17-26 Oct 2025
32nd Edition, Sibiu
17-26 Oct 2025 32nd Edition, Sibiu
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The end of vacation
Raphaël Venayre / Belgia / 2023 / 24 minute
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The end of vacation
In the seaside resort of Yasmine Hammamet, many hotels have gone bankrupt. Some have sold part of their buildings to French retirement homes in order to survive. Residents and their loved ones are living here, surrounded by their caregivers. Head in the clouds, feet in the water, they’re waiting for the end in this sunny ghost town.
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In Yasmine Hammamet, a seaside resort, several hotels are on the verge of bankruptcy, so the managers have decided to make them permanently inhabited by elderly Western residents. Perhaps this is what life after death is supposed to look like, but the contrast between the opulence of a place originally intended for luxury vacations that has lost its former glory and the scenes of the daily lives of people in advanced stages of dementia or physical decay is striking. The movie conveys a state of expectation, the place itself seems unreal, like a movie set, death is no longer a threat, it’s a reconciliation, a predictable end to a vacation.
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INSAS
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Raphaël Venayre
Cinematographer
Antoine Guerci
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