International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
Samuel's home port is in Gaspesia, eastern Quebec, in Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis. It is winter and the fishing boats have been put into dry dock. Samuel makes the most of this respite to implement his...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
Clarice has always looked up to her father. But when the time has come to evaluate his political legacy, she gets entangled in a web where good and evil, truth and lies are desperately interweaved....
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
When the colourful ice-cream van rides through the deserted streets of the village, there are no children trailing behind it. In Plazuela, a peaceful hamlet lost in a mountainous region of Ecuador,...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
Bathed in light announcing the arrival of dusk, the setting of hills in the east of Bosnia is crossed by a flock guided by a stooped silhouette. A new day begins for the protagonists of Then Comes...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
How do you start an investigation into chance? By a late journey. The narrator tells how the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjalla stopped the plane he should have taken for Prague in...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
Film newsreels show a mixed crowd enjoying seaside fun. Every summer however, a man appears on the beaches. Meticulously dressed, announcing himself with a blast on a whistle. He is the Stranger....
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
The film begins with an amorous promise: I can change. A promise heard too often, a promise we know to be false in advance. Amie-Sarah has fallen deeply in love with Boby, a young Romanian Romani who...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
On the northern coast of Scotland, Dounreay is a nuclear research site built at the end of the 1950s and whose reactors have been gradually shut down. Following in the footsteps of Walter Glass—a...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
We are somewhere in the north of Spain. After crossing a town, in the rain, at the end of a tunnel, the valley of Solana opens up. The grain and the flickering of the film add a dreamlike quality to...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
While his previous film addressed the question of rural life via the major health crisis of the 20th century (mad cow disease) and in the form of a fiction ( Bloody Milk , César for Best First...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
Hanqi and her friends drift through the suburban area of Hangzhou. Strolling through the concrete and neon-lit landscape of the city, they experience the transformations it undergoes daily. As they...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
Originally there was a silence. That of Malek, the filmmaker's father, who for years said nothing of his childhood in Algeria. And then, the need to break the silence, with a script that he gives to...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
Since the dawn of time, the inhabitants of the Alps have used their own language to overcome the distance imposed by the mountainous orography. Riafn is a sort of dialect based on the different forms...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
After over six years out of his country, the Syrian filmmaker Yaser Kassab continues to attempt to recount the war from the sad and soulless scenery of exile. Imprisoned by the banal decor of an...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
In Indonesia, in the Padang district, an open landfill site borders the forest. A landscape of precipitous terrain, with its crest lines and its chasms, serves as a pasture for several hundred cows....
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
A man returns to Bamako, the city of his childhood, and perceives in the streets — fleeing like a shadow in the night — the face of what he was in the past: a lost child. His voice then...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
Dennis and his filmmaker friend decide to join his parents in Tuscany where they are spending the summer holiday. Dennis is not in the best of moods. His past and his choices seem to loom over him, to...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
Lou Colpé has been filming her grandparents since she was 15. In the process of this intense relationship, she notices some disconcerting signs in her grandmother: Alzheimer's is slowing her down. A...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
In Bolivia, in a small mountain village, the daily rhythm seems marked by a time that no longer exists, by nature's invisibles forces, by the will of the gods. In this place where there is no longer a...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
Semira Adamu arrived in Belgium in 1998 when she fled from Nigeria. Held in a closed detention centre next to Brussels Airport, she died smothered with a cushion during a sixth attempt at forced...