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My French Film Festival 2023 - short films

14 films

The first online French film festival created by UniFrance is back for its 13th edition. The Institut français, partner of this event, offers public screenings from a selection of short films available in the catalogue.

My French Film Festival 2023 - short films
  • Musical comedy, Comedy
  • 2021
  • France
  • 24min
by Amélie Bonnin

After graduating from high school, Julien left his hometown to build a bigger life in the capital, leaving his memories behind. And then one day, he had to come back, and that day his memories jumped out at him from between two packets of Pepito cookies.

  • Drama
  • 2021
  • France
  • 22min
by Simon Helloco

Summer is ending, it's time for silaging in the peaceful Breton countryside. While farmers are harvesting the corn, two brothers, aged 8 and 12, are alone in their big house. Left to their own devices, they are masters of a vast kingdom and feel free to do whatever they want. They only forbid themselves to go upstairs in the house.

  • Drama
  • 2022
  • France
  • 32min
by Céline Baril

Instead of enjoying her vacations in a peaceful peninsula of Turkey, Anna feels stuck in a strange torpor, while her boyfriend, Thomas, doesn't seem to notice it at all. Later in the afternoon, when a little girl suddenly disappears on the beach, Anna awakens and decides to go and find her, despite the unknown and the nightfall.

  • Drama
  • 2021
  • France
  • 16min
by Julien Gaspar-Oliveri

Marianne, a heroine for a day, is interviewed by a young journalist. Despite of all the misunderstandings, a meeting takes place, brief, tenuous, human.

  • Comedy-drama
  • 2020
  • France
  • 13min
by Laetitia De Montalembert and Faustine Crespy

Nicky is an excentric and outcast woman. She decides to put an end to her life after loosing her last allowances, and decides to entrust her dog Izy to her neighboor. But as the neighboor turns the dog back, a run around the clock begins for Nicky who is about to overdose… Her last hope resides in Jacques, a social services employee doing his first control at Nicky’s appartement.

  • Biopic
  • 2021
  • 42min
by Lila Pinell

Shana is looking for a job, she needs cash to leave France and her wrong crowd. But the past she’s looking to forget is never far. Besides, does she really want to put it behind her?

  • Comedy
  • 2021
  • France
  • 26min
by Dorothée Sebbagh

In Malmousque, a former fishermen's district in Marseille, new residents and bathers from all over the city mix. Virginie wanders the streets looking for her cat, while Elina is convinced that her husband has put spyware on her cell phone. The two friends go kayaking so they can talk to each other without the risk of being overheard.

  • Fantasy and science fiction, Drama
  • 2021
  • France
  • 24min
by Marthe Sebille

After a bus accident in the middle of nowhere, Lupa decides to tag along with another passenger, Alban, who is determined to reach the nearest village on foot. Crossing through fields and rivers, they slowly go off-course in a strange forest.

  • Comedy
  • 2021
  • France
  • 28min
by Hugo Bardin

Alors qu'elle vient de voler l’urne contenant les cendres de son amant décédé, Paloma, une drag queen haute en couleur, rencontre Mike, un routier silencieux et mélancolique. Ils vont partager un bout de chemin en camion jusqu'à Paris. Un jour et une nuit ensemble pour vaincre leur solitude.

  • Young audience, Biopic
  • 2021
  • France
  • 5min
by Amandine Meyer

It all begins with a lover's quarrel, with tears. We enter a bandage on a young girl, a kind of mental and liquid image. Inside this image, a goose is teaching a baby the recorder. In music, the child grows up and becomes a little girl. The little girl perfects her learning, going so far as to devour her master. We follow her in her evolutions, her metamorphoses and her creations.

  • Experimental film, Young audience
  • 2021
  • France
  • 6min
by Juliette Laboria

In the summer heat, the wasps are busy devouring beautiful, ripe, sweet fruit. But these fruits soon attract other visitors who take a malicious pleasure in appropriating the precious riches of the garden. A war is brewing, on one side a group of children, on the other an army of wasps. Each one has his own weapon. May the best one win.

  • Young audience, Experimental film
  • 2021
  • France
  • 5min
by Yoriko Mizushiri

Êtres vivants, objets inanimés, formes géométriques et lignes. Du contact de ces différentes entités naît une nouvelle direction.

  • Comedy, Experimental film
  • 2020
  • France
  • 9min
by Capucine Gougelet

Museum rules are simple: don’t run, don’t touch, don’t shout and never disobey.

  • Drama
  • 2021
  • France
  • 12min
by Julien Regnard

A couple rushes out of a glamorous party. On their way home, an argument leads to a brutal car accident. When George regains consciousness, Christina has disappeared. He will then experience a real descent into hell.

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