REVEL
The programme:
First journey (0″10) :
Chloé begins her 293rd day on earth. Her father, his 10,935th. But today is the day they will share their first real tête-à-tête on a train journey. The journey may well be the chance for the father to find out who this little person is, who has been in his life for the last 10 months.
Little player (0″02):
Manon is invited to a party by some friends from her new school.
While the party is in full swing, a game disrupts her integration into the group.
Pavane (0″26):
For over 30 years, Cora has been getting up at 4am every day to go to work at the factory and bring up her daughter, Alex, who has left, much to her dismay, to pursue an artistic career in Paris. When the time comes to retire, Cora would like Alex to give up this risky choice for good, but Alex is preparing her first film.
Justice (0″03):
In 1983 the former head of the Gestapo, Klaus Barbie, is arrested. Robert Badinter recounts the ambivalent feeling he had when he realised that by abolishing the death penalty two years earlier he had just saved the life of the man who had signed his father’s deportation order to the Sobibor extermination camp.
Cul de bouteille (0″09):
The terrible news is in: Arnaud is profoundly short-sighted,
Arnaud has to wear glasses. And not just any glasses:
crude frames, lenses so thick…
Off-screen (0″02):
According to Shakespeare, we are all actors in a play. So couldn’t real life be directed by a film crew?
The big leagues (0″24):
At the Lycée Victor Hugo, French teacher Leïla Al Bachir has requested a disciplinary council for one of her pupils: Simon Petit. With the aim of obtaining a fair and just punishment, Leïla realises that her company is in great danger…
The mysterious adventures of Claude Conseil (0″24) :
Claude Conseil lives in peaceful retirement with her husband in a house in the middle of the woods. She spends her time listening to and recording birds. One spring evening, incessant and enigmatic calls break the calm of the forest.
Orange ô désespoir (0″04):
What happens when a depressed little orange decides to leave its crate and land with its neighbours?
a bunch of happy, dancing pineapples?
Long live watermelon (0″01):
Using archive footage of the Nakba, Vive la Pastèque questions censorship…
Mimine (0″13):
Bonus, a clumsy and carefree father, has custody of his young son for the day. Weakened by his recent break-up, he notices that his son is developing a beautiful relationship with his ex-girlfriend’s new lover.
A la mode (0″49):
In a kingdom tormented by ancestral beliefs, a queen and her subjects must constantly keep up with the latest fashions, or risk being devoured by an abominable monster: the Ridicule.
