IN CINEMA
FRANCOPHONE SHORT FILMS IN HARLEM: PROGRAM II
Tickets: FREE
Sunday, April 28th at 4 PM
Please join us for Program II of Francophone Short Films in Harlem (FSF) 2024! FSF is a festival dedicated to the rich cultural mosaic of the French-speaking countries through film.
SHORTS PROGRAM II:
ABRACADABRA
Frédéric Back, 1970, 10’, Canada/Québec.
The story of four children from around the world who try to rescue the sun from an evil sorcerer.
www.fredericback.com et www.radio-canada.ca/jeunesse/
J’AI 8 ANS (I’M 8 YEARS OLD)
Yann Le Masson and Olga Poliakoff, 1961, 9’, France/Tunisia
“Having escaped the war in Algeria and taken refuge in Tunisian camps, Algerian children recall the tragic events they experienced through drawings of their own.” – film-documentaire.fr
ENFANTS DES COURANTS D’AIR (CHILDREN ADRIFT)
Édouard Luntz, 1959, 26’, France
Winner of the prestigious Prix Jean Vigo in 1960, this visually stunning short film captures a day in the life of a young boy growing up in the slums of Paris. As universal as its poignant evocation of childhood under poverty is, it is also a highly specific human document, revealing a network of immigrant groups helping each other get by.
LA PETITE VENDEUSE DU SOLEIL (THE LITTLE GIRL WHO SOLD THE SUN)
Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1999, 45’, Senegal
“Following Le Franc and conceived as the second installment of an unfinished trilogy of dramatic shorts entitled Tales of Little People, Mambéty works in a simpler style that reflects his move beyond documenting Africa’s victimization towards envisioning the continent’s recovery. Consequently, this film is a luminous portrait of a young, handicapped girl and her determination to be a street vendor of "Le Soleil," the national newspaper of Senegal, against the wishes of the other street boys. It is at once a tribute to the indomitable spirit of the street children of Dakar and to the individual’s capability for transforming her situation.”
– African Film Festival New York
ROUGH CUT WINNERS 2024
Lycée français, New York City, 15’
Post-screening discussion with Joseph Pomp (Film scholar and editor at Harvard University Press) and filmmaker Zoel Aeschbacher, with other speakers TBA!
