AND THE WINNERS ARE
Best Short: Un Monde Meilleur, Directed by Sacha Feiner
Best Sci Fi Short: Exit, Directed by Michel Goossens
Best Horror: Thanatomorphose, Directed by Éric Falardeau
Best Documentary: No relation, Directed by Kieran Dick
Best Trailer: Nacht Einem Tram, Directed by Tobias Schmuecking
Best Horror Short: Hambre, Directed by Mario De La Corte
THE FOLLOWING FILMS WERE COMPETING IN THE OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25
L'Esplanade (5min, France, U S A)
dir. by Evander Reeves
A film about the mundane action of going to lunch that is irrevocably changed ad infinitum by time travelers! A showcase of the different forms of animation.
Meddlers (26 min,France)
dir. by Jonathan Rio
Based on a short by PKDick ,the story of a group of scientists who are changing history with their time travel experiments.
Hello World (21min, France)
dir. by Rafael Mathé
In a close future, a private company developed a technology aimed at boosting our brain capacity. But it requires from its clients to store their memory data on one single server. In this highly controlled world, a young woman has the power to change things.
No Relation (7min, Canada)
dir. by Kieran Dick
A short doc. on the life of Philip K Dick.
Singularity (9min, France)
dir. by Greg Tosolini
Duncan Singer is an agent in charge of recovering an artificial intelligence. Things get complicated when Singer finds himself surrounded by mercenaries trying to get their hands on the prototype.
Singer has no choice but to contact the entity to find a means of escape.
Radio Free Albemuth (116 min, USA)
dir by John Alan Simon
A Berkeley record store clerk Nick Brady (Jonathan Scarfe) begins to experience strange visions from an entity he calls VALIS that cause him to uproot his family and move to Los Angeles where he becomes a successful music company executive in an alternate reality America circa 1985 under the authoritarian control of President Fremont, a Nixon-like clone.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26
Hambre (5 min)
dir by Mario De La Corte
A strange tale of cannibalism and love.
Nach Einem Traum (5 min)
dir by Tobias Schmuecking
A woman enters a twilight state between dreams and reality.
Anonymous/Street Meat - (5 min, USA)
dir by Migdea Chinea
A parallel totalitarian world in which banks have taken over and plebs/street meat seek social justice.
Impression XPS 160 (14 minutes)
dir by Tiyam Yabandeh
A blind photographer remembers his wife during the aftermath of a nuclear
war.
Thanatomorphose (120 min, Canada)
dir by Éric Falardeau
A woman discovers one day she is rotting away.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27
Un Monde Meilleur (24min, Belgium)
dir. by Sacha Feiner
Henry, dedicated citizen of a pitiless dictatorship, has always worked intensely at the Denunciation Ministry. But suddenly, the regime collapses; the cold, technocratic and paranoid world becoming at once an idyllic and caricatured countryside. Henry, panicked without the rules he was addicted to, seems to be the only one to regret the old regime. As if it was going to come back, he continues to follow the rules and clings to his useless work.
Defeated (8min, Spain)
dir. by JOSE MANUEL MENESES
A conversation between a soldier and his wife ends up with a surprising ending.
Breathe (9min, France, U S A)
dir. by Natalie Berning
If the make up of our world consisted exclusively of creatures and monsters, what would constitute the criteria to be featured in a carnival freak show? Two such individuals escape this fate and struggle together to relate to one another, nourish each other and survive. Universal themes of attachment, love and sacrifice are explored in this 9-minute experimental film.
L'e Echappe'e (15min, France)
dir. by olivier perrier
One night, a man is trying to reach the hospital where his wife, between life and death, suffered a serious car accident. On his way, he recalls some of the moments of their love story. The more he progresses, the more he seems to loose his mind.
Le Passage (18min, France)
dir. by Fabien MONTAGNER
A lonely teenager will enter in an adventure out of time which will reveal a dark moment about her family history.
Exit (16min, Spain, Netherlands)
dir. by Michel Goossens
In the short film EXIT, A woman awakes in an unfamiliar space with a man sitting beside her bed. He explains her that she has passed away and will now have to let go of her earthly identity to move on. EXIT is a surrealistic drama exploring our attachments to life, tendencies to externalize emotions during times of stress and our understanding of reality.
Dissent U S A (35 min, France, Italy, Mexico)
dir. by Helmut Dosantos
An old father, still a tyrant despite his age. Edward, the son, devoured by his Oedipus complex. And Karla, the young woman betrothed to Edward, who dreams about her future husband.
Years In Bardo (23min, U S A)
dir. by Keaton Smith
Years in Bardo, portrays the life of an individual by externalizing deep conscious feelings of liberty, identity, family, and death through sound and image. As the protagonist ages, time loses structure and becomes a visual conduit for travel by way of memory and clairvoyance.
La Cité du Soleil (47min, France)
dir. by Yann Sinic
In a semi-conscious state, mixing dreams with memories, an old man reminds several ages of his own existence. His personal story resounds with the becoming of an Utopian city, created ex nihilo in an hostile land of marshes and turned progressively into a too perfect world.
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