GIFF SHORTS SESSION 2
Drama | 1h 38m
GIFF21 Official Selection | 1x World 4x Australian Premiere
Screening from 3-11 July 2021
This is a collection of France short films with the theme of coming of age.
Language: France (English Subtitles)
WILD SEASONS
Director: Nathalie Giraud | 20m | Australian Premiere | Coming of age | 2020
Country: France | Language: French
It’s summer. Lazare picks up two hitchhikers who make him change his plans.
TEEN HORSES
Director: Valérie Leroy | 20m | Australian Premiere | Coming of age | 2020
Country: France | Language: French, Finnish
"After her parent’s divorce, Tania, 14 years old, starts a new life when she arrives during the year in a new French middle school. She has difficulties to face this sudden change, especially because in Finland she was used to follow trainings in a very welded team in a particular sport “hobby horsing”. In France, at school, she brings only the looser’s attention on her : the chubby girl, her spotty friend and a lone and sex maniac boy. And if it was her new team ?
WHALES DON'T SWIM
Director: Matthieu Ruyssen | 22m | Australian Premiere | Coming of age | 2019
Country: France | Language: French
Yves is the sole target of his bullying classmates. His only refuge is in synchronised swimming, which he practices nightly in secret. But when Charlotte, a fellow classmate and member of the team spies him at the pool, he will no longer be able to hide…
NUMBER 10
Director: Florence Bamba | 14m | Australian Premiere | Coming of age | 2020
Country: France | Language: French
AWA is a young french girl originally from Senegal. She's a law student who practices soccer regularly with her neighbour friends.But her passion is not at everyone's taste.
A COMME AZUR
Directors: Chiara Malta, Sébastien Laudenbach | 24m | Australian Premiere | Coming of age | 2020
Country: France | Language: French
School is over. Benjamin is 5 years old and is going on holiday to the sea with his mother and Charlotte, his 12-year-old older sister. A COMME AZUR is the chronicle of this summer through the letters of the alphabet. During a holiday and 26 letters, Benjamin experiences his first sentimental pain and grows up. And that is how he gives himself to the vast world that hides behind words.