director / Balász Simonyi
screenwriter / Balász Simonyi
cinematographer /Balász Révész
actors /Lilla Sárosdi, Tara Kollarszky, Roland Kollarszky, Tamás Vavrik
producers / Gábor Osváth, Nóra Alföldi, Balász Simonyi
director / Federico Fasulo
screenwriter / Federico Fasulo
cinematographer / Nello Giordano
actors / Sebastian Balzarolo, Arash Roudakifar, Pietro De Nova, Monica Turri, Ginevra Fenati
producer /Giulia Dadamo
ABOUT THE FILM
After he finally receives an invitation to an elite party at Dorsia, the most glamorous nightclub in Milan, an elegant and ambitious young man named Davide believes he will have a good time at the most exclusive event of the season. But Davide is stopped at the very entrance by a ruthless bouncer after his name cannot be found on the guestlist due to a mix-up. This does not discourage Davide, who braves new attempts to enter the club, meets stereotypical members of Milan's nightlife and ultimately shows his true face.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Federico Fasulo is a young screenwriter and director born and raised in Milan. He has been passionately engaged in storytelling since childhood, either through writing, making short videos or, as he jokingly adds, playing with Legos. His favourite film genres are psychological thriller, horror with subversive notes, and black comedy. Dorsia is his third short, realized after the project Art for Art's Love, his 2016 graduate film from the Met Film School Berlin, and the film Will There Be Enough Water? that he made in the meantime. After graduating from Met Film School, he studied at Scuola Mohole in Milan and collaborated as screenwriter and first assistant director on the 2019 short film Fulmini e Saette by Daniel Lince, which won the award for best short film at the CortoLovere International Short Film Festival.
director / Beraat Gokkus
screenwriter / Beraat Gokkus
cinematographer / Beraat Gokkus
actors / Ali Alwani, Hani Al Zeitan, Thelma Chikwanha, Elyse Ngabire, Ahmed Al Gabr, Murat Pomynytskyy, Oleksandr Pomynytskyy
producer / Beraat Gokkus
director / Nastya Feschuk
screenwriter / Nastya Feschuk
cinematographer / Anton Kuleba
actors / Anton Chernichko, Viktoria Rudaya, Elena Fesick
producer / Yelyzaveta Bondarenko
ABOUT THE FILM
Dok u razgovoru s dvjema ženama odgovara na naizgled obična pitanja iz intervjua za posao, 27-godišnji Anton osjeća se prilično neugodno. Štoviše, njegova neugoda raste sa svakim novim pitanjem u odgovoru na koja sve više gubi sigurnost i samopouzdanje. Dok odgovara na odveć očita pitanja, kao i dok glavnoj urednici medija u kojem želi dobiti posao i njezinoj pomoćnici pripovijeda jednu od svojih priča, onu o dječaku koji je ljeto nevoljko proveo u dječjem kampu, Anton sve teže smislena pitanja razlikuje od provokacija. Njegov razgovor za posao tako se postupno pretvara u svojevrsnu ispovijed.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born in 1993 in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, screenwriter and director Nastya Feschuk was already an avid lover of the seventh art at the age of 15. In the course of her studies, she was especially dedicated to philosophical reflections on film d'auteur, an extremely fruitful topic for analysis and interpretation. In 2018, she attended a documentary film workshop led by renowned Ukrainian documentary filmmaker Sergey Bukovsky, and this film, in which she aimed to point out the similarities between feature and documentary film, is her debut directorial project. The script is based on actual events from the life of Anton Kuleba, who plays himself in the lead role.
director / Farah Abou Kharroub
screenwriter / Farah Abou Kharroub
cinematographer / Farah Abou Kharroub
producer / Farah Abou Kharroub
director / Sara Dufossé
screenwriter / Sara Dufossé
cinematographer / Quentin Devillers
actors / Louise Manteau, Gaël Saudron
producer / Sara Dufossé
director / José Antonio Valera
screenwriter / José Antonio Valera
cinematographer / Inma Bernal
actors / Alberto García Tormo, Mariela Lucas, César Pérez, Karmen Heredia, Carlos T. Blanco
producer / José Antonio Valera
director / Raghul Sukumar
screenwriter /Raghul Sukumar
cinematographer / Varghese David
actors / Magizhmathi, Shakthi Karthik, Mahendran, Ramachandran, Thiyagarajan,
Karuppusamy, Tara, Sivaji Dasan, Krishnasamy, Poonguil Babu,
producer / Raghul Sukumar
redateljica / Avigail Graetz
scenaristica / Avigail Graetz
snimatelj / Eitan Herman
glumci / Gali Ashkenazi Levine, Esti Kosowitzki, Itai Chammah
producentica / Avigail Graetz
director / Ziyang Liu
screenwriter / Ziyang Liu
cinematographer / Pengyu Qin
actors / Kevin Stephen-Jones, Kwame Augustine, Aiden Felgate
producer / Ziyang Liu
Award-winning producer, screenwriter, and director Ziyang Liu grew up in Shenzhen, China, where he was born in 1995. He earned a Master's Degree in Film Directing from the University for the Creative Arts in the UK in 2019 and is now pursuing an undergraduate degree in Film Production at the Shanghai Theater Academy in China. His films have screened at festivals around the globe, from Montreal to Warsaw, from China to Norway and Germany. His previous award-winning short film The Day I Met You was nominated for Best Short Film at the 18th Independent Days International Filmfest in Germany, while Ambiguous, another one of his shorts, was included in the InFocus: Shanghai Chine Cinema programme by the non-profit NewFilmmakers from Los Angeles. Under the Full Moon was inspired by the verses of the traditional Chinese song Shuidiao Getou by Su Shi.
