From Unknown to Unforgettable – dir. Anette Baay

(Honorable Mention)

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Original Film Title: From Unknown to Unforgettable

Director’s Name: Anette Baay

Writer’s Name: Anette Baay

Producer: Anette Baay

Country of Origin: Netherlands

Country of Filming: Syrian Arab Republic

Language: Dutch

Runtime: 21 minutes 51 seconds

Film Description:

Due to a mission for the United Nations,
a young family from the South of the Netherlands
was sent to Damascus.

They discovered the rich history and unique culture of Syria.

A year full of surprises…

2000 – 2001

A Beautiful Trap – dir. Eleanna Tavlikou

(Winner)

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Original Film Title: A Beautiful Trap

Director’s Name: Eleanna Tavlikou

Writer’s Name: Eleanna Tavlikou

Producer: Eleanna Tavlikou

Country of Origin: Greece

Country of Filming: Greece

Language: English

Runtime: 1 hour 37 minutes 28 seconds

Film Description:

A Beautiful Trap is an experimental AI short film that reflects on human struggles with escapism and entrapment. Created with sustainable AI filmmaking tools, the project uses minimal resources to tell a universal story: a man falls into the depths, lured by illusions of escape, only to discover that true freedom begins when we face what drags us down.

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

(Finalist)

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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.