French Film Festival – Short Film Selection
Marie-Christine Courtès/France/13:00/Animation/2014
The day of her grandmother's cremation, Emilie, a young mixed-race Asian girl, buries herself in memories of her grandmother. She discovers the Indochina of Hoa and relives the arrival into the camp of Sainte-Livrade. Between memories, dance, anger and traditional rituals, Emilie learns to accept this heritage…
Director : Marie-Christine Courtès
Marie-Christine Courtès studied Literature and History in university and graduate school. As a journalist she was dispatched to Cambodia as a special correspondent for WTN. Recently, she collaborated with production company ''Vivement Lundi!'' to direct an animation on legendary female journalist Andrée Viollis and a documentary on bande dessinée comic artist Marcelino Truong's childhood in Saigon.