Next Floor (2008) The huge dining table is full of rare birds and animals, and the greedy diners keep nibbling until they can't stop anymore... This exquisite and weird short film won the 61st Cannes Film Festival Canal+

Television Station Award and the 33rd Toronto International Television Festival Jury Special Award.

At the luxurious banquet, eleven guests, including soldiers, politicians, scientists, financiers, artists and ordinary people, sat around a long table and were served by a group of attentive attendants and servants.

They were participating in a ritual of gastronomic slaughter.

In this absurd and weird environment, an unexpected incident ruined the atmosphere of enjoying delicious food.

The film has exquisite images, hidden mysteries in the soundtrack, excellent scene planning, and distinctive characters.

It would be difficult to explain the backgrounds of more than ten people in just eleven minutes. The director cleverly used different costumes to represent their respective identities.

The ironic style of the happy atmosphere in which they enjoy food with different expressions is reminiscent of Chaplin and the automatic eating machine in "Modern Times".

The quirky atmosphere captivates the audience while also making people wonder who they are and why they do what they do.

At the end, we finally know that the exotic animals and attendants represent temptation. The greedy desire to possess a table full of delicious food and enjoy the attentive service of the attendants makes people unable to stop. Even if they realize that they are falling, they cannot restrain themselves.

People have different identities, but greed can make us become the same kind of people.

Just like the diners in this film go from being elegant and reserved to snatching food from each other, and are no longer able to identify their identities after their bodies are covered with dust. The greedy ones will eventually fall into the dark abyss.

"Next Floor" is a short film shot by Canadian director Denis Villeneuve in 2008.

Among his completed works include "Prisoners" released this year, the 83rd Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film nominee "Scorched Earth" and the 51st Berlin International Film Festival FIPRESCI Award-winning film "Montreal School Massacre"

Event" (Polytechnique), etc.