The day of the winter solstice is an opportunity to celebrate cinema, similar to the celebration of music on the day of the summer solstice. December 21st is the shortest day of the year, a good reason to spotlight film in its short form.
This second edition promises to give this international, creative, and free celebration more momentum.
The Héliotrope Association, being a “network association” of the shortest day in the Alpes-Maritimes, is actively participating in this celebration in honor of short films.
Its role is to coordinate and assist local structures wishing to benefit from this national event. Many organizations have responded to the call, demonstrating an increasingly dynamic network around short films.
The events have been diversified by coordinating their schedules to offer an original, diverse, and representative path of short films, highlighting their vitality, creativity, and renewal.
Here is the itinerary proposed by the associations in Nice:
IN NICE
Starting at 00:30 (Thursday night into Friday) – Secret location
Evening on the theme of contemporary art with the screening of the Strange Beauty program tomorrow (1h), distributed by LIGHT CONE and consisting of 8 experimental short films.
10 am – Mercury Cinema: The City is Ours (1h13)
A program mainly intended for young audiences (middle school) composed of 6 French short films, urban environment fictions.
1 pm to 7 pm – Héliotrope Association headquarters: An Afternoon is Too Short
An “open house” day with screenings, access to the video library, meetings with the permanent team and that of A Festival is Too Short, information on the association’s activities, and the events of the shortest day.
2 pm – Mercury Cinema: Queer in Shorts, “Adolescence, Sexuality, and Otherness” (1h12)
A school session for high school students presenting 7 French and international short films on the theme of sexual identity.
6 pm – Espace à Vendre: Descent into Hell (29’)
A program of 4 experimental short films that will loop for 2 hours.
8 pm – Rialto Cinema: We Will All Go to Heaven (1h27)
7 French and international short films in a program of varied works mixing fiction, documentary, experimental, everyday life, and imagination.
8:45 pm – Nice Cinematheque: Premiere of the film Free Program (26’)
Presentation of the film Free Program by Vianney Etossé in the presence of the director and the main actor, skater Florent Amodio.
All day – Pathé Lingostière and Pathé Massena Cinemas: Against the Current (8’)
The short film Against the Current by Stéphane Coda and Émilie Couvert co-produced by Acis Productions, Héliotrope, France 3 Côte d’Azur, and CCI Côte d’Azur/Port de Nice will be shown as a pre-film at the December 21st screenings.
IN THE ALPES-MARITIMES
1:30 pm – School of La Bollène Vésubie: Short Film at School (3h)
Screening of 19 short films of all genres throughout the afternoon for the school’s students.
6 pm – La Strada Cinema in Mouans-Sartoux: Laugh, Smile, Shiver, Be Surprised, Admire, Be Moved… The Short Film in All Its Forms (2h30)
9 short films for a program rich in laughter, emotions, and surprises.
6 pm – Old Forge in St Paul de Vence: The Art of Short (31’)
3 short films that will loop for 3h30, 3 visual musical works imbued with novelty.
