Jonathan Vinel

Unfamiliar stories that are universally relatable, these teenagers are put into situations which they have no experience deal with. A reflective anthology of French short films exploring the elation and heartbreak of not quite knowing who you are yet.

At the school gymnasium, a prince and his friends are training to commit an attack.

A default CGI animated child is confronted with modern subjectivity and world coming of age issues, making animation a gloomy tool to subdue modern narrative feelings in favour of despair and micro-dosed hope. Animation based routines and easy-portraiture of desolation are strategically organised as a grim Dark Toon.

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Two young men in a nearly abandoned suburban landscape deal with the suicide of one of their friends by shotgunning beers and joining a gang.