Animation Short – Official Selection – April 2023
Ana Morphose | Portugal | 2023 | 10’
Director: Joao Rodrigues
Writer: Joao Rodrigues
Producer: Rodrigo Areias
Synopsis: A little girl reads herself to sleep. As she dozes off, the physical world starts melting into an alternate reality where the contents of a book rule over the laws of physics. Ana has to escape being swallowed by the overwhelming accumulation of printed knowledge and find her own space in a world where nothing is what it seems.
Sarafour | Sweden | 2023 | 04’
Director: David Giese
Writers: David Giese, Kalle Bäccman
Producers: David Giese, Kalle Bäccman
Synopsis: An urban folk tale about the fatal seduction force of music
Little t | United States | 2023 | 06’
Director: Masha Ellsworth
Writer: Masha Ellsworth
Producer: Masha Ellsworth
Cast: Fran Kalal, Meredith Hom, Seraphina Tong, Britta Wilson, Freeson Wang
Synopsis: Follow Alexis on the biggest day of her life – her dream job interview as an interior designer. She’s armed with an impressive resume, design portfolio, and two trusted companions: her “inner critic” and “inner child.” Join Alexis on a journey through the origins of comfort food, as she uncovers new depths to herself and her abilities, and finds the courage to showcase her potential in the interview. Can Alexis overcome obstacles and land her dream job?
Meet Again (JAEHOE) | Republic of Korea | 2022 | 06’
Director: Ap-sol KANG
Producer: Ji-hye YANG
Synopsis: ‘Hanbyul’, a 14-year-old troubled girl lost in adolescence, experiences a strange festival in the middle of the night. ‘Hanbyul’ runs away from home on her fourteenth birthday because she feels anger against her mom who does not even send a congratulatory text message. She runs for a while and walks into a strange alley. Then, Hanbyul sights a recognizable memory when she encounters a girl who leads a group of monsters in the strange alley.
Aeons Ark | United Kingdom | 2022 | 07’
Director: Sophie Maria Vickers
Synopsis: Aeons Ark is my graduate film for the Royal College of Art. It is a futuristic flood epic which depicts the destruction of a future world by a momentous flood. The film is a reappreciation of both the biblical Noah’s Ark story and the Mesopotamian flood myth. In this version the God is an artificial intelligence which has become a deity to a group of humans. Flood myths are universal with many cultures and religions around the world sharing a similar earth destroying flood story. The film aims to find a new appreciation of these stories by taking the story out of the context of a specific religion.
Journey | Austria | 2022 | 03’
Directors: Julian Frener, Philip Laa
Synopsis: Every world and every organism has its own individual journey, which is told in its own way. Thus, life is also a journey that begins with something fragile and ends with something fragile, with which the circle of life closes and begins again. Abstract impressions and fluid changes shape this journey and pave the foundation for all life in this world, real or fictional.
TULPA | United States | 2022 | 07’
Director: Paris Baillie
Synopsis: The Baillie family process the powers of their Tulpas. Paris Baillie materializes them in this stop-motion short.
Rise Up | United States | 2021 | 06’
Directors: Chus Sarrión, Francis Trachta
Writer: Francis Trachta
Producer: Fourtrac Creative
Synopsis: Freedom is a foreign word When you’ve got nowhere to hide Step back to take a look Instead, you close your eyes
Diagnosis | 2022 | 04’
Director: Melanie Gerber
Writer: Melanie Gerber
Producer: Jürgen Haas
Synopsis: After being diagnosed with endometriosis, Alma struggles to come to terms with the disease and struggles to gain acceptance and control over her body and reality.
Children Short – Official Selection – April 2023
Stan & Sven: A Plan to Help Stan | Australia | 2022 | 03’
Director: Amber Stacey
Writer: Denise Stacey
Synopsis: ‘Stan & Sven’ tells the story of two best friends, Stan a robot and Sven a fun loving alien. Sven is on a mission to cheer up his buddy Stan who has been walking around with a frown for far too long. Sven soon realises that this is going to be harder than first thought.
