6.11.2024, 17:30, Maxx 6
EN UT + Q&A
9.11.2024, 17:00, Maxx 5
EN UT + Q&A
The latest trends in international filmmaking: our competition programmes present recent short films from around the world. The best works will be honoured with prizes at the Award Ceremony on Sunday.

Dreams like Paper Boats
Samuel Suffren / Haiti 2024 / 18'45" / black & white / Creole (Haiti) / Fic
Edouard and his daughter live with a cassette received from his wife in the United States, a long time ago. After years of absence, what can we expect from a distant love?

Duck
Rachel Maclean / United Kingdom 2023 / 16'30" / colour / English / Fic/Exp
«Duck» is a deepfake short that follows Sean Connery’s unravelling after he witnesses Marilyn Monroe’s return from the dead. Set in the world of a British spy thriller, Connery plays the role he knows all too well: collecting clues, wrongfooting assailants, and eliminating the femme fatale – only to find that all is not what it seems. «Duck» is made entirely from deepfake video and audio, resurrecting actors via AI machine learning. Visually captivating, funny, and innovative, the film takes elements from Hollywood, video games, film noir, and sci-fi to raise questions about truth and power.

Unicorn Hunting
Miguel Afonso / Portugal 2024 / 18'30" / colour / Portuguese / Fic
The mother is dying, the relationship is hanging by a thread, the new job is at risk. Marco's only chance to avoid tragedy is to find three unicorns before the day's end.

Omens Bloom in the Dark
Timothée Engasser / France 2024 / 17'20" / colour / English / Exp/Doc
A hovering, creeping menace sneaks into thoughts, bodies, and glances. Through strange events, anguish spreads and turns into delusions of persecution. The misshapen green mass moves relentlessly forward in silence, its infinite vines haunting minds and the places it covers. In the wake of conspiracy theories, this plant embodies a strange, even alien evil, supposedly there to invade and contaminate.