France

Shorts 8: Drama

/
In these five shorts, exceptional international filmmakers explore subjects ranging from sex and war to grief and hippos. Whether employing dark humor or grounded realism, these stories speak to the complexities of the human experience.
A man with a grey beard looks up towards the sky intensely. Behind him is the sea and the sunset on the horizon.

I’m Glad You’re Dead Now

/

When their father dies, two brothers must return home to face their complicated past and find a way to move beyond their history. Palestinian actor Tawfeek Barhom makes his directorial debut starring alongside his real-life brother in this incredibly powerful tale of grief that won the Short Film Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

This film screens as part of Shorts Program 8: Drama.[…]

A group of people stand on a hill, looking at a white tent pitched in the valley below.

Nuestra Tierra

/
Acclaimed auteur Lucrecia Martel poetically chronicles the trial of three men who killed the leader of an Indigenous community in Northern Argentina.
Seen in black and white, a man in sunglasses sits on a bench, smoking.

Nouvelle Vague

/
This playful love letter to cinema reimagines the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless in an exuberant exploration of the forces that shaped the French New Wave.
Scroll to Top