FESTIVAL DU FILM MERVEILLEUX 2018
Discover the Festival du Film Merveilleux 2018 ‘s programmation. The following Jury Guillaume Levil, Johanna Cohen, olfa hannachi, Christine Allen, Michael Terraz ( Réalisateur ) et Marine Vellet ( Jury Junior) awarded the following prizes.
PROGRAMME FESTIVAL DU FILM MERVEILLEUX & IMAGINAIRE 2018
El marionetista Directed by Carlos Lascano
Running time : 29’
Production : Carlos Lascano, Dreamlife Studios, Kiper Films
Country of production : Argentine – France- Epagne
Synopsis : Can love last forever? Sheltered in the darkness of his small puppet’s theater, Javier relives every day what was his most beautiful love story. One day, a mysterious character appears in his life, determined to take with him the most valuable thing Javier has.
Expire de Magali Magistry
Running time: 13’
Production: Caïmans Productions with the support of Audi Talents Awards, CNC, Région Bretagne, Département du Finistère, Arte France
Country of production: France
Synopsis: Smog, a toxic mist, has blanketed the planet and forces human beings to live confined indoors. But when you are fifteen years old, like Juliette, real life is outside.
Crossing directed by Morgan Dameron
Running time : 6’
Production : Alixzandra Dove Rothschild, Graham Beckett, Alisa Naso
Country of production : USA
Synopsis: Two friends’ adventure comes to a stop when one of them can’t find the courage to cross a deserted road.
L’auxiliare directed by Frédéric Plasman
Running time : 9’
Production : NAA Productions
Country of production: Belgique
Synopsis: Alone in front of her reflection in a collapsing world, she decides to end it all. But who is she and why?
Le botaniste directed by Natasha Ninni
Running time : 3’10
Production : Ecole Estienne
Country of production: France
Synopsis: A botanist gives lectures in a lecture hall and is deeply bored. Back home, he accidentally spills a cup of coffee and this inspires him to paint on his big white wall.
D/fault directed by Jory Bertrand, Nina Chlodnik, Amaury Rospars, Wilson Virassamy Sacri
Running time : 5’22
Production : ArtFX
Country of production: France
Synopsis: Diane, an android domestic worker seeks freedom from her boss’ tyranny.
Memo de Julien Becquer, Elena Dupressoir, Jules Durand, Viviane Guimaraes, Inès Scheiber
Running time : 4’40
Production : Ecole Les Gobelins, Seve Films
Country of production : France
Synopsis: Louis, retraité, veut à tout prix garder son indépendance face à la surprotection de sa fille Nina.
Ariana sky directed by Victor Jeanneret, Titouan Rumeyr, Roy Tarriaffe, Florian Mignet, Dorian Bougard, Amer Abourizk
Running time : 3’32
Production : ISART Digital Montréal
Country of production: Canada
Synopsis: Ariane is convinced of the imminent impact of an asteroid. Disowned by her boss, she decides to leave everything behind to protect the world… Will she succeed alone?
Sans mot dire directed by Quentin Lecocq
Running time : 9’50
Production : Adrien Pauchet, Karen Vernimmen
Country of production: France
Synopsis: Amber is a waitress in a bar where time seems to have stopped. Developing with a somewhat bizarre clientele, she keeps on dreaming about true love.
L’hypothèse de la reine rouge directed by Florian Thomas
Running time : 17’
Production : Metronomic et Pelican,
Country of production: FRANCE
Synopsis : 20 years after Sherlock Holmes accidentally killed Arsene Lupin’s wife, the two legends will meet again in a museum, where Arsene is about to steal a mysterious book. Sherlock Holmes will warn him that one of the greatest crime master is back.
La fille accordéon directed by Anaïs Vachez
Running time : 3’42
Production : Frenchnerd Productions
Country of production: France
Synopsis : A young girl with an accordion body tries to escape from a castle in which she is held prisoner…
Booba concert hall de Leonid Rakhmanin
Running time: 4’10
Production : Studio d’animation 3D Sparrow
Country of production: Russia
Synopsis : Booba enters a concert hall, where he gets attracted by a conductor’s stick. But Loola the Rat grabs it first! Who will get the stick in the end?!
Trauma industrie directed by Jethro Massey
Running time : 13’
Production : Local films
Country of production: France
Synopsis : It’s a great day for Joseph. His family is taking him to the Smile-Rite® toy factory for his twelfth birthday and everyone knows that when a boy celebrate’s his twelfth birthday, it’s the moment he becomes a man.
Il Bacio directed by Adriano Candiago
Running time : 3’42
Production : Bigrock
Country of production: Italie
Synopsis : Two puppets acting out a play find a way to break free from their puppet master to be together.
Woodman directed by Mike Jackson
Running time : 16’36
Production :
Country of production : CANADA
Synopsis : A man made of wood and a woman with secrets connect online, sharing truths that break them out of the cages of lies that have imprisoned them.
Le plan directed by Pierre Teulières
Running time : 12’
Production : Insolence production
Country of production: France
Synopsis : In an isolated mansion, a creature follows the orders of his master in order to accomplish a shady plan that will change the world. Meanwhile, a desperate father is looking for his missing daughter.
The curiosity Show directed by Quentin simon Co-réalisateurs : Alexis Jouen, Magnolie Nanthavongdouangsy, Kévin Lourdel, Juliette Fremeaux, Hugo Rius
Running time : 4’41
Production : Pôle IIID – RECA
Country of production: FRANCE
Synopsis : Josh and Tim, two 12-year-old friends, go to the old mansion in town to play “reporter” with their Super 8 camera. Once they break in, the two kids discover a room worthy of a cabinet of curiosities…
Tweet Tweet directed by Zhanna Bekmambetova
Running time : 11’09
Production : Alexander Gorokhov
Country of production: Russia
Synopsis : Life is like walking on a tightrope. In times we are scared or lost we lose balance. When we are happy and excited, we forget we walk on a rope. We can even fly!
Galaxy girl directed by Richard Grover
Running time : 3’51
Production : Student Movie Digi Pen Institute of Technology, Andrea Calleja
Country of production: Etats-Unis
Synopsis : An aspiring comic book artist, stuck in her dead-end job at a pizza shop, receives unexpected inspiration for her comic during an unusual delivery.
SO.CI3.TY directed by Khris Burton
Running time : 27’
Production : Darers Films
Country of production: France ( Martinique )
Synopsis : J0.hn an emotionless and regulated citizen of THE CITY awakes on a deserted island where he have to embrace his own humanity to survive.
Drôle de poisson directed by Krishna Chandran A. Nair
Running time : 6’20
Production : Folimage studio et Nadasdy Film
Country of production: France
Synopsis : Somewhere in the middle of the ocean, a group of fish gather to help a goldfish floating on the surface.
Awakening de Jesus Soria
Durée : 6’20
Production :
Pays de production: Espagne
Synopsis : Un couple élégant dîne dans un restaurant moderne. Bien que tout semble aller sans à-coups d’abord, Evelyn s’ennuie et décide de changer partenaire. Ce qu’elle ne sait c’est que cette décision la forcera à confronter ses craintes intérieures.
12 Zloty de Yael Reisfeld et Nofar Scheitzer
Running time : 1’56
Production : auto production
Country of production : Israel
Synopsis : In a Polish deli, a tough, introverted butcher softens when a steady customer comes in and gets carried away with her to a herring scented fantasy.
