LA Jesus – dir. Richard David Charles Boddington

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Original Film Title: LA Jesus

Director’s Name: Richard David Charles Boddington

Writer’s Name: Richard David Charles Boddington

Producer: Richard David Charles Boddington

Country of Origin: Canada

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 1 hour 33 minutes

Film Description:

A troubled executive meets a homeless man on Venice Beach who claims to be Jesus Christ.

The Error : Beyond Algorithm – dir. Dongkwan Kim

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Original Film Title: The Error : Beyond Algorithm

Director’s Name: Dongkwan Kim

Writer’s Name: Dongkwan Kim

Producer: Dongkwan Kim

Country of Origin: South Korea

Country of Filming: South Korea

Language: French

Runtime: 9 minutes 41 seconds

Film Description:

In a near-future Seoul, algorithms decide everything — what to eat,
where to go, and even who to love.

The male protagonist, a creature of the system like everyone around him,
is matched with a woman at 95% compatibility. But the moment a 98%
match appears on her screen, she leaves without hesitation. Walking home
through a city full of people absorbed in their own algorithmic worlds,
he feels the emptiness of a connection that never really existed.

Then, unexpectedly, a café. Warm, strange, unlike anything the algorithm
would have recommended.

Inside, he meets her — the female protagonist, a café owner who pushes
her own handwritten special menu in front of him before he can open an
app, whose recommendations make no logical sense, and whose energy is
somehow both chaotic and completely disarming. He fixes things around
her café without being asked. She notices. Small moments accumulate into
something neither of them can quite name.

Then the algorithm speaks: 23% compatibility.

What will become of the two of them?

Le voyage de Juliette – dir. Patrick Attali, Thibaut Miche

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Original Film Title: Le voyage de Juliette

Director’s Name: Patrick Attali, Thibaut Miche

Writer’s Name: Patrick Attali, Thibaut Miche

Producer: Patrick Attali, Thibaut Miche

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: France

Language: French

Runtime: 1 hour 9 minutes

Film Description:

Juliette is a young woman who has been passionate about fashion since childhood. As the years pass, she experiences a series of encounters and unexpected adventures that shape her path and her identity. Through moments of doubt, discovery, and inspiration, Juliette gradually finds her place in a world where creativity, elegance, and personal expression become her guiding forces.

The Pigeon Life – dir. Nicholas Zorro Iway

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Original Film Title: The Pigeon Life

Director’s Name: Nicholas Zorro Iway

Writer’s Name: Nicholas Zorro Iway

Producer: Nicholas Zorro Iway

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: France, United States

Language: English, French

Runtime: 1 hour 38 minutes 20 seconds

Film Description:

A season in the life of a modern pigeon fancier as he navigates community, fatherhood, and his love for birds.

Pearls of Memories – dir. Alina Tacmelova

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Original Film Title: Pearls of Memories

Director’s Name: Alina Tacmelova

Writer’s Name: Alina Tacmelova

Producer: Alina Tacmelova

Country of Origin: Moldova

Country of Filming: Canada

Language: English

Runtime: 2 minutes

Film Description:

Pearls of Memories is a poetic short film that explores how human memories are formed and preserved. Through a tactile artistic process, fragments of life-emotions, moments, and personal stories-are transformed into symbolic pearls. Each pearl represents a memory shaped by time, experience, and human connection. The film reflects on the fragile yet powerful nature of memory, suggesting that our lives are made of countless small moments that, together, form the necklace of our identity

NEXT UP – dir. Elisabeth Silveiro

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Original Film Title: NEXT UP

Director’s Name: Elisabeth Silveiro

Writer’s Name: Elisabeth Silveiro, Marion H von Loewenstern

Producer: Marion H von Loewenstern

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Language: English

Runtime: 29 minutes 54 seconds

Film Description:

Juliette Mandeville and Tilly Anders, two actresses follow a call for an audition to London. Juliette is already a successful and well-known actress who, however, due to her age, is no longer offered good film roles. Tilly Anders on the other hand, is at the beginning of her career, she is very young, inexperienced and full of self-doubt. The director is a shady character driven by selfishness. Juliettes audition doesn’t go well . Tilly is overcome nervousness and flees from the theatre before it’s her turn. How will the two women deal with it and will their lives take a turn? In the style of a surreal dramedy, the story gives a socially critical insight into the entertainment industry, with its possible obstacles and difficulties.

The reflexion of a woman in the glance of a bear – dir. Gisele LAFOND

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Original Film Title: The reflexion of a woman in the glance of a bear – dir. Gisele LAFOND

Director’s Name: Gisele LAFOND

Writer’s Name: Gisele LAFOND

Producer: Gisele LAFOND

Country of Origin: France, United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English, French

Runtime: 50 minutes

Film Description:

From Yellowstone (Wyoming) to Alaska, a woman goes on an adventure to observe daily life of Grizzly bears.
Passionate and engaged, she will walk alone for her first observations of this powerful predator in Yellowstone wild ecosystem.
Then her approach and her experience will lead her to Katmaï area in Alaska. With Jo, her pilot and experienced guide, exploring large and wild Katmaï peninsula where the Grizzlies reign supreme !
Over the seasons, she will share us her adventure with respect and humility, so close to Grizzlies, fascinating, strong, smart with a pure elegance.
Each day, Grizzlies will invite Gisele to a quest, thinking to what brings them together or separate…
Who are the Grizzlies ? So far from Teady bear of our kids dreams !
Isn’t it something from us in them or at the opposite, something from them in us ?
We will see a commun light in their eyes …
A search of meanings, Life !
This adventure following Grizzlies pathways is « the reflexion of a woman in the glance of a bear »
Two beings from animal world share a story, together …in their own way…

Jackie – dir. Alexander Pardo

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Original Film Title: Jackie

Director’s Name: Alexander Pardo

Writer’s Name: Alexander Pardo

Producer: Alexander Pardo, Isaiah Wolfe, Ashima Aiyer

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 14 minutes 7 seconds

Film Description:

This short documentary follows Jackie Buntan through a day of training and home life, offering an intimate glimpse behind her rise. In 2024, she would make history as the inaugural ONE Strawweight Kickboxing World Champion.

The Deep Dive – dir. Blair Murphy

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Original Film Title: The Deep Dive

Director’s Name: Blair Murphy

Writer’s Name: Blair Murphy

Producer: Blair Murphy

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 33 minutes 14 seconds

Film Description:

Pennsylvanian independent filmmaker and unlikely scholar Blair Murphy goes nuts exploring Shakespeare… and hits the jackpot

In sight SITE Focus – dir. Athina Chatzigiannaki

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Original Film Title: In sight SITE Focus

Director’s Name: Athina Chatzigiannaki

Writer’s Name: Athina Chatzigiannaki

Producer: Campbell Graham

Country of Origin: Australia

Country of Filming: Australia

Language: English, Greek (Modern)

Runtime: 8 minutes 56 seconds

Film Description:

Born in Sydney and taken away at five by her parents to live in their original homeland, Greece, she only comes to Australia when her son wants to study at the UniversIty.
Back in Sydney, she starts experiencing an increasing familiarity with some surroundings, not sure if that familIarity comes from actual memories she has as a very young child; or her imagination is kicking in colouring things. Tracing those “memories,” she reaches a point where past, present and future fuse into a unique perception and understanding, making her feel connected once again with this place and through that with her own inner self as a whole.