Short to feature programs
Every year, we like to honor filmmakers who started out making shorts, and who are now making feature-length films. One or more shorts, a glass of friendship if the weather’s right, a feature-length film and a discussion: these are the From short to feature evenings.
In September, we’ll be welcoming a Quebec director and a French director for two programs where you can get a glimpse of their careers. Short or long, long live cinema!
Short-To-feature France
In 2021, Amélie impressed us with her first fiction short film, Partir un jour, supported by her friends at Topshot.
The audience made no mistake, awarding her the prize. The Jury, equally charmed, awarded Bastien Bouillon the acting prize for his performance in Amélie’s film. The film went on to enjoy undeniable success at numerous festivals, even going on to win the César for Best Fiction Short Film in 2023.
So it’s with great pleasure that we offer you, this year, the short film of course, but also Amélie Bonnin’s first feature film, Partir un jour, after it opened the Cannes Film Festival and enjoyed the same success as her short, with a truly impressive number of cinema admissions.
Amélie Bonnin loves loyalty and has brought on board the same striking duo, Juliette Armanet and Bastien Bouillon, not for the same film, but for a superb feature, surprising in its proposition and, a rarity at the moment, sure to put a smile on your face while making you think about the meaning of life.
Short-To-Feature Quebec
This year, the program du court au long Québec honors the cinema of Marie-Hélène Viens and Philippe Lupien.
Their first short film, Bernard Le Grand, which they scripted and directed together, was screened in 2013. At the same time, the idea of a feature film was already germinating in their heads. Then, over the last few years, we’ve been lucky enough to present more of their shorts: Amen (2016) and Nous sommes le Freak Show (2017).
In 2024, they released their first feature, Vous n’êtes pas seuls, produced by Boîte à Fanny, the same producer as all their shorts. With the narrative of the feature, they plunge us into a love story that plays with the codes of science fiction. You know, that little something extra in the story – they’re very good at adding that little something extra to each of their films! The result, every time, is a sweet and unexpected experience, sometimes even offbeat and always tinged with humor.
So we’re delighted to present a retrospective of their three short films, right up to the completion of their first feature.
