18th WINTER SHORTS FEST: 2025 CÉSAR NOMINATED SHORTS/ ANIMATION & LIVE ACTION CATEGORIES

Always with English Subtitles!

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PROGRAM
Runtime: 1h54min

After the screening, remember to vote for your favorite film in each category!
Sacramento’s choices will be announced in our e-newsletter and on social media. The 50th César Ceremony takes place the night prior to our screening, on Friday, February 28.

YUCK!
(BEURK !)
Loïc Espuche
2023 - Miyu Distribution - 13 minutes
ANIMATION
Adult couples kissing on the mouth are gross. Yuck! ("Beurk !" in French) Léo laughs at them, just like all the kids in the campground. But Léo has a secret: he desperately wants to give kissing a try.
Yuck! is also nominated for a 2025 Oscar.

CLAMOR
(BOUCAN)
Salomé Da Souza
2023 - Agence du Court Métrage - 25 minutes
LIVE-ACTION
Somewhere in a small town in the South of France, Johannes and Gabin are young and in love with each other. But, they are cousins, and that complicates everything.

GIGI
Cynthia Calvi
2023 - Miyu Distribution - 13 minutes
ANIMATION
From the tormented mermaid she identified with as a child, to the fulfilled woman she is today, Gigi recounts her gender transition with humor and tenderness.

QUEEN SIZE
Avril Besson
2023 - Agence du Court Métrage - 18 minutes
LIVE-ACTION
No longer able to afford life in Paris, Marina is set to move back in with her parents on Reunion Island. This morning, she has an appointment to sell her mattress.

CHANGING ROOMS
(CE QUI APPARTIENT À CÉSAR)
Violette Gitton
2024 - Agence du Court Métrage - 17 minutes
LIVE-ACTION
After his older sister Lou is sexually assaulted, César, 12, begins questioning his own relationship to violence.

BUTTERFLY
(PAPILLON)
Florence Miailhe
2023 - Agence du Court Métrage - 13 minutes
ANIMATION
A man swims in the sea and memories come flooding back. From his early childhood to adulthood, all his memories are connected to water. Some are happy, some are glorious, some are sad. Based on the extraordinary life of Olympic swimmer Alfred Nakache, also known as "the swimmer from Auschwitz.”

THE MAN WHO COULDN’T REMAIN SILENT
(L'HOMME QUI NE SE TAISAIT PAS)
Nebojša Slijepčević
2024 - Agence du Court Métrage - 13 minutes
LIVE-ACTION.
IN CROATIAN, WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
February  27, 1993, in the small village of Strpci, Bosnia and Herzegovina, a passenger train is stopped by Serb paramilitary forces in an ethnic cleansing operation. As the soldiers take away innocent civilians, only one man out of 500 passengers dares to stand up to them. This is the true story of a man who could not remain silent.
"The Man Who Couldn't Remain Silent" is also nominated for a 2025 Oscar.