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MyMetaStories: Films for the first edition of the festival unveiled bringing young European cinema to Minecraft

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The first festival to bring young European cinema to Minecraft®.3

Daniela Elstner, Executive Director of Unifrance, unveiled the selection for the 1^st edition of MyMetaStories. MyMetaStories is the very first festival to bring cinema to the Metaverse, at the crossroads of cultural and creative industries of film and video games.1st edition, 20 films - 7 features and 13 shorts - have been selected. These films have been screened at major international festivals and come from all over Europe: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Northern Macedonia, Ukraine, Netherlands, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ireland, Slovakia.

Festival-goers will be able to discover this selection subtitled in 6 European languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

Short films are free worldwide, and feature films can be viewed individually for € 1.99, or in their entirety for € 7.99 per pack. Feature films will be available free of charge in Latin America, Africa and the Near and Middle East.

The Minecraft® experience takes place from October 13 to 16. During these four days, the thirteen short films will be accessible in a unique virtual world: MyMetaStories city. Players will be invited to enter a virtual cinema featuring thirteen screening rooms. For 3 days, the films will be screened at precise times to recreate the unique experience of the theater. On day 4, players will be able to catch up the entire program.

Players will be able to challenge themselves with mini-games based on the films selected by MyMetaStories.

Designed to promote Europe's cultural diversity, MyMetaStories also has an educational aspect, with areas for discovering cinema and the film industry.

To see the selection of images from the 1st edition of MyMetaStories, click here.

Science fiction, initiation stories, road-trips, dramatic or romantic comedies,

here are the 7 feature films in the selection:

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Hard Shell, Soft Shell

directed by Emma Benestan, France

in French – Comedy, Romance – 99 minutes

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LIBERTAD

directed by Clara Roquet, Espagne

in Spanish – Drama – 104 minutes

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LUXEMBURG, LUXEMBURG

directed by Antonio Lukich, Ukraine

in Ukrainian and German – Drama – 105 minutes

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MOTHER SCHMUCKERS

directed by Lenny & Harpo Guit, Belgium

in French – Comedy – 70 minutes

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PINK MOON

directed by Floor van der Meulen, Netherlands

in Dutch – Drama – 95 minutes

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THE GRAVITY

directed by Cédric Ido, France

in French – Thriller, Science-Fiction – 85 minutes

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THE HAPPIEST MAN IN THE WORLD

directed by Teona Strugar Mitevska, Northern Macedonia

in Bosnian – Drama – 100 minutes

Whether live-action or animated, here are the 13 short films in the selection:

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COCODRILO

directed by Jorge Yúdice, Spain

in Spanish – Drama – 4 minutes

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GUY PROPOSES TO HIS GIRLFRIEND ON A MOUNTAIN

directed by Bernhard Wenger, Austria

in German – Comedy – 13 minutes

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POLLUX

directed by Michaël Dichter, France

in French– Dramatic comedy -23 minutes

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SCRAP

directed by Jamie O'Rourke, Ireland

in English – Drama – 14 minutes

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VIRAGO

directed by Kerli Kirch Schneider, Estonia

in Estonian – Comedy – 15 minutes

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WITH THELMA

directed by Raphaël Balboni & Ann Sirot, Belgium

in French – Comedy – 14 minutes

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BACKFLIP

directed by Nikita Diakur, Germany

in English – Animation – 12 minutes

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CHICKEN OF THE DEAD

directed by Julien David, France

in French– Animation – 10 minutes

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COWBOW KEVIN

directed by Anna Lund Konnerup, Denmark

in Danish – Animation – 7 minutes

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I WANT PLUTO TO BE A PLANET AGAIN

directed by Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq & Vladimir Mavounia-Kouka, France

in French – Animation – 12 minutes

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INGLORIOUS LIAISONS

directed by Chloé Alliez & Violette Delvoye, Belgium

in French – Animation – 11 minutes

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MONEY AND HAPPINESS

directed by Nikola Majdak Jr. & Ana Nedeljkovic, Slovakia

in English – Animation – 10 minutes

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TALES FROM THE MULTIVERSE

directed by Magnus Møller, Mette Tange & Peter Smith, Denmark

in English – Animation – 7 minutes

MyMetaStories.eu from October 6, 2023 to discover the event in its entirety and find all the information about the festival.

MyMetaStories will take place from October 6 to 29, 2023, with cinephiles around the world able to access films from the 1^st edition, online, on partner digital platforms too.

The festival experience in Minecraft will take place from October 13 to 16, 2023. This is the 1^st film festival in Minecraft®.

To watch the press conference again, click here.

The Press material is available here.

MyMetaStories is a project supported by the European Commission’s Creative Europe MEDIA Programme. MyMetaStories is not an official Minecraft® event and is not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.

MyMetaStories enjoys the invaluable support of the following institutional, private and media partners: Gouvernement français, CNC, Wallonie Bruxelles Images, Netherlands Film Fund, TitraFilm, Cineuropa, France Médias Monde (RFI, France 24, Monte Carlo Doualiya), Télérama, AlloCiné, JV, AdoroCinema, IGN Brasil, SensaCine, 3DJuegos, SensaCine Latam, 3DJuegos Latam, FILMSTARTS, GameStar, IONCINEMA.com, El País, El Hype, Critic.de, Quadro par Quadro, Flix.gr, ODG, C7NEMA, TBA, Cinema Sétima Arte, ComingSoon, and Under the Milky Way.

Founded in 1949, Unifrance is the organisation responsible for promoting French cinema and TV content worldwide.

Located in Paris, Unifrance employs around 50 staff members, as well as representatives based in the U.S., in China, and in Japan. The organisation currently brings together more than 1,000 French cinema and TV content professionals (producers, talents, agents, sales companies etc.) working together to promote French films and TV programmes among foreign audiences, industry executives, and media.

Unifrance is supported by the French Government, the CNC, the PROCIREP and by many public and private partners.

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