SHORT IN FRENCH
THE CHERRY SEASON
The “Short in French” show is back on the SESC Digital platform and brings the series “Le temps des cerises” with 12 short films about revolts and revolutions with different approaches.
From 16 from June to 16 July – On-line, free and with Portuguese subtitles!
The program was organized by the Alliance Française Brasil in partnership with SESC São Paulo and the support of the French Embassy in Brazil.
Visit: sesc.digital/curtaemfrances
The program of the show "Short in French” organized by Alliance Française Brazil in partnership with the SESC São Paulo and the support of French Embassy in Brazil offers the series “The cherry season" with 12 short films in french, subtitled in Portuguese and available on the platform SESC Digital, from 16 from June through 16 July.
The title of the series “The cherry season” (in Portuguese, “The time of cherries”), is a reference to the song composed by Jean Baptiste Clément and Antoine Renard in 1866 and which became a revolutionary song linked to the Paris Commune, French revolt that completes 150 years in 2021. The program is a celebration of French historical revolutions – like the common, the Tile Festival and the French Revolution, celebrated on the day 14 July – in addition to the uprisings and insurrections we've seen more recently, like the demonstrations of May 68 and the movement of “Yellow vests” seen in recent years.
The show features a selection of short films that address the theme of revolt and insurrection in different ways, be it a more classic approach or more intimate, bringing instances of revolt in the family or even animal environment, without leaving aside the already famous French revolutionary spirit.
Short film – History of the revolution, by Arthur de Pins Buisson
Highlight for the documentary The History of the Revolution (France-2019), from Maxime Martinot, that in 2020 participated in the Pantin Short Film Festival – Pantin (France) in the Panorama section, is an essay that explores the polysemy and reversibility of the word “revolution”, as well as the images arising from it, moving on the fight map: your grief, your glories, your features, intertwined today.
Also featured in the show, the short film “Rasta” (2019 | 29’ | Fiction), de Samir Benchikh, for its ability to imagine the spiral of war violence while creating an atmosphere of mystery and suspense. The short tells the story of a young Rasta from Côte d'Ivoire, traumatized by the conflict that destroys his country. Haunted by a past that hides, he begins a journey through the rebellion-dominated war zone, in search of a mysterious militiaman …
The film has surprising scenes and was presented at the “Regards d’Afrique” of the 42nd Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.
For animation lovers, the nomination is the short film “The Crab Revolution” (2004 | 5’ | Fiction). Awarded at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Ottawa International Film Festival and Brooklyn International Film Festival, the short presents the history of crabs in the Gironde estuary. They have a serious disadvantage.: they cannot change direction and are condemned to walk in the same straight line all their lives. How do they live with this tragic fate? Free rating for all audiences, the short is a good choice to approach the theme with young people and adults.
The show "Short in French” is available at: sesc.digital/curtaemfrances.
Check out the full schedule of movies:
The History of the Revolution
France | 2019 | 29min| Documentary essay
Direction: Maxime Martinot
Rating: 14 years
notable festivals:
2019 : Interviews – Festival do film do Belfort – Belfort (France) – Grand Prize André S. Labarthe
2019: Doc in short : documentary short film meetings – Lyon (France) – Assembly mention
2020: Short side – Pantin Short Film Festival – Pantin (France) – Panorama section
Synopsis: An ironic title for a film-essay that explores the polysemy and reversibility of the word revolution: the images that arise from it, the words that dialectize or cancel their potential, in a historical movement that moves on the map of struggles, your grief, your glories, your features, intertwined in the present tense.
Sphinx
France | 2020 | 29’ | Fiction
Direction: Tito González García
Rating: 14 years
notable festivals:
2021: Clermont-Ferrand International Festival (national competition – France)
Synopsis: Oedipus arrives in Thebes and finds a devastated city, where young men are each eaten by a beast that the citizens call the Sphinx. He decides to free the inhabitants of this scourge installed on the roof of a building.
The crab revolution
France | 2004 | 5min| Animation Prize
Direction: Arthur de Pins
Rating: Free
notable festivals:
2006: Brooklyn-International Film Festival (USA) – Best animated film award
2005: Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (France) – Award
2004: Geneva International Film and Television Festival (Switzerland) – Award
2004: Ottawa International Animation Festival (Canada) – audience award
Synopsis: Crabs in the Gironde estuary have a serious disadvantage.: they cannot change direction and are condemned to walk in the same straight line all their lives. How do they live with this tragic fate?
Bear hour
France | 2019 | 13’ | Animation Prize
Direction: Agnes Patron
Rating: 12 years
notable festivals:
2019: Festival de Cannes
2020: Caesar
Synopsis: Tonight, the houses burned down. men and women will tremble. Children gather in a screaming horde, dancing alone in the ashes, calling the wild bears. Because a scream will only be enough to wake them up.
