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24fps is to celebrate and encourage student and independent filmmakers. Festival public screening programs are designed to highlight the creator as much as the work itself. All exhibited films are introduced by a commentator, and filmmakers in attendance are given the opportunity to speak to the festival audiences at the close of their film’s exhibition.

The films are presented as part of three curated programs. All films are screened in the festival exhibition venue, the landmark Paramount Theatre.

Exhibition Schedule

OPENING NIGHT PROGRAM

Friday, November 1, 2024, 7:00 PM

Simple Truth

“It's time to put aside the pain Then give and watch away the stains And love you with what time remains anyway Who wants the true, soft bruises” —Roo Panes

Festival Opening Film--JUPITER

A cantankerous former soldier turned breeder is furious when he discovers that one of his goats has run away again. Ready to do anything to teach him a lesson, Jean attracts the wrath of Jupiter.

DIRECTOR: Carlos Segundo

Narrative/15 min/France-Brazil

WAN

After a frantic sunset chase in the forest, a fierce-looking hominid confronts an old man and his hyena-dog, with an unexpected result.

DIRECTOR: Victor Monigote

Animation/13 min/Spain

TRAPPED

A high school janitor, investigating voices echoing through the empty halls, is drawn to the gymnasium, where he stumbles into a group of boys in the middle of a senior prank.

DIRECTORS: David Cutler-Kreutz, Sam Cutler-Kreutz

Narrative/15 min/USA

BOB'S FUNERAL

Searching for the root of generational trauma, the director takes a camera into his estranged grandfather’s funeral.

DIRECTOR: Jack Dunphy

Documentary/Narrative/19 min/USA

A CRAB IN THE POOL (Un trou dans la poitrine)

When Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves in a run-down neighborhood, they will have to burst the abscess of their relationship so as not to lose each other.

DIRECTORS: Alexandra Myotte, Jean-Sébastien Hamel

Animation/11 min/Canada

BASRI and SALMA in a never-ending COMEDY

A husband and wife own an Odong-Odong at the carnival and spend their days taking care of other people's children without having any of their own.

DIRECTOR: Khozy Rizal

Narrative/15 min/Indonesia

VOL 666

During a flight for a dream vacation, Johnny, a compulsive gambler and notorious crook, finds himself propelled to Hell with his wife Monica. To save their souls, they will have to confront and beat the Devil at his own game in Hell's Casino.

DIRECTORS: Julie Corniere, Anselme de Pertat, Killian Derlin, Manon François, Anaïs Lavault, Léo Le Corre, Aliénor Poisson, Lucas Roy

Animation/6 min/France

DISSOLUTION

A woman is forced to confront her elderly husband’s physical deterioration when they meet to sign their divorce papers.

DIRECTOR: Anthony Saxe

Narrative/14 min/USA

SNAKE (Shé)

When pressures mount on a tightly wound violinist in a London youth orchestra, her internal monsters take external form.

DIRECTOR: Rene Zhan

Narrative, Animation/15 min/UK

Opening Night Closing Film--THE COMPANIONS (La CompaÑÍa)

As a young couple walks down the street, they encounter a crowd gathered around a strange event.

DIRECTOR: José María Flores

Narrative/12 min/Spain

Matinee Program

Saturday, November 2, 2024, 2:00 PM

Hope For Others

“Grabs a note and reads aloud

"The passion new'd make a mother proud

I miss you so, it seems we all have much going on “ —Joshua James

Matinee Opening Film--PASTURE PRIME

A widow falls for a younger man she meets at the Cowboy Church.

DIRECTOR: 

Director: Diffan Sina Norman

Narration/10 min/USA

DEADLINE

A black comedy Stop-motion short that explores the power balance between bureaucracy, death and feline devotion of the elderly.

DIRECTOR: Idan Gilboa

Animation/13 min/Israel

AFTER ISIS

For Dan, helping to rebuild Iraq is an act of redemption that unites those returning to their homeland and heals the wounds of ISIS.

DIRECTOR: Jimmy Gault

Documentary/6 min/USA

JEDO'S DEAD

A young girl and her brother discover their grandfather's body during the aftermath of 9/11. They experience grief, loss, and rituals surrounding death through a child's perspective.

DIRECTOR: Sara Nimeh

Narrative/11 min/USA

UWD (Until We Die)

IA poetic crisscrossing in a ruined world where everyone survives the collective disarray alone.

