On the second day of Orizzonti devoted to short films, a plurality of perspectives from France, Hong Kong, Ukraine, Argentina, Chile, Palestine, Jordan, Nigeria…
IN COMPETITION
JE CROIS ENTENDRE ENCORE (I HEAR IT STILL)
Constance Bonnot (France, 16’)
Ada, 14, helplessly watches her gravely ill father’s slow decline. Sent to Saint-Michel-Chef-Chef, a seaside town on France’s western coast, she is stung by a wasp and feels her body change, awakening desire within her.
PRAYING MANTIS
Joe Hsieh, Yonfan (Taipei, Hong Kong-SAR, 18’)
A mutant praying mantis, willing to do anything to save her child, seduces and devours men. But a failed mission brings to light dark secrets from the past she thought were buried forever.
NEDOSTUPNI (UNAVAILABLE)
Kyrylo Zemlyanyi (Ukraine, France, Belgium, Bulgaria, Netherlands, 20’)
During the war in Ukraine, Serhii, an eighteen-year-old volunteer, loses contact with his fleeing mother. Learning that a humanitarian convoy near his hometown has been bombed, he sets out alone on a desperate journey home.
EL ORIGEN DEL MUNDO (THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD)
Jazmin Lopez (Argentina, 12’)
Inspired by Gustave Courbet’s painting L’Origine du monde, this bold reflection on femininity takes the form of a tableau vivant: as the model poses, the director and her crew debate censorship, the nature of the gaze, and the boundary between painterly and cinematic framing.
MERRIMUNDI
Niles Atallah (Chile, 20’)
A sentient machine from the future builds its paradise on Earth and reveals it to a puppet: a distorted utopia, with warped music and blazing colors, in a work that fuses animation, sci-fi, and musical.
COYOTES
Said Zagha (Palestine, France, Jordan, UK, 20’)
Every night, Palestinian surgeon Lubna commutes between Jericho and Ramallah. One evening, forced onto a different road, her journey turns into a nightmare: a tire bursts, coyotes howl, and her only salvation seems to lie in the help of a stranger.
SAINT SIMÉON
Olubunmi Ogunsola (Nigeria, 18’)
Enugu, Nigeria, 1997. Matthias, a young seminarian, struggles between guilt and repressed desire as the controversial suicide of his roommate Simeon shakes the entire religious community.
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