In Carqueiranne, the open-air film festival is switching to short film mode this Wednesday evening

After applauding Jean-Pierre Améris for his latest film Let's Aimons-nous vivants yesterday evening, the Festival de la Lune is hosting the resumption of the Mediterranean Nights of Short Film Festival with France Télévisions, the Collectivité de Corse and the Var collective Pinte & Ciné,

In the first part of the evening, four talents selected this year in the short film competition at the 18th Nuits MED will be presented to the public: Exit , by Jean-François Celli; Ophélie Bellaton presents L'interview d'Éléonore ; Fabien Ara Le Jeune Sofiane and finally Maëva Leila Youbi, who received this year the Grand Prix for first films for L'oncle .

Following suit, the Var collective Pinte et Ciné is offering a selection of five films featuring local talent: Nicolas Paban, Léo Lebesgue, James Gentry, Jocelyn Ramirez, and Anthony Magnony. It will be a gathering dedicated to diversity.

Ophélie Bellaton, from short to long

As a preamble to the launch of the screenings, the candidates selected for the second residency on screenwriting intent—sponsored by the Festival de la Lune, with the support of the DRAC and the TPM metropolis—will present the results of their work. These young authors were welcomed for three years to work on their projects under the invaluable guidance of screenwriter Lidia LeBer Terki.

For the short format, the public will discover the proposals of Giulia Montineri from Corsica for Zitelli (At dawn on January 1st, 2 teenage girls appear in a tiny fishing village.

They are on the run); Vyasa Paresce from Toulon for Latitante ( Angelo, 10, spends his days watching the same film over and over again, secretly dreaming of another reality); Alice Giulioli from Marseille for Poussin (in a world where breakups are accompanied by mandatory sick leave and require the wearing of a chick costume, Maëlys, recently dumped, is determined to heal as quickly as possible to get back to work).

On the feature film side, we will find Ophélie Bellaton (opposite) who goes from short to feature by presenting the plot of Juliette's obsessions: frozen in the memory of an unhealthy and obsessive love story, Juliette decides to get rid of the ghost that haunts her by writing.

>> Short film evening this Wednesday from 7 p.m., Clair Var auditorium in Carqueiranne. Prices from 5 to 8 euros. cinemadelalune.com