Film Guide

CRAB

Directed by: Piotr Chmielewski

Country: France, Poland
Year: 2022
Run time: 8m 42s

Selections: Animatou International Film Festival, 2023

Synopsis: We present to you a story of our great new hero - The Crab. He lives in captivity and fear, he’s surrounded by glass walls of an aquarium in a restaurant's kitchen and can only watch the things that happen around him. One day when the opportunity appears, he escapes from the cook’s knife and tries to leave the kitchen, when suddenly it starts to tilt. The kitchen appears to be on a ship, from which the crab can escape back to the sea.

GRANDE LATTE DISPREZZO

Directed by: Fodil Drici

Country: France
Year: 2022
Run time: 7m 20s

Selections: Athens Animfest, 2023

Synopsis: V is a young adult living in the suburbs of Paris. Like every weekend, she makes her journey to the capital in search of entertainment and her weekly coffee. But this weekend is special, anger is brewing and the people are marching through Paris.

LES CONFINÉS DU CINÉ

Directed by: Vincent Barrot

Country: France
Year: 2023
Run time: 12m 10s

Synopsis: A pandemic has forced the Cinémamecque's die-hard moviegoers to stay inside their favorite theater. The Cinémamecque's director decides to keep his moviegoers inside the theater, in quarantine. These confined cinema-goers, tested negative, are determined to take  advantage of the new confines that projection affords them. What if such a theater was a drunken boat searching for new worlds?

1905

Directed by: Marc Faye

Country: France
Year: 2021
Run time: 4m 30s

Synopsis: The journey of the caricaturist Jossot, from Gustave to Abdul Karim, continues to raise questions about the debates that animate our contemporary society.

ÉCORCHÉE

Directed by: Joachim Hérissé

Country: France
Year: 2022
Run time: 14m 59s

Prizes: Clermont-Ferrand International Festival, Best Animated French Film, 2023

Synopsis: In an old building, lost in the middle of the swamp, live two strange women, siamese twins by one leg. At night, the Skinned has terrifying nightmares in which she sees her sister's flesh covering her own body.

MAURICE’S BAR

Directed by: Tom Prezman, Tzor Edery

Country: France, Israel
Year: 2023
Run time: 15m 00s

Prizes: Annecy International Animation Festival, Perspective Prize, 2023

Synopsis: In 1942, on a train to nowhere, a former drag queen remembers a night from her past in one of Paris’ first queer bars. Remnants of customer gossip recall this mythic bar and its mysterious Jewish-Algerian owner.

ROALD

Directed by: Clara Bigache, Laurent Chavalle, Julie Chêne, Armand Gaucheron, Thibault Chopinet, Alexis Lheureux, Maxime Prone

Country: France
Year: 2023
Run time: 5m 40s

Selections: Animafest Zagreb, Student Movies, 2023

Synopsis: A birthday party escalate when a toad who perceives life in a cute and colorful way meets a paranoiac fly.

PARADISE

Directed by: Jérôme Cortie

Country: France
Year: 2022
Run time: 15m 00s

Selections: Dokufest International Festival, 2023

Synopsis: When its scientific mission comes to an end, a satellite in charge of monitoring climate change deorbits to a devastated Earth. In this mad race for survival, it meets a guide operating for Pelerin, an apocalypse tourism agency that offers survivors expeditions to thrilling places.

ASTORIA

Directed by: Franck Dion

Country: France
Year: 2023
Run time: 9m 00s

Synopsis: An astronomer is overwhelmed by the ramifications of her research and goes into exile.