Générik Vapeur an attack on the cinema Lumière
A prize list is awarded by an international jury of thirteen “professionals of the profession”, around a garlic mayonnaise washed down with a glass of rosé...
The Dwarfs also began young …
La Ciotat, charming Provençal city at the Mediterranean seaside, neither Cannes nor Saint-Tropez, is especially this mythical place where the cinematograph of the Frères Lumière was born and where Michel Simon gave the last breath...
In the lazy cheerfulness of the South of France, the most representative, creative, breathtaking, rebellious, and stupefying of world film production of short films is shown over 18 hours of programming...
To be brief, in 2009, there were: 6500 spectators, 75 films shown over 3 days, 56 European and 21 International films, an homage to the Belgian cinema, an homage to Olivier Smolders – president of the jury, Mini Shorts – a session for children, street entertainments of Générik Vapeur, 3 civil partnerships, one wedding, no funerals...
Good morning or Good evening
You are here "one site" where nothing is real...
Then imagine a really different festival, where only the pleasure shall be proper:
By inviting every year hundred of short films, all awarded in both hemispheres, (unfortunately mostly Northern) with all the best, rebellious, insolent, moving, soft, violent, lively, crazy, of the film production of the year...
With garlic mayonnaise meals on the Provençal square, parties washed down with concerts, complex aperitifs, pleasant performances, swindlers, fanatics, true and false journalists, authors, directors, producers, actors/actresses, football players, Nobel prizes, patrons, in the lazy cheerfulness of a village postcard from the South of France, where the cinema of the Frères Lumière was born and where the last breath of Michel Simon volatilized...
With midnight swims, excursions in raft in the famous “calanques” (Mediterranean creeks), serenades to our false real prestigious invited stars or not, who always say no at the beginning and implore ceaselessly later...
With 13 members of the jury drunk of balance to award an unwieldy Grand Prix to the prize-winners: three big pebbles fished on the beaches of La Ciotat and painted by an artist "on stone ": the Golden sun, the Silver Sand and the Bronze sea...
With finally 22 formalized flirtations, 2civil partnerships and Michael Jackson’s funeral in 2009...
Thus imagine without too much shame this long weekend where nothing is real and on top of that is true!
HAPPY FESTIVAL and a hello to my crazy sister!
Yvan Le Moine. President of The Majorities
Different news of the Festival ?
Follow the backstage of the Festival. The high school students in a cinema section of the High School “Lumière” will update and lead the blog during the Festival...
The Best of Short Films Festival works, as many festivals, thanks to volunteers' involvement. For the most motivated, the festival takes care of the accommodation and the catering during 6 days in a beautiful town house, very close to the festival… The whole with a very motivated and a bit disturbed team…
So, do not hesitate anymore, join the team of this ninth edition!