France

2021

Inside

  • Directed by Yann Chapotel
  • Country of Origin France
Inside unrolls a mosaic of windows, those of the building that I regularly filmed from my own window. Along this border where the interior opens onto the exterior, a multitude of moments of everyday life overlap and respond to each other, forming a choreographic fresco of simple gestures.
Director Biography - Yann Chapotel
After studying cinema at the University of Saint-Denis (France), Yann Chapotel directed his first experimental short film shot in India with a super 8 camera. Then, with the help of the Pays de la Loire Regional Council, he directs a second short film in 2000. The democratization of video creation tools will then lead him to gradually free himself from traditional modes of production and narration, his language then taking the path of formal experimentation, in particular around the theme of time and its representation.
Along with his personal work, he edited films by artist Camille Henrot between 2007 and 2017, including Grosse Fatigue which won a Silver Lion at the 2013 Venice Film Festival.
He has also been creating video scenographies since 2012, mainly for operas.
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2019

The Lost Pen

  • Directed by Beraat GOKKUS
  • Country of Origin France
Karam is a Syrien poet and journalist who is in exile in France. He is living at the Maison des Journalistes, an association that hosts exiled journalists around the world in Paris. One day Karam has a new poem but he can not write it. Because he lost the pen that he uses when he is writing a poem. That pen a gift from his mother who lost her life during the Syrian civil war. Without this pen, Karam doesn't write any poem. So he starts to search his pen in the Maison des Journalistes to be able to write again.
Director Biography - Beraat GOKKUS
Beraat GOKKUS is a Turkish director and journalist who lives in Paris France since 2016. He studied Political Science at the University of Marmara in Istanbul, Turkey. Gokkus is an award-winning director. With The Lost Pen, he won SmartFone Flick Fest 2020 Best Director and Best Film Awards. The Lost Pen also won African Smartphone International Film Festival Grand Jury Prize. With his short documentary Breakfast of Champions (2017/Paris) Gokkus won Best Short Short Film award in Berlin Independent Film Festival 2018 and Best Short Short Film award in Berlin Short Film Festival 2017. Gokkus’s short films are selected many times by international film festivals. Nowadays he is working on his feature film projects, a documentary and a short film project too.
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2019

Per Aspera Ad Astra

  • Directed by Franck Dion
  • Country of Origin France
The daily life of a little hen housekeeper, torn between her work, her children and her old mother.
Director Biography - Franck Dion
Franck Dion has made good use of his talent in multiple areas along the years. He first took lessons to become an actor in the American Center, then in the “Théâtre de l’Archet”.At the same time, he became passionate about cinema and learned by himself to sculpt, to draw and to paint. He worked with editors and magazines, designed theatre sceneries and animations for documentary films. Franck Dion is now working on several new projects.
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2018,

Winter of my life

  • Directed by Batteault Remy
  • Country of Origin France
Directed for the Straight 8 film contest, filmed in Super 8 without editing, this is the story of my father, a former butcher in Burgundy. Now a super 8 director. At 78, in the winter of his life, isn't Super 8 take him back to springtime?
Director Biography - Batteault Remy
Since his childhood in Burgundy, France, Remy has two passions : cinema and musicals. Thanks to his father and his Super 8 camera, Remy has learned to love this format, in which he directed his first films. Later on, after working as an assistant director, he’s started directing documentaries in 1997 (The Funny Face of Broadway). He’s directed 16 documentaries for TV so far and is still fond of Super 8…
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