The Right Words
One of the films already shortlisted and hoping to get lucky with this year’s Oscar nominations, The Right Words deals with a teenager’s efforts to overcome his fears and confess his feelings to the girl he loves – a situation complicated by a bus full of teenagers who have seen the poem he wrote for her after it was stolen and put on social media. As young Mahdi’s sister Kenza (Aya Halal) and her best friend Aïssatou (Ramatoulaye Ndongo – known simply as Rama) switch from teasing to offering a whole lot of conflicting advice, the film takes in issues around bullying, gender stereotypes and the importance of being oneself at a stage in life when it’s sometimes difficult to figure out what that means.
Present to talk about it at a press conference were director Adrian Moyse Dullin, producer Lucas Tothe, and stars Aya and Rama,...
One of the films already shortlisted and hoping to get lucky with this year’s Oscar nominations, The Right Words deals with a teenager’s efforts to overcome his fears and confess his feelings to the girl he loves – a situation complicated by a bus full of teenagers who have seen the poem he wrote for her after it was stolen and put on social media. As young Mahdi’s sister Kenza (Aya Halal) and her best friend Aïssatou (Ramatoulaye Ndongo – known simply as Rama) switch from teasing to offering a whole lot of conflicting advice, the film takes in issues around bullying, gender stereotypes and the importance of being oneself at a stage in life when it’s sometimes difficult to figure out what that means.
Present to talk about it at a press conference were director Adrian Moyse Dullin, producer Lucas Tothe, and stars Aya and Rama,...
- 1/13/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Rosalie Varda and Audrey Diwan have boarded Adrian Moyse Dullin’s live action short “The Right Words” as executive producers.
The film, which was selected for Cannes’ Palme d’Or competition last year, tells the story of a brother and sister who get a kick out of embarrassing each other on social media. One day, on a crowded bus home from school, the sister convinces her younger brother to approach his crush.
“When naive and romantic Mahdi is peer-pressured into confessing his love to Jada, a girl who doesn’t know he exists, his declaration becomes a public spectacle,” reads the logline.
“The Right Words” is written and directed by Moyse Dullin and represents his fiction debut. He is currently working on a feature film about love. The short is produced by Punchline Cinéma co-founder Lucas Tothe with cinematography by Augustin Barbaroux.
The film has been shortlisted for the 2023 Césars and is an Oscar qualifier.
The film, which was selected for Cannes’ Palme d’Or competition last year, tells the story of a brother and sister who get a kick out of embarrassing each other on social media. One day, on a crowded bus home from school, the sister convinces her younger brother to approach his crush.
“When naive and romantic Mahdi is peer-pressured into confessing his love to Jada, a girl who doesn’t know he exists, his declaration becomes a public spectacle,” reads the logline.
“The Right Words” is written and directed by Moyse Dullin and represents his fiction debut. He is currently working on a feature film about love. The short is produced by Punchline Cinéma co-founder Lucas Tothe with cinematography by Augustin Barbaroux.
The film has been shortlisted for the 2023 Césars and is an Oscar qualifier.
- 11/18/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Taking place within the confines of a chaotic city bus, The Right Words (Haut les Coeurs) is about seizing the moment, taking chances and about writing your own narrative. A microcosm filled with teens and their raging hormones, this debut short throws cupid off its course and then more. Among the ten films in competition for the Short Film Palme d’Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, French filmmaker Adrian Moyse Dullin‘s short would then be selected for a slew of international fests including the 2022 online edition of the Sundance Film Festival. It would then be programmed for Clermont and win a prize there.…...
- 11/9/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Five winners from the festival selection get a shot at Oscar consideration.
Short films from Estonia, South Korea, Cambodia, France and the US were among the major award winners at this year’s Palm Springs International ShortFest, which just finished its June 21-27 run in the California desert city with 300 shorts in its official selection.
The Visit Greater Palm Springs Best of the Festival Award went to Sierra, director Sander Joon’s short from Estonia about father and son car racers. Special mentions in the category went to The Great Abandonment, from India and the UK, and The Voice Actress,...
Short films from Estonia, South Korea, Cambodia, France and the US were among the major award winners at this year’s Palm Springs International ShortFest, which just finished its June 21-27 run in the California desert city with 300 shorts in its official selection.
The Visit Greater Palm Springs Best of the Festival Award went to Sierra, director Sander Joon’s short from Estonia about father and son car racers. Special mentions in the category went to The Great Abandonment, from India and the UK, and The Voice Actress,...
