An international first
The event lasted one evening, from 6 pm to 11 pm, and welcomed 60 participants to a full house. 30 amateur and professional short films were shown, some of which formed an official selection competing for a jury prize and an audience award. The audience voted for its 3 favourite short films after the screening, over a musical cocktail during which the prizes were then presented.
This first edition was a resounding success, both in the quality of the films and in the number of filmmakers who submitted their work. The audience’s enthusiastic response encouraged the organising team to prepare a second edition.
Thanks to our jury
Antoine GAUDIN
PhD in Film Studies.
Professor at Sorbonne-Nouvelle University.
Lenice PEREIRA BARBOSA
PhD in Art and Media and a specialist in colour effects in cinema.
Monah MAUCOUVERT, aka Modka
Bachelor’s degree in Art History.
A painter who works exclusively in blue.
Thanks to our volunteers
You were welcomed by the charming Indra and the dashing Pierce.
At the bar, the delightful Anita was joined by the exquisite Nicoletta and the divine Joanna.
The friendly Olga welcomed you into the screening room.
Your host Monah, aka Modka, was there throughout the evening to look after you.
The wonderful Maria cooked delicious Brazilian empanadas for you.
Not forgetting the lovely Armando, who was there to take your photo.
Thanks also to Damien, Maxime and Simon of the band Komatrio for playing their songs arranged to Bossa Nova tunes.
Your presence and joyful participation are the heart of the festival, and it would not have been the same without you.
The award-winning films
The Jury Prize
Ceux de l'Atlantide
A journey of no return
A film by Laurent Leclerc
What becomes of those who failed at the gates of Europe but survived, and are returning to their home countries?
What becomes of those who sacrificed everything for this waking dream, this journey of no return?
with Khadim Fall, Gnagna NDiaye, Awa Ba and Agathe Derycke.
Laurent Leclerc is an actor, writer and stage director. He trained in directing at the Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle (INSAS, Brussels), as an auditor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique in Paris (CNSAD), and at La FEMIS (screenwriting workshop).
As an actor, he has worked in theatre, radio, television and film. As a writer, he has written many plays, some of them published by Editions Lansman, Les Cygnes and Les Marchands de Fables de Rochefort. He has also written, produced and directed several radio dramas broadcast by public and private French-language radio stations around the world. As a director, he founded a school of stage directing in Paris in 2014.
In 2015 he wrote and directed his first film, Chevaliers errants (2015), selected at 29 international festivals.
The Audience Award
A film by Eléonore Aguillon
Raphaëlle, a twenty-year-old pianist, is hired to look after an isolated house for the summer. In the midst of a crisis of legitimacy and questioning her life choices, she seizes the opportunity to get away. But she has to share the house with Arthur who, after an accident, cannot look after the place on his own while his brother is away. A taciturn man in his forties, he spends his days repainting the walls and moving the furniture around in clumsy, senseless ways.
Eléonore Aguillon, the director of this film blending music and colour — blue in particular — started playing music at the age of 11. The film was shot in her grandmother’s house, where she learned to play the piano. She holds a double degree in Film and Management and has also trained in musical theatre.