Official Selection 2024
Student Film
A stunned crowd faces a fire, a man enters an extraordinary recycling machine, a 6-foot volcano threatens a relationship, a boy discovers he is not so different from his father. The Student Film programme abounds with intoxicating and thought-provoking freshness; a glimpse into the originality and talent of the next generation of filmmakers.
ARDENT OTHER
Dir: Alice Brygo
A stunned crowd faces a fire. The threat has no name, a diffuse anguish spreads. Fear needs to be conjured, fire must be turned into a sign.
RESSOURCES HUMAINES
Dir: Isaac Wenzek, Titouan Tillier & Trinidad Plass Caussade
Camera on. A cameraman follows Andy, entering a shop. Is that a human hand in the strange jar on the shelf? Andy introduces himself, hands over a recycling folder, asks permission for the camera man to record the scene, undresses and enters a machine…
SEA SALT
Dir: Leila Basma
On this hot summer day, 17-year-old Nayla is faced with the same dilemma every Lebanese youngster is faced with today; to leave or to stay. Two men in her life have set ideas about it, but both might wake up to a surprise.
CLAWS
Dir: Nim Longley
A short experimental analog animation of a game of cat and bird.
ATOMIC CHICKEN
Dir: Thibault Ermeneux, Lucie Lyfoung, Solène Polet, Capucine Prat, Morgane Siriex & Anna Uglova
The idyllic daily life of a rural chicken coop is turned upside down overnight when the neighbouring nuclear power plant starts spewing its toxic fumes over the surrounding area. The chickens will have to cope with a myriad of mutations and find a way to defeat the power plant at the root of their misfortunes.
MY DAD AND THE VOLCANO
Dir: Gavin Reid
A father and son and a volcano. Gavin built a 6-foot volcano. He asked his Dad if he could store it in the shed for 'a wee while' until he figured out what to do with it, but after five years, it’s still there. In a test of patience, could the volcano actually bring Gavin and his dad together?
EVERY OTHER WEEKEND
Dir: James Naughton
Desperate to escape from a routine of biweekly visits, a recently divorced father drags his two children camping to the west of Ireland.
SHOOTING WATERMELONS
Dir: Antonio Donato
Federico is on holiday with his father and brother in a summer residence in Sardinia. Their father, Aurelio, is a severe and overtly masculine man who makes Federico feel anxious and inadequate. When a wealthy foreign family invites them to dinner, Federico discovers he is not so different from his father.
Official Programme 2024
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