The Secret Life of a Shoe Who Saw the World is the journey of a single shoe — once worn by a little girl in a quiet fishing village — that is swept into a century of human struggle. It becomes the silent companion of fishermen, soldiers, wanderers, rebels… each leaving behind their sorrow, their hope, their fight to survive.
With every new owner, the shoe gathers the weight of lives lived on the edge. It absorbs the dust of deserts, the cold of forgotten winters, the smoke of revolutions, the fear of displacement. And somehow, it keeps moving forward.
Years later, it finds its way back to the woman who once lost it as a child. She recognizes it instantly — a small piece of her father, her childhood, her world.
And then life, cruel as it is beautiful, takes her away… leaving the shoe standing in the ruins, holding her story when she no longer can.
This film is not about war, turmoil and human struggles It is about memory that refuses to die, love that refuses to fade, and the small things that survive us — so our stories do too.
A FOID AI STUDIO Presentation, Directed by: Vinod Padmanabhan Vijay Kumar, Produced by: FOID AI STUDIO, AI ARTIST: Vinod Padmanbhan Vijay Kumar, Director of Photography: Vinod Padmanabhan Vijay Kumar, Edited by: Vinod Padmanbhan Vijay Kumar, Music by: Vinod Padmanbhan Vijay Kumar

First place
Silver Sponsor
Division
Sponsored
Category
Silver Sponsor
Tools
ElevenLabs, Google (Veo, Flow, Cloud, Gemini, etc), Kling AI, and Luma AI / Dream Machine
Region
United Arab Emirates
Language
English