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Alice's Stroll (La Balade D'Alice)
France, 2007, 8 min.
Little Alice's afternoon is full of laughter and play, yet her world isn't on quite the same plane as those who surround her.... more
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Animal Bloom (Animal Singulier)
France, 2007, 17 min.
It's hard enough to find a man in Paris, let alone when a girl's feeling a bit dowdy and frumpy. So when an experimental treatment promises all the attraction she can handle, one young woman quickly signs up. Unfortunately for her, she fails to account for just what kind of animals men can be.... more
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Berni's Doll
France, 2008, 11 min.
Dullard Berni leads a humdrum life punching a time clock in a squalid cat food factory, until one night, he spots an ad on TV that might hold the key to all of his life's desires: his very own lifelike sex doll, available with or without the standard appendages. This is one animated film that is def... more
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Boy in the Tree (La Pomme de Newton)
France, 2008, 12 min.
Simon lives in a tree. He's happy there, he has what he needs. That is until a young woman appears and questions Simon about the tree. Suddenly, the tree doesn't seem to satisfy Simon quite the same as it once did. But is it too late for Simon to touch ground?... more
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The Day of Glory (Le Jour de Gloire)
France, 2007, 8 min.
Deep in the trenches of WWI, a soldier emerges to take his place in history.... more
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Diva
France, 2007, 7 min.
Vincent leaves his cloistered life in a small town behind for the freedom of Paris and the promise of a new beginning, but on his first day in the streets of his new home he learns that a change of scenery and costume isn't all it will take to change his life.... more
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Dog Days
France, 2007, 16 min.
When a twist of fate and an eerie similarity in appearance cause a little girl and a puppy from two very different households to be switched in childhood, their lives take diverse paths to a strangely similar future.... more
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Face
France, 2007, 6 min.
A man's face undergoes a spectacular series of transformations with the aid of computer animation and a vivid imagination.... more
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Finding
France, 2008, 20 min.
Hiring his one-time protégé to find the daughter he hasn't seen in 15 years, a former executive for a secret government spy agency discovers that the search is a little more complicated than he'd anticipated.... more
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The Gravedigger (Le Fossoyeur)
France, 2008, 18 min.
A young girl is caught in the emotional minefield between her distraught father and his former wife, who left him to live with the woman she has fallen in love with.... more
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In the Rope (Dans la Corde)
France, 2007, 16 min.
A man wakes up in a box with no memory of how he arrived there. Breaking the box open, he discovers he is high up on a cliff with no way down. A rope connects him to another cliff, but which way is salvation?... more
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A Juicy Turkey (La Dinde Marinée)
France, 2008, 13 min.
A husband, fed up with his wife being distracted as usual by George Clooney in "E.R.," forbids her to watch anymore. Later, he returns home to find his wife has made a tiny mistake while cooking dinner. Bon appètite!... more
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Just One Hour (Juste Une Heure)
France, 2007, 10 min.
A man is reading a book in a café when a woman sits down opposite him to make a very unusual request.... more
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Lisa
France, 2007, 19 min.
A surreal and visually ravishing short story about a little girl with an abusive father, an overactive imagination and a vivid fantasy life.... more
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Living Dead (Mort Vivant)
France, 2007, 10 min.
Jacques Dugain is an accountant accused of swindling everything: he's lost his job, his family, his honor. In the early hours he sinks into a forest to terminate his days. But when he presses on the trigger, fate intervenes.... more
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Manon on the Asphalt (Manon Sur le Bitume)
France, 2007, 15 min.
Manon has an accident while riding home on her bicycle. As she lay in the street as ambulance rush to her, her out-of-body experience lets her see friends one by one as they learn of the event. From an oddly engaging and sweetly compelling birds-eye view, Manon discovers her life all over again.... more
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Ocean Boulevard (Boulevard L'Océan)
France, 2007, 19 min.
Agathe has taken a retreat at a small hotel at the beach. Her days are calm and quiet; the ocean waves a soothing respite. When she meets a man with a kite, Agathe discovers a little challenge can bring her immense pleasure.... more
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Orange Juice
France, 2007, 12 min.
Yvan Attal ("Munich") stars as a compassionate doctor in this taut psychological thriller about a woman who comes to his office for treatment, convinced that her husband is trying to poison her.... more
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Original Sin (Péché Originel)
France, 2007, 16 min.
Marie, a gorgeous but lonely young woman, struggles to meet a mate in Paris. Resorting at last to a self-help book which offers tips on how to get a guy, she finally meets who seems to be Mr. Right, but are things really as they seem?... more
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The Radiant City (La Cité Radieuse)
France, 2007, 16 min.
WON: Second Place, Best Live Action Short Over 15 Minutes
In this futuristic look at a world just beyond ours, where society demands a smoking populace, lives are forever altered by the strike of a match and the first, long, slow, steady inhale of a cigarette.... more
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Raymond
France, 2007, 5 min.
Raymond has a sweet disposition and an unfortunate case of lethargy -- the perfect combination to be a subject in a scientific experiment testing the effect of three new motion-provoking formulas on humans.... more
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Skhizein
France, 2008, 13 min.
WON: Second Place, Best Animated Short
As a result of a meteorite crashing into earth, Henry now sits 91 cm outside of his body. It's a little awkward.... more
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Solomon's Secret (Le Secret de Solomon)
France, 2007, 20 min.
Adam has become invisible. At first he tries to live with it, but people run all over him and walk into him. Little does he realize that a family secret may hold the key.... more
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Supply and Demand (L'Offre et la Demande)
France, 2007, 18 min.
A young man finally finds something he is good at when he takes a job in a police forensic lab, assisting the head doctor with autopsies in criminal cases. But when the flow of bodies begins to slow down, he decides to take matters into his own hands.... more
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Surprise!
France, 2007, 18 min.
This very funny French farce follows an improbable set of accidents and coincidences as a woman rushes home from work on her birthday and finds her husband naked in bed with the nextdoor neighbor.... more
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The Tangent (La Tangente)
France, 2008, 12 min.
A young man and woman meet unexpectedly through a quirk of fate. Sparks fly, and the two set off on a footloose quest for freedom and the romance of the open road in this gloriously visual homage to the glory days of the Nouvelle Vague.... more
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Taxi Wala
France, 2007, 16 min.
A taxi driver in Paris is unnerved when his fare won't get out of the car. The woman, an émigré who speaks little French, can't make herself understood. Nerves fray and unravel as each becomes increasingly anxious to get what they want -- a destination or a freed-up cab.... more
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Their First Journey (Premier Voyage)
France, 2007, 10 min.
A wonderful mix of claymation and drawn animation, this sublime story tells the tale of a father who takes his infant daughter on her first train ride to meet his wife on vacation.... more
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Tony Zear (Tony Zoreil)
France, 2007, 19 min.
Tony Zear comes from a long line of big-eared Zear’s. Really big-eared. When his parents try to arrange a blind date with a girl from another big-eared family, Tony resists. Surely there must be someone normal who'll love him as he is?... more
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