Rebelling against the banality of work, Rodrigo Moreno’s playful and restorative Cannes highlight reinvents the heist film as a free-flowing adventure in which love and epiphanies bloom. A beguiling and defiant quest for personal freedom that dares to embrace the strangeness of life with open arms.

Beetling video-game visuals compete with reality in Valeria Hofmann’s inventive, aesthetically eclectic short, which confers a first-person-shooter perspective on a home invader to chilling effect. Splashy neon color pools like hazardous waste in this pixelated distillation of a toxic gaming scene.