Another film festival reminder.
From a non-French speaking part of Canada to an area well known for its usage of the French language… France (obviously).
Today (11th June) marks the start of the Champs-Élysées Film Festival. It is running until next Tuesday (the 17th) in various venues on or near the famous road in Paris.
Fabien Martorell’s short film The Coin gets a second-home screening (because Fabien is French) on Friday (13th) evening at the MK2 Grand Palais, which is near to the Place de la Concorde.
Unlike the recent Scarborough Film Festival where they took the slightly unusual step of pairing it with a feature film, the CE Film Festival is showing The Coin with 5 other American short films in a screening starting at 8:45pm. The six are in competition under the “American Selection, Non School-Related” banner (aka the “Courts Métrages Américains (Hors écoles)” in French). American film schools, such at the AFI, get their own section.
Not quite sure how this fits into that “American” theme but one of that rival quintet is a short called Insomniacs by Charles Chintzer Lai, which is set is London and co-stars the English rose Imogen Stubbs (who I haven’t seen anything for far too long).
The official Champs-Élysées Film Festival website HERE (now available in English) has all the info you could possibly want.
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