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God is Shy
Dieu est Timide
15’, 2025
France
Fiction, Animation
Synopsis
During a train ride, Ariel and Paul pass the time by sketching their deepest fears. Their game takes an unexpected turn when Gilda, a mysterious passenger, intrudes on their exchange. However, her relationship with fear seems far less innocent than their playful drawings.
Credits
Directed by: Jocelyn Charles | Screenplay: Jocelyn Charles | Editing: Jocelyn Charles | Production Design: Camille Gobourg | Music: P.R2B | Sound Design: Matthieu Gasnier | Cast: Danièle Evenou, Alba Gaia Bellugi, Anthony Bajon | Producer: Joséphine Mancini | Production Company: Remembers
Director's Bio
Jocelyn Charles studied Applied Arts at École Boulle, Estienne, and the Gobelins, where he perfected his skills in drawing and animation. As an illustrator and director of music videos (The Weeknd, L’Impératrice) and short films, he crafts a singular visual signature. Since 2020, he has been collaborating with Remembers studios, founded by Félix de Givry and Ugo Bienvenu—a space where talents from animation, illustration, and cinema converge.
Filmography
2025 God is Shy / Dieu est Timide
Vox Humana
22’, 2024
Philippines, USA, Singapore
Fiction
Synopsis
In the aftermath of an earthquake, the police find a man in the woods. A zoologist, a sound recorder, and a news team grapple with the truth that he may be the cause of all the natural disasters that devastated this small mountain town.
Credits
Directed by: Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan | Screenplay: Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan | Cinematography: Vincent Prochoroff | Editing: Brandon Bunner | Sound Design: Henry Hawks | Cast: Sasa Cabalquinto, Ymeiliza Tabora, Bruce Venida | Producers: Hannah Schierbeek, Alemberg Ang | Production Companies: Prima Materia Pictures, Daluyong Studios | Co-producers: Tan Si En
Director's Bio
Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan is a filmmaker from the Philippines. Eblahan’s works explore themes of trauma, spirituality, and nature, told through the cosmic lens of post-colonial spaces and Indigenous identities. His short film The Headhunter's Daughter was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. He is currently developing his debut feature film, Hum, which participated in the 2023 Résidence du Festival, the 2023 Locarno Academy, and the 2024 Berlinale Script Station.
Filmography
2024 Vox Humana
2023 The Headhunter’s Daughter
2021 Hilum
2019 Umbilical Cord to Heaven
Selected Awards
- Silver Wolf for Best Short Film, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Canada, 2024.
- Gold Hugo for Best Live Action Short Film, Chicago International Film Festival, USA, 2024.
- Student Jury - Best International Film, Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, France, 2025.
- Best Performance Award, Singapore International Film Festival, 2024.
- Grand Prix, 2Annas International Film Festival, Latvia, 2025.
- Best Directing Award, Aigio International Short Film Festival, Greece, 2025.
Trailer
Lout
12’, 2025
Cyprus
Fiction
Synopsis
A socially inept young man programmes an AI chatbot to help him interact with women on dating apps. When he matches with someone he really likes, he has to come to terms with analogue reality.
Credits
Directed by: Christina Georgiou | Screenplay: Christina Georgiou | Cinematography: George Spyris | Editing: David Hands | Production Design: Nuné Tunjikian | Art Direction: Nuné Tunjikian | Music: Christina Georgiou | Sound Design: Christina Georgiou | Cast: Ioannis Maltabes, Maria Constantinou | Voice Actors: Ioannis Maltabes, Eleanor Duncan, Eleni Cosma, Daniel Plackett, Alexia Paraskeva | Producer: Christina Georgiou | Production Company: Blunatic Pictures | Co-producers: George Spyris, David Hands, Harry Ayiotis, Spyriki Productions, Crewhouse Media, Harrysmatic Productions
Director's Bio
Christina Georgiou is a Berlinale Talents alumna, a member of the European Film Academy and a screenwriting mentor at the European Genre Forum. She studied Music (PhD) in London and has contributed as a composer, screenwriter, producer or director, to more than 40 films in Europe and the USA. In 2021, Christina directed and produced her debut documentary feature, The Stray Story: A Dogumentary, which received 13 international awards, was approved for school screenings and is streaming on major platforms. Her short If You Need Me, I Will Fly (2023) received several awards, including Best Documentary at Bradford International Film Festival.
