ELSE

Anx has just met Cass when a mysterious virus breaks out: everywhere, people’s bodies are merging with objects. Stuck in their apartment, the couple must face this dreadful situation.

A romance blossoms between an introvert (Anx, Matthieu Sampeur) and a confident woman (Cas, Edith Proust), but their relationship faces a threat when a strange epidemic causes the infected to merge with their surroundings, trapping the couple in a shapeshifting nightmare. Inspired by the aesthetic of Björk's “body fantasy”, the boundary between the natural and the artificial disappears. Developed over 13 years, including the 2007 short of the same name, ELSE has won multiple awards on the genre film festival circuit: Best Director and Picture at Screamfest 2024 and Directorial Revelation and Best Special, Visual or Makeup Effects at Sitges Film Festival 2024. Above all, ELSE is a story of two characters behind closed doors, with a fundamentally different, minimalist, poetic aesthetic.