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How Are You?

Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel
France
31'

A group of animals live on a wild coastline and try to heal the ills caused by the contemporary world. A kind of rehab.

What if there existed a special resort for the animals of the Cocomelon-Disney kind where they could exorcise a little, express their grievances, and poke each other’s eyes out, only to be catapulted back into the stream afterwards? In HOW ARE YOU?, Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel create a space ad infinitum, stuck in-between animation and digital realms, and dominated by video game conventions: a pasture of anxiety that parodies both the happiness industry proliferated by children’s cartoons and the hypocrisy of those living undisturbed on personal islands when elsewhere everything is burning. (Georgiana Mușat)

Friday, September 26, 18:00

Cinemateca Eforie
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Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel

Caroline Poggi was born in Ajaccio. She studied at the University of Corsica, and then graduated from the University Paris 8. Born in Toulouse, Jonathan Vinel studied editing at La Fémis. They began directing solo before embarking on a collaboration for As Long As Shotguns Remain, which was awarded the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the Berlinale in 2014. Their first feature film, Jessica Forever, premiered at TIFF (2018) and the Berlinale (2019). Their second feature Eat the Night was presented in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2024.

  • Technical sheet
  • WRITTEN BY: Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel
  • CINEMATOGRAPHY: Pauline Doméjean
  • EDITING: Jonathan Vinel
  • SOUND DESIGN: Lucas Doméjean, Olivier Voisin
  • ANIMATION & 3D: Stanislas Bécot, Hugo Glavier, Lazare Aïbout-Sibille
  • CASTING: Kris de Bellair
  • PRODUCER: Caroline Poggi
  • PRODUCTION COMAPNY: 444 Films
  • CAST: Ariane Ascaride, Oulaya Amamra, Galatéa Bellugi, Grace Seri, Mouna Soualem

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