DIRECTORS:  Brigette Poupart, Myriam Verreault

Experimental/20 min/Canada

Even Though It's Night (Aunque es de noche)

La Cañada Real, Europe's largest slum on the outskirts of Madrid, has been without electricity for over a year. Toni and Nasser have made this place their playground. But one day, Nasser tells Toni that he is leaving for France.

DIRECTOR: Guillermo García López

Narrative/15 min/TFrance

WANDER TO WONDER

Mary, Billybud, and Fumbleton are three tiny humans who star in a kids' TV series called “Wander to Wonder.” After the creator dies, they are left alone in the studio starving to survive and continuing to make increasingly strange episodes for their fans.

DIRECTOR: Nina Gantz

Animation/13 min/Netherlands

MY TOMATO HEART

Madeleine is forced to quit her position at the neighborhood grocery store. Her job is her whole life; her colleagues, her only family. The quinquagenarian spends her last days of work fighting to save what is near and dear to her heart.

DIRECTOR: Benoît Le Rouzès Ménard

Narrative/14 min/Canada

MOVE

An invite to a rave puts refugee and outsider Faisal's sense of identity and belonging into question.

DIRECTOR:  Ana Farré Moutinho

Narrative/13 min/USA

Matinee Closing Film--ESSEX GIRLS

After an incident at her high school pulls her into the orbit of the only other Black girl in her year, “Essex Girl” Bisola is plunged into a journey to discover a whole new side of herself.

DIRECTOR: Yero Timi-Biu

Narrative/15 min/UK

Closing Night Program

Saturday, November 2, 2024, 7:00 PM

All Things Go

“You came to take us

All things go, all things go

To recreate us

All things grow, all things grow.”   —Sufjan Stevens

CLOSING NIGHT OPENING FILM--LETTER TO A PIG

A traumatic memory from a Holocaust survivor transports a young schoolgirl on an inner journey.

DIRECTOR: Don Josepus Raphael Eblahan

Animation/17 min/Israel. France

FLAIL

It's her boss' birthday, and Allie is trying as hard as she can.

DIRECTOR: Ben Gauthier

Narrative, 14 min/USA

MATTA AND MATTO

In a time when all interpersonal closeness is forbidden, the hourly hotel Vaip offers wondrous rooms where guests snuggle up to devices built with great skill and let themselves fall into the perfect illusion of human touch.

DIRECTORS: Bianca Cederas, Kerstin Zemp

Animation/10 min/Switzerland

OASIS

At the dawn of their teenage years, twins see their fraternal attachment crumble while one of them, suffering from an increasingly marked disability, remains a prisoner of childhood.

DIRECTOR: Justine Martin

Documentary/15 min/Canada

THE GARLIC ANIMAL SAUCE (L'animal sauce ail)

In Gooseville, each new managing and self consuming environment is told via low budget homemade TV shows. Advertising, teleshopping and the media shows us the devolution of a small French village rushing towards its end.

DIRECTORS: Ysaline Debut, Isa Cotte, Aurélien Duchez, Camille Rostan, Clément Mouchel, Diane Mazella

Animation/6 min/France

SIMO

The usual rivalries and jealousies that exist between two Egyptian teenage brothers Simo and Emad take a dangerous turn that may seriously impact the future of their family.

DIRECTOR: Aziz Zoromba

Narrative/20 min/Canada

BUG DINER

Mayhem follows when a Mole chef with suppressed desires and a Fly waitress buzzing around let their freak flags fly.

DIRECTOR: Phoebe Jane Heart

Animation/17 min/USA

SAINT ROSE

As her husband takes over the preparations for their daughter's engagement ceremony, an unhappy Muslim housewife hides in her bathroom and drinks vodka.

DIRECTOR: Zayn Alexandre

Narrative/14 min/Spain/Lebanon

KINGS (les rois)

Two new counsellors at a summer camp struggle with ridicule and rejection after an initiation goes sideways.

DIRECTOR: Olivier Côté

Narrative/ 11 min/USA

Festival Closing Film--THE MASTERPIECE (la gran obra)

Leo and Diana, a rich couple, bring a broken TV to a recycle point. They meet Salif and his son, two scrap dealers. Diana asks them to come to their house to get more objects.

DIRECTOR: Àlex Lora

Narrative/20 min/Spain

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Date: November 1-2, 2024

Location: Paramount Theatre

352 Cypress Street, Abilene, Texas 79601

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