Film Festivals

2023 MyMetaStories: 1st Edition includes Roquet’s “Libertad”, Ido’s “Gravity” & Mitevska’s “The Happiest Man in the World”

Published on September 27, 2023

The selections for the first edition of MyMetaStories – The Innovative European Film Festival were announced and among the seven feature films selected we find Cedric Ido’s Gravity, Teona Strugar Mitevska’s The Happiest Man in the World and Clara Roquet’s Libertad. Along with those selections we find a baker’s dozen of thirteen shorts all presented at prestigious international festivals and from filmmakers who we’ve recently seen at this year’s Cannes Critics’ Week with Raphaël Balboni & Ann Sirot or Marie Amachoukeli. MyMetaStories will take place from October 6 to 29th on online, on digital platforms and from the 13th-16th on the Minecraft platform. Here are the selections for the inaugural edition – please visit the site for more info.

Gravity – Cedric Ido
The happiest man in the world – Teona Strugar Mitevska
Fragile – Emma Benestan
Libertad – Clara Roquet
Luxembourg, Luxembourg – Antonio Lukich
Mother Schmuckers – Harpo & Lenny Guit
Pink Moon – Floor van der Meulen

Backflip – Nikita Diakur
Chicken of the Dead – Julian David
Crocodile – Jorge Yudice
Cowboy Kevin – Anna Lund Konnerup
Marriage proposal – Bernhard Wenger
I Want Pluto to be a Planet Again – Marie Amachoukeli & Vladimir Castang
Bad connections – Chloé Alliez & Violette Delvoye
Money and happiness – Ana Nedeljkovic & Nikola Majdak
Pollux – Michael Dichter
Scrap – Jamie O’Rourke
Tales from the Multiverse – Magnus Igland Møller, Mette Tange & Peter Smith
Virago – Kerli Kirch
With Thelma – Raphaël Balboni & Ann Sirot

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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Film Festivals

2023 MyMetaStories: 1st Edition includes Roquet’s “Libertad”, Ido’s “Gravity” & Mitevska’s “The Happiest Man in the World”