Official selection

Laureate

may night be
Miel Pagès • France • 2021

The summary is being translated. While waiting, let’s celebrate the existence of translations who have escaped us.

Vidéo-poème onirique qui fait partie d’une série d’autres vidéos « Poèmes pour la Nuit ».

Celle-ci c’est une ode à la sororité, l’univers peut se rapprocher de celui des Guérillères de Monique Wittig : des femmes ou des personnes non-binaires vivent sur une île, nagent, jouent, se reposent. C’est une utopie, ou bien un rêve.

Special Prize

Dragon egg
Akari Sōma • Japan • 2023

« A group of sandbags suddenly appeared in a vacant lot. Thinking it was a ‘dragon egg’, the wall cat feared that the city would be attacked by a horde of dragons. »

This version of the poem was automatically translated by Google Translate from Japanese to English to Korean to French. Translation software is useful, but not immutable. However, I believe that in the distortions and discrepancies lies the potential of contemporary poetry.

eeeeeeeeee_eeeeeeeeee_eeeeeeeeee_
Guillaume Marin and Ariane Caron-Lacoste • Canada • 2023

To free their poetic minds, Guillaume Marin and Ariane Caron-Lacoste have created, through an audio testimony, a video poem where verses on the screen act as counterpoints, initiations, and endings. The rich visuals answer the speech to constitute its body.

Aquarelle
Stanka Gjuric • Croatia • 2008

The poem « Aquarelle » describes a deep connection with nature, the resilience and inner strength of humans in facing life’s difficulties. Developing resilience through exposure to adversity, moving away from the past and focusing on personal growth and exploration.

Fortified plaster’s mouth
Annabelle Verhaeghe • France • 2023

The summary is being translated. While waiting, let’s celebrate the existence of translations who have escaped us.

Ce que ça fait, quelqu’un enlevé. Tomber et retomber sur
la tête, crever les sols et les planchers jusqu’à devenir fantôme au crâne épais.

Kefi
Mohammed Abbas • Iraq • 2023

The soul blooms just like roses. For many people, nature, art and poetry is what they stay alive for, it is what keeps their souls pure. Within the withered hearts so bleak and bare, there lies a beauty waiting to bloom. The soul blooms just like roses. A journey through nature, poetry and art.

Iris and Red Columbine
Foulard Clémence • France • 2023

In an inner monologue, a teenager tries to understand and accept his hidden fears and emotions.

Online screening of the film is not available.

Knot
Elizaveta Mozaleva • Russia • 2023

The second creation of the personal project « Manuscripted sublimation of feelings » by Mozaleva Elizaveta. The story is centered around the feeling of fragility of life, lostness and disbelief in the future. However, the main sense is the space for the interpretation of the audience. What do you see here?

Unnamed poem
Xintong Chen • China • 2022

The work is scripted in the form of poetry, expressing my memories and fantasies in primary school, such as snails in a humid summer, potholes left on the desk, and drafts in the palm of my hand. My untrammelled hands dreamed of leaving my body and eventually become part of my self-imprisonment.

Return
Raluca Popa and Simona Nastac • United Kingdom • 2019

« Return » is a lyrical meditation on the Anthropocene that mingles the intimate and the eternal, the biological and the inanimate, the domestic with a sense of deep time. A fragile poem dreaming of transcending the darkness of the present. The abstract drawings originate from Raluca Popa’s ongoing preoccupation with Richard Tuttle’s work.

potassium cyanide
Allabhya Ghosh • India • 2015

It is a poem of melancholy. When human values and morality are being sold in the market of commodity civilization; The poet alone, the awakened conscience of humans, has nothing to sell. Maybe he committed suicide in private; he will burn to ashes. So what! This burning has given poets self-satisfaction for ages.

I am from here
Charlotte Chicot and Yurim Moon • France • 2023

Two lives, two countries, two fates. Encounter of two artists, one Korean, Moon Yurim and the other French, Charlotte Chicot, whose experiences and desires, both similar and geographically opposed, take the form of a visual and sound journey, between Iceland and Scotland.

Online screening of the film is not available.

In the Broken Eye of the Butterfly
Justin Brown and Vera Hector • USA • 2023

The butterfly mime is getting up but there is no one left to watch the show. Skin, eyes, walls, wings, hair, sun, earth. An old song of tomorrow.

A musical and visual poem shot in between new and old industrial cities featuring butterflies – live creatures and embroidered ones – as a shared collection of pictures.

A two wings film.

Guiris
Ana Rocío Jouli and Luisina Girelli • Argentina • 2023

Mixing poetry with field recordings and interviews, Guiris addresses the ecological and socioeconomic fallout of the tourist boom in Mallorca. Presented as a visual and sound collage, the piece draws from a conception of poetry as a collective construct made of a multitude of voices and stories.

Online screening of the film is not available.

Black Skin – Ngozi Nyeusi
Joe-Francis Kiaga • Tanzania • 2023

Ngozi Nyeusi, the director’s native language Swahili translated to « Black Skin » is a self exploratory experimental poetic film that utilizes music, experimental editing and poetry to communicate the inner thoughts of writer, director undergoing one of the most uncertain periods of modern human history.