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WEEK-END WEEK-END SYNOPSIS Through three short films, Week-end explores, poetically, treasures of the German, Iran and Greek language. Animated sequences illustrate very original idiomatic expressions.Greek Weekend, Cuckoo and SpringGerman Weekend, Lies have Short LegsFarsi Weekend, A Bouquet at the Sea…
the WILDFIRE L'incendie SYNOPSIS Hinterland of the French Provence. Summer 1972. In the distance, a wildfire is approaching dangerously close to the family farm. Alone with her son Simon, Chantal has no news of Alain, who has gone to fight…
WHAT’S BEHIND THAT DOOR ? WHAT’S BEHIND THAT DOOR ? SYNOPSIS A couple has always lived in a room without doors or windows. One day, their life change as they discover a mysterious door behind the wallpaper. Categories Short Films,…
THUMBELINA & THE OGRE TOMMELISE ET L’OGRE SYNOPSIS An ogre lives alone in a huge garden where he spends his time eating and gardening. One day, he meets a tiny woman who fell from a swallow. Their peculiar friendship is…
REMINISCENCE RÉMINISCENCE SYNOPSIS A young woman finds a video tape. It initiates a face to face and a dance in duo as a metaphor of hidden and repressed memory.This film is her trip inside a magic and absurd universe to…
The POROUS BODY LE CORPS POREUX SYNOPSIS A young woman who lives in her thoughts goes back to the sea to centre herself. As she dives into the water, she dives under her skin and penetrates her psychological wrapping. Categories…
PLEASE DON’T TOUCH PLEASE DON’T TOUCH SYNOPSIS Museum rules are simple : don’t run, don’t touch, don’t shout and never disobey. Categories Short Films, Catalog Thematics Museum – Arts – Comedy – Black Humour – Experimental – No dialogue Director…
LIKE ANYONE ELSE COMME TOUT LE MONDE SYNOPSIS In France, 20.000 young people are homeless and account for 35% of the homeless population. This film is the testimony of three of them: Kenny, Loubna and Mickaël. In Paris neighborhood ‘Beaubourg’,…
JOGGER JOGGER SYNOPSIS A confident and principled young man witnessed the assault of another but decides to let events unfold and does nothing. As a result of his inaction and feeling remorse, he finds himself caught in an inner conflict…
EMPTY SPACES EMPTY SPACES SYNOPSIS An isolated house, in the middle of the desert. Men in suits try to occupy their time. They reinvent a daily past, with nothing around them. CatEgoriES Short Films, Catalog ThEmatiCS Arts – Museum –…
The BLACK BOX La boîte noire SYNOPSIS Fourteen years after the Paris Commune, a young man from the country meets former insurgents. He gives them an innovative device that violently brings back ghosts from the past. Categories Short Films, Catalog Thematics…
ANGELIQUE DAY’S FOR NIGHT LA NUIT AMÉRICAINE D’ANGÉLIQUE SYNOPSIS When she saw Francois Truffaut's Day For Night, Angelique discovered that it was possible to dream up her life. To feel like Nathalie Baye, to get her father’s admiration, to chose…
THE TAIL OF HANS 漢斯的尾巴 SYNOPSIS One night, a mermaid dreams of becoming human. A magical encounter grants her transformation. But after receiving legs, she realizes the gender isn’t quite what she expected. Learning to move through a form she…
PROGRAM: BODY IN (DIS)HARMONY Under its apparent lightness, the programme offers several stories of emancipation that seek to better understand the body and one’s desires. GIRLS ARE MADE TO MAKE LOVE by Jeanne Drouet, Jeanne Paturle, Cécile Rousset AND I…
FRARÍA FRARÍA SYNOPSIS Sardinia, 1920s. Angelo is 15 years old and lives in a small village in the early post-WWI period, at the beginning of fascist dictatorship. He is very shy, and he is teased because of the disability of…
THE BIG BAD WOLF LE GRAND MÉCHANT LOUP SYNOPSIS Gabriel, 8 years old, leaves his house at the middle of the night. He leaves behind him a scene that his imagination struggles to make him forget. Categories Short films, Catalog…
pest nuisible SYNOPSIS For the first time, Tom joins his father for hunting. Even though he wants to make his father proud, it won’t be the same once faced with his prey... Categories Short Films, catalog Thematics Human Rights –…
IN TRANSIT EN TRANSIT SYNOPSIS 2018, France, revolution is raging, and pictures of riots are overflowing all over social medias. In the corridor of Tokyo-Haneda’s airport, a young girl discovers her country’s news through her phone screen. Her focus gets…
PISCES םיגד לזמ SYNOPSIS After Rona cuts off the relationship with her family in Israel, and relocates to Japan, to work as a family member for rent – a surprising phone call informing her of her sister's death shakes her…
VERCORS VERCORS SYNOPSIS In a camp on the outskirts of the Vercors mountains, five Resistance fighters, forgotten by their headquarters, struggle against boredom, frustration and a difficult daily life. By dint of inaction, Joseph, a kid who just joined the…
NUBE NUBE SYNOPSIS After witnessing an old dark stormy cloud painfully rain and die in sorrow, Noma, a puffy white cloud realizes that Mixtli, her daughter, a dark stormy cloud, is in danger of raining prematurely. Categories Short Films, Catalog…
CRAQUE GANACHE Creaky chompers SYNOPSIS The end of my growth was marked by a strange orthodontic need: jaw advancement surgery. A journey through images and sound effects in my most gruesome childhood memories. Category(ies) Short films, Catalog Thematic(s) Comedy –…
