| Short Films Selection Animation (105’) |
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| All films are in French with English subtitles. 26 • 11, 04 • 12 HK Space Museum Each session will be preceded by a screening of the restored version of Georges Méliès’ A trip to the Moon (Voyage dans la lune). |
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| Barking Island (Chienne d’histoire) Constantinople, 1910. Too many dogs are roaming the city streets. The newly established government, under the influence of a Western social model, seeks advice from European experts on how to get rid of them, before finally deciding on its own to deport thirty thousand dogs to a deserted island off the city. Through the twofold perspective of a bitch that has just given birth to a litter and the policeman who catches her, we follow the forced exile of these dogs, which will for the most part die of hunger and thirst. |
2010 • 15’ • 1.66 Director: Serge Avédikian |
| Ropes (La Femme à cordes) Sébastien, a young man of twenty, enters a small theatre on the advice of a stranger. Gogol invites him to watch his show. The latter likes to bully a woman before a spellbound audience. Sébastien intervenes, without knowing the rules of the game. |
2010 • 15’13” • 1.66 Director: Vladimir Mavounia-Kouka |
| Fossil Memory (Mémoire fossile) A young boy discovers the life history of his grandfather, a former miner, through a stethoscope. From within the house where the old man is dying of silicosis, the child embarks on an audio and visual journey back in time. It is for him an initiatory experience, from which will emerge a sense of history and a desire for memory. |
2009 • 10’ • 1.85 Director: Anne-Laure Totaro & Arnaud Demuynck |
| Beiroot (Deyrouth) Summer of 2006. Paris, France. Chloé is waiting for the day of her departure for Beirut. She has decided to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of her parents’ arrival in France by visiting Lebanon, just as they had done to escape war, only in reverse. This trip was to be an opportunity for her to discover the country and to try to resolve the challenges she faced related to identity. Ironically, a new war breaks out just days before her departure. |
2010 • 17’ • 1.85 • Director: Chloé Mazlo |
| Hubert, the Man With the Candies (Hubert, l’homme aux bonbons) The true story of a man who was looking for love. |
2009 • 8’30” • 1.85 • Director: Marie Paccou |
| The Silence Beneath the Bark (Le Silence sous l’écorce) In a gigantic forest covered with a great white cloak, strange little creatures discover the snow. They find its whiteness very beautiful and very fascinating. The snow carries them through an intoxicating, joyful whirlwind to encounter strange phenomena. A nocturnal tale bursting with tenderness. |
2009 • 11’08” • 1.85 • Director: Joanna Lurie |
| Specky Four-Eyes (Cul de bouteille) What terrible news! Arnaud is profoundly near- sighted and must wear glasses. And not just any glasses: an ugly frame that weighs down on his ears and pinches his nose, with lenses so thick that his eyes look like two little black dots. Arnaud hates these awful spectacles and much prefers the fuzzy, protean world of his near-sightedness. This world is populated by monsters, unicorns and other chimera that appear whenever his fertile imagination sees fit. |
2010 • 9’ • 1.85 • Director: Jean-Claude Rozec |