ATIVIO, Pieces of wood | France | 2023 | 26’
Director: Juliette Boucheny
Producer: André Bouvard
Cast: Guénolé Hodikou, Claire Hodikou
Synopsis: Guénolé, an eleven year old boy, lives in a very small village called Agotimé Adamé, at three hours from Lomé in Togo. West Africa. He has an obvious musical sensitivity and dreams of playing the piano. He will manage to practice without having one…
Commercial/Ad/TVC – Official Selection – April 2023
Father Of Fizz (Spec) | 01’
Director: Tim Barry
Writer: Tim Barry
Cast: Johnny Martini
Synopsis: A spec commercial for White Claw, this Father of Fizz commercial introduces the product by talking about seltzer’s history.
Cut-Throat Competition | 01’
Director: Andrés Nuño
Cast: David Moskowitz, Alex Deigh
Synopsis: Offer Up Spec Commercial
DR Love Never Change | 01’
Hammer & Heart | Austria | 2023 | 01’
Director: Mareike Färber
Writer: Mareike Färber
Producer: Katharina Gaßler
Cast: Laurenz Wakolbinger, Nora Garlock, Luisa Dirnberger, Jürgen Heigl, Ina Dirnberger, Mona Dirnberger, Ricarda Moser
Synopsis: Give me more everyday madness, baby. We do not know the one way – Just like us, tools and their use are individual. They are tools to help us evolve, create and live. It doesn’t matter what you do, how you do it or when you do it – Just do it right! The spec-spot for the fictitious hardware store hammer&heart humorously combines the brand message of quality DIY products with the representation of the individuality and uniqueness of the clientele. In three different stories we’re about to learn about a little drilling heroine eating spaghetti, a bad ass playing minigolf with a heavy punch and two lovebirds doing it the other way around. True to the motto: Every way is good, if it is yours! In addition to product presentation, the commercial focuses on the need to meet the individual needs of the clientele as well as the use of their uniqueness to build lasting and personal customer loyalty.
Documentary Short – Official Selection – April 2023
Sparkly | Canada | 2022 | 22’
Director: Jonathan Gaudreau
Producer: Jonathan Gaudreau
Cast: Sammie Dubeau
Synopsis: Sammie is the only woman among racers competing in a ultra cycling challenge.
Babajanja | Croatia | 2022 | 14’
Director: Ante Zlatko Stolica
Writer: Ante Zlatko Stolica
Producers: Tibor Keser, Vanja Jambrović
Synopsis: Babajanja is a short essay documentary with horror elements. Going back to the past, the narrator is trying to find the mysterious woman he was scared of as a boy. Rummaging across his memories, dreams and forgotten horror films, he is trying to find out who she is and where she is today. He includes his family, relatives, fellow villagers in his investigation – no one is particularly keen on helping, but gathering more and more information about her, the narrator is getting closer to finally meeting her.
I´ve got iT under my skin | Switzerland | 2023 | 15’
Director: Sebastian Andrei
Synopsis: ” I´ve got iT under my skin” is a documentary that delves into the world of cyborgs and the fascinating relationship between humans and technology. Cyborgs are individuals who have integrated technology into their bodies, blurring the lines between man and machine. Through interviews with experts in the fields of science, technology, and psychology, the documentary explores the history and evolution of cyborgs, from the first cochlear implants to modern-day brain-computer interfaces. The film also showcases real-life examples of cyborgs and their experiences, including a man who has a robotic arm and a woman who has a microchip implanted in her hand. The documentary also addresses the ethical and philosophical questions surrounding the merging of human and machine, such as the implications for privacy and identity, as well as the potential for discrimination against those who choose to become cyborgs. Overall, “I´ve got iT under my skin” offers a thought-provoking look at the complex relationship between humans and technology and the possibilities that arise when the two are merged.
Pacho’s visual archive | Canada | 2023 | 15’
Director: Blanca Marcela Lopez
Writer: Blanca Marcela Lopez
Producer: Blanca Marcela Lopez
Synopsis: After the death of my only brother I found rolls of undeveloped film, this is the side of him that I discovered after developing them. This documentary is a reenactment of those stills and an exploration of the aspects of my brother’s life that I didn’t know.
Kikel | Netherlands | 05’
Director: Masha Gurova
Synopsis: I first met Dasha when I was working on my short film. She is a mask maker and she made a few for my project. I realized that I was interested in what was behind those masks. Where do all those demons come from? The result is this portrait of a girl and her world of imagination.
