Shorts

Avant...Mais Après

Director: Tonie Marshall
Cast: Mathieu Kassovitz, Quentin Ogier, Ludivine Tribes
France, 1994, 5’, color
French with Turkish subtitles

The condom or how to use it: in the courtyard of Lycee Montaigne two young men around twenty are having a talk. One of them looks embarrassed and uninformed, while the other looks tough and exuberant. The series "3000 scenarios contre un virüs" (“3000 scripts against a virus") proceeds from a contest open to young people under twenty years old launched by humanitarian and medical associations involved in the struggle of AIDS. The scripts produced onscreen are by accomplished directors, reflecting the perception of the illness that young people had in 1994.

Des Câlins Dans Les Cuisines

Director: Sébastien Laudenbach
Cast: Rose Mary Cerdeira, Christian Esnay, Damien Ricour
France, 2004, 8’, color
French with Turkish subtitles

A man, alone at home is at the window looking down onto the street. His ex girlfriend gives him a phone call proposing him to spend one last night together. The man joins her for an sexual encounter. Laudenbach presents a sensual and poetic alienated film. "One of the stakes of the film was to talk about the duality between feelings and bodies: to talk about that moment when it could exists a true complexity between two bodies meeting each other, that know each other, that had lived together, that know how to get touched, how to be desired, how to be pleased... and the feelings which are not always there".

C’est Dimanche

Director: Samir Guesmi
Cast: İlliè Boukouirene, Djemel Barek, Elise Oppong, Simon Akbarian
France, 2008, 30’, color
French with Turkish subtitles

İbrahim, thirteen years old, is sent away from school. He lets his father believe he earned his diploma. They plan to celebrate. The film has been shown in competition within the frame of several international festivals and won the Audience Award at the International Short Film Festival of Clermont-Ferrand in 2008.

Une Leçon Particulière

Director: Raphaël Chevènement
Cast: Cécile Ducrocq, Raphaël Chevènement
France, 2007, 10’, renkli color
French with Turkish subtitles

Cyril, 17 years old is having French lessons with Eva, 27 years old. They study a Victor Hugo love poem. In 2009, the film won the Cesar Award for Best Short Film, and a special mention of the jury at the Los Angeles Festival City of Lights, City of Angels.

Les Voiliers Du Luxembourg

Director:  Nicolas Engel
Cast: Juliette Laurent, Manuel Vallede, Nathan Rosselin, Caroline Breton
France, 2005, 24’, color
French with Turkish subtitles

Small boat models moved by the wind cross and bump into each other. The collision of the boats lead, Edith and her son Cesar to meet a strange man. The man will change the course of their life. Ideal love, missed chances, fragile "single mother", and an ardent leading young man: this short film is entirely sung and is a successful tribute to the charmed and melancholic universe of Jacques Demy.

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