Cinéfondation screenings continue

The four short films in Cinéfondation Programme 2 are to be screened this morning at 11 a.m. in the Buñuel theatre.

“It was my dream to be part of this Festival,” confides young Korean director Son Tae-Gyum. His film Ya-Gan-Bi-Hang (Fly by Night) is “in a way the diary of a homosexual man.” With three films already to his name, he sought in this latest title to “highlight the problems and taboos surrounding homosexuality in Korea.”

The Canadian Jefferson Moneo has been selected with Big Muddy, “a quasi-Western” that recounts the escapades of a young outlaw, his mother and her boyfriend. He comes face to face with his past when a mysterious drifter shows up at their hideaway. Already an experienced director, this is the eighth offering from the Columbia University student.

Unlike the Israeli Anat Costi, who is making her debut with the screening of her first six-minute film, Befetach Beity (On my Doorstep). “What’s happening to me is wonderful.” Her short film “is an animated drama” that portrays the lonely sheltered humdrum existence of a young woman, until an event comprises her defences and sends her into a spin.

Programme 2 closes with Drari, a tale of friendship between two young men from completely opposite social backgrounds. “The film is set in Casablanca, my hometown,” explains Kamal Lazraq, a student of Fémis film school in Paris. “The actors are non-professional and play themselves. The film straddles documentary and fiction.”

A.C.