SHORT FILM SCREENING
Various Directors - 2010-2012

 

In French with English subtitles.

Program selected in collaboration with Unifrance and with the help of Stéphanie Vasseur in Paris.

Aglaee

Bee

La France qui se leve tot

Guet Apens

La Tragedie de Michel

Les Chiens verts

Directors: Various artists

107 min

Not Rated

Followed by Q&A with directors Michaël Barocas & Raphaël Hitzke.

Saturday 23
10:30am

One screening only.

Preceded by a Petit Déjeuner (French Breakfast) with directors Michaël Barocas & Raphaël Hitzke: 10am in the lobby of the Crest Theatre.

Breakfast is FREE with Short Film Screening admission!

Aglaée by Rudi Rosenberg (19 min 43) - 2010
Benoit, a high school student, looses a bet and must ask Aglaée, a handicaped student, to go out with him.
Prix Deluxe du meilleur court-métrage de fiction - Toronto Wordlwide Short Film Festival, 2011
Grand Prix - Venice International Short Film Festival, 2011.

Lutin for Best Direction, Best editing, Best Actress - Lutin Short Film Awards, 2011

Bee by Raphaël Hitzke (20 min) - 2012
Back in her hometown, a young entomologist investigating the death of her dad's honeybees stumbles upon racial prejudices, lies, and old family feuds.
Director Raphaël Hitzke will attend.
Best Dramatic Short - Sonoma International Film Festival, 2012

La France qui se lève tôt (Early Rising France) by Hugo Chesnard (21 min 43) - 2011
A social operatta about an illegal immigrant.
Audience Award - Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival, 2012
Nominated for a César, 2012

Guet Apens (Trapped) by Michaël Barocas ( 8 min 40) - 2011
One day, Jacques, a peaceful retiree, is brutally attached by two masked men. Starring Philippe Laudenbach (also in Declaration of War.)
Director Michaël Barocas will attend.

La Tragédie de Michel by Mike Guermyet (16 min 58) - 2011
Michel is always very pessimistic when he starts a new love story.

Les Chiens verts (The Green Dogs) by Mathias & Colas Rifkiss (20 min 10) - 2012
Oswaldo and Babass, two fifty-year-old soccer fans, challenge to a soccer game the young managers of their factory about to be relocated in Romania.

Saturday June 23 - 10:30am
One screening only.

Followed by Q&A with directors Michaël Barocas & Raphaël Hitzke.

Preceded by a Petit Déjeuner (French Breakfast) with Michaël Barocas & Raphaël Hitzke
10am in the lobby of the Crest Theatre.
FREE with Short Film Screening admission!