An eclectic compilation of Folimage shorts featuring a tale of a girl with a loud rapidly beating abnormal heart, a delicious and sensual banquet in the year 746, a boy who learns a life lesson, a survival horror story and a grandmother with a house full of boxes with memories. 

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

Showing in this program

Fierce

• Izù Troin
• France, 2017
• 15 min.

A young corporate executive is kidnapped from his apartment. He wakes up in the middle of a forest only to be stalked by a mysterious hunter.

Home Sweet Home

• Chaitane Conversat
• France / Switzerland, 2018
• 12 min.

An old lady accumulates at her home boxes filled with memories. Every Wednesday, with her friends the cockroaches, she invents wonderful stories for her granddaughter. But the little girl grows bigger and space starts running out in the house.

The Banquet of the Concubine

• Hefang Wei
• France / Canada, 2012
• 12 min.

China, in the year 746, the Tang dynasty. The emperor, Li, beholds a court of numerous concubines, the most precious is Yang.

The Cat’s Regret

• Jean-Loup Felicioli / Alain Gagnol
• France, 2018
• 8 min.

A ten-year-old boy who hates his little brother is punished by his mother and has to spend an afternoon with a scary old man. The boy will learn a lesson about life when he discovers the old man’s terrible secret.

Tragic Story With a Happy Ending

• Regina Pessoa
• Portugal / France / Canada, 2005
• 7 min.

Some people are different against their will. All that they wish is to be equal to the others. In this allegorical fairytale a girl - whose heart beats faster than normal and so loudly that it bothers the neighbours - seeks both acceptance and escape.