In the middle of preparing his apartment to have Mira live with him, Luc escapes to Svalbard. Stumbling drunk out of an Artic “Oktoberfest”, Luc meets Mike, a stranger who lives in an isolated cabin in the Arctic desert. Mike mysteriously abandons Luc in mid conversation. Intrigued, Luc decides to find Mike. Along the way, he meets Ingrid, a Norwegian teacher. Luc rushes into the footsteps of Mike who remains elusive and volatile, Luc hunts a shadow, his own possibly.

The film is set amidst a war in the French countryside between farmers and members of a gentlemen’s hunting club, sparked by wild boars ravaging local crops, which leads to a murder. A police officer is pushed to the brink of insanity as he leads the investigation a year later.

The film follows Vincent who works the night shift on the Grand Ciel building site, which is set to be a futuristic district. When a worker disappears, Vincent and his colleagues suspect the team leader of hiding the body somewhere on site. But Vincent is soon party to strange manifestations, and another worker disappears.

Whether the Weather is Fine, director: Carlo Francisco Matanad (The Philippines). Production: Cinematografica Films (The Philippines), Armi Rae Cacanindin. Feature film. Funding: 30,000 €