Mad Max – Land of The Blind – dir. Francisco Maximiano Gama

(Finalist)

Original Film Title: Mad Max – Land of The Blind

Director’s Name: Francisco Maximiano Gama

Writer’s Name: Francisco Maximiano Gama

Producer: Francisco Maximiano Gama

Country of Origin: Portugal

Country of Filming: Portugal

Language: Portuguese

Runtime: 4 minutes 21 seconds

Film Description:

In a sun-scorched world where civilization has collapsed beneath storms of war, greed, and silence, the last highways twist through the rusted bones of a forgotten age. Sandstorms choke the horizon. Ancient machines lie shattered. Only violence fuels what remains.
Max, a wanderer, rides alone across the crumbling highways . Haunted by a past he never speaks of, he drifts not just as a fighter — but as a seeker of something long lost.
In this world, humanity has forgotten how to dream. The power to imagine — to create, to feel beyond survival — has withered in the choking dust. Stories have turned to static. Art to ash. Imagination, once a fire, is now a flicker in the dark.
But Max remembers.
When he rescues Kira, a mysterious young woman carrying the last encrypted fragment of the Seed Archive — a mythic vault said to contain the lost essence of human memory, art, and wonder — their journey becomes more than survival.
It becomes rebellion against forgetting.
It becomes a war for the right to dream again.