Genre: Eco Horror / Thriller.
Setting: Artcic.
Logline: “In the frozen wastes of the Arctic, the crew of a remote oil platform find they are not alone… Forget the fairy tales, these Mermaids are the stuff of nightmare…”
Wirter/Director: Sid Bennett
Awarded at the JETS Initiative 2025 @ EFM
Genre: Comedy
Setting: USA / Germany.
Logline: “Born-again evangelist Bob Larson goes on the road with Slayer, looking for Lucifer in all the wrong places. An unbelievable true story of when two sides of an ideological war crashed together and found common ground in the most unlikely of circumstances”
Wirter: Alex Forbes
Genre: Coming-of-Age / Comedy / Road trip.
Setting: Morrocco.
Logline: “When a petty thief must take his estranged foster brother with Down syndrome across Morocco, an unexpected road trip turns into a journey of redemption and brotherhood.”
Wirter/Director: Yasser El Ansari
Genre: Low-fi Sci-Fi /Thriller.
Setting: Caribbean.
Logline: “Reuniting with her survivalist father, a runaway teen hopes for a new life on board a boat in the Caribbean, however discoveries about the death of her mother lead her to question whether he’s really protecting her—or trapping her in his own nightmare.”
Wirter/Director: Raphael Biss
Genre: Drama / Thriller.
Setting: Kigali, Rwanda.
Logline: “In the city of Kigali, Theresa, a nurse facing financial ruin, turns to stealing money by sedating them using propofol. At first she finds financial liberation but her desperate actions spiral into a dangerous cycle of crime, deceit, and ultimately murder.”
Wirter/Director: Mutiganda Wa Nkunda
Genre: Horror.
Setting: Rural England.
Logline: “Winter 1349. Amid the devastation of the Black Death, a spiritually troubled priest must confront the ghosts of his past while tending an abandoned church.”
Wirter/Director: Harry Fish