Cerermony - Cesar 2023 : The Short Film Brunch (Animation Category)

By Mulder, Paris, La companie 1837, 11 december 2022

For the first year, the César Academy honors the directors and producers of the 48 short films, during a brunch held this Sunday, December 11, 2022. This Selection is accompanied by a pair of godmother/sponsor of the cinema, who is present to share his experience and encourage these new talents of emerging cinema.

This Sunday, December 11, 2022, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Techniques has organized a new event around the Short Film. During a brunch, it brought together the directors and producers of the year's short films, which will be submitted to the votes of the members of the Academy and thus compete for the César 2023. They have been chosen by the three Short Film Committees of the Academy and compose the Short Film Fiction Selection, the Short Film Animation Selection and the Short Film Documentary Selection César 2023.

This friendly meeting brought together :
- Félix Moati, godfather of the Short Film Fiction Selection César 2023 (Nicole Garcia, the godmother was absent because of bronchitis)
- Camélia Jordana and Aurel, godmother and godfather of the César 2023 Animated Short Film Selection,
- Yolande Zauberman and Éric Caravaca, godmother and godfather of the Documentary Short Film Selection César 2023.

This operation was also an opportunity to recall all the work that the Academy carries out throughout the year around the short film, with these three selections of films, the organization in February of screenings of short films nominated with the help of the Short Film Agency, or the operation "Golden Nights" in June.

The Short Film Brunch was organized with the support of Canal+, partner and broadcaster of the César Awards, which also supports the Academy in promoting short films.

The lists of 24 fiction shorts, 12 animated shorts and 12 documentary shorts were compiled by the César Academy's Short Film Committees from among the shorts that made their mark in 2022. They will be submitted to the votes of the members of the Academy and will thus be able to compete for the 2023 Césars.

The Short Film Brunch is organized thanks to the support of Canal+, partner and broadcaster of the César Awards, which also accompanies the Academy in the promotion of short films.

Discover our photos of the photocall on our Flickr page here and also our photos of this ceremony here

In order to facilitate the vote of the Academy members for the César for the Best Animated Short Film, 12 short films have been selected by the Short Film Animation Committee. The 12 films are presented on the viewing platform set up for the members of the Academy.

Anxious Body by Yoriko Mizushiri (6 minutes)
Synopsis: Living beings, inanimate objects, geometric shapes and lines. From the contact of these different entities a new direction is born.

Bird in the Peninsula by Atsushi Wada (16 minutes)
Synopsis: Children dance to music under the supervision of their teacher. A young girl witnesses the scene and disrupts their ritual.

Câline by Margot Reumont (15 minutes)
Synopsis: At her father's request, Coline returns to her childhood bedroom to sort through her things. The different objects she finds there plunge her into the memories of her childhood. Among them stand out those that have marked her to this day.

Écorchée by Joachim Hérissé (15 minutes)
Synopsis: In an old building lost in the middle of the swamps, live two strange women, siamese twins by one leg. At night, the Écorchée has terrifying nightmares where she sees her sister's flesh covering her own body.

The Roberts Fairy by Léahn Vivier-Chapas (14 minutes)
Synopsis: Who, the dancing lioness or the little girl who is trained, will best play her role? The Roberts Fairy will know who is truly worthy of attention.

Letter to a Pig by Tal Kantor (17 minutes)
Synopsis: A Holocaust survivor reads a letter he wrote to the pig that saved his life. A young schoolgirl hears his testimony in class and falls into a twisted dream where she is confronted with questions of identity, collective trauma and the extremes of human nature.

Noir-soleil by Marie Larrivé (20 minutes)
Synopsis: Following an earthquake, the body of a man is discovered in the bay of Naples. According to the police, the man committed suicide 40 years ago. In search of his identity, they contact Dino and his daughter, Victoria, for a DNA test. During this unexpected journey to each other, the young girl unearths her father's mysterious past while Dino plunges, in spite of himself, into the landscapes of his childhood.

Petit cogneur by Gilles Cuvelier (14 minutes)
Synopsis: Poetic testimony of a family crossing time and space to the rhythm of the uncontrollable crises of the youngest child.

Swallow the Universe by Nieto (12 minutes)
Synopsis: Emiko, a five year old child, is lost in the deep jungles of Manchuria after a car accident of which he is the only survivor. His unexpected presence in these remote lands disrupts the balance of the wild animals that had been living in harmony until then. With his striking beauty, the child arouses in the monkeys, tigers, anteaters and amphibians a lust and an irresistible desire for possession and material attachment, to the point of perverting them.

Terra incognita by Adrian Dexter, Pernille Kjaer (21 minutes)
Synopsis: On a mysterious island, forgotten by time, immortal beings lead a pre-civilized life and spend their days in a hedonistic lethargy until modern civilization arrives.

La Vie sexuelle de mamie by Urška Djukić, Émilie Pigeard (14 minutes)
Synopsis: A journey through the youth and intimate memories of a grandmother illustrates the status of Slovenian women during the first part of the 20th century.

Yugo by Carlos Gomez Salamanca (10 minutes)
Synopsis: (i) A rudimentary tool used in the basic processes of agrarian production. (ii) Law or superior domination that subjugates and forces obedience. (iii) m. Heavy burden, imprisonment, ties. Testimonies of relatives trace the itinerary of a woman and a man forced to leave their native countryside to settle in the outskirts of Bogotá and work in the industrial creation of decorative parts for trucks... On the scale of a lifetime, YUGO questions the capitalist and liberal economic development of Latin America and its consequences on the human being, through the environmental and societal changes it generates.

More information on academie-cinema.org

Photos and video : Boris Colletier / Mulderville

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