Kortfilmsdagen 2021
On december 21st in collaboration with Franska Filmfestivalen, Institut Français de Suède and Midsommargården, we were part of Kortfilmsdagen 2021!
Together we prepared 5 exclusive short films with various animation techniques!
This program reflects the historical and cultural heritage that certain individuals inherited from their mother country. The short films were directed by either French directors with roots from Asia or with strong relationship with Asia, or Asian directors who moved to or grew up in a French speaking country (France, Canada). Through this partnership, we want to celebrate short film and encourage cultural exchange.
> Franska Filmfestivalen offered a little goûter (fika) and AFF prepared a little gift for everyone!
BACH-HÔNG
Regi/Director: Elsa Duhamel
Animation
18 min | France | 2019 | French & Vietnamese, English subtitles.
Jeanne, born in 1959 in Saigon, has a golden childhood, protected from the war raging between North and South Vietnam. Fascinated by horses, Jeanne rides a mare named Bach-Hông. But on April 30, 1975, the communists took over Saigon.
THE BANQUET OF THE CONCUBINE
Regi/Director: Hefang Wei
Animation
12 min | France, Canada, Swiss | 2012 | Chinese, English subtitles.
China, in the year 746, the Tang dynasty, the most blooming period of the country's history. The emperor, Li, beholds a court of numerous concubines, the most precious is Yang. The emperor is preparing a grand banquet in her honor. But on the day, the emperor Li is seeing someone else, and he completely forgets about Yang’s banquet...
BORIYA
보리야
Regi / Director: Sung Ah Min
Animation
17 min | France | 2019 | French, English subtitles.
One summer, in the South Korean countryside. Bori, a seven-year-old girl, is bored on the family farm. Everyone is busy, except her, because it's harvesting season. She desperately tries to find someone with whom she can play. But nothing happens the way she imagined.
FLEUVE ROUGE
SONG HONG
Regi / Director: Stéphanie Lansaque, François Leroy
Animation
15 min | France | 2012 | Vietnamese, English subtitles.
Vietnam. The first hours in Hanoi of three young brothers freshly arrived from their hometown. Around the Long bridge Biên, the link between city and countryside, they encounter a young cop and an itinerant seller.
SOUS TES DOIGTS
Regi / Director: Marie-Christine Courtès
Animation
13 min | France | 2014 | no dialogue
On the occasion of the death of her grandmother, a young Eurasian re-lives, through dance and rituals, the singular story of a woman of her family, colonial Indochina in the isolation of a transit camp.