Official Selection 2024
Documentary
Delving into the mysterious, the dark, the absurd, and the revealing, Documentary includes a cold case alien rumour-mentary, a hyperbolic take on alpha male fantasies, and an exposé on our widespread desire to travel. Through a distinct lens, each film invites you to explore the complexities and curiosities of the world around us.
HAVE YOU SEEN THE BEAST?
Dir: Will Hewitt & Austen McCowan
A cold case rumour-mentary about sightings of an alien big cat in the rural Welsh countryside told through eyewitness telephone accounts.
I AM THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
Dir: Frank Eli Martin
In the mystical landscape of rural Irish Catholicism, a terrible darkness lies beneath. In 1985, the village of Ballinspittle was the site of a mass visionary experience. Worshippers at the local grotto saw the statue of the Virgin Mary come to life in a phenomenon that gripped the country. Almost forty years later, a handful of local devotees remain…
THAT’S YOUR LOT
Dir: Duncan Cowles
A very short film about nothing.
DIRECCIONES
Dir: María Luisa Santos and Carlo Nasisse
In Costa Rica there are no street addresses. Instead, an address contains a series of directions in reference to various landmarks. One woman, feeling a pressing anxiety by this lack of order, sets out to understand its origins. In doing so she discovers a larger story about human memory and place.
BEEN THERE
Dir: Corina Schwingruber Ilić
Weekend trips, city breaks, a detour into nature, or once around the world. Barely a few days off, you're already gone. Never before has the desire to travel been so widespread, and visited places so overloaded. What do we get out of it, other than the picture proof that we have been there?
EXIT 238
Dir: Henry Davis
Every year, the early weeks of fall bring a natural phenomenon to the Capital Plaza shopping centre in Austin, Texas. Shoppers, employees, passersby, young families and avid birdwatchers, alike, all gather to marvel at the communal migratory roosting of tens of thousands of Purple Martins as they journey along their migratory path to Brazil.
ALPHA KINGS
Dir: Enrique Pedráza-Botero & Faye Tsakas
From a rented mansion in suburbian Texas, a group of young men sell a hyperbolic, alpha male version of themselves on the internet.
UR HEINOUS HABIT
Dir: Eugene Kolb
A blackmail email prompts a filmmaker to explore the intersection of shame and masturbation through a series of Zoom conversations with his friends.
Official Programme 2024
Take me to: Animation Change Comedy Documentary Drama Music Video Student Film
