Please note that among the winning films of the monthly competitions (not all), those selected to participate in the Grand Finale in Tangier will be chosen, with public screenings from November 22nd to 24th, 2024, culminating in the Gala Finale. Films that win in a particular category in the monthly competitions will continue to compete in other categories they have entered if selected for the Grand Finale in Tangier.

Best Short Film

"SUGER" by Chen Long


Mahjong parlor owner Li Shikai used his wife Xiaolian's beauty to make money, which made Xiaolian coveted by drug dealers. Li Shikai was forced to become addicted to drugs to protect his wife and was arrested and imprisoned. After being released from drug rehabilitation, everything has already changed. How should Li Shikai face the current predicament.

China, 19 minutes

Best Feature Film

"Gizmo" by Everardo Felipe Garcia


GIZMO is an absurdist black comedy disguised as a police procedural in which the police methodically wastes time and resources, looks the other way and never gets anything done. The disappearance of a young woman inside a Natural Park and the bizarre death of a police chief tie together and begin to circle around a paranoid plot and a possibly supernatural mystery, all the while the film's anti-hero does his best to save his own skin and sanity and avoid any kind of social responsibility or metaphysical entrapment. Is Gizmo a pantheistic horror story or just another day in the mad world of Mexican sur-reality? Who really knows...

Mexico, 1 hour 17 minutes

Best Spanish Feature Film

"LOVE IN YOUR FACE" by Gerald Fillmore


LOVE IN YOUR FACE

Spanish, 1 hour 35 minutes

Best Horror Short Film

"ZMIENA" by Pierre Renverseau


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 ...

France, 13 minutes

"The Staircase of Lost Dreams" by Takeshi Kinugasa


Yuji Hatanaka and his wife Mai live quietly in a suburb near Tokyo. Though they don't have children, they enjoy a modest yet happy life together. One day, while chatting in their living room, they receive a visit from the Miyake couple, Yuji's juniors. However, Yuji's behavior leaves a strong sense of unease. What is the true nature of this unsettling feeling that is revealed in the final three minutes? This one-setting horror unfolds primarily in the living room and entrance of their home.

Japan, 18 minutes

"Blind Date" by Xiaoliao Yang


In a futuristic society where genetically engineered grades are the invisible dividing line between classes, a new human couple who have been dating for four years in Neur0link decide to meet for the first time in real life, where they were once incredibly close, as if they were one in a brain-computer interface metaverse.

United Kingdom, 10 minutes

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