Every year, the city of Odense celebrates the short film genre at the fantastic Odense International Film Festival that qualifies films for the Oscars, the EFA (European Film Awards) and the danish Robert.
Join us from the 26th of August to the 1st of September to watch the 148 films represented this year. Some of them are french and we're already looking forward to seeing them.
Ticket prices for one screening from DKK 70 / All-inclusive ticket: DKK 350 (gives access to over 250 events: film screenings, lectures, debates, concerts, Open Air and much more)
FRENCH FILMS PROGRAM
Flatastic
Alice Saey - France - 2024 - Animation - Without dialogue - 18 min
Stingrays and wage slaves in a world essentially made up of plastic products. If this continues, nature will be left with no other choice but to strike back!
The body of the king (Le corps du roi)
Bianca Sescu, Emy Rodrigues - France - 2023 - Fiction - English subtitles - 19 min
Two teenage skaters seek shelter from the stifling heat in a church. The result is a touching, poetic and heartbreaking film that deals with a number of issues that affect and haunt these two very close friends.
The big dipper (La grande ourse)
Anthony Bajon - France - 2023 - Fiction - English subtitles - 25 min
In this portrayal of what lies beneath the surface, two childhood friends reunite in a summer paradise basked in heat and sunlight. Boxing, karaoke and a touching story of friendship are some of the ingredients in this intensely moving drama.
With All Due Humanity (Avec l’humanité qui convient)
Kacper Checinski - France 2023 - Fiction - English subtitles - 24 min
A very busy day at the job center. Staff and customers try to navigate an inhuman and incomprehensible bureaucracy. The result is an excellent and recognisable story with a strong point about the automated society and how people are forgotten in this society.
Non
Camille Bardaud, Tianying Zhang, Xiaoning Niu, Julie Sibille, Yanfeng Niu - France - 2023 - Animation - English subtitles - 5 min
Little things become big stories in this poetic animation about abandonment, childhood and how one specific situation can bring out a thousand thoughts and even more memories that can perhaps finally make you say... NO!
La Perra (Être fille, être mère, être chienne. Devenir femme.)
Carla Melo Gampert - France - 2023 - Animation - Without dialogue - 15 min
Watercolour birds in sensual and sexual folds of body and animal behaviour. In the big city and in disco decadence. Carnal, highly intense and a wonder to experience.
Margarethe 89
Lucas Malbrun - France - 2023 - Animation - English subtitles - 18 min
The last days of the DDR regime is filled with distrust, suspicion and paranoia. We follow a young rebel's journey in and out of mental institutions. Dictatorship told in tones of sharp penned beauty, snitching, love for the fatherland and great personal pain.
Peeping mom (Le sexe de ma mère)
Francis Canitrot - France - 2023 - Animation - English subtitles - 15 min
Duck is taking care of his old mother but he is missing something more. A touching film about sexual liberation, maternel love and courage.
