Films
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Only a child
Simone Giampaolo
Switzerland, Animation
Only a Child can be described as a visual poem which gives shape and colour to the words spoken by 12 year-old Severn Suzuki at the United Nations' Rio Summit in 1992, using meaningful images and powerful animated allegories.
Severn’s speech is a child’s desperate call to action aimed to those adults who can make a difference to the future of our planet. That is, all of us. Starting from the original speech from 1992, I edited a version which doesn’t refer to that particular UN Summit nor any specific group of people, in order to make this message universal and true for every viewer. As the speech unfolds we see animated kids from around the world - of different gender, age, features and characteristics - speaking Severn's words. The aim is to show that these sentences could be pronounced by any child of yesterday, today and, in particular, tomorrow.
Severn’s speech is a child’s desperate call to action aimed to those adults who can make a difference to the future of our planet. That is, all of us. Starting from the original speech from 1992, I edited a version which doesn’t refer to that particular UN Summit nor any specific group of people, in order to make this message universal and true for every viewer. As the speech unfolds we see animated kids from around the world - of different gender, age, features and characteristics - speaking Severn's words. The aim is to show that these sentences could be pronounced by any child of yesterday, today and, in particular, tomorrow.
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25e
PIPO ET L'AMOUR AVEUGLE
Hugo Le Gourrierec
France, Fiction
In a dehumanized world where emotions are controlled by a gauge, Pipo, a factory worker falls in love with a woman sitting on a bench. He will try anything to attract her attention and seduce her with his own “language.”
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25e
Parc à chats
Rachel Samson
Canada (Quebec), Animation
Chronicle of a cat’s misadventures in a park.
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25e
Parle-moi
Jules De Niverville
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Talk To Me is about not fitting in, in an over-the-top kind of way.
Talk To Me alternates between two separate narratives and manifests the challenges facing two introverts as they try to find balance and harmony in interacting with the outside world. The short chronicles 36 hours of their struggle to engage in society while trying to keep their sense of self, intact. Drawing from the dance film genre, this short film’s narrative flows between storytelling and acrobatic performance, teetering on the line where narrative structure and circus performance meet. By the film’s end, the quirky protagonists discover their center despite the flux of everything being off-kilter around them.
Talk To Me alternates between two separate narratives and manifests the challenges facing two introverts as they try to find balance and harmony in interacting with the outside world. The short chronicles 36 hours of their struggle to engage in society while trying to keep their sense of self, intact. Drawing from the dance film genre, this short film’s narrative flows between storytelling and acrobatic performance, teetering on the line where narrative structure and circus performance meet. By the film’s end, the quirky protagonists discover their center despite the flux of everything being off-kilter around them.
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25e
Pharmakon
Jean-Martin Gagnon
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Like every winter, the boys get together for a weekend sprinkled with snow and psychotropic drugs. A necessary tradition to abandon oneself, to marvel and to trust the unknown.
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25e
Picbois
Kevin T. Landry
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
More than a decade after his mother abandoned him, Émile accepts Fanny’s invitation to work with her on an isolated logging camp. While he foolishly expected a joyful reunion, he is pitted against a hostile environment and a woman who distinctly lacks maternal instinct.
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25e
Piché retourne sur le ring
Helgi Piccinin
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
At 64, Bruno resumes training, determined to get back in the boxing ring one last time. After two difficult hip surgeries, the former boxer, now a village baker, decides to plan an epic amateur fight to bring his community together and celebrate his “rebirth”.
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25e
Progressive Touch
Michael Portnoy
Netherlands, Austria,
Can you fu*k to an irregular beat? Progressive Touch depicts three futuristic, absurdist love scenes in which the goal is to "improve" sex by complicating its rhythm and choreography. Sex as dance, as comedy. Enacted by three real life couples, the dancers' every explicit move is synchronized to the propulsive, unpredictable score.
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25e
Pâté à viande
Pierrot Néron
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
A car isolates itself in the forest, a tension is felt among the passengers. Affected by fatigue and past events, they try to keep their cool.
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25e
Rated x
Nadia Louis-Desmarchais
Czech Republic, Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Rated X, a short documentary about the adult industry, focuses on giving a voice to the pornographic actresses working within it. In a perspective of showing how these women empower themselves with their job, Rated X exposes the porn industry as it has rarely been done before.