Experimental Short – Official Selection – April 2023
Over the Deep End | United States | 2023 | 04’
Director: Anna Pauline Van Someren
Synopsis: In 2021, I suffered from panic attacks for seven months before a female doctor identified the cause as hormonal. Over the Deep End explores my experience of panic disorder: the dread of attacks; the looping pattern of ambulance rides, emergency rooms, and hospital beds; the fear and pain of being separated from my son. My life began to fracture in ways that surfaced childhood memories of my own mother’s mental health hospitalizations. I tried to arm myself with an intellectual understanding of how panic operates chemically in the body. That knowledge was rendered useless the instant adrenaline and cortisol flooded my bloodstream. With my rational brain essentially offline, I could only ride out waves of unspeakable horror as each attack built to its crescendo, peaked, subsided, and returned. In a liminal state of insomnia and terror, time was no longer sorted into day and night. I existed in a kind of dream, at the mercy of a dehumanizing healthcare system. It was a sinking, a drowning – a truly wild grasping to hold on to my very self.
Coffee Monologue | Malta | 2022 | 04’
Director: Nika Levikov
Writer: Nika Levikov
Producers: Nika Levikov, Martin Bonnici
Cast: Nika Levikov
Synopsis: ‘Coffee Monologue’ is an experimental artistic film that propels the audience into a familiar societal angst through the lens of a woman, or several women. It questions whether the world is beyond saving, if our mundane and banal atrocities are the sum of human because we all are truly exactly the same.
Elephant in the Room | India | 2022 | 10’
Director: Nila Madhab Panda
Writer: Nila Madhab Panda
Producer: ART FOR THE WORLD
Cast: Nakshatra Jagadish, Veena Santhosh, Pauli Valsan, Sajid Shukur, Saji Alappuzha, Rekha Subin, Jazik Basheer
Synopsis: “Elephant in the Room” , is an attempt to highlight the severity of the man-animal conflict, and to present a real life case that the world should feel proud of and emulate. The film is set in a small village called Sankarapally, along the banks of a river in Wayanad district of Kerala. Thamara, a young mother in her early thirties, is 7-months pregnant with her second child. Their family, residents of Sankarapally, is engaging in some light hearted festivities, in welcoming the second child. There, Kanni, Thamara’s first born, a lively 9-year old, is having fun with her friends, when suddenly they come across the viral news clipping of the elephant dying of the pineapple bomb. Kanni is deeply impacted by it, and questions her Mother, that when she is so well looked after during her pregnancy, why aren’t the elephants given similar love and affection. To satiate Kanni, Thamara narrates her a true story, of their own village, which migrated from their ancestral village Pulayankolly, to Chekkadi, around a decade back, putting an end to their perennial ‘Elephant Problem’. The tale interweaves the multiagency effort of the Kerala Forests and Wildlife Department, Wildlife Trust of India, with the support of the UK-based charity Elephant Family. It’s the story of such a unique but lesser known phenomenon, where all around collaboration along with the local administration, hand in hand with the residents of Pulayankolly village, could resolve such a sensitive but dangerous problem that ails the entire world today. Kanni is amazed with the story, and even more delighted, when she realizes that it is none other than her own village which had left their ancestral lands for the sake of the pachyderms, which is a great example of how elephants and humans can live alongside each other peacefully
Mini Short – Official Selection – April 2023
The (b)eauty | 2023 | 01’
Director: Evgeniy Tametskiy
Synopsis: “Beauty is a form of Genius – is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.” Oscar Wilde
Iscariote | France | 2023 | 03’
Director: Louis Tolleron
Writer: Louis Tolleron
Producer: Louis Tolleron
Cast: Richard Mothes, Baptiste Dupuy
Synopsis: Is a confessional a place where everything can be heard ?
The 13th hour | France | 2023 | 03’
Director: Xavier Tesson
Producer: Joko fait des films
Cast: Elise Fourneau
Synopsis: Anna is in a toxic relationship. She wanders the streets of Rouen in search of a solution to free herself from it. But is she even capable of it?
A Big Fish | France | 2023 | 03’
Directors: Violette Horvat, Anaïs González
Writers: Violette Horvat, Anaïs González
Synopsis: A remote police station, an exhausted Salmon, a closed case.
