Also Directed by Jean-Gabriel Périot
Jean-Gabriel Périot sketches the portrait of a group of women for whom music is a means of resistance and of escaping isolation.
Akihiro, a native japanese filmmaker living in Paris, came to Japan to interview survivors for a documentary celebrating the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Deeply moved by the interviews, he decided to take a break and wanders through the city during which he meets Michiko, a merry and enigmatic young woman. Michiko takes him for a joyful and improvised journey from the city towards the sea where the horrors of the past are mingled to the simplicity of the present.
A young man, looking for a job...
Eight portraits, eight dreams, eight escapes
"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed. A few people cried. Most people were silent."
Biting commentary on the assimilation of homosexuals into mainstream society illustrated through the use of cut-out animation.
At the end of the 1960s the post-war generation began to revolt against their parents. This was a generation disillusioned by anti-communist capitalism and a state apparatus in which they believed they saw fascist tendencies. This generation included journalist Ulrike Meinhof, lawyer Horst Mahler, filmmaker Holger Meins as well as students Gudrun Ensslin and Andreas Baader.
A documentary experiment of great emotional power, about freedom and the strength of human affective bonds. We witness a concert given by the inmates of a prison in Orléans. Yet, they remain unseen, beyond the prison walls, all along the film, while the camera looks at those who listen to the music outside, in front of the prison. Silent emotions, the rapt faces of the listeners, humming along the prisoners, and their unrevealed personal histories, form a human gallery of potential stories, born out of the viewer's imagination.
Also Directed by Tom de Pékin
An animation inspired by the novel ‘Funeral Rites' by Jean Genet the mascot director of this festival.
Lively musical panorama, an anthem to the glory of freaks and to the liberation of genders in the face of victorian values, all to the sound of the electro-punk band “Alors heureuse ?”
A short fantasy musical of Chinese inspiration.
Two men meet in a park: Haldern has on a black balaclava, while Ablou is wearing white underpants. The film is based on choreography by Daniel Larrieu, who was invited to "play with the story board" of Alfred Jarry's book "Haldernablou", with illustrations by Tom de Pékin.
A short on Barbara Cartland.
Ablou is a young man prisoner of a dream and a park. He meets strange characters who try to lock him up a little more in this long sleep.