director / Rock Brenner
screenwriter / Rock Brenner
cinematographer / Rémi Noëll
actor / Arnaud Delecrin
producer / Rock Brenner
director / Ramesh Laxmanrao Holbole
screenwriter / Ramesh Laxmanrao Holbole
cinematographer / Kumaara Swaamy
gactors / Hemant Kadam, Umesh Dhoot, Ramdas Andhare, Akshay Talikote, Datta Lawnde, Vitthal Kachare, Prafull Talikote, Aniket Rao
producer / Srinivas Rao Tamarala
director / Bernd Trasberger
screenwriter / Bernd Trasberger
cinematographer / Vincent Seidl
participants / Felix Obermair, Jan Senn, Massimo Vitiello, Stefan Gamper
producer / Bernd Trasberger
director / Lendita Zeqiraj
screenwriter / Lendita Zeqiraj
cinematographer / Sebastien Goepfert
actors / Arti Lokaj, Rozafa Çelaj, Adriana Matoshi, Ilire Vinca,
Alketa Sylaj, Melihate Qena
producer / Bujar Kabashi
Producer, screenwriter, and director Lendita Zeqiraj, who sometimes signs her films as production designer as well, was born in 1972 in Pristina. This filmmaker and visual artist completed her graduate and postgraduate studies in Visual Arts at the Kosovo Academy of Sciences and Arts in Pristina and studied Film Aesthetics in Paris at Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis. In 2014, she was named National Film Author of the Year and received a recognition from the Kosovo Ministry of Culture, while her short films Balcony and Fence have screened at more than 250 festivals around the world. The 2013 film Balcony premiered at the 70th Venice Film Festival and travelled to festivals in Warsaw, Palm Springs, Busan, and a number of others, winning over 35 awards that include a Special Jury Award at the American Film Institute's Festival in 2013. The film Fence also screened at numerous festivals, including the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films ShortFest, and has been awarded at a dozen international festivals. The author made her feature-length debut in 2019 with the humorous drama Aga's House, which shares part of the plot and most of the cast with Fence.
director / Maharshi Tuhin Kashyap
screenwriter / Maharshi Tuhin Kashyap
cinematographer / Akashnadh NU.
actors / Maitri Das, Eemon Ray, Apurba Saha, Paarth Pratim Barua, Jitu Das, Pulkit Philip, Arnab Borah
producer / Sagar Mahindra
ABOUT THE FILM
Life in an Indian city seems to be devoid of feeling, its people seeming distant even though they share the same space. At least that is what can be inferred from the events of an evening when young Biswa, frustrated by the monotony of his hostel life, quietly talks on his phone to his girlfriend Mukuta who lives in the village of Assam. Mukuta's mother has died and the girl is keeping her lonely father company. During the telephone conversation, Biswa realises that Mukuta's relationship with her father and her home differs significantly from his relationship with the city he lives in. However, everything may not be as it seems at first glance…
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The project, on which he is credited as screenwriter and director, was made by young Indian Maharshi Tuhin Kashyap as an exercise in long-shot directing with the elaboration of mise-en-scène in the second year of Directing Studies at the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) in Kolkata. The film has already won several awards, including Best Student Feature Film Award at the International Moving Film Festival in Abadan, Iran, and third prize at the Brahmaputra Valley Film Festival (BVFF) in Guwahati, Assam in India. When speaking about his film, Kashyap points out that shooting long shots must always be thoroughly thought out, meaningful, and justified, because it is an aesthetic choice and a directorial approach that must correspond to the film's story. It is also an achievement of metacinema in which Kashyap, according to his own words, wanted to be present. He also emphasises that special attention was paid to sound, which to Kashyap is logical as film is an audiovisual medium.
