Snow Canon
Snow Canon · dir. Mati Diop
France 2011, 33’
Screenings
10/21, 18:00 · Kino Centrum
The French Alps, February 2011. Vanina likes to listen to the chalet’s wooden floor creaking beneath her bare feet, Vanina likes to rub suntan lotion on her bare skin in front of the stone fireplace, Vanina likes her rabbit Souci’s tawny fur, Vanina likes to breathe in the leather scent of the white couch, Vanina likes to spend hours contemplating the charcoal eyes of the veiled women in her postcard collection. Vanina likes to chat with Eloïse on internet. But what Vanina loves is her American babysitter, Mary Jane…
| Director: | Mati Diop |
| Screenplay: | Mati Diop, Judith Lou-Levy |
| Cinematography: | Jordane Chouzenoux |
| Editing: | Aël Dallier Vega |
| Cast: | Nilaya Bal, Nour Mobarak, Alban Guyon, Chan Coïc |
| Awards: | Oficjalna Selekcja: Horyzonty / Official Selection: Horizons – MFF w Wenecji / IFF in Venice, Sekcja Spectrum Shorts / Spectrum Shorts – MFF w Rotterdamie / Rotterdam IFF (2012) |
Mati Diop was born in 1982, she lives and works in Paris. She directed her first short Last Night in 2004. She joined the Pavillon artistic laboratory of the Palais de Tokyo (Paris) in 2006 and the contemporary arts studio in Le Fresnoy in 2007. She directed her first documentary film 1000 Suns in 2008, homage to the filmmaker Djibril DIOP Mambéty, her uncle.
2012 Programme
- Downloadable programme
- Films from A to Z
- Opening gala
- ON AIR
- SHORTCUT
- FROM POLAND
- Smita Patil’s retrospective
- Phenomena: Blaxploitation
- New Austrian Cinema
- New Philippine cinema
- New Hungarian Cinema
- Forum 2011/2012
- Special screening
- Top 9
- Cultural Exchange
- Localizations
- Festival meetings
- Accompanying events
- Tofishorts in Lizard King