YEAR
[2025]
Genre
[Gen-AI short film ]
AUTEUR
[Nicolas POMET]
[OVERVIEW]
In the depths of a secret Soviet facility in the late 1960s, five political prisoners are subjected to a brutal sleep deprivation experiment. Locked inside a sealed chamber, they are exposed to a mysterious gas meant to keep them awake for thirty days.
What begins as a psychological study spirals into chaos. Days blur into nights and sanity crumbles. When radio contact falls silent on the ninth day, the scientists grow uneasy and decide to enter the chamber. What they discover defies comprehension and plunges them into a waking nightmare of their own creation...
The Russian Sleep Experiment is a Gen-AI short film directed by French artist Nicolas Pomet and produced at Awai. The film draws inspiration from a well-known horror short story that has circulated anonymously on the internet for years, fueling urban legends and disturbing imaginations worldwide.
The jury of WAIFF, chaired by Thomas Bidegain
The jury of WAIFF, chaired by Thomas Bidegain