director / Maurice Mbui Murage
screenwriter / Maurice Mbui Murage
scinematographer / Travers Jacob
actors / Cary Clankson, Christopher Lopez, Ilenea Antonizzi, Dario Greco, Brian D’agostino, Mauricio Pirella, Dario Dente, Michael Sanchez, Giuseppe Cavaliera
producers / Nick Wambugu, Christopher Lopez
ABOUT THE FILM
On a warm evening on the streets of Naples, a young man sees an attractive girl who has recently returned to the city and whom he has not seen for a while. Thinking a night of love and fun is ahead of them, he leaves a friend in a bar and accompanies the girl on a walk through the city streets, planning to stop by a restaurant to grab a bite at her request. But their plans are thwarted by an encounter with an armed store robber, who takes them as hostages after the robbery that they witnessed. That, however, might be just the beginning of their troubles.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born in the Kenyan capital Nairobi where he still lives and works today, screenwriter and director Maurice Mbui Murage gained film experience by participating in the production of several commercials, television dramas, documentaries, and short films. He is also the founder of the production company Folklore Ltd., which he leads as creative director, all the while striving to approach each new project as innovatively and energetically as possible. He considers himself one of the most demanding creative directors in Nairobi and believes he and his collaborators gave their all to the realisation of the film that we are showing.
director / Joonyoung Kim
screenwriter / Joonyoung Kim
cinematographer / Joonyoung Kim
actors / Dooho Ahn, Haune Lee
producer / Joonyoung Kim
ABOUT THE FILM
A young couple passes their time in various ways in a cramped room. While the girl is writing something on the computer, the young man disturbs her with his guitar picking. After she fails to persuade him to stop, the girl gives him some money and sends him out.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Producer, cinematographer, screenwriter, and director Joonyoung Kim was born and raised in Seoul. His filmmaking is mostly inspired by films he had watched as a teenager, and films were also what prompted him to hitchhike around Australia at the age of 18 and later travel across Korea. While serving military service in his home country, Kim wrote a short novel that won a South Korean Defense Ministry award. After completing his military service, he got a job as a carpenter, but felt that he wanted to become an artist and use his creativity to express himself. Guided by this drive, he soon decided to study film directing and now lives in Budapest.
director / Michael-David McKernan
screenwriter / Michael-David McKernan
cinematographer / Adolf Franz ´Burschi´ Wojnar
actors / Michael-David McKernan, Toni O´Rourke, India Mullen, Patrick Flannery
producer / Micheál Fleming
ABOUT THE FILM
As he drives a taxi through the streets of Dublin on yet another evening, lonely young Dara picks up a quiet girl named Sara. As he realises that something is troubling the girl, Dara decides to try and cheer her up with a casual conversation, among other things about Beethoven, whose music is playing on the radio. But Sarah is a withdrawn person, anxious and broken-hearted, and though Dara's attempts keep failing, he is not discouraged.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Michael-David McKernan is an award-winning actor and director who lives and works in Dublin. Having finished Drama and Theatre Studies at Trinity College Dublin, he worked in theatres in Ireland and the UK. He acted in a prestigious production by London's National Theatre shortly before the start of the coronavirus pandemic and shared the stage with, among others, Ciarán Hinds and Dermot Crowley in the play Translations based on Brian Friel's acclaimed work. He also holds a degree in Film Acting from the Bow Street Film Academy and his screen acting portfolio includes the popular shows Red Rock and Quantico. The film Halo is his debut screenwriting and directing project, which premiered at Galway Film Fleadh and won the Best Director: Irish Short Award at the Cork International Film Festival. He has already completed his next film, the thematically timely short documentary How to Fall in Love in a Pandemic, which also premiered at Galway Film Fleadh where it was awarded in the Best Short Documentary category.
director / John Riddell
screenwriter / John Riddell
cinematographer / Damian Jenkins
actors / Adam Drummond, Tim Kurylowicz, Scarlett Ritchie
producers / Sophie Kurlyowicz, John Riddell
ABOUT THE FILM
As a man is standing next to a car in front of an abandoned production plant, another man is arriving by another car to hand over a bag of unknown contents. The first man allows the second man to open the trunk of his car and free a tied woman from it. Though that seems to be the end and the second man is expected to hurry away with the angry woman, the first man is not be able to start his car, which allows the other man to pull a gun from a hidden spot in his vehicle.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Australian John Riddell is an award-winning short film author and documentarist who lives and works in the Australian province of New South Wales, in the mountain town of Tumbarumba. In 2003, he earned an honorary degree in Film Studies from the Australian National University and has since built a career in the museum sector. His intensive work with other creatives and local government organizations on the creation of culturally relevant content has been recognized and awarded. Riddell claims to be a passionate filmmaker who likes to experiment and play with media conventions and preconceptions, and the film we are showing is exemplary of this. Over the last ten years, he has made a number of short feature and documentary films, participated in the realisation of the documentary series Talking Machines, and won multiple awards for his work, including at festivals in London and Los Angeles.
