Short Film Festival: our good points
(B2) At the 2008 Short Film Festival, three films that deserve special mention and two series not to be missed next year or on another occasion:
- “Margot”, an animated film by Belgian Gerlando Infuso (ateliers de la Cambre). Margot has been freezing to death since the premature death of her lover – whom she murdered? – and sinks into sad madness. A bittersweet film, imbued with great poetry.
- “Dernier voyage”, by Pierre Duculot (interview on Cinergie) when Mamy threatens to pass the weapon to the left to torpedo the vacation of her children, who only dream of one thing – that she die – and ends up making up her mind going on vacation to his nurse's native Moroccan town.
- “Salvador” by Abdelatif Hwidar, in the UIP awards selection – tells an innocent and ordinary game of a child playing hide and seek in a Madrid metro one day in March 2004. Or when life hangs on one hand wire and child’s play…
The “Great Directors” series, which covers shorts made by today’s very well-known directors, was naturally worth the detour. And especially “The cowboy and the French man” by David Lynch, excellent in its satire of both westerns and French, hilarious… yes yes
Finally, the “Short but trash” series. Small films made without a lot of resources, but often with a lot of ideas, and never boring, even if everything is not perfect from a technical point of view. Ma8thias Desmarres' documentary about a centenarian who regularly plays scrabble is a source of smiles. Or Miss Wendy's rather vampy delivery. As for Miss Trash's method of extolling the benefits of... being sodomized, it deserves a detour. Sessions regularly at Riches Claires, in the center of Brussels (see their blog).
(NGV)
