The Short Film Competition features numerous short films. All films are in their original language with French subtitles, or are in French. The program is as follows:
Ce n’est pas un film de cow-boys
Brokeback Mountain was aired on TV last night. Vincent watched it and has been completely shattered. He takes advantage of the break to describe the film in a touching and naïve way to his classmate, Moussa. In the girls’ bathroom, Jessica also deeply moved by the film, bombards her best friend Nadia with awkward questions about her gay father.
Directed by Benjamin Parent
Family Dinner
In the apartment of the Christiansson family, strange things are going on. While father and daughter are preparing dinner, mother is exchanging kinky messages on her mobile phone in the bathtub. Even when her phone is out of battery, she cannot bring herself to stop.
Directed by Stefan Constantinescu
Yeguas y cotorras (Mares and parakeets)
Delfina and her two soul mates head to her family’s manor house to spend one day together before her wedding guests arrive. Feminine intrigue and affairs within the young aristocracy of Buenos Aires.
Directed by Natalia Garagiola
Fleuve rouge, Song Hong
Vietnam. The early hours of three young brothers arriving from their native village to Hanoi. Along the Long Bien Bridge that links the city to the countryside, they come across a cop and a street vendor.
Directed by Stéphanie Lansaque & François Leroy
Un dimanche matin (A Sunday Morning)
Just like every Sunday morning, a man walks his dog on the outskirts of Paris.
Directed by Damien Manivel
O Duplo
Silvia is a young teacher at an elementary school. One day, her class is interrupted when the students notice her double walking on the other side of the street. Silvia tries to ignore the apparition, but this strange event begins to permeate her daily life and transform her personality.
Directed by Juliana Rojas
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