director / Pablo Olmos Arrayales
screenwriter / Pablo Olmos Arrayales
cinematographer / Luis Enrique Carrión
actors / Antonio Alcantara, Italo Maximiliano Concha Veloz, Aaron Gomez, Markin López, Helena Puig, Axel Zapien
producers / Braulio Fragoso, Pablo Olmos Arrayales, Eugenia Orozco
ABOUT THE FILM
Young Lili is excited and nervous about her evening date with Eduardo. She met him through an online dating app, so there is a level of uncertainty surrounding their first encounter. At first this seems to be justified as Eduardo is not only half an hour late for the date but is not answering her calls either. When he finally does show up and he and Lili go out together, she finds him to be charming, attractive, and a good listener. Moreover, she is having such a nice time that she agrees to stop by his house for dinner. Lili does not suspect that the seemingly perfect blind date is about to turn into something completely different as Eduardo has yet to show his true colours.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Pablo Olmos Arrayales was born and raised in Mexico City and has been actively involved in film as a producer, editor, and director since 2003. He has directed commercial projects, mostly commercials, both in his home country and in Spain, and debuted as film editor, screenwriter, and director in 2003 with the short film Los Ventanales. His short films have screened at numerous prestigious festivals around the globe, such as the Cannes Short Film Corner, the Burbank Film Festival, Kosice International Monthly Film Festival, and Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya Festival in Sitges, Spain. The film we are showing is Arrayales' feature film debut.
director / Nitya López
screenwriter / Nitya López
cinematographer / Mikel Villegas
actors / Leire López del Pueyo, Ibon Belandia, Josu Eguren, Igotz Etxabe, Dani Leon, Brais Pampin Rey, Marianne Viville
producer / Nitya López
ABOUT THE FILM
María returns from work earlier than usual because her boss gave her a day off for a special reason. It's Maria's birthday and she plans to spend it with her partner Jorge. But when she enters their apartment, María is struck by Jorge's lack of response to her greetings and questions. He has locked himself in the bathroom and seems to be hiding something from her. At first surprised, María soon becomes disappointed, offended even, although she is yet to find out the reason behind his behaviour.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Producer, screenwriter, and director Nitya López was born in 1996 in Basque Country. He made his first short film Jesus is B(l)ack in 2018, produced partly by Caostice and partly through a crowdfunding campaign. He won The Best Young Filmmaker Award for the film in 2019 at the u22 Film Fest in Barcelona for authors under the age of 22. In late 2019, he wrote and directed a promotional short film for the album Hemen Herensuegeak Daude by the Spanish band Liher and directed his first music video for the band's song Teloia in 2020. The film we are showing is his second short film, which was included in the competition programme of a section of Notodofilmfest in 2019. He is currently working on his next short film titled Ecdisis. Story of the Insect Man.
director / Jannis Alexander Kiefer
screenwriter / Jannis Alexander Kiefer
cinematographer /
actors / Gisa Flake, Jürgen Heimüller, Gregor Knop, Gabriela Lindl
producer / Jannis Alexander Kiefer
ABOUT THE FILM
Three minutes before the start of a 4-person Zoom meeting, one of the participants believes she has thought of a great joke to welcome the rest, another managed to cram a bottle into their underwear, and all of them seem to have a strong internet connection. What could possibly go wrong in a situation like that?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jannis Alexander Kiefer was born in Germany and studied Audiovisual Media in Berlin. He completed several internships in Munich, Freiburg, and Berlin. Since 2011, he has been working as a freelance cinematographer and second assistant director, and has been studying Directing at Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF since 2016. In his first year of study, he made a film titled Comments, which was selected for more than 80 festivals around the world and won several awards, including the German Short Tiger Award. In 2019, his film Kaiser premiered at the 53rd International Hot Film Festival, where it won the BILD-KUNST jury award and was chosen for broadcasting on the German TV channel 3sat. His graduation film Kollegen premiered in 2020 at the 36th Warshaw Film Festival and screened at the 47th Gent Film Festival.
