AU DELÀ
DE L'HYGIÈNE
Country of Origin: France
Project Type: Short
Runtime: 19´
Director: Pierre
Descamps
Writer: Pierre Descamps
Producer: Pierre Descamps
Key Cast:
Jean-Baptiste Kaupp as "Don Walsh
"
Editor: Francesco Tellico
Synopsis: Inside a society obsessed by the hygiene, Don Walsh don't find his place between the purists ( "for " the hygiene) and the naturalists( "against" the hygiene"). Only his psy-robot understand him. Until the day when everything change ...
PIERRE DESCAMPS
Pierre Descamps is a french director born in Montpellier . He have study cinema at “La Flec” and “La Generale” at Montreuil and he passes his diploma of filmmaking in CLCF. During his studies, he shoot 5 shorts movies : “L’éclaircie” written with Hugo Leboeuf, “Le Gigot” with Jean-Baptiste Kaupp and Ella Zebal for actors, “ Sauve qui Peut”; “Avec les Tripes” and “Délit Gourmand”with David Decreane and Jeanne Lalous . “Délit Gourmand” was presented in the ECU Film Festival and it was diffused in Arte in the emission “Court Circuit”. After his studies, he shoot the short movie “Au delà de l’hygiène” with Jean-Baptiste Kaupp in the main role. The movie wo 7 awards for the moment. “Au delà de l’hygiène” wins the “jury award of the best french movie” in the 2023 th edition of the Cannes Film Awards.
AWAKENING: A MERMAID´S TALE
Country of Origin: Spain
Project Type: Feature
Runtime: 01:52:00
Director: Yolanda
Torres
Writer: Yolanda Torres
Producer: Juan A. Fernandez, Yolanda Torres
Key Cast:
Sanna Toivanen as "Sofia"
Fran Lopez as "Nik"
Tracy Scott as "Meri"
Sam Jones as "Prof. Jane Seaver"
Synopsis: Sofia, a struggling Marine Archeologist thesis student, on a quest to find Atlantis as a means to redeem herself for her sister, Eevi’s apparent drowning for which she blames herself, discovers the demons of her childhood are back to haunt her when she is faced with another family death. Guided by a series of unlikely thalassic companions, Sofia is forced to set off on a personal journey to conquer her fears, manifest in thalassophobia, through freediving - will she find the way to let Eevi go before she too is pulled under into the abyss?
CAMILA HUNCK
Country of Origin: Spain
Project Type: Short
Runtime: 30´
Director: Antonio Perez
Writer: Antonio Perez
Producer: Txarly Marques
Key Cast:
Ramón Barea
Music: Aitzol Saratxaga
Synopsis: A Spanish resistance fighter, wounded in an ambush, arrives at the "Cueva de los Fugaos". Camila and the Neanderthal "animes" from the cave will take care of and protect him, putting her own life at risk. All set in Spanish post-war rural society.
DOG
Country of Origin: France
Project Type: Short
Runtime: 31´
Director: Lucas Montal
Writer: Lucas Montal
Producer: Lucas Montal
Key Cast:
Guillaume Monfraix
Maë Dejean
Nicolas Audebaud
Justine Demeaux
Olivier Duval
Ludovic Coutaud
Pierre Dudout
Elie Sabrazat
Synopsis: François, 40 years old, leads a peaceful life in a perfect suburban area. However, strange nightmares agitate his nights. With the help of a psychologist, he tries to make sense of them. Little by little, he loses touch with reality. Is he really awake? Or lost in a dream?
HALCYON DAYS
Country of Origin: United States
Project Type: Short
Runtime: 17´
Director: Sophie Penn
Writer: Sophie Penn
Producer: Sophie Penn
Co-Producer: Arora McCargar
Key Cast:
Kylen Chen-Troester as "Stella"
Paul Grant as "Rye"
Editor: Robert Shaffer Jr.
Music: Sedona Regan, Jack Symes, Wondergaap
Synopsis: When an incident with her parents sparks rebellion in 15 year old Stella, she decides to run away from home with Rye, a mysterious boy from a neighboring city in Texas. In this unconventional romance, the implications of love are explored in a dark take on young relationships.
Sophie Penn is an independent Writer, Director, and Producer originally from San Francisco, California. She is currently finishing a Film BFA at Syracuse University, after taking a gap year due to COVID from January 2021-January 2022. She's worked on projects on a multitude of scales, ranging from indie shorts to commercials to union TV shows, and is currently in development for her next short film.
IT´S SPRING...
