Award winning short films – FNC 2024

Screening of November 7th with filmmaker Alison McAlpine (Perfectly a Strangeness) in attendance
Screening of November 16th with filmmaker Mo Matton (Gender Reveal) in attendance

Come and join us to discover the FNC 53rd edition winners: unique short films that stood out for their audacity and their excellence.

SANS VOIX | Samuel Patthey
Switzerland | 2024 | 15 min | No dialogue | Best Animation Award (nouveaux alchimistes)

The picture of a young raver facing a fundamental change of life.

GENDER REVEAL | Mo Matton
Canada (Québec) | 2024 | 13 min | Original English version with French subtitles | Audience Award (national competition)

Rhys, a dedicated people pleaser, ends up at their boss’s gender reveal party with their two partners. The trans throuple soon realizes they are facing more than they were prepared for, and their ability to survive the event comes into question.

GRANDMAMAUNTSISTERCAT | Zuza Banasińska
Netherlands, Poland | 2024 | 23 min | Original Polish version with English subtitles | Dada International Award (nouveaux alchinistes)

Created with archival materials from communist Poland, the film tells the story of a multispecies matriarchal family through the eyes of a child grappling with the reproduction of ideological and representational systems.

SAMAA | Ehsan Gharib
Canada | 2024 | 2 min | No dialogue | Dada National Award (nouveaux alchimistes)

A caged bird flutters and flails in a struggle for freedom. But only by surrendering to the transcendent power of music and movement is the bird finally able to soar.

PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS | Alison McAlpine
Canada | 2024 | 15 min | No dialogue | Grand Prize (national competition)

In the dazzling incandescence of an unknown desert, three donkeys discover an abandoned astronomical observatory and the universe itself. A sensory, cinematic exploration of what a story can be.

VOX HUMANA | Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan
Philippines, Singapore, United States | 2024 | 22 min | Original Tagalog version with English subtitles | Loup argenté (international competition)

An eccentric biologist interviews a wild man who was found in the forest after an earthquake hit a small mountain town.