Category: WSXA PARIS 2026

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Original Film Title: Lost In Iteration: The Dream That Dreams

Director’s Name: Esther Gronenborn

Writer’s Name: Esther Gronenborn

Producer: Esther Gronenborn

Country of Origin: Germany

Country of Filming: Germany

Language: English

Runtime: 5 minutes

Film Description:

Lost in Iteration I: The Dream That Dreams is a 4K video installation exploring how perception, authorship and the collective mind transform under the influence of generative AI.
The video unfolds as a visual hallucination: The images flicker through an endless loop of transformations. Faces multiply, blur, and dissolve; bodies twist into impossible forms.
A woman, perhaps many, appear, dissolving and reappearing in glitch-ridden loops. Her body becomes a mutable surface, shaped by systems that remember and forget. A man’s voice interjects-not with certainty, but with questions: Who dreams these images? Whose desire do they reflect?
The visual language is marked by algorithmic errors, digital textures, and distortions that undermine clarity. The installation offers no clear resolution. Instead, it presents a space of perpetual transition, a moment caught between observation and a feverish nightmare, between projection and reality. A dreamlike inquiry into how art is defined in a time when AI might develop its own „intent“. Does artistic meaning shift from creation to reception? Is generative AI a vast ocean of our collective subconscious, surfacing visions that blur the line between private memory and shared cultural dreams? Perhaps, in the near future, we won’t merely dream images, they might begin to dream us.
The piece will be displayed on a large flat-screen monitor in a white, minimalist room reminiscent of a hospital waiting area- white walls, sparse white furniture, and a sterile atmosphere. This setting sharpens the viewer’s sense of dislocation and frees the work as both intimate and clinical observation.

(FINALIST)

Original Film Title: I AM DIFFERENT

Director’s Name: MR.PRESS

Writer’s Name: MR.PRESS, MARCELO PRESOTTO

Producer: MARCELO PRESOTTO

Country of Origin: Brazil

Country of Filming: Brazil

Language: English

Runtime: 6 minutes 15 seconds

Film Description:

“I Am Different” is a short film that follows the life of a boy born with an unusual condition, something that isolates him from the world from the very beginning. There is no transformation — he already is what he fears revealing. His life is marked by bullying, rejection and prejudice, a direct metaphor for inequality and the silent violence many people endure simply for being who they are.

The narrative spans decades of pain until his old age, when he finally discovers peace — not granted by the world, but found within himself, through acceptance of his own nature and a return to what he has always been.

“I Am Different” uses fantasy to illuminate humanity. It is a story of reconciliation, identity and the profound journey of someone who only finds belonging when he decides to belong to himself.

(FINALIST)

Original Film Title: All My Love is Youife

Director’s Name: ENRICO RUDOLPH FAMULARI VALENTINO

Writer’s Name: ENRICO RUDOLPH FAMULARI VALENTINO

Producer: ENRICO RUDOLPH FAMULARI VALENTINO

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes 1 second

Film Description:

“All The Love Is You” is a late-night lullaby turned arena anthem—a letter from a mother to her little boy. It moves between two worlds: the glare of stage lights and the quiet glow of home. Verses trace the after-show drift—city haze, flight windows, empty corridors—while the chorus blooms with a simple promise: every mile, every note, every heartbeat still points back to him.
Sonically it’s glossy R&B-pop: warm keys, brushed steel vocal textures, and a hook that lands like a hug. Lyrically it’s protective and transparent—no grand speeches, just the truth parents know in their bones: “home” isn’t a place, it’s a person. By the last refrain, the stadium swells fall away to dawn light and kitchen steam, and the message lands clear: fame fades, crowds turn, flights end—but the compass stays fixed. All the love? It’s you.

(FINALIST)

Original Film Title: Elements: A Journey Through Life

Director’s Name: Aaron David McCoy

Writer’s Name: Amy Elizabeth Kronquist-McCoy

Producer: Aaron David McCoy

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 20 minutes

Film Description:

Elements: A Journey Through Life is a 25-minute immersive art experience that blends cinematic storytelling, large-scale projection, spatial sound, and original music into a poetic exploration of existence. The audience is surrounded on all sides as the journey unfolds through the four elements—Fire, Water, Earth, and Air—culminating in a final ascension into Aether, the unseen connective force between all things. Each element represents a stage of human life: birth, growth, grounding, and transcendence.

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Original Film Title: BEYOND THE ICE WALL

Director’s Name: Jeremy Ouisse

Writer’s Name: Brune Rio

Producer: Jeremy Ouisse

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: France

Language: English

Runtime: 2 minutes 48 seconds

Film Description:

Two explorers uncover a hidden passage through the massive ice barrier that borders our flat Earth. On the other side, they are greeted by a mysterious reptilian guide who leads them through a series of unsettling revelations.

(FINALIST)

Original Film Title: New Frontier

Director’s Name: Dario Melo Maciel

Writer’s Name: Dario Melo Maciel

Producer: Dario Melo Maciel

Country of Origin: Brazil

Country of Filming: Brazil

Language: English, Portuguese

Runtime: 11 minutes

Film Description:

Maria is an angel and she’s sleeping. Today is her birthday, but the player gets the gift. Wake Maria up so she can tell you a spectacular story and take you to the limits of human experience. Use your voice to transport yourself to the New Frontier!