Film guide

A Night of Short French Films 2023

 
 

Partir un jour (Bye bye)

Directed by : Amélie Bonin
Country : France
Year : 2021
Run Time : 24 min 54 seconds

After graduating from high school, Julien left his hometown to build a bigger life in the capital, leaving his memories behind. And then one day, he has to come back, and that day his memories jumped out at him from between two packets of Pépito cookies

In competition, 2023 César Awards, Best Short (Fiction)

Selected for the National Competition at Clermont-Ferrand (France, 2022)


Caillou (Pebble)

Directed by : Mathilde Poymiro
Country : France
Year : 2022
Run Time : 25 min

Elias, 17 years old, suddenly loses his father. People around him worry as he continues to live as if nothing had happened. Alice, his mother, wants him to express his grief at all costs.

In competition, 2023 César Awards, Best Short (Fiction)

Haut les coeurs (The Right Words)

Directed by : Adrian Moyse Dullin
Country : France
Year : 2021
Run Time : 14 min 49 seconds

When naive and romantic Mahdi is peer-pressured into confessing his love to Jada, a girl who doesn't know he exists, his declaration becomes a public spectacle.

In competition, 2023 César Awards, Best Short (Fiction)

2022 Sundance Film Festival (International Category)

2021 Cannes Film Festival

 

À Point (The Right Time)

Directed by : Aurélie Marpeaux
Country : France
Year : 2021
Run Time : 20 min 30 seconds

Anna, 18, has always lived in a housing estate in Bourg-en-Bresse. But when her professional future allows her to discover new things, Anna is paralyzed to leave behind her neighborhood, her friends, her memories, her identity. What is she prepared to give up?

In competition, 2023 César Awards, Best Short (Fiction)

In competition, 2022 Clermont-Ferrant International Short Film Festival

 

Dorlis

Directed by : Enricka MH
Country : France
Year : 2021
Run Time : 25 min 5 seconds

Nora, a fifteen-year-old from Martinique, is forced to follow her mother and her little  sister to the north of the island to live with her grandfather, Henri, left paralyzed by a stroke. They move in with the old man to provide him with daily help. But very quickly, the house's atmosphere and Henri's presence will awaken childhood memories in Nora, which will be embodied in the fear of an attack by an evil spirit.

In competition, 2023 César Awards, Best Short (Fiction)

 

1992, 83

Directed by : Colin Van Der Straeten
Country : France
Year : 2022
Run Time : 20 min 3 seconds

Lubin goes to the claims department of a French administration to which he owes 1992.83 euros and is confronted with a sprawling bureaucracy