Music Video – Official Selection – April 2023
Strange Town (Poli Xeni) | Greece | 00:04’
Producer: Guerilla Motion Studio
MONDAY AT THE CUBE FACTORY | Austria | 2022 | 03’
Director: Sebastian Freudenschuss
Synopsis: MONDAY AT THE CUBE FACTORY We enter the gate to the cube factory on an ordinary monday. Strange processes create something unknown. The endlessly repeating flow of cubes hypnotize us. Our vision gets blurred after a while. We don’t really know if it’s time to leave yet. It wouldn’t hurt to watch a little longer…
Water Lullaby | Poland | 2022 | 04’
Director: Piotr Kaźmierczak
Writer: Piotr Kaźmierczak
Synopsis: Stop motion, animated with sand, official video clip to “Water Lullaby” song from the “Waterduction” album by a famous Polish folk music band “Warsaw Village Band”. The production of the film took 6 months.
Rise Up | United States | 2021 | 06’
Directors: Chus Sarrión, Francis Trachta
Writer: Francis Trachta
Producer: Fourtrac Creative
Synopsis: Freedom is a foreign word When you’ve got nowhere to hide Step back to take a look Instead, you close your eyes
Narrative Short – Official Selection – April 2023
Otherwise, we’re lost | Mexico | 2022 | 17’
Director: Giulio Franz
Writer: Giulio Franz
Producers: Jonathan Garnica, Giulio Franz
Synopsis: Lalo and Sebastien are a married couple from oposite worlds who, not sharing the same language have found their own. A language made by silent glimpses, encounters and body collisions, discrete gestures of atention, love, deception and rage. Their missunderstandings take them to a violent argue, but there’s something beautiful that pushes both of them to keep dialogue open.
Concert for mitya | Russian Federation | 2022 | 22’
Director: Natalia Omelchenko
Writer: Marina Potapova
Producers: Ilya Otrepiev, Marina Potapova, Vladimir Ivanov
Cast: Aleksey Yarmouschik, Julia Marchenko, Serguey Bezroukov, Denis Bourgazliev
Synopsis: Mitya is an autistic child, but he has a passion for music. Through the music he feels the harmony of the world. Onе day a famous musician comes into town. Mitya wants to attend his concert. Mitya’s dream turns into reality in an unexpected way.
Under the Sky Eternal and Blue | Russian Federation | 2021 | 31’
Director: Elena Emelyanova
Writers: Elena Emelyanova, Namzhil Nimbuev
Producer: Elena Emelyanova
Cast: Sayana Tsydypova, Aryuna Tsydenova, Ruslan Santuev, Danzan Toktokhoev, Zandan Toktokhoev
Synopsis: On the edge of the forest and steppe in Siberia, far from people, an elderly Buryat woman Dimid lives with her dog. Many years ago, the World War II broke into her life. But she doesn’t remember it. Year after year Dimid washes her children’s clothes and sends the dog into the forest for her husband-forester. The dog searches for the owner, but always returns with nothing. One day Dimid’s oblivion is broken.
Itching | 08’
Director: Catherine Marriott-Brown
Writer: Catherine Marriott-Brown
Producer: Gracie Mills
Cast: Caitlin O’Ryan
Afraid of Silence | Mexico | 2023 | 14’
Director: Simonne Villamichel Borel
Writer: Simonne Villamichel Borel
Producer: Simonne Villamichel Borel
Cast: Elena Kibalchich, Mateusz Wiewiorowski
Synopsis: VELA and her subconscious JASPER are in a hacienda starting her journey towards consciousness. Like a dream, Vela travels through moments trying to make sense of who she is and find out the meaning of love.
OLYMPIQUE | France | 15’
Director: Julien Marquet
Writer: Julien Marquet
Cast: Simon Rérolle, Augustin Marquet
Synopsis: OLYMPIQUE tells the story of ASB Olympique, a professional basketball club. We follow its new owner Theo, who at only 21, succeeds his recently deceased father at the head of the club.
