Developed as part of the Festival de Cannes’ SFC | Rendez-vous Industry, the Creative Programs highlight free, emancipated and audacious short film and first feature film projects.
By supporting the filmmakers through tailor-made sessions and highlighting the projects to the key players of the industry, the Focus SCRIPT and the Focus WiP boost the completion of short films in post-production and in development. Additionally, the Focus COPRO’ focuses on strong voices and their first feature projects, while the New Producers Room stands as a networking platform for talented producers.
This year, as part of Kyiv International Short Film Festival, the SFC | Rendez-vous Industry is proud to join forces with the Ukrainian event and showcases bold & inspiring shorts from filmmakers who took part in those various industry programs.
🎤 Films are screened in their original language, with Ukrainian and English subtitles.
💬 Screening will be followed by online Q&A with the curator, Florian Fernandez, and the filmmakers.
❗ These films may contain potentially triggering or disturbing elements, such as flashing lights and sounds of air alerts.
🔞 Recommended Age:12+
This program is supported by the French Institute in Ukraine.
Program partner of the screening: SFC | Rendez-vous Industry, Cannes Film Festival (FR)
Other screening of the program: September 6, 19:55, KINO42
THE OASIS I DESERVE
Director: Inès Sieulle
Country: France
Duration: 23
In 2015, the Basateen al-Razi district of Damascus was razed to the ground as punishment for the population’s uprising against Bashar al-Assad’s regime. This area is set to be replaced by Marota City, a modern and connected district featuring 80 skyscrapers. Ten years later, having lost everything, two former residents reflect on their neighborhood, where their homes and the oldest orchards in Damascus once stood. Through their testimonies and the repurposing of regime-produced 3D animations, memory is awakened and resists this deliberate erasure.
THOUGHTS ON PEACE IN AN AIR RAID
Director: Vyacheslav Turyanytsya
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 15
Inspired by an essay written by Virginia Woolf in 1940, describing the horrors experienced by the civilians during the London Blitz, Vyacheslav Turyanytsya paints a picture of contemporary Kyiv, as a place where the continuation of daily activity, under extreme circumstances, is in itself an act of resistance.
L’MINA
Director: Randa Maroufi
Country: France
Duration: 30
Jerada is a mining town in Morocco where coal extraction, although officially halted in 2001, continues informally to this day.
"L’mina" recreates the current work in informal mining pits using a set design created in collaboration with the town’s residents, who perform in their own roles.
THE ORCHARDS
Director: Antoine Chapon
Country: France
Duration: 30
In 2015, in Damascus, the Basateen al-Razi district and its orchards were razed to the ground as punishment for the population's uprising against the regime. Having lost everything, two former residents recall their neighborhood.