Shortscreens: Films in harmony

CINÉ-CONCERT - Des Courts and Harmonie En this month of the music festival, Short Screens invites you to a unique ciné concert! Live music in harmony with 5 short films that highlight what binds us. With his fingertips, Matthieu Safatly will make his cello vibrate on and between the films for an exceptional score of an hour and a half. In the presence of director Hippolyte Leibovici to talk about his film “Beyond the Sea”. PROGRAM: The poetic and catchy music of Matthieu Safatly offers live, with his cello and voice, another color to the films. SIRÈNE by Raoul Servais / animation / Belgium / 1968 / 9' In a port with frightening looks, a young man plays the flute on the bow of an abandoned sailboat. Charmed by the sound, a mermaid appears. But the enchanted parenthesis only lasts for a while. Very soon, the monstrous cranes and macabre birds threaten. WITH MUSICAL INTERVENTION BY MATTHIEU SAFATLY BEYOND THE SEA by Hippolyte Leibovici / fiction / Belgium, France / 2023 / 26’ Lady Casca, a drag queen in her sixties, prepares to go on stage for the last time at the cabaret she created. Mais Thomas, her son whom she has not seen for a very long time, interrupts the festivities. He has sad news to announce to her. Avec Jean-Michel Vovk, Thomas Mustin (Musti). IN THE PRESENCE OF THE DIRECTOR HOW LONG, NOT LONG by Michelle and Uri Kranot / animation / Denmark / 2016 / 5’30 A visual journey through the darkest aspects of our contemporary history that invites us to reflect on a universal belonging that transcends urban, regional, and national borders. WITH MUSICAL INTERVENTION BY MATTHIEU SAFATLY VOISINS by Norman McLaren / animation / Canada / 1952 / 8’50 The film tells the story of two neighbors living in friendship and respect until a flower grows on the boundary line of their properties. A disagreement ensues that will take them far beyond a simple quarrel. Oscar du Meilleur short film 1953 WITH MUSICAL INTERVENTION BY MATTHIEU SAFATLY LES RENGAINES by Pablo Guarise / documentary / Belgium / 2023 / 25’ A popular cafe in the north of Brussels, with its paneling and karaokes, embodies a haven of warmth for its procession of regulars. Popular tunes act as a remedy for melancholy and allow one to move forward in a life that does not always give gifts. ESTAMPE 5 - AMER Solo de Matthieu Safatly