Elephant in the Room | India | 2022 | 10’
Director: Nila Madhab Panda
Writer: Nila Madhab Panda
Producer: ART FOR THE WORLD
Cast: Nakshatra Jagadish, Veena Santhosh, Pauli Valsan, Sajid Shukur, Saji Alappuzha, Rekha Subin, Jazik Basheer
Synopsis: “Elephant in the Room” , is an attempt to highlight the severity of the man-animal conflict, and to present a real life case that the world should feel proud of and emulate. The film is set in a small village called Sankarapally, along the banks of a river in Wayanad district of Kerala. Thamara, a young mother in her early thirties, is 7-months pregnant with her second child. Their family, residents of Sankarapally, is engaging in some light hearted festivities, in welcoming the second child. There, Kanni, Thamara’s first born, a lively 9-year old, is having fun with her friends, when suddenly they come across the viral news clipping of the elephant dying of the pineapple bomb. Kanni is deeply impacted by it, and questions her Mother, that when she is so well looked after during her pregnancy, why aren’t the elephants given similar love and affection. To satiate Kanni, Thamara narrates her a true story, of their own village, which migrated from their ancestral village Pulayankolly, to Chekkadi, around a decade back, putting an end to their perennial ‘Elephant Problem’. The tale interweaves the multiagency effort of the Kerala Forests and Wildlife Department, Wildlife Trust of India, with the support of the UK-based charity Elephant Family. It’s the story of such a unique but lesser known phenomenon, where all around collaboration along with the local administration, hand in hand with the residents of Pulayankolly village, could resolve such a sensitive but dangerous problem that ails the entire world today. Kanni is amazed with the story, and even more delighted, when she realizes that it is none other than her own village which had left their ancestral lands for the sake of the pachyderms, which is a great example of how elephants and humans can live alongside each other peacefully
El Paso 11:55 | United States | 2022 | 20’
Director: Keith Jardine
Writer: Keith Jardine
Producer: Keith Jardine
Cast: Keith Jardine, Brendan Fehr, Tait Fletcher, Cowboy Cerrone
Synopsis: A man carrying a dangerous bag seems to be in way over his head when he’s confronted by an array of colorful and dangerous characters.
No/Low Budget – Official Selection – April 2023
Good girl | France | 2023 | 12’
Director: Antoine Blanche
Writer: Antoine Blanche
Producer: Vincent Vermandel
Cast: Naima Maurel, Damien Bellard, Sebastien Perrier
Synopsis: At night, in the suburbs of Paris, a young lady find herself caught psychologically between her boyfriend and a police officer.
Autotomy | Mexico | 2023 | 07’
Director: Rafael Osvaldo Rosales Rábago
Writer: Sebastían Galguera Ortega
Producer: Carolina Jefillysh
Cast: Sebastían Galguera Ortega
Synopsis: A man must make a life-changing decision after a strange salamander visits him in his dreams.
Short Comedy – Official Selection – April 2023
Deliverance | United States | 2022 | 09’
Director: Trevor Worley
Writer: John Barr
Producer: Valentina Clerici
Cast: Tolliver, Holly Tatem, Gus Langley
Synopsis: Jen’s a pizza deliverer and an artist at heart. On her delivery route, one of her pizzas talks to her out of the blue. He’s a party food without a purpose. And it’s up to Jen to put some pep back in his ‘peronis.
Give Way To The Right | Russian Federation | 14’
Director: Mikhail Shklofsky
Synopsis: In an effort to end the abusive relationship, Sasha leaves her husband, taking her daughter and mother with her. When the car gets stuck in a dead traffic jam, Sasha starts having a panic attack. When her mother tries to intervene in the situation, it only gets worse.
Short Dance/Musical – Official Selection – April 2023
Piano-Soleil | Canada | 2023 | 08’
Director: Caio Amon
Writers: Caio Amon, Camila Vergara
Producers: Caio Amon, Marc Bourdeau
Cast: Camila Vergara
Synopsis: A young woman feels trapped in a claustrophobic reality. She yearns for vast and awe-inspiring landscapes, where freedom of movement and communion with nature are possible. Yet she realizes that the wondrous beauty of these natural environments is threatened by mankind’s seemingly unrelenting exploitation of Mother Earth. Piano-Soleil is a dance film set in two of Brazil’s paradisiacal natural reserves, proposing a reflection on the preservation of the environment, the fragility of life, and our quest for meaning, connection and open spaces in the wake of the recent pandemic. The project, funded by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, is a North-South collaboration between Canadian pianist Marc Bourdeau, who performs the music of his compatriot Denis Gougeon, and Brazilian filmmaker Caio Amon who is joined by Brazilian dancer-choreographer Camila Vergara.
