The winners of Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival 2024
And the Melies d’argent winners of the Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival are…
Méliès d’argent Award Winner – Feature Films @ FEFFS 2024
The winner of the Méliès d’Argent Award for Best Fantastic Genre Feature Film at the Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival is “U are the universe” by Pavlo Ostrikov (Ukraine/Belgium – 2024).
Andriy, a Ukrainian space trucker, is transporting nuclear waste to one of Jupiter’s moons when he sees the Earth explode. He thinks he is the last human in the universe, until he receives a distress message from a French meteorologist called Catherine, who’s alone on a space station orbiting Saturn. Despite his robot assistant’s doubts about the success of such a mission, he decides to set off to meet her, even though they are 700 million kilometres apart.
A highly endearing sci-fi comedy, whose work-in-progress was presented last year at the Festival’s co-production market Eurogenre.
Méliès d’argent Award Winner – Short Films @ FEFFS 2024
The winner of the Méliès d’Argent Award for Best European Fantastic Genre Short Film at the FEFFS is “Impossible Maladies” by Alice & Stefano Tambellini (It, 2023).
18th century: Doctors Rabarbaro and Tosse, a married couple, are specialised in curing all inexplicable illnesses. But can they handle more extreme cases, such as demonic transformation and possession?
The competition is organized in collaboration with the Méliès International Festivals Federation (MIFF). The winners of the competitions also win the nomination to the Méliès d’or annual competition.
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