Opening feature
IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
Barry Jenkins
UNITED STATES | 117 minutes | 2018
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ASHES TO ASHES
Jamille Van Wijngaarden, Ingejan Ligthart Schenk, Steye Hallema
O.V.
English
- IN COMPETITION -Ashes to Ashes is a surreal tragicomedy filmed in one-shot from the perspective of an urn containing ashes. Viewers encounter the...
NETHERLANDS | 11 minutes | 2016
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BATTLESCAR
Nico Casavecchia, Martin Allais
O.V.
English
- IN COMPETITION -Be transported into the middle of an animated world where a teenage Puerto Rican girl, Lupe (voiced by Rosario Dawson), is discovering...
UNITED STATES, France | 9 minutes | 2018
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BLOODLESS
Gina Kim
O.V.
Korean | st English
- IN COMPETITION -Based on a true story, Bloodless explores the murder of a Korean sex worker by a US soldier in 1992. Bloodless was shot on location at...
SOUTH KOREA | 12 minutes | 2017
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BORDERLINE
Assaf Machnes
O.V.
Hebrew | st English
- IN COMPETITION -A VR short following a confusing encounter on the Israeli-Egyptian border. Based on true events.
ISRAEL | 10 minutes | 2018
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DINNER PARTY
Angel Manuel Soto
O.V.
English
Dinner Party is a short virtual reality thriller that dramatizes the incredible story of Betty and Barney Hill, who in the 1960s reported the first...
UNITED STATES | 13 minutes | 2018
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DRAWING ROOM
Sara Kolster, Jan Rothuizen
O.V.
English
The directors recreated the interior and the view of a room on the roof of a department store in the center of Amsterdam. Drawing Room deals with the...
NETHERLANDS | 7 minutes | 2015
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EVE - DANCE IS AN UNPLACEABLE PLACE
Daniel González, Margherita Bergamo
O.V.
- Without dialogue
How might it feel to slip into the skin of a dancer? VR experiencers are transported to unexpected geographies within 360 degree dance films and...
FRANCE, Spain | 25 minutes | 2018
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FIRE ESCAPE: AN INTERACTIVE VR SERIES
Vassiliki Khonsari, Navid Khonsari, Sam Butin, Andres Perez-Duarte
O.V.
English
- IN COMPETITION -Peer into the private lives of eight New Yorkers from your fire escape to discover suspicion and deception. Set against a shadowy...
UNITED STATES | 20 minutes | 2018
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HOROS
Pulsarium
- IN STUDENT COMPETITION -Discover the abyss of a virtual world with Séni, your guide. You will dive in the skin of anadventurer and live an exploration....
QUéBEC/CANADA | 20 minutes | 2018
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HYPERMODÈLES
Braulio Christi De Lima
- IN STUDENT COMPETITION -As contemporary medias continually broadcast an unattainable model of virtual beauty that puts the individual in conflict with...
QUéBEC/CANADA | 5 minutes | 2018
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I SAW THE FUTURE VR
François Vautier
O.V.
English
A journey in a 3D space reflecting visionary writer Arthur C. Clarke's futuristic predictions. His features quickly dematerialize into a multitude of...
FRANCE | 5 minutes | 2017
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ISLE OF DOGS: BEHIND THE SCENES
O.V.
English
This experience places the viewer inside the miniature world of Wes Anderson's stop motion animation film, face to face with the cast of dogs as they are...
GREAT BRITAIN, United States, Canada | 5 minutes | 2018
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JE NE T'AIME PAS
Tommy Weber
O.V.
French | st English
Paris. Middle of the night. Clara answers an unknown but insistent caller. An emergency: the man on the other end asks her to come to Brittany to bid her...
FRANCE | 14 minutes | 2018
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JURASSIC WORLD: BLUE
Felix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphael
O.V.
English
It has been three years since the catastrophic events at the Jurassic World theme park. The threat of a natural disaster erupting looms eerily over the...
CANADA | 8 minutes | 2018
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KOBOLD VR EXPERIENCE
Max Sacker
O.V.
German | st English
- IN COMPETITION -Kobold blurs the line between cinema and VR gaming. Immerse yourself in true, cinematic realism, explore a fully interactive universe...
GERMANY | 30 minutes | 2018
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LA APPARIZIONE
Christian Lemmerz
O.V.
- Without dialogue
- IN COMPETITION -Entering the virtual reality of Lemmerz’ La Apparizione, one encounters the Crucified One. A golden tortured body, released from the...
DENMARK | 3 minutes | 2017
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LÎLE DES MORTS
Benjamin Nuel
O.V.
French
- IN COMPETITION -Isle of the Dead is a loose adaptation of the 1883 best-known painting of the Swiss symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin. Directly inspired...
FRANCE | 9 minutes | 2018
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MADE THIS WAY: REDEFINING MASCULINITY
Irem Harnak, Elli Raynai
O.V.
English
- IN COMPETITION -Comprised of photographs and virtual reality volumetric testimonials, Made This Way: Redefining Masculinity is an interactive mixed-media...
CANADA, United States | 18 minutes | 2018
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MAKE NOISE
May Abdalla
O.V.
English
- IN COMPETITION -Make Noise is a unique virtual reality experience which uses the power of your voice to smash through the barriers the suffragettes faced...
GREAT BRITAIN | 9 minutes | 2018
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MUSEUM OF SYMMETRY
Paloma Dawkins
O.V.
English
- IN COMPETITION -An absurdist mind-and-body romp through the highest clouds to the ocean deep, Museum of Symmetry is the explosive feel-good...
CANADA | 20 minutes | 2018
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REMAIN AT HOME
Gero A.E. Egger
O.V.
Arabic | st English
The viewer slips into the role of an altruistic grandmother who needs to convince her grandson and his family to abandon their home and escape the war,...
AUSTRIA | 4 minutes | 2017
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ROOMS
Christian Zipfel
O.V.
English | st French and english
- IN COMPETITION -Ever since sedentism, mankind has been creating closed and strictly regulated rooms. They facilitate the satisfaction of human drives and...
GERMANY | 24 minutes | 2018
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SONGBIRD
Lucy Greenwell, Michelle and Uri Kranot
O.V.
English
- IN COMPETITION -The Guardian’s latest VR experience, Songbird, is an animated fairy tale with a dark heart. You will be transported to the island of...
UNITED KINGDOM, Denmark | 10 minutes | 2018
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SPACE EXPLORERS: A NEW DAWN
Felix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphael
O.V.
English
Witness firsthand the lives of veteran and novice NASA astronauts alike as they navigate the trials and sacrifices of their training and missions. Narrated...
CANADA | 20 minutes | 2018