, Louis-Philippe Dandenault, Joëlle Paré-Beaulieu, Richard Fréchette, Steve Laplante, Pierre Mailloux and Vincent Bolduc.

The film was shot in and around Frelighsburg, Quebec. It opened in theatres on February 24, 2023.

The film won the Golden Slipper for best children's film at the 2024 Zlín Film Festival.

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“Coco Farm” enters the record as 2023 film directed by Sébastien Gagné. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Coco, Farm and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q126667954. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2023, 2015 and 2024.

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