THE LES LUTINS SHORT FILM SHOWCASE - Presented by Alliance Française Tucson February 18, 2009

Each year, a network of 2,000 French cinema professionals called Les Lutins cast their ballots to determine that year's 25 best French short films. Since 1998, Les Lutins du court-métrage (Leprechauns) has worked to promote the public distribution of French short films throughout the world. It has participated in the emergence of such major directors and actors as François Ozon, Jérémie Rénier, Ludivine Sagnier, Sylvie Testud and many others, thereby playing a vital role in discovering the new cinematic talents of tomorrow.
This year's Les Lutins short film showcase is a 2-hour program featuring an exciting sampling of the 2008 honorees for fiction, documentary, and animation. Hilarious, dramatic, moving and innovative, the shorts on display in the Les Lutins showcase represent the very best of modern-day French filmmaking. Some of the shorts will be having their US premiere as part of the current Les Lutins tour, one has garnered a 2009 Academy Award nomination for Best Short Film, and several have won other awards in prestigious film festivals in Annecy, Berlin, Abu Dhabi, San Miguel de Allende, Los Angeles, and Seattle.
Don't miss your chance to satisfy your cinematic sweet tooth by indulging in great French cinema, now in short film-sized portions!

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