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HKAIIFF 2026 · Best Interactive Narrative

Everyone Chooses the Fire

THE STORY

Story & creation

During a refinery evacuation, a theatre audience decides which testimony reaches the emergency broadcast before the city loses power.

DirectorTessa Valejo
Country / regionUnited States · Mexico
Runtime58–92 min
LanguageEnglish · Spanish
GenreInteractive civic thriller
Completed10 June 2026
JURY CITATION · Best Interactive Narrative
For making collective choice dramatically legible, ethically bounded, and emotionally consequential without reducing civic conflict to a mere branching novelty.
Citation and film data: HKAIIFF 2026 official record

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