Under the title "Human Beasts", this program (Les Animômes) was made for Animation DAY in France by the Short Film Agency and the French Association of Animation Film, addressing one of the favorite themes of fantasy cinema: the animality, or sometimes woven ambiguous relationship between man and animal.
EFX will introduce the 55 minutes long selection and present two shorts from La Femis the leading French Film School from France.
LES ANIMMÔMES
Flocon de neige by Natalia Chernysheva
Animation - Russia - 2012 - 05'46
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One day a kid from Africa receives a letter from abroad, within is a snow flake.
Mille-pattes et crapaud by Anna Khmelevskaya
Animation - France - 2013 - 10'00
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Deep within a distant forest, a Centipede, supple and graceful, the admiration of all insects. His only enemy, an old toad, haughty and jealous decides one day to get rid of it ...
Mr Hublot by Laurent Witz & Alexandre Espigares
Animation - France - 2013 - 11'48
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Full of tics, obsessions, frightened by the outside world, a recluse on himself, Mr Hublot hates change and contingencies. The arrival of the robot dog-pet will shake up his habits, constrained and forced to live together with his new but invasive companion ...
Palmipedarium by Jérémy Clapin
Animation - France - 2012 - 10'15
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Simon knows ducks. They make noise, fly, float, some also run. Sometimes everything becomes confused and Simon gets lost.
Oktapodi de Emud Mokhberi & Quentin Marmier & Thierry Marchand & Olivier Delabarre & François-Xavier Chanioux & Julien Bocabeille
Animation - France - 2007 - 02'27
To escape the clutches of a cook clerk, two octopuses engage in a burlesque chase. Yet despite their unlikely success to escape their fatal destiny, their struggle to stay together does not seem to finish.
Bonsoir Monsieur Chu by Stephanie Lansaque & François Leroy
Animation - France - 2005 - 15'00
Hai, a young boy who lives with his mother and grandparents, catches a bird. Long, pedicab driver and family friend, a carp walks in the streets of Saigon and the Mekong rice fields on behalf of the mysterious Mr. Chu. Throughout Vietnam, we will celebrate Trung Nguyen, the feast of wandering souls, to honor the souls of the forgotten 'That night, by the light of lanterns, Hai Long wander one last time and carp the bird.
Screening will take place at Institut Français d'Indonéise at8.00pm, preceded by a cocktail and some french wines.
The Short Film Agency is an association governed by the 1901 law, created in 1983 by a group of film professionals (writers, directors, producers and distributors) in order to promote and facilitate the dissemination of the short film in France. It allows, for 30 years, to make the link between those who make short films and those that show. The Agency shall, with the support of the National Center of Cinematography, and under the control of its board of directors, a public service mission for the short film, its authors, its producers, movie theaters and the public. Through this editorial line, she hired a structured work "rehabilitation" of works to the public and professionals. Key figures of the association, steadily increasing year after year, are the tangible signs of the success of a proactive policy in favor of the promotion and dissemination of the short film. These indicators, quantitative and qualitative, are also an expression of great political articulations initiated by the Board of Directors and the management team.
www.agencecm.com
La Fémis (École Nationale Supérieure des Métiers de l'Image et du Son, formerly known as the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques, acronym IDHEC), is the French state film school. FEMIS is an acronym forFondation Européenne pour les Métiers de l’Image et du Son. Based in Paris, it offers courses balanced between artistic research, professional development and technical training.
In 2012, The Hollywood Reporter rated La fémis no.6 in its best international film school rankings (it included U.S.-based film schools) and no.3 in its 2014 best international film school rankings (it excluded U.S.-based film schools). Its alumni have won three of the world's most prestigious film prizes - Cannes Film Festival's Golden Palm, Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion and Berlin International Film Festival's Golden Bear - ten times, making it the most rewarded film school in the world, preceding the Beijing Film Academy and the Tisch School of the Arts of New York, in winning those three prizes.
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