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Festival Update

The films of the Official Selection 2024

2024.7.23

We are proudly announce the films of official selection for upcoming edition! We received in total of 2083 film submissions including Japanese films.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

International programmes and Family & Children programme

BELGIUM
HEARTS OF STONE | Tom van Avermaet | Fiction, Drama | Belgium | 2024 | 0:29:55
WANDER TO WONDER | Nina GANTZ | Animation, Fantasy | Belgium | 2023 | 0:13:20

CANADA
A CRAB IN THE POOL | Alexandra Myotte, Jean-Sébastien Hamel | Animation, Drama | Canada | 2023 | 0:11:11
HELLO STRANGER | Amélie Hardy | Documentary, Portrait | Canada | 2024 | 0:16:24
EXTRAS | Marc-Antoine Lemire | Fiction, Comedy | Canada | 2024 | 0:15:00
BLITZMUSIK | Martin Amiot | Fiction, Fantasy | Canada | 2024 | 0:08:50
UWD | Myriam Verreault, Brigitte Poupart | Fiction, Dance | Canada | 2023 | 0:18:30

CHINA
HOW CAN I RID MY MIND OF HER | Wenli Huang | Documentary, Portrait | China | 2023 | 0:22:31
DISTANT WATER WON’T QUENCH IMMEDIATE THIRST | Zijie Zhou | Fiction, Drama | China | 2024 | 0:23:14 | Student Film

COSTA RICA
KINGDOM | Andres Bronnimann | Fiction, Sci-fi | Costa Rica | 2024 | 0:03:17

CZECH REPUBLIC
ELECTRA | Daria Kashcheeva | Animation | Czech Republic | 2023 | 0:26:33

EGYPT
I PROMISE YOU PARADISE | Morad Mostafa | Fiction, Drama | Egypt | 2023 | 0:25:00

FRANCE / ALBANIA / JAPAN / PALESTINE
MISSING | Justine Le Pottier | Fiction, Horrer | France | 2023 | 0:13:00
A SHORT TRIP | Erenik Beqiri | Fiction, Drama | France, Albania | 2023 | 0:17:16
MISERABLE MIRACLE | Ryo Orikasa | Animation, Art | France, Japan | 2023 | 0:08:13
PALESTINE ISLANDS | Nour Ben Salem, Julien Menanteau | Fiction, Comedy | France, Palestine | 2023 | 0:22:29

GERMANY
IN THE END WE’RE ALL MUSIC | Katharina Schnekenbühl | Fiction, Fantasy | Germany | 2024 | 0:12:42

IRAN
SHIRIN’S BITTER TEARS | Amin Fallah | Fiction, Drama | Iran | 2024 | 0:07:00

IRELAND
ROOM TAKEN | TJ O’Grady-Peyton | Fiction, Drama | Ireland | 2023 | 0:18:29

KYRGYZSTAN
BLUE GATE | Narghiza Dotieva | Fiction, Drama | Kyrgyzstan | 2024 | 0:17:41

NORWAY
TITS | Eivind Landsvik | Fiction, Drama | Norway | 2023 | 0:11:49

POLAND
DEBTORS | Andrzej Danis | Documentary, Social issues | Poland | 2023 | 0:23:33 | Student Film

SPAIN
THE COMPANIONS | José María Flores | Fiction, Drama | Spain | 2024 | 0:12:00
UKRAINE’S FRONTLINE SACRIFICE | Raul Gallego Abellan | Documentary, Current affairs | Spain | 2023 | 0:17:31

SWITZERLAND
SEARCHING FOR THE 5TH DIRECTION | Matthias Schüpbach | Experimental | Switzerland | 2023 | 0:07:05 | Student Film

USA
BLACK AMBER | Ellie Foumbi | Fiction, Sci-fi | USA | 2024 | 0:02:14
STRONGHOLD | Meghann Artes | Fiction, Drama | USA | 2024 | 0:15:12
KNEAD | Timothy Michael Cooper | comedy, sci-fi | USA | 2024 | 0:11:22
FISHMONGER | Neil Ferron | Fiction, Comedy | USA | 2024 | 0:23:00 | Student Film


Family & Children programme

AUSTRALIA
MR CHICKEN GOES TO MARS | Katrina Mathers, Leigh Hobbs | Animation | Australia | 2023 | 0:03:15

CROATIA
BUTTERFLY | Suncana Brkulj | Animation | Croatia | 2024 | 0:08:07

CYPRUS
CLAWLOLO (GRAMOPHONE) | Alexey Alexeev | Animation | Cyprus | 2024 | 0:03:20

DENMARK
FREELANCE | Luciano A. Muñoz Sessarego, Magnus I. Møller, Peter Smith | Animation | Denmark | 2024 | 0:02:40

FRANCE
AS THE SUN GOES DOWN | Laurine Bocquet, Ilona Caucal, Inès Fechner, Jahnice Laurent, Sarah Robert, Emma Roussel, Kevin Vandenbeuck | Animation | France | 2023 | 0:05:56 | Student Film
COQUILLE | Justine AUBERT, Cassandra BOUTON, Grégoire CALLIES, Maud CHESNEAU, Anna DANTON, Loic GIRAULT, Gatien PEYRUDE, Justine RAUX | Animation | France | 2023 | 0:05:57 | Student Film

JAPAN
TBA

SERBIA
NEW IDEA | Marko Bosanac | Animation | Serbia | 2024 | 0:11:58

SOUTH KOREA
I BECAME A CAT | Heeyoung LEE | Animation | South Korea | 2024 | 0:05:09

SWITZERLAND
SUMMER RAIN | Marlene Low, Julia Krummenacher, Johanna Kern | Animation | Switzerland | 2023 | 0:05:22 | Student Film

Out of competition

Drunken Nigh programme

TRANSYLVANIE | Rodrigue Huart | Drama, Horror | France | 2023 | 0:15:00
PEEPING MOM | Francis Canitrot | Animation, Drama | France | 2023 | 0:14:53
COMPLICATIONS | Ivar Aase | Fiction, Drama | Norway | 2023 | 0:14:00

Thank you for all the submissions!