13th WINTER SHORTS FEST
Featuring the short films nominated for a 2020 César Award in the Short Films/Live Action Category + a bonus “Out of Competition” film (the French animated short nominated for a 2020 Oscar - it did not win, but it is a beautiful film!)

$12 General Admission for all.
Online sales are now closed.
Box Office will open at 6:15pm on event day! We expect seating to occur around 6:45pm.

Always with English subtitles!

The screening will last 122 minutes.
There will be no intermission.

The films are not rated. They are all appropriate for high school ages.

After the screening, the audience was invited to vote for the “Sacramento César" Award.
-Nefta Football Club by Yves Piat won the heart of our audience.
Meanwhile, in Paris, the French Académie des César, crowned Pile Poil (By A Hair) by Lauriane Escaffre & Yvonnick Muller -second on our poll last night and winner of the Audience Prize for Short Film at the 2019 SFFF.

WATCH THE "MAKING OF" MEMORABLE
(so cool!)

OUT OF COMPETITION
MEMORABLE by Bruno Collet - 2019 - Vivement Lundi - 12 minutes - ANIMATION
Louis lives with his wife Michelle. Slowly, his world seems to become less real. Objects lose their meanings. It seems that everything around him is disintegrating. 
Mémorable was nominated for a 2020 Oscar!

AWARDS: Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, 2020 - Festival Prize; Flickerfest (Australia) 2020, Festival Prize; Annecy International Animation Film Festival, 2019 - Audience Prize; CoLCoA French Film Festival, 2019 - Audience prize; Animatou (Switzerland) 2019 - Festival prize; Anim'Est (Romania) 2019 - Festival prize; BIAF (Romania) 2019) - Audience Prize; International Animation Film Festival in Erevan - ReAnimania (Armenia), 2019 - Festival prize; Cinanima (Portugal) 2019 - Audience Prize; Krok International Animated Film Festival (Ukraine) 2019 - Audience Prize; Aix-en-Provence Tous Courts Short Film Festival, 2019 - Best Director (Bruno Collet).

WATCH TRAILER

NEFTA FOOTBALL CLUB by Yves Piat - 2018 - les Valseurs - 17 minutes
Abdallah and his younger brother Mohammed find a lost donkey with headphones on his ears and bags full of white powder on his back. The two brothers bring the bags back to their village.
In addition to its César nomination, Nefta Football Club was also nominated for a 2020 Oscar in the live action short film category!

AWARDS:International Short Film Festival Ciudad de Soria (Spain) 2019 - Audience Awards; Filmets (Spain) 2019 - Best European Production; Trouville Off-Courts Film Festival, 2019 - Festival Award; São Paulo International Short Film Festival (Brazil) 2019 - Festival Award; Vila do Conde International Short Film Festival (Portugal) 2019 - My generation Award; Cleveland International Film Festival, 2019 - Festival Award ; Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, 2019 - Festival Award.

WATCH TRAILER

LE CHANT D'AHMED (Ahmed's Song) by Foued Mansour - 2018 - Offshore - 30 minutes.
Ahmed is an immigrant nearing retirement. He came to work in France from Algeria years ago. He sends money to his wife and children every month, but hasn't seen them in many years. He works at the public baths and lives a solitary life. One day at work, he is teamed up with Mike, an adrift teenager. An unexpected complicity will develop between these two lost souls to brighten Ahmed's lonely days.

AWARDS: International Festival of Francophone Film in Acadie (FICFA) (Canada), 2019 - Award for Best International Short Film; Tangier Mediterranean Short Film Festival (Morocco) 2019 -Special Jury Prize; Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, 2019 -Festival Prize; Cracow International Documentary & Short Film Festival (Poland) 2019 - Special Mention: Jury Award for the Best European Film & Jury Special Mention; Prix Unifrance du Court Metrage 2019.

BEAUTIFUL LOSER by Maxime Roy- 2018 - TS Productions - 25 minutes
Michel (François Créton in a remarkable performance), a 50-year old former junkie weaning himself off drugs, just separated from his girlfriend (Romane Bohringer, one of our 2019 SFFF guests) with whom he just had a child. Michel already has a strong relationship with his seventeen-year-old son, Léo, and he is not sure he can handle a baby at this difficult point in his life.

AWARDS: Aix-en-Provence Tous Courts Short Film Festival, 2019 - Best Actor (François Créton); International Short Film Festival Ciudad de Soria (Spain) 2019 - Best Actor (François Créton); Alcine (Spain) 2019 - Jury Special mention; Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, 2019 - Best First Fiction Film & Adami prize for Best Actor((François Créton); FIFF (Belgium), 2018 - Festival Award.

WATCH TRAILER

CHIEN BLEU (Blue Dog) by Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh - 2018- Irvi - 17 minutes
Émile is afraid of the world. He no longer goes outside and paints everything around him blue, including his dog! Can a chance encounter between his son Yoan (Rod Paradot, Standing Tall - SFFF 2016 & Luna - SFFF 2018) and Soraya, a teenage adept at Tamil dancing, help Émile find the right color?

AWARDS: Thess International Short Film festival (Greece) 2019 - Festival Prize; MyFrenchFilmFestival 2019 - International Press Award; Trouville Off-Courts Film Festival 2018 - Unifrance Prize.

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PILE POIL (By A Hair) by Lauriane Escaffre & Yvonnick Muller – 2018 - Qui Vive ! – 21 minutes
In three days, Élodie will take the hair removal exam for her beautician diploma. She desperately needs a model. Her widowed father, Francis (Gregory Gadebois), is a butcher, and he would prefer it if she continued to help at the family shop.

AWARDS: Sacramento French Film Festival 2019 - Audience Prize; São Paulo International Short Film Festival (Brazil), 2019 - Festival Award; Festival du Film court en Plein air de Grenoble, 2019 - Festival Award; Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, 2019 - Festival Award.