Curating an engaging shorts program is a bit like crafting a multicourse meal or compiling that perfect playlist. The balance of tonal shifts and complementary flavors should be considered carefully. The films presented here, collected by the Young French Cinema cultural program, offer a wide array of emerging Gallic voices. It’s an eclectic mix of styles that consistently surprises and delights. By a Hair from Lauriane Escaffre and Yvonnick Muller follows Elodie as she frantically tries to prepare for her Beauty Therapy final exam while juggling working in her father’s butcher shop. She is struggling to find a model with hairy legs for the waxing test, but it’s June, and all her friends have shaved for the summer. Her mother’s recent death has strained relations with her father, grief striking both of them in unexpected ways. Inevitably, he steps into help his daughter, and they both take a closer step to healing. It is a wryly funny film with a through line of pathos tha
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Caroline Vignal’s “My Donkey, My Lover and I,” Chloé Mazlo’s “Skies of Lebanon” and Aurel’s “Josep” are among the nine French features that will play in the U.S. as part of the 7th edition of the Young French Cinema Program. Seven shorts have also been selected.
The initiative, which is organized by the French Embassy in the U.S. and the promotion org UniFrance, aims at showcasing films and shorts from rising French filmmakers, which have played at major film festivals, including Cannes, Venice, Rome, NYFF and Annecy. Six out of the nine films were part of Cannes 2020’s Official Selection.