Screening of Friday oct. 01
Gaumont Rennes –11:00 AM
Screening of Friday oct. 01
Length: 1 hr 06 min 1h07
In competition for the Jury’s Awards
This lineup contains content that may not be suitable for young viewers. Discretion advised.
VOSTF (Foreign films with subtitles)
ENCOUNTER OF ANOTHER KIND
Our lives are made up of encounters, of people, of paths intersecting, of small talk and highbrow dialogue. What could be any more ordinary? Except, of course, if you’re fans, like we are, of saucers and big organs, Spielberg-style. At Court Métrange, you’ve grown accustomed to the Fantastic and fantasticality worming their way into the goings-on of the everyday. Be it romantic, professional, awe-inspiring or deadly, each of these shorts lets us experience that once-in-a-lifetime encounter, and although it may not change our lives forever, for our protagonists, it’s a whole ‘nother story.
Antoine Mottier - Film programmer
BODYMAN
Ryan R. Browne, Nick Ciffone, 10 min, 2019, United States
In the near future when gun deaths become an everyday occurence, a displaced roadkill cleanup worker applies for the newly federal-mandated position of ‘bodyman’.
jan@augohr.de
A TALE BEST FORGOTTEN
Tomas Stark, 5 min, 2020, Sweden
In a house by a river that lamented as it ran, lived a father, his daughter and the dog-headed man. A murder ballad.
tomas_stark@yahoo.se
BIRDS WITH NO LEGS
Pavlos Stamatis, 18 min 47 sec, 2019, Greece
In a 24/7 burger place, a man engages in a flirtatious conversation with a woman with no arms, as she uses him to get fed her burger. With each bite, the conversation turns deeper and darker as the woman digs further into his subconscious with her questioning.
jan@augohr.de
GOOD BOY
Ben Leonberg, 3 min 19 sec, 2019, United States
In the first act of every horror movie, there’s always a dog that knows better; it refuses to go into the haunted house, senses evil forces in the woods, and usually winds up in pieces in front of his family.
bleonberg@gmail.com
EN FIN DE CONTE
Zoé Arene, 20 min 49 sec, 2021, France/Belgium
A young filmmaker, Juan, wants to talk about precariousness by making a film portrait of Coco, a destitute thirty-something with a whimsical character and limited life hygiene. The film is quickly called into question when Juan discovers that Coco takes herself for a fairy in a disenchanted society.
clement@topshotfilms.fr
SOMETHING DOESN’T FEEL RIGHT
Fergal Costello, 9 min 19 sec, 2019, Ireland
A weary slasher villain puts in the hours and planning necessary to pull off perfect kills until he encounters victims who don't behave like they should, dammit!
fiona@jumperproductions.ie
Gaumont - Rennes9:30 PM
Screening of Friday oct. 01
Length: 1 hr 06 min 1h11
In competition for the Jury’s Awards
This lineup contains content that may not be suitable for young viewers. Discretion advised.
VOSTF (Foreign films with subtitles)
HARD CORE
Who exactly is this elusive soulmate sharing our most intimate space? Whether ours or that of the Other, the body cleaves to the endless gamut of metaphors involving this twosome. Devoured, altered, mutilated or fantasized, the body brims with a behemoth terrain wherein pain and pleasure coalesce.
The filmmakers behind these five globe-spanning shorts are out to settle the score with corporeal coercion, and have whipped up a titillating dish of vengeance bound to hit every spot. A two-timing, mind-boggling screening ballsy enough to heave you into an innard journey through the recesses of fluid mechanics. Heads up!
Cyrielle Dozières - Film programmer
TOGETHER
Ryan Oksenberg, 19 min 11 sec, 2019, United States
A biohazard remediation cleaner finds the integrity of her business threatened after hiring a technician with an insatiable appetite for his work.
ryan.oksenberg@gmail.com
XYU
Donato Sansone, 1 min 36 sec, 2019, France
X.Y.U. is a short, animated, visual madness, where body parts merge and transform through a continuous and strange metamorphosis.
festivals@autourdeminuit.com
TREAT
Rémy Barbe, 29 min 59 sec, 2021, France
Once bound by their food obsession, an aging opera singer and a declining chef are facing the dusk of their love story.
fournierjean@lelapinblancproduction.fr
LIPPEN
Nicole Tegelaar, 14 min, 2020, Belgium
When Lily wakes up in a surreal cosmetic clinic with someone else’s lips on her face, she is determined to find out what happened to her. A colorful, stylized trip with killer lipstick.
nicoletegelaar@gmail.com
NAQAM DIAMOND
Amaia San Sebastian, 6 min 40 sec, 2019, Spain
When a rapist is set free by the court system, the Naqam Diamond Laboratory turns a part of that special person who changed your life into a nice pair of earrings so that you can get out again and for only 5995 pesetas!
amasanpan@gmail.com
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