Country of Origin: Armenia
Project Type: Feature
Runtime: 01:45:27
Director: Roman
Musheghyan
Writer: Harout Ghukassian
Producer: Alexander Khachatryan
Key Cast:
Alexander Khachatryan as "Aram
Amatuni"
Levon Hakhverdyan as "Levon"
Armen Margaryan as "Gnel"
Marjan Avetisyan
Yeva Zohrabyan
Shant Hovhannisyan
Alis Kaplanjyan
Toomaj Danesh Behzadi
Synopsis: Aram Amatuni is a retired special forces spy who has devoted his entire life to serving and protecting his country and to creating a lawful government. His son, Gnel, is a successful businessman who to this day hasn’t forgiven his father for putting the needs of his country before the needs of his own family. This conflict between father and son reaches its climax when Amatuni’s grandson, a talented violinist who has the opportunity to study in one of the best European music academies, inspired by his grandfather’s ideology goes against his own father’s wishes and enlists in the mandatory military service from which his father has freed him using all of his connections.
The unexpected war further severs the father-son relationship, leading Amatuni to take a road of no return.
JUST ANOTHER SUMMER DAY
Country of Origin: Japan
WATCH TRAILER
Synopsis: When
she woke up, with her body feeling so heavy, she couldn’t remember a single
thing from the night before. Not where she was nor what she did. The only hints
she had were the view from the window, showcasing a city that didn’t seem to be
Tokyo, and a middle-aged man sleeping besides her.
The girl, Hizuki, had no memories of why she came to Kiryu with him.
‘Just’ a summer day with that man was about to start.
STATIONHEADS
Country of Origin: Hungary
Project Type: Short
Runtime: 17´
Director: Stu Gamble
Writer: Stu Gamble
Producer: Mihály Gál, Orsolya Horváth, Vicky Kjaer Jensen, Judit Romwalter
Key Cast:
Lili Walters as "Nora"
David Miller as "Paprika"
Zoltan Simon as "Zoli"
Editor: Stu Gamble
Sound: Iulian Buga, Sámuel Csóka, Alex Dimitriu, Tamás Dévényi, Marina
Muntean
Music: Tom Bailey
Synopsis: Three educated (and bored) twenty-somethings are working a dead-end job in a gas station. Their futures are grim. When a group of bank robbers turn up fresh from a heist and fresh out of fuel, things get a bit more interesting.
STU GAMBLE
Stu is the creative lead behind Tiny Giants. A
preeminent award-winning designer, director, writer and storyteller, Stu has
created numerous original stories for film, TV, and gaming, many of which the
Company will put into development. He has worked with some of the worlds
leading entertainment companies including Disney, Marvel, Cartoon Network, ITV,
Nickelodeon, MTV, FOX, FX, and The LEGO Group.
Stu was also the founder of the digital animation studio Freakish Kid which, in the early ’00s, pioneered a digital 2D technique that excelled the studio’s reputation worldwide for high-quality animation.
Stu is focused on developing the Company’s acquired I.P. into expanded story treatments and screenplays for film and other platforms (including the recently acquired NYT bestselling children’s book The Curious Garden).
THE VETERAN DRAMEDY
Country of Origin: Germany
Project Type: Short
Runtime: 29´
Director: Rainer
Ludwigs
Writer: Rainer Ludwigs, Tetyana Chernyavska
Producer: Rainer Ludwigs, Tetyana Chernyavska
Key Cast:
Petro Stashenko as "Bogdan"
Anna Zhara as "Lana"
Music: Andre Feldhaus, Rainer Ludwigs
Synopsis: After fighting in the Donbas, Bogdan, a young Ukrainian, visits his mother in Germany. Here, he finds unexpected opportunities: university, a new job, an old new love. He would love to stay. But he struggles with German bureaucracy and his trauma of war. So will he return to his comrades at the front?
RAINER LUDWIGS
After completing his degree in Graphic Design at the college of Arts in Bremen/ Germany in 1992 with the emphasis on animation and cartoon films, Rainer Ludwigs created television spots at the Grey Global international advertising agency in Düsseldorf. From 1995, he has worked as an independent director and producer in the field of image and company films as well as documentaries. In recent years, he has produced several narrative animated sequences for TV documentaries. THE VETERAN DRAMEDY is his short narrative film debut.
tRUTH
Country of Origin: BelgiumSynopsis: In a hyper-technological society, a couple lives their own utopia. But what happens when a glitch compromises all this idyllic interface?
SYLVIE ZAIDMAN
Sylvie Zaidman is a screenwriter, director and
producer based in Antwerp, Belgium. Although she loved to perform since a young
age, she initially trained as a lawyer, gaining a Master in European Law.
Unhappy with her career choice, Sylvie moved to Paris in 2012 to pursue an
acting career and was encouraged by a coach to start writing as "she had
things to say". Not wanting someone else to bring her own stories to life,
she moved to London to study filmmaking. tRuth is her first professionel project.
Having finally found her dream career, she is currently working on another
short movie as well as a feature. She hopes to set up her own production
company in the future.
