The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) presents Charles Perrault: The Godfather of European Fairy Tales a cinema program that explores four of Charles Perrault's most celebrated fairy tales thrugh the eyes of three significant French film directors: Jacques Demy, Olivier Dahan and Catherine Breillat.

Charles Perrault, born in Paris in 1628, is considered the founder of the fairytale genre, bringing together disparate oral traditions and publishing these stories in his landmark book, Stories or Tales of Past Times, with Morals in 1697. Perrault's most famous stories are still in print today and have been made into operas, ballets, plays, musicals, and films, both live-action and animation.