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Short Film Spotlight: Mira

Synopsis: A struggling accordionist busker gets more than she bargained for when her desire to get noticed attracts the attention of a mysterious and enticing competitor.

Written and directed by Eva Louise Hall.

Musical direction by Calvin Arsenia.

Mira’s Accordion Theme composed by Erica Marie Mancini.

Sound by Calvin Arsenia and J Ashley Miller.

Voice cast:
Vanessa Severo as Mira
Jessica Paige as Lore
Ava Armstrong as Young Mira
Eva Louise Hall as Mama

Short Film Spotlight: Sleeping with the Fishes

Note: Select the (FR) audio track to experience the film as intended by the filmmakers — without YouTube’s AI voices.

Synopsis: A man traumatized by his youth in a reformatory is convinced he can save street children destined for a tragic adult life by killing them. For him, dying young allows one to live eternally as the best version of oneself.

Directed by:
Camille Colonna d’Istria Amourdedieu
Justine Gault
Giulia Gigante
Nicolas Knoll
Noa Lavino
Marion Robe
Manon Seve
Lucas Wallez

Original Score by Senthuuran.

Sound by Guilhem Favard, Tristan Le Bozec, José Vicente and Yoann Poncet.

Voiced by Clara Thebault and Frederic Perchet.

Short Film Spotlight: Skel

Synopsis: On the outskirts of an isolated, weathered city, soldiers set off to fight. Magnus, the king’s right-hand man, is torn between his duty as a general and saving his daughter.

Directed by:
Elsa Baillehaiche
Marie Guérin du Grandlaunay
Titouan Hélias
Kimberley Hubert
Antonin Lemaître
Benoît Perrigot
Tiphaine Toisoul
Ion-Teodor Vilceanu

Music by Mathis Coopman.

Sound by José Vicente, Yoann Poncet and Baptiste Leblanc.

Voice cast:
Arianne Aggiage as Sélène
Serge Faliu as The King
Michel Élias as Magnus
José Vicente as Capitaine

Short Film Spotlight: Sea of Leaves

Synopsis: In a world riddled with piracy, Viktor, a captain haunted by his past, and his first mate, Bill, decide to venture into a gigantic forest in search of revenge.

Directed by:
Vincent Bohnert
Margaux Bontron
Anaë Duquenne
Juliette Gilles-Payart
Veronika Nikulina
Romain Paillet
Yoann Paquet
Quentin Thisse
Maxime Verclytte

Original Score by Matei Pouzet.

Sound by Mickaël Merrheim, José Vicente and Yoann Poncet.

Voice cast:
Mark Kaczmarek as Captain
Robert Laborde as Bill
Vincent Bohnert as Crew
Quentin Thisse as Crew

Short Film Spotlight: The Nose

Synopsis: What if you woke up the morning of your big job interview… and your nose was gone?

Inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s short story, this Korean animated short gives the story a modern twist — trading 19th-century St. Petersburg for the anxious world of plastic surgery.

Directed by Jooim Kim.

Written by Jooim Kim and Lee HanJun.

Short Film Spotlight: La Grande Arche (The Great Arch)

Synopsis: It’s 7.30 am, rush hour at La Défense. Footsteps echo on the pavement. The smell of coffee fills the air. Silhouettes slip between the legs of the Red Spider, yet no one seems to notice. Sitting at the top of the steps of the Great Arch, I draw.

Written and directed by Camille Authouart.

Sound by Mathieu Tiger.

Music by Bachar Mar-Khalifé.

Voiced by Flora Fisbach.

Short Film Spotlight: Allégeance (Allegiance)

Note: Switch the audio track to French.

Synopsis: Accompanied by her fool, a queen grants the material wishes of her people in exchange for their submission. But one day, the queen is faced with an abstract request: happiness.

Directed by:
Alex Bajon
Lucie Coste
Charlie Coucoureux
Hindha Koné
Anne Le
Aurore Meyer
Mariette Pons
Éloïse Vacher

Original Score by Edgard Chenest.

Sound by Tristan Le Bozec, Sébastien Fournier, Yoann Poncet, Thomas Vary and José Vicente.

Voiced by Véronique Augereau, Boris Rehlinger and Kylian Trouillard.

Short Film Spotlight: Beef Creek

Watch Beef Creek on YouTube. (The short film is age-restricted and is intended for mature audiences.)

Synopsis: Beef Creek follows a withered occultist who runs a New York-style deli in middle of nowhere Wyoming with his team of misfit deli warriors.

Directed by Kurt Vinci and Seby X Martinez.

Written by Seby X Martinez.

Voice cast:
Kelly Polk as Lily
Jean-Paul Zuhur as Ralphie
Seby X Martinez as Horace and Sandra
Lloyd Kaufman as Mr. Petrulo
Jaynee Anne Monarrez as Salmahay
Jeff Spencer as Additional Voices
Andrew Feyer as Additional Voices

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Mixed Media Spotlight: Vercors

Synopsis: In a camp on the outskirts of the Vercors mountains, five Resistance fighters, forgotten by their headquarters, struggle against boredom, frustration and a difficult daily life.

By dint of inaction, Joseph, a kid who just joined the camp, starts to stand up to his uncle, who is in charge of the Maquisards. Little by little, madness takes hold of Joseph and spreads to the others.

Directed by Lyonel Charmette.

Written by Lyonel Charmette and Jordan Raux.

Animation by Vanessa Burtey, Eve Ceccarelli, Ekin Koca and Martin Touze.

Sound by Flavien Van Haezevelde and Yoann Veyrat.

Original Score by Pierre Oberkampf.

Voice cast:
Anthony Davy as Joseph
Xavier-Adrien Laurent as Saint-Cyr
Boris Bayard as Alberte
Kévin Chevy as Le Ricain
Hubert Rollet as L’Echarpe

Short Film Spotlight: Memories of Twenty-Seven

Synopsis: After a painful breakup, a 27-year-old man struggles to focus during ballet practice. When he injures his ankle in class, memories of love, loss, and regret begin to surface.

Director Hojin Lee is an artist who integrates new media — particularly XR (extended reality) technologies — into her creative practice to explore and address pressing social issues such as mental health and societal conflict.

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