Voyage, voyage: short film night

Films on the programme

1. 

   01 · Animated documentary

   Mémoires anachroniques ou Le Couscous du vendredi midi

   Asmae El Moudir · 2013 · France (shot in Morocco) · 12 min

   Through the eyes of Asmae, a ten-year-old girl, the film pieces together fragments of childhood memories linked to her family, her uncle Merzouk and the political and cultural history of Morocco. Figurines and Russian nesting dolls give shape to the layers of family and political memory. The title refers to the family couscous shared on Fridays after the main prayer. Made at La Fémis, this first film heralds the intimate family investigations of Asmae El Moudir, later seen in The Postcard (2020) and The Mother of All Lies, winner of the Un Certain Regard directing prize at Cannes in 2023.

2. 

   02 · Documentary / fiction

   Ni Dieu ni père

   Paul Kermarec · 2024 · France · 11 min

   This documentary/fiction explores a young man’s intimate relationship with the internet. With no father figure, he goes looking for answers and finds an unexpected mentor in Google. From learning everyday tasks such as shaving to discovering deeper knowledge, the algorithm becomes far more than a search engine, blurring the line between the real and the virtual.

3. 

   03 · Fiction · comedy drama

   Bonnarien

   Adiel Goliot · 2023 · France (French Guiana) · 20 min

   With Miremonde Fleuzin · French, Creole

   Twenty-seven-year-old Mauricette Bonnarien works as a docker at the port of Dégrad des Cannes in French Guiana. The rest of the time, she performs slam poetry. Deeply self-conscious about her surname, imposed on her ancestor when slavery was abolished, she fights to see through a legal name change. It is time to make her family and friends hear her new name.

   Premiers Plans Angers 2024: Grand Jury Prize, Best Actress, International Young Jury Prize, Librarians’ Prize

4. 

   04 · Fiction · romantic comedy · first film

   Fierrot le pou

   Mathieu Kassovitz · 1990 · France · 7 min

   With Mathieu Kassovitz, Solange Labonne · No dialogue, restored version

   Every Saturday at the same time, a young woman comes to practise basketball alone in an old Paris gym. Every Saturday at the same time, a young Parisian comes to practise there too. Clumsy, he tries to start a game of seduction, and overcomes his shyness by imagining himself as a great basketball player. Shot with a small camera and a few friends, the first film by Mathieu Kassovitz, later director of La Haine, plays on the title of Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le fou.

   Film sheet (PDF in French, Agence du court métrage)
5. 

   05 · Animation

   Un obus partout

   Zaven Najjar · 2015 · France · 9 min

   With Arthur Dupont, Thomas Blumenthal, Sabine Zovighian, Jean-Michel Fête

   Beirut, 1982. To see his fiancée, Gabriel has to cross a bridge guarded by snipers. Tonight is the opening match of the World Cup, and all of Beirut is waiting for it! Will the snipers give in to football fever and let Gabriel and his friend Mokhtar through in their old Plymouth? Inspired by stories of the Lebanese civil war the director heard as a child, an animated film of silhouettes and flat colours, written by Camille Lugan and Zaven Najjar.

   Film sheet (PDF in French, Agence du court métrage)
6. 

   06 · Animation

   Un genre de testament

   Stephen Vuillemin · 2023 · 16 min

   English

   A young woman comes across animations online that have clearly been made from her private selfies. A stranger with the same name confesses to identity theft. But death comes faster than the answer to the question: why?

   Berlinale Shorts 2023 selection · Ghent Film Festival: best international short film · Animafest Zagreb: best debut film · Grenoble open-air short film festival: best screenplay · Animatou: jury mention

7. 

   07 · Fiction · romantic comedy

   Un souvenir de soleil

   Laetitia Masson · 1990 · 8 min

   With Catherine Ermakoff, Eric Ambrouster

   A boy searches for a girl through paintings; she speaks to him of light.

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   08 · Fiction · drama

   Microbus

   Maggie Kamal · 2021 · Egypt · 8 min

   With Dalia Shawky, Mohamed Abu Dahab

   On an ordinary day in Cairo, Egypt, 18-year-old Nour gets a call from her brother, who can no longer pick her up. So as not to be late for work, Nour has to take a microbus, unaware that this ride will change her forever.