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A Night of Short French Films

  • Theatre Raymond Kabbaz 10361 West Pico Boulevard Los Angeles, CA, 90064 United States (map)
 
 

FILM GUIDE

 

Partir Un Jour (Bye Bye)

Directed by: Amélie Bonnin 
Details: 2021 / France / 24 min 54 seconds 

In competition, 2023 César Awards, Best Short (Fiction)
Selected for the National Competition at Clermont-Ferrand (France, 2022) 

After graduating from high school, Julien left his hometown to build a bigger life in the capital, leaving his memories behind. And then one day, he has to come back, and that day his memories jumped out at him from between two packets of Pépito cookies.
 

Caillou (Pebble)

Directed by: Mathilde Poymiro 
Details: 2022 / France / 25 min 

In competition, 2023 César Awards, Best Short (Fiction)

Elias, 17 years old, suddenly loses his father. People around him worry as he continues to live as if nothing had happened. Alice, his mother, wants him to express his grief at all costs.


Haut les coeurs (The Right Words)

Directed by: Adrian Moyse Dullin 
Details: 2021 / France / 14 min 49 seconds

In competition, 2023 César Awards, Best Short (Fiction)
2022 Sundance Film Festival (International Category) 
2021 Cannes Film Festival 

When naive and romantic Mahdi is peer-pressured into confessing his love to Jada, a girl who doesn't know he exists, his declaration becomes a public spectacle.

À Point (The Right Time)

Directed by: Aurélie Marpeaux 
Details: 2021 / France / 20 min 30 seconds 

In competition, 2023 César Awards, Best Short (Fiction)
In competition, 2022 Clermont-Ferrant International Short Film Festival

Anna, 18, has always lived in a housing estate in Bourg-en-Bresse. But when her professional future allows her to discover new things, Anna is paralyzed to leave behind her neighborhood, her friends, her memories, her identity. What is she prepared to give up?

 

Dorlis

Directed by: Enricka MH 
Details: 2021 / France / 25 min 5 seconds 

In competition, 2023 César Awards, Best Short (Fiction)

Nora, a fifteen-year-old from Martinique, is forced to follow her mother and her little  sister to the north of the island to live with her grandfather, Henri, left paralyzed by a stroke. They move in with the old man to provide him with daily help. But very quickly, the house's atmosphere and Henri's presence will awaken childhood memories in Nora, which will be embodied in the fear of an attack by an evil spirit.

 

1992.83

Directed by: Colin Van Der Straeten
Details: 2022 / France / 20 min 3 sec

Lubin goes to the claims department of a French administration to which he owes 1992.83 euros and is confronted with a sprawling bureaucracy 

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