Language

French

21–40 of 44 films

  • Misérable Miracle

    2023 All audiences 8 min

    by Ryo Orikasa

    Inspired by Henri Michaux's poems and drawings about his experience with mescaline, "Miserable Miracle" explores the limits of language and perception, creating connections between sound, meaning, line and movement.

    • Drama
  • Butterfly

    2024 Adults 15 min

    by Florence Miailhe

    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".

    • Drama
  • Chloé Van Herzeele

    2019 Adults 17 min

    by Anne-Sophie Girault, Clémence Bouchereau

    Chloé, an old lady, organizes screenings in a subterranean space. She shows to a journalist her galleries where her collection of silver films is stored. As we go down, we dive with her into her altered universe.

    • Drama
  • Summer 96

    2023 All audiences 12 min

    by Mathilde Bédouet

    On August 15, Paul, his family and friends have their annual picnic on Callot Island but get trapped by the tide. Upset and caught between childhood and adulthood, Paul becomes aware of his individuality.

    • Drama
  • Yuck!

    2023 7+ 13 min

    by Loïc Espuche

    Yuck. Couples kissing on the mouth are gross. And the worst is, you can’t miss them: when people are about to kiss, their lips become all pink and shiny. Little Léo laughs at them, just like all the kids at the summer camp. But he has a secret he won’t tell his friends: his own mouth has actually begun glistening. And, in reality, Léo desperately wants to give kissing a try.

    • Comedy
    • Family
    • Coming-of-Age
  • TUMBLEWEED

    2025 Adults 6 min

    by Johanna BOUAOUICHE, Louis CREUZET, Marie HAREUX & others

    Amidst fields of Arabica beans, Hurle, a young woman, dreams of a future beyond the coffee shop where she works to support her mother. Her life is disrupted when she goes in pursuit of an eccentric petty thief who will turn her daily life upside down.

    • Experimental
  • The Girl Who Cried Pearls

    2025 Adults 17 min

    by Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski

    A haunting fable about a girl overwhelmed by sorrow, the boy who loves her, and how greed leads good hearts to wicked deeds.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
  • The Garbage Man

    2022 Adults 11 min

    by Laura Gonçalves

    On a hot August afternoon, the family gathered at the table remembers uncle Botão: the Colonial War, emigration to France, where he lived and worked thirty years as a garbage man. Memories of each are crossed to tell the story of a man who lived a hard life through humor and fantasy, like when he returned to Belmonte, in a van full of trash, turned into a real treasure.

    • Drama
  • The Boob Fairy

    2021 Adults 14 min

    by Léahn Vivier-Chapas

    Who will best play her part: the dancing lioness or the little girl we attempt to tame? Only the Boob Fairy will know who is really worthy of her attention.

    • Fantasy
    • Comedy
  • The afternoon of Clemence

    2017 13+ 10 min

    by Lénaïg Le Moigne

    Clemence and her parents take part in a large country picnic. They arrive late, and Clemence joins the other children who are already playing away from adults, but everything does not happen in the good mood expected.

    • Drama
    • Coming-of-Age
  • Stale Smoke

    2023 Adults 10 min

    by Arthur Jamain

    Can we say that we were sexually assaulted by our brother to our own mother? The obvious answer should be yes. However, few come out of the silence. The question we ask ourselves is “Why aren’t we talking about it ?” »

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
  • Souvenir, souvenir

    2020 16+ 15 min

    by Bastien Dubois

    The film relates Bastien’s multiple and unsuccessful attempts to initiate a dialogue with his grandfather using an excellent combination of art styles to lay out a story of war trauma, family conflict, creative process and ultimately filial love…

    • Drama
  • Skinned

    2022 Adults 14 min

    by Joachim Hérissé

    In an old building, lost in the middle of the swamp, live two strange women, siamese twins by one leg. At night, the Flayed has terrifying nightmares in which she sees her sister’s flesh covering her own body.

    • Drama
    • Horror
  • Pachyderm

    2021 Adults 11 min

    by Stéphanie Clément

    Like every summer, Louise is entrusted to her grandparents for a few days of vacation in the countryside. Between the green grass in the garden, swimming in the lake, fishing with grandpa, everything seems as sweet as grandma’s strawberry pies. But this year, it will snow in the middle of summer and a monster will die.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Experimental
  • L’Impératrice — Hématome

    2021 Adults 3 min

    by Roxane Lumeret & Jocelyn Charles

    The “Hématome” video is an animated surreal narrative following a gorilla-like nurse attempting to heal a strange patient whose body undergoes fantastical transformations morphing into animals, warriors, insects, and objects in a dreamlike, metamorphic journey.

    • Music video
  • by Trinidad Plass Caussade, Titouan Tillier, Isaac Wenzek

    Andy, followed by a friend filming the scene, goes to his recycling appointment. Wanda, the secretary of the company, welcomes him. We follow Andy through the whole process, until his last seconds of life.

    • Comedy
    • Tragicomedy
  • Horacio

    2020 Adults 10 min

    by Caroline Cherrier

    Guillaume kills his friend Horacio with a rake because he was shouting too loudly. The story follows Guillaume’s indifference during his 10-year prison sentence and his subsequent release.

    • Comedy
  • From Oran to Almería

    2023 Adults 7 min

    by Lina Saïdani

    Aghilas, a young Algerian, is consumed by a life that offers him nothing in his native country. The prospect of an elsewhere will push him and a group of harraga to accomplish a dangerous crossing.

    • Drama
  • DANCE WITH THE SEASHELLS!

    2023 Adults 8 min

    by Théo Carme, Julie Fournier, Alessandra Rosmarino & others

    When the Concert-Hall of a small town vanishes, the young singer Erika teams up with Mehdi the mascot to go find it! What will they find on their journey?

    • Drama