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COMPETITION INTERNATIONALE - 1

COMPETITION INTERNATIONALE - 1

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October 15, 2024 to October 18, 2024

Qu'importe la distance | Léo Fontaine
2024 - Short Film - 18 minutes - France - Fiction
It’s 5 a.m. and Yalla is in a hurry. Without her boss's permission, she slips away from her night shift as a nursing assistant and boards a bus, carrying only a heavy bag filled with clothes. The city is still asleep as Yalla sketches out the various bus lines she needs to take on a piece of paper. It’s her first time making this journey: her son is waiting for her.

Le reste n'a pas d'importance | Romain Dumont
2024 - Short Film - 16 minutes - France - Fiction
During a documentary shoot, Cheun, a beloved traffic warden, gets into trouble with a local inspector and quits. His resignation causes a street light to go out. In this new darkness, a filmmaker must rediscover his humanity, while Cheun must continue to invent his cinema.

Jours avant la mort de Nicky | Denis Côté
2024 - Short Film - 20 minutes - Canada - Experimental
Nicky seems to be on a mission. Behind the wheel of her car, roads pass by, but the ideas in her head remain unfathomable. A meal, the discovery of a rifle, chance encounters: the mystery remains unsolved.

The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent | Nebojsa SLIJEPCEVIC
2024 - Short Film - 14 minutes - France - Fiction
February 27, 1993, Strpci, Bosnia and Herzegovina. A passenger train travelling from Belgrade to Bar is stopped by paramilitary forces as part of an ethnic cleansing operation. As they haul off innocent civilians, only one man out of 500 passengers dares to stand up to them. The true story of a man who could not remain silent.

Across the Waters | Viv Li
2024 - Short Film - 16 minutes - France - Fiction
The wind is blowing hard, the weather is dry. In a remote mining town, an unusual young girl becomes curious about a passing truck driver.