Ice Merchants

The 2022 winner of Cannes Critics’ Week’s Leitz Cine Discovery Prize for short film is a dizzying tale of a parachuting father and son from Portuguese director João Gonzalez (Nestor, MIFF 2021).

Every day, a father and his son parachute from their clifftop house and into the local village, where they sell the ice they produce to local customers. Gonzalez’s wonderful short uses impressively vertiginous angles, a striking colour palette and immersive sound design to tell a story that will make your heart skip a beat – and send you soaring.