Marie is a doctor. She smokes and reads a lot. And speaks from time to time with the dead.Today, she learns that it is her turn to die. She only has to live a few weeks. It’s short. She must act quikly, dream, laugh and still live…
Categorie: Short 2021
LIFE AS A LEGACY
What if we talked about death, that of our mother, that of our father, and that of others? When the mourning period is over, what remains? Memories, a few photos, the sound of laughter… 40 years after my mother’s death, I wanted to take the time to revisit those moments, to seek answers to my questions from Luce, Claude and Nicole. When the grieving is over, what do we have left…Life as the legacy.
ADMISSIONS
Admissions is a short film starring Academy Award nominee James Cromwell that tells a transformational tale about what it takes to find lasting peace. Featuring an Israeli couple and a Palestinian, this modern parable is set in the admissions room for the afterlife. Its purpose is to start a conversation that heals.
THE WAKE
Salim comes to collect at his mother’s body. But very quickly between religious customs that he does not understand and the constant comings and goings of strangers, the young man feels uncomfortable in the small family apartment. When Imad arrives as a prodigal brother, it is too much for Salim.
ON MY WAY
Granny died today. After years of marriage, Hubert is alone for the first time, tired and diminished. This toilet roll is always too far. Léonie his grand daughter comes in order to help him. Oppressed by the adults fussing around the best idea is maybe this old good whiskey bottle.
A FINE AND PRIVATE PLACE
Writer and storyteller Steve Stickley asks why we find it difficult to face death, grief and bereavement: “Your death, my death, it is part of us. Death is not divorced from the rest of life. Death is the ultimate full-stop that is so intrinsic to the meaning of our lives as the days spell out our existence. Your birth and your death go together, they are equal partners that signify you. Shouldn’t we hold both as precious? Can we celebrate both equally? Does that notion sit uncomfortably? I’m not convinced it should.” Written & Presented by Steve Stickley Produced by Jason Carter & Steve Stickley Filmed & Edited by Jason Carter Music & Soundtrack by Jason Carter ‘Grief & Loss’ ‘Guten Morgen Mein Engel’ Featuring Hannah Featherstone ‘Mark’s Peace’ ‘Penelope Beth’ poem by Steve Stickley with apologies to Spike Milligan.
ALMOST SAINT SENYA
A pathologist tries to persuade a nurse to have sex in his cabinet. At this time the body on a gurney is brought in there. The woman finally agrees. At this point corpse stands up from the gurney and it turns to be the body of the heroine’s husband. The woman tries to justify herself to the dead man.
THE POOR PEOPLE
While a storm rages, Vera prays for her husband, a fisherman who is at sea, and five hungry children who sleep next to her. The fisherman nearly drowns. Vera visits a neighbor who has two small children and finds her dead. Sinopsis: A fisherman is about to drown in a raging sea. In a hut, Vera, wife of the fisherman, cradles her baby and puts her down next to the four sleeping children. Vera cries and prays for the fisherman to stay alive. The eldest son wakes up and asks her if dad is back. Vera takes a slice of the only loaf of bread they have and runs through the forest. She enters a neighbor’s hut and finds her neighbor dead rocking a cradle with two small children in it with her cold hand. Vera prays and then goes on sewing a sail at home. The fisherman returns home. Vera causiously tells him about the tragedy and the orphans. The fisherman suggests getting the children. He wonders why Vera doesn’t want to get them, and Vera shows him that the children are already there.
MAP TO THE STARS
After the loss of her mother, a little girl arrives at an orphanage. Outside, the greatest discovery awaits her.
THE HOUSE IN THE CLOUDS
It’s the summer holidays and a young boy has been left to amuse himself up in the room up at the top of their very tall house. A series of people keep coming to the door and he’s the one who has to fend them off, whilst his mother is working in her study. Each character brings an ideology and a new and confusing notions about life and death. The last visitor brings such a strong message that it just cannot be ignored, and is a call to action. The young lad takes the new visitor with him and goes in search of some answers from all of these questions the day and it’s visitors have brought him.