As Long As The Music Is Playing | Switzerland | 2022 |18’
Directors: Lars Badertscher, Valentin Pitarch, Michael Schertenleib
Writers: Lars Badertscher, Michael Schertenleib, Laszlo Schneider, Senta Camille Hüssy, Valentin Pitarch
Producer: Lars Badertscher, Elias Wallach
Cast: Lars Badertscher, Dayane Hofer, Senta Camille Hüssy
Synopsis: «As Long as The Music is Playing» is Zurich based Pop artist Larry F’s yet most personal album that he converted into a visually complex short film. The story follows the journey of two star-crossed lovers who, as time passes on, become the victims of modern time society. Although they madly fall for each other. He is never really able to throughly express his feelings whereas. She slowly starts to distance herself. „As Long as The Music is Playing“ is a movie that revolves around the heartfelt songs and emotions of the artist himself and at the same draws a vivid and sometimes brutal picture of lives that could be yours or mine.
Voler – love, loss and moving on | United States | 2022 | 11’
Director: Mrunal Mestri
Writer: Mrunal Mestri
Producers: Mrunal Mestri, Jimmie Norris
Cast: Craig NG
Synopsis: Voler is a heartwarming tale about love, loss and moving on.
Davis, a 65 year old man, who’s living an extremely mundane life, tries hard to connect to ballet to escape from his loneliness but doesn’t have the emotional strength to move on from his past.
Starring : A two time Emmy Award winning artist for Best Foley – Craig NG
Short Drama – Official Selection – April 2023
On-Call | Canada | 2022 | 07’
Director: Carla Turcotte
Writer: Carla Turcotte
Producer: Carla Turcotte Turcotte
Cast: Rose-Anne Dery, Marie-Chantal Perron, Emi Chicoine
Synopsis: In a rush for a meeting, Fred declines phone calls from her mom. When she finally gets back to her, their conversation leaves her speechless.
Concert for mitya | Russian Federation | 2022 | 22’
Director: Natalia Omelchenko
Writer: Marina Potapova
Producers: Ilya Otrepiev, Marina Potapova, Vladimir Ivanov
Cast: Aleksey Yarmouschik, Julia Marchenko, Serguey Bezroukov, Denis Bourgazliev
Synopsis: Mitya is an autistic child, but he has a passion for music. Through the music he feels the harmony of the world. Onе day a famous musician comes into town. Mitya wants to attend his concert. Mitya’s dream turns into reality in an unexpected way.
Ma Lina | South Africa | 2022 | 15’
Director: Ydalie Turk
Writer: Ydalie Turk
Producers: Nicki Priem, Liesel Priem, Casey Diepeveen, Cindy Horn
Cast: Frances Sholto-Douglas, Grace Setsitsoe Matetoa
Synopsis: LOGLINE: Ma Lina is 15-minute drama about grief and the complicated relationship dynamics between two young girls and a domestic worker, in post-apartheid South Africa. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Ma Lina centers Kai and Lerato as they embark on a road trip together, at the behest of their recently deceased ‘mother’, to scatter her ashes at her favourite spot in the Western Cape. They have not seen each other since they were young girls, and their relationship is strained and fraught with racial and economic dynamics typical of contemporary South Africa. Ma Lina has recently passed and the two girls reunite, only to uphold their ‘mother’s’ dying wishes. In reality, Ma Lina was Kai’s domestic worker and is Lerato’s biological mother. However, due to financial constraints, Ma Lina left Lerato to work for Kai’s family, ultimately developing a closer bond with her daughter-figure—Kai. Kai is tumultuous, lost, and lives with the reckless abandonment afforded by privilege. Lerato has had to buckle down, discipline herself, and make her way through the world mostly alone. Throughout the road trip, the two find themselves at odds with one another as they confront the reality of their relationship, and despite their mutual love for Ma Lina, the constraints of a post-apartheid South Africa seem too rigid for true reconciliation between them.
OLYMPIQUE | France | 15’
Director: Julien Marquet
Writer: Julien Marquet
Cast: Simon Rérolle, Augustin Marquet
Synopsis: OLYMPIQUE tells the story of ASB Olympique, a professional basketball club. We follow its new owner Theo, who at only 21, succeeds his recently deceased father at the head of the club.
Sport – Official Selection – April 2023
OLYMPIQUE | 15’
Synopsis: OLYMPIQUE tells the story of ASB Olympique, a professional basketball club. We follow its new owner Theo, who at only 21, succeeds his recently deceased father at the head of the club.
