Fairplay (2022 film)

Fairplay is a 2022 French-Swiss short film directed by Zoel Aeschbacher. The seventeen-minute short about extreme competition premiered at the 75th Locarno Film Festival. The film has been presented in numerous international film festivals, including the Regard Saguenay International Short Film Festival and the 2023 Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize. Fairplay was amongst the five shorts nominated for the 2023 Quartz Award (Swiss Film Awards).

Plot
Three characters - a teenager, a blue-collar worker, and a senior executive - take part in competitions hoping to turn their lives around and heading instead towards an inevitable crash.

Reception
Since its launch, the film has been selected in various festivals and academies around the world: