Dedicated to genre film, our Generation XYZ Competition celebrates the best shorts in sci fi, horror, thriller, fantasy and action. This year we received 615 submissions, of which 22 films from 15 countries were selected to compete.
Selections were made by Yelena Korhonen, Lauri Tapaninen and Niklas Nylund.
Directors’ gender statistics in this year’s selection:
- Female: 8 (36,6%) in selected films / 208 (33,8%) of all who applied
- Male: 13 (59%) in selected films / 380 (61,8%) of all who applied
- Other/Prefer not to disclose: 0 in selected films / 25 (4,1%) of all who applied
- Multiple directors: 1 (4,4%) in selected films / 2 (0,3%) of all who applied
BELGIUM
DAUGHTER
Jorge Sermini | 2024 | 20′ | Fiction
CANADA
THE BINGO SISTERS
Andrew Przybytkowski | 2024 | 21′ | Fiction
FRANCE
NEMESIS BATTLEFIELD VOLUME 16
Neeraj Bhattacharjee, David Cisneros, Ran Fang, Richard Musinguzi, Saurabh Vashistha
2023 | 7′ | Fiction
HONG KONG
WHERE THE MOUNTAIN WOMEN SING
Juefang Zhang | 2024 | 15′ | Fiction
INDONESIA
AMBANG BATAS
Nadina Habsjah, Yusgunawan Marto | 2024 | 20′ | Fiction
ITALY
CANARÌ
Tommaso Ferrero | 2024 | 15′ | Fiction
DAGON
Paolo Gaudio | 2024 | 7′ | Fiction
THE EGGREGORES’ THEORY
Andrea Gatopoulos | 2024 | 16′ | Fiction
MEXICO
LA PECERA
Victoria Garza | 2023 | 12′ | Fiktio
NEW ZEALAND
ATTACHMENT THEORY
Katherine Jackson | 2024 | 16′ | Fiction
PORTUGAL
CANTO
Guilherme Daniel | 2024 | 16′ | Fiction
SOUTH AFRICA
RICHARD PALMER WHERE ARE YOU?
Portia Cele | 2024 | 7′ | Fiction
SPAIN
PARASOMNIA
Daniel Noblom | 2024 | 11′ | Fiction
SWITZERLAND
SYNCOPE
Linus von Stumberg | 2023 | 20′ | Fiction
UKRAINE
HAPPY END DAY
Anastasia Mykhalchuk | 2024 | 14′ | Fiction
UNITED KINGDOM
FIGHT OR FLIGHT
Cass Kaur Virdee | 2024 | 5′ | Fiction
HAPPY MEAT
Matt Green | 2024 | 17′ | Fiction
MOVING PARTS
Hugo Docking | 2024 | 4′ | Fiction
THE PEARL COMB
Ali Cook | 2024 | 21′ | Fiction
TAPEWORM
Daniel Rands | 2024 | 18′ | Fiction
UNITED STATES
CUANDO VOLVIMOS A LA TIERRA
Pablo Riesgo Almonacid | 2023 | 14′ | Fiction
RATA
Giselle Bonilla | 2024 | 16′ | Fiction
