Join us for a special AFA Ciné-Club celebrating Francophonie Month. Screening a presentation of short films from Québec, in partnership with Le Bureau du Québec à Houston. Followed by a Q&A in person with Marie-Michèle Déraspe from the Québec Ministry of International Relations and La Francophonie.

MARGUERITE by Marianne Farley, 19min, 2017
An aging woman and her nurse develop a friendship that inspires her to unearth unacknowledged longing and thus help her make peace with her past.
* Nominated at the Academy Awards 2019

FAUVE by Jeremy Comte, 16 min, 2018
Set in a surface mine, two boys sink into a seemingly innocent power game with Mother Nature as the sole observer.
* Nominated at the Academy Awards 2019
as they thought

PILE OU FACE by Fernand-Philippe Morin-Vargas, 15min, 2018
A hotly-contested local election proves that sometimes every vote really does count.
* Nominated at Austin Film Festival 2018

POISSON DE MARS by Pierre-Marc Drouin and Simon Lamarre-Ledoux, 14min, 2018
Struggling with depression, Louis finds out that his family is planning a prank on him for April Fools’ day. Problem is: we’re still in March…
* Won best script, best actor and best supporting actor at NYC Independent Film Festival 2018

LUNAR ORBIT RENDEZVOUS, by Mélanie Charbonneau, 15min, 2018
A woman-tampon joins a man-astronaut on a road trip to the moon. Daniel is on a mission to scatter his mother’s ashes and Claude is hoping for her period to make a miraculous return. A modern tale that captures the fever dream of a first voyage to the moon.
* Won jury’s special mention at Regards sur Courts 2018

L’ASSAILLANT by Olivier D. Asselin, 6min, 2018
Among the concrete highways, as life constantly keeps driving people crazier and crazier, a small group is peacefully enjoying its coffee break. Momentarily without their day-to-day concerns, rescued by the sunny temperature from their every-instant run life, everyone is slowly enjoying its cafe latte. At once, time has stopped. Everything is perfect. Until the beast inside them is awaken by the brutal assault of a car alarm…
* Nominated at Fantasia 2018

L’APPARTEMENT by Justine Gauthier, 11min, 2018
Between tension and tenderness, a mother welcomes her two children in her new and modest apartment for a weekend.
* Nominated at Festival Regard 2018