PassesAccessibility
2026
Short Narrative(North America Premiere)

The Aura (L’Aura)

A film still from The Aura shows two Black women speaking to each other outside of a park in Paris. The woman on the left is dressed in black and holds a bouquet while the woman on the right wears a pink sweater under a grey blazer.

Claudia is an unlucky and fatalistic young woman. During an esoteric event in a bookstore, a disturbing apparition in an aura photo will turn her day and her friend Antonia’s upside down.

Screenings

Virtual

Availability BeginsThursday, August 610:30PM EDT

Directors Spotlight

Fanta Sylla

Director

Fanta Sylla is a writer and researcher born in Bondy in 1992 and living in Paris 18ème. Her writing was published in publications such as Sight and Sound, The Village Voice, Pitchfork. She has worked as a screenwriter for various TV companies. She has created the Black Film Critic Syllabus, an open database on film criticism and blackness.

Year
2025
Runtime
22 minutes
Country
France
Language
French
Director
Fanta Sylla
Screenwriter
Fanta Sylla
Producers
Le G.R.E.C. (Anne Luthaud, Marcello Cavagna, Marie-Anne Campos)
Cast
Douce Dibondo, Vanessa Missé
Cinematographer
Nina Richard
Editor
Surya Natarajan
Composer
Inès di Folco
Sound Design
Walter Laguerre
Animator
Kelley Dong
Production Design
Alisson Rodrigues
Premiere
North America

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