Best French short movies

Two buddies visit a friends couple-urban sophisticate, inhibited parents. While they meet with the baby in his room, the two buddies start on bad jokes about his physique. But they ignore that in the kitchen, everyone hears them through the baby monitor !

A turbulent day in a life, painted by air.

The Crabe-Phare is a legendary crustacean. He captures the lost sailors' boats to add them to his collection. But the crab is getting old, and it is more and more difficult for him to build his collection.

A man is confronted with the change of his day-to-day life following the landing of a sheep on the roof of the house opposite.

In February 2012, I went to Ishinomaki, a town North of Tokyo that was half destroyed by the tsunami of March 11th, 2011, to meet the disaster victims who now live in temporary housing. I spent several days in the North, under the snow, listening to these people talk candidly about what they had lived through, telling their own stories without the media as an intermediary. Their testimonies were terrifying, harsh and sad, but at the same time touching, sincere and human. From the pictures and interviews that I collected, I decided to make a film, not to reflect how awful the events were, but to communicate the singular and even surreal nature of each person’s experience. My intention wasn’t so much to focus on this particular event in Japan, but rather to make these stories more universal as a way of paying tribute to all the victims of natural disasters throughout the world.

A surprising western starring ... penises.

Inès is facing a difficult choice. Tonight, she thinks about the decision she will make.

Part 5 of Godard's 8 part examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates to the 20th century.

On planet Sigma, enormous creatures are trapped inside the ice. And then, all of a sudden explosions erupt from subterranean volcanoes. The ice begins to melt; a global warming concludes the giants’ deep slumber and new life begins. The creatures crawl forth, out of the ice.

One night, an old lady flees the carnival and takes refuge in the mountains. At midnight, the devil knocks on his door and offers him a very special domino game.

Abby and Luca are circus acrobats, travelling from town to town to perform their duet. Their love relationship is falling apart. As they are driving in their small camping-car to the next theater, they have to confront their problems to regain trust in each other.

At 22, Alain is already a living legend in Marseille. Of all the young divers who jump from the Corniche, he is the only one to dive head and neck forward "to break the water". If the jump allows him to control his impulses, he knows that he will not be able to brave forever the fear of heights.

A little man lives in an old suitcase. One day he finds a new friend - an old blind man. The little man jumps into the blind man's pocket. With music, the pocket man helps the blind man walk and see things in the street. Both are very happy together.

Inside a museum, nowadays. A diorama represents two young soldiers in the trenches. All of a sudden, we are thrown into the diorama: the immobile soldiers come to life, there is terror on their faces – the camera dances around them – explosions, chaos, fog: everything flies about in the air. With every gunshot, they shudder and curl up

Welcome to Rubika, a planet with a fancy gravity.

A story like any other, about love, marriage, and passion fruits.

Isabella Rossellini writes, directs and slips into the role of animal mothers, examining the different ways their maternal instinct is put into action in nature.

Jay, recently insomniac and away from any emotions, falls prey to a strange presence, which will turn into his executioner, but also his deliverer.

Indian and Cowboy are about to set off on a magnificent cruise on a luxury liner, but they have made a big mistake. They completely forgot that today is the first day of school! Goodbye tropical islands, our friends are back at their desks in school listening as the teacher drones on and on.

Two old female mattress makers get into a fight until a passing man attempts to break them up.

A woman gets too immersed in an artwork during a museum visit.

It’s the story of an encounter: a caged bear who can’t sing meets a little bird who can’t fly but who can sing beautifully. Their friendship will be mutually beneficial and together they will overcome their disabilities.

A friendly card game goes sour fast.

Moo mourns her deceased friend, so Yuu decides to create a new companion for her. Their adventure fails, but they discover they have built a new friendship during the journey.

In his dressing room, a young actor is making up as an old man. But behind the young man’s mask, what is his real face like ?

A large ship embarking.

Two young brothers break their relationship out of pride. Story revolves around both of them learning to respect each other.

Take a breathtaking train a ride through Nothern Quebec and Labrador on Canada’s first First Nations-owned railway. Come for the celebration of the power of independence, the crucial importance of aboriginal owned businesses and stay for the beauty of the northern landscape.

In this animated short, a young couple washed onto a strange, inhospitable shore, attempts to transform the land into an Eden. Through great effort they prosper, learning to conquer nature and their environment. But what will their victory mean? Alternately a vision of paradise and purgatory, with allusions to the Book of Genesis and prehistory, the film tells the story of human beings and their conquests, offering a dark, critical view of the rise and fall of civilizations.

18 year old Éric, on vacation in the South with his parents, decides to escape the stifling situation especially with his 50 year old father, and join a group of fellow youth.

In a peaceful house, the Domovoï family spend all their time taking care of Irène, an old woman lying motionless in bed.

A homeless man with a special survival technique.

