Production
A man swims in the sea. As he moves through the water, memories come back to him from the bright beaches of the Indian ocean to the grey of the concentration camps. ... In this moving animated short, Florence Miailhe tells the extraordinary story of Alfred Nakache, the "swimmer from Auschwitz".
Looking at an X-ray image a young handsome man is horrified to learn that the weird, tumor-like lump on his chest is the top of a tiny plump man’s head. Nested in his body, he is waiting to be born…
A young man is sexually assaulted and subdues, punishes, then befriends his own attacker while confronting his past and the ambiguities of sexuality. Part fiction, part non-fiction, part autobiography and part dream, Friend of a Friend attempts to broaden the conversation around abuse and its motivations and implications, as well as the survivor vs. assailant dynamic and results of ostracization.
A room retains one’s traces of life. I want to question on humans’ being and loss as time flows, by reflecting on the traces left in a room and its elements ranging from space, walls, door, windows, stuffs and so on.
Sunday. At lunch, James observes his family. They ask him questions and don’t listen to his answers, they give advice but don’t follow it, they stroke him and slap him, but it’s ok, it is the Sunday lunch
Man on the chair is tormented and constantly doubts his very own existence.
Having crept into a tent, a young girl steps out of it grown and strangely dressed as a bunny rabbit. An inner journey through which the young woman tries to understand the drama at the root of all her suffering.
In 1950s Washington, the Americans decided to monitor the Russian embassy with a spy cat rigged with microphones. The only problem was getting all this equipment into the animal’s body. Based on true events.
There was a time when we acknowledged that our noble, profound, and mysterious existence could be called The Great. Since then, we have evolved with time; our thinking and consciousness have changed. And yet, what is the reason that still allows us to consider our existence as The Great?
As every morning, men get on the tram to go to work. But on that day, to the rhythm of the tickets inserted in the ticket-stamping machine, the vehicle gets erotic and the conductress’ desire turns the reality into a surrealistic and phallic fantasy.