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Title: ALYS1NE – 40 Jours
Runtime: 4 min
Country: Belgium
Director: ALYS1NE
Placement: Award of Excellence
Competition: December, 2025
Synopsis: **ALYS1NE — 40 Jours** is a dark cinematic short film that explores addiction, isolation, and psychological survival through an abstract, internal lens.
Set within a claustrophobic institutional space, the film follows a silent female protagonist during forty days of confinement. As time collapses and memory fragments, identity slowly erodes. The body becomes both a site of resistance and a mechanism of survival, caught between dissociation and endurance.
Blending experimental music, minimalist cinematography, and symbolic visual language, **40 Jours** exists at the crossroads of art film, experimental cinema, and music-driven storytelling. The film offers an intimate, unsettling portrait of inner exile — not as a narrative of recovery, but as an experience of psychological persistence.