From AI to the beauty of 35mm; ending with a master treatise on therapeutic filmmaking – this final competition programme passes through the rich terrain of loss, memory and survival.
My Soul Walks With You
Paul O’Donoghue / Ireland / 2022 / 7 mins
Given the film’s title, My Soul Walks With You, as a text prompt, AI generated a series of images which were animated and edited to music. AI imagines souls of the departed.
The Countryman
Andy Kastelic / United States / 2023 / 21 mins
Bitterness threatens to destroy a small farming community until a stranger arrives with a curious proposition.
Mar Mama
Majdi El Omari / Palestine / 2023 / 15 mins
Haunted by her mother’s death and recurring attacks on her city, a young girl becomes obsessed with death. As her father tries to distract her through the making of a stop-motion film, reality invades their world.
Montreal in Half
Angelique Daniel / France / 2024 / 12 mins
A man and woman decide to split Montreal in two to avoid any chance of crossing paths. Or is it a way to revive old memories?
The Lovers
Carolina Sandvik / Sweden / 2023 / 12 mins
A man and a woman are having a romantic dinner at a restaurant. Suddenly the skin on the man’s face begins to fall off. The Lovers is a stop motion relationship horror and unromantic comedy about a couple forced to deal with escalating bodily transformations.
Neighbour Abdi
Douwe Djistra / The Netherlands / 2022 / 29 mins
How can you understand a violent past? Somali-born Abdi reenacts his life, marked by war and criminality, with the help of his neighbour and filmmaker Douwe.
