Description
Join us at the Marina Theatre in San Francisco for a special screening of the Academy Award Nominated short films Two People Exchanging Saliva and Butterfly, followed by a Q&A with Two People Exchanging Saliva co-writer and co-director Alexandre Singh.
Two People Exchanging Saliva
Natalie Musteata and Alexandre Singh (France 2024, 36 min)
In a society where kissing is punishable by death, and people pay for things by receiving slaps to the face. Angine, an unhappy woman, shops compulsively in a department store. There, she becomes fascinated by a playful salesgirl. Despite the prohibition of kissing, the two become close, raising the suspicions of a jealous colleague.
Butterfly
Florence Miailhe (France 2024, 15 min)
Butterfly is an animated short film inspired by the life of Alfred Nakache, a French swimming champion who participated in the 1936 Berlin Olympics and set numerous records in this discipline. Facing antisemitism during the Second World War, he was deported with his family to Auschwitz. Only survivor at the end of the war, he resumed competing and participated in the first post-war Olympic Games in London in 1948.
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Film Details
| Two People Exchanging Saliva | Butterfly | |
|---|---|---|
| Language | French | French, Arabic, German |
| Year | 2024 | 2024 |
| Runtime | 36 minutes | 15 minutes |
| Country | France | France |
| Director | Natalie Musteata, Alexandre Singh | Florence Miailhe |
| Producer | Violeta Kreimer, Valentina Merli, Natalie Musteata, Alexandre Singh, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Carol Cohen | Ron Dyens, Luc Camilli |
| Editor | Hanna Park | Nassim Gordji Tehrani |
| Cinematographer | Alexandra de Saint Blanquat | Florence Miailhe |
| Music | Bobak Lotfipour | Pierre Oberkampf |