Paris Lift-Off Film Festival 2024
Network Round Shorts
Monday 30th September - Sunday 6th October
1. Surrender
Director/Writer/Producer: Raphael Buisson
Producer: Jean Dumont
Country of Origin: United States
Synopsis: Two brothers find themselves entangled in a violent confrontation at a beach house in Malibu. One of the brothers loses his life, while the other, awaiting the arrival of the police, reflects on the events that led to this tragedy
2. In appearance
Director/Writer: Marine ARLEN
Writer: GENDERA Aurélie
Producers: Raymond ACQUAVIVA, Franck ARLEN
Country of Origin: France
Synopsis: Students girls with different backgrounds and convictions are preparing for their business school's Miss election night. This wild and controversial event questions the image of the "ideal woman" in 2024, in the era of social media, conflicting "body positive" movements, and the democratization of cosmetic surgery.
3. Eden
Director/Writer: Louis-Ferdinand Jean Larrouturou
Producer: Rachel / Roncin
Country of Origin: France
Synopsis: A film about the journey into memory, oscillating between infinite lightness and the incipient, misunderstood pain of childhood. Eve dives into her unconscious in search of the memory of her childhood, from which she has long been dissociated.
4. my mom
Writer/Producer: Yasir Musa Al_nasr
Country of Origin: Iraq
Synopsis: Hamed, 28 years old, suffers from a psychological complex. He lives alone in a small house. He hides a woman in the basement and enjoys abusing her. He listens to the sound of a young man being beaten, so he tries to help. After the child enters the house and tells him his story, he tries to teach him how to use a gun so that he will not be beaten again, etc. If they enter the basement toward the imprisoned woman, something unexpected happens.
5. EXPÉDITION SARAWAK 93
Director/Writer: Amandine Schejbal
Producer: Louis Legout
Country of Origin: France
Synopsis: At the age of 20, Amandine discovers an old file in her family archives about an expedition led by her father nearly 30 years ago. In 1993, Rémy Schejbal, a seasoned spelunker, assembled a small team and headed to Malaysia. At the end of this human adventure, he achieved a technical feat: photographing the world's largest cave for the first time.
6. Metempsychosis
Director/Writer/Producer: Martin Arnaldo
Country of Origin: Philippines
Synopsis: During Manila's 2020 lockdown, a filmmaker captures the lingering signs of life in a once-bustling city, now eerily deserted, through time-lapse photography, blurring the boundaries of time.
7. A Day Like Tonight
Directors/Writers/Producers: Patricia Allison, Philipp Walsch
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Synopsis: A man leaps from a rooftop to escape his reality and the apathetic world in which he lives, only to question his existence in another. Philipp Walsch and Patricia Allison (Sex Education) star in this experimental portrayal of a modern psychosis.
8. Voyeuress
Director/Writer/Producer: Jan Fabris
Writer: Irena Žugič
Country of Origin: Slovenia
Synopsis: What if a person you are secretly watching, is also watching you?
9.The Beast of Gévaudan
Director/Writer/Producer: Timothy Van Mieghem
Producers: Joseph Williams, Chris Van Mieghem
Country of Origin: United States
Synopsis: An 18th century frontiersman is hired by witch hunters to track down a runaway coven hiding in the wilderness.
10. Winter Song
Director/Writer: Kate Graham
Producer: James Bridger
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Synopsis: At an isolated house in Yorkshire, a Composer’s reality starts to crumble as she struggles to balance work and early motherhood.
11. Memoirs of Métiers - Until the river runs dry
Director/Producer: Krisztián Egry
Country of Origin: Hungary
Synopsis: In Transylvania, there is the historical Kisbacon watermill, which is owned and operated by two brothers who tirelessly grind flour from which bread is made and grain for the animals. Operating since 1714 or 1835, the three-story building is a living legacy of a bygone era.
12. FRØDAME
Director/Writer: AUBREY BANG-GUERIN
Country of Origin: France
Synopsis: An elderly, eccentric woman, nearing the end of her life spends her last day at home indulging in small pleasures before journeying out into the woods to return to her true amphibian form, and leave her human life behind for good.
13. Tension
Directors: Dariya Susak,Pavel Pakhomov, Nina Frolova
Producer: Dariya Susak
Country of Origin: Germany
Synopsis: A person is transformed from an individual into part of the crowd, and in the end, is killed for dubious ideas.
14. The Lost Boys
Director/Writer: Bryan Young
Producers: Bryan Young, Huston Evans, Ryan Call
United States
Synopsis: The Lost Boys is a 2024 short film written, directed, and produced by Bryan Young. It tells the story of a young man haunted by the events of his past who embarks on a fateful visit to a familiar grave.
15. Duel
Director, Writer: Al Johnson
Producers: Al Johnson, Sam Grant
Country of Origin: United States
Synopsis: The true test of a warrior is not by how many battles he wins, but in the manner he wins them.
16. Vamp Ink
Director, Writer & Producer: Kassandra Stanley Shostle
Country of Origin: France
Synopsis: A Gothic Tale of a Bloodthirsty Artist and Her Creations
17. Kismet
By: Lucien Newell
Country of Origin: United States
Synopsis: The dissimilar lives of twelve California locals are shown in raw form.
