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Title: Echoes of the Silent Planet
Runtime: 13 min
Country: Spain
Director: Vincent Perez
Placement: Award of Merit
Competition: June, 2026
Synopsis: lone astronaut crash lands on a silent alien planet and follows the ruins of a forgotten civilization into the unknown. What begins as a search for survival becomes a descent into mystery, isolation, and the terrifying evidence that he was never truly alone