GIFF SHORTS SESSION 4
Drama | 1h 35m
GIFF21 Official Selection | 5x Australian Premiere
Screening from 3-11 July 2021
This is a collection of France short films.
Language: France (English Subtitles)
J'ARRIVE
Director: Bertrand Basset | 15m | Australian Premiere | Drama | 2020
Country: France | Language: French
Granny died today. After years of marriage, Hubert is alone for the first time, tired and diminished. This toilet roll is always too far. Léonie his grand daughter comes in order to help him. Oppressed by the adults fussing around the best idea is maybe this old good whiskey bottle.
APNOIA
Director: Simon Laisney | 23m 53s | Australian Premiere | Drama | 2019
Country: France | Language: French
Cutting himself off from the world, his friends and especially his father, against whom he nourishes feelings of bitterness, resentment and distrust, Thomas, a 12-year-old boy, becomes increasingly and mysteriously obsessed with swimming and diving in the local swimming pool.
NOW, DAPHNE
Director: Johann G. Louis | 20m | Australian Premiere | Drama | 2019
Country: France | Language: French
A national road not very transient, a hotel on probation, a road restaurant from another time. A young woman, Daphne, drives through these desert landscapes. It's nighttime. She meets people who seem to know her without being able to give her a name. Who is Daphne? Could it be a ghost who came to walk in the footsteps of her past ?
PARTICULES FINES
Director: Grégory Robin | 8m 13s | Australian Premiere | Drama | 2020
Country: France | Language: French
Two men on a bridge, over the ring road, wonder if life has any meaning. Since they do not have the answer and they are bored, they decide to kill someone. But they are not at the end of their surprises …
THE KID AND THE OCTOPUS
Director: Nils Bouvyer | 20m | Australian Premiere | Drama | 2020
Country: France | Language: Korean
South Korea. Jun, a lonely child, observes every morning on the way to school, an octopus in the aquarium of a restaurant. When Jun understands the fate of the animal, he decides to flee with him to bring him back to the sea. Then begins a long journey…
SEASON
Director: Giovanna Lopalco | 7m 51s | Australian Premiere | Animation | 2019
Country: France | Language: French
A cortege of men dressed in white are walking a young woman to a strange procession. Around this dark landscape, a perpetually moving world will start the metamortphosis of her body.