- 6/27/2022
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
The Palm Springs International ShortFest took place in California this weekend, honoring the best work in narrative, documentary, live action, and animated short films. 25,000 in cash prizes were given out to various winners, who were narrowed down from over 300 official selections. The top prize went to Sander Joon’s Estonian short film “Sierra,” a surreal animated film about a boy who turns himself into a tire in order to help his father win a race.
The festival’s Oscar-qualifying status means that winners in the Best Live Action Short, Best Documentary Short, Best Animated Short, and Best of the Festival categories may be eligible to submit their work to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Oscar consideration this year.
Keep reading for the complete winners list, with synopses courtesy of the festival.
Greater Palm Springs Cvb Best of the Festival Award
Winner: “Sierra” (Estonia), Directed by Sander Joon.
The festival’s Oscar-qualifying status means that winners in the Best Live Action Short, Best Documentary Short, Best Animated Short, and Best of the Festival categories may be eligible to submit their work to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Oscar consideration this year.
Keep reading for the complete winners list, with synopses courtesy of the festival.
Greater Palm Springs Cvb Best of the Festival Award
Winner: “Sierra” (Estonia), Directed by Sander Joon.
- 6/27/2022
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Running Jan. 14-Feb. 14, this year’s MyFrenchFilmFestival, an online fest organized by France’s film-tv promotional body UniFrance, will mark its 12th edition with a more diversified slate and a greater international push.
Showcasing festival gems, animated crowd-pleasers and outré genre fare – all subtitled in 15 languages – the 13 features and 17 shorts of this year’s selection will reach home viewers via 70 partner platforms as well on MyFrenchFilmFestival.com, where all the shorts will be available to screen free of charge.
Though ranging in presentational style from horror-comedy to bittersweet drama, the 10 films in this year’s feature competition often share similar thematic through lines, with nearly half of them looking at youth struggles from one angle or another. While Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma’s werewolf thriller “Teddy” tackles late teen growing pains through a more genre prism, Kamir Aïnouz’s “Honey Cigar” does so as a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale; when exploring young adult malaise,...
Showcasing festival gems, animated crowd-pleasers and outré genre fare – all subtitled in 15 languages – the 13 features and 17 shorts of this year’s selection will reach home viewers via 70 partner platforms as well on MyFrenchFilmFestival.com, where all the shorts will be available to screen free of charge.
Though ranging in presentational style from horror-comedy to bittersweet drama, the 10 films in this year’s feature competition often share similar thematic through lines, with nearly half of them looking at youth struggles from one angle or another. While Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma’s werewolf thriller “Teddy” tackles late teen growing pains through a more genre prism, Kamir Aïnouz’s “Honey Cigar” does so as a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale; when exploring young adult malaise,...
- 1/5/2022
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
Earlier, Sundance announced that its 2022 edition will be hybrid. Most titles will be available online while their in-person festivities start up again in Park City. Their main slate has just gone live as well. Though the festival has a tendency to update their lineup as the festivities grow closer, their competition categories have at least been set in stone.
Naturally, we compiled all of the Asian and Asian diaspora-directed ones we could find so far. Like last year, most Asian titles tend to be in the documentaries. In the World Cinema Documentary Competition, at least 4 entries span from different corners of the continent: India (“All That Breathes”), Myanmar (“Midwives”), Lebanon (“Sirens”), and Israel (“Tantura”). 4 entries revolving around or by Asian diaspora filmmakers make their mark in the US Documentary Competition as well. “Free Chol Soo Lee”, “Jihad Rehab”, “Tiktok.Boom” and “The Exiles” cover fex-Al-Queda extremists, Tiananmen Square exiles, a wrongly-convicted Korean immigrant,...
Naturally, we compiled all of the Asian and Asian diaspora-directed ones we could find so far. Like last year, most Asian titles tend to be in the documentaries. In the World Cinema Documentary Competition, at least 4 entries span from different corners of the continent: India (“All That Breathes”), Myanmar (“Midwives”), Lebanon (“Sirens”), and Israel (“Tantura”). 4 entries revolving around or by Asian diaspora filmmakers make their mark in the US Documentary Competition as well. “Free Chol Soo Lee”, “Jihad Rehab”, “Tiktok.Boom” and “The Exiles” cover fex-Al-Queda extremists, Tiananmen Square exiles, a wrongly-convicted Korean immigrant,...
- 12/16/2021
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
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