A behind-the-scenes look behind the selfies brings the viewer in the rooms of four 15-year-old girls. Through powerful, observational scenes and intimate conversations, the film raises questions about the normalization of presenting oneself as an object.
● Rosie Morris
● 18’
● UK
This bystander story is told through the perspective of a 15-year old girl, Raquelle, who witnesses her classmate Noah being bullied. When doing the right thing transforms Raquelle from bystander to victim, she finds herself trapped in the same emotional quicksand of her peers.
● Ryan Cannon
● 9’
● USA
What would you do if you could imagine a place and go there with your magic shoes by clapping twice? In this short stop-motion animation, the main character ends up in a big adventure. One in which social media and the modern travel urge of modern society play the main role. From Venice to Cappadocia, the beautiful settings seem to matter less and less than the amount of likes.
● Leticia van Neerven
● 5’
● The Netherlands
Nearly seventeen years old, Laetitia navigates between her attachment disorder and her blatant need for love. In a world where image control is absolute, LOVE ME tells the story of the quest for the love with a capital L, through the various forms of self-representation.
● Romane Garant Chartrand
● 23’
● Canada
An immersive insight into the last hours of 13-year-old Sasha’s life in a boarding school for children deprived of parental care. He is one of the luckiest – an American family finally adopted him. Today he will move to another country forever but there’s something that doesn’t let him go.
● Olha Zhurba
● 19’
● Ukraine
Summer 2031, 104°. Saadia, 16, is oriented in mechanical school although the car industry is in crisis and there are only a few electric cars in circulation. Her friends, Charly and Titi, throw a joke to cheer her up: what if the car of the future was a horse? Against all odds, Saadia trades her scooter for a massive workhorse which she brings back to the heart of her housing project...
● Juliette Gilot
● 17΄
● France
Wide meadows, romping in the woods and building cabins. Leo (12) spends the autumn holidays with big sister Noémie and cousin Emil on Grandma Marlies' farm. However when Leo is surprised by what Grandma Marlies calls big news, Leo faces an identity crisis.
● Tajo Hurrle
● 17’
● Germany
Yves is the sole target of his bullying classmates. His only refuge is in synchronized swimming, which he practices nightly in secret. But when Charlotte, a fellow classmate and member of the team spies him at the pool, he will no longer be able to hide...
● Matthieu Ruyssen
● 22'
● France
Yacine and his friends plan to sneak into 'Fast and Furious 8' by buying cheaper tickets to the film 'Bicycle Thieves.' When the time comes to cut and run, Yacine can't seem to tear himself away from the Italian neorealist classic.
● Anthony Lemaitre
● 16'
● France