Comment ça va?
How Are You?
dir. Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel
short film, animation
France / French / 31 minutes / 2025
Synopsis
A group of animals live on a wild coastline and try to heal the ills caused by the contemporary world. A kind of rehab.
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Written and directed by Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel
Production : 444 Films
Cinematography : Pauline Doméjean
Sound : Lucas Doméjean, Olivier Voisin, Victor Praud
Editing : Jonathan Vinel
Animation : Stanislas Bécot, Hugo Glavier, Lazare Aïbout-Sibille
Casting : Kris de Bellair
Cast :
Ariane Ascaride as Elephant
Oulaya Amamra as Penguin
Galatéa Bellugi as Lion
Grace Seri as Cow
Mouna Soualem as Rabbit
Barbara Braccini as Monkey
Claude-Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull as Wolf
Océane Court-Mallaroni as Pig
Festivals
World premiere : Berlinale Shorts, Germany, 2025
Brive Film Festival, France
Lichter Filmfest Frankfurt, Germany
IndieLisboa, Portugal
Vienna Shorts, Austria
Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Germany
Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, Germany
Karlovy Vary Int. Film Festival, Czech Republic
Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico
Horcynus Festival, Italy
Venice Film Festival, 'Cinema of Inclusion' parallel programme
Int. Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, India
Villa Medici Film Festival, Italy
Awards
Berlinale - Short Film Candidate for the European Film Awards
Brive Film Festival - Jury Prize & CCAS Prize
Villa Medici Film Festival - Jury Award
Exhibitions including Comment ça va?
Reiffers Art Prize, Paris, FR - '1000 milliards d’images' - group show, 2025
Filmmakers bio :
Caroline Poggi was born in 1990 in Ajaccio. She studied at the University of Corsica, and then graduated from the University Paris 8. Born in Toulouse in 1988, 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.
