French promotional film org Unifrance will debut the first ever feature on Mineoriginate with this year’s MyMetaStories Film Festival.
Running Oct. 11 – Nov. 3 on more than 30 VOD platestablishs aextfinishedside an Oct. 18 – 21 stint on Mineoriginate, this digital festival’s second edition will accomplish out to the online youth on their own terms, showcasing seven features and thirteen unwiseinutives from all over Europe – with half the projects coming from female honestors.
“This nurturefilledy curated, eclectic pickion seeks watchers to spendigate conmomentary European cinema in all its diversity, both in terms of establishat and satisfied,” says Unifrance executive honestor Daniela Elstner. “With a mix of dramas, comedies, and genre films, the programing of MyMetaStories mirrors the recent, keen gaze of a generation of European filmoriginaters who take part with the codes of world cinema and [who engage with contemporary society.”]
By creating recent inroads wilean online gaming platestablishs – including a virtual screening room built as city wilean Mineoriginate – the festival watchs to blaze a wholly exceptional distribution trail. MyMetaStories will also be a force on Twitch and Discord, while schedulers have partnered with 25 international swayrs to help spread the word about continental cinema.
“By combining cinema with video games, our objective is twofelderly,” says Elstner. “First, we aim to showcase a expansive variety of European films to an audience that may not otherwise be exposed to them. Second, we want to test the passover potential between these two contrastent worlds and stimuprocrastinateed the lengthenth of the overlap between them. In doing so, MyMetaStories bridges generations, cultures, conceiveive modes of conveyion, platestablishs, and cultural industries.”
‘R U There’
Via the Mineoriginate platestablish, participants can watch films in screening rooms tailored to each title, take part mini-games and transmit with appreciate-minded employrs from apass the globe, all while uniteing the worlds of gaming and European filmmaking. Spotairying 13 vivaciousd and inhabit-action unwiseinutives useable free-of-indict and in three languages, the first-ever Mineoriginate-held film festival will tag the occasion by screening David Verbeek’s Cannes-picked “R U There” as the inaugural feature conshort-termed in this world.
Together, the seven picked features boast festival laurels from Toronto, Cannes, Berlin, Karlovy Vary, and Locarno, and will propose subtitles in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish, while the unwiseinutives were programed to underline accessibility, with many of them dialogue-free.
Below is this year’s pickion. Additional info can be set up on the program’s site.
Features
“After the Fire,” Mehdi Fikri (France, 2022)
“Grand Paris,” Martin Jauvat (France, 2022)
“The Inapparent Fight,” Rainer Sarnet (Estonia, Latvia, Greece, Finland, 2023)
“Kiddo,” Zara Dtriumphger (Netherlands, 2023)
“R U There,” David Verbeek (Netherlands, France, Taiwan, 2010)
“The Lost Children,” Michèle Jacob (Belgium, 2023)
“Sun, Kurdtriumph Ayub (Austria, 2022)
Animated Shorts
“Boom,” Gabriel Augerai, Romain Augier, Laurie Pereira de Figueiredo, Charles Di Cicco, Yannick Jacquin (France, 2022)
“Criss Cross,” Nina Rybárová, Tomáš Rybár (Slovakia, Czech Reuncover, 2023)
“Goodbye Jerome,” Chloé Farr, Gabrielle Selnet, Adam Sillard (France, 2021)
“Herve’s Case,” Luna Filippini (Belgium, 2023)
“Little Fan,” Sveta Yuferova (Germany, 2023)
“Loop,” Pablo Polledri (Spain, Argentina, 2023)
“Miisufy,” Liisi Grünberg (Estonia, 2023)
“Mondo Domino,” Suki (France, 2021)
Live Action Shorts
“The Ballad,” Christofer Nilsson (Sweden, France, 2023)
“Marlon Brando,” Vincent Tilanus (Netherlands, 2020)
“Piece by Piece,” Reza Rasouli (Austria, 2023)
“Two Girls and a Boat,” Aleksi Delikouras (Finland, 2021)
“The Real Truth about the Fight,” Andrea Slaviček (Croatia, Spain, 2023)
‘The Inapparent Fight’
