Short Film · Fiction
The Future, Today
2012 · Super 16 mm
Short Film · Fiction
The Future, Today
2012 · Super 16 mm
May 1981, the eve of the French presidential election run-off. Claire, fifteen, is suffocating within her family. While her father darkly prophesies Russian tanks and five-year plans should the left come to power, Claire dreams of change and throws herself into supporting François Mitterrand. Marc, sixteen, son of a CGT garage worker, crosses her path. Against a backdrop of political sparring, they watch each other, drawn together and pushed apart…
Those who lived through that historic moment know exactly where they were and with whom, at precisely 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 10, 1981, when the face of the new President of the Republic appeared line by line on television screens. (…) Anne Zinn-Justin excels at capturing the unique atmosphere of that election spring. (…)
The air seemed lighter, to paraphrase Barbara, in that beautiful month of May, and even though the hopes that had been raised eventually crashed against the relentless wall of reality (and money), they left a lasting impression on everyone's minds. This is what this charming coming-of-age novel hints at, in which a stifled youth awakens to breathe more freely.
Christophe ChauvillePrix
- Special Jury Prize — Festival Ose ce court à Bischeim
- 1st Prize, Label 05 — maison du film (scénario)
Selections
- Grenoble Outdoor Short Film Festival
- Cabourg Film Festival
- Brest European Short Film Festival
- OFF Court Trouville
- Ciné Premières Festival, Groningen (Netherlands)
- Istanbul International Short Film Festival (Turkey)
- Kiev International Short Film Festival
- Munich International Film Festival (Germany)
- Adana GoldenBoll (Turkey)
- Festival d'Altkirch KKO
- Un festival c'est trop court — Nice
- Nar Film Festival (Turkey)
- Festival d'Ouroux en Morvan
- Festival Plein La Bobine
- Festival La Belle Rouge à Saint-Amant-Roche-Savine
- 21ème Quinzaine du cinéma francophone (Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles)
- Sélection Agence du Court-Métrage pour le Jour le Plus Court
| Production | Moteur S'il Vous Plaît / Les Enragés |
| Direction | Anne Zinn-Justin |
| Cinematography | Sarah Cunningham |
| Sound | Pierre Bompy |
| Editing | Isabelle Manquillet |
| Music | Eric Neveux |
| Cast | Armande Boulanger, Arthur Vaughan-Whitehead, Gauthier Baillot, Agathe Dronne, Xavier Mathieu |