Animation Around Europe:
Voices of French Animation 1

available Wednesday, May 05, from 7pm until midnight

Filles Bleues, Peur Blanche (Blue Fear)

A couple on the roads of Provence. Nils is driving Flora to his parents for the first time when they get ambushed. While she’s made prisoner, he flees. During a night in the pinewood, she has to face her doubts.

LOLA HALIFA-LEGRAND, MARIE JACOTEY
France, 2020, 9:51 min
Drawing on Paper, 2D Computer
Screenplay: Lola Halifa-Legrand
Editor: Albane du Plessix
Animation: Tamerlan Bekmurzayev, Ugo Bienvenu, Jean da Ros, Simonn Duong van Huyen, Augustin Guichot, Kévin Manach, Elie Martens, Léo Schweitzer, Chloé van Becelaere
Producer: Pierre Baussaron, Emmanuel-Alain Raynal

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Tram

Every day, the tram conductor drives grey, apathetic men to work. On this morning, however, the jerking of the tram and the rhythm of the stamp machine stimulate the conductor’s erotic fantasies, and the journey mutates into an irresistible ballet.

MICHAELA PAVLÁTOVÁ 
France, 2012, 7:48 min
2D Computer
Screenplay: Michaela Pavlatova
Music: Petr Marek
Editor: Milos Krejcar
Animation: Michaela Pavlatova
Producer: Ron Dyens

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Colocataires (Joint-Tenants)

Camille’s life is ruled by the alarm clock ringing each morning, her cat’s meals, and the sound of the automatic till in the store where she’s a check-out clerk. But, one day, a man enters her home without her knowing and starts living there during the day when she leaves for work.

DELPHINE PRIENT-MAHÉO
France, 2015, 11:41 min
2D Computer
Screenplay: Delphine Priet-Mahéo
Music: Aurélien Boquien
Editor: Jean-Marie Le Rest
Animation: Souad Wedell
Producer: Jean-François Le Corre

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Moutons, Loup Et Tasse De Thé

(Sheep, Wolf And A Cup Of Tea)

At night, while family members indulge in curious rituals before sleeping, a child invokes a wolf frome the bottom of a box hidden under his bed. Disturbing sheep then besiege the door of his bedroom.

MARION LACOURT
France, 2019, 12:16 min
2D Computer
Music: Nathan Blais
Editor: Catherine Aladenise, Marion Lacourt
Animation: Marion Lacourt, Camille Authouart
Producer: Edwina Liard, Nidia Santiago

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Rivages (The Shoreline)

A small island off the coasts of Brittany. The weather is stormy, the wind is blowing, and dark clouds are obscuring the sky. The sun highlights the shape of a tree, a house, a passer-by, for a brief instant. Then a thunderstorm breaks out…

SOPHIE RACINE 
France, 2020, 8:20 min
2D Computer
Screenplay: Sophie Racine
Music: Yan Volsy
Editor: Sophie Racine
Animation: Gabriel Jacquel,Sophie Racine
Producer: Yves Bouveret

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L’Heure De L’Ours (And Then The Bear)

That very night, houses will burn. Men and women will tremble. Hordes of children will come together and howl as they dance alone on the ashes like wild bears. It only takes one shout to wake them all from their slumber!

AGNÈS PATRON
France, 2019, 13:51 min
Animation 2D
Screenplay: Johanna Krawczyk, Agnès Patron
Music: Pierre Oberkampf
Editor: Agnès Patron
Animation: Agnès Patron
Producer: Ron Dyens

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Asmahan La Diva (Asmahan The Diva)

The diva and Druze princess Asmahan had a short life, but what a life it was! Weddings, glory, spying, lovers, alcohol, poker, suicides, murders, scandals. This oriental Marilyn Monroe marked the golden age of Egyptian musicals. Even today, her voice still echoes throughout the Middle East and her mysterious death in the waters of the Nile continues to feed the wildest rumors.

CHLOÉ MAZLO
France, 2019, 6:00 min
Pixilation, Cutout Animation
Screenplay: Christophe Duchiron,Chloé Mazlo
Music: Bachar Mar-Khalifé
Animation: Victor Haegelin,Eric Montchaud
Producer: Virginie Giachino,Jean-Louis Padis,Catherine Rouault

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