The sun rises in the city of Lisbon, the morning after its biggest festival, Santo Antonio. As the citizens wake up and start their day, the decorations from the party come to life to leave the city.

A perspective-shifting tale of how a trip to an art gallery leads to an out-of-this-world experience.

Blandine spends her holidays alone in a small campsite at the foot of the mountains. She is quickly overwhelmed by the noise, the crowd and the rain that she was trying to escape for a summer. At the edge of the lake, Blandine meets Helio, a young local journalist.

Losing touch with reality, a woman consults her therapist to appease her distress.

A Japanese theatre performance based on a legend.

Some game trolls in the United States make a sport of getting other players “swatted” live during the game: they find out someone’s name and address, fake his caller ID, and make a bogus 911 call. The next thing you know, a SWAT team armed to the teeth is bursting into his house and giving him the fright of his life. This is all streamed live on camera, of course, so everyone can be in on the joke. Swatted is a cinematic exploration of this phenomenon based on 911 calls by offenders, YouTube videos of games and raids, and first-hand accounts of what it’s like to be swatted.

On their way to meet their friend Lucie, three girls are walking through the countryside. Left alone, the close-knit group enjoys these moments of freedom.

On a renovation site in Shanghai in the 80’s, workers are waking up from their daily nap and going back to work.

A Ride Towards the Sea is the odyssey of a small animated character who decides to go out to face the city and the nature to free his goldfish. But the cadence of his own will reserve for him numerous surprises: every person, every element of the city which he will cross could be violent to him.

A pesky fly and the determination to get it.

In Mexico, two grandparents do their shopping. Small bickering and old grudges will they lead them in the ring?

The camera sails off, giving us a view of the port from the water.

Francis, a man in his sixties, is found in a diving suit, swimming in a river in the city center. Even his children, accustomed to their father's escapades, are surprised: since Francis knows he is condemned, it seems really unmanageable. Samuel and his sister must therefore find a way to accompany him at any cost.

The money has gone missing in the mosque of Saint-Etienne. Saoud, the gang leader is suspected.

Hédi is a taxi driver in Tunis. One evening he drives to the hospital a pregnant young woman who is going into labor. This brief encounter will bring a series of random, tragic and unexpected events, leading to a life-changing experience for both of them.

A man is traveling through the great North American wilderness, in temperatures of seventy degrees below zero, with only his dog for a companion. As he crosses a frozen stream, a misstep puts his foot through the ice. He knows he must find a way to build a fire to warm himself, or face death. Frenzy and desperation take over, challenging all attempts to survive..

One night after a home party eleven-year-old Tessa is touched by her stepfather, Bruno in a way she shouldn't have been touched. Her life is forever broken.

Marcel, an old dabbler scarecrow, sees his homely life turned upside down by the arrival of the hardworking scarecrow Léon, a new neighbour unwilling to laze about...

Tehran 2017, three days in life of two young undocumented Afghani brothers, recently immigrated to Iran, who see their destiny take a turn just as a better life seems to open up to them.

A lonely girl tries to order her perfect guy.

For most visual artists, the vertical format required by smartphones is probably the worst. So instead of painfully squeezing stuff to fit into vertical format, we thought of something more convenient: What if everything on Earth suddenly went vertical?

One minute film of Buffalo Bill's famous show.

Max starts out at a costume store to get a costume for a party. He sees a suit of armor and purchases it. He wears it to the party and gets kind of drunk and passes out. In the meantime, a museum has a suit of armor ready for a new display. It is to be dedicated and some such. It comes up missing, so Max, passed out and still in his armor is put on display.

A military horseback riding event from 1897.

Portovesme in the south of Sardinia, a place with many faces: Once an industrial flagship, today an abandoned place of work. A breath of summer idyll has withstood the test of time. In neo-realistic 16mm images and archive material, and with an accentuated soundtrack, the film follows three boys who appear as if emerging from a memory.

Overview of the Alexandre III bridge during the World Exhibition in Paris.

In Natpwe, the feast of the spirits, co-directors Tiane Doan na Champassak and Jean Dubrel have produced an immersive, seemingly timeless document of an annual Burmese trance ritual that dates back to the eleventh century. Shot in Super 8 and 16mm in sooty black and white, the film conveys the astonishing sense of liberation of tens of thousands of bodies and minds — a mass expression of faith, but also a rapturous respite from societal intolerance.

Red-tinted 9,5 mm Baby-Pathé version (1923) of a devilish contortionist short starring Fred Sato (1910/1911).

Mars, 2035. The daily wearout overtires the space’s station crew. The anger of one of the members arises, there is no other choice but to conceal it, in order to preserve the apparently cohesiveness of the team.

Jean doesn't want to stagnate in the anonymity of an unattractive life anymore. He chose to start a new career very mediatic but quite dangerous.

African men dance, sing and play instruments.

A teenage girl gets a keyhole look into a dangerous and mysterious world when a tattooed stranger checks into her roadside motel.