2026 Free Speech Award Ceremony

Purchase a ticket to the 2026 Free Speech Award Ceremony and receive exclusive access to watch some of the Free Speech Film Festival Award-winning films in November. Join us in celebrating our outstanding independent filmmakers, and their vital contributions to our global society!

Ice Ice Bye Bye was born from the desire to capture a moment when ordinary life in Los Angeles suddenly fractures without warning and turns into a silent struggle for existence. 

Rather than approaching its subject through explanation or commentary, the film stays close to an individual experience of fear, observing how life can instantly be reduced into instinct and movement as a man is forced to flee an unseen threat that is closing in.

Through movement, silence, and tension, the film seeks to express what words cannot. While the story unfolds within a very real contemporary context, its focus remains intimate, human, and universal.

Sebastien was inspired to make the film because he was interested in depicting how, in certain situations, a human presence can suddenly be reduced to a profile, a signal to be tracked rather than understood.

In a very tangible way, he portrays how understanding sometimes doesn’t come from explanation, but from being forced to stay inside a moment you cannot escape.