Films in Competition: Plots, Emotions, and Details
SBIFest 2024
1)Perfect Wall
Republic of Korea
13,06 minutes
Director Sea-hoon Jeon
Born in South Korea, Studied in China for 16 years, graduated from elementary, middle, high school, and college in China. Now a graduate student at Hanyang University Department of Theater and Film in South Korea.
Plot:
Symmetrical stiffness Perfectionism artist Oh Ju-bom's perfect daily life begins to distort.
2)Last cabin at the right
Spain
29,18 min utes
Director Pablo S. Martínez
Plot:
A summer camp counselor arrives late on closing day after a breakdown and calls Andrea, a colleague he had arranged to meet, but she is not there. Calling her, he is surprised to learn that Ann, a new counselor, has died of a heart attack while taking a shower shortly after the campers left, and that Andrea has fled in horror because she has recognized her voice in the screams that came from the cabin where had died. Convinced that someone has played a practical joke on her, the counselor decides to go looking for him to get him out of the camp. But what you will find in the late Ann's cabin will be something very different.
3) "Mond Appétit"
Netherlands
6 , 44 minutes
Director Sjoerd de Bont
Plot:
Fear of the dentist can give rise to real nightmares!
4) "VISITING"
Italy
9,22 minutes
Direcor Piero Cannata
Piero Cannata, screenwriter and director, was born in Palermo in 1974. After attending a course in film and theater directing, he began producing horror and dramatic short films, appreciated and awarded in various international festivals. His works, imbued with a strong pessimism and a melancholy irony, speak of human beings and their weaknesses, but also of hope and desire for redemption.
Plot:
A villa on the hills, murky desires, the past that doesn't die. The visit begins.
5) ZMIENA
France
13,22 minutes
Director Pierre Renverseau
In 2006, he directed his first cinema short film Niort / Aubagne, with Christophe Salengro and Fabrizio Rongione, a detective comedy which was nominated in several international festivals and was broadcast in TV. In 2009, he finished his second film Just a detour, a scary film with avec Shirley Bousquet. He directs after that three low budget comedies : Resto (2010), Caste (2012) and Resto 2 (2015). In 2014, his film Nô (Exit), allows him to return to fantastic universe. After Secret Lands, a thriller, his new short Zmiena, freely adapted from The Kafka’s Metamorphosis is finished since this year. All his films have been selected and awarded in festivals (Moncton’s FICFA, Valenciennes, l’Alpe d’Huez, Alpinale Voralberg, Bizarrya Short Film Fest …).
Plot:
Autumn, dawn. The forest rustles everywhere, it looks like it lives. On the edge, an old isolated house. And in this house, a room, decrepit. A man, Greg, wakes up painfully, like he's having a hangover ... If it was not that ...
6) The Pretty (La Bonita)
Spain
16,21 minutes
Director Miguel Córcoles
Plot:
An representative of actors arrives at the cocktail bar “The Pretty” whose waitress demands payment of a coin from all the clients who go too far with her.
7)Pulchra
Mexico
4,53 minutes
Director Fernando Rosales
Plot:
Victoria, a model obsessed with youth, faces rejection from a surgeon due to psychological concerns. Desperate to maintain her beauty, she turns to witchcraft in search of a spell for eternal youth. However, as she delves deeper into a dark and mysterious world, she discovers that immortality comes at a much higher price than she ever imagined