Focus on Folimage: Poetry in Motion

70 minutes
Focus on Folimage: Poetry in Motion

Folimage has produced so many gems there could be a whole festival based on it. This collection of shorts invites you to a shipwreck of a city, a critical view on the rise and fall of civilizations, a meeting with a French werewolf, a spiritual journey, a choreography of love and a Iranian female friendship.

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2020-2021

Showing in this program

Beach Flags

Beach Flags

  • Sarah Saidan
  • France, 2014
  • 13 min.

Vida is a young Iranian lifeguard swimmer. Very popular, she is determined to become the contestant on an international competition in Australia. However when the fast and talented Sareh joins the team, she will have to face an unexpected situation.

Bisclavret

Bisclavret

  • Emilie Mercier
  • France / Belgium, 2011
  • 14 min.

A Lady, married to a baron, notices that her husband slips out often so she asks him about it. He confesses that he takes off his clothes and turns into a Bisclavret.

Rains

Rains

  • David Coquard-Dassault
  • France, 2008
  • 7 min.

This film is connected with a shipwreck, the shipwreck of a city which, drawn up under the repeated attacks of the rain, sees its inhabitants sinking in his centre. An urban poetry with the particular style, made up mainly of fixed and frontal plans and conceived like a tiny opera.

The Conquerors

The Conquerors

  • Tibor Bánóczki / Sarolta Szabo
  • France / Canada, 2011
  • 12 min.

At the dawn of time, a young man and woman set out to conquer an inhospitable land in the hope of transforming it into paradise.

Their quest is not without consequences and pushes them ever further, ever higher.

But to what end?

Between prehistory and Genesis, Eden and hell, the animated film The Conquerors calls into question human conquests and the rise of civilizations.

The Monk and the Fish

The Monk and the Fish

  • Michael Dudok de Wit
  • France, 1994
  • 6 min.

A monk discovers a fish in a water reservoir near a monastery. He becomes obsessed with the fish and tries everything to catch it. Gradually the story becomes more symbolic.

The Sense of touch

The Sense of touch

  • Jean-Charles Mbotti Malolo
  • France / Switzerland, 2014
  • 14 min.

Chloé and Louis are secretly in love with each other. Every word is a move, every sentence is a choreography. Louis finally invites Chloé at his place for dinner, and let her in with kittens she found on the way, despite he is allergic to fur. Throughout the dinner, Louis’s dark side starts to show...