Official selection

A hot summer day brings several neighbours out on their balconies. During a sudden rainstorm, one of them gets a burst of inspiration, which encourages the rest to live in the moment.

You never know what you are missing.

A drawn body of a woman, based on photographed and imagined images, stands alone in a room. Through everyday gestures and basic needs, it embodies an isolated existence, where routine is tinged with crisis, while interaction with the outside world remains digital, immaterial, mediated by a screen. Revealed by a scrolling movement, physical space dissolves into dreamlike dimensions, transforming into a surreal, cosmic environment. In its organic fragility, the body is placed between realistic and imaginary dimensions, questioning its very being through a two-dimensional image, emptied, doubled and distorted.

As the artist Gilles celebrates his exhibition, his ridiculed, drunken and heavyset brother fakes unconsciousness — turning the night into a rescue frenzy.

In Sicily's Mount Etna region, a group of winemakers fights to preserve ancient stone wine presses carved into volcanic rock after government agencies outlaw their traditional use, sparking a battle between cultural heritage and modern regulations in this meditation on preservation in a globalized world.

Beata is afraid to blink because she might discover that she lived in vain.