Noëlle Pujol

For the 30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille about thirty directors have done us the honor of offering us some very beautiful short films.

From Germany to Italy, the United States to Île-de-France, Jumbo/Toto, Stories About an Elephant shadows the itinerary of a single forgotten animal, an African elephant doubly-named Jumbo/Toto. Jumbo, as he was called on German colonial ships,at the Amerikakai port of Hamburg, and in Carl Hagenbeck's zoos; Toto, as he'd come to be known with great fame in fascist Italy. An urban investigation and an adventure film, a ballet of flora and fauna and pavement and sea, Jumbo/Toto, Stories About an Elephant is a modern epic of the joy and pain of the 20th century set in what still remains strange and unknown: the 21st century, and the solitude of telling a story.

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A brother writes to his sister. A brother loves his sister. is it true that one can keep a young woman through writing? The ambition is great. A long correspondence of 149 letters, this film is based on the letters that my brother Didier wrote to me. Two actors carry his poetic writing to a new perception. Axel Bogousslavsky and Nathalie Richard are the brother and sister. They sing, they dance on the roads, on a journey, in the land of « Didierlangue ».A crazy bet, yes, funny, delirious, that of a fable, where the French language is shaken up.This film explores how writing and the experience of a hybrid language create a film about love.

Life for a child in this small Hungarian village is one of simple pleasures. But the nearly idyllic world of the children is shattered when Karcsi, their playmate, dies just before his tenth birthday.

Cork, Ireland, 21 September 2001. Twin sisters, Helen and Joanne, play with their skateboard and a wheelchair found on the streets of Cork. Krystian Woznicki, media critic, asks about this national day of mourning in honor of the victims of September 11, 2001.

Shot in Georges Braque’s studio in Normandy, France, now overrun by nature, the story of my encounter with a bird straight out of the magic of fairy tales.