PLAGGY BAG
When working class Zoe meets her best mate’s more privileged friends, she tries to ignore the chip on her shoulder and make a good impression. However, when a single-use plastic bag comes to life and hunts down the group one by one, Zoe must face her inner rage head-on.
United Kingdom 2023 / 13:00 / Director: Alex Withers
LAMB
An ordinary day takes a sinister turn for a woman and her child when a stranger walks into their isolated rural home.
Ireland 2022 / 15:00 / Director: Sinéad O’Loughlin
HITO
A 14-year-old girl discovers that the fish she has been given for dinner is a rehabilitated bioweapon named Kiefer.
Philippines 2023 / 21:53 / Director: Stephen Lopez
ZIP
On her 16th birthday, singer-songwriter Melody awakens with a zipper sewn to her mouth. A story about the voiceless, who must fight to be heard.
Canada 2023 / 15:40 / Director: Ava Maria Safai
OPULENCE
Mathilde, a comic strip artist, lives alone in a house-studio in the country. While she’s working hard on her new futuristic adventures album about Saul, her astronaut hero, she is offered a box of old pencils by her neighbour, a second-hand dealer, without imagining for a moment that they have an extraordinary power. Thanks to them, everything Mathilde draws can come true.
France 2023 / 19:14 / Director: Clément Rière