1st FANTASTIC PITCHBOX SESSION
BELLADONA
Magda, 65, just lost her husband, Jean-Pierre. As time goes by, she reconnects with forgotten pleasures, reinvents herself… Until the day Jean-Pierre resurrects, happily expecting his eggs and bacon for breakfast! Magda quickly realizes that she was happier when Jean-Pierre was dead.
Maxime Pistorio
LE DERNIER DINOSAURE (THE PROPAGANDASAURUS)
An old, has-been, embittered special effects artist, specialized in stop-motion monsters, is kidnapped by a dictator who forces him to create some giant monsters effects, that he uses for terrorizing «fake news» sequences, which are supposed to calm the situation in his isolated and… about-to-explode country.
Sacha Feiner
IN VIVO
Maud Carpentier and Boris Tilquin
RONNIE CALLAGHAN
After 35 years of coma, Ronnie Callaghan, super cop full of testosterone, wakes up in great shape. Determined to avenge his missing partner, he will have to face the current world where his outdated muscular methods and his primary machismo bothers poeple. But is Ronnie really who he thinks he is?
Sébastien Petit
THE BEAR IN MY HEAD
A disease ravage the world for decades but a little boy from a fortified camp is sure that he has heard a bear.
Pure imagination or the incarnation of hope ?
Gilles Champion
THE THRESHOLD
In a futuristic and overpopulated world, an assaulted young police officer falls into a long coma. One day she wakes up on a beautiful island high-tech, sparsely populated and…without children! To stay, she must undergo sterilisation like everybody there. She refuses. But, suddenly, a child appears, begging for her help…
Patrick de Meersman
ISBA
David Tcherepanja
STABAT MATER
Eve has the same nightmare every night where she tries to save her daughter from an outside threat. As elements of the nightmare begin to interfere with reality, Eve has to seek out its deeper meaning. The closer she gets to its ending, the more she ventures into madness.
Christopher Yates
PIËTA
A mother refuses to accept her daughter’s terminal illness and joins a group of fellow-sufferers who set their hopes on a miracle. Mother and daughter enter a matriarchal cult that is under the spell of a frenzied search for healing mud. How far is a mother willing to go in order to save her dying child?