FEET IN WATER LES PIEDS DANS L'EAU SYNOPSIS Jeanne and Louis, a couple in their seventies, discover the unexpected effect of a footbath in the middle of the day on their balcony. Jeanne recalls a distant and comical memory of…
A MENINA E O POTE The girl and the pot SYNOPSIS In a dystopian world, the Girl breaks her ceramic pot, which holds a secret within. The breaking of the pot opens portals to a parallel universe and the girl…
17 O'clock ORA SHTATËMBËDHJETË SYNOPSIS An Albanian family of four must live an everyday life while the world around them shatters during the armed conflict 2001. While the bombing is ongoing these two parents are in a constant dilemma, protecting…
ZIKI ZIKI SYNOPSIS Ziki is a Congolese boy living in a village with his mother. One day, while the two are playing, Ziki discovers a mysterious tunnel winding beneath the kitchen floor. Curious, he decides to venture in, but as…
LONG DISTANCE Longue Distance SYNOPSIS An astronaut prepares for a flight into space and a diver descends into the depths.The further apart they are, the closer they are. Categories Short films, Catalog Thematics Love – Couple – Work – Emancipation…
AND I WOULD BE BEAUTIFUL ET JE DEVIENDRAIS BELLE SYNOPSIS My boobs? They're too small, even Fanny said so. My butt? I hate it! My face? In a trash can… Thanks to Muse, I could become someone else. In just…
balconada Балконада SYNOPSIS A hot summer day brings several neighbours out on their balconies. As a welcome downpour wakes everyone from their torpor, one of them finds a way to reconnect them all to each other and to the present…
Kabuki Kabuki SYNOPSIS Kabuki is a stop motion animation short film that poetically follows the transgender character Kabuki’s search for self-acceptance and identity. The film revisits this ancestral form of theatre from Japan to give full significance to the object…
L'HORIZON DU BOUT DU NEZ The Horizon from the tip of the nose SYNOPSIS Diagnosed as completely nearsighted at age 6, I have spent my life in a blur. A journey through the not always clear twists and turns of…
SULAIMANI SULAIMANI SYNOPSIS One evening, Alia and Neena, two young Indian women, each come to dinner at Sulaimani, an Indian restaurant in Paris. The meal brings back sometimes buried emotions for them and “releases” certain memories which little by little…
BACKSTREET BIRDS Pingvinas ir Balandis SYNOPSIS Backstreet Birds is a reminder of the importance of sharing. Only by caring for the needs of others and using the world’s resources responsibly can we live together in peace. Categories Short films, Catalog…
The garden El Jardin SYNOPSIS A dreamlike oil-on-glass short where Juana Borrero, 19th-century Cuban painter-poet, wanders a tropical Eden guided by a Blue Rabbit and facing a wounded Velociraptor — an evocative meditation on memory, transformation, and the blurred lines…
it's quiet now Сега се е тивко SYNOPSIS Fleeing the echoes of war, a mother and her young son leave their village behind, carrying only their memories and a fragile hope for the future. Categories Short films, New Thematics Human…
My bellyaching skin les pelures d'estomac SYNOPSIS When my body suddenly became covered in spots, my first logical thought was that it was a skin problem. But what if the source of my itching was actually to be found in…
the QUESTION la QUESTION SYNOPSIS Paris, one winter night in 1958. Jérôme Lindon, Director of Éditions de Minuit, secretly receives Gilberte Alleg, wife of French journalist Henri Alleg, who brings him the manuscript « La Question », a detailed account of the…
sunflowers in sorrow le chagrin des tournesols SYNOPSIS After many years apart, Sue and Paula, two former wrestlers in their seventies, reunite for one last motorcycle road trip to their childhood home. Unspoken words will eventually burst. Categories Short Film,…
AYAM ayam SYNOPSIS Three generations of Moroccan women exchange feelings and anecdotes while preparing the traditional ceremony of Eid al- Adha. Categories Short Film, Programs, Thematics Family – Couple – Mother & Daughter – Love – Religion – Feminism –Biography…
CONDUCTOR DIRIGENTAS SYNOPSIS Tomas lives in a musical city where everyone has their own melody. But he dreams of creating a piece that everyone will play together. When the city becomes one vast orchestra, Tomas is its sole conductor –…
VISIT INTO IRRADIATED LAND VISITE EN TERRE IRRADIÉE SYNOPSIS Sophie guides visitors through the exclusion zone around the Golfech nuclear plant in southern France. Years after the disaster, she outfits tourists in protective suits and leads gyropod tours across irradiated…
PENGUIN pINGVIIN SYNOPSIS Returning from Antarctica, a man brings his partner a rare gift. The gift causes a shift in their relationship, which is difficult to cope with. Has the man changed, or is it the woman who suddenly sees…
THE NIGHT BOOTS LES BOTTES DE LA NUIT SYNOPSIS While his parents are welcoming friends, a child leaves home in the middle of the night and enters the undergrowth, wearing rubber boots. There, a strange beast, curious and solitary, will…
THREE SHADOWS TROIS SILHOUETTES SYNOPSIS In a French state that has become militarized and repressive, a crossing guard border intercepts a police officer on the run with a young migrant. Category Short Film Thematics Human Rights – Social issues –…