Filmography
2025 Lout
2023 If You Need Me, I Will Fly
2021 The Stray Story: A Dogumentary
2020 Come out of your head!
2018 X
2015 Out of Sight
2005 Ants in a Jar
Trailer
Apocalypse
15’, 2024
France
Documentary, Experimental
Synopsis
Deep in Hellfest, a gigantic metal festival, music gradually takes possession of metalheads.
Credits
Directed by: Benoit Méry | Screenplay: Benoit Méry | Cinematography: Louis Hanquet | Editing: Benoit Méry, Tomas Cali | Sound Design: Jérôme Petit | Producers: Anne Luthand, Marcello Cavagna | Production Company: Le GREC
Director's Bio
Benoit Méry was born in 1981. He lives and works in Paris. Benoit learned from Claire Simon before graduating from Paris 8 (MA in Cinema) and Paris Est (MA in Recording Arts). His artistic take revolves around direct cinema. He questions body, violence and the sense of urgency that inhabits bodies. In 2014, he directed Dans la Peau, a self-produced documentary awarded by France Télévisions. In 2019, he wrote Invisible, an autobiographical radio creation for France Culture. Apocalypse, his first short documentary, won a National Special Mention at Clermont-Ferrand ISFF in 2025 and Special Jury Prize at Festival du Film de Contis.
Filmography
2024 Apocalypse
2024 Double Dragon
Awards
- Prix du Jury, Cinemusica Lisula, L'Île Rousse, France, 2024.
- Prix Spécial du Jury, Festival du Film de Contis, Contis, France, 2025.
Fetish Eurovision-Greece 1991
3’, 2024
Greece
Experimental
Synopsis
Found footage of Greece's entry to the 1991 Fetish Eurovision, which was previously lost in the great fire of 1992.
Credits
Directing, Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Production: Menelas | Cast: Aphrodite HGW
Director's Bio
Menelas is the founder and director of Satyrs and Maenads: the Athens porn film festival. He has been an amateur filmmaker since 2012, and in 2015, he directed his first art porn film and hasn’t looked back. He is involved in what he calls activism through art in Athens. He curates an annual exhibition called Civil Disobedience since 2011, which includes the performance night “Drag Queens read Homoerotic Poetry” since 2016. He also created and co-founded the Queer Theatre Awards that run in Athens between 2012 and 2018.
Filmography
2024 Fetish Eurovision-Greece 1991
2024 Ikaros Reborn
2023 Auto/Visual
2021 Becoming Ithaca
2021 Lovers/Husbands
2019 The Melita Show The Movie
2018 Welcome to Athens
2017 Symposium: an Athenian Rawmance
2016 Scattered Thoughts of a Young Sex Worker
2015 The Raspberry Reich
2013 Post-Orgasmic
2012 The Good Kid
2012 The Naked Truth
Awards
- Best Music, Porn Film Festival, Vienna, Austria, 2025.
Sammi, Who Can Detach His Body Parts
19’, 2025
Indonesia
Fiction
Synopsis
He was born with the peculiar ability to move and remove his body parts. Throughout his life, he shares his body parts with people he loves. Until the day he died, all left from him is a torso with a faceless head. His mother is trying to recollect his body parts.
