FRENCH INTERNATIONAL MODERN FILM AND SCRIPT FESTIVAL
Selection of the season
September - November 2023
Best Short Film
A mature couple manages one partner's early onset Alzheimer's disease in their own unique way.
John Reoli
Best Short Film
With a knock at the door Joe, not realising, allows a strange toy clown into the house. All the Clown wants to do is have a bit of fun. The clowns mischief leads Jake to believe his older brother Joe is playing tricks on him. There is only so many pranks Jake will take, he stomps on the clown on his way to confront Joe. However, the clown doesn't take being mistreated well and soon escalates his shenanigans, will the brothers pay the price?
Daniel Michael Thomas
Concrete 49
Best Short Film
In 2022, there are approximately 30,000 people who identify as Native American or American Indian, currently living in New York City. This is three of those stories.
Justin Deegan
Best Short Film
The innocence of infancy, the blessings of childhood, the toil of work, the wretchedness of hard times, the pain of growing old. In short, the stages of our lives. It's the same - and yet not the same - the whole world over. All portrayed in this film by much-loved poetry and evocative photography.
Richard Slater
Best Short Film
Raggity Anns - A Short Film is a preview of our upcoming dramatic and suspenseful web series. The series will depict the lives of three internally flawed women, with traumatic childhoods, who attempt to navigate through life’s peaks and valleys in the affluent suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia.
Rachel Neal
Trust
Best Short Film
A 15 years old daughter lives with her mom and her young brother..........
Delara Rasouli
The Monster You Became
Best Short Film
Gus, a literal swamp monster, has been treated like an outcast his entire life. That is, until, he meets Beth. Beth is the first human to not treat him like an abomination. Let's hope Gus doesn't mess this up.
Daniel Scott
Best Short Film
Charlie, a gender-fluid sexual abuse survivors, struggles with balancing her intrusive PTSD, his acceptance of her gender identity, and crippling social anxiety at a relaxing yoga class. Will she be able to accept herself, or will her past trauma keep her caged?
Eli Matilda Ridley
Best Short Film
The video "Recover" was shot without the kayaker knowing that I was filming. I accidentally came across this man and was simply intrigued by his meditative movements, his focus and how his body and the canoe seem to merge into one. He'd be upside down, disappearing into the water, sometimes just long enough to make you wonder if he'd ever make it back up.
Frances Alleblas
Best Short Film
A moment in the life of Bessie Stringfield, a black female motorcyclist who criss-crossed the US many times during the Jim Crow era, sleeping on the back of her bike when she wasn't allowed a room to sleep in due to her skin color.
Victoria Barbara Jorgensen
Friday Evening
Best Short Film
Two poodles and a bengal cat endure their humans while they prepare dinner on a summer evening.
Greg McDonald
Best Short Film
When his best girl friend expresses her romantic feelings, a blind teenage boy struggles to express his. He realizes that sometimes love really is blind.
Robin Noonan-Price
Best Short Film
Please Rise is a political drama about a committee that is formed to choose a new national anthem after a fictional Middle-Eastern dictatorship goes through a revolution. Set in one meeting room, the film shows committee members peacefully arriving at a unanimous choice that is then suspiciously disqualified due to the songwriter’s ties to the previous regime.
Sheida Sheikhha
The Big Bad Woods
Best Horror
A villager sets out to find wood, but soon finds HIMSELF in a dark place.
Wolf Turner
Don't Ask Why
Best Thriller
Surreal and demonstrative moments echo in the mind of a woman during the aftermath of a terrifying abduction.
Vahid Azer
Best Television Script - Pilot
Maternal love transcends time, space and dimensions, even after twenty-five years of separation. A quest that could revolutionize humanity and unite Marta and her daughter, Pérola, after a catastrophe that has divided the world.
Camila Noronha Cruz
Best Short Film
In a race against time, four strong, spiritually-gifted women tap into the power of prayer to seek answers and help desperate police find a beloved pastor who mysteriously disappears.
Ray Jones
Best Short Film
A reluctant thief who was recently released from Prison agrees to another job for one last score. In the process, he finds out he's been betrayed and he turns the tables on the traitor.
Paul X. Campanella
Best Short Film
A family tries to organize a funeral during a prevailing pandemic. But once they realize that they can´t deviate from the guidelines, that allow a maximum of eight guests, the task becomes impossible. They are forced to exclude two family members. Who should they exclude and based on what premise?
Ivana Lalovic
Best Horror
After being knocked out, Vince Dickinson must escape the woods whilst a helping hand tries his best. But a good villain doesn't give up that easily.
Jack Vickers
Hades Park
Best Television Script - Pilot
Six weeks after her pregnant wife's murder, a star detective wants to return to duty believing she won’t seek vengeance, but then someone possessed by a boy who witnessed the killing emerges from the notorious Hades Park, and suddenly she's not so sure.
Andrew Riley
Best Short Film
Living in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, a conservative society, Maitha has a small and seemingly simple dream of swimming in the sea that she frequents. Maitha, economically challenged and a veiled Muslim woman, encounters various obstacles.
Sarra'a Al Shehhi
Best Short Film
The image says, 1930’s Europe but is it? A lone border guard stops a horse drawn wagon driven by Hymie. The border guard soon uncovers Hymie isn’t in fact traveling alone, leading the border guard to deploy the start of 'twenty ways to spot an illegal immigrant’ in this social justice comedy built around the absurdity of observation.
Peter M. Kershaw
Don't Go in There
Best Thriller
Diogo senses that something has happened to his girlfriend Mafalda and decides to go look for her. When he goes to the place where she has gone, he is faced with something unexpected that drastically changes his destiny.
Cátia Costa Martins
School of Murder
Best Medium-Length Script
Best Drama Screenplay
Best War Screenplay
Luke Davies
sin city tales
Best Short Film
Sin City Tales features a veteran Las Vegas hitman who is mystically influenced and fails to complete his last job and goes on the run. His boss hires a young, temperamental ‘wannabe’ to eliminate him. They cross paths in a desolate saloon in the middle of nowhere and face off in an old-time Wild West showdown.
Dale Melgaard
Superheroes
Best Short Film
Superheroes come in all shapes and sizes.
Cetre Pegues
Best Short Film
Yoel, 30, is what was called in the 90s a “Lubavitch”, an Orthodox Jew. Every Saturday morning, he goes, accompanied by his 6-year-old son, to honor Shabbat in the synagogue in his neighborhood, a primary school set up for the occasion.That day, the rabbi of the community of devotees, Rav Kalmenson, an impressive man with his charisma and his long beard, will challenge Yoel by announcing to him that his son “is lighting up”.
Dayan D. Oualid
Visit to the city of mum
Best Short Documentary
A visit to my home town, which is considered one of the ugliest in Germany, brings back some pleasant but also less pleasant memories. The small town is known as one of the ugliest cities in Germany. But everyone has to be born somewhere, no exceptions can be made.
Mathias Will