SHORT STREAM

Presentation SHORT STREAM FILMS - MIDDLE SCHOOL SHORT STREAM FILMS - HIGH SCHOOL

Presentation

Fipadoc promotes short films as a great way to explore contemporary documentary creation. By mixing approaches and themes during a screening, students discover new ways of telling real stories, and confront stories from the world over.

The first program, recommended for high-school students, analyzes lives shaped by political decisions, which mark bodies through resistance or exile. Gaps documents the effects of Franco’s regime on women, revealing the workings of state institutions that jailed those who opposed the regime. Sometimes, running away is obvious, but not without its difficulties. In the style of an animal documentary, Bloodline depicts the materiality of the borders separating Belarus and Poland, and the hunting carried out to prevent some people from crossing them. Home is 1117 km away reveals the contradictory emotions that accompany a departure, where loneliness, displacement and comfort are intertwined. From a variety of angles, Mirtemir Is Alright and Deadlock show that the act of staying – to work, to escape through song, or to wait for better days – is surely just one way of getting ready for a departure, in the footsteps of past generations.

The documentary’s intimate approach brings to light daily life faced with otherness. In this second program for middle-school students, strength and resilience go together with escape. Five short films explore, through past and present history, the ardor that drives the eccentricity of our passions.
While Percebes and Perla et les humains take a fresh look at the abnegation of a few humans to protect and cherish our animal friends, Voy and Tough Moves draw a portrait of two young sportsmen, where passion rhymes with discipline. Passion may fade, but love endures. A case in point is Quelque chose de divin, which examines what remains of a past love, eroded by time and war.

To support students in their perceptions and questions, these two sessions are followed by discussions with members of the film team.

PROJECTIONS
MONDAY,JANUARY 27
SHORT Stream Middle school | 14h30 at Le Connecteur
FRIDAY, JANUARY 31
SHORT Stream High school | 14h00 at Le Colisée

SHORT STREAM FILMS - MIDDLE SCHOOL

Perla et les humains

Tara LEPLEUX

In her store, Sylvie shaves, brushes, washes and dries dogs from morning to night. Meanwhile, the customers stay and Sylvie listens to them. It makes me wonder who Sylvie really takes care of: dogs or people?

Pouce-pieds

Alexandra RAMIRES et Laura GONÇALVES

The barnacle, a strange beast of the sea, has forged strong ties with the inhabitants of Portugal's Algarve region over the centuries. Both in terms of food and culture.

Tough Moves

Jakob MICHAL

In Tough Moves, 13-year-old Arminius balances the contrasting worlds of chessboxing: the calm focus of chess and the intense physicality of boxing. This challenging balance extends into his home life, where his father, also his boxing coach, imposes rigorous training. Together, they prepare for the upcoming German championship.

Quelque chose de divin

Mélody BOULISSIÈRE and Bogdan STAMATIN

1939. In her village, a young Romanian woman meets a soldier. Their love story begins, but the soldier is called to the front. In 2014, at the age of 91, the lover recounts the secrets of a forgotten time. What remains of a love story after three quarters of a century and a world war?

Voy

Kilian Armando FRIEDRICH

Jannick's eyes are seeing less and less. In order not to have to stop playing soccer, he starts playing in a blind soccer team.

SHORT STREAM FILMS - HIGH SCHOOL

Bloodline

Wojciech WĘGLARZ

On the border of Belarus and Poland, the manhunt for refugees takes place under the watchful eye of a herd of bison.

Home is 1117 km away

Marta SMERECHYNSKA

Maria, who was forced to leave Ukraine, is seeking a female roommate in Budapest. Talks with potential neighbors about living closely together transition into conversations about the feeling of home and loneliness. When Ukrainian girls visit Maria, the search for a roommate turns into an exchange of personal experiences of the war and displacement.

Deadlock

Mahdi BOUCIF and Lucien BEUCHER

Sifou and Mahrez are childhood friends. Both are 17, and both have a brother who fled to Europe. Lost between the bleak destiny promised by their Algiers neighborhood and the uncertainty lurking on the horizon, they ask themselves: Can we break the deadlock?

Gaps

Sofia ESTEVE SANTONJA, Marina FREIXA ROCA and Isa LUENGO GÓMEZ

In Spain, Mariona was imprisoned during her adolescence by the Women's Welfare Agency. Her testimony guides us through the old reformatories of this Francoist institution.

Mirtemir Is Alright

Sasha KULAK and Michael BORODIN

Tima and Mirtemir grow up in Uzbekistan between the desert and the Dead Sea. Days of work and nights of karaoke, full of joy and adolescent bliss. A carefree facade while the adults seek their fortune abroad.