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
Due to global warming a young polar bear has to leave her home and moves to Zurich. Together with other animals she tries to make a living with casual jobs until she suddenly has an idea, that will change the world for ever.
● Noah Erni
● 3'
● Switzerland
Marcos is a teenager who plays basketball. A dramatic event will jeopardize his passion.
● Marcos Gualda
● 9’
● Spain