THE 15th WINTER SHORTS FEST presents two programs, mixing films from all categories (Fiction, Animation, Documentary Shorts), and invites you to a Transatlantic Panel Discussion on Zoom with the Directors of the films presented!

The IN-PERSON PROGRAM (6 films) is presented at the TOWER THEATRE for ONE NIGHT ONLY on Thursday, March 24, 2022, at 7pm.
The Tower Theatre is located 2508 Land Park Dr Sacramento, CA 95818.

The VIRTUAL PROGRAM (7 films) is presented on our Streaming Platform from Friday, March 25 @ Noon PDT to Monday, March 28, 2022 @ Noon PDT.

MEET THE DIRECTORS on a Transatlantic Panel Discussion on Zoom, Sunday, March 27 @ Noon PDT.
Click on (or copy) this link to join us: https://csus.zoom.us/j/88462621304

Always with English subtitles!

IN-PERSON PROGRAM
TOWER THEATRE
Thursday, March 24, 2022 - 7pm
ONE NIGHT ONLY!!!

Discover the program below.

$12 General Admission.

GET YOUR TICKETS HERE!

Tickets will also be available at the door. Box Office will open at 6:15pm on event night at the Tower Theatre! We expect seating to occur around 6:45pm.

IN-PERSON PROGRAM
TOWER THEATRE - MARCH 24, 2022
Total program runtime: 2 hours and 4 minutes.
There will be no intermission.

EMPTY PLACES by Geoffroy de Crécy - 2020 - Autour de Minuit - 8 minutes - ANIMATION
Completed before the global lockdown, Empty Places is an ode to the melancholy of machines left to their own devices with no humans in sight.

DECENT PEOPLE (DES GENS BIEN) by Maxime Roy - 2020 - TS Productions - 30 minutes - FICTION
Manon, 30 years old and 8 months pregnant, is a struggling singer. Her relationship with Ludo, the baby's father, is falling apart under dire financial pressure, and they are unable to prepare for the baby's arrival. Meanwhile, her grandfather is nearing the end of his life.

MAALBEEK by Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis - 2020 - Square Eyes - 16 minutes - DOCUMENTARY
A survivor of the attack at the Maalbeek metro station on March 22, 2016, in Brussels, Sabine is looking for the missing images of a heavily media-covered event that changed her whole life, but of which she has no memory.

THE DEPARTURE (LE DEPART) by Saïd Hamich - 2020 - L'Agence du Court Métrage - 25 minutes - FICTION
Morocco, 2004. Adil, aged 11, spends the summer playing with his friends. Like the whole country, he is anxiously waiting for his idol, Olympic runner Hicham El Guerrouj, to compete in his last Olympic Games with the hopes of winning a Gold Medal. This is the summer that will change Adil's life forever.

SWEET MADNESS, HARD MADNESS (FOLIE DOUCE, FOLIE DURE) by Marine Laclotte - 2020 - Lardux Films - 18 minutes - ANIMATION
A stroll through the daily life of a psychiatric institution, meeting extraordinary people.

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BLACK SOLDIER (SOLDAT NOIR) byJimmy Laporal-Trésor - 2020 - L'Agence du Court Métrage - 27 minutes - FICTION
France, 1986. Hughes, a young man from the French West Indies, discovers a shocking new advertisement plastered on the walls of his town. France, his country, the country where he was born and where he has lived his whole life, considers him a cannibal! This is the start of a radical transformation fueled by anger and frustration.

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