Every year, the Wallonia-Brussels Centre in Paris screens the best of French-language Belgian short films. This is the "Le Court en dit long" festival, the 33rd edition of which took place in early June.e edition. A look back at some landmark films and just as many young filmmakers to watch.
Main course by Marie Royer and Zinia Scorier.
This is the story of a group of activists fighting against a real estate project. They occupy the building plot to transform it into a community garden and focus their ideological discussions around a crucial topic: food. To tell this political story, the filmmakers opted for a format as compelling as it is original: the animated documentary. They use audio recordings of the group's actions and discussions, and bring them to life in a gentle and subtle animation reminiscent of watercolor drawings. A beautiful story, far from being anecdotal, told with poetry and a touch of humor. Zinia Scorier and Marie Royer graduated from the Albert Jacquard University College in Namur in 2019. Main course This is their first film after school.
Martin is afraid of the dark by Victor Ruprich-Robert.
Young Brussels-based director Victor Ruprich-Robert presented two films this year at the Le Court en dit long festival, both demonstrating masterful and audacious direction. The first, Glute, takes us behind the scenes of a restaurant in the style The Bear, The second one, which revolves around a tasteless joke that goes wrong. Martin is afraid of the dark, is certainly one of the craziest short films we've seen this year. A toxic love story, told out of order, borrowing from the conventions of body horrorwith a dizzying mise-en-scène that takes you on a rollercoaster ride. It must be added that Victor Ruprich-Robert knows how to film his actors very well (the excellent Maxi Delmelle and Malou Mullier). The director's visit to the Wallonia-Brussels Centre was not in vain, as he left with the Screenplay Award for Martin is afraid of the dark and the RTBF's Coup de Cœur Prize for GluteHe is currently preparing his first feature film, which will undoubtedly be a small event.
Jason and the Kingdoms of Bertille Zénobie.
Sometimes, great films stand out from their titles. With the poetic Jason and the KingdomsBertille Zénobie's film is intriguing. There are no Argonauts or Greek heroes in this short film with its naturalistic approach. Jason (pronounced with an American accent) is a young man spending the summer with his grandmother in the south of France. A few weeks earlier, he nearly died in a motorcycle accident. Since then, he has been undergoing daily rehabilitation. In the taxi taking him from his grandmother's house to the rehabilitation center, he invents a life for himself, telling his driver stories he claims to have lived far away, in foreign countries. A chronicle of a summer of boredom. Jason and the Kingdoms Bertille Zénobie captures complex emotions with great accuracy. She achieves this through subtle yet precise direction, razor-sharp writing, and a keen and sometimes audacious sense of editing. Jason and the Kingdoms This is his third short film.
And also:
Sanguine by Capucine Pinaud : the strange story of a young woman jealous of her pregnant friend, fitting into the legacy of a new female genre cinema (between Julia Ducournau and Coralie Fargeat), brilliantly interpreted by two particularly talented actresses.
One night ahead by Julien Bernard-Simmonds Winner of the festival's Grand Prix, this tale of ghosts and truckers navigates brilliantly between several genres, and is set in a milieu rarely depicted so credibly in cinema, that of motorway service areas and long-distance drivers.
