Selections: Generation XYZ 2024

Generation XYZ is Tampere Film Festival’s competition for short genre films.

543 films in the thriller, horror, sci-fi, action or fantasy categories were submitted and 24 films form 14 countries were selected into the competition.

 

Genders:

  • Females: selected 41,6 % / submitted 15 %
  • Males: selected 50,0 % / submitted 79 %
  • Other / no answer: selected 4,2 % / submitted 4 %
  • Co-directions (male & female): selected 4,2 % / submitted 2 %

 

Selections were made by Yelena Korhonen, Lauri Tapaninen and Niklas Nylund.

BELGIUM

SE DIT D’UN CERF QUI QUITTE SON BOIS
Salomé Crickx | 2023 | 20′ | Fiction

CANADA

SAINT-SACRIFICE
Jean-Claude Leblanc | 2023 | 15′ | Fiction

UWD
Myriam Verreault, Brigitte Poupart | 2023 | 19′ | Fiction

WILDMEN OF THE GREATER TORONTO AREA
Solmund MacPherson | 2023 | 13′ | Fiction

CHILE

EL FESTÍN DE LAS BESTIAS
Simón Bucher, Claudia Saldivia, Amanda Rivera | 2023 | 9′ | Animation

FINLAND

SUONSILMÄ
Topi Raulo | 2023 | 20′ | Fiction

GERMANY

BANNKORB
Vincent Ercolani, Julius Schulze Farwick, Nicholas Dues | 2024 | 18′ | Fiction

DEMONS IN THE CLOSET
James Smith | 2023 | 2′ | Animation

GREECE

AIR-CONDITION
Dimitra Petmeza | 2023 | 6′ | Fiction

INDIA

RECORD. PLAY. STOP
Neeraj Bhattacharjee | 2023 | 7′ | Animation

JAPAN

SYNAPSE
Kenneth Bulgar-Vidal | 2023 | 8′ | Fiction

SLOVAKIA

DINNER FOR 2 – BREAKFAST FOR 1
Kristína Žilinčárová | 2022 | 5′ | Fiction

SPAIN

MI ZONA
Cristian Beteta | 2023 | 20′ | Fiction

PESUDO
Miquel Díaz Pont | 2023 | 21′ | Fiction

SWITZERLAND

BEUTSET
Alicia Mendy | 2023 | 30′ | Fiction

UNITED KINGDOM

IN YOUR HANDS
Luigi Sibona | 2023 | 12′ | Fiction

THE LURE
Tony Hipwell | 2023 | 2′ | Fiction

PU EKAW TNOD
Rebecca Culverhouse | 2023 | 7′ | Fiction

SLICE RIGHT
Sara Joyce | 2023 | 14′ | Fiction

TERROR
Giles Buchanan | 2023 | 11′ | Fiction

TO THE BRINK
Hugo Docking | 2023 | 4′ | Animation

UNITED STATES

MORT
Giselle Bonilla | 2023 | 3′ | Fiction

THE TEST
Olivia Marie Valdez | 2023 | 4′ | Animation

URUGUAY

LA ÚLTIMA SIESTA
Lucía Carmela Martínez | 2023 | 6′ | Fiction