22nd Nevermore Film Festival

FIVE MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT Long-Form Narrative Shorts

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Here is a collection of five long-form narrative shorts (19-54 min each) from around the world.

EXIT: With their deadline approaching fast, a small team of construction workers isn't too happy to find an anomaly in the house they're renovating. Especially one that breaks the laws of physics. But maybe there’s something to be gained from this? Like a finder's fee…Or nightmare fuel.

MACABRE NIGHT: It's nighttime. During a transfer, maximum security inmates escape and heads for a small town. The authorities call on citizens to assist in the capture of the fugitives - by any means necessary - offering a large cash reward. Amid the chaos that ensues, a young couple in crisis tries to stay alive.

ALLODIUM: Anna was sent away at the age of ten by her father after her mother apparently left them. Now, twenty years later she is going back to the family farm after she learns her father has killed himself. She is hoping to find answers to why this happened, why she was sent away, and why her mother left, never to be heard of again. Getting close to what happened, strange things starts occurring in the house, and maybe the past is best left alone.

LANDGRAVES: A young journalist goes into the deep wood to interview the heavy-metal duo "Landgraves", who records an album for the first time since a murder imprisonment. His curiosity pushes him to follow the band deep in the forest, as a snowstorm arises.

THE BUREAU: In a future dystopia, administration is left to AI. Following a recalculation of his family budget, Jules has to separate from one of his children. To challenge this decision, he will have to go to the Bureau, the administrative management center.

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In a future dystopia, administration is left to AI. Following a recalculation of his family budget, Jules has to separate from one of his children. To challenge this decision, he will have to go to the Bureau, the administrative management center.

In French With English subtitles.


Director - Sengthe Vanh Bouapha


Sengthevanh Bouapha is a French writer-director and visual artist. After his studies in the school of les Beaux-Arts de Tours, he lives and works at Orléans since 2008. He makes performances based on boxing and video installations. As writer-director, he works with Plan Libre on several SCI-FI dystopia scripts, inspired by Terry Gilliam, Franz Kafka or Isaac Asimov. In 2018, he began to direct his first short movie The Bureau. Today he tries to write a sci-fi utopic script.

  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    25 minutes
  • Language
    French
  • Country
    France
  • Director
    Sengthe Vanh Bouapha
  • Cast
    Mathurin Voltz