THE THINGS THAT MATTER
Country of Origin: France
Project Type: Short
Runtime: 13´
Director: JULES
CHERBONNIER
Writer: JULES CHERBONNIER
Producer: JULES CHERBONNIER, KEVIN MAREZ
Key Cast:
ROMAN ANGEL as "THOMAS"
JULES CHERBONNIERK as "THOMAS"
OLIVIER QUIVIGER as "Father / Père"
CLEMENTINE BAUDOUIN as "Mother / Mère"
JULIETTE WAXWEILER as "SISTER / SOEUR "
SOLENE DEVOS as "TEACHER / PROFESSEURE "
Synopsis: Thomas won't stop until he finds meaning and happiness in his life through his work, but how will he react when he wakes up 20 years ago as a 7 year-old boy ?
JULES CHERBONNIER
Jules Cherbonnier began his career as a movie director alongside his theatre
studies at a drama school in Paris. He had the will to learn by himself the
different aspects of storytelling by writing, directing, producing and acting
in his projects.
Years before his acting and directing career, Jules worked in the product placement for the french movie industry and worked as well for the next Olympic Games of Paris 2024 as a project manager.
His experiences allowed him to have a large scope of what is needed to create a project : manage a team, gather fundings, promote and sell,...He naturally used these skills for the film industry since it always was for him his long term goal.
THE
THINGS THAT MATTER
Country of Origin: France
Project Type: Short
Runtime: 12´
Director: Antoine
Svolanek
Writer: Antoine Svolanek
Producer: -
Key Cast:
Constantin Burasovic as "Tom"Paris-Shangai, Bonbone
Sound: Gauthier Aubry, Quentin
Gerfault
Synopsis: It is 8 p.m . As usual, Tom wakes up in his 9 meter square flat, in the outskirt of a big city. While the city goes to sleep or go out to party, he must prepare to go at the fast-food where he will work until dawn. He does not remember for how long he's been living this way, and does not know for how long he will. Anyway, he has no plan B. So he's getting ready to go through another night.
It will be the last one.
THE WOMEN
WHO CAME FROM
THE LOTUS FIELD
Synopsis: The story of a young masseuse who is released from prison in a drug case. And the striped young man who has been pardoned.
HAÏKU
Country of Origin: France
Synopsis: Adam and Evan live in a small village in the Cevennes. They go to the same high school but have never spoken to each other.
In the middle of a holiday, while Evan is still at boarding school, and Adam lives peacefully with his mother. They will meet by chance around a joint that will go wrong.
The consequences will be a week of "TIG" in this small Cevennes boarding school.
The two, although very different at the beginning, will be forced to get to know each other.
JUST BEFORE
Synopsis: Adam and Evan live in a small village in the Cevennes. They go to the same high school but have never spoken to each other.
In the middle of a holiday, while Evan is still at boarding school, and Adam lives peacefully with his mother. They will meet by chance around a joint that will go wrong.
The consequences will be a week of "TIG" in this small Cevennes boarding school.
The two, although very different at the beginning, will be forced to get to know each other.
TOO
BEAUTIFUL FOR THIS WORLD
Country of Origin: France
Project Type: Documentary
Runtime: 15´
Director: Aïcha
Ghembaza
Writer: Aïcha Ghembaza
Key Cast: Louise Sarah Mercedes Guillard, Quentin Guillard, Aïcha
Ghembaza, Ariane Turmeau-
Editor: Jérémy Trellu
Sound design: Loïc Gourbe
Synopsis: A film about the reality of a mother and her autistic child on a daily basis. A total immersion without detours in the heart of a strong story between Louise, a ten year old girl with autism, and her mother ready to do anything to protect her from the world around her.
Aïcha Ghembaza
Born in Vienne (Isère), Aicha left her city to settle
in the south of France (Marseille, Corsica, Toulon). She moved to London in
1998 to improve her English and study technological music. She participated in
the development of Techno culture by becoming a DJ, then organizer of parties
in London, and then in Italy and France. She became a DJ agent in 2001.
At the origin of the documentary film "Too Beautiful For This World", Aicha Ghembaza wants to work for both television and cinema.
For many years she has been involved in the approach and study of the autism spectrum and takes care of her daughter diagnosed with autism at the age of two and confirmed by the Autistic Resource Center one year later.
Aicha Ghembaza wants to make the French aware of the difficulties parents have in raising an autistic child when there is no suitable structure in France.
OLYMPIQUE
Country of Origin: France
Project Type: Short
Runtime: 14´
Director: Julien Marquet
Writer: Julien Marquet
Producer: Julien
Marquet
Key Cast: Simon Rérolle
Augustin Marquet
Myriam Campello
Tristan Meunier
Julien Massetti
Music: Achille Loquet
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.
WAVE LAND
Synopsis: At
the heart of a restless skatepark, Elio, a young 15-year-old designer, is
captivated by the atmosphere of the place. It’s when he meets Gwen, a young
skateboarder with a strong temperament, that Elio tries desperately to learn the
hard rules of this arena where violence and competition reign…
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