AUGUST 21, FOMO, 20:00
Worldwide Competition
Cambodia, 2023, 18 min
Director Jake Wachtel
THE SENTRY
In the misty jungles of Cambodia, a suave Western spy's routine mission goes spectacularly off-script when one particularly stubborn security guard refuses to be just another footnote in someone else's story.
Egypt, 2023, 10 min
Director Sondos Shabayek
SOUSOU’S TIKTOK
What begins as a bubbly sales pitch of creams, lingerie and lip plumpers slowly unravels into a chilling portrait of coercion. As Sara struggles to keep the performance alive, the violence escalates offscreen.
Ghana, 2023, 8 min
Director Caleb Nii Odartey Aryee
FUTURE
In the depths of Ghana’s illegal gold mining underworld known as galamsey, a young man named Future carries scars far heavier than the gold he once chased. Now 23, he looks back on nine brutal years spent underground, where survival came at the cost of innocence, health, and humanity.
Argentina, 2023, 15 min
Director Felipe Wein
FROZEN HEELS
On the coldest day of the year, in downtown Buenos Aires, Celia, a young prostitute, begins to learn the trade alongside Betty, an experienced worker who guides her through her first steps.
Russia, 2023, 12 min
Directors Marina Verik, Dmitry Mosyagin
THERE ONCE WAS A TIGER
The story of an extraordinary friendship between a tiger and a goat in the zoo, and how a playful goat helped a bored tiger gain freedom.
Based on a true story that happened in 2015 with the tiger Amur and the goat Timur in a safari park in Primorye in the Far East of Russia.
USA, 2023, 3 min
Director Oriana Ng
SUBWAY CRUSH
An influencer films a handsome stranger on the subway without his consent.
Australia, 2023, 7 min
Director David Collier
HUMAN ZOO
Human Zoo unfolds in a world of glass, concrete and silence, where ordinary life has been stripped of intimacy and placed on display. The spaces are calm, controlled and strangely familiar, yet every gesture carries the weight of something lost.
Belgium, 2023, 13 min
Director Michaël Vermaercke
SOUND OF THE SOMME
Sound of the Somme tells the true story of private James C. Richardson, a 20-year-old bagpiper serving in the 16th Canadian Scottish Battalion. Despite being assigned to stay behind as stretcher bearer, James is determined to play his bagpipes in the heat of the battle. His unwavering resolve to support his comrades and boost morale leads him to defy orders, risking his life to bring a glimmer of hope amidst the horrors of war. This heroic act earned James the Victoria Cross, the highest honor within the British Commonwealth.
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