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Genesis international film festival (GIFF) is a creative competition where everyone can show their talent and be judged by a highly professional jury.

GIFF was born out of the need to discover new talent among filmmakers - from filmmakers to CGIs.

11/07/2025

Rosalie & César
Directed by Joan Borderie

GIFF’24
🏆GIFF.DEBUTS.Best Actor: Féodor Atkine

In a small Mediterranean island village, it’s the last day, of the last summer, of Rosalie, 18, at her father’s, César, 80. With her baccalaureate in hand, Rosalie will leave in a few hours to continue her studies in London.
But that day, Rosalie and César lose their dog, Neptune.
As they set off together in search of him, the tensions and the unspoken resurface.

02/07/2025

Snapshot
Directed by Lowie Sobry

GIFF’24
🏆GIFF.DEBUTS.Best Actress: Joanne Zimbler

Harper is trapped in a stagnant relationship and is desperately seeking an escape. However, the consequences of her actions soon come crashing down upon her. As her past catches up with her, Harper finds herself grappling with the repercussions of her choices, navigating a complex web of emotions and decisions.

24/06/2025

Pur Sang
Directed by Hugo Poisson

GIFF’24
🏆GIFF.DEBUTS. Best Debut - Sci-fi

In the near future, society is managed by strict sanitary rules.. Clara, 26, a former resistance figure and notorious criminal, is actively sought and hunted by the police. When she decides to break into the home of Amir, 55, a security guard at a state laboratory, it is to save Léa, her daughter of a few months.

12/05/2025

Shuck
Directed by Emerson New

GIFF’24
🏆GIFF.DEBUTS. Best Debut - Fantasy

In a purgatory that looks like the Norfolk Broads, dying souls wander through the tall grasses to find their afterlives. Among them is Murph, a woman on her deathbed, and Shuck, the Grim Reaper in the form of a dog. Together they will attempt to overcome Murph’s fear of death and Shuck’s loneliness.

15/04/2025

The Liminal World
Directed by Klaudia Makowska

GIFF’24
🏆GIFF.DEBUTS. Best Debut - Arthouse / Indie

In search of companionship, an elderly woman invites a tarot reader to her house.

01/04/2025

Peaupulaire
Directed by Ginevra Solaroli

GIFF’24
🏆GIFF.DEBUTS. Best Debut - Experimental

Peaupulaire is above all a journey into the inner self of a 20-year-old girl with all the ambitions and fears of someone that she always has to stage out the best possible version of herself. Drawing clothes gives her the illusion that she can shed skin whenever she feels suffocating in her own. Cinema is a tunnel that connects dreams to reality and once the threshold is crossed, all becomes possible.

12/03/2025

Primogeniture
Directed by Savanna Menzel

GIFF’24
🏆GIFF.DEBUTS. Best Debut - Animation

A town must follow a strict curfew imposed by a red mark and a mysterious force. When Claudia’s little brother is marked, the whole family must suffer the consequences.

05/03/2025

TRETA
Directed by Francesco Siro Brigiano

GIFF’24
🏆GIFF.SHORTS. GIFF.Shorts: Digital Art

«My reign as let a scar on every face of time...just like mine...»
It’s a dreamy fable, full of symbol...
In a dark dimension, man is unconsciously controlled by an evil jester...From a mysterious dimension an advanced civilization of sentient beings lines up to start a battle.

24/02/2025

Evil & Good
Directed by Bárbara Magri, Vicente França

GIFF’24
🏆GIFF.SHORTS. GIFF.Shorts: Best Music Video. Submitted by Augusto Brant

A pop and danceable 1980s film, Evil & Good is a sensual cut of an antagonism that marks contemporaneity.

17/02/2025

JACK’D
Written by Mike Ede

GIFF’24
🏆GIFF.SHORTS. Best Short Screenplay (Script): Mike Ede

Jack wakes up in a dystopian future full of s*x, drugs and violence. One slight issue...he has no idea who he is, how he got there, or why he owes money to some very bad people!

03/02/2025

LYUBIMA
Directed by Maya Ivanova Vitkova-Kosev

GIFF’24
🏆GIFF.SHORTS. Best Short Screenplay (Filmed): Maya Vitkova-Kosev

Lyubima, an artist in her 30s, is left by her partner. She needs to start anew, but the grief is there, as big as an African elephant…
Lyubima does not see the Elephant that leaves a mess on her carpet, when she is back from stalking her ex and his new girlfriend… She does not understand that the Elephant drinks water from her fish tank and turns her place upside down overnight… Lyubima does not see it, while the Elephant eats from her plate over breakfast... She does not have a clue, that the Elephant takes most of her bedroom, while she is asleep, but in her dream…
In her dream she calls the Elephant for help… Her way to finally move on is by giving the love memories, along with the grief, back to her ex.

13/12/2024

Parasomniac
Directed by Ethan Maxwell Go Go

GIFF’24
🏆GIFF.SHORTS. Best Editing: Ethan Go

An overworked child entertains the prospect of ignoring his responsibilities in favor of the dream world. He soon learns that there are consequences to his neglect, as time is catching up to him...

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