FRANCE EN COURTS
In partnership with the Consulat général de France à Québec, a selection of the best and brightest queer French shorts of the year.
En collaboration avec
LES ÉVEILLÉES (ENLIGHTENED)
NINA BOUCHAUD CHEVAL | FRANCE | 2022 | 29 MIN | FRENCH S.-T.EN.
Zoe, a lonely teenager, escapes a painful family life by spending time with a community of travellers. When her father suddenly dies, France, a rebellious young gypsy, takes her on the road to organize a traditional gypsy wake.
LA CASQUETTE (THE HAT)
HADI MOUSSALLY | FRANCE | 2022 | 3 MIN | FRENCH S.-T.EN.
Hadi stares at the camera and begins to get dressed. As he prepares himself, he expresses his thoughts on the current situation, how much discrimination and amalgams weigh on him, he who wears the double stigmatizing hat of gay and Arab. What to do with this burden?
MANUFACTURING LOVE
JONATHAN ROMARIC MARC-LE STER | FRANCE | 2022 | 22 MIN | FRENCH S.-T.EN.
After a breakup with his lover, Leo, Jim becomes a filmmaker. As he’s completing the editing of his film along with his producer, reality seems to merge with fiction as memories come to visit him.
PÉRIPHÉRIE
THIBAULT BRU | FRANCE | 2022 | 16 MIN | FRENCH S.-T.EN.
Éva and Soraya are expecting a child. While she has just passed her term, Éva refuses to be induced. The two endlessly circle the Parisian ring road until Éva opens up about what she’s really going through.
screening at Centre Phi | NOVEMBER 19TH 7PM
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