Justice
France | 2021 | 3’ | Animation Prize
Direction: Marc Faye
Rating: 10 years
Synopsis: In 1983, the former head of the Gestapo, Klaus barbie, is arrested. Robert Batinder speaks of the ambiguous feeling he has when he realizes that abolishing the death penalty two years ago, he has just saved the life of the man who sent his father to the extermination camp at Sobibor.
Mrs Baurès
France | 2019 | 17’ | documentary
Direction: Mehdi Benallal
Rating: Free
Synopsis: Raymonde Baurès is killed before she can tell her story in front of the camera. To pay him homage, I tell our story.
Black day
Senegal | 2019 | 13’ | Fiction
Direction: Yoro Mbaye
Rating: 16 years
Synopsis: Ngor, 23 years, smart student in law school, dies in fighting police forces after joining his friends at the front.
Rasta
France- Belgium | 2019 | 29’ | Fiction
Direction: Samir Benchikh
Rating: 16 years
Synopsis: Somewhere in West Africa, the young Rasta is traumatized by the conflict that destroys his country. Haunted by a past that hides, he begins a journey through the Rebellion-dominated war zone, in search of a mysterious militiaman …
Domino world
France | 2021 | 6’| Animation
Direction: Suki
Rating: 10 years
notable festivals:
2021: UniFrance Short Film Award – Selection
Synopsis: With the deafening noise of the chainsaws, lumberjacks buzz merrily as they cut down trees meant to be used as a backdrop for a fashion show..
A contemporary cartoon satire, in the form of a burlesque musical tragicomedy of burlesque action, takes us to a delirium musical action tragi-comedy, takes us into a delirious maelstrom of chain reactions reactions as chaotic as they are grotesque.
Salem
France | 2020| 15’ | Fiction
Direction: Sophie beaulieu
Rating: Free
notable festivals:
2021 : Aspen Shortsfest (USA) – Selection
2021 : Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (France) – Selection
Synopsis: A family weekend at the family home. The men in the family are happy with themselves and the women are efficient.. There's no reason to change the order of things. However, one of the uncles in the family has a new wife who can cause problems..
We will go to Neuilly inch’allah
France | 2015| 19’ | documentary
Direction: Mehdi Ahoudig, Anna Salzberg
Rating: Free
Synopsis: This is the story of a demonstration by young Vélib employees (Parisian bicycle rental company) who learn to fight and try to organize themselves. It's the story of a dispute between image and sound.
You will be an ultra
France | 2020 | 10’ | Documentary
Direction: Maxence Voiseux
Rating: 10
Synopsis : It all started at the Gerland stadium, my father was there, in the number 23 And, on the south curve. My father, this ultra, who always told me: be tough without ever getting angry. And then you will be an ultra, my son. you will be an ultra.
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Exhibition "Short in French"
From 16 from June to 16 th July 2021
Available on the SESC platform – sescsp.org.br/curtaemfrance
Short films:
The History of the Revolution
France | 2019 | 29min| Documentary essay
Direction: Maxime Martinot
notable festivals:
2019 : Interviews – Festival do film do Belfort – Belfort (France) – Grand Prize André S. Labarthe
2019 : Doc in short : documentary short film meetings – Lyon (France) – Assembly mention
2020 : Short side – Pantin Short Film Festival – Pantin (France) – Panorama section
Rating: 14 years
Sphinx
France | 2020 | 29’ | Fiction
Direction: Tito González García
notable festivals:
2021: Clermont-Ferrand International Festival (national competition – France)
Rating: 14 years
The crab revolution
France | 2004 | 5min| Animation Prize
Direction: Arthur de Pins
notable festivals:
2006 : Brooklyn – International Film Festival (USA) – Best animated film award
2005 : Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (France) – Award
2004 : Geneva International Film and Television Festival (Switzerland) – Award
2004 : Ottawa International Animation Festival (Canada) – audience award
Rating: Free
Bear hour
France | 2019 | 13’ | Animation Prize
Direction: Agnes Patron
notable festivals:
2019 : Festival de Cannes
2020 : Caesar
Rating: 12 years
Justice
France | 2021 | 3’ | Animation Prize
Direction: Marc Faye
Rating: 10 years
Mrs Baurès
France | 2019 | 17’ | documentary
Direction: Mehdi Benallal
Rating: Free
Black day
Senegal | 2019 | 13’ | Fiction
Direction: Yoro Mbaye
Rating: 16 years
Rasta
France- Belgium | 2019 | 29’ | Fiction
Direction: Yoro Mbaye
Rating: 16 years
Domino world
France | 2021 | 6’| Animation
Direction: Suki
notable festivals:
2021: UniFrance Short Film Award – Selection
Rating: 10 years
Salem
France | 2020| 15’ | Fiction
Direction: Sophie beaulieu
notable festivals:
2021 : Aspen Shortsfest (USA) – Selection
2021 : Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (France) – Selection
Rating: Free
We will go to Neuilly inch’allah
France | 2015| 19’ | documentary
Direction: Mehdi Ahoudig, Anna Salzberg
Rating: Free
You will be an ultra
France | 2020 | 10’ | Documentary
Direction: Maxence Voiseux
Rating: 10
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