"La Linea" Giuseppe Fallacara
"Best Short Film"
In the Saudi Arabian desert of 2025, a boy witnesses the fall of a mysterious meteorite and, driven by curiosity, finds himself before an architectural enigma: a mirrored cube within which a dimensional portal opens.
Crossing it, he is transported into the future, to the year 2125, inside THE LINE — a futuristic city built as humanity’s last hope after wars, environmental catastrophes, and pandemics.
Guided by the voice of Noah, a young inhabitant of THE LINE who communicates with him through the mind, the boy explores this new world: a hyper-technological society where humans and machines coexist in symbiosis, living buildings repair themselves, and the entire city is controlled by a central neural system known as the Core.
However, behind the apparent perfection lies a darker truth. The boy disobeys Noah’s warnings and ventures into the forbidden zone, where he uncovers a disturbing revelation: brains preserved in tanks feed the Core, suggesting a profound and unsettling form of control.
Shaken, he falls into panic, and Noah promises to send him back to his own time. He awakens in his room, but the world outside his window has changed according to Noah’s prophecy of the future: his city is submerged beneath the waters.