Paris Lift-Off Film Festival 2024
Network Round Features

Monday 30th September - Sunday 6th October

1. New Squam City
Director/Writer/Producer: Quentin Trélet
Country of Origin: France
Synopsis: A woman disappears at a rave not far from skyscrapers of a generic city. Thomas, a cameraman, who regularly films this kind of events, goes to investigate. Thomas soon realizes that an entity is trying to hush up the affair. The only clues he has : the party filmed some time before the disappearance and an old drawing of a desert…

2. Kudung
Director/Writer/Producer: Tokpa Korlo
Country of Origin: United States
Synopsis: Kudung tells the story of the extraordinary events surrounding the passing of one of the highest lamas in Tibetan Buddhism, Shamar Rinpoche. 2500 years ago the Buddha foretold, "In the future, a great being with a red crown will come to alleviate the suffering of many.” The incarnate lineage of the Shamarpas, also known as the red crown lamas, brought this incredible prediction to fruition.

3. The End of Humanity
Director/Writer:Andreas Duerr
Producer/Writer: Jan-Marc Furer
Writer: Oliver Dürr
Country of Origin: Switzerland
Synopsis:  Strange talk has become mainstream: The end of humanity is near. AI, ChatGPT, humanoid robots are beginning to take over.

Among the technology elite, the idea is gaining ground that humans must merge with machines in order to remain useful. This idea is called transhumanism.

4. The Bangkok Job
Director/Writer/Producer: Clive saunders
Country of Origin: KUnited Kingdom
Synopsis:  A washed-up hitman and a safecracker on the run are the unlikely team hired to assassinate one of the most powerful gangsters in all of Asia —The Beast of Bangkok (he's called that because no one can pronounce his real name).

5. GET WRECKED
Directors. Robin Mountjoy, Andrea Porter
Writers. Robin Mountjoy, Semyon White
Producers. Semyon White, Salvatore Franciosa
Country of Origin: United States
Synopsis: When the leader of a successful band of narcissistic hellions sees his kid brother gunned down on stage, he vows hard rock revenge.