Aiguille du Midi Operation Electric Avenue | Bulgaria | 2023 | 17’
Directors: Georgi Kerezov, Stoil Dimitrov
Writers: Alexander Vladimirov, Georgi Kerezov, Hristo Hristov, Stoil Dimitrov
Producer: Never Know Productions
Cast: Emiliyan Kolevski, Viktor Varoshkin, Thierry Renault
Synopsis: Right next to Aiguille du Midi, situated in a sea of mountains at an altitude of 3842m, stands proudly the 50m high granite monolith Gendarme des Cosmiques. For the past 30 years it hosted only 2 climbing routes, Digital Crack (8a) and Arête des Cosmiques (8a), but this changed on the 10th of August 2022!
Student Short – Official Selection – April 2023
Touch of Heaven | United States | 2023 | 09’
Director: Charlie Balsar
Writer: Reese Givens
Producer: Sam Tudor-Hidy
Cast: Zachary Owen, Keziah Williamson
Synopsis: After an eye-opening vision, a conflicted priest is finally able to choose between his faith and the free-spirited woman he has fallen for.
The Furniture (Le mobilier) | Belgium | 2021 | 16’
Director: Mehdi Pierret
Writer: Mehdi Pierret
Synopsis: A contemporary art gallery organizes an exhibition presenting several art performances. The cleaning lady Ilidia has trouble understanding the aim of such performances and gets irritated by the visitors’ behaviors. The evening could end badly…
Eviction | Canada | 2022 | 03’
Director: Alexandre Paquet
Writer: Alexandre Paquet
Producer: Alexandre Paquet
Synopsis: We dive into the head of a person who receives an eviction notice. The animation comes to life as the lease is torn. We then become witnesses to all the fears that the tenant has. Powerless, he imagines himself moving to reduced housing or having to leave his town. We follow his dark thoughts threading one by one all the changes that will be made in his life. Resigned, his anxieties and his panic will lead him to complete abandonment in the face of the inevitable. The animation style allows the images to appear through each other, like the rapid succession of thoughts triggered by a panic.
VOX POPULI | Lithuania | 2022 | 11’
Director: Deividas Kubikis
Synopsis: A short Lithuanian documentary about Deividas, a journalism student with social anxiety disorder, who goes into the streets to interview random people.
The Lost Conversation | 2022 | 04’
Director: Chenmo Wu
Writer: Chenmo Wu
Synopsis: Two AI monitors are having a conversation about “urban memory” and “eternity”, while their systems are refreshed every three minutes.
Still breathing? | Denmark | 2022 | 18’
Director: Emma Birkø
Writer: Emma Birkø
Producer: Astrid Gott Schmidt
Cast: Vanessa Nerea Moliné, Thomas Diepeveen, Amina Tornak, Bastian Laigaard Rasmussen
Synopsis: Anna’s life has stagnated. While having a casual relationship with her ex boyfriend she is working as an intern at a public school. Nothing seems to make sense, and when Anna finds out she is pregnant she has to make a choice. Because is it morally justifiable to bring new life into a world on fire?
Honey Trap | United Kingdom | 2022 | 15’
Director: Eleanor Kenny
Writer: Eleanor Kenny
Producer: Izzy Noone
Cast: Dannie Dart, Elouise Warboys, Emerald Gunn-Cahill
Synopsis: A short comedy about three friends who recount the series of events of their revenge plot against a cheating boyfriend, however they soon find themselves in a sticky situation.
Let’s talk | Israel | 2022 | 19’
Director: Elad Mukades
Writer: Elad Mukades
Producer: Elad Mukades
Synopsis: When Ori picks up his soldier brother for a day at the the beach, he is horrified to see that his brother has become religious. In addition to that aggravation, the car’s tire goes flat. As the sun sets, Ori is forced to choose between his “new” brother who is planning to make shabbat in a deserted place, and going to be with his sick mother.
Crossing Over | 2022 | 06’
Director: Gabi Fernandes, Trent Edward Bellet, Denise Anger, Amber Patel, Regina Vera Castellanos
Writer: Gabi Orlandi-Fernandes
Producer: Regina Vera Castellanos
Synopsis: A young girl grows up dreaming about becoming a great warrior and crossing the famous waterfall of her forest, like many other women of her tribe. However, once she arrives on the other side, she experiences the true life of a warrior, which turns out to be far different from what she imagined.
Diagnosis | 2022 | 04’
Director: Melanie Gerber
Writer: Melanie Gerber
Producer: Jürgen Haas
Synopsis: After being diagnosed with endometriosis, Alma struggles to come to terms with the disease and struggles to gain acceptance and control over her body and reality.
