PROGRAM

All titles are in French with English subtitles. Suitable for ages 13 and up. Viewable in California only.

NUIT CHÉRIE

By: Lia Bertels

Belgium / 2019 / 13 min 46 sec

In the middle of winter in the country of the Yeti, a bear cannot fall asleep. He’s thinking too much and is in the doldrums. A white monkey suggests going to eat some honey at his Aunt’s to change his mood.

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Annecy in competition.

Festival Castelli animati in competition.

SORORELLE

By: Frédéric Even, Louise Mercadier

France / 2019 / 15 min

Three sisters have to face a cataclysm: the coming flood of the lands where they live by the Sea. Facing chaos, the sorority is disrupted and each one experiences the imminence of death in a different way internally.

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Festival selections: Tokyo, Grenoble, Huesca Espagne, Stuttgart, Monostor Hongrie, Riff Italie, FICFA Acadie, Cinanima Portugal, Alcine Espagne, Animania Arménie, Anim’est Roumanie, Sacramento.

À LA MODE

By: Jean Lecointre

France / 2020 / 8 min 40s

In a kingdom tormented by fashion crazes, a queen and her court must always keep up with the new trend. If not, an abominable monster will consume them: The Ridicule.

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Festival selections: Nouveau Monde Montreal, Animatou Suisse, Trouville.

Prix Unifrance du court métrage France 2020.

15 minute intermission

GENIUS LOCI

By: Adrien Mérigeau

France / 2019 / 16 min 20 sec

One night, Reine, a young loner, sees the urban chaos as mystical oneness that seems alive, like some sort of guide.

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Festival international du film de Hong Kong (Hong-Kong, 2020) Prix Firebird.

Festival international du film d'animation d'Annecy (France, 2020) Mention du jury.

Festival de courts-métrages indépendants de Vienne (Autriche, 2020) Prix de la meilleure animation.

Festival international du court-métrage de Nimègue (Go Short) (Pays-Bas, 2020).

Prix du meilleur film d'animation.

Berlinale (Allemagne, 2020) Audi Short Film Award.

Festival international du court-métrage de Clermont-Ferrand (France, 2020).

Mention spéciale du jury national.

ON EST PAS PRÈS D’ÊTRE DES SUPER HÉROS

By: Lia Bertels

Belgium, Portugal, France / 2019 / 12 min 13 sec

When you’re a child, there’s this tender moment when the boundary between fantasy and reality is shattered. Here is the testimony of these children between two worlds, to whom a voice was freely given.

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Anima (Belgique, 2020) Prix du meilleur court-métrage belge.

Festival international du court-métrage de Clermont-Ferrand (France, 2020).

Prix Bourse La Poule qui pond édition.

EMPTY PLACES

By: Geoffroy de Crécy

France / 2020 / 8 min 30s

Completed before the global lockdown, Empty Places is an ode to the melancholy of machines.

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Annecy Prix festival connexion 2020.

LUZ

By: John Banana

France / 2019 / 7 min 30 sec

Problems can cloud your vision, but the key to Cloudia’s happiness may be right under her nose.

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