EUROPE
SHORTLIST

Almost Unreal
France / Animation / 6 minutes
Director: Eve de Montbrial, Léa Vasselle-Bossy, Margaux Kempff, Grégoire Deranville
Writer: Eve de Montbrial
Producer: Philippe Meis
Obsessed with the loss of his sister, an old janitor creates a magical world through collage, hoping to bring her back. But when he thinks he has found her, his perfect world falls apart...

Erratum
France / Drama / 19 minutes
Director: Giulio Callegari
Writer: Mikael Monchicourt, Giulio Callegari
Producer: Alice Bloch
Cast: Aurélia Petit, Xavier Lacaille, Fred Blin
Florence, a teacher and researcher, uncovers with astonishment an anachronistic engraving - in modern French - on a Gallo-Roman fresco she just digged up. When she realizes this engraving is really from Antiquity, her rationality is put to the test.

Forever Young
France / Drama / 7 minutes
Director/Writer: Michel Arribehaute, Nicolas Arribehaute, Sacha Arribehaute, Robinson Arribehaute
Producer: Michel Arribehaute, Nicolas Arribehaute
Cast: Sacha Arribehaute, Robinson Arribehaute
This is just the story about 2 creative kids who want to create their first Short film. This is just the story about 2 dads who got nothing else to do…

Kassandra
France / Suspense / 20 minutes
Director/Writer: Ivar Wigan
Producer: Julien Manunta, Ivar Wigan
Cast: Bérénice Ouédraogo, Elisa Gerard, Paula Bouyer
Five girls born to French families of the African diaspora are confronted with a murder. On an uninhabited island near Marseille the girls battle to find the truth and escape back to civilization. Power dynamics within the group are tested and their mascot, partially sighted, Kassandra, could be the only one who can divine the crime and lead them back to safety.

Orogenesis
France / Animation / 6 minutes
Director: Axel Vendrely, Damien Barthas, Lise Delacroix, Emma Gaillien
Writer: Axel Vendrely
Producer: Philippe Meis
Before dawn, an odd character born from the sky crashes down in a desert. Awoken and weak, he's going to struggle to get back to the highest point in the sky, while facing a rising earth. However in his frantic ascension, something is happening under his steps..

Sideral
France / Drama / 15 minutes
Director/Writer: Carlos Segundo
Producer: Mariana Hardi, Pedro Fiuza, Damien Megherbi, Justin Pechberty
Cast: Priscilla Vilela, Enio Cavalcante, Fernanda Cunha, Matheus Brito
In Natal, the Northeast of Brazil, the country is preparing to launch its first manned spaceship into space.
A couple lives with their two children near the space center, the husband is a mechanic while the wife is a cleaning lady, who dreams of other horizons.

The Right Words
France / Drama / 15 minutes
Director: Adrian Moyse Dullin
Writer: Adrian Moyse Dullin, Emma Benestan
Producer: Lucas Tothe
Cast: Yasser Osmani, Sanya Salhi, Aya Halal, Radwan Saifeddine
Kenza, 15, and her little brother Madhi, 13, regularly humiliate one another on social media. On the bus, Kenza puts her naive and romantic little brother to the test: to profess his love for Jada; a girl that Madhi loves but who does not know him.

The Seine's Tears
France / Animation / 9 minutes
Director: Yanis Belaid, Eliott Benard, Nicolas Mayeur, Etienne Moulin
Writer: Yanis Belaid, Eliott Benard
Producer: Carlos De Carvalho
17 october 1961, "Algerian workers" get down the streets to manifest against the mandatory curfew imposed by the Police prefecture.

Those Who Stay
France / Drama / 28 minutes
Director/Writer: Fiorella Basdereff
Producer: Arthur Beauvois, Jessica Barasz
Cast: Marisa Borini, Céleste Brunnquell, Armande Boulanger, Zoé Félix
90 years old Suzanne, sharp and bright as a young woman, has just lost her lifelong mate. Her daughter and two granddaughters show up to comfort her. In this moment of grief, these four women let out their infinite tenderness and deep connections, in spite of unforgotten grudges.