LES LUTINS SHORT FILM SHOWCASE 2009 - Presented by Alliance Française Tucson
Wednesday, February 17th at 7:30 p.m.
Regular admission prices; $4.75 for Loft Cinema and Alliance Française Tucson members
Take a cinematic tour of France at this special one-time-only showcase of the year's best French short films, co-sponsored by Alliance Française Tucson and The Loft Cinema!
Each year, a network of 2,000 French cinema professionals called Les Lutins cast their ballots to determine that year's 25 best French short films. Since 1998, Les Lutins du court-métrage (Leprechauns) has worked to promote the public distribution of French short films throughout the world. It has participated in the emergence of such major directors and actors as François Ozon, Jérémie Rénier, Ludivine Sagnier, Sylvie Testud and many others, thereby playing a vital role in discovering the new cinematic talents of tomorrow.
This year's LES LUTINS SHORT FILM SHOWCASE is an exciting 2-hour tour through a sampling of some of the 2009 honorees for fiction and animation. Hilarious, dramatic, moving and innovative, these shorts represent the very best of modern-day French filmmaking.
Don't miss your chance to satisfy your cinematic sweet tooth by indulging in great French cinema, now in short film-sized portions!
This year's line-up includes:
(all films contain English subtitles)
A PRIVATE LESSON (Une leçon particulière)
Director: Raphaël Chevènement
Live Action / 10 mins.
17-year old Cyril reviews a Victor Hugo poem about desire with 27-year old tutor Eva.
LISA
Director: Lorenzo Recio
Live Action / 19 mins.
A surreal and visually ravishing short story about a little girl with an abusive father, an overactive imagination and a vivid fantasy life. Inspired by Night of the Hunter, Lewis Carroll, etc.
TONY ZEAR (Tony Zoreil)
Director: Valentin Potier
Live Action / 20 mins.
A hilarious romantic comedy about a young Parisian pianist with a rather unusual physical characteristic.
*Winner, 2008 Montréal Comedy Festival / Best Short Film
SKHIZEIN
Director : Jérémy Clapin
Animated / 13 min.
After being struck by a 150-ton meteorite, Henry has to adapt to living precisely 91 centimeters from himself. How difficult can it be?
*Winner, 2009 Lutins Award / Best Animation
*Winner, 2008 Cannes Film Festival / Kodak Award for Best Animated Short Film
*Winner, 2009 Manhattan Short Film Festival / Best Short Film
US (Nous)
Director : Olivier Hems
Live Action / 11 min.
A police officer carries out a search of a dead man’s apartment and enters the life of someone who has been forgotten by everyone. Based on true story.
CRUMBS (Les Miettes)
Director: Pierre Pinaud
Live Action / 33 min.
In this stylized, comedic black and white silent film (inspired by Chaplin, Gish, etc.), a woman's routine is altered when the pizza factory she works in relocates, causing some unforeseen consequences ...
*Winner, 2009 César Awards / Best Short Film
*Winner of four 2009 Lutins Awards / Best Film, Best Special Effects, Best Sets, Best Original Music
*Winner, 2008 French Union of Film Critics Award / Best Short Film
PLEASE NOTE: THIS PROGRAM IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE
VISIT THE "ALLIANCE FRANCAISE TUCSON" WEBSITE:
http://www.afusa.org/af/tucson/
READ AN INTERVIEW WITH THE DIRECTOR OF "SKHIZEIN":
http://www.msfilmfest.com/f_finalist_Skhizein.html
BANDE ANNONCE DU TOUR DE FRANCE 2009
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