Nature is the very basis for hope and fear in these three dark and thought-provoking shorts. Showcase Runtime : 34 minutes 31 seconds

Adam, a young hunter, is convinced that a danger lurks in a forest plagued by strange phenomena. But when one of his friends is found dead, this fear becomes a certainty. Adam decides to return to the woods, determined to find the source of this threat. After a degree in special effects and 3D animation, Nicolas Millot began his career in post-production on films such as 'The World's End', 'Interstellar', or 'Ex Machina'. Fascinated by the world of the imagination and fantasy fiction, he also directed several music videos and experimental shorts. With Alexandre Gredzinski and Michaël Larue, he founded the MARA collective in 2022, with the ambition of combining their experience in the field of special effects with more personal and ambitious projects.

THE WILD ROOTS

WINNER of Best Music Award: Nominations for Best Sound Design, Best Short Genre Film, Best International Short Film & Best Short Film of Fisheye 2023

1917, on the desert battlefront of a war for resources, Marcel is assigned a crucial message for the French trenches. Arthur Fanget is a French director of photography from Lyon. Graduating from ARFIS in 2010, he has been using his talent behind the camera in commercials, videoclips, and fiction. Drawing on his experience in short films, he made his first feature film in 2019 'Soula', which gained an award at the 77th Mostra de Venice. For a decade and a hundred commercials, he directed music videos and shorts then, in 2021, he directed two shorts 'Magma' and 'Mirage'. Arthur then set up at Studio 24 in Lyon. He is also president of a local technician association and owner of a complete cinema equipment fleet including cameras, lights, grip, and trucks.

MIRAGE

WINNER of Best Costume Design: Nominations for Best Music, Best Sound Design, Best International Short Film & Best Short Film of Fisheye 2023

In a city, Sadia is involved in a mysterious traffic. One of her friends, Arthur, surprises her and discovers what she is hiding. He will have to make a choice. Born in 1975 in La Louvière (Belgium), Nadège Herrygers graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1997 from the Saint-Luc art school in Brussels, in the “comics” section. In 1999, she obtained a master’s degree in film writing and analysis at the “Université Libre de Bruxelles”. From 1999 to 2018, she worked at Plaza Art (a major art-house cinema in Wallonia) and at the Mons International Film Festival (Belgium) as a manager for young audiences. In addition to programming and organizing educational activities, Nadège wanted to get involved in creation. Therefore, she did numerous short film workshops with schools, obtaining grants from the Ministry of Education. Some of these films have been selected and awarded in various festivals for young audiences. In 1999, she opened and still runs a weekly stop motion workshop for teenagers. Several short films made in this workshop have won awards in international festivals. She has been employed full time since 2018, by the Province of Hainaut, to continue this writing and directing work with different types of audiences, on a larger territory.

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