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, une histoire d'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's, Zehira; her daughters'; her granddaughters'.

Une voix, Un vote
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.

Le Dernier jour
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...