Christelle Lheureux

A short film by French director Christelle Lheureux.

A tiny seaside resort, out of season. Thomas returns after being away for quite some time. Adèle is an estate agent, who has a tendency to fall asleep. The tide turns towards the beach and the dunes, scooping up jellyfish, sheep and ghosts in its ebb and flow. The tide turns, just like Thomas towards Adèle and Adèle towards Thomas.

It’s summer. Celine, in her thirties, archaeologist, spends a weekend in her childhood home. Her archaeological research are mixed up with her memories of adolescence and some random reunions from her walks.

Taking the recent tsunami in Asia as its starting point, the filmmakers have used the idea of a ghost seen wandering along the rocky coastline of a Thai island and, in a life-affirming gesture, they have invited some local children to direct the film for them, suggesting and filming the movements of the actor-ghost.

Bear Country, Pyrenees, France Zoe, age 5, and Luna, four times her age. What happens after death? And Arthur, is he your boyfriend? Anyway, there are only chickens in this village.

Inspired by watching at “Barefoot Gen”, a manga by Keiji Nakazawa. From this movie, we will see nothing. A voice is telling us their story. The voice of a young japanese boy, wandering by the mountains around Hiroshima, sixty years later. The story oh the A-Bomb throught its representations, including the manga, what it began through the subjectivity of the young boy, what it produce in our imagery. (CL)

A night-time party in a mountain village in France; a reflection on the essence of our existence and a monster that preys on girls.