We have a winner! Lucas Acher’s “Laser-Cat” has come out on top of La Cinef section at Cannes.
“It’s a one-night journey about a teenager who’s bored at home. His mother just left for a date, and he’s 14. He doesn’t know what to do, it’s a Friday night, and he keeps trying to annoy people with a laser pointer in the street. His crush lives across the building where he lives in São Paulo. He tries to annoy her, and she doesn’t care,” Acher told Variety.
Soon, her cat starts to follow the laser as well. Once it falls, the boy ventures into the night, trying to find it.
“I always love the presence of chance in filmmaking. One of the main references or a film that inspires me a lot is ‘After Hours’.”
For its 29th edition, La Cinef has selected 14 live-action and 5 animated shorts from among the 2,750 sent by film schools all over the world.
