"L’ORIGINE DE LA TENDRESSE” ET AUTRES CONTES
"L'ORIGINE DE LA TENDRESSE" AND OTHER TALES

Gauge: DVD (color/b&w)
Running time: 95'

Distributor
The World According to Shorts

 





A program of short films:

Gratte-papier | Pen-pusher
[Guillaume Martinez] France, 2005 (Fiction) 8’
Silver Bear, Berlin Film Festival (2005)
A day like any other in the Parisian metro - or so it seems. A young man reads and a young woman is seated next to him. They have nothing in common, yet they will be introduced in an unexpected fashion.

Ma mère, histoire d'une immigration | My Mother, Story of an Immigration
[Felipe Canales] France, 2005 (Documentary) 15’
This is a story of the director's mother who left Algeria in 1956 to reunite with her husband in Paris. It is also the story of three generations of women: her mother, Zehira’s; her daughters'; her granddaughters'.

Je suis une voix | One Voice, One Vote
[Jeanne Paturle & Cécile Rousset] France, 2007 (Animation) 13’
In the run-up to the 2007 presidential elections, a look at the importance of voting.

La dernière journée | The Last Day
[Olivier Bourbeillon] France, 2006 (Documentary) 12’
On July the 1st 2005, the 1867 Schneider and Co power hammer N°125 ceased operating at the former smithy of the Brest military harbour. This is the story of the machine and its workers' last working day.

L'Origine de la tendresse
[Alain-Paul Mallard] France 1999 (Fiction) 32’
Short Film Award, Montreal Festival of New Cinema (1999)
Elise is a quiet, solitary woman who works as a museum attendant. Nothing really happens in her life. And in a life in which nothing happens, no moment is devoid of meaning.

Kitchen
[Alice Winocour] France, 2004 (Fiction) 15’
TV5 Award for Best Short Film in the French language, Geneva international Film and Television Festival (2005)
A woman, her husband and two lobsters. A recipe that turns sour...

 



 
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