Category: Best Micro Film – 2024 WSXA PARIS

Original Film Title: Error-Errance

Director’s Name: Maica Gugolati

Writer’s Name: Maica Gugolati

Producer: Mudita Production

Country of Origin: Trinidad and Tobago

Country of Filming : Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of

Language: Spanish

Runtime: 17 minutes

Film Description:

This video art – poetical docufiction- is based on real-life stories collected between 2018 and 2023 in Trinidad and Tobago (WI) with female migrants from Venezuela of different generations.
The witness and sharings have been transformed into a fictional female migrant leviathan story shared in a phone-vocal conversation between a “friend” and the director, who is a migrant as well.
Unknown people have shared the poetry material during my stay in Mexico.
Accomplished during the art residency ERROR in CDMX (Mexico) in 2023.

This video art – poetical docufiction- is based on real-life stories collected between 2018 and 2023 in Trinidad and Tobago (WI) with female migrants from Venezuela of different generations.
The witness and sharings have been transformed into a fictional female migrant leviathan story shared in a phone-vocal conversation between a “friend” and the director, who is a migrant as well.
Unknown people have shared the poetry material during my stay in Mexico.
Accomplished during the art residency ERROR in CDMX (Mexico) in 2023.

Original Film Title: Promise me I’ll leave

Director’s Name: Aymeric Haefflinger, Clément Arlotti

Writer’s Name: Aymeric Aymeric

Producer: Clément Arlotti

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming : France

Language: French

Runtime: 2 minutes 20 seconds

Film Description:

In a world where the Olympian realm of gods is just another corporation among many, Prometheus has not managed to escape his punishment. Exchanging chains and eagle for a suit and a computer, he waits desperately to be set free.

The clock has just struck, and his monitor goes dark; the workday is over. Could tonight be the night when Prometheus finally manages to break free?

Original Film Title: Coeur de Pierre

Director’s Name: Jimmy Danny Begue

Writer’s Name: Jimmy Danny Begue

Producer: Nathalia Rossetti

Country of Origin: Portugal

Country of Filming : Portugal

Language: English

Runtime: 9 minutes 37 seconds

Film Description:

George Ginsburg (40s) is a new immigrant from France, a guitar player in a night club in Tel Aviv . His whole emotional world is – his girlfriend Michelle (late 20s) also immigrated from France and his dog Packo. When he receives a message about Michel’s death in a terrorist attack at the “Dolphinarium” Dicko, his life ends also.

Original Film Title: Salut

Director’s Name: Yuri Riklis

Writer’s Name: Yuri Riklis

Producer: Yuri Riklis

Country of Origin: Israel

Country of Filming : Israel

Language:

Runtime: 3 minutes

Film Description:

George Ginsburg (40s) is a new immigrant from France, a guitar player in a night club in Tel Aviv . His whole emotional world is – his girlfriend Michelle (late 20s) also immigrated from France and his dog Packo. When he receives a message about Michel’s death in a terrorist attack at the “Dolphinarium” Dicko, his life ends also.