Credits
Directed by: Rein Maychaelson | Screenplay: Rein Maychaelson, Corenne Ong | Cinematography: Batara Goempar, I.C.S | Editing: Fajar Dwi Putra | Cast: Nai Djenar Maisa Ayu, Jefri Nichol, Damita Almira, Klara Virencia, Sugeng Fadillah, Abbe Rahman, Hatta Rahandy | Producers: Muhammad Ihsan Ibrahim, Astrid Saerong
Director's Bio
Rein Maychaelson is an Indonesian writer and director. He first made his mark with Udin Telekomsel, a film about a boy who can text God with his phone, which was screened at the Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival. In 2018, his short film, Errorist of Seasons, won the Viddsee Juree Awards. The same year, he was named Rising Filmmaker in Popcon Asia. After his mother passed away in 2020, he continued to share his stories through a short film called The Rootless Bloom that explores the theme of loss and separation. The short competed in the Wide Angle section of the 28th Busan International Film Festival, 2023. In 2022, his feature debut project titled The Burning Land also won a fellowship prize from the South East Asia Film LAB.
Filmography
2025 Sammi, Who Can Detach His Body Parts
2020 The Rootless Bloom
2018 Errorist of Seasons
Awards
- Silver Dragon Award, Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2025.
- Jury Special Award, Concorto Film Festival, Italy, 2025.
Trailer
Melanochaita
18’, 2024
Greece
Fiction
Synopsis
In the heart of the busy National Zoo, on an ordinary day, visitors wander captivated by exotic creatures, unaware that somewhere in the garden, an empty cage is about to change their lives forever.
Credits
Directed by: Niko Avgoustidi | Screenplay: Niko Avgoustidi | Cinematography: Yannis Kanakis | Editing: Ioanna Pogiantzi | Production Design: Rectifier | Art Direction: Rectifier | Costume Design: Maria Sarikosta | Sound Design: Valia Tserou | Cast: Patrikios Kostis, Alexandra Hasani, Agapi Asimakopoulou, Filippos Ioannidis, Andi Xhuma, Sofina Lazaraki, Dina Mihailidou, Erato Pissi, Ameriko Melis | Producer: Konstantinos Baliotis | Production Company: 2D2R | Co-producers: Antigoni Rota, Foss Productions
Director's Bio
Niko Avgoustidi was born on the island of Chios, Greece. He studied Medicine and Cinema. His award-winning graduation short film UMMI participated in many Festivals, such as Palm Springs, Odense, Regensburg, Drama ISFF, Athens IFF, etc.. His second short film, Apallou, completed in 2021, is a Greek-French co-production with the participation of the Greek Film Centre, the Greek National TV - ERT, the Greek company 2|D|2|R and the French company FilmO2. He is currently writing the screenplay for his first feature film in collaboration with screenwriter Katerina Kleitsioti (Her Job), funded by the Greek Film Centre in its development stage.
Filmography
2024 Melanochaita
2021 Apallou
2016 UMMI
Trailer
Yellow: A Quantum Tale
23’, 2025
Spain, Cyprus, Turkey, Syria
Documentary, Experimental, Animation
Synopsis
Seeking solace from memories of war and division, a filmmaker in Barcelona follows three lives linked by yellow. Guided by quantum mechanics, she rediscovers filmmaking as witnessing, exploring connection, belonging, and the fragile ethics of documentary practice.
Credits
Directed by: Rahme Veziroglu | Screenplay: Rahme Veziroglu | Cinematography: Rahme Veziroglu | Editing: Rahme Veziroglu | Music: Inal Bilsel | Cast: Arslan Bashir, Ayélen Molina, Claudia Roig Navarro | Narration: José Ignacio Latorre | Producer: Rahme Veziroglu
Director's Bio
Rahme Veziroglu (1984, Famagusta) is an audiovisual artist, researcher, and filmmaker. She holds a Master’s Degree in Social Theory from the University of Amsterdam and another in Creative Documentary Making from La Casa de Cine in Barcelona. Currently, she is a PhD candidate in Fine Arts at the Cyprus University of Technology, where her research delves into docu-fiction filmmaking as a form of resistance to colonial hauntings, exploring absence, memory, and alternative temporalities in Cyprus. Her films and installations have been showcased across Cyprus and internationally in Barcelona, Murcia, Utrecht, Istanbul, Athens, Izmir, Prague, Berlin and Paris.
Filmography
2024 non-binary island
2024 tayf/spectrum
2023 time|s|pace
2022 interval | müddet
2017 Preposition/Edat
2016 Thin Ice