International Competition 5

  • 27/04/2025 – 14:30 – Flagey
  • 30/04/2025 – 21:00 – Vendôme

Majonezë

Giulia Grandinetti

Pays Italy
Genre Fiction
2024 - 20'00'' - Color/B&W
Ersekë, Albania. Elyria lives with her family following the strict rules imposed by her father, hiding her anger with obedience. A powerful desire for rebellion grows in her day by day that will lead her to the fulfillment of a bitter but necessary act of revolution.

SAUNA DAY

Anna Hints, Tushar Prakash

Pays Estonia
Genre Fiction
2024 - 13'17'' - Color
SAUNA DAY invites you into the world of Southern Estonian men who go to the dark-intimate space of a smoke sauna after a hard day's work. Beneath their tough exteriors lies a desire for connection, veiled in secrecy.

Hun heter Ida (Her name is Ida)

Oscar Bøe

Pays Norway
Genre Fiction
2024 - 15'00'' - Couleur
During a long-awaited family pizza night, Martin makes an announcement that challenges the family dynamic. His parents come to understand that the truth cannot be accepted as one.

Don’t Wake the Sleeping Child (Ne réveillez pas l’enfant qui dort)

Kevin Aubert

Pays France, Senegal
Genre Fiction
2025 - 27'00'' - Black & White
Diamant, a 15-year-old girl from Dakar, dreams of making films. But her family has other plans for her future. Faced with decisions about her life being made without her consent, Diamant confides in her sister: she longs for escape and rest. Next morning, Diamant has fallen into an inexplicably deep sleep – a silent act of resistance against the obligations being imposed on her. Her mysterious slumber stokes tensions and fears that come to threaten not only Diamant herself, but also her family and the very home that shelters them all.

Dette Er Ikke En Fest (det er en vinkveld) (Sorry I’m Late (But I Brought a Choir))

Håkon Anton Olavsen

Pays Norway
Genre Fiction
2024 - 10'00' - Couleur
The night is still young as a drunken choir awaits in a hallway, eagerly in need of an answer: Will Nina let them into her party or not? And is it even a party?