Category: 2024 WSXA PARIS

Original Film Title: Burn That Trash

Director’s Name: Christopher Mack

Writer’s Name: Christopher Mack

Producer: Clarence Tokley

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: France

Language: English

Runtime: 2 minutes 24 seconds

Film Description:

As AI infiltrates our lives more and more, what purpose will human beings serve? Who would you save?

Original Film Title: The Ambush

Director’s Name: Fabrizio Fenech

Writer’s Name: Christian Kotey

Producer: Jean Carbonaro

Country of Origin: Malta

Country of Filming: Malta

Language: English

Runtime: 10 minutes 27 seconds

Film Description:

In a world filled with zombies, a soldier’s life takes an unexpected turn as he fights for survival.

Original Film Title: Angel Fleet

Director’s Name: Tristan Loraine

Writer’s Name: Tristan Loraine, Cashmira Pramanik

Producer: Tristan Loraine

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Language: English

Runtime: 24 minutes 30 seconds

Film Description:

Following the loss of their father in a gliding accident, daughters Molly (Darcy Jacobs), Romina (Millie Lewis) and their mum (Jessica Hilliard) struggle in different ways to come to terms with the tragedy.

Original Film Title: 夕占 – A Foretelling at the Dusk

Director’s Name: Hirokazu Fukawa

Writer’s Name: Hirokazu Fukawa

Producer: Hirokazu Fukawa

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States, Japan

Language: English

Runtime: 32 minutes 26 seconds

Film Description:

Do you wish to know what happen in a future?

A folklore often tells us a banal and mundane life that is a timeless matter with a strange event with a trickster. If people remember it, it’s because its strangeness. Otherwise, it can be only a passing event that we never pay attention to, and forget it among busy daily events. A Japanese monk walks with “Shakujou” that is a long stick with brass rings on a top, while he practices in a mountain. Every step he walks on his path, the sound of metal rings make a mark on his life. Marks are a flow of time to the death, moment by moment, no matter something happens, or not.

This is a story of the time a candle is lit.

“Yuke” is a foretelling that fashioned in the 7th century in Japan. You stand at a corner of a crossroad and listen to words of passersby’s at a dusk dark enough time you couldn’t tell who are those passersby. You bring those words to a foreteller. She will tell what you want to know. Voices come to you are no one’s voice but comes from other world, demons, sprits and gods, through passersby. Isn’t this a lot like what you would say on your psychoanalyst’s bed?

The shrine maiden who wishes to listen voices and stands at a corner of a crossroad this evening.

Original Film Title: BAREKNUCKLE

Director’s Name: Alex De Ocampo

Writer’s Name: Alex De Ocampo, Mark Labella, Roger Porter

Producer: Alex De Ocampo, Kevin Kreider, Devon Diep

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 18 minutes 39 seconds

Film Description:

A hitman, coming to terms with his sexuality, grapples with the dual challenge of breaking free from a toxic relationship while confronting the merciless underworld he’s chosen, ultimately aiming to redefine his own destiny through self-love and redemption.

Original Film Title: The Knife

Director’s Name: Said Elimam

Writer’s Name: Said Elimam

Producer: Said Elimam

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: France

Language: France

Runtime: 2 minutes 20 seconds

Film Description:

The true value of hard work lies not just in the outcome but in the process itself. The short film highlights the importance of dedication, craftsmanship, and finding joy and peace in the simple pleasures of life, out of our busy and stressing schedules.

Original Film Title: In The Static

Director’s Name: Lauren Hogan

Writer’s Name: Lauren Hogan

Producer: Sebastian Cid

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 16 minutes 34 seconds

Film Description:

A washed-up child star haunted by memories of his former success sets out to revive his career with the help of his optimistic friend but soon realizes the magnitude of the journey on his way back to the top.

Original Film Title: Barefoot

Director’s Name: Julia Knox, Kasey Orthmann

Writer’s Name: Julia Knox

Producer: Julia Knox

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 5 minutes 56 seconds

Film Description:

What should have been a routine appointment at the OBGYN for Molly Manzel, it spirals out of control when the doctor can’t get to her vagina because the doctor is so distracted by her ugly feet.

Original Film Title: HİÇBİR YERE AİT

Director’s Name: Serap ÇİFTÇİ MAYER

Writer’s Name: Serap ÇİFTÇİ MAYER

Producer: Serap ÇİFTÇİ MAYER, Saeed NASİRİ

Country of Origin: Turkey

Country of Filming: Turkey

Language: Turkish

Runtime: 14 minutes

Film Description:

Sami, who grew up as a religious man, does not feel like he belongs anywhere as he suppresses his desires and the life he wants to live. Family bloodlines and personal struggles draw him into the dilemma of being both an ‘executioner’ and a ‘victim’. His son Fuat earns money online to pay off his father’s debts. But all the money he earns returns to him also as debt. This father-son relationship, whose balance of give and take is unsteady, is dragged into a chaos of which they are unaware.

Original Film Title: Prompt Date

Director’s Name: Richard Graham

Writer’s Name: Ruud C. Visser

Producer: Jake Vithana

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Language: English

Runtime: 10 minutes 2 seconds

Film Description:

A date goes horribly wrong when the friends the couple have employed to feed them lines meet in real life and battle over intellectual superiority.