JULY VIGNETTES: Short Film Festival By Alliance Francaise de Trivandrum

Alliance Française de Trivandrum in association with the Embassy of France in India and FILCA will organise a festival of Short Films titled “JULY VIGNETTES” on 24 July at Alliance Française de Trivandrum. The festival includes two packages “ETRANGEMENT COURTS /Strangely Short” and “ELLES /They……“. The weird and fantastic “ETRANGEMENT COURTS /Strangely Short” includes 10 animation and fiction films. The feminine “ELLES /They……”. include 8 films. The festival brings in versatality in genre, treatment and a wide range of subjects.

A young woman has an appointment with a young man to share a first kiss. But an incident to   prevent purely cinematic never realizing their love.

Zero is a robot cleaner elite. Each morning, he reports at his place of work, greet the receptionist and will clean the room of the Executive. With an inimitable zeal, he rubs, gloss, stalking any dust. But, suddenly, there appeared a huge stain on the floor! Impossible? It is surely a stroke of 02, the bouncer garbage!

A man and a woman, trapped by the snow, desperate to leave a small suburban house lost in the middle of nowhere …

A couple is in a very serious financial situation. The man has no job and spends his days walking the streets, without even having enough to buy food…

Small rag dolls find their maker dead in his studio. Not understanding what really happened, they will try to regain their lives with the death.

In the absence of her husband, a woman turns her head to cook lobster for dinner. But both are struggling and resisting crustaceans, triggering a downward spiral of her anguish.

A fresco unfolds before our eyes to the sounds of work omnipresent but distant. This painting shows a landscape of Mediterranean type. It differs most notably three players: a cactus, a cypress and an olive. After discovering the painting in a long comma bench as the camera freezes. Not really listening, with debris strewn over the course. Now it discovers its origins: an olive branch has been cracking the wall. This wall is one that separates Israel from Palestine …

They are worn and tired cubic … The time has come to rally them.

The life of Simon repeats endlessly … Yet he seems to delight in this system. One day a man will change his daily routine.

An actor in a Hollywood film noir out of the frame and is found in the backstage, amidst the clouds in      Technicolor. A chase began.

An unexpected spark of hope in the dullness of daily Parisian subway.

A young woman tells of her profession as a driver, too little known …

Jeanne, the last sixty, was abandoned on the side of a road. She wanders through the landscape, desert camp until the middle of which stands a white trailer, owned by two brothers in their seventies, Emile and Louis.

In the early 70s, Mohamed brings Fatiha and their two children, to live with him in a French working-class suburb. Each day, the husband goes to work by closing the door. Fatiha invents original ways to communicate with the outside.

A girl lovesick soul mate search in a public park. His mobile phone in hand, she receives a strange text message …

Discovered in the basement of their parents, the bottle holder of Duchamp saw that morning at Beaubourg, Zack and Seb did not imagine that this gesture would turn into art is different.

“My dear Rosa, it is not against you but you can see:   with both we cannot work a lot. So we will find you a great lady who will care for you. It’s gonna be alright you’ll see … “

“In life, the opportunity passes only once, unless you’re lucky: so does it cause the U.S. to Kate?”