FOUR MINUTES TIL MIDNIGHT
Long-Form Narrative Shorts
(Various Countries, 92 min)
THE BEAST
(France, 24 min, 2023)
On vacation on his family in the countryside, a young city boy is forced to participate in wild boar hunts in the cornfields. Naive and fearful, he lives in constant fear of a mysterious beast that adults say would live in the countryside.
In French with English subtitles
CUT ME IF YOU CAN
(US, 21 min, 2023)
Stuck in the loop of a horror B-movie and knowing they're always the first ones to die as per the cliché horror movie formula, two black characters decide to reject their fate and rebel against the script. They must outwit the serial killer and escape the theatre in order to survive...but the film has other plans.
DRAGON FRUIT
(Canada, 27 min, 2023)
In a violent, dystopian future, a single mother attempts to grow a dragon fruit sprout so she can one day sell it for cash.
I COULD JUST DIE, AND THAT WOULD BE ALL RIGHT
(US, 20 min, 2023)
Trying to end her life, a woman offers herself as a meal to the monster in the woods near her house. But her plan backfires when she wakes up with a thirst for blood and realizes she has joined the ranks of the immortal undead.
THE BEAST
(France, 24 min, 2023)
On vacation on his family in the countryside, a young city boy is forced to participate in wild boar hunts in the cornfields. Naive and fearful, he lives in constant fear of a mysterious beast that adults say would live in the countryside.
In French with English subtitles
Director Biography - Joris Laquittant
Joris Laquittant was born in 1990. Graduated from La Fémis in editing in 2017, Joris works now as a chief editor, working alongside Anna Cazenave Cambet, Eric Judor, and the French Canadian collective RKSS (We Are Zombies, Wake Up). In addition to his main profession, he defends the creation of a genre cinema on French soil, summoning as much the codes of American cinema of the 80s/90s as the re-appropriation of the French rural landscape as a theater of the fantastic of a disturbing strangeness.
- Year2023
- Runtime24 minutes
- LanguageFrench
- CountryFrance
- PremiereNorth Carolina Premiere
- Subtitle LanguageFrench
- DirectorJoris Laquittant
- ScreenwriterJoris Laquittant
- ProducerArnaud Bruttin
- CastLysandre Robic, Igor Van Dessel
FOUR MINUTES TIL MIDNIGHT
Long-Form Narrative Shorts
(Various Countries, 92 min)
THE BEAST
(France, 24 min, 2023)
On vacation on his family in the countryside, a young city boy is forced to participate in wild boar hunts in the cornfields. Naive and fearful, he lives in constant fear of a mysterious beast that adults say would live in the countryside.
In French with English subtitles
CUT ME IF YOU CAN
(US, 21 min, 2023)
Stuck in the loop of a horror B-movie and knowing they're always the first ones to die as per the cliché horror movie formula, two black characters decide to reject their fate and rebel against the script. They must outwit the serial killer and escape the theatre in order to survive...but the film has other plans.
DRAGON FRUIT
(Canada, 27 min, 2023)
In a violent, dystopian future, a single mother attempts to grow a dragon fruit sprout so she can one day sell it for cash.
I COULD JUST DIE, AND THAT WOULD BE ALL RIGHT
(US, 20 min, 2023)
Trying to end her life, a woman offers herself as a meal to the monster in the woods near her house. But her plan backfires when she wakes up with a thirst for blood and realizes she has joined the ranks of the immortal undead.
THE BEAST
(France, 24 min, 2023)
On vacation on his family in the countryside, a young city boy is forced to participate in wild boar hunts in the cornfields. Naive and fearful, he lives in constant fear of a mysterious beast that adults say would live in the countryside.
In French with English subtitles
Director Biography - Joris Laquittant
Joris Laquittant was born in 1990. Graduated from La Fémis in editing in 2017, Joris works now as a chief editor, working alongside Anna Cazenave Cambet, Eric Judor, and the French Canadian collective RKSS (We Are Zombies, Wake Up). In addition to his main profession, he defends the creation of a genre cinema on French soil, summoning as much the codes of American cinema of the 80s/90s as the re-appropriation of the French rural landscape as a theater of the fantastic of a disturbing strangeness.
- Year2023
- Runtime24 minutes
- LanguageFrench
- CountryFrance
- PremiereNorth Carolina Premiere
- Subtitle LanguageFrench
- DirectorJoris Laquittant
- ScreenwriterJoris Laquittant
- ProducerArnaud Bruttin
- CastLysandre Robic, Igor Van Dessel