Astrale
Magda is a 13 year-old girl who can leave her body at night through astral projection. She travels through her inner world, meets various beings and wonders about her own identity.
Nouvelle Vague – Best of AFCA 2018
80 minutes
Curated by jury member Clémence Bragard, this program showcases a
selection of the French animated short from the Association Française du
Cinéma d’Animation (AFCA). It’s a tour de force.
This program screened as part of KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival 2018
Showing in this program
Buddy Joe
One afternoon, Hilton who is a 60 year old artist and decorator, is talking into the microphone that his son in law Julien is handing him. He is telling him about all of the aspects of Parkinson's. He contracted this disease when he was 40 and knows it inside out. Between reality and fantasy, he talks about his life together with his mate “Buddy Joe”.
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Camille
Laure must replace a deceased swimmer in the relay swim team. The qualifiers are near and the team worries about their chances at winning. The grief and stress pushes Laura to obsess over the one she replaces, Camille.
Orogenesis
A trip towards abstraction, as an hypothesis on how mountains might have been formed.
Sahara Palace
Inside the Sahara Palace hotel, silence, dereliction and sand. It’s in this fragile and out of time place that memories of an unknown grandfather appear.
The Children of Concrete
Am I French or Chinese? I think about questions relating to my identity. I compare media discourse with words from "second generation" immigrants in an attempt to see more clearly. I recall France, my France.
The Ogre
A giant complexed by his size refrains from eating terrified at the idea of revealing his ogresque character and thus compromising his place in society.
At a business banquet, his true nature will be put to the test.
Voyagers
A tiger, escaping his hunter, ends up in a space station occupied by an astronaut and his goldfish...
Why Mud – Seven Tides
“Seven Tides” follows two young teens who spend the afternoon getting high for the first time.