directors / Fu LE, Adrien Gontier
choreographer / Fu LE
cinematographer / Adrien Gontier
actors / Longmen AN, Roxane Colson, Anne Constance SIX
dancers / Morgane Bellefet, Candice Besserve, Lorena Bianco, Eva Colpacci, Pedro Gomes, Valentine Malan, Lucie Mariotto, Gustave Pariente, Lisa Pleintel, Stéphanie Poey
production / Tetrapode, Famous, La Fabrique de la Danse
ABOUT THE FILM
In the course of 12 minutes in a hall in Paris, 40 amateur dancers use dance and choreography to create an illusion of a growing crowd and symbolically convey current worldwide events. Associative depictions of migrations, gatherings, large protests and manifestations, or scenes from daily life on the streets of big cities are unveiled in front of the viewers. As an individual faces the movement of masses, the viewers observe his simultaneous attempts to resists the masses and surrender to their flow.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Fu LE is a French award-winning filmmaker and choreographer, part of the French dance group Tetrapode. He graduated in Sculpture from the Art Crafts National School in Paris before undergoing training in contemporary dance and physical theatre in South America and Europe. He recently visited Taiwan, where he devoted himself to researching social issues related to urbanization. He is currently working within the interspace of sculpture, dance, and video with the aim of combining visual art with the intimacy of the bodily senses. He strives to shoot films in a single shot or as close to one as possible and choreographs the movement in his film with refined precision.
director / Szu-Wei Chen
screenwriters / Szu-Wei Chen, Constance Tsang, Alexander Yarber
cinematographer / Chris Chen
actors / Eleven Lee, Haosong Yang, Kean Tan
producers / Szu-Wei Chen, Tarek Aryani
ABOUT THE FILM
One morning in a small apartment in Chinatown, New York, a young attractive Chinese woman is listening to radio news on the start of the construction of the border wall between Texas and Mexico while saying goodbye to a man she had just provided with sexual services. As the client is leaving, a young man, another one of her clients who harbours special feeling towards her, is climbing the stairs. He tells her that he is travelling to Texas that day to find work on the construction of the wall. She is not indifferent to this and gives him some money when he suggests she came with him. A sad Chinese song is playing on the radio as he leaves and the girl greets the next client…
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Producer, screenwriter, and director Szu-Wei Chen is of Taiwanese descent and currently lives in New York City where he is pursuing a Master's Degree in Film at Columbia University. Growing up, he developed an interest in film under the influence of the works of directors such as Edward Young and Lou Yen. As he currently lives in the United States, he is trying to transpose their film language into films of his own which are marked by his experience of the New York everyday. His previous film Jay won the Alternative Spirit Award LGBTQ Short First Prize and the Youth Jury Award Best LGBTQ Film Grand Prize at the 2019 Rhode Island International Film Festival and screened at a number of other festivals, including BFI Flare, Palm Springs ShortFest, and HollyShorts Monthly Screening series. The film we are showing had its world premiere at the Maryland Film Festival this year.
directors / Tanja Brzaković, Jelena Bosanac
screenwriter / Milkica Stanhković
cinematographer / Tanja Brzaković
actress / Jelena Bosanac
production / FilmKraftwerk
ABOUT THE FILM
During the Coronavirus pandemic quarantine, a young woman called Jelena Bosanac is standing in front of a window in her apartment, letting her thoughts wander. In a time of complete isolation, her gaze is wandering in search for meaning until it finally spots the ones closest to her in the trees surrounding the building. She sees her father is a great pine tree, her mother in a tall birch. In the more distant trees, she recognises her friends and notices her former lovers even farther away. Memories and recollections become sources of meaning in a world that froze during the hard times of quarantine.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Tanja Brzaković was born in Belgrade and graduated in Directing from the University of Belgrade and Universität Hamburg. She writes screenplays for short films and documentaries which she also directs, and her previous works have been screened at festivals around the globe, winning numerous awards along the way. Her film Hochzeitstag was featured in the Next Generation programme of German Films in 2002 and won the 13th Street Shocking Short Award. Hier bei mir was nominated for the First Step Award and won the Sehsuechte Producers' Award in Potsdam. Her documentaries Jovica and his teeth and The Chinese will come were screened at numerous festivals and shown on various TV stations across the Balkans. Her last short film God´s Will won the Audience Award for best short-length work at the Sedicicorto Film Festival in Italy.
Jelena Bosanac self-identifies as a Serbian-Croatian actress. She graduated in Drama from the Academy of Arts in Belgrade and participated in BITEF with her performance To be or not to be... a woman while she was still a student. After graduation, she moved to Italy where she took part in numerous projects by the theatre group Baal Teatro. She participated in a German-Serbian theatre production in 2012 and decided to pursue a master's degree in Germany based on the experience. She studied Performance Studies in Hamburg and graduated in Theatre Pedagogy from the University of Arts (UdK) in Berlin. Her video work Molding a dream was chosen as part of an exhibit at the Bodies-Surfaces Festival in Venice, and the film we are showing has been previously shown at the Coroina Short Film Festival in Berlin and the Eastern Neighbours Film Festival in Den Haag.
director /Arjanmar H. Rebeta
screenwriter / Arjanmar H. Rebeta
cinematographer / Martin Andres
actors / Tracy Quila, Edward Escriber, Mario Escriber, Mark Henry Escriber, Jerrone Valenzuela, Lavisha Jusayan, Edward Monteroso, Glen Sastrillo
producers / Arjanmar H. Rebeta, Khaye Medina, Andy Valenzuela
ABOUT THE FILM
From the very beginning of his boxing career to the claiming of the champion title, Paco “The Hammerhead” De Ocampo was the favourite of his fellow Filipinos who rooted for him wholeheartedly. However, at his peak, Paco becomes addicted to illegal substances, which ultimately leads to his professional and personal fall. As expected, this reflects on the support from his fans and nation who turn their backs on him, but Paco finally braves another shot at returning into the ring and regaining his title of champion.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Arjanmar Hernandez Rebeta is a professional photographer and filmmaker born in the Philippine city of Cabusao. He is the owner of the production company Mediarama Creatives & Pelikmata Productions, which he founded after completing all of his courses in Art and Philosophy during his Film Studies at the Asia Pacific Film Institute. In his explorations of film as a medium, he attended numerous workshops, sponsored by the Film Development Council of the Philippines, and lectures by prominent and award-winning directors such as Brillante Mendoza, Babyruth Villarame-Gutierrez, and Ramona S. Díaz. He is currently studying screenwriting under the mentorship of renowned screenwriter Ricky Lee. Arjanmar Hernandez Rebet's films, such as the photo-documentary VIVA INA about the Peñafrancia Festival, which had been in production for five years, have been screened and awarded at a number of festivals in the Philippines and around the world, including the US, Canada, Belgium, Australia, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and India.
director / Shona Dutta Charlton
screenwriter / Shona Dutta Charlton
cinematographer / Pascale Neuschäfer
actors / Zara Aslam, Alicia Simai-Kral, Ambika Mod, Ruchika Jain, Melissa Suppiah, Jean-Pierre Boriau, Fagr Elkady
producer / Shona Dutta Charlton
ABOUT THE FILM
Leila is a 13-year-old girl of Bangladeshi descent who lives in East London with her family. She is anticipating an arranged and imposed marriage to a much older man, and her older sister Rukhsana might help her avoid this fate. Rukhsana empathises with Leila as she has lived through a similar situation, and she might get additional help from Leila's girlfriend Margot. In the meantime, a goat is sacrificed before the wedding ceremony to pacify the extremely religious relatives.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Producer, screenwriter, and director Dutta Charlton is of Indian descent and has twenty years of experience in directing short feature and promotional films and documentaries. Her work is mostly tied to television, including prestigious broadcasting companies such as Discovery Networks International and the BBC. She has produced and directed a number of documentaries and currently makes short and Super 8 films. She was chosen to participate in the Think-Shoot-Distribute programme at the London Film Festival organized by the British Film Institute in 2006, received support from the Hubert Bals Fund in 1997 at the Rotterdam Festival and from the Charles Wallace Arts Trust two years later. Under the mentorship of Directors' Guild, she participated in the filming of the popular series Holby City and Silent Witness. She was selected to participate in the Directors UK Inspire Programme in 2019 and won the Arri Trinity Challenge a year later. Her recent short films have been screened and awarded at several festival.
directors / Oğuzhan Dursun, Büşra Dursun
screenwriters / Oğuzhan Dursun, Büşra Dursun
cinematographer / Oğuzhan Dursun
actors / Oğuzhan Dursun, Yasemin Dursun, Burcu Asel Dursun, Ahmet Ergül Dursun
producers / Oğuzhan Dursun, Büşra Dursun
ABOUT THE FILM
When he enters his home that evening, a middle-aged man is somewhat surprised when his usually cheerful wife, older son, and younger daughter greet him with complete indifference. While his wife is watching TV in the living room and his daughter is doing the same in her room, his son is glued to his computer with headphones on. After he puts the kettle on, the husband and father is equally surprised as the rest of his household when the power unexpectedly goes out. The others quickly manage, light some wax candles, gather around the table and start recounting the events of that day. However, they are still acting as if he was not there.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Producer, cinematographer, screenwriter, and director Oğuzhan Dursun was born in Istanbul in 1988. After graduating in History from Boğaziçi University in his hometown, he earned a Master's Degree in Film and Television from Kadir Has University on the subject of found footage horror. Dursun is currently working on his PhD at the Department of History at Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University. He got a job at the Turkish subsidiary of the broadcaster Al Jazeera, where he has been working as an online content editor for more than five years. He also enrolled in master's studies in Strategic Communications from Galatasaray University, and although he recently got married, he still finds time to play strategy games. The film we are showing is his fourth short directorial project that has been realised in the course of the past two years.
Producer, screenwriter, and director Büşra Dursun was born in Istanbul in 1994, where she graduated in Radio, Television, and Graphic Animation from Sabiha Gökçen Girls' Technical and Vocational High School (Sultanbeyli Sabiha Gökçen Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi). She received additional education in the field of film studies, undertook an internship in the editing department at Istanbul's Maltepe University, and began making her own films in 2013. She has also worked as assistant director at the Turkish TV channel Kanal 7, authored several short feature films and documentaries (Barınak, Lokmata, Telefon Bağımlılığı, Bir Umuttur Sigara, Kader), and is currently mostly dedicated to film editing and sound design.
director / Marco Chiappetta
screenwriter / Marco Chiappetta
cinematographer / Marco Chiappetta
producer / Marco Chiappetta
ABOUT THE FILM
During the coronavirus pandemic lockdown, the film's author was intensely looking out the window, and it started to seem that something was happening outside. Was it only a dream? Or hope? Or the memory of what life used to be like?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Italian Marco Chiappetta was born in Naples in 1991. He graduated in Film Studies from Université Paris Diderot and has made several short films since 2009 that participated at numerous festivals around the globe. He works for Warner Bros., mostly directing behind-the-scenes documentaries.
director Sofia / Castro
screenwriter / Sofia Castro
cinematographer / Alberto de la Espriella
actors / Julieta Ferraro, Marlon Nazate, Loreley Ramírez, Edgardo Rosini, Pablo Trucco
producers / Sofia Castro, Delfina Cocciardi
ABOUT THE FILM
Inspired by true stories of Chinese, Singaporean, but also Italian and other maids who make up a large part of the workforce in the coastal city of Monterosso al Mare in Liguria, the film is realised through a combination of acting and dance, with a dancer maid as its protagonist. While she is cleaning a room, the maid is listening to a radio drama about two lovers who want to run away from the girl's father. To succeed, they decide to kill the maid who is the unwanted witness of their plans. When the owner of the apartment that the protagonist is cleaning enters the room, events unfold that gradually obscure the boundaries between the two stories, the one we are watching and the one on the radio.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Argentine Sofia Castro studied Directing at the Universidad del Cine (FUC) in Buenos Aires, and the film we are showing is her debut short film as screenwriter and director. In 2017, while the project was still in development, she participated with the film in the Vórtice residence for screendance and experimental film development programme in Valparaiso, Chile, as well as in the 16th edition of the Buenos Aires Screendance Festival Lab. Once completed, the film took part in several festivals, including the Leeds International Film Festival, Festival Cinedans – Amsterdam Dance on Camera Festival for dance, film and media, and the In/Motion Chicago's International Dance Film Festival. The author is the first Argentine artist to be invited to participate in the International Encounters of Videodance in Valencia and the Durban's International Contemporary Dance Festival. She was awarded the Fondo Nacional de las Artes award for innovation in her work to date in her home country.
director / Seza Tan Selen
screenwriter / Seza Tan Selen
cinematographer / Seza Tan Selen
producer / Seza Tan Selen
ABOUT THE FILM
Multiple individuals' fates cross one day on a busy city street. While two men wait for public transport and fast-food restaurant workers go through their daily obligations, one cyclist gets hit by a car. While an ambulance is arriving at the scene of the accident, a man who had been standing leaned on the restaurant wall enters the restaurant with a gun in hand and embarks on a robbery. Only one of the two men who had been waiting for public transport will enter the vehicle in the end.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Seza Tan Selen was born in Dortmund in 2002 and currently works in his hometown as a director. He made his debut feature film Neozoen during 2019 and 2020 with the help of both schoolmates, friends, professional filmmakers, and actors. Prior to that, he had made several short films that took part in numerous festivals and won, among others, the Best Camera Award at the Steinerei Festival in Germany in 2019. He is still studying and hopes to earn a degree in directing one day.
director / Emanuele Dainotti
screenwriters / Emanuele Dainotti
cinematographer
actors / Pepe Vázquez, Javiera Torres, Constanza del Sol, Sofia Ott, Dado, Luìs Scotti
producer / Emanuele Dainotti
ABOUT THE FILM
This four-story artwork is inspired by the theme and atmosphere of a novel by Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti. The protagonists are people without hope, residents of the fictional Uruguayan city of Santa María, people who are forced to take nihilistic and dark actions with irreparable consequences due to a combination of circumstances. The project is a 4-channel installation created during the author's stay at the AIR MadreSelva art residence in Montevideo. The screen format is constantly changing, narrowing horizontally until it becomes impossible to watch.
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Italian visual artist and filmmaker Emanuele Dainotti was born in 1987 in Milan and lives and works in Antwerp. His video works and video installations have been exhibited and awarded at exhibitions and festivals around the world, from the Museum of the Moving Image and the Hudson Valley MOCA in the US, Rencontres Internationales Paris and the Louvre Museum in France, FIVAC in Cuba and Museu de Arte Moderna to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, to XIV Mostra Internazionale del video d´autore Avvistamenti in Italy, CGAI in Spain, the Miden Festival in Greece, and the Reykjavik International Film Festival in Iceland. In 2018, he won the International Competition for Intermedia Artwork organised by the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków and The Faculty of Intermedia and the Foundation for the Development of Intermedia Artwork. A year later, a jury chaired by Anisha Kapoor and Anda Rottenberg awarded him the Now You See Me award at a ceremony organised at Musée du Louvre in Paris.
director / Marie-Magdalena Kochová
screenwriters / Marie-Magdalena Kochová, Josef Kokta
cinematographer / Ludvík Otevrel
actors / Lucie Krátká, Matyáš Stiburek, Vojtěch Hlavárek, Vojtěch Komrzý, Vojtěch Božek, Barbora Šupová
producer / Augustina Micková
ABOUT THE FILM
In what ways is our collective connection to technology and gadgets gradually developing and intensifying? How are technology and digital devices changing our existence and social lives? Engaged with these questions, communication experts James E. Katz and Mark Aakhus, who specialise in new media with a focus on the internet and social networks, developed unique theories and phenomenological analyses. Taking the cue from their research, the film explores the phenomenon of current mobile communication, taking the audience on an allegorical journey into the world of technology and its cold, isolated and hostile spaces, and presents them with ways in which smartphones, omnipresent in their everyday, function as literal and metaphorical windows into internet reality and, as often as not, bizarreness. Naturally, our interaction with digital devices is always a two-way street.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Czech screenwriter and director Marie-Magdalena Kochová was born in 1994. Having completed her New Media studies at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, she is currently studying documentary film at the Department of Documentary Film at the renowned Czech academy FAMU. Her directorial credits so far include the short feature films 6 minut from 2013 and Zdena a Filip from 2014. She won the Aramis Prize at FamuFest for her authorial report Interlocker 1 in 2017. Her film Will the World Remember Your Name? screened in 2017 at the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival in the Czech Republic.
director / Toni Meštrović
screenwriter / Toni Meštrović
cinematographer / Toni meštrović
producer / Toni Meštrović
ABOUT THE FILM
A camera submerged under the sea films the events on the surface as the silhouettes of two human bodies enter the frame. A man and a woman are performing an act in which they enter the frame by swimming from opposite sides to meet at the centre and begin rotating. The woman is rotating the man as she swims before the figures gradually distance themselves from one another and, still floating on the surface, exit the frame on opposite sides.
director / Ricard Carbonell Sauri
screenwriter / Ricard Carbonell Sauri
cinematographer / Ricard Carbonell Sauri
producer / Ricard Carbonell Sauri
ABOUT THE FILM
Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory is the first film by the Lumière brothers Auguste and Louis, inventors and pioneers of cinema who screened the film on 22 March 1895 to showcase the Cinématographe, their new invention that they patented on 13 February of the same year. The film is a black-and-white silent documentary that contains all types of camera shots and demonstrates that its makers were familiar with the simplest forms of editing as well. The film we are showing is an homage to the epoch-making Lumière documentary.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ricard Carbonell Sauri holds a PhD in Filmology from the Complutense University of Madrid and degrees from the Universities of Barcelona, Madrid (ECAM – Escuela de Cinematografía y del Audiovisual de la Comunidad de Madrid), and Cuba (EICTV – Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión). His films have screened at more than 150 festivals around the globe and won numerous awards. He has been awarded at festivals in San Francisco, Vienna, Berlin, Stockholm, Sofia, Bucharest, Madrid, and Barcelona, among others. He also works as a film professor at the TAI (Transforming Arts Institute) Arts School at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid.
director / Luis Galindo
screenwriter / Luis Galindo
cinematographer / Luis Galindo
actress / Ariadna Llussa
producer / Luis Galindo
ABOUT THE FILM
As a young dancer performs her dance act in a space within an industrial plant, the camera follows her movements, hiding behind columns and in that way highlighting the juxtaposition of the physical expression of her dance and the static parts of the plant. Highly aestheticized and sensual scenes arise from the contrast.
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Luis Galindo is a Spanish screenwriter and director of several short film, documentaries, and video clips whose works successfully participated at a number of festivals in his home country and abroad. His previous feature film Kurczak advanced to the finals and won second prize in the 5th edition of the competition in Navarre, the Spanish autonomous community known as the "land of film" for hosting numerous national and international film projects. He founded the production company Luis Galindo Audiovisual, focused on the shooting and post-production of music videos, commercials, and video clips. Over the past 12 years, he has collaborated on more than 50 feature films made by several production companies, including Tornasol Films, Fernando Test PC, Oria Films, Morena Films, and many others, performing various jobs and functions.