NARRATIVE
American Boy
Director : Maxime Renard
Production : Le G.R.E.C.
Malik spends his days trying to stave off boredom and to get attention from others. One day, he attracts some guys’ attention with a lie: he says he’s going to the USA to study cinema. The news quickly goes around the neighbourhood and Malik suddenly becomes everyone’s hope and pride.
Malik : Bilel Chegrani
Asma : Mariel-Louise Compain
Moussa : Diong Keba Tacu
Djibril : Chris Biandionga
Ousama : Ali Lafleur
Sami : Mourad Zamouri
Fatima : Marie-José Segarra
Runtime : 23 min
De la folie des hamsters
Director : Juliette Marrécau
Production : Le G.R.E.C.
Leaving her father and childhood home behind, the idealistic and awkward Inès does everything she can to convince her sister to keep her in her small Parisian apartment. Lonely and at a loss, she befriends a hamster that keeps going round and round in circles…
Inès : Anaelle Fournier
Anaïs : Juliette Savary
Le Père : Didier Sauvegrain
Élise : Marine Gramond
Anis : Anis Mansour
Runtime : 40 min
Le Temps des cerises
Director : Arthur Jeanroy
Production : Ante Bellum Films
Everything is ready. The purple chair beside the blossoming cherry tree. The camera. The framing. The light. It’s perfect. For Robert there is just one problem : Madeleine, his fiancée, who is sitting right in front of the camera with nothing but a T-shirt. And when he tries to convince her to dress up, an old lady arrives with some cherries from her garden.
Madeleine : Solène Salvat
La neighbor : Catherine Giron
Runtime : 8 min
Nearby Memories
Director: Pauline Moreau
Production: All in One Production & Skywatcher Pictures
Olivia embarks on a tumultuous boat trip filled with distant memories in an attempt to find her place in the world. Within this trip flows a daring question, wouldn’t the land of her ancestors hold the answers to her existential crisis ?
Olivia: Sasha Hékimian
Gabriel: Padrig Vion
The Soldier: David Clavel
The Woman: Morgane Goaziou
The Bartender: Benoit Bouvet
The Boatman: Bryan Henche
Runtime: 15 min
Aval sus la montanha
Director: Céleste Galliot-Dollet
On the side of a cold mountain, in a house enclosed by the forest, live Marcèl, a a gruff and not very talkative man,and Jeanne, his daughter in her twenties. Immersed in the monotony of her daily tasks, Jeanne discovers a corpse buried in the earth. Seduced by this foreign body, she is introduced to a world where her life is no longer governed by the rules set by her father.
Jeanne: Jeanne Rocabert
Marcèl: Michel Tauvignac
The Boy: Félicien Liège
The Woman: Adélia Ferreira
Runtime: 42 min
ZED
Director: Clément Clareton
Zoe and Arielle are talking in the parking lot of the restaurant where they work. That’s when Zoe sees Zed, a mysterious man watching them from his Mustang…
Zoe: Lou Canaud
Arielle: Claire Duchêne
Zed: Alexandre Nguyen
Runtime: 12 min
The escape
Director: Morgane Maurel
It’s summer in a small country town. Nina and Manon just graduated high school. Nina turns 18 today. His father and brother are absent. Nina is fed up with this gloomy life, she knows that this world is not for her, but there is Manon, her not-so-feral friend, whom she loves indefinitely. Nina discovers that a strange passage exists somewhere in the forest near her home. She’s attracted to it and that night she might take the step…
Nina: Calypso Buijtenhuijs
Manon: Leïla Macaire
Théodore: Lucas Rastoll
Runtime: 14 min
The Mosaic Child
Director: Louis Paul
Luka, a seven-year-old boy, is brought by his mother to a great-aunt’s funeral in an old apartment. He’s lonely and bored at this ceremony where he doesn’t really have a place. The arrival of his cousin Lisa allows him to play and, through that, to express his feelings about the situation.
Runtime: 13 min
Nightcall
Director: Pierrick Roland
Runtime: 17 min