KUKI .17 Young Short Film Festival Berlin
3 - 10 November 2024

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TS 05 Quoi de Neuf? French Language Program 14+

From a skate park in 2000s Quebec to the Olympic swimming pools of 1936 and a crush-inspired neighbourhood championship of pétanque in contemporary France, these short fictional and animated French-language films from France, Canada and Belgium comprise inspiring historic biography and all manner of interpersonal negotiations.

Topics: Love relationships, identity, sexuality, coming of age, sexual assault, solidarity, family, friendship, WWII, Nazism, Olympic Games, swimming, biography, Holocaust, antisemitism, loss, mourning, coming out, coming of age, country life, memories, relocation, neighbourhood, community, migration, parents, poverty, Romani people, pétanque

Subjects: French, Ethics/Religion, History, Art, Sport

07.11.24, 10:00h, City Kino Wedding

08.11.24, 10:30h, Filmtheater am Friedrichshain Kino 5

Quoi de Neuf? Sprachprogramm Französisch ab 14
Quoi de Neuf? Sprachprogramm Französisch ab 14

This program is sponsored by Cornelsen

5 films
Été 2000

Été 2000

Summer 2000

Virginie Nolin / Laurence Olivier // Quebec // 2023 // 19:40 min

Live Action

9 year-old Sarah is quietly discovering love when an assault derails her sexual awakening. An intimate and delicate tale in which the play between different mediums offers an insight into gender performativity and consent.

Green Light

Green Light

Bérenger Barry // France // 2024 // 10:00 min

Live Action

Ben and Hazel have been friends since kindergarten. Can the green light of a hacked traffic light change that?

Papillon (Butterfly)

Papillon (Butterfly)

Florence Miaihe // France // 2024 // 15:00 min

Animation

A beautifully flowing and epic animation as a tribute to the Olympic swimming champion and holocaust survivor Alfred Nakache. A reflection on resilience and solidarity.

Les Abeilles d'Eau Douce

Les Abeilles d'Eau Douce

Freshwater Bees

Emma Kanouté // Belgium // 2023 // 08:35 min

Animation, Live Action

When Louise visits her parents country house in the middle of summer, melancholy memories of her first lesbian love as a teenager come flooding back.

Tu m'fais perdre la boule

Tu m'fais perdre la boule

You make me lose my mind

Elia Merlot // France // 2023 // 19:22 min

Live Action

Ryta and her family are Roma and have just moved into a council housing estate in a new neighbourhood. There she develops a fascination for a young man called Kaïs, who only seems to have a passion for pétanque. What’s a girl to do?