Aleksandra Chrapowicka / Александра Храповицка / 12
Blagoy D. Ivanov / Благой Д. Иванов / 13
Diane Malherbe / Даян Малерб / 14
Dimitar Drinov / Димитър Дринов / 15
Don O’Mahony / Дон О’Махони / 16
Emilia Stoeva / Емилия Стоева / 17
Emre Doğan / Емре Доган / 18
Faisal Qureshi / Файзал Куреши / 19
Ivan Popov – Zaeka / Иван Попов – Заека / 20
Levente Galambos / Левенте Галамбош / 21
Onur Keşapli / Онур Кешаплъ / 22
Phaedra Vokali / Федра Вокали / 23
Rastko Ćirić / Растко Чирич / 24
Vasiliki Maltasoglou / Василики Малтасоглу / 25
Vítězslav Chovanec / Витеслав Чованец / 26
Vladislav Apostolov / Владислав Апостолов / 27
Vlado Srbinovski / Владо Сърбиновски / 28
BEST NATIONAL FILM
Am I Not My Brother’s Keeper / Не съм ли аз пазителят на братята ми? / 30
Finding Home / Да намериш дом / 31
Freeride / Фрийрайд / 32
I’m Here / Тук съм / 33
Mirror Touch / Огледално докосване / 34
Party Bus / Парти бус / 35
Task / Задача / 36
The Groomsmaid / Горчиво / 37
The Object / Обектът / 38
The Outcast / Бездомникът / 39
To Bury a Dragon / Да погребеш дракон / 40
BEST FICTION FILM
5PM Seaside / 5 следобед до морето / 42
A Bullfighter’s Dog / Кучето на бикобореца / 43
About Me / Моя работа / 44
Agosto in Pelliccia / Август в кожа / 45
Allas / Уви / 46
Argento Vivo / Живак / 47
Around the Corner / Зад ъгъла / 48
As Possible as Everything / Всеки би го направил / 49
Atonement / Изкупление / 50
Betty’s Burning / Бети гори / 51
City of Ghosts / Град на призраци / 52
Colonie / Летен лагер / 53
Crossing the Blue / През синьото / 54
Dash / Галоп / 55
Don’t Breathe / Не дишай / 56
Everything at Once / Всичко едновременно / 57
Haven / Убежище / 58
Hooves Beat / Тропот на копита / 59
I Have No Legs, and I Must Run / Нямам крака, а трябва да тичам / 60
If There Was No Sky / Ако нямаше небе / 61
Il Vespista / Веспистът / 62
Invincible / Неуязвим / 63
Life After Death / Живот след смъртта / 64
Lou’s Neighbour / Съседът на Лу / 65
Monico Perseus / Монико Персей / 66
Monkey Business / Маймунчето / 67
My Eyes Are Up Here / Очите ми са по-нагоре / 68
North Pole / Северния полюс / 69
Not Tomorrow / Не утре / 70
O Que Resta / Какво остава / 71
Olayan / Олаян / 72
Olly Olly Oxen Free / Стоп игра / 73
Pendulus / Махало / 74
Poppies and Ducks / Макове и патета / 75
PsyChicken / Психо пиле / 76
Queen / Кралица / 77
Radio Silence / Космическа тишина / 78
Safe as Houses / Вкъщи, на сигурно / 79
Selkie / Селки / 80
Separation / Разделяне / 81
Solo / Сам / 82
Soul Food / Храна за душата / 83
Story / Приказка / 84
Street Light / Улично осветление / 85
The Connection / Връзката / 86
The Fence / Оградата / 87
The Mighty Kingdom / Могъщото кралство / 88
The Silent Ones / Неми / 89
The Shepherd of Clouds / Пастир на облаци / 90
The Swan Song / Лебедова песен / 91
The Wasp / Осата / 92
To Die Without Noticing / Неусетна смърт / 93
Treasures / Съкровища / 94
Tria / Три / 95
Useless / Некадърник / 96
Yama / Плячка / 97
Yanni / Яни / 98
You Promised / Ти обеща / 99
Zof / Зоф / 100
BEST STUDENT FICTION FILM
12:10 / 102
5/3/0 / 103
Acid Base / Киселинна основа / 104
Aykuo / Айкуо / 105
Bestial Ones / Зверове / 106
Between us the Wilderness / Пустoшта между нас / 107
Blind Spot / Сляпо петно / 108
Blue Noise / Син шум / 109
Blue Note / Код “синьо” / 110
By the Rivers Blue / Край сините реки / 111
CASTRO / Кастро / 112
Charlie / Чарли / 113
Elevator Pitch / В асансьора / 114
Fallen apples / Паднали ябълки / 115
Fixing Things / Да поправим нещата / 116
For dummies / За начинаещи / 117
Graveyard of Horses / Гробище за коне / 118
Guardieladri / Стражари и апаши / 119
Headfish / Риба луна / 120
Heart Fruit / Плод на сърцето / 121
Heat! / Жега! / 122
How to Tame a Wild Elephant / Как да опитомиш див слон / 123
Ice Break / Разчупи леда / 124
IDYLL / Идилия / 125
Jia / Джиа / 126
Killing Bagheera / Да убиеш Багира / 127
Little Sky / Скай / 128
Lonely Fans / Самотни вентилатори / 129
Louis & Jeanne / Луис и Жана / 130
Mud Crab / Кален рак / 131
Neighbouring Sounds / Съседски звуци / 132
On the Edge / На ръба / 133
On Your Behalf / От твое име / 134
Our Home / Нашият дом / 135
Paradise on Earth to See / Раят на Земята / 136
Pizza d’Amour / Обичам пица / 137
Plus 963 / Плюс 963 / 138
Red Admiral / Червен адмирал / 139
Rooftop / Покрив / 140
She is a good boy / Тя е добро момче / 141
Son pardos / Полумрак / 142
Sonderlackierung / Специална боя / 143
Taste of Home / Вкусът на дома / 144
The Boy Who Couldn’t Feel Pain / Момчето, което не изпитва болка / 145
The Campsie Fells / Кампси Фелс / 146
The Dependent Variables / Зависимите променливи / 147
The Look / Погледът / 148
The One-Way Ticket / Еднопосочен билет / 149
The Other End of the Street / Другият край на улицата / 150
The Tears of Things / Сълзите на нещата / 151
The Viewing Room / Стаята за наблюдение / 152
To Mother / На майка ми / 153
Traces / Следи / 154
Trenc d’alba / Зазоряване / 155
Trumoiak / Гръмотевица / 156
Unfamiliars / Непознати / 157
Vinland / Винланд / 158
Waiting Room / Чакалня / 159
Water Balloons / Водни балони / 160
Wetsuit / Неопренов костюм / 161
Winners / Победители / 162
Your Guardian / Твоят пазител / 163
BEST ANIMATION FILM
11 / 166
A Dream of Hawaii / Мечта за Хавай / 167
A Tiny Man / Малък човек / 168
Ashkasha / Ашкаша / 169
Black Eyed Dog / Чернооко куче / 170
Botanica Exotica / Екзотична ботаника / 171
Crab / Рак / 172
Dancing in the Shadows / Танцуване в сенките / 173
Dog Apartment / Кучешки апртамент / 174
Egoland / Еговръх / 175
Even Stone Flows / Дори камъкът тече / 176
Garrano / Гарано / 177
Ice Merchants / Търговци на лед / 178
Il Formaggio / Сиреноти / 179
Inner Polar Bear / Бялата мечка вътре в теб / 180
Island / Остров / 181
Kiss ‘n’ Ride / Целувай и карай / 182
Little Smasher / Малък разбивач / 183
Lupus in Fabula / За вълка говорим / 184
Money and Happiness / Пари и щастие / 185
My Airline / Моята авиолиния / 186
Once There was a Sea / Имало eдно време едно море… / 187
Red Rabbit / Червен заек / 188
Regular Rabbit / Най-обикновен заек / 189
Rest in Piece / Почвиай в мир / 190
Shakespeare for All Ages / Шекспир за
Suzie in the Garden / Зуза на вилата / 192
The Antiquary / Антикварят / 193
The Benefactors / Благодетелите / 194
The Bridge / Мостът / 195
The Foam and the Lion / Пяната и лъвът / 196
The Garbage Man / Боклукчията / 197
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The Legend of Goldhorn / Легендата за Голдхорн / 198
The Pioneers / Пионерите / 199
The Queen of the Foxes / Кралица Лисица / 200
The Record / Плочата / 201
The Song of Flying Leaves / Песента на литналите листа / 202
Think Something Nice / Мисли за нещо хубаво / 203
To Fall / Като паднеш / 204
To the Moon / На луната / 205
Without Us / Без нас / 206
Zidane Roulette / Рулетка Зидан / 207
BEST STUDENT ANIMATION FILM
A Bloody Graveyard Story / Кървава гробищна история / 210
A Dog Under Bridge / Куче под моста / 211
Boom / Бум / 212
Carp Xmass / Шаранска коледа / 213
Death of the Gods / Смъртта на боговете / 214
Headprickles / В смисъл? / 215
Journey in Amnesia / Пътешествие
Mom is Always Right / Мама винаги
Out of Habit / По навик / 218
Pentola / Пентола / 219
Pinocchio / Пинокио / 220
Primitive Times / Работно време / 221
Resting Fog / Мъгла в покой / 222
Spring Roll Dream / Пролетни рулца / 223
Swing to the Moon / Люлка до Луната / 224
Synchrony / Синхрония / 225
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The Building at 9 Etzel Str. / Сградата на улица Етцел 9 / 226
The House of Loss / Къщата на загубата / 227
Town Hall Square / Метростанция “Общината” / 228
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
Black Wagon / Черен вагон / 230
Busy / Зает / 231
Dicks That I Like / Членовете, които обичам / 232
Endless Return / Безкрайно завръщане / 233
Eva and Ramona / Ева и Рамона / 234
Eva Ray / Ева Рей / 235
Grand National / Гранд Нешънъл / 236
Kambana / Камбана / 237
Leglassion / Легласион / 238
Piché Returns to the Ring / Пише се завръща на ринга / 239
Searching Heleny / Търся Хелени / 240
See You in April / Ще се видим през април / 241
Sex Relish / Сексуална наслада / 242
Sirens / Сирени / 243
Sonnenstube / Слънчева стая / 244
The Maestrat on Film / Майсторът на филма / 245
Thrown Away Child / Захвърлено дете / 246
Touch Down / Тъчдаун / 247
Under the Lake / Под езерото / 248
BEST STUDENT DOCUMENTARY FILM
Abel / Абел / 250
At Spiral’s End / В края на спиралата / 251
Below the Surface / Под повърхността / 252
Bloodshed / Кръвопролитие / 253
Contraction / Контракция / 254
Driving Force / Движеща сила / 255
Familiar Stranger / Близък непознат / 256
Filho / Син / 257
Foxy Girls / Модерни момичета / 258
Fragments / Фрагменти / 259
Geamăna / Геамана / 260
Home / Дом / 261
Life Line / Линия на живота / 262
May the Earth Become the Sky / И нека Земята стане небето / 263
Navarinou Square / Площад Наварину / 264
Shells / Обвивки / 265
Sweet Life / Сладък живот / 266
The Divine Flower / Божественото цвете / 267
To Eat Bread / Да ядеш хляб / 268
uStopia / Американска утопия / 269
With My Thoughts on the Sea / Моите мисли за морето / 270
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
1 MTH/MIN / 272
All My Scars Vanish in the Wind / Вятърът
AMO / 274
Cinquemarzo / 5-ти март / 275
Dear Passengers / Уважаеми пътници / 276
EO DE ME / Ео Де Ме / 277
Our Pain / Нашата болка / 278
Saudade / Копнеж / 279
Sunspots / Слънчеви петна / 280
The Stream XII / Потокът XII / 281
Turbulence / Турбуленция / 282
XX / 283
You are Dust / Ти си прах / 284
NOT SHORT AT ALL (FEATURE FILM)
Where is Ida / Къде е Ида? / 286
Queen of Hearts / Дама Купа / 287
The Riot / Съучастници / 288
The Business of Pleasure / Търговия с наслада / 289
Faithbreaker / Веролом / 290
BULGARIAN FILM ON FOCUS
Between Me and You / Между мен и теб / 292
Child’s Play / На игра / 292
Depersonalization / Обезличаване / 293
Drought / Засушаване / 293
Four Credible Stories for an Absurd Evening / Четири достоверни истории за
Snowdrops at the End of the Train / Кокичета
ми белези / 273
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влака / 294
Sometimes I Dream I’m Dying / Понякога сънувам, че умирам / 295
Talking With my Stranger / Разговори с
The Last Vampire of Sofia / Последният
Trace / Следа / 296
War / Война / 297
MARKET SCREENING - 64 films / 298
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JURY / ЖУРИ
ALEKSANDRA CHRAPOWICKA
She was born in Lodz in Poland. First she studied Graphics in the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, before she went on to study Animated Film and Special Film Effects in the Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz.
Since 1998, she has worked at this Department as а lecturer. She has been an artistic adviser for a huge number of students’ films. She makes short animated movies for children. She has staged events for young audience, making animation to music which was mostly played live by the different Philharmonic Orchestra in Poland. Thanks to Erasmus mobility she had workshops in different universities like ESAD in Portugal and FAMU in Czech Republic.
BLAGOY D. IVANOV
BLAGOY D. IVANOV was born in 1980 in Sofia. He holds a MA degree in movie critics from the Bulgarian National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts “Krastyo Sarafov”. Currently he works in Focus Radio as a host of the radio program “Storyboard”. He wrote the non-fiction collection “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Ones” and co-created the comic book collection “Seven Urban Sins”. Also, he is the author of “The Cellar” and “Krehar”. In 2021 his first children book is released – “The Plush Adventure”. Together with his colleagues from the website Operation Kino he is a co-founder of the project Inglourious Kunts – video podcast focused almost entirely on cinema.
DIANE MALHERBE
DIANE MALHERBE was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France. In 1999, she joined the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. She was a PhD student in Art Culture Studies at the University of Montpellier, where she also obtained a Master’s degree in Performing Arts & Entertainment. She worked for the distribution company “Some Like it Short” as a sales agent and later co-founded Kinoctambule, an International Laboratory for Short Films & Soundtracks Productions in 2014. Her last short film “The Washing Machine” received more than 65 official selections in 28 different countries and obtained 7 awards until now.
DIMITAR DRINOV
ДИМИТЪР
ДРИНОВ
DIMITAR DRINOV was born in 1980 in Sofia.
Ever since he was a child, Dimitar has always been interested in cinema – he was a co-founder of an annual film program in his high school (High school 22, Georgi S. Rakovski). After graduating he continued his education, studying “Film directing and editing” in NBU, while working as an usher in “Center” movie theater, under the management of Boyana film center.
From 2004 until the publication closed, Dimitar was working as a contributing author and editor in magazine “Ekran”. In 2010 he established one of the most popular internet sites, dedicated to cinema - Operation Kino, where he serves as an editor-in-chief and contributor, as well as an executive producer on the Inglourious Kunts video podcast. Dimitar has worked as a coordinator on the independent film festival SoIndependent, where he has been in charge of the festival selection. Since 2017 he has worked as a PR professional for Forum Film Bulgaria - the official Disney, Universal, Paramount and MGM cinema distributor in Bulgaria.
Dimitar can often be seen on TV or heard on the radio and different podcasts as a guest and contributor. He has served on different juries for the International Sofia Film Fest and Cinelibri festivals.
DON O’MAHONY ДОН
DON O’MAHONY is Senior Programmer with Cork International Film Festival, Ireland’s most venerable film festival! Since becoming involved in the festival as part of their selection committee in 1999, Don has been in charge of the festival’s experimental programme, Free Radicals, since 2004. He has overseen the festival’s short film programming since 2016.
ДОН О’МАХОНИ
филмов фестивал в Корк – най-уважавания филмов фестивал в Ирландия. От 1999 г.е член на Селекционната комисия на фестивала. От 2004 г. Дон отговаря за програмата за експериментални филми “Свободни електрони”. През 2016 г. поема програмацията
Късометражната програма на фестивала.
EMILIA STOEVA
ЕМИЛИЯ СТОЕВА
Prof. Dr. EMILIA STOEVA is a cinematographer with years of experience with more than 40 documentaries, documentaries, scientific popular, corporate and advertising films.
He teaches film and TV cinematography at NATFIZ “Krastyo Sarafov” and New Bulgarian University.
She has lectured at the University of the Arts in Porto and Maltepe University in Istanbul. Regular participant in international conferences and seminars. Member of the jury of a number of film festivals. Prof. Stoeva has over 50 published articles in specialized publications. Author of terminological dictionaries and publications in the field of cinema. Member of the National Commission for Documentary and Popular Science Cinema and the Union of Bulgarian Filmmakers. Chairman of the Association “Akademika 21”.
EMRE DOĞAN
ЕМРЕ
He was born in 1991 in Istanbul. In 2010, he got into the Department of Radio, TV and Cinema at Ege University. In 2013, he shot the short film “Whitewash”. He started his master’s degree at Dokuz Eylül University, Film Design Department in 2014 and his doctorate in this department in 2016. In 2019, he wrote and directed the short film “In Infinite Time”, “Multiple Choice” and “Eleji: Efeler”. He received his doctorate with his thesis on the relationship between cinema and philosophy of science in 2021. Formerly an assistant professor in Istanbul Gelisim University, Radio, TV and Cinema department in 2021, he is appointed as the head of the department in 2022.
2013 г. заснема късометражния филм „Избелване”. Започва
FAISAL QURESHI
ФАЙЗАЛ
КУРЕШИ
FAISAL QURESHI is a producer and scriptwriter with over 20+ years in the industry. His short film work has screened at Bucheon, Huesca, London and Leeds that led him to mentor filmmakers in Pakistan, Syria and Uzbekistan. When not focusing on his own work, Faisal has worked on films and documentaries such as the BAFTA award winning feature FOUR LIONS (Film4/Warp Films), the BAFTA and Emmy award winning documentary LEAVING NEVERLAND (Channel 4/HBO/AMOS Productions) as well as IN THE SHADOW OF 9/11 (PBS Frontline/Channel 4/AMOS Productions) and the comedy THE DAY SHALL COME (See-Saw/Film 4/BFI). He is also a researcher and has worked on shows such as LOADED, SUCCESSION, TRAINWRECK: WOODSTOCK ‘99 and THE MOST HATED MAN ON THE INTERNET. He is a visiting lecturer at the Escula Internacional Cine y TV in Cuba.
BAFTA FOUR LIONS, документалния филм, отличения с
BAFTA и Emmy LEAVING NEVERLAND (Channel 4/HBO/AMOS Productions ),
11 септември (PBS Frontline/Channel 4/AMOS Productions)
(See-Saw/Film 4/BFI).
рисърчър
работил за предавания като LOADED, SUCCESSION, TRAINWRECK: WOODSTOCK ‘99 и THE MOST HATED MAN ON THE INTERNET.
в Escula Internacional Cine y TV
IVAN POPOV –ZAEKA
IVAN POPOV, who almost everybody calls Zaeka (“The Rabbit”), is a film director and creative leader with more than 20 years of experience in the fields of animation and advertising. Throughout this time he has worked on major campaigns for leading international brands, directed a number of animated short films and designed immersive visuals and SFX concepts for music videos and dance performances. His creative output includes more than 100 animated videos.In 2013 Ivan founded ROBO Lab, which has grown to become a leading animation and post-production studio on the Bulgarian market. He also holds a master’s degree in Movie Animation from New Bulgarian University and a marine captain’s license.
LEVENTE GALAMBOS
ЛЕВЕНТЕ
ГАЛАМБОШ
Born in 1997. He studies at the German Nationality High School in Budapest with a bilingual education, specializing in physics. He is a bachelor student in mechatronic engineering at TU Budapest. His specialization is in optomechatronics and his thesis is on “Development and implementation of distortion measurement for cameras”. He is a cameraman and editor at Kármán Studio, TU and at weareEnigma, Budapest. He is also a lecturer on courses about editing and cinematography. Since 2021 he is a self-employed cinematographer, lighting technician and camera technician for short films, music videos, feature films.
ONUR KEŞAPLI
ONUR KEŞAPLI was born in İzmir in 1986. He shot his first short films at American Collegiate Institute. He graduated from Anadolu University, Faculty of Communication in 2008. In 2012, he completed his master’s degree in Film Design at Dokuz Eylül University. He received his Ph.D in 2019 in Radio, Television and Cinema at Ege University. He has been a director, writer and producer of many short films, documentaries, TV shows and a jury at national and international film festivals. He works as an academician and lecturer at Uşak University, Faculty of Communication since 2013 and he is the founder of The International Uşak Short Film Festival since 2014.
PHAEDRA VOKALI
PHAEDRA VOKALI studied Piano, Economics and Architecture Theory in Athens and Film in University College London. In 2012 she took on Marni Films as a managing director, completing numerous films as a producer. In 2020, she co-founded Late Bloomers production company. She is an EAVE Producers Workshop alumnus as well as Torino Film Lab alumnus. Her films (Suntan, Afterlov and more) have been awarded and screened in many international film festivals. Phaedra is a member of the Feminist Autonomous Centre for Research in Athens. She is an Artworks fellow and recently completed her first short film as a writer/director, titled Enomena.
RASTKO ĆIRIĆ
Born in 1955 in Belgrade, Serbia. Graduated from the Faculty of Applied Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade in 1979, where he is also a retired professor of Illustration and Animation and a vice-rector. Founder of the subject of Animation at the FAA, Belgrade and the FAA Animation Studio (2006). Illustrated for the New York Times Book Review (2002-2004). Founder and editor of the book edition and magazine Signum of the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade (2006). Author of the concept and music of the conceptual multimedia project The Rubber Soul Project dedicated to the Beatles. Founder and Art Director of six Festivals of European Student Animation (FESA) in Belgrade (2012 - 2017).
VASILIKI MALTASOGLOU
ВАСИЛИКИ
VASILIKI MALTASOGLOU is Festival Director of Balkans Beyond Borders Short Film Festival and co-founder of the organization Balkans Beyond Borders. She is specialized in Digital Communication and Storytelling undertaking storytelling and short film inspired workshops to adults and teenagers. In Balkans Beyond Borders she directs the Festival, realizes workshops on filmmaking and storytelling, and curates all screenings and cultural events of BBB. Also, she has been Jury member in several short film festivals such as BUZAU and Aegean Film Festival. All her actions are linked with her passion for creativity and communication.
VÍTĚZSLAV CHOVANEC
Graduated from Film and Audio-Visual Culture Studies at Masaryk University in Brno. During his studies he worked for Czech Television as an assistant dramaturge. Since 2010, he worked for several film festivals including Cinema Mundi, Karlovy Vary IFF, Ji.hlava IDFF or Mezipatra IQFF.
As a journalist, Vítězslav has contributed to various Czech outlets including 25fps, Film a doba, and he is still writing for Cinepur, where he also handle production and distribution of the magazine. He is also a member of programming team of One World Human Rights Film Festival in Prague. In September 2017, he joined the team of the Czech Film Center, a division of Czech Film Fund, where he is responsible for promotion and festival distribution of Czech documentary and short films abroad.
VLADISLAV APOSTOLOV
VLADISLAV APOSTOLOV is a film journalist and author, whose work has appeared in almost all major national media outlets in Bulgaria, and has been translated abroad. He writes and speaks about cinema in print, radio and TV. He has also been part of two online film podcasts, products of the websites Operationkino.net and Webcafe.bg.
He is a culture editor in the national newspaper Trud News, а regular guest on film topics for the weekend morning show of the leading national TV station bTV, and has a culture commentary slot on thе waves of Bulgarian National Radio.
Vladislav has written hundreds of articles and film reviews, published in various bulgarian magazines. He has covered the festivals in Cannes and Venice and has interviewed many film figures, from Francis Ford Coppola to Luc Besson.
He absolutely loves film noir and some solid screen satire.
VLADO SRBINOVSKI
VLADO SRBINOVSKI is a founder and President of BALKANIA. His purpose is to restore the positive image of the Balkans in the public eye and promote its exceptional cultural, natural and historical heritage. With Balkania he initiates and supports many tourism activities on local, national, and regional level, while focusing on projects to develop human capacity in the field of tourism, sustainable economic development and education. He had been an Advisor in the Agency for Promotion and Support of Tourism of Macedonia. For the past 6 years continually a member of the jury in “On The East Coast Europe”- International Tourism Film Festival in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria.
After a tough battle with the Russian army, a Ukrainian special forces soldier is rescued by a man of Bulgarian origin, but then faces serious resistance from the local community.
Director: Nick Stanchev
Writer: Nick Stanchev
Cinematography: Alex Vasilev
Composer: Rado Minev
Editor: Martin Petrov
Producer:
Rossi Itoff, Todor Parpulov, Alex Vasilev, Radoslav Metodiev
Cast:
Nikola Parvanov, Rossi Itoff, Todor Parpulov, Konstantin Ilev
NICK STANCHEV was born on September 30, 1986, in Sofia, Bulgaria. He is s director, scriptwriter, producer, and actor. He has directed 3 featured films and another 10 shorts. His last short film “Digital Asylum” won multiple international awards and selections.
FINDING HOME / ДА
FRANCE, BULGARIA, USA / БЪЛГАРИЯ,
The personal story of Antonia Jardenia da Silva from Brazil: a climate refugee forced to move from her home village to the big city in order to take care of her newborn baby as it struggles with microcephaly. The film follows the period of drought in Northeastern Brazil, the epidemic of the Zika virus transmitted by mosquitoes and Jardenia’s attempt to feel like she belongs at the new place. Pilot episode of the FINDING HOME animated-docu series on climate refugees from around the world.
MARIA STANISHEVA is a film director/producer and founder of ANIMADOCS, an independent film production house based between Sofia and NYC. She is a graduate of Sofia University, Central European University and New York Film Academy’s Documentary filmmaking program and has 15 years experience working on feature films, TV and online series, independent and commissioned shorts. Filmography includes FATHER (prod, 2011), TRUMP & JESUS SHOW (dir/prod 2017), BETWEEN EARTH AND SKY (dir/prod 2012).
Whilst having fun, two young men unwillingly become responsible for the admission of a seemingly innocent elderly woman into a psychiatric hospital. What they don’t suspect is that they might be karma’s retribution for the woman’s previous deeds.
Director: Julian Vergov, Antoni Krastev
Writer:
Alexander Chobanov, Julian Vergov
Cinematography: Georgi Kerezov, Hristo Hristov
Editor: Never Know Productions
Producer:
Overlock Entertainment LTDJulian Vergov, Alexander Chobanov Never Know Productions
Cast: Plamen Dimov, Martin Dimitrov, Andrea Bandova, Maria Kavardjikova, Vladimir Penev, Gerasim Georgiev, Julian Vergov, more.
JULIAN VERGOV is one of the most beloved and recognizable Bulgarian actors. With over 60 roles in film and television and even more in theatre, Vergov has won numerous awards, including Best Actor at the Cairo Film Festival (“A” grade festival) for the film German Lessons. FREERIDE is Julian Vergov’s debut as a director.
Never Know Productions
Overlock Entertainment
Productions
Zoya returns from shopping to her grandmother’s house. There she comes across one of the most natural and sure parts of life, which, however, always catches us unprepared. How will she react? A story about one of the thousands possible encounters with HER, the outcome of which is always unique.
Cast: Vilma Kartalska, Anna Bankina, Nikolina Stoyanova - voice Режисьор:
Оператор:
VILMA KARTALSKA finished Acting Studies at Theatre College “Luben Groys”. Since 2012 she works as a producer, director, scriptwriter in the field of short films. In 2015 she founded the production company “Raiza Vilm Productions”Ltd. Her short projects won multiple international awards. She completed her MA in Directing Film&TV at New Bulgarian University and now is working on her first documentary feature “The Golden Girls of Olympia”.
BULGARIA / БЪЛГАРИЯ / 2023 / 15’19’’
Victor suffers from a rare neurological condition, which prevents him from experiencing any sense of touch. Upon meeting a young dancer, Dia, he discovers that the two of them are connected in a strange way, and he can feel everything she feels. Dia finds this connection intriguing and allows him to experience different sensations through her body.
Виктор страда
са
ROMAN PESSAROV is a young Bulgarian film director with a strong passion for genre cinema and a mission to tell nonconventional
Director: Roman Pessarov
Writer: Elena Toncheva, story by Roman Pessarov
Cinematography: Damian Dimitrov
Composer: Angel Radev
Editor: Philip Tarpov and Roman Pessarov
Producer: Irina Gurova
Cast: Leonid Yovchev, Slavena Zaykova
Режисьор:
PARTY BUS / ПАРТИ
BULGARIA / БЪЛГАРИЯ / 2023 / 29’59’’
Alex is a bus driver for provincial psychiatry. He has to transfer a group of mentally ill patients to the clinic where he works at. The patients should arrive by noon. Otherwise, Alex will lose his job and the chance to pay for his daughter’s treatment. He stops for a short break at a roadside bar. When he comes back, he finds the bus trashed and empty. Alex realizes he will lose everything, until a group of strangers stand on his way. Determined to save his child, he makes a decision that will change everything.
DILYANA DANEVA is from Nova Zagora. She graduated in Painting at the Art High School and she studied Acting for Drama Theater at the Lyuben Grois Theater College. She is currently a student of Film and TV directing at Southwestern University “Neofit Rilski”. Dilyana is part of the production teams of “Silent Angel”, “Tango in the Tunnel” and others. Winner of the Jury Award in the category “Best Actress” at the International Film Festival LAMP in Malibu, USA. “Party Bus” is her directorial debut, supported by the National Culture Fund of Bulgaria in program “Debuts”.
Director: Dilyana Daneva
Writer: Dilyana Daneva
Cinematography: DoP - Svetoslav Mikov / Camera - Momchil Alexandrov
Cast: Assen Karaniko lov, Ralitsa Tudzharo, Maria Ilieva, Iva Karamаncheva, Anton Trendafilov, Christian Makarov, Prof. Stanimir Trifonov, Vasil Grancharov, Chef Petar Mihalchev, Zornica Spirova, Lubov Ivanova, Режисьор:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqOV2OWlK-w&ab_channel=YellowBrickPictures https://www.facebook.com/partybusshortmovie https://www.instagram.com/partybus.movie/ http://www.partybusmovie.com/ - soon will be available
BULGARIA / БЪЛГАРИЯ / 2022 / 09’35’’
The mother of 9-year-old Maria receives terrible news and faces the challenge of preparing her daughter for the tough times ahead. “Task” is a story about the love of a parent, always given in full, regardless of the circumstances. Майката на 9-годишната
Director: Deyan Angelov
Writer: Deyan Angelov
Cinematography: Rebecca Naydenova
Composer: Hristo Dobrev
Editor: Deyan Angelov
Producer: Katerina Borisova
Cast: Yoanna Temelkova, Aya Kraynova
DEYAN ANGELOV graduated from Royal Holloway, University of London, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Media Arts, specializing in Screenwriting and Directing Screen Fiction. He wrote and directed a short film in an internship program at Nu Boyana Film Studios. After receiving funding from National Culture Fund Bulgaria, he made “Task,” a short film that went on to screen at international film festivals across Europe in 2022 and 2023.
While trying to evade her father’s attempts to connect, Tamara (10 y.o.) notices a celebration is brewing on her block. A neighbor is getting married, and the groom has come to “steal” her as the Bulgarian custom dictates. Tamara sneaks into the wedding with the help of the groom and gets a taste of the grown-up world as well as some wine. After the little girl witnesses the groom’s manipulations she must decide whether to remain his friend or steal the bride back from him.
DIMITAR started his career as a writer and producer for late night comedy TV. After becoming a Fulbright Scholar, he spent several years teaching Screenwriting in the United States. He has returned to Bulgaria to pursue cinema and stand-up comedy. “The Groomsmaid” is his first short film.
THE OBJECT /
BULGARIA / БЪЛГАРИЯ / 2023 / 14’42’’
“The Object” is a short film about a programmer grappling with the loss of his mother. After putting her remains into an urn, as he struggles to find a suitable place for it in his small apartment, he is forced to confront his unresolved grief. The film uses subtle visual metaphors and a powerful performance by the lead actor to explore the universal themes of loss, memory, and acceptance.
“Обектът” е късометражен
DEYAN TSVYATKOV is a film director from Bulgaria with a background in music and acting. With a passion for using film to distort reality and explore philosophical questions, he has directed several award-winning short films. Tsvyatkov’s unique approach to storytelling has earned him recognition for his ability to express his unique artistic style.
Director: Deyan Tsvyatkov
Writer #1: Jakim Petrov
Writer #2: Stefan Goncharov
Cinematography: Nikola Atanasov
Composer: Rosen Pavlov
Editor: Deyan Tsvyatkov
Producer: Emil Nikolov
Cast:
Yordan Rasin, Vittoria Nikolova Режисьор: Деян Цвятков
Сценарист: Яким Петров, Стефан Гончаров
Оператор: Никола Атанасов
Музика: Росен Павлов
Монтаж: Деян Цвятков
Продуцент: Емил Николов
Участват:
https://vimeo.com/812829442
https://www.instagram.com/theobject_short/
BULGARIA / БЪЛГАРИЯ / 2022 / 08’25’’
A banker stops by a strange beggar. He tries to make small talk but the beggar is strangely arrogant. The latter convinces the banker that begging is such a lucrative occupation. The beggar is in love, but he cannot leave his “workplace” and go to his girlfriend. The two men make the hardest deal in their lives.
Вниманието на банков служител
From 2012 to 2015 NIKOLAY URUMOV is the executive producer of the “Domashen Arest” and “Kantora Mitrani” series, the film “Labirinti Lyubvi”, as well as the third season of “Bulgaria’s Got Talent”. He is also the co-producer of the film “Roseville”. He graduated from the NATFA “Kr. Sarafov ” with a major in Film in 2021. His short films “Awakening” and “The Immortal” have won awards in over 15 international forums. Nikolay Urumov is the producer of the film “Petya na Moyata Petya”.
Director: Nikolay Urumov
Writer: Nikolay Urumov, Kitodar Todorov, Teo Chepilov
Cinematography: Rafael Mathias
Editor: Nikolay Urumov
Producer: Nikolay Urumov
Cast:
Harry Pearson, Josh Heineman, Fabirizio Pinzauti Режисьор:
Монтаж:
TO BURY A DRAGON /
BULGARIA / БЪЛГАРИЯ / 2023 / 29’55’’
An 60-year-old homophob MARCO receives a call that his son Stefan has died in London. He accepts the news with indifference and forbids his wife MARIA to bury him in his family plot. Marco continues his day in his workshop, where he makes wooden dragon figures. His disregard confuses his friends in the small town. Meanwhile, Maria meets Stefan’s partner BEN and their adopted child ETHAN, who have come for the funeral. Their arrival awakens his deamons of shame and fury.
60-годишният хомофоб Марко получава обаждане, че синът му Стефан е починал в Лондон. Мъжът е безразличен
Director: Martin Markov
Writer: Teodora Markova & Martin Markov
Cinematography: Orlin Ruevski
Editor: Martin Markov
Producer: Orlin Ruevski & Martin Markov
Cast: Hristo Shopov, Paraskeva Djukelova, Paul Wright, Jack Hannan
MARTIN graduates at The National Academy of Fine Arts – BA in Illustration and later an MA in Directing at the National Acadamy of Theatre and Film Arts.
Meanwhile he enters the fields of advertising, where he played Creative Director for the last 20 years.
His love for cinema dates many years back. He hast two short animations made in 2003 and 2008.
In 2016 he directed his first live action short – (un) conscious. „Bury a Dragon“ is his second and his Debut Feature is in preproduction.
BEST FILM FICTION
AUSTRIA, GREECE / АВСТРИЯ,
/ 2022 / 26’00’’
On his 40th birthday, Nikos, a solitary truck driver, arrives on a remote beach. He’s there to meet his former military buddy Christos, whom he hasn’t seen for many years. На своя 40-ти рожден ден, Никос, самотен
VALENTIN is a director and writer from Austria. He graduated Ortweinschule for Film & Media in Graz in 2014. Since then, he has been working in theatre, film festivals and film productions. So far, he has directed 3 narrative short films as a director. In 2019, he moved to Athens, Greece where he is currently working on the short film ‘5pm Seaside’.
режисьор и сценарист, завършил „Ortweinschule“ със специалност Филми
In the abandoned bullring of Ecija (a village in Andalusia, Spain) Jesus, an eleven-year-old boy, plays football. He and his friends spend the afternoon inventing new ways to pass the time. But that afternoon is going to be different: he is going to kill a man. Left behind by his mates, Jesús starts to abandon his childhood to enter an adult world that he is not yet ready to understand.
Director: Sandra Romero
Writer: Sandra Romero
Cinematography: David Lázaro
Editor: Ana Bustamante
Producer: Sara de la Fuente, Álvaro Díaz, Alberto Tortes, Ignacio Vueltas
Cast:
Jesús León, Tamara Casellas, Antonio Araque
Режисьор:
Оператор:
SANDRA ROMERO studied film directing at ECAM. She graduated with A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN (2019), which premieres at the Seville Film Festival. With her second short film, WHERE THE SILENCES PASSES (2020), which is selected at festivals such as Medina del Campo, SEFF, or the Inside Out festival in Toronto, she receives a Silver Biznaga for best direction at the Málaga Film Festival. She is now developing her first feature film at the Residences of the Spanish Film Academy and previously in CIMA Impulsa. She has recently participated in the 2022 Berlinale Talent and Script Station Lab whit the same project.
Монтаж:
https://marvinwayne.com/el-perro-de-un-torero
Продуцент:
Young Fatima holds a secret that could change her fate; she must place her trust in a doctor to make a tough decision between cultural tradition and medical ethics.
Младата
Director: Ali Asgari
Writer: Ali Asgari
Cinematography: Yavuz Selim Isler
Composer: Áron Gunst
Editor: Ruud Bouma
Producer: Maryam Tarami Cast: Mayra Pitambersingh, Alan Yadegarian, Winnie Augustus
ALI ASGARI is a prominent Iranian cinema figure with more than 200 awards to his name. Two of his shorts (More Than Two Hours, 2013 and The Silence, 2016) were nominated for Palme d’Or at Festival de Cannes and The Baby was selected at Venice Film Festival 2014. His debut feature film Disappearance had its world and North American premiere at Venice International Film Festival and Toronto Film Festival 2017. Until Tomorrow his second feature film was recently premiered in Berlinale 2022.
We are in the middle of August, in an apartment on the Roman outskirts. Tommaso is a teenager and he is subjected to the spite of his elder brother Leonardo, who calls him “Pelorosso” because of her auburn hair. If he wants his brother to stop teasing him, Tommaso will have to cut himself hair.
Director: Alessandro Rocca
Writer: Alessandro Rocca, Martina Mele
Cinematography: Roberto Gallina
Editor: Alessandro Rocca
Producer: Martina Mele, Alessandro Rocca
Cast:
Aurora Cancian, Lorenzo Piazzoni, Nicolò Sala
иска брат му да спре да му се
ALESSANDRO ROCCA (1997) was born in Milan. His debut short film “Agosto in Fur” won the Best Director award at Visioni Italiane 2022. He is the president of Destination Film, with which he produces and directs short films and music videos. He is currently in production with the short film “SANSDIEU”.
АЛЕСАНДРО
(1997)
https://vimeo.com/758706470
Distribution - INSTAGRAM: @gargantua_distribution • FACEBOOK: @gargantuadistribution Director - INSTAGRAM: @ _alessandro_rocca_
FINLAND / ФИНЛАНДИЯ / 2022 / 14’59’’
A speechless story of a young boy in a skeleton costume and his father’s swimming trip to a lido. It seems like an ordinary trip until a strange woman with sunglasses joins the father at the pool.
Director: PV Lehtinen
Writer: PV Lehtinen
Cinematography: Hannu-Pekka Vitikainen
Composer: Lau Nau, Mirco Cortesi
Editor: PV Lehtinen
Producer: PV Lehtinen
Cast: Iivo Tuuri, Peter Kanerva, Johanna Puhakka
PV LEHTINEN is internationally acclaimed short film director, writer and producer. His international breakthrough was short film The Diver (Hyppääjä), which made history at the Tampere International Short Film Festival 2001 by winning the Grand Prix and four other prizes. In one way or another, many of his films involve the element of water, which he feels is an extremely interesting visual element.
To deal with the pain of witnessing his wife’s illness, Alfredo has built a device to play old Super 8 films on a visor, to relive the memories of when he and his wife were young.
Slave of the device, he will move away from reality, in the vain attempt to chase the pain away, lost inside the warm embrace of the past.
The bond of love that he shares with his wife will break this vicious circle and Alfredo will finally be at peace with the suffering he feels, knowing his wife is still beside him.
GIANTOMMASO PUGLISI is an Italian director. He works all around the world mostly in fashion and advertising.
After studying photography at school, he concentrated more on the narrative potential that images in motion possess and began to develop his style, mixing a pleasing and clean composition with a powerful and cinematic language.
In 2021 he directed his first short movie, Argento Vivo, that has received more than 30 nominations and 7 awards in many international festivals around the world.
Director: Giantommaso Puglisi
Writer: Stefano Campagna, Giantommaso Puglisi
Cinematography: Stefano Campagna
Composer: Edoardo Michelozzi
Editor: Giantommaso Puglisi, Stefano Campagna, Brian Singler
Producer: Giantommaso Puglisi, Stefano Campagna
Cast:
Enzo Lenzetti, Giulia Zadra, Marcellina Ruocco
https://vimeo.com/797671431
https://www.instagram.com/giantommasopuglisi/
SLOVENIA / СЛОВЕНИЯ / 2022 / 13’16’’
12 years old boy Nejc witnesses teenage bullying. He befriends Timi, the victim of violence.
MARTIN TURK is award winning director of short and feature films. He was born in 1978 in Trieste, Italy. In 2004 he graduated at Ljubljana film academy AGRFT. He is alumni of Cannes Cinefondation Residence program and author of three feature films. Throughout his career he remains deeply devoted to short films. In all his short films he deals with basic human relationships to extract the specific emotional state of his protagonists, regularly being children and youth.
Saadet, who lives in Basaksehir, arranged a job interview by means of her father’s former boss pulling some strings. Galip wants to change the family’s story of failure through his hardworking daughter, Saadet, who is likely to climb the social ladder. While Saadet is waiting at the bus stop to go to the meeting, she accepts the offer of Cigdem to give her a ride and gets in the car. The intimacy of the two women is interrupted when, accompanying the breakdown of the vehicle, they realize that they are going to the same company for an interview for the same position. When they get back in the car, the rivalry between them will change the course of their job interviews.
на работата.
She was born in 1994 in Izmir. She graduated from Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Performing Arts - Dramatic Writing in 2018. She works as a playwriter, scriptwriter and director in private theaters, various movies and TV series.
Director: Selen Örcan
Writer: Selen Örcan
Cinematography: Edze Ali
Composer: Muaz Ceyhan
Editor: Sezer Uçar
Producer: Elif Reis
Cast: Selin Hasar, Zeynep Kızıltan, Mehmet Esen Режисьор:
A ferocious study of everyday sadism. Grief over a lost child has left Mina living a half-life in the shadows. But one day her world is shaken when a neighbour starts projecting obscene films into her bedroom. Seeking revenge on him, Mina enters into a game where the boundaries of fantasy and reality start to fade. A story unfolds – two people wracked with painful longing for atonement. Едно
KAVEH AKABER is a Swedish / Iranian multi-artist, director and composer. He has been praised for his wayward “outside the box” works with films that have been screened at both international film festivals and international art exhibitions. There is always a surprising moment in his works woven into psychological mystical and social issues.
Director: Kaveh Akaber
Writer: Kaveh Akaber
Cinematography: Jonas Rudström
Composer: Kaveh Akaber
Editor: Kaveh Akaber
Producer: Kaveh Akaber
Cast: Sandra Medina, Peter Viitanen, Nirvan Parham
To end a toxic and violent relationship, Betty sets herself on fire. During the weeks following the tragedy, in the hospital burn unit, oscillating between fantasy and reality, she will rebuild her body and heal the terror that her companion had created in her.
CAMILLE VIGNY was born in 1989 in Paris. She graduated with a cinema degree from the University of Paris VIII after visiting FAMU, the Prague Film Academy, as an Erasmus exchange student. She then entered the film directing department at the INSAS school in Brussels (Institut National des Arts du Spectacle et de Diffusion). She is attracted by the faces, bodies and the life stories of marginalized people, whom she places at the center of her works. She is currently writing her first feature film.
City of Ghosts follows the story of two men who left their native countries of Ukraine and Bulgaria for work, under the guise of better pay and opportunity. Upon arrival at a farm in Greece, both men, passports taken from them, must decide how to survive. After months of forced labour, Uri risks his life to escape, with the intention of finding his family. Upon Uri’s disappearance, his counterpart Rosen must pick up where he left off.
„Градът
Award-winning director/writer CHRISTIAN ELLIOTT creates visually compelling films to benefit humankind. He has over 25 short films and a track record of global campaigns reaching billions of people in his capacity at A21 (an anti-trafficking organisation).
ELLE GINTER is an internationally recognized writer/director with a background in camera, balancing visual precision and sharp narrative efficiency. Challenging everyday perspectives, she blends the narrative and documentary worlds.
Director: Christian Elliott, Elle Ginter
Writer: Elle Ginter, Christian Elliott
Cinematography: Stefan Vrachev
Composer: Gareth Williams
Editor: Isaac Chen
Producer: Stephen Montgomery Cast: Martin Hristov, Evan Holovatski, Nikolas Kassapis, Nazam Karakurt
Alone in his house, Leo, 12 years old, does not want to go to summer camp. When it is close to the time of departure, a disturbing presence prowls around, imitating his voice...
Останал сам
After studying cinema, ROMAIN DAUDET-JAHAN wrote and directed films mixing scifi and realism, such as Les Champs Magnétiques (2020), pre-purchased by France TV, which had a very good career in festivals and won the Unifrance prize in 2021; Colonie is his second short film produced (Bobi Lux, pre-purchased by Canal+). His first feature film Kyma is being written, it was selected at the script workshop in the Fémis.
Champs Magnétiques (2020), предварително
е имал много добро представяне на фестивали и печели наградата
Director: Romain Daudet-Jahan
Writer: Romain Daudet-Jahan, Marion Desseigne Ravel
Cinematography: Thomas Rames
Composer: Grégoire Letouvet
Editor: Alexis Courtois
Producer:
Claire Bonnefoy, Bobi Lux
Cast:
Andrea Maggiulli, Vincent Debost
ARMENIA / АРМЕНИЯ / 2022 / 12’10’’
Anoush, who left Armenia to flee from her abusive husband, has to return years later, leaving behind her only reason for living…
Director: Victoria Aleksanyan
Writer: Victoria Aleksanyan, Armine Anda
Composer: Vardan Harutyunyan, Miqayel Voskanyan
Editor: Tigran Baghinyan
Producer: Armine Anda, Victoria Aleksanyan, Anna Demianenko
Cast: Armine Anda, Alexander Strobele, Armen Mikayelyan
VICTORIA is a director from Armenia with a Master’s Degree in cinematography production from Columbia University. Her short film “Caregivers” premiered at Golden Apricot IFF in 2014. It won Best Foreign Picture Award at Sunset Film Festival, USA. “Crossing the blue” is a co-production between Armenia, Netherlands and USA. The film premiered in 2022, at Golden Apricot IFF and internationally at Cinemed Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival’s short film competition. It received “Best Cinematography” award at Yerevan ISFF, Armenia.
In a small town, a stable man struggles with his femininity amidst a rugged rural landscape. As his favourite horse is set to be euthanised at the end of the week he is forced to make a decision. Will he continue to live like this?
Director: Rory Fleck Byrne
Writer: Rory Fleck Byrne
Cinematography: Sophie O’Donovan
Editor: Rory Fleck Byrne
Producer: Rory Fleck Byrne, Screen Ireland
Cast:
Sigrid Ten Napel, Rory Fleck Byrne, John Doran, Lauren Farrell, Harriet Walter (voice)
RORY has always been interested in the expression of gender and the mix of masculine and feminine we all carry. His filmmaking thematically focuses on dismantling socially imposed masculine behaviours, releasing the feminine, queerness and communication. Rory is currently in pre-production on his next short “This is not an Attack on Your Parenting”, and his third short “In Heat” is currently under consideration by the BFI for their future takes scheme. DASH is Rory’s directorial debut.
DON’T BREATHE / НЕ
ISLAMIC
REPUBLIC
OF IRAN
To exert more tyranny and suppression, the ruling power has done something to its dissenters that they exhale smoke when they breathe, and the agents must take into custody such people wherever they find them. Unaware of the law, a man meets one of the dissidents and it changes the course of his life, until he decides to immigrate to a better land with the dissident for a better life.
Born in 1989, in Yazd Province, he has gotten his Masters degree in Graphic Design from The University of Art Tehran. Since 2012, he has started educating himself on scriptwriting and movie making at Hilaj Independent Cinematic Academy. In 2015, he released his first short film, Mobile, as an experiment in the industry. Biannually since the release of Mobile, he kept releasing other short films. From the starting year, his films are getting featured in well over 20 international film festivals.
Director: Milad Nasim Sobhan
Writer: Milad Nasim Sobhan
Cinematography: Ali Aghaei
Composer: Sara Davoodeh
Editor: Farid hoseini
Producer: Milad Nasim Sobhan
Cast: Ali Bagheri, Alireza Mehran
https://my.uupload.ir/dl/dxVb9VzW
You’ve heard it before; that a moment can change your life. As if it’s possible to point to single instance when things changed. For Jakob, there’s just a myriad of memories, piled up on top of each other. As if everything happened all at once.
HENRIK enjoys working across disciplines and formats in search of a good story. Directing, producing, animating or making zines, he is fascinated with creative ways to tell a story.
Everything at once is his first short film as a director.
Director: Henrik Dyb Zwart
Writer: Henrik Dyb Zwart
Cinematography: Mario Poljac
Composer: Axel Toreg Reite
Editor: Henrik Dyb Zwart
Producer: Øystein K. Dyb
Cast: Steinar Klouman Hallert, Elisabeth Aschehoug, Sondre Larsen
Carmel is a lonely sheep farmer in her 70’s & a survivor of a Mothers and Baby’s Home. She strikes up an unlikely friendship with Tanaka, a young girl living in Direct Provision (an asylum seeker refuge) who wants to learn how to be a farmer.
Direct Provision (убежище
Director: Maureen OConnell
Writer: Ivan Cush & Rehan Ali
Cinematography: Colm Hogan & pick-ups by Alan Rogers
Composer: Fergal Lawler
Editor: Maureen O’Connell
Producer:
Maureen O’Connell, John Kennedy
Cast: Maria McDermottroe, Bontha Schreurs
фермер.
I have a Higher National Diploma in Film Production from Ballyfermot College and a BA in Acting from RADA, London. I have written, directed and produced over 12 short films and I have made a no-budget slacker comedy feature film called, “SPA Weekend”. I have directed several comedies interspersed with some dramas. And I recently directed the award-winning short dramas, “Bruise” and “Haven” which is on its way to the States at festivals in Chicago, Florida, Canada & then onto Bulgaria in April at the Academy Award Qualifying Festival: 21st in the Palace Short Film Festival.
In a border village between Iran and Iraq, lives Tino, a 12-year-old youngster with his parents. After finding out about a heart-breaking incident that takes place in the mountains and leaving him devastated, he finds himself in a dilemma where he senses that the life of his sole four-legged friend which also happens to be his father’s only means of transportation and work, is in imminent great danger. He must make a momentous decision quickly.
В гранично селце между Иран
12-годишно момче, заедно с родителите си.
когато усеща, че животът на четириногия му приятел, който
FARGOL MASROURIRAD, (born on December 7th, 1988) and grew up in Tehran, Iran. She is a Ph.D student in Architecture in University of Tehran. She started her Film-making studies in 2018 and debuted as a film maker in 2022 with her short film called Hooves beat.
SEYED HOSSEIN ZEITOONNEJAD, born on September 21, 1984, Shiraz, Iran. Grew up in Tehran, Iran. He is a Bachelor of Business Management from Faculty of Humanities. He started his film career in the field of acting and directing in 2017 and has several experimental and professional short films in his portfolio.
Fereydoun Hamedi, Mardin Sheikhmoradi, Shabboo Soleimani
An athlete who is past his prime is struggling with his injuries. The arrival of a talented new member of his team. plants the seeds of jealousy in the Protagonist s mind.
Director: Yue Li
Writer: Yue Li
Cinematography: Limbo Lin
Composer: Peravich Punnatrakul, Adam Chimmanee
Editor: Alvynn Diagne
Producer: Kaixuan Ye, Zhulin Mo
Cast: Xin Wen, Xu Zhaobang, Yan Sanyuan Режисьор: Юе Ли
Сценарист: Юе Ли
IF THERE WAS NO SKY /
NORTH MACEDONIA
After a catastrophe on earth, a man is left all alone, trying to survive in the wasteland. Some field with a big tree in the middle, under which a woman is waiting for him, keeps on showing up in his dreams and it motivates him to keep going on. After walking across the lands in search for food and water, he suddenly sees the tree from his dreams. He runs as fast as he can to the tree, but he sees that there is no woman. Then he realizes that he has been summoned to this place to learn that only nature can save the mankind.
Born 1966 in Shtip, North Macedonia.
In the 90s he became a composer, music producer and music performer. From 1999-2000 he worked as an editor in chief at Music production department of Macedonian National TV. Since 2001 he’s been working as an independent producer, director and composer. He has produced and directed 12 documentaries, 20+ music videos, 10+ TV commercials and three short films. His second short film “Lunch” achieved 12 official selections at film festivals world wide and 5 awards so far.
Director: Branko Popchevski
Writer: Branko Popchevski
Cinematography: Nikola Kitanovski
Composer: Branko Popchevski
Editor: Ivona Popchevska
Producer: Nikola Kitanovski
Cast: Gjorgji Jolevski
www.sunart.mk
IL VESPISTA /
ESTONIA / EСТОНИЯ / 2022 / 25’00’’
An unruled Italian writer living in Bali has his life changed when he receives a very unusual gift. Животът
Director: Francesco Crivaro
Writer: Lucas Abrahao
Cinematography: Vishal Vittal
Editor: Madlen Sieghartsleitner
Producer: Francesco Crivaro
Cast: Giovanni Anzaldo, Muhammad Khan, Valentine Payen, Asmara Abigail
Режисьор:
FRANCESCO CRIVARO is a filmmaker based in a small town surrounded by the Italian Alps. He currently works mostly as a cinematographer in indie fiction and documentary film projects. Many of his works were selected and awarded in important international film festivals. In 2017 he decided to start up “Infraredfilm”, an indie production company with the intention of producing some of the stories he brought back home from his travels and professional experiences. Il Vespista represents his debut film as fiction film director.
Монтаж:
https://vimeo.com/553528191
https://www.esenstudios.com/film/il-vespista/
CANADA / КАНАДА / 2022 / 29’43’’
July 5, 2008. Marc, a 14-year old boy, plunges into the waters of the Rivière-des-Prairies while driving a stolen car. Invincible traces the 48 hours leading up to this incident as Marc confronts his desperate need for freedom.
5 юли 2008 г. Марк, 14-годишно момче, се хвърля
на Ривиер де Прери, докато кара открадната кола. „Непобедим“ проследява 48-те часа, водещи до този инцидент,
Director: Vincent René-Lortie
Writer: Vincent René-Lortie
Cinematography: Alexandre Nour
Composer: Simon P. Castonguay
Editor: Thomas Bellefleur
Producer: Samuel Caron
Cast: Léokim Beaumier-Lépine, Élia- St Pierre, Isabelle Blais, Pierre-Luc Brillant, Ralph Prosper, Florence Blain Mbaye, Naoufel Chkirate, Miguel Tionjock
VINCENT RENÉ-LORTIE is a Montréal-based film director. His work navigates between poetic, dreamlike and surrealistic narratives across multiple genres like animation, science fiction and dance. Recently, Vincent has created two purposeful short films, Invincible, which is now in distribution, and the experimental film La Peau de L’Autre, which begins production in 2022. He is also developing his first feature film, You Were Always An Island.
LIFE AFTER DEATH / ЖИВОТ
SERBIA / СЪРБИЯ / 2023 / 18’21’’
In a post-war refugee center, through the eyes of a young boy, an eclectic group of people attempt to carry on with their shattered lives before they are told they must move. But the discovery of a mysterious baby comes to have profound consequences on all of them.
OGNJEN PETKOVIĆ is a film and theatre director, scriptwriter and an actor, born in Vukovar, Croatia, 1986. He graduated at Academy of Arts - Novi Sad, Serbia in 2008. He finished his PhD in Audiovisual Arts; artistic field - film directing in 2021. He directed folowing films: Three Points (2011), Qatar (2014), Hands (2016), Love (2017), Crocodile (Post-production), Hide and Seek (2018), Autumn Waltz (2019), Life After Death (2023). He has won 21 international and national awards.
в Нови Сад, Сърбия през 2008 г. Има докторантура по Аудиовизуални изкуства,
точки“ (2011), „Катар“ (2014), „Ръце“ (2016), „Любов“ (2017), Крокодилът“, „Криеница“ (2018), „Есенен валс“ (2019), „Живот след смъртта“ (2023). Печелил е 21 международни и национални награди за филмите си.
Vladimir, 17-years-old, is secretly in love with his neighbour Lou. When Lou decides to leave her home to move in with her boyfriend – a man ten years older than her – Vladimir tries to put his jealousy aside to help her. Владимир, 17-годишно
VICTORIA LAFAURIE graduated from the national Beaux Arts school of Strasbourg, France. She is a singer of the music band Polo & Pan. She co-directed Lou’s Neighbour, her first short film, with Hector Albouker.
HECTOR ALBOUKER holds a diploma in Literature. He first started as an assistant on many shootings. Now he’s an editor and director of commercials and music videos. He has worked with several luxury brands (Guerlain, Lancôme…) and artists such as Josman and Anna Leone.
Director: Victoria Lafaurie, Hector Albouker
Writer: Victoria Lafaurie, Hector Albouker
Cinematography: César Decharme
Editor: Nobuo Coste
Producer: Igor Auzépy, Stéphane Demoustier
Cast: Lou Lampros, Mathieu Capella Режисьор:
https://vimeo.com/691448866
https://www.facebook.com/Shortcutsdistribution
https://www.instagram.com/shortcuts.distribution/
Монтаж:
MONICO PERSEUS /
UNITED KINGDOM /
When Ash escapes from a juvenile detention centre, he clambers through the marshes in an attempt to rescue his older brother from their abusive alcoholic father.
Director: Alfie Stewart
Writer: Alfie Stewart
Cinematography: Arran Green
Composer: Marli Wren
Editor: Matt Davies
Producer: Tara Trangmar
Cast: Andrew Tiernan, Sam Barnard, Alfie Stewart Режисьор:
ALFIE is an actor with a number of credits to his name across film, TV and theatre. This is his directorial debut.
Монтаж:
Inside a classroom it appears that Nila (8 yrs.) is the only black child. When teacher Julian asks who wants to play monkey in the musical, it’s Nila’s friend Rein who says that Nila should play it, because she’s simply the best in playing a monkey. Julian interprets this as racism, punishes Rein and confronts Reins father with this behavior. Nila and Rein both get confused when there rises a discussion between their parents and teacher about racism: Nila and Rein don’t even know what that is.
Оказва се, че 8-годишната Нила е единственото чернокожо дете в класната стая. Когато учителят Юлиян
объркани, когато родителите
EVERON JACKSON HOOI was born on Curaçao and moved, when he was 8, with his mother to Holland. During his study he already acted a lot. After he got a part in the drama series ‘The Inheritance’ in 2004, he became part of the regular cast of the soap opera ‘Good Times, Bad Times’ and played in the films ‘Dead End’ and ‘Buladó’. ‘Buladó’ opened the Dutch Film Festival in 2020, won the award of Best Film and was selected for the Oscars in 2021. In 2021 Everon got a part in the film ‘Family Claus’.
Director: Everon Jackson Hooi
Writer: Lysette Rindertsma
Cinematography: Johan Dijkstra
Composer: Bob Thole, Guido Spek
Editor: Richelle van Loon
Producer: Indra Baars, Kennard Bos, Vincent ter Voert
Cast:
Indy-Rose Kroonen, Sam van der Sar, Micha Hulshof, Bas Keijzer, Sosha Duysker
Sonia is a super-busy, sought-after model, and dating doesn’t really fit her lifestyle. However, a one-night stand with a clumsy but considerate man changes her perspective.
NATHAN’S career began making award-winning documentaries in New Zealand before setting sail for London, where he wrote and directed music, comedy, and branded content for artists and brands including Sony, BBC, Discovery, Foo Fighters, Rihanna, and Lady Gaga.
Nathan’s first short film At Dawn, won Directors Choice at the Rhode Island International Film Festival, and his second short film screened at Rhode Island Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, and Pöff Shorts (Black Nights Film Festival).
NORTH MACEDONIA, SERBIA /
Misty field, crowded locker room. Margo belongs to neither. Maybe if she loses her virginity, she will finally find her place.
Director: Marija Apcevska
Writer: Marija Apcevska
Cinematography: Vladimir Samoilovski
Editor: Dragan Von Petrovic
Producer: Robert Naskov Cast:
Antonija Belazelkoska, Luka Mitev, Frosina Trajkovska, Andrea Noveva, Nadja Mijatovic, Teodora Kostova, Kristina Janevska, Tea Pavlova, Marija Trpevska, Marko Gjeorgievski, Vojdan Jovanovski, Leo Gacov, Teo Gacov
MARIJA APCEVSKA’S shorts have travelled to festivals worldwide and won several awards, with Bardo premiering at Berlinale Generation. Her latest Film, North Pole, premiering at Festival de Cannes - Official Short Film Selection, was one of the winning projects at European Short Pitch 2019. She is currently working on her first feature, Spring Cleaning, selected for development at LIM 2021 and presented at Cannes Focus CoPro’ 2021.
Michalis has barely 24 hours to redefine his life and make up for his close ones. That same night he meets a girl. He only wishes that the morning never comes.
AMERISSA BASTA lives in Athens and works in Communications at Publication Industry. She has studied Communication and Mass Media and holds an MA in Cultural Management (Panteion University, Athens). Currently she is taking an MA on Creative Writing and Screenwriting (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).
She has been writing scripts and directing short films since 2010, having completed seven short films and a documentary so far. Her first feature film is in pre-production.
Emilio, is a lifelong farmer in his 80’s who lives alone on his abandoned farm. Everyone close is gone. One animal is all there is left. Today is the day he decides to sell it.
Director: Daniel Soares
Writer: Daniel Soares
Cinematography: Anna Franquesa-Solano
Editor: Lucas Moesch
Producer:
Daniel Soares, Vasco Costa / Kid with a Bike Cast:
Carlos Cairrão, “Maluquinho”, Hélia Pinto, João Patrício
Режисьор:
DANIEL SOARES is a Portuguese writer, filmmaker & photographer. O Que Resta, his first narrative short film, screened at several international festivals, such as Telluride, Clermont-Ferrand and Hong Kong. It won the Grand Prix at Premiers Plans d’Angers and Best Portuguese Short Film at IndieLisboa. Recently, he was selected into Locarno’s Spring Academy where he wrote and directed his newest short film “Please Make It Work”, which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in 2022.
Оператор: Ана Франкеса-Солано
Монтаж: Лукас Моеш Продуцент: Даниел Соарес, Васко Коста / Kid with a Bike
In the 90’s, a Bedouin boy named Hamad must go on a journey to rescue his best-friend, a newborn camel named Olayan, from being sold at the market by his father.
Director: Khalifa Al-Marri
Writer: Christina-Kallirroi Garbi
Cinematography: Ian Coad
Editor: Abdul Jabbar Maki
Producer: Basel Owies
Cast: Saleh Salem Al Marri, Ali Naji Al Marri, Mohammed Al Sunni, Mishaal Al Dosari
KHALIFA AL-MARRI is a filmmaker who has made several contributions to the fine art community in Doha, Qatar. Al Marri went on to complete a Mass Communications degree and holds a diploma in Directing. His first short film, Man of the House, premiered at the Ajyal Film Festival and received multiple awards. Al Marri’s next short entitled Fragile was selected to participate in the Doha Film Institute exchange with La Fémisworkshop in Paris. Khalifa recently completed an experimental short film called Embodiment before writing Olayan.
OLLY OLLY OXEN FREE
ITALY / ИТАЛИЯ / 2022 / 12’00’’
Alì is a 10 years old Afghan boy who lives in a tent city at the port of Patras, Greece. Every day he tries in vain to board the ferry directed to Italy illegally. In his last attempt, though, he decides to hide inside a caravan. He finds himself face to face with Claudio, an Italian boy of the same age, who’s leaving the island with his family after their summer holidays. Али е 10-годишно афганистанско
им.
VALERIO FILARDO is a director and screenwriter from Sicily, Italy. After his school studies, he moves to Bologna for graduate studies in Cinema and Media at DAMS and then to Rome to attend the Cinema Academy in Cinecittà. Then he moves to London, where he lives for almost 6 years to finally return to Italy. In addition to several commercials and music video clips, he did: “L’Oro del Sud” (2018), “Sarino” (2019), and “Tana libera tutti” (2022).
Director: Valerio Filardo
Writer: Valerio Filardo
Cinematography: Martino Pellion Di Persano
Animation: MUTA Animation
Composer: Luca Macaluso
Editor: Enrico Giovannone
Producer: Gabriella Manfré
Cast:
Yousef Yaqoobi, Baqir Mohammad Karimi, Hamidi Hamidullah Режисьор:
Arbi, 24, is raised in Athens. After the events on the night of the Serbia-Albania football match, Arbi will have to decide whether to attend the wedding of his relatives, whether to claim the girl he likes, whether he is Albanian or Greek.
24-годишният
DIMITRIS, born in Athens, 1987 holds a degree in Film Studies and Broadcast Media from the University of Derby. His first short documentary “Fourth Wall”, filmed in over 10 months around the world as he was travelling for project commissioned by Greenpeace Greece, was awarded by the Greek Film Academy and took part in Les Nuits En Or 2019 of the Académie des César. His first feature Documentary project “Sunken” was awarded at Thessaloniki Documentary Festival’s Thessaloniki Pitching Forum with the ERT award.
Katerina insists on swimming in the sea, even though it is strictly prohibited. She spends all of her money paying fines and ultimately has no choice but to ask her mother for help, putting their strained relationship to the test.
CHRISTINA-KALLIRROI GARBI studied Acting at the Drama School of the Athens Conservatory and Law at the Athens Law School. She works as a director and writer. Her film Now that Spring is Here premiered at VIENNA SHORTS 2021 and won the Audience Award at Feel the Reel International Film Festival, Glasgow. Papaveri e Papere premiered at Trieste Film Festival 2023. She currently works in her feature documentary Invisible Parents which explores same-sex and trans parenthood in Greece.
https://vimeo.com/693055753
PSYCHICKEN /
ITALY / ИТАЛИЯ / 2023 / 13’45’’
A fantasy film-noir based on “Crime and Punishment”.
A thief who is burglaring gets surprised by the host and commits a brutal murder. He runs away but realizes that something is following him. Фантастичен
Born in Tehran, ATA MOJABI is one of Iran’s most talented and appreciated up-and-coming directors and screenwriters. He debuted as a director with his first short film SWEAR BY THE NIGHT (2003) at the age of 16, which was selected to the 25th Tehran ISFF, while his last short film SineCide or No One Believes Me But The Police Are Chasing The Wrong Man (2019) premiered at the 45th Seattle International Film Festival. Ata is presenting his newest short PsyChicken in 2023. Currently, he is also developing his first feature film THE BLINDER.
Director: Ata Mojabi
Writer: Ata Mojabi
Cinematography: Keyvan Mohseni
Animation: Mohammad Baradaran
Composer: Armando Bagalà
Editor:
Hamid Najafirad
Producer:
Nicoletta Cataldo, Pooyan Sedghi, Ata Mojabi
Cast: Ebrahim Azizi, Soosan Maghsoodlu
Режисьор:
Сценарист:
Social Media/Website links (if applicable): Facebook.com/PSYCHICKEN_SHORTFILM Instagram.com/PSYCHICKEN.SHORTFILM insolitafilm.com/en/project
Музика:
SWITZERLAND / ШВЕЙЦАРИЯ / 2022 / 09’15’’
A shepherdess wakes up from a dream. In it, she has seen a wolf approaching her flock. She devotes herself to her work and herds her sheep over the summer on a remote alp in Switzerland. When she finally comes face to face with the Wolf everything changes....
Director: Samuel Perriard
Writer: Martin Joss, Bettina Oberli
Cinematography: Gaetan Varone
Composer: Mirjam Skal, Jakob Eisenbach
Editor: Kaya Inan
Producer: Martin Joss, Bettina Oberli Cast: Liliane Amuat
He lives and works in Zurich. He studied Design at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences Arts (ZHdK). In autumn 2006 he moved to Berlin to study filmdirecting at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb). His first feature length film “Schwarzer Panther” celebrated its world premiere in 2013 on the 31st Filmfest in Munich and was nominated for the FIRST STEPS Awards 2013 and the STUDIO HAMBURG Young Talent Award 2014. He just finished his second feature film “8 days in August”.
/ ДАНИЯ / 2021 / 16’00’’
Breaking up with someone you have loved can be one of the hardest things to do.
Director: Kerren Lumer-Klabbers
Writer: Kerren Lumer-Klabbers, Oda Kruse
Cinematography: David Bauer Lønstrup
Composer: Andreas Hald
Editor: Linn Heidi Slâttøy & Januar Omdahl
Producer: Oda Kruse
Cast: Sara Moland, Fredik Stenberg
Ditlev-Simonsen
KERREN LUMER-KLABBERS was born in Denmark in 1991. Her short film debut “Sannes Birthday” won the audience award at Oregon film festival in Copenhagen 2012. Her shortfilms “The Elephant” and “A stone Falls Slowly” toured festivals last year, among them Nordisk Panorama and Karlovy Vary IFF. In June 2020 Kerren finished her degree at The Norwegian Film school in Lillehammer. Her graduation film is currently short listed for student Oscar.
SAFE AS HOUSES /
IRELAND / ИРЛАНДИЯ / 2022 / 16’11’’
Safe as Houses tells the story of Aggie, a woman with Down syndrome living independently in a small community estate. Kids play on the green outside her house, but Aggie has warmed to Lucy who plays alone and unnoticed. Aggie finds Lucy upset and invites her inside to cheer her up. They dance, play & laugh before their fun reveals the underlying issue of why Lucy doesn’t want to return home.
MIA’s short documentaries, including MOTHER & BABY and THROWLINE, have received awards from international festivals such as Aesthetica, Flickers’ Rhode Island, Galway Fleadh and São Paulo. In 2018 she received the Discovery Award from Dublin Film Critics’ Circle and went on to direct a number of TV documentaries. Mia’s debut short drama THE PASSION was nominated for an IFTA in 2022, and her Screen Ireland Focus Short SAFE AS HOUSES had its premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival in 2023.
Flickers’ Rhode Island, Galway Fleadh и São Paulo.
Selkie is a fantasy live action, animation and silent short film inspired by a celebrated mythological Scottish folklore tale. A touching dramatic tale, the film itself also stands as a metaphorical allegory for the current overfishing of Scottish waters.
„Селки“ е фантастичен игрален, анимационен и ням късометражен филм, вдъхновен от известна митологична шотландска фолклорна приказка. Една трогателна драматична история,
Director: Chris Mul, Michael Mul
Writer: Chris Mul, Michael Mul
Cinematography: Keefa Chan
Animation: Brook Morgan
Composer: Sylvia Strand Jonathan Gregory
Editor: Giorgio Galli
Producer: Jessica Gardner
Cast:
Joanna Vanderham, Steven Cree
THE MUL BROTHER’S, New York Film Academy Fellowship alumni, have won numerous awards including the Final Draft Big Break, ScreenCraft Screenplay contests and were official selection at the Stowe Story Lab. Their debut feature film, Astral, premiered at the San Diego 2018 International Film Festival, was nominated for ‘Best Feature’ and the ‘Chris Brinker Award’, for outstanding directing debut. This received US and international theatrical releases and was acquired by Netflix (UK) and Hulu (US).
FRANCE / ФРАНЦИЯ / 2022 / 15’00’’
Kiev, in the early 60’s, while in space, a cosmonaut remembers, his family, his childhood, what lead him here? Киев,
Fascinated by the power of visual storytelling, Aurélien Achache is a 26-year-old director, who places story at the center of his creative process.
After graduating from film school in Paris, Aurélien quickly began directing his short films, exploring themes such as brotherhood, family, and faith. He is currently working on his third short film set in the Middle Ages, as well as writing a treatment of his first feature film.
Director: Aurélien Achache
Writer: Aurélien Achache
Cinematography: Nicolas Chareyre
VFX: Flore Mounier & M. Jao-Eka M’CHANGAMA
Composer: Jack Bartman
Editor: Ann - Sophie Wieder
Producer: Jacques Bizot, Aurélien Achache
Cast: Paul Hamy, Marina Keltchewsky, Timothé Auréjac, Philippe Carbou
https://vimeo.com/727089210
https://www.instagram.com/aurelienachache/
SOLO / САМ
SPAIN / ИСПАНИЯ / 2022 / 20’00”
Fran works tirelessly while taking care of his father and his son, Dani. When Dani is expelled from school, he is overwhelmed. Dani’s behaviour is pushing him to the limit and Fran must act so as not to lose him before it’s too late. Фран
Director: Alberto Gross Molo
Writer: Alberto Gross Molo, Laura Egidos Plaja
Cinematography: Alan Douglas
Composer: Laia Guilanyà Jané
Editor: Raul Kingtai
Producer:
Laura Egidos Plaja, David Aymerich
Cast: Pablo Molinero, Carlos Olalla, Aitor Valadés
ALBERTO GROSS MOLO (Spain, 1996) graduated in Film Direction at the ESCAC Film School. His first short film, “Broken Roots” (2019), was selected in festivals such as SEMINCI, ALCINE, FESCIGU, Oberhausen, Camerimage or PÖFF Shorts, where it obtained the Jury’s Mention. Currently, Gross is also developing his debut feature, which has been a participant in the European workshops Ekran+ 2021 and My First Script of Zagreb Film Festival, both of them supported by Creative Europe Media.
Yannis and his mother are moving in, at her boyfriend’s apartment. Yannis starts hanging out with Olga, a socially secluded hard rock woman who lives in the basement of his apartment building. Simultaneously, he associates with a group of teenagers, the leader of which bullies Olga whenever he sees her.
Янис и майка му се нанасят в апартамента
After his BA in Psychology, NIKOS TSEBEROPOULOS wrote and directed his first short film The Voice (2012). In 2013 he moved to London to study cinema, where he wrote and directed his second short Simon Says (2015), awarded with Best Short Film at the 21st International Short Film Festival of Athens “Premiere Nights”, and sold to Japan for theatrical distribution and television broadcasting.
His third short film “Soul Food” (2021), was selected for script development by the EU funded Midpoint Shorts, funded by the Greek Film Centre and the French Centre National du Cinema.
After a journalistic experience in Niger, MOHAMED BOUHARI joined INSAS- Brussels in 2005. Graduating in directing and screen writing, his diploma film was selected at the Mostra-Venizia. He leads a professional life between Belgium and Morocco where he has directed documentaries and short films.
STREET LIGHT / УЛИЧНО
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
/ РУСИЯ / 2021 / 25’00’’
Mitrofan is an adult with Down syndrome, who lives alone in the parents’ apartment. Everybody in the house likes him, from the old men playing chess to the children. For them, he is a superhero, managing the light of the entire city. Mitrofan works in a dispatch office, where every day he switches on and off the street lights. His daily schedule is extraordinarily exact: he goes to the bus stop, the tram approaches, he returns and is met by the mongrel Pepsi. But one day the usual routine is disrupted. Can Mitrofan find the meaning of life again?
Митрофан
VLADISLAV IKONNIKOV was born in Zavolzhye in 1996. In 2014 enrolled at the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas. During his studies, worked at student television in video shooting, storyboard, editing and graphic design. After university worked for two years in the camera department. “Street Light” is his debut as director and screenwriter.
Director: Vladislav Ikonnikov
Writer: Vladislav Ikonnikov
Cinematography: Daniil Tuzhenkov
Animation: Svetlana Loskutnikova
Composer: Vitya Isaev
Editor: Vladislav Ikonnikov, Nadezhda Filatova
Producer: Pavel Serebrennikov, Ivan Kalashnikov, Arkadi Vodakhov, Gavriil Gordeev, Kirill Limarev
Cast: Grigory Danishevsky, Alexander Robak
THE CONNECTION / ПОСТ
ITALY / ИТАЛИЯ / 2022 / 20’00’’
Rome, 1946. The short film, inspired by true events, tells the story of the technician Francesco, who receives the strange order of installing a telephone at the Verano cemetery. The director Roberto Rossellini is the one who asked for the connection: he needs a telephone to complete the film “Germany, Year Zero”, without leaving the grave of his son Romano, who died at the age of nine. The meeting between the two protagonists will be an opportunity to come to terms with their past.
Рим, 1946 г.
In 2017 DANIELE MORELLI attended the preparatory course in directing at the Centro Sperimentale, where he was able to refine his style, also thanks to the teachings of Piero Messina. He worked in the direction department on the set of Paolo Sorrentino’s “Loro”. In 2019 he attended the Rai Master in Serial Screenplay where he was able to combine the film writing with the directing studies.
Arrival of an unusual couple disrupts the life of a village. Can these two men protect their relationship from onlookers’ glances?
Director: Tomasz Wolski
Writer: Tomasz Wolski
Cinematography: Tomasz Wolski
Editor: Tomasz Wolski
Producer: Anna Gawlita
Cast:
Juliusz Chrząstowski, Adam Szyszkowski, Łucja Wolska, Marcel Wolski, Andrzej Wolski, Joanna Lipińska – Wolska, Martyna Józwowska, Henryk Borkowski
Режисьор:
TOMASZ WOLSKI is a scriptwriter and documentary filmmaker. He is a graduate of Journalism at the Jagiellonian University and the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. He was awarded at The Punto de Vista Documentary Film Festival in Spain with Jean Vigo Prize for the Best Director, DocumentART Festival in Germany with Grand Prix, International Film Festival “Era New Horizons” in Wroclaw for Best Documentary and “Slamdance on the Road” Festival in Poland with Grand Prix.
THE MIGHTY KINGDOM /
Every Sunday in the mountains of Corsica, Jean and Matthias go hunting with their father, Petru. While they are preparing to hunt at dawn, a violent fight erupts between the two brothers.
Director: Julien Meynet
Writer: Julien Meynet
Cinematography: Tristan Galand
Composer: Amaury Chabauty
Editor: Adrien Pagotto
Producer: Paul Rognoni, Paul-Antoine Simonpoli
Cast: Geremia Morosi, Marlon Morosi, J ean-Philippe Ricci, Michel Ferracci
JULIEN MEYNET was born in 1982 in Lyon (France). After studying editing at INSAS in Brussels, he’s living for Corsica and shot his first short film “La Terre Brûlée” (The Burning Land), a period film without dialogue selected in many festivals around the world. Working as a writer and director on the documentary collection Les Échos de l’Histoire for France Television, in 2018 he commissioned the series “Over La Nuit”, a melancholy chronicle of a family that runs a night service station in a village isolated.
THE SHEPHERD OF CLOUDS /
ITALY / ИТАЛИЯ / 2022 / 11’15’’
Tobia, a 9-year-old boy, every afternoon after school goes to the mountain to reach Aurelio, his grandfather, who brings his five sheep to graze every day. The boy and his grandfather will find themselves sharing a moment of frailty that will change the course of events forever.
Тобая, 9-годишно момче, ходи
LORENZO CASSOL (Belluno, 1998) studied at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Milan. In 2014 he founded the Dual Frame Production, and collaborates with the Association Fare Cinema of which he is currently president. He realized the medium-length film “Bianco come il nero” (2015), the short film “Nede” (2016) and the documentary “Ci son le stele” (2016). In 2018 he directed the short-film “Soli, Insieme”. In 2019 he directed the short film “L’Aurora”, produced by Kublai Film and financed by the Ministry of Equal Opportunities.
Jorick is one of five crew members of a small fishing trawler. After four days of an unsuccessful fishing campaign, he found himself faced with a difficult dilemma: return with the holds empty or to decide, against the advice of part of the crew, to go poaching in the prohibited zone.
Director: Basile Vuillemin
Writer: Basile Vuillemin, Blandine Jet
Cinematography: Olivier Boonjing
Composer: Michael Chapon
Editor: Christophe Evrard
Producer: Samuel Feller, Thomas Guentch, Arnaud S. Gantenbein
Cast:
Arieh Worthalter, Thierry Barbet, Arnaud Duléry, Hugo Simon, François Gillerot
BASILE VUILLEMIN (1990) lives between Brussels and Paris. He intended for a long time to work as an actor, before going to study cinema in Belgium, at IAD, from which he graduated with a Master in Cinema Fiction in January 2016. His previous shorts have been presented in numerous international festivals and show an attraction for graphic composition and his passion for working with actors.
Lucas and Javier are a twenty years old couple whose life has drawn them to take an important decision. During the time together they’ve been through ups and downs, but none of them were as tough as losing a family member. Despite their pain and the looming shadow of a sickness, they enjoy a lunch date in the comfort of their home.
Лукас и Хавиер са двадесетгодишна
възходи и падения,
си.
JULIÁN LONA was born in Córdoba, Argentina in 1989. He has directed 3 independent documentary feature films that participated in several festivals as: MarDoc Lab (International Film Festival of Mar del Plata), MIPTV-MIPDOC (Cannes), Long Beach Indie (USA), Uruguay International Film Festival, among others. After 13 years filming he is now focusing in fiction, starting with his debut short film «El canto del cisne» which presently is at the festival circuit. He is also currently in pre-production stage for his 2nd short film and seeking financing for first feature film.
Director: Julián Lona
Writer:
Julián Lona, Agustin Balbi Gotusso
Cinematography: Pedro Oribe
Composer: Sergio Acosta Russek, Lisandro Montes
Editor: Julián Lona
Producer: Julián Lona, Gonzalo Borrás
Cast: Javier Godino, Lucas Ferraro
THE WASP / ОСАТА
CANADA / КАНАДА / 2022 / 28’05’’
Simone single-handedly runs a seedy motel, day and night, day after day. She is raising money for her 17-year-old daughter’s education. But when a stranger checks in, everything changes. He doesn’t fit in: he is welldressed, he has money, and he wants a room for several days. But worst of all, this strangely familiar man seems a bit too interested in Simone’s daughter...
Director: Marc Beaupré
Writer: Marc Beaupré
Cinematography: Vincent Gonneville
Composer: Antoine Binette Mercier
Editor: Marie-Pier Dupuis
Producer:
Jeanne-Marie Poulain, Anaëlle Béglet, Line Sander Egede, Irène Bessone
MARC BEAUPRÉ studied at the National Theatre School of Canada and enjoyed immediate critical and popular success. For several years, he has been directing radical stage works, seeking the most current, short and obvious formal means to return to the heart of the classics that have moved him. His work has been acclaimed by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television and by the Association québécoise des critiques de théâtre. The Wasp is his first work as a filmmaker.
TO DIE WITHOUT NOTICING /
/ МЕКСИКО / 2022 / 11’34’’
Lázaro is a lonely young man who wishes to get out of his toxic relationship with Renata; with whom he has life-threatening sexual encounters, but his attraction to her is just too strong. A shocking accident occurs during one of their sex sessions, and he will have to finally make a decision.
Director`s short biography MAX. 500 characters (not words) with spaces:
PALOMA ARGENTINA was born in Tijuana, México. She go involved in the world of art as a child actress in a local theater company; but it was during her adolescence that she began to take an active interest in cinema, attending to different classes and workshops, where she collaborated in numerous projects as a screenwriter and editor. Nowadays, she keeps studying screenwriting and developing personal as well as professional projects.
Director: Paloma Argentina
Writer: Paloma Argentina
Cinematography: Karla Reyes
Composer: Francisco Cravioto
Editor: Edson Ramirez y Paloma Argentina
Producer: Salathiel López
Cast: Alejandro Puente, Tamara Vallarta
TREASURES / СЪКРОВИЩА
GERMANY / ГЕРМАНИЯ / 2022 / 08’00’’
The eight-year old Max is always bullied by his older brother and his friend when they go for a treasure hunt in the woods. At an old lake they do magnet fishing. The dynamic of the group changes as they find a grenade among the rusty treasures. 8-годишният
съкровища.
WELF REINHART was born 1995 in Würzburg, Germany. He studied filmmaking in Kassel and since 2017 also at the HFF in Munich. His shortfilm ‘Rooms’ was shown and awarded at various OSCAR qualifying festivals and won the Student Academy Award in L.A. 2022.
Director: Welf Reinhart
Writer: Pia Stummer
Cinematography: Micky Graeter
Composer: Teresa Henselmann
Editor: Sebastian Wild
Producer: Sarah Tschaikowski, Evelyn Timko-Reinhart
Cast: Max Roßkopf, Benno Roßkopf, Nils vom Dorp
TRIA / ТРИ
ITALY / ИТАЛИЯ / 2022 / 17’00’’
In a dystopian Rome, a law is enforced which doesn’t allow immigrant families to have more than three children. If a fourth is to be expected, he or she must be born, however, one of them must then be killed, giving the females priority for sacrifice. Zoe, Iris and Clio are three sisters, but one of them will soon be killed…
GIULIA GRANDINETTI, ever since she was a child, she loved bringing people together and telling stories to try and move the world into a different direction. She defines herself a dystopian director: she loves to play, distorting rules of society, and of the human being.
Director: Giulia Grandinetti
Writer: Giulia Grandinetti
Cinematography: Eleonora Contessi
Composer: Lucia Alessi, Pier Sante Falconi in collaboration with Balkan Lab Orchestra and Federico Pascucci
Editor: Niccolò Notario
Producer: Riccardo Neri, Vincenzo Filippo
Cast: Irene Casagrande, Anastasia Almo, Sofia Almo, Ilir Jacellari, Laura Giannatiempo, Tiziana Foschi
Tito, a neighborhood boy that everyone is always teasing, wants to prove his worth. He’s already been through several initiation tests, and he is now doing car donuts in a vacant lot around his neighborhood with his new “friends” after pulling an all-nighter. They are all having fun, playing music and taking drugs, but then a comment from Tito turns the party into a macabre joke. His friends force him to commit a robbery to complete the initiation ritual.
Тито, кварталното
RAQUEL GUERRERO (Madrid, Spain, 05/27/1980) has developed her audiovisual career mainly as an actress. “Useless”, her first short film, is her leap to writing and directing. She is currently about to finish the script for her first feature film and the production of documentary “In-Progress”, where she is an executive producer as well. She won the International Screenplay Contest Filmarket Hub 2021 with the screenplay of her film “Zoe”.
Director: Raquel Guerrero
Writer: Raquel Guerrero
Cinematography: Pinky Alonso
Composer: Filipe Von Geier, Rosa Rosario
Editor: Leixandre Froufe
Producer:
Leixandre Froufe, Hysteria Films, Loniego Films
Cast:
Iván Pellicer, Javier Bódalo, Alberto Raw, Arantxa Zambrano, Paula Mirá
Independence Day in Athens. A girl is not allowed to play with the boys. Neither is a small boy, an immigrant’s son. The girl lights a small fire and tells a small lie about the boy. Small lies easily get out of control. So do small racist fires. Денят
ANDREAS VAKALIOS was born in Budapest, Hungary and was raised in Athens, Greece. He studied Digital Arts (MFA) at the Athens School of Fine Arts. He is a Talents Sarajevo alumnus and a Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship Award recipient. His short film “Mila” was awarded Best Greek Film by the Greek Film Critics’ Association among 9 other awards and 30 international film festivals. He lives in Athens.
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YANNI / ЯНИ
CANADA / КАНАДА / 2022 / 20’06’’
Yanni, a teenage quebecer of algerian descent, lives in a small town with his single mother. When a muslim family moves into town, he is forced by Nicolas, his bully, to commit a hateful act towards them. To Nicolas, this may only be a sick joke, but for Yanni it is the opportunity to prove to his opressor that he is on his side, hoping to not be his victim anymore. This film also tells the story of a teenager in search of his identity, lost between his origins and his adoptive country.
Director: Rachid Allaoua
Writer: Rachid Allaoua
Cinematography: Ménad Kesraoui
Composer: Wilhelm Brandl
Editor: Rachid Allaoua
Producer:
Rosalie Chicoine-Perreault, Catherine Boily
Cast: Zachary Kaddouri-Champagne, Jasmina Parent, Gabriel Lemire, Sarra Ghribi
Режисьор: Рахид Алауа Сценарист:
RACHID ALLAOUA is a Montreal based director of algerian descent. After receiving a degree in Cinema from l’Université du Québec à Montréal, he directed several short films which focused on characters coming from ethnic minorities.
à Montréal“,
YOU
ITALY / ИТАЛИЯ / 2022 / 08’00’’
To exorcise a discomfort Matteo imagines a different destiny. But will it really be just a game?
Director: Marco Renda
Writer: Marco Renda
Cinematography: Eugenio Cinti Luciani
Composer: Edoardo Verde
Editor: Alessio Rivellino
Producer: Marco Renda
Cast:
Francesco Palmieri, Elena Starace and Mario Di Fonzo
MARCO RENDA was born in Bari in 1984. In 2008 he was selected at the CSC film School in Rome with BATMAN SENZA CONFINI. Marco has a degree in Literature. He directed numerous shorts and commercials. He has also worked for many fictions, covering various roles from operator to second unit director. EDHEL, produced by Vinians Production, is his first feature film. In 2020 he directs with Raoul Bova the TV film “Ultima Gara”.
ZOF
Zof’s pathological jealousy leads him to irrational actions and psychotic states. After his girlfriend leaves him, Zof feels closest to his female Stafford dog Lota with whom he spends most of his time. His relationship with the dog reflects his behaviour towards people close to him.
Director: Rino Barbir
Writer: Rino Barbir
Cinematography: Rino Barbir
Composer: Vinko Pelicarić
Editor: Marko Ferković
Producer: Ivan Perić, Tonći Gaćina
Cast: Leo Mirković Zof, Nenad Petrović, Jelena Živković
In his hometown of Split, Croatia, RINO graduated in Film and Video at the Arts Academy, then graduated cinematography at The Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. As a director of photography, he made several short films, and as a director he received awards at ZFF and FMFS for his debut “Druker”. He is the author of numerous music and commercial videos.
Режисьор: Рино Барбир
Сценарист: Рино Барбир
Оператор: Рино Барбир
Музика: Винко Пеликарич
Монтаж: Марко Феркович
Продуцент:
BEST STUDENT FILM FICTION
BULGARIA / БЪЛГАРИЯ / 2021 / 17’48’’
Аna is a 40-year-old woman who works in an office, but it seems that this job does not satisfy her. She does not feel part of the environment and decides to quit. She is taking a long walk through the city and witnessing some situations and different people hidden from her until that moment because of her job. Ana feels more like herself through this walk and more comfortable with everything surrounding her.
Director: Elena Telbis
Writer: Elena Telbis
Cinematography: Kaloyan Ignatov, Georgi Gvozdev
Editor: Daniel Ivanov
Producer: Nadezhda Tsvetkova
Cast:
Anastassia Lyutova, Ekaterina Georgieva, Milena Ermenkova, Petar Dochev, Meglena Karalambova, Eva Danailova, Stefan Mavrodiev, Кalina Gospodinova, Lilia Geleva, Martin Kostadinov, Dimitar Elenski
Режисьор:
Телбис
ELENA TELBIS is a Bulgarian actress. In 2013 she graduated from the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria, in Prof. Ivailo Hristov’s class. Currently, she works in The National Theatre “Ivan Vazov,” Theatre 199 “Valentin Stoychev” and Sfumato Theatre Laboratory. She is the author of the play Garbage staged in Theatre 199, “Valentin Stoychev.” In 2021 she god her masters degree in film directing from New Bulgarian University in Sofia.
SERBIA / СЪРБИЯ / 2022 / 15’52’’
During the night, a teenage girl is taking a taxi ride to the neighboring town. After a disturbing ride, and an even worse night at a friends birthday party, she is forced to return home with a menacing taxi driver who insists on her sitting in the front seat next to him.
Cast: Dostana Nikolić, Nebojša Stanimirović, Ivan Petrušinski
DANILO STANIMIROVIĆ is a young filmmaker, teacher and conceptual artist from Požarevac, Serbia. His short documentaries Migrations and Prokop have been screened at festivals such as SEEFest LA, DokuFest, Beldocs, Pravo Ljudski, Free Zone... His fiction film Bambiland was premiered at the Anthology Film Archives in New York, screened at over 80 festivals around the world and won numerous awards. Currently, he is on master studies for directing at FDU, and TV series at FMK in Belgrade.
Режисьор: Данило Станимирович
Сценарист:
ACID BASE / КИСЕЛИННА
ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN
In an emotional crisis, Hamid decides to splash acid on her lover’s face. Looking for the acid in Tehran, he realizes that there is a large underground organization in the heart of Tehran that sells any type of acid illegally. Hamid decides to buy the strongest acid from them, but this decision costs him a lot.
Изпаднал
той разбира, че в сърцето на Техеран
Director: Shirin Ekhlasi
Writer: Farshad Rezaei
Cinematography: Emad Hosseinifard
Composer: Amir Aslmand
Editor: Shahin Sepehri
Producer: Shirin Ekhlasi
Cast: Navid Noori, Mohamad Rabani, Sina Sheybani, Sara Ardalan
SHIRIN EKHLASI was born in Isfahan in 1998. She graduated in the field of animation from art school. Currently, she is studying cinema in Tehran university of Art. She is known for short films Trap, Black Canvas, Gombie and Acid Base. In 2020 she and Farshad Rezaei founded the Patrogue film production togeather where they have worked on development of genre diversity in Iranian cinema. Beside Directing she works professionally as a colorist and visual artist in the independent cinema industry.
Музика:
AYKUO / АЙКУО
RUSSIAN FEDERATION / РУСКА
/ 2023 / 22’14’’
Experimental work, a mystical drama with elements of the northern Yakut epic.
This is a story about two sisters, one of whom is studying in St. Petersburg, but returns home to a remote Yakut village because her older sister died. Once at home, she realizes that it may not be possible to return back to her former life.
Director: Ayaal Adamov
Writer: Irina Bogatyreva
Cinematography: Semen Amanatov
Producer: Ayaal Adamov, Pavel Sarychev, Konstantin Mankovsky
Cast: Lena Markova, Anastasia Alekseeva, Alena Ptysina, Djulustaan Semenov Режисьор:
AYAAL ADAMOV was born in 1991. He grew up in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Oymyakonsky district. He worked in national television and in various local video studios. He is currently studying to be a film director at the St. Petersburg Film Institute in the studio of Alexander Sokurov.
Продуцент:
https://vimeo.com/795243604
https://www.instagram.com/urui_ayal
https://www.facebook.com/urui.ayal
BESTIAL ONES / ЗВЕРОВЕ
IRELAND / ИРЛАНДИЯ / 2022 / 21’14’’
Fiadh, a young single mother, spends her days as a home care nurse and her nights amongst the grit and grime of Dublin’s punk scene. Her son Maithi is a troubled child. He was born when Fiadh was a teenager, and as the two grew up together, they also grew apart. This friction has caused Fiadh to feel restless, believing life would be better if she had her independence. When an old acquaintance returns to town, it offers an opportunity for escape, forcing Fiadh to choose between her son, or the chance to leave everything behind. Фиад,
MILES DAVIS MURPHY is a director and screenwriter based in Dublin, Ireland. He recently graduated from the National Film School, where he received the Screen Directors Guild of Ireland Award for Outstanding Direction on his graduate film, Bestial Ones. His work is primarily character-driven, exploring themes ranging from the intricacies of family dynamics to the duality of human nature.
Director: Miles Davis Murphy
Writer: Miles Davis Murphy
Cinematography: Fiachra Gallagher Lawson
Composer: Thomas Haugh
Editor: Sophie Brassil
Producer: Michael Largey, Cait Bird
Cast: Michelle Lucy, Patrick J. Molloy, Seán Doyle, Hughie Blacker
An accident takes place in a gated community. Robert chases a stranger who fled the scene. As he tries to get to the truth, he faces a moral choice.
Film director and screenwriter. She studied cultural studies at the University of Warsaw and directing at the Polish National Film School in Lodz. Her short documentaries and fictions were screened at festivals in Poland and abroad including Tampere FF, Ji.hlava IDFF, Poitiers FF, Gdynia FF, New Horizons IFF among others. Latest short documentary “Halo Effect” was awarded at the OFF Cinema, Spektrum and Etiuda&Anima Festivals. She also creates music videos and spots. Currently working on her feature fiction debut.
Director: Patrycja Polkowska
Writer: Patrycja Polkowska
Cinematography: Mateusz Kucharski
Editor: Piasek & Wójcik
Producer: Agata Golańska, The Polish National Film School in Lodz
Cast: Piotr Czarniecki, Kirill Glaz, Marta Ścisłowicz, Jan Leśniewski, Grzegorz Falkowski, Małgorzata Witkowska, Pavel Kryksunou, Piotr Dynarowski Режисьор:
Gdynia
OFF Cinema, Spektrum и Etiuda&Anima.
BLUE NOISE / СИН ШУМ
GERMANY / ГЕРМАНИЯ / 2022 / 16’30’’
A young apprentice craftsman is not only dazed by the noise at work. In a chaotic world, among dominant colleagues, an inaccessible father as well as a demanding girlfriend, the young man seeks closeness. In the process, he crosses a boundary and gets to know himself a bit better.
Director: Simon Maria Kubiena
Writer:
Simon Maria Kubiena, Małgorzata Zglińska Cinematography: Dennis Banemann
Editor: Jan Wollenschläger
Producer: Tristan Schneider
Cast:
Marvin Nando Nenning, Rainer Sellien, Lou von Gündell
SIMON MARIA KUBIENA was born in Vienna in 1998 and was introduced to filmmaking through acting, both at the Burgtheater in Vienna and in Austrian film productions. He participated in several film and acting workshops, including one at the Prague Film School. Since 2019, he has been studying directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. He is a scholarship holder of the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung and attended the film school La Fémis in Paris as part of an exchange semester.
FINLAND / ФИНЛАНДИЯ / 2022 / 22’25’’
Leena prepares a meal for two and leaves her cottage to pick up her husband Boris from the hospital. The nurse warns them of his condition, but they’ve already decided to spend the night together. In the cottage they have dinner and try their best to enjoy themselves. As the night fades to an early morning we see a camera stand in the bedroom pointing towards them.
PAVEL ANDONOV is a half Finnish half Bulgarian filmmaker who graduated from the London Film School in 2022. His strong curiosity towards politics, art and cinema are the foundation of his work. As a storyteller, Pavel is most interested in everyday human stories where the small human experience touches a bigger question or challenge in our society. He strongly believes that filmmaking is a collaborative process and any one in a production should have a voice. That is something he always tries to keep in mind and continues to keep it as one of his highest values in filmmaking and life in general. His works have been included in various film festivals, such as Leeds International Film Festival, Nordisk Panorama Festival, Helsinki International Film Festival and Tampere International Film Festival. His short film Blue Note is nominated for Best Short Film 2022 in the Finnish Industry Jussi Awards.
Director: Pavel Andonov
Writer: Pavel Andonov
Cinematography: Ebba Hult
Composer: Oliver Wegmüller
Editor: Mira Thu
Producer:
Pavel Andonov, Mete Sasioglu, Sonja Huttunen
Cast:
Alma Pöysti, David Kozma, Linda Hämäläinen
Режисьор: Павел Андонов
Сценарист: Павел Андонов Оператор: Ебба Хулт Музика:
Ту
Продуцент:
BY THE RIVERS BLUE /
KINGDOM
Yue, a divorced woman, works at a toll gate, while her 8-year-old son Xilin, of whom custody is yet pending, lives with his father. Yue resolves to take Xilin back but she’s going to be transferred to another city…
Director:
Tong Liu
Writer: Tong Liu
Cinematography: Kaihang Tu
Composer: Rocky Irvano & Hang Gao
Editor: Tong Liu
Producer:
Lulin Tian, Naixin Liang
Cast: Haipeng Xu, Kejie Chen, Renzhuo Bai
TONG LIU, born in China, received a MA from the London Film School, where he worked on several short films, including The Crowd (2017), Mortal (2018), Shitou (2018), By the Rivers Blue (2021) as director, and Asian Brass (2019), The Third Solar Term (2020) as cinematographer.
ТОНГ
The Crowd (2017), Mortal (2018), Shitou (2018), By the Rivers Blue (2021) като режисьор , и Asian Brass (2019), The Third Solar Term (2020) като оператор.
Режисьор: Тонг Лиу Сценарист: Тонг Лиу Оператор: Кайханг Ту
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Сю,
GREECE / ГЪРЦИЯ / 2021 / 07’16’’
An old sage named NIKOS bails out a bearded man, who regrettably stole from a local jeweler. The bearded man asks NIKOS to stay with him in the village as he must hide from the jeweler for the time being -- he may be in danger. NIKOS uses his own past to teach the bearded man how to become a better person. In the end, they are revealed to be one and the same person.
THE ZAVITSANOS BROTHERS are filmmakers based in Houston, Texas. Their 2018 experimental short, Confined, was selected by SXSW. In 2017, they co-directed the micro-doc, Two of Five Million, which was selected by over 30 film festivals worldwide, garnering four festival wins. Their next film, Skaros, recently garnered acceptance into the Beverley Hills Film Festival. They enjoyed acting in their sister’s homemade movies as young kids and got hooked on filmmaking ever since.
Director: Socratis I Zavitsanos, Diamantis I Zavitsanos
Writer:
Socratis I Zavitsanos, Diamantis I Zavitsanos
Cinematography: Diamantis | Zavitsanos
Composer: Videohelper
Editor:
Socratis I Zavitsanos, Diamantis I Zavitsanos
Producer:
Socratis I Zavitsanos, Diamantis I Zavitsanos
Cast: Nikos Zavitsanos, Nikos Kavvadas Режисьор:
CHARLIE / ЧАРЛИ
Charlie has trouble getting over the recent death of her younger sister Choupette. Haunted by dreams and nightmares of this particular day. One night, Choupette reappears and tries to save Charlie from ruminating this traumatic moment. Чарли
Director: Etienne Glénat
Writer: Etienne Glénat
Cinematography: Claire Bouchard
Animation: Brice Vincent
Composer: Nicolas Laurençot, Etienne Glénat
Editor: Zoé Williamson
Producer: Thaddeus Christandl
Cast:
Kim Higelin, Margot Ladroue
“I was raised in the south of France, wedged deep into the countryside, far away from the noise. When I moved to Paris I was shook to the bone from all the chatter and commotion which brought me to overload with interiority and dreams.
I first studied music and theater, and all of it brought me to cinema where I could add the dimensions of art and shape it all into a fantasy. This is my first film, it took a long time to make because doubts occur and can hold down creativity with great strength.”
ELEVATOR PITCH / В
UNITED KINGDOM / ВЕЛОКОБРИТАНИЯ / 2022 / 14’58’’
ELEVATOR PITCH explores the consequences of personal fantasies as they ripple outward, ensnaring those within their reach. At its center are two protagonists, one on either side of a security camera: Edgar, the creator of the fantasy, and Hannah, the object of his delusion. What starts as a charming-if-invasive, maybe even romantic opportunity for Edgar to forge a connection with Hannah descends into a hostage nightmare as Hannah realizes the danger of her situation.
Director: Lyndon Henley Hanrahan
Writer: Lyndon Henley Hanrahan
Cinematography: Markus Ilschner
Composer: Sasha Yakub
Editor: Una Burnand
Producer: Alex Halpern, Lyndon Henley Hanrahan
Cast:
Chloe Claudel, Patrick Fleming, Corey Mylchreest
LYNDON is a London-based filmmaker. Through dark humor, his work explores performativity, queerness, history, and fantasy–often investigating characters who seek refuge in their imaginations. He is an alumnus of Harvard, Cambridge, the Royal College of Art, and the London Film School. In 2022, he was selected for the UGC writers campus at Series Mania. He is a 2019 Marshall Scholar and a 2023 Berlinale Talent. He has recently decided to start doing stand-up, which he believes is a cry for help.
FALLEN APPLES / ПАДНАЛИ
BULGARIA / БЪЛГАРИЯ / 2022 / 19’58’’
„Fallen Apples“ is a story about love impossible to achieve in this lifetime. The story follows the life of a young boy who has lost the most precious in life but things turn upside down when he crosses paths with love. „Паднали
Director: Hristo Kostov
Writer: Hristo Kostov
Cinematography: Samuil Ninkov
Composer: Emil Ivanov
Editor: Hristo Kostov
Producer: New Bulgarian University
Cast: Nikolay Iliev, Ilian Kanev, Pamela Kostadinova, Natali Todorova, Elena Vasileva, Lubomir Canev, Petar Canov
HRISTO KOSTOV is a young director and script writer who made his debut with the short movie „Fallen Apples“. Hristo studies Directing at the New Bulgarian University. He is about to graduate, after which he will continue his studies with a Masters degree. Ever since he was a child, Hristo has had a passion for movies and been dreaming of having his own cinema one day.
Out of nowhere Maja appears in Ingos’ apartment to live with him. She is a 60-year- old punk, living on the streets of Vienna, he is a Musician in his mid-twenties, living off his parents’ money. At first sight two worlds collide. Their problems are just as unusual as the two are themselves. Everything is broken: phone screens, coffee machines, teeth and noses. If only they could fix the broken toilet in their apartment...
Director: Jan Prazak
Writer: Jan Prazak
Cinematography: Johannes Hoss
Editor: Barbara Seidler
Producer: Flora Mair
Cast: Claudia Martini, Ingo Geiger
е счупено: екрани на телефони, кафемашини, зъби
JAN PRAZAK, born 1991, grew up in Vienna. In 2013 he began studying directing at the Vienna Film Academy under the lead of Michael Haneke. In 2021, he graduated from the bachelor’s program and has since been studying in the master’s program with Jessica Hausner. His films have been screened at numerous international film festivals, such as the Tribeca Film Festival, and have won several awards.
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FOR DUMMIES / ЗА
BULGARIA / БЪЛГАРИЯ / 2022 / 15’12’’
With one hour before their “dinner guest” arrives, Antonio and Dariya nervously prepare for their anniversary celebration. Why are they nervous? This is the first time either of them has done something like this – a menage e trois, as the French like to call it.
As the hour winds down, the couple grows even more anxious. A few puzzling lines are exchanged, and moments before Mario appears, it becomes clear that the threesome is not their anniversary present, but the sale of his organs.
Час
му.
Born in 1998, SIRMA STOYANOVA is a young director based in Sofia. She graduated Film and TV directing in New Bulgarian University and continues her studies to Master’s Degree in Advertising Management and Visual Branding. ‘For Dummies’ is her graduate film.
Director: Sirma Stoyanova
Writer:
Ben Clifford, Sirma Stoyanova
Cinematography: Peter Raijekov, Georgi Gidikov
Composer: Artlist
Editor: Presian Neychev
Producer: Sirma Stoyanova, New Bulgarian university
Cast:
Eleonora Ivanova, Martin Taskov
Artlist
GRAVEYARD OF HORSES /
CHINA / КИТАЙ / 2022 / 16’57’’
A frigid winter on the Mongolian steppe, an untimely snowstorm aggravated the lives of a pregnant herder and her 8-year-old daughter: the missing flock of sheep, the unborn child, the absent husband, traces of wolves... everything led the mother and daughter to places they’ve never been.
Director: Xiaoxuan Jiang
Writer: Xiaoxuan Jiang
Cinematography: Tao Qiu
Composer: Yixin Huang
Editor: Zale Zheng
Producer: Zhulin Mo
Cast: Tana, Angara
XIAOXUAN JIANG is a filmmaker born and raised in Inner Mongolia, China. In 2020, she received her BFA summa cum laude in Film from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her latest narrative short “Graveyard of Horses’’ was officially selected for Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival(Pöff Shorts), SXSW(South by South West) Film Festival, London Short Film Festival, NOWNESS Short Film Talent Awards, and won Bronze Dinosaur Award at Etiuda&Anima International Film Festival.
Режисьор: Сяосуан Дзян
Сценарист: Сяосуан Дзян
Оператор: Тао Циу
Музика: Иксин Хуанг
Монтаж: Зейл Джън
Продуцент: Жулин Мо
Участват: Тана, Ангара
https://vimeo.com/user62878081/graveyardofhorsestrailer https://www.instagram.com/graveyard_of_horses_shortfilm/ AND www.amantalik.com
GUARDIELADRI / СТРАЖАРИ
ITALY / ИТАЛИЯ / 2022 / 10’42’’
Luigi, Andrea and Michele. Three teenagers, lifelong friends, find themselves spending an afternoon together among alcohol, drugs and levity. Taken by enthusiasm they decide to play a game, guards and robbers, but with one difference: the gun is real.
Луиджи, Андреа
Born in Bergamo in 1997, since high school, thanks to a photography course, he approached the world of audiovisuals, bringing out in him an interest in cinema and video-making. He decided to move to Milan and attend the New Academy of Fine Arts (NABA), enrolling in the Media Design & Multimedia Arts course, in which he graduated with honors. Gaining experience between music videos, fashion films and short films, he decided to definitely pursue the path of directing, making his debut short film Guards & Thieves.
Director: Gabriele Manzoni
Writer: Gabriele Manzoni
Cinematography: Alberto Braga
Composer: Tommaso Marasma
Editor: Francesca Livi
Producer: Andrea Gatopoulos, Marco Crispano
Cast: Anton Lorenci, Giovanni Biscarini, Alessandro Lena
Режисьор:
POLAND / ПОЛША / 2021 / 24’00’’
Gloomy milking parlor filled with sounds of Bach concertos from crackling speakers—this is the everyday life of Eryk, a cow milker at the Milky Paradise dairy. Eryk is a young man who gave up his career as a photographer and moved to an industrial town, far away from his family and friends. There he met Marissa, a sex worker in a low-grade nightclub. They became friends. They both want to find their place in the world.
JAKUB PRYSAK was born in 1993 in Poland. He writes and directs films, he’s a graduate of Film Directing at The Polish National Film School in Lodz (2021). His short films including ‘A Tale of Two Sisters’ and ‘Headfish’ were presented at many Polish and international film festivals, such as Krakow Film Festival, New Horizons IFF, FilmFestival Cottbus and FIPADOC. Jakub also cowrote two feature films: awarded at Warsaw Film Festival 2020 ‘Blindfold’ and ‘The Glass House’, now in production.
City people set off into a warm late summer night. Glances meet in a library. At a workout, two men discuss where to buy love. A couple kisses intimately. She bites him. No sooner has he bought a match than a better offer calls. Doubts arise. A couple explains themselves in therapy. At breakfast, his match chews her egg so loud that he freezes in disgust. The electrifying looks in the library lose their power. Full of hope they wander into the unknown. Only the dance makes them temporarily forget who they are and what is about to happen. Хората
KIM ALLAMAND was born in 1988 Lucerne, Switzerland. He’s holding a masters degree in film directing from the zurich university of arts. His short films have been screened and won awards at numerous festivals worldwide including San Sebastian, Locarno, Zinebi Bilbao, Max Ophüls, Molodist Kyiv, São Paulo, DokuFest, Winterthur and premiered online on platforms like Vimeo Staff Pick, Shortsoftheweek, FilmatiqueTalents. In his master’s studies he attended at several directing workshops, f.ex. by Maren Ade or Luca Guadagnino. At the moment he is writing his first feature project. Works and lives in Zurich.
Director: Kim Allamand
Writer: Kim Allamand
Cinematography: Silvio Gerber
Composer: One Tongue & Votu
Editor: Hubert Schmelzer
Producer: ZHDK
Cast: Sofia Borsani, Deborah Macauley, Maximilian Kraus, Severin Hallauer, Luca Marano, Jumana Issa, Suramira Vos, Maria Rebecca Sautter, Milian Zerzawy, Yohanna Schwertfeger, Lotti Happle, Albert & Hanni Ricklin
One Tongue & Votu
HEAT! / ЖЕГА!
USA / САЩ / 2022 / 15’00’’
Valentina, a promising yet disturbed cook, must finish the signature “Lomo de llama” dish on time to gain the approval of the ruthless head chef, Gonzalos. She fails to make her deadline and almost stabs him amidst the kitchen frenzy. A yelling match ensues and she is fired, unlocking PTSD flashbacks. Having lost track of reality, she returns to the kitchen after hours to find revenge against her short-lived mentor. Валентина, обещаваща, но
навреме характерното ястие “Lomo de llama”,
на безмилостния главен
Born to a Mexican household in Switzerland, PATRICIO spent his childhood an expat, moving across the Americas in countries like Argentina, Mexico, Panama, and Brazil. He moved to the US to begin his studies at Chapman University and has spent his youth making films that explore the interlinked truths of the many cultures that shaped him.
Director: Patricio de la Maza
Writer: Ella Genovese
Cinematography: Eli Leibow
Composer: Paul Gutierrez
Editor: Patricio de la Maza
Producer: Andre Cristofi
Cast: Rubén Guevara, Celina Biurrun, Julian Vclan
HOW TO TAME A WILD ELEPHANT
A talented and hormonally charged trumpetist in an all-male music school struggles between his innate spontaneity and the firm grip of his Maestro’s baton. He is forced to find a way to navigate his untamed sexuality, which gets increasingly entwined with his ability to play.
Director: Sushant Bhat
Writer: Sushant Bhat, Tul Rodriguez
Cinematography: Prem Jyothis
Composer:
Mauricio Sanchez
Editor: Tul Rodriguez
Producer: Julia Novack, Clarice Laus, Lusófona Filmes
Cast:
Vicente Gil, Adriano Carvalho Режисьор:
SUSHANT BHAT, is a writer-director from India. He graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India and came to Europe as an Erasmus Scholar to study Film Direction. His unique, human and visual style has enabled him to direct shorts around the world. His short film “Pritha” won Best Director and Best Short Film at the IndoFrench Festival. His short film project “El Baño” won 2 awards at the Baltic Pitching Forum with” and was selected for EuroConnection at Clermont-Ferrand and Brussels Co-production Market. His first feature film “I’d Rather Kill Myself” received the development funds from Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
Teenage Alex is the only girl in a boys’ ice-hockey team, coached by her father Michal. She is a tough player, rather than a young woman or a daughter, and her surroundings treat her accordingly. But it starts bothering her, as she is in love with one of her teammates.
Director: Elvira Dulskaia
Writer: Elvira Dulskaia
Cinematography: Zdena Sýkorová
Composer: Haštal Hapka
Editor: Elvira Dulskaia, Maja Benc
Producer:
Julietta Sichel, Rozálie Brožková
Cast:
Michaela Rajdlíková, Marek Pospíchal, Vojtěch Franců, Karolína Vlčková, Michael Hajda
ELVIRA DULSKAIA (*1994) graduated from the Editing Department at FAMU. She has been directing, editing and writing short films. Her documentary Me, Flamingo won the Koutecky Award for Best Short Documentary in the Czech Republic in 2019. In her works, Elvira focuses on themes of women’s feelings, human relationships and challenges in communication.
An idyllic family breakfast in the Tyrolean mountains – or so it seems. Behind the facade hides a family dynamic full of emotions of distance, closeness, envy and love.
It’s the coming alive of old conflicts, the small crises that seem banal but are ultimately all to familiar.
Идилична семейна закуска в тиролските планини - или поне така изглежда. Зад фасадата се крие семейна динамика, изпълнена с емоции на отдалеченост, близост, завист
FANNY RÖSCH, born and raised in Munich in 1998, came to theater and film at an early age. While still at school, she wrote a one-person play about a young girl who travels to Syria to join ISIS and played the lead role herself. After graduating from high school, she worked on set in various positions for cinema and television films in Munich and Berlin. Since 2019 she is studying production and media business at the University of Television and Film in Munich. In addition to her work as a producer for feature films and documentaries, Fanny continues to focus on her own material as a writer and director.
Director: Fanny Rösch
Writer: Lisa Hagleitner, Fanny Rösch
Cinematography: Jonas Kleinalstede
Editor: Sebastian Husak
Producer:
Marie-Luise Pfeiffer, Felix Stegmann
Cast: Juliane Köhler, Fanny Rösch, Michael Rösch, Jette Rösch
Рьош
Оператор:
JIA / ДЖИА
AUSTRALIA / АВСТРАЛИЯ / 2023 / 15’00’’
Ming, a grieving Chinese mother, arrives in Australia to embark on a road trip with a young Caucasian man, Eric to remember her late son. But she soon discovers that Eric was in a romantic relationship with her son, which clashes with her conservative values.
Минг,
VEE is a China-born, Melbourne-based filmmaker. He studied Professional Screenwriting at RMIT and was awarded the Erin Thomas Award for Most Enterprising Student. His short film ‘Oh, Brother’ has been screened at 20+ film festivals worldwide. His most recent project Jia was the winning project of the AACTA: Pitch Focus in Partnership with Sony. He has been selected for the 2022 Co-Curious’ Stories from Another Australia - Victoria Workshop. Vee is currently adapting Jia into a feature film.
„Since I left China 16 years ago, my mother and I have fewer words to communicate as my Chinese deteriorates, But our love deepens despite the language, generational and cultural barriers. So I made Jia with almost no dialogue. It’s a letter to my mother. It encapsulates my deepest love for her but also my most terrifying fear and a secret that I am unable to tell in words.“
Director: Vee Shi
Writer: Vee Shi
Cinematography: Nicholson Ren
Composer: Luna Pan
Editor: Vee Shi, Shannon Michaelas
Producer: Vee Shi, Taysha McFarland Cast: Sel Hiew, Tyler Jenkins, Peter Isaac Koh
Alan and Bekes are refugees and want to enter Europe. This simple premise forms the narrative for a claustrophobic and intense drama surrounding friendship, courage, dreams and how the other half life.
Director: Muschirf Shekh Zeyn
Writer: Sharyhan Osman, Anita Hauch
Cinematography: Dominik Boros
Animation: Nicolas Schwarz
Editor: Muschirf Shekh Zeyn, Dominik Boros
Producer: Seren Sahin Cast: Dara Lalo, Sipan Hasan
MUSCHIRF SHEKH ZEYN was born in 1988 in a Kurdish family and grew up in Kamishli (Syria). He has been interested in literature, painting and woodwork since he was a child. He began writing short stories at a very early age and discovered a fascination with cinema. He studied architecture (Bachelor) in Syria and specialized in urban sociology. After two years of flight, he arrived in Bremen (Germany) and started making films himself. He is studying film directing at the University of Television and Film Munich since 2019 and is a scholarship holder of the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation. His short film “Killing Bagheera” has so far screened at Oscar-qualifying festivals such as Odense and Durban.
LITTLE SKY / СКАЙ
CANADA / КАНАДА / 2021 / 13’45’’
LITTLE SKY follows the journey of SKY, a Chinese-American pop star who returns to the city they were raised in to find their estranged immigrant father. Haunted by their childhood memories, SKY risks their non-binary identity to end the cycle of violence in their family. In the confrontation, SKY discovers something that changes how they feel about the people they love. Packed with original songs, LITTLE SKY is a film about letting in the chosen community that sees us when the blood family that made us cannot. „Малките Скай“ проследява
JESS X. SNOW is a non-binary writer/director artist and poet based New York. Their film work has been supported by BAFTA, the National Film Board of Canada, Tribeca Film Institute, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for science in film and the Sundance Institute. Their shorts have screened at Cinequest Film Festival (Best Student Short), Durban International Film Festival (Special Mention), BFI Flare and 30+ festivals across the world.They are an MFA thesis student at NYU where they are an Ang Lee Scholar.
Director: Jess X. Snow
Writer: Jess X. Snow
Cinematography: Zamarin Wahdat
Composer: Rob Ohyung Rusli
Editor: Yuan Yuan Zhang, P. J. Wyderka
Producer:
Andreas Nicholas, Eris Qian
Cast: Wo Chan, Kyoko Takenaka, Fenton Li, Yiqing Zhao
Laurent is a wind turbine mechanic with a special affinity for fans. When he stays at Anais’ hotel for a night, sparks fly and the elements begin to collide.
Born 1992 in Thun, Switzerland- he started working in 2012 as a freelance journalist and photographer for local newspapers (Tamedia AG) and continued to do so also for television (Joiz, SRF). In 2019, he finished his BA at Zurich University of the Arts, released three successful short films and won the Student Visionary Award at Tribeca Film Festival in 2020. Since 2020 he studies directing at Zurich University of the Arts at a MA level.
Director: David Oesch
Writer: Sandra Moser
Cinematography: Gaëtan Nicolas
Composer: Mirjam Skal
Editor: Riccarda Schwarz
Producer:
Levin Vieth, Filippo Bonacci (ZHdK)
Cast: Kacey Mottet Klein, Maria Rebecca Sautter
Монтаж:
(ZHdK) Участват:
LOUIS & JEANNE /
BELGIUM / БЕЛГИЯ / 2021 / 18’57’’
Louis and Jeanne are two brother and sister with a fusional relationship but their bond is damaged when he discovers that she has a boyfriend. From then on, ambiguous feelings are emerging and revealing in the teeanager’s mind…
Director: Amaury Fontaine-Bouma
Writer: Yacine Adil, Amaury Fontaine-Bouma Cinematography: Lucas Trovato
Editor: Aymeric Dupriez Cast: Jules Hanquet, Jeanne Brochen, Louis Marbaix
Режисьор:
AMAURY FONTAINE-BOUMA is a French director born in 1999. Originally from le Nord-Pas-de-Calais, he moved to Belgium in 2017 where he started directing studies at the IAD. In 2021, he directed his first short film “Louis & Jeanne”.
Оператор:
MUD CRAB / КАЛЕН
AUSTRALIA / АВСТРАЛИЯ / 2022 / 12’25’’
Reflecting on her culpability, a woman recounts the traumatising assault she witnessed of a young man in a small Australian coastal town.
Director: David Robinson-Smith
Writer: David Robinson-Smith
Cinematography: Jaclyn Paterson
Composer: James Mountain
Editor: James Taylor
Producer: Adam Daniel, Adam Finney Cast:
Joshua Mehmet, Laneikka Denne
Australian writer/director DAVID ROBINSONSMITH grew up in Budgewoi in NSW’s Central Coast and is based in Sydney.
David is focused on stories that find the nuance in seemingly black-and-white issues. His filmography includes CILECT CAPA-award & Australian Director’s Guild-winning short film Mud Crab (2022). The film is currently undertaking its festival circuit. David is currently in development writing his debut feature film. Австралийският
NEIGHBOURING SOUNDS /
TURKEY, UNITED KINGDOM /
Bilal and Aylin, a young married couple, overhear a domestic battery in their neighborhood late at night. Despite his initial disregard for the situation, Bilal sparks a curiosity that paves the way for an unintended disclosure. Билал
Director: Ali Kıvanç Güldürür
Writer: Ali Kıvanç Güldürür
Cinematography: Aditya Sharma
Editor: Mengyao Zhang
Producer: João Salgado, M. Murat Uluer
Cast: Ahmet Bilal Özbek, Büşra Baş
ALI KIVANÇ GÜLDÜRÜR was born in Izmir, Turkey in 1991. After completing his studies at Bilkent University’s Department of American Culture and Literature in Ankara, he enrolled at the London Film School to study filmmaking where he has worked on numerous projects as a writer, director, editor and sound recordist. Neighbouring Sounds is his graduation film from the London Film School.
https://vimeo.com/722742839
https://www.instagram.com/komsusesler/
ON THE EDGE / НА
AUSTRIA / AВСТРИЯ / 2022 / 19’00’’
During an ascent up the mountain Felix (17) realizes that his older brother Paul’s (24) chronic illness multiple sclerosis has already severely limited his mobility. While they walk memories of their childhood are awakened and a deep fear about an uncertain future grows.
Director: Matteo Sanders
Writer: Matteo Sanders, Tobias Resch
Cinematography: Konrad Milan
Editor: Julia Sternthal
Producer: Shoshana R Aschauer, Marija Burtscher
Cast:
Tobias Resch, Noah Resch Режисьор:
MATTEO SANDERS was born in Innsbruck in 1989. By winning 1st place in a short film competition in 2006, he met Barbara Albert who encouraged him to make films. Since then, he’s been making his own short films, music videos and commercials. Since 2017 he has been studying directing and screenwriting at the Filmakademie Wien.
ON YOUR BEHALF /
UNITED KINGDOM /
/ 2021 / 16’27’’
We all have pet peeves which irritate us. They may seem like insignificant things, but who of us has never muttered the phrase ‘I could kill them’? Ava goes one step further and puts these thoughts into action.
Director: Ana Garcia Rico
Writer: Ana Garcia Rico
Cinematography: Sam Travis Composer: James Jacob
Editor: Jonny Powell Producer: Maya Wills
Cast: Kevin McNally, Georgina Bevan, David Mumeni
ANA is a Writer/Director from Madrid. Her debut Eat Your Principles had 11 official selections, notably Japan’s AA qualifying Short Shorts IFF and picked up the Audience Choice at Barcelona VisualSound Festival. Her second film On Your Behalf received 29 official selections and qualified for consideration for the GOYA Awards. Since completing OYB, Ana graduated from the London Film School with Distinction and alongside two collaborators, founded Flaco Films. She is now writing her first feature.
Irina and Cătă are moving in together for the first time. This big step sparks a heated debate on Irina’s unwillingness to expose their relationship to her parents and to the rest of the world.
BOGDAN ALECSANDRU (b.1998) is a Bucharest based filmmaker. After graduating the BA in Film and Television Directing at UNATC “I. L. Caragiale”, he is currently continuing his studies with a MA in Film Directing. He has directed three short films, “Our Home” being his diploma work. He is interested in exploring the thematic fusion between anxiety and intimacy in fiction film.
бакалавърска степен по филмова и телевизионна режисура
Director: Bogdan Alecsandru
Writer: Bogdan Alecsandru, Alexa Mincu
Cinematography: Alin Ciuchi
Editor: Cristina Popa
Producer: UNATC “I. L. Caragiale”
București, Alexandra Apețean
Cast: Ana Dumitrașcu, Ioana Niculae, Sabina Lazăr, Oana Laura Gabriela, Armand Crișan
Режисьор:
Монтаж:
Продуцент: UNATC “I. L. Caragiale” București,
PARADISE ON EARTH TO SEE /
CZECH REPUBLIC / ЧЕХИЯ / 2022 / 26’54’’
Matys is an outsider who moved from Ukraine to Czechia with his sister in search of a better life. Turns out the situation there is not ideal either. A glimpse of hope comes when Matys manages to get a job in a cottage in the woods. Its owner and the magical surroundings enchant him. The question is how long this feeling of happiness will last.
VOJTĚCH NOVOTNÝ was born in Prague in 1996. He has been interested in filming since childhood. After spending a year at the Film Studies, Charles University, he was admitted to FAMU, Dpt. of Directing, and has studied there since 2017. His previous film Parole (2020) won the Ecumenical Jury Award for the best student film at Molodist Kyiv Festival.
Director: Vojtěch Novotný
Writer: Vojtěch Novotný
Cinematography: Tomáš Kotas
Composer: Jan Vaniš, Matěj Sirotek
Editor: Ondřej Nuslauer
Producer: Ondřej Šejnoha
Cast: Ondřej Šimánek, Pavlína Štorková, Jan Bidlas Режисьор: Войтех Новотни
PIZZA D’AMOUR /
GERMANY / ГЕРМАНИЯ / 2021 / 10’47’’
Her part-time job as a pizza delivery girl leads Suri to the house of Thomas, a man in his mid-fifties. There she is confronted with her biggest nightmare: Her parents’ sexuality and the realization of her own double standards.
Director: Elsa van Damke
Writer: Alexander Schmid
Cinematography: Alexander Friedrich
Composer: Amaury Bernier, Rene Billotin
Editor: Victor Majarres Gamke
Producer: Lisa Carstensen, Creative Producer
Cast:
Joy Ewulu, Christoph Glaubacker, Christian Karepeszki, Dalila Abdallah
ELSA, born in Berlin in 1994, started directing at the Young Theatre of the Köpenick City Theatre. She was fired and with a passion for writing, began a degree in journalism. After the third semester, she focussed on filmmaking. fell in love with the profession and switched to the Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin to study Film. Her thesis short film “OH SH*T!” won her the award for best newcomer in directing at the Snowdance Independent Film Festival.
PLUS 963 / ПЛЮС 963
GERMANY / ГЕРМАНИЯ / 2022 / 10’00’’
In a claustrophobic chamber play, the filmmaker processes his own experiences in a Syrian prison. Sealed off from the outside world for a long time, the prisoners memorize the phone numbers of the other families in order to escape dehumanisation.
Director: Daood Alabdulaa
Writer: Daood Alabdulaa
Cinematography: Henri Nunn
Editor: Lara Milena Brose
Producer: Lara Milena Brose
Cast:
Dara Lalo, Kamel Najma
DAOOD ALABDULAA was born in 1994 in Syria. He studied Electrical Engineering and directed theater plays in Aleppo. After escaping to Germany in 2014 he continued his studies in Karlsruhe. Since 2020, he has been studying Directing at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF). DRAWING FROM MEMORY is his first short film.
RED ADMIRAL /
BULGARIA / БЪЛГАРИЯ / 2022 / 21’24’’
Christine is a beautiful twenty five year old girl who is forced to work as a prostitute for influential people. She is ordered for the night by an influential mobster. Unsuspecting that she is the key piece of a large puzzle in the hands of powerful people, she enters hell. This encounter puts her in a life or death situation, and it’s up to her to find a way out and save herself.
MARIN RANGELOV is a young and promising Bulgarian actor who graduated with a BA (Hons) in “Acting for Stage & Screen” at the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts “Krastyo Sarafov” in prof. Stefan Danailov’s last masterclass. The following year after his graduation his passion for films led him to study and graduate with two MFA degrees in “Film Directing” and “Producing Film and Television”. Marin made his directing, screenwriting, and producing debut with the short thriller “Red Admiral,” inspired by true stories.
Director: Marin Rangelov
Writer: Marin Rangelov
Cinematography: Mladen Minev
Composer: Henri Salonen
Editor: Veselin Lazarov
Producer: Marin Rangelov
Cast: Lora Hristova, Kal Minev, Marin Rangelov, Mario Gyurov, Ivan Paskov Режисьор:
Two strangers meet at the rooftop of a 20-story hotel building, both with the intention to commit suicide.
Director: Nevena Nikolova, Petar Gerzilov
Writer:
Nevena Nikolova
Cinematography: Mincho Minchev
Composer: Camille Saint Saens
Editor: Bohos Topakbashian
Producer:
Nevena Nikolova, Milen Manev
Cast: Emil Stefanov, Marina Furtzova
EVENA NIKOLOVA is an actress, screenwriter, director and producer - New Bulgarian University recently graduated student in Directing. Nevena`s artistic career started as a stage performer with numerous roles in various fringe theatre shows. Nevena is a director of the theatre shows Victoria Station and The Collection both by Harold Pinter. MORNING is her debut movie and ROOFTOP is her second film for both of which she is the producer, the director and the screenwriter.
In the Ruhrpott, the couple Ava and Sascha run the FLINT* pub STÖRENFRIDA. A project of their hearts that serves as a safer space for the community but also as a home for the couple. Into this closed world suddenly enters Ava’s father GUNTER, a former miner who needs a place to stay for a couple of weeks. Based on this loaded constellation, the film depicts the inclusivity and exclusivity of safer spaces and critically examines supposedly feminine and masculine spaces.
В Рурпот двойката Ава и Саша управляват кръчмата FLINT* STÖRENFRIDA. Проекта на живота им, служещ като безопасно
ALINA YKLYMOVA, born in 1990 in Meiningen on the territory of the former USSR, grew up in Turkmenistan, raised in Hessen, Germany. She worked in different fields of film and television productions till she started to study Directing (diploma) at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. Her last two Films „She is a good boy“ and „Goosebumps“ were Coproductions with Arte and SWR and had both their premiere on Max Ophüls Preis 2022. She is currently working on her first feature film.
Director: Alina Yklymova
Writer: Lisa Brunke
Cinematography: Christian Neuberger
Composer: Maximilian Schieder
Editor: Lukas Wengorz
Producer: Jana Klingseisen, Paul Hartmann
Cast: Katharina Abel, Massiamy Diaby, Thomas Krutmann
A lonely wolf who lives in a forest on the outskirts of Barcelona, spends his days walking and spying on those who go into nature looking for intimacy to their daily pleasures. Over time, he has developed a special predilection for them, attracted to their world. Suddenly, one night the blood moon eclipse turns him into a man, and he decides to leave the forest and enter the city, testing his idea of human in a strange and unknown world.
CARLOS LLAÓ was born in Mataró (Barcelona), in 1995. He began College studies in journalism at Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), but after two years there he obtained a scholarship to start a Film Degree at ESCAC (Film and Audiovisual School of Catalonia), majoring in Film Direction. SON PARDOS (GREY AT NIGHT) is his Final Degree Project.
Jakob has stolen his father’s car and wrecked it. When his father comes home from the night shift and sees this, he gets a beating. Desperate, Jakob asks Armin the local car mechanic to fix the car with him till the next morning. Armin refuses to help, but Anni Ex-girlfriend knows what levers she has to pull with Armin and provokes him to get involved in the adventure. But as longer the nights go Armin recognize that fixing the car isn’t solving the problem. Якоб
LENA STROHMAIER is a German filmmaker and the stories she tells are inspired by where she is coming from: the working class living on the countryside in Germany. She has been studying fictional directing since 2018 at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. Before she was working in Montréal at Bunbury Films as a production assistant and editor.
Director: Lena Strohmaier
Writer: Theresa Worm
Cinematography: Holger Enck
Composer: Patrick Kuhn-Botelho
Editor: Maxie Borchert
Producer: Nicolas Kronauer, Theresa Sernatinger
Cast: Andreas Anke, Hauke Petersen, Bärbel Schwarz, Dieter Rupp
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/790745602
https://lena-strohmaier.de/
TASTE OF HOME /
GERMANY / ГЕРМАНИЯ / 2022 / 29’07’’
Mai (17), a Vietnamese girl who was trafficked to Germany, has to earn money for her family back in Vietnam but is exploited and sold on by her smugglers. She flees and asks her new friend Linh (11) for help whose mother is part of the system herself. Suddenly, not only Mai but also Linh has to choose between freedom or family.
Май (17), виетнамско момиче, трафикирано
и продадена
(11)
ÂNI VÕ is a Vietnamese-German director and screenwriter. In 2016 she started to study directing at HFF Munich and made various fictional short films as a director, screenwriter and producer. In 2020 she was awarded. Best Student Director at the European Cinematography Awards. Âni directed three episodes of a TV-series for a major German broadcaster in 2022 and is currently also working as a head writer for an upcoming series by Studio Zentral.
Director: Âni Võ
Writer: Kathi Kiesl, Âni Võ
Cinematography: Meret Madörin
Animation: Dennis Schmidt
Composer: Manuel Seum, Andrew Mottl,
Editor:
Carola Sultan Keller, Âni Võ, Zé Maria Abreu Santos
Producer: Max Wallner, Tobias Bissinger, Âni Võ
Cast: Ngọc Nhi Hà Trần, Nhung Hong, Thi Le Thanh Ho, Yung Ngo
Ани Вo
THE BOY
WHO COULDN’T FEEL PAIN /
‘The Boy Who Couldn’t Feel Pain’ is set in Grants, New Mexico and tells the fictional small-town legend of Chester, a street fighter who can’t feel any pain. When Annie, a bowling alley employee who just moved into town challenges him for a fight, things begin to change.
Director: Eugen Merher
Writer: Eugen Merher
Cinematography: Mortimer Hochberg
Animation: Marc Angele, DELI Creative Collective, zornshot, Pascal Schelbli, Benjamin Gätzschmann, Katta Srikar, Timo Belitz
Composer: Alexander Wolf David
Editor: Ernst Lattik, Maximillian Merth
Producer: Philip Chrobot, Sophie Lotsch Cast:
EUGEN MERHER was born October 24th 1990 in Chisinau, Moldova and moved to Germany when he was five years old. At that time he discovered his passion for filmmaking with his parents’ camera. After almost 10 years of being a student, pleasing his parents with a bachelor’s degree in communications and making lots of spec commercials and short films at the infamous Filmakademie Ludwigsburg, he is finally ready to tackle the real world with his storytelling skills.
Catfish Jean, Delilah Napier, Режисьор:
THE CAMPSIE FELLS / КАМПСИ
UNITED KINGDOM / ВЕЛИКОБРИТАНИЯ / 2021 / 17’09’’
Dylan meets with his father Peter to scatter his grandfather’s ashes at the Campsie Fells, a range of hills north of Glasgow. First thinking they were getting there by car, Peter surprises Dylan by arriving with a backpack full of food and two bikes. For what Dylan thought was going to be a farewell to his grandfather, Peter saw a bike tour. With their differences, they embark on their emotionally thorny journey to the Campsie Fells.
Director LUCA MACCORMICK was born in London, UK but moved to Zagreb, Croatia when he was three. At nineteen, he moved to Edinburgh, UK, where he completed his bachelor’s degree in Film at Edinburgh Napier University. Themes in his work include that of friendship, connection and loneliness explored through a comedic lens.
When does childhood really end? And what does intimacy truly mean? Pietro and Tommaso are at the gates of their teenage years. They meet in the lodge of a theater, while the notes of Vivaldi resonate around them. Is it a first kiss, or is it something else? That same afternoon, surrounded by the silence of the house, they will try to understand it.
Director: Lorenzo Tardella
Writer: Mara Fondacaro, Elisa Pulcini, Lorenzo Tardella
Cinematography: Simone Rossi
Composer: Fabio D’Onofrio
Editor: Angela Norelli
Producer:
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
Cast:
Simone Evangelista, Mattia Rega
LORENZO TARDELLA was born in Narni (Italy) in 1992. He studied at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, the National Film School in Rome. His latest short films have been presented in several international film festivals, including “Alice nella città/Rome Film Fest” and “Visioni Italiane - Cineteca di Bologna”.
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia,
няколко международни филмови фестивала, включително “Alice nella
In this film about longing and missed opportunities, the young Clive is on a solo trip in the Tuscan countryside when he receives an invitation for a “special experience” at the hotel’s he’s staying at. He will soon find out he’s been chosen for the game of a mysterious woman that will challenge his insecurities. В този
Director: Edoardo Ulivelli
Writer: Edoardo Ulivelli
Cinematography: Camilla Cattabriga
Composer: Filippo Landi
Editor: Marco Ferrara
Producer:
Antonio Donato, Patrick James Verlin, Elena Pierattini, Martin Sifrer, Marco Onofri, Nicolo Lisi
Cast:
Magnus Gordon, Sharon Alessandi, Giulio Corso
EDOARDO ULIVELLI is an Italian writer and director born and raised in Florence, Italy. In 2017 he earned his BA degree at University of Bologna in Cinema Studies. In 2018 Ulivelli attended NYFA in Florence before moving to the UK where in 2022 he graduated from The London Film School with an MA degree in Filmmaking specialising in directing, screenwriting and producing. His graduation short film “Lo Sguardo (The Look)” has screened at BAFTA and Academy Award qualifying festivals in Europe.
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/677088688
Instagram: @edoardoulivelli
THE ONE-WAY TICKET /
GERMANY / ГЕРМАНИЯ / 2022 / 10’10’’
The story is being narrated from Taha’s POV, a six-year old boy, who has been raised by a misogynist father and lives in a society where women have no freedom of choice. He finds out that his sister wants to escape with her lover. Now the decision is his whether to reveal the secret to his father or not.
MELIKA REZAPOUR is a screen-acting student based in Berlin. She was born on 2nd of July 1996 in Tehran, Iran. She wants to make a change by the art of story telling. Her stories will always be a reflection of her own personal life.
When 9-year-old Ábel is attacked by his classmate Bence at school, his father decides to visit Bence’s parents to put an end to the constant harassment. However, the conversation does not go as hoped and confronts father and son with a moral dilemma.
Director: Kálmán Nagy
Writer: Kálmán Nagy
Cinematography: Manuel Prett
Editor: Sarah Kučera
Producer: Alisa Frischholz
Cast: Zsolt Nagy
ва обучението си във
KÁLMÁN NAGY was born and raised in 1992 in a small town in Hungary. Since 2012 he lives in Vienna where he began his studies at the Filmakademie Wien in 2016. He graduated in 2021 in the directing class of Michael Haneke. His short film “Olyan dolgok - Things like” was awarded and screened at many international film festivals, including Palm Springs International Shortfest and HollyShorts Film Festival.
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THE TEARS OF THINGS / СЪЛЗИТЕ
BELGIUM / БЕЛГИЯ / 2021 / 13’49’’
Ana attempts to untangle the painful memories of the night when her marriage began to crumble. Unable to speak, she starts writing. Her diary becomes a letter to her husband about their growing alienation, set in a deafening silence.
KATE VOET is a Belgian screenwriter and film director, who studied English literature, theater studies and filmmaking in Amsterdam, New York and Brussels. Her work revolves around the loneliness of the mind and the unreliability of memory. After her short films LES HOMARDS IMMORTELS and THE TEARS OF THINGS, she is now writing her debut feature together with Nadja Dumouchel. Her interactive VR experience, THE TIME OF A MOMENT, co-directed with Victor Maes, is currently in pre-production.
Fanny prepares a memorial for her deceased mother in an art gallery in Stockholm. Her father makes a speech and the evening takes a turn for the worst.
Director: Love von Hauswolff
Writer: Love von Hauswolff
Producer: Love von Hauswolff, Sonia Åström
Cast: Julia Sporre, Maria Grademo El Hayek, Peter Perski, Jacqueline Georget
LOVE VON HAUSWOLFF is a Swedish writer and director from Stockholm. Since he graduated from high school Love has been determined in his pursuit to be a filmmaker, working his way up from assistant to director of commercials. In 2019 he moved to London to study Filmmaking at London Film School. He graduated as a writer and director in January 2022 with a MA Filmmaking award with distinction. The Viewing Room is his graduation project for London Film School.
POLAND / ПОЛША / 2022 / 13`51’’
Adam, now an adult man, returns to his home village after a long stay in a closed center. Marked by the tragedy of the past, he tries to adapt to the new reality and re-establish a relationship with his mother. His empathy for nature and animals, as well as memories and longing, turn out to be disastrous, which causes Adam to cross a certain line, which has irreversible consequences.
Director: Aleksander Szamałek
Writer: Aleksander Szamałek
Cinematography: Aleksander Szamałek
Composer: Marcin Szumal
Editor: Kosma Kowalczyk
Producer: Krystyna Doktorowicz
Cast: Paweł Kempa, Judyta Paradzińska
Режисьор:
Born in 1996 - Otwock, Poland. Studied Film and Theater in France at University Nanterre X, now Cinematography student in Krzysztof Kieslowski National Film School of Katowice. Cinematographer, but also director. Worked with directors on shorts, documentaries and commercials. Gathered experience on the movie sets and as a camera operator on the TV series and fiction shorts. Always looking for the unique approach.
TRACES / СЛЕДИ
ISRAEL / ИЗРАЕЛ / 2022 / 16’34’’
Amit (18) is told that his father committed suicide last night. The identification of the body occurs this evening, but his family forbids him from going. Facing his older brother and their mother, Amit will do everything to see his father one last time.
(18) разбира,
OMER WEISS (Holon, Israel. 1993) Graduated studying Directing and Screenwriting at the Minshar School of Arts in Tel-Aviv. His short film “As I Watch You from Afar” (2018), Was screened at Tel-Aviv International Student Film Festival, 29th Istanbul International Short Film Festival and Athens Short Film Festival. Omer is currently working as a freelance Cinematographer and developing his first feature.
Director: Omer Weiss
Writer: Omer Weiss
Cinematography: Or Azulay
Composer: Daniel Shemer
Editor: Shay-Lee Atary
Producer: Roni Huberman, Omer Weiss
Cast: Nadav Erteschik, Lyr Ben-Ari, Irit Gidron, Adi Weiss
TRENC D’ALBA /
SPAIN / ИСПАНИЯ / 2022 / 28’23’’
A rural family lives in a quiet farmhouse, built by their ancestors. After a while, due to the humidity and the isolation, maintenance has become impossible and the place has been declared in ruins. While the family fights to save their home, Elián, a teenager, and Irene, his little sister, will recover an old hobby of their grandfather: by recording movies in super 8, they will turn the spaces into a memory. During the process, they will start to get curious about what their new place could be.
Селско семейство живее в тиха фермерска къща, построена от техните предци. След известно време, поради влажността
ството се опитва да спаси дома, Елиан, тийнейджър, и Ирен, малката му сестра, ще възстановят
ANNA LLARGUÉS, 1999. Graduated as a film director at ESCAC and currently a postgraduate student in editing at BSM-UPF, began her career as a director at the age of 19 with “Avia”, a micro-documentary awarded by Cultura Inquieta and exhibited at Filmin. During the third year of her degree, she made her second short film “La Indeseada”, currently in the process of being distributed. Her latest work is “Trenc d’Alba”, a fictional short film based on autobiographical facts made as a final degree project.
Two brothers play on the beach with firecrackers. They find a motor home that looks abandoned and decide to inspect its interior. Being drawn to risk is the basis of their relationship.
Двама
IKER MAGUREGI (1996). Graduated in Audiovisual Communication and specialized in Directing. Azken Otsoa (2018), his final degree project, was selected in festivals such as the ZINEBI in Bilbao or the Zaragoza Film Festival, among others. Trumoiak is his latest short film, the result of the master’s project in Film Directing that he has just completed at ESCAC.
ални комуникации и специализира “Режисура”. “Азкен
Director: Iker Maguregi
Writer: Iker Maguregi
Cinematography: Andrea Martínez
Composer: Eneko Ajangiz
Editor: Imanol Muro
Producer: ESCAC Films
Cast: Peio Bilbao, Tasio Bilbao, Daniel Gómara
Режисьор:
ESCAC Films
UNFAMILIARS / НЕПОЗНАТИ
ESTONIA
/ ЕСТОНИЯ / 2022 / 15’50’’
A human drama about a mother obsessed with documenting her dead son’s apartment, a sister forced to inherit her dead brother’s old belongings, and a son-in-law pretending to ignore a past affair with his dead lover. Together, they navigate familial tensions and secrets held from each other inside a house that is home to nobody.
Director: Lauri Elstelä
Writer: Chinh Van Tran
Cinematography: Jiali Liang
Composer: Sangam Panta
Editor: Hassan Akil
Producer: Nevena Semova
Cast: Linda Vaher, Simeoni Sundja, Anne Veesaar
Режисьор:
LAURI ELSTELÄ grew up in Helsinki, Finland. He graduated with a BA from Aalto University of Art, Design, and Architecture. After studying film directing at ArtCenter College of Design, Los Angeles as an exchange student, he moved back to Europe to attend the KinoEyes program. Over the past few years, he has directed commercials for various production companies and developed his short films.
VINLAND / ВИНЛАНД
CZECH REPUBLIC / ЧЕХИЯ / 2022 / 29’59’’
Daniil departs from his wife and kid for what should be only a seasonal job in Prague. Originally a teacher, he starts to work with other Ukrainian laborers on the construction site controlled by a Russian boss Sergei. Thus, he becomes a cog in the machinery that takes advantage of the work of illegal immigrants. Vinland looks at the lives of people who exist all around us but about whom we know so little because their identities disappear the moment they relinquish their passports to the mafia.
Даниил се разделя с жена си
собственост на руския шеф Сергей, превръщайки се в зъбно
плоатираща работата на
имигранти.” Винланд” разказва за живота на хора, които са навсякъде около нас, но за които не знаем почти нищо,
MARTIN has studied Film Direction at FAMU, Prague and is now developing his debut feature film ‘Three Weeks Under the Sea’, which has been part of TorinoFilmLab development programme. His previous short films have been screened internationally, including IFF Montreal and IFF Warsaw. Current short film Vinland has premiered at Karlovy Vary IFF and Cairo IFF, has been awarded with Trilobit award and is now nominated for the Czech Lion national awards.
Mia, a young woman in her early twenties, awakes by a stabbing sensation in the middle of the night, which seems to be a recurring event. Sometime after, she visits the hospital for a scheduled appointment hoping to get her problem quickly solved and make it to her eleven o’clock meeting. However, in the waiting room, talking to other women with the same problem, she realizes her endometriosis journey will be longer and rockier than expected.
Мия, млада
Not
KATARINA ZRINKA ŠARIĆ is a writer and director born in Canada and raised in Croatia. Her documentary She’s Not Mine was screened at Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival in 2021. Katarina holds a BA in Philosophy and Croatian Language and Literature from the University of Rijeka. Currently, she is finishing her MFA in Film Directing at FAMU, Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.
Director: Katarina Zrinka Šarić
Writer: Katarina Zrinka Šarić
Cinematography: Antoine Bruch
Editor: Eero Lehtinen
Producer: Katarina Zrinka Šarić, FAMU Cast:
Sofia Katela, Zdeňka Goričev Hrdličková, Theo Jacques, Marta Falvey Sovová
WATER BALLOONS / ВОДНИ
SERBIA / СЪРБИЯ / 2022 / 13’04’’
10-year old boy is spending summer days in his hometown. Having no real friends he’s constantly being exposed to violence and teasing by other boys around him. His younger brother is the only person who really cares about him, but that’s not enough.
ALEKSA BORKOVIC is a Belgrade-based filmmaker. He is about to graduate in Digital Arts from FMK, Belgrade. During the studies, in many shortlength projects, he was taking the roles of cinematographer, producer or director. Last year he was participating Talents Sarajevo campus within camera studio.
Wetsuit presents three seemingly unrelated stories and characters in order to explore their similarities. It’s as if what happens to one character has happened or will happen to the others. In that knowledge, they share the same questions about the burden of what it might mean to be a man. For these kids, torn between a life on land and a life at sea, they are haunted by what type of man they will be, which suit will they wear?
Director: João Salgado
Writer: João Salgado
Cinematography: Pablo Garrido Carreras
Editor: Hannah Owen
Producer: Maria Martins, Mathilde Jouaud
Cast:
João Maria Gaivão, João Berberan, Nuno Lopes, Kristian V. Sousa, José, Maria Bispo, Maria Chaves, Martim Feron, Simão Silva, Eva Fisahn, Gonçalo Apolinario
JOÃO was born in Lisbon, Portugal but grew up in Switzerland. He has a degree in economics from the London School of Economics and a masters in filmmaking from the London Film School. He is attracted to non linear narrative structures and stories that explore themes of home and isolation, the homes we make and the homes we long for. Wetsuit is his graduation film from the London Film School. João currently lives and works in Lisbon where he is developing his next project.
HUNGARY / УНГАРИЯ / 2022 / 16’04’’
Ádám and his friend Bálint, are teenagers living on the violent outskirts of Budapest, where physical strength is the difference between boy and man. When a friend of theirs gets beaten up and they decide to get revenge, Adam is forced to face the fact that being a man means something much more.
DÁNIEL FÜZES was born in Germany. He is a Hungarian director who studied film theory and film history at ELTE University (BA degree) and also majored as a motion picture artist at the Budapest Metropolitan University (MA degree). After that, he was admitted to the University of Theater and Film Arts Budapest, majoring in film and television directing. He made several short films as a director that were featured in numerous Hungarian and international film festivals.
Director: Dániel Füzes
Writer: Zsombor Aurél Biró, Dániel Füzes
Cinematography: Áron Farkas
Composer: Dániel Cziczó
Editor: Zsófia Bartha
Producer: Gábor Osváth, Marcell Szy
Cast: Raul Ionescu, Zsombor Kövesi, Bence Szécsi, Norman Lévai Режисьор:
Belgrade, 1992. Yugoslavia is falling apart. Freshly graduated Mina and her soon-to-be-recruited boyfriend plan to leave the country that night. The only thing left is to tell her conservative family, at a Saint Guardian celebration. Белград, 1992
MIMI VLAOVIĆ is a London based, Belgrade raised writer-director. Taking inspiration from her novels and personal life, her works focus on female empowerment, cultural diversities, overprotective family dynamics and happy endings – hoping to inspire and never crush her audience’s souls.
Three masters of football... They can perform wonders during the match and score impossible goals... But what happens in their heads when they are about to take penalty kicks?
Director: Vuk Jevremovic
Writer: Vuk Jevremovic
Animation: Vuk Jevremovic
Composer: Luka Sulic
Editor: Iva Kraljevic
Producer: Vuk Jevremovic
Режисьор:
VUK JEVREMOVIC (1959, Frankfurt on Main) graduated in Architecture at the Technical University in Belgrade in 1984, and in 2002 he graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich as a masters’ student in the class of Joseph Kosuth. His films have been screened and awarded at film festivals around the world.
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A DREAM OF HAWAII /
NORWAY /
/ 2022 / 10’26’’
In a world covered in plastic, Pete leads a nomadic life where he dreams of the pearly white beaches of Hawaii. Will his long journey bring him to a place not covered in plastic waste?
Director: Thomas Smoor Isaksen
Writer: Thomas Smoor Isaksen
Cinematography: Ruben B. Nerheim
Animation: Kristian Halvorsen, Simen Tveit
Composer: Mats Nesvik Naalsund
Editor: Thomas Smoor Isaksen
Producer: Dag-Erik Hansen Режисьор:
THOMAS SMOOR ISAKSEN is a filmmaker from Aalesund, Norway. He attended film school in Bergen and finished his Bachelor of Creative Arts at Deakin University in Melbourne. He is currently working as a freelancer on movie- and tv-productions and is trying to establish himself as a writer and director.
A TINY MAN / МАЛЪК
FRANCE / ФРАНЦИЯ / 2022 / 10’00’’
Complexed by his wife’s body, a man sneakily administers a mysterious serum supposed to make her lose weight quickly. But following a prank by his wife, it is he who swallows the beverage and starts to shrink visibly.
Director: Aude David, Mikaël Gaudin
Writer:
Mikaël Gaudin, Aude David
Animation: Aude David
Composer: Wissam Hojeij
Editor: Sercan Sezgin, Aude David
Producer: Jérôme Blesson
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Born in 1990, in Nantes, AUDE DAVID studied at the School of Fine Arts in Nantes, before specializing in animation cinema at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, from which she graduated in 2016. She directed two films during her studies, including « Le Bar du Théâtre », selected in Annecy.
Born in 1984 in Paris, MIKAEL GAUDIN studied theater, economics and cinema before entering the Paris Louis Lumière school in 2009 in the cinema section. He then worked as an assistant director on films by Jacques Audiard, Volker Schlöndorff or Pierre Salvadori, before moving on to direct three short fiction films between 2018 and 2020.
SPAIN, ARGENTINA / ИСПАНИЯ, АРЖЕНТИНА / 2022 / 06’17`’’
Ashkasha is a living being guided by curiosity. This causes her to lose her head and get trapped in the depths, where is submerged on a discovery journey.
Director: Lara Maltz
Writer: Lara Maltz
Cinematography: Gerardo Wielandt, Diego Aveiga
Animation: Lara Maltