Short Films Two (2021)
With shorts for ages 8+, Short Films Two features deeper themes and multilingual films with English subtitles. Stop motion equals nonstop action in Wild Lea, as a feral Colombian cat goes from lonely to loved, but can she learn to settle down with her new makeshift family? And when Parisian Vanille is forced to spend the summer with her auntie in Guadeloupe, she just may realize that big city ways are not nearly as spirited as she discovers her Carribean roots and uncovers a big mystery. In the doc Dear Future Me, 6th graders wrote letters to their future selves; fast-forward to 2020 when the now 12th graders re-read them with alternately surprising, bittersweet, and hilarious results.
shorts in this program:
Wild Lea
Colombia | East Coast Premiere
Animation, María Teresa Salcedo Montero, 2020, 9 min
In Spanish; with English subtitles
Vanille
France, Switzerland | New York Premiere
Animation, Guillaume Lorin, 2020, 30 min
In French; with English subtitles
Colza
France | New York Premiere
Animation, Victor Chagniot, Camille Broutin, Matthieu Daures, Victoria De Millo Gregory, Maxime Jouniot, & Jade Khoo, 2020, 5 min
In French; with English subtitles
How I Overcame My Fear of Humans
France | World Premiere
Animation, Hélène Ducrocq, 2020, 9 min
In French; with English subtitles
Lazare’s Doing it Right
France, United States | North American Premiere
Animation, Thomas Appleman, 2020, 6 min
In French; with English subtitles
Louis’s Shoes
France | US Premiere
Animation, Marion Philippe, Kayu Leung, Théo Jamin, & Jean-Géraud Blanc, 2020, 5 min
In French; with English subtitles
Zara and the Others: Miss Miss
Norway | New York Premiere
Animation, Nils Johan Lund & Bjørn Sortland, 2020, 13 min
In Norwegian; with English subtitles