We throw the spotlight on French short films that traveled in February to three international festivals supported by Unifrance.
🏆 Awards for French short films 🏆
➡️ At the Berlinale, two French works received awards:
- The Golden Bear for a Short Film went to Someday A Child by Marie-Rose Osta.
- The Teddy Award for a Short Film went to Taxi Moto by Gaël Kamilindi.
➡️ In Brussels, Anima, devoted to animation films, honored five French works:
- The Grand Prix Anima for Best International Short Film was awarded to To the Woods by Agnès Patron.
- The Award for Best Short Film for Children went to Éric Montchaud's J'ai trouvé une boîte.
- Autokar by Sylwia Szkiłądź received the Best Belgian Short Film Award.
- La Petite Reine blanche by Mathieu Georis and Théo Hanosset, was awarded the Grand Prix for Best Short Film of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles.
- The Best Animation Award was given to The Great Dreamscape by Rémi Durin.
✈️ Participants who received travel funding ✈️
Alpha Diallo accompanied his film Souls of Fouta to the Berlinale in Germany. He shared his enthusiasm with us:
"I return very satisfied from the Berlinale for the world premiere of my short film The Souls of Fouta. I was especially amazed by the organization where each screening (five in total) took place in magnificent venues, with alert audiences and Q&As after each session. The organizers really made me and my team feel welcomed, and ensured that each screening was a magical moment, giving the film team a real opportunity to explain how the film was made, from the script writing to the end of post-production. Also, it allowed me to meet actors from both short and feature films through various festival events. A real boost for the next stage of my career. I was also able to participate in an international competition and thus meet other directors from around the world. A great opportunity to also see how projects are developed depending on the country of production."
🔹 All the selections 🔹
The month of February was marked by a rich selection of French short films programmed in three partner festivals.
🇳🇱 In the Netherlands, the International Film Festival Rotterdam presented 10 French short films.
Tiger Awards Competition
- I am a River by Heidi Piiroinen
- Cul-de-sac! by Clyde Gates and Gabriel Sanson
- Home Is Where the Heart Is by Timothée Engasser
- The Tragic Movement of the Spheres by Simon Rieth
- Like Moths to Light by Gala Hernández López
Shorts and medium-length features
- Tamashi by Ashima Shiraishi and Jess X. Snow
- Red Bolero by Ángela Molina
- Branches from Concrete by Zhou Zhenyu
- La Smorfia by Jean-Claude Ruggirello
- Suddenly Summer by Axelle Vinassac
🇩🇪 In Germany, at the Berlinale, five French shorts were presented.
Berlinale Shorts
- Kontrewers by Zuza Banasińska
- Les Juifs riches by Yolande Zauberman
- Souls of Fouta by Alpha Diallo
- Taxi Moto by Gaël Kamilindi
- Someday A Child by Marie-Rose Osta
🇧🇪 In Belgium, Anima was notable for a strong French presence, with 43 short films selected.
International Competition
- To the Woods by Agnès Patron
- Sulaimani by Vinnie Ann Bose
- S the Wolf by Sameh Alaa
- Life With an Idiot by Theodore Ushev
- Kosmogonia by Karolina Chabier
- God is Shy by Jocelyn Charles
Short Film Programs for Children
- Cloud Fish by Noé Garcia
- J'ai trouvé une boîte by Éric Montchaud
- The Legend of the Hummingbird by Morgan Devos
- The Day I Licked a Pebble by Flavie Eliézer, Chloé Bernuchon, Goli Atefi, Maud Kolasa, Nathan Jauze, and Marie Pijollet
- Polo sans bobo by Sophie Castaignede
- Tumbleweed by Johanna Bouaouiche, Louis Creuzet, Marie Hareux, Wilson Hinh, Arthus Mariet, and Masha Moran
National Competition
- Autokar by Sylwia Szkiłądź
- My Name is Lilith by Leo Luna Robert-Tourneur
- Like a Beast by Bruno Tondeur
- La Petite Reine blanche by Mathieu Georisand Théo Hanosset
Student Short Films in International Competition
- Niccolò by Clémentine Di Prizio, David Florian, Axelle Granet, Sirui Liu, Hugo Michalet, and Njolai Pachomius
- Gauze by Noran Fikri Alezabi, Nicholas Arujah, Xinyue Ma, Yulin Yue, and Xiaonan Zhou
- Zootrope by Léna Martinez
- Tête de linotte by Paul Charff
- The Rossini Garden by William Burger, Siméon Jacob, Odelia Laine, Garance Mondamert, Tara Rewal, Mathilde Vergereau, and Arthur Wong
Animated Night
- A Little More Action by Alexis Beaumont
- Carcassonne-Acapulco by Marjorie Caup and Olivier Héraud
- Craque ganache by Etienne Bonnet
- The Seniors by Axelle Fuset, Boris Boidron, Fanny Ghesquiere, Lucile Brunet, Jérémy La, Lauren Félines, Maëlys Guillemoteau, and Manuel Mabayog
- Mise en culture, récolte et dispersion des épines by Jeanne Girard
- Mon algorithme à moi by Balázs Turai and Benjamin Efrati
- Not the TV by Diego De Faria
Real-life Stories
- L'Horizon du bout du nez by Etienne Bonnet
- Un septembre en 2001 by Thomas Heath
- Sixty-Seven Milliseconds by fleuryfontaine, Galdric Fleury, and Antoine Fontaine
New Talents
- Les Dernières Braises by Léa Pulini
- L'Oeuf noir by Ousmane Cissé
- Look, Said the Dog by Matis Inserra
Horror Show
- Gone Wrong by Anne-Linh Jérôme, Ambre Butel, Roman Saunier, Maxime Arnould, Juliette Houël, Adrian Villeda, Alisson Colombe, and Ylan Dinguidar
- The Fall by Maxime Tevissen, Tom Alcamo, Hugo Hannache, Dylan Cam, Alexandre Velves, Titouan Kervajan, and Yaëlle Alberti
Girls, Girls, Girls
- In the shade of the sheets by Lina Saïdani
- Du monde au balcon by Elya Ehni
- Water Girl by Sandra Desmazières
- Long Distance by Iulia Voitova
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- Ordinary Life by Yoriko Mizushiri
- Um by Nieto
Queer Stories
- The Highnesses of Angoulême by Géraldine Leglise, Léa Reyes-Lovio, Pierre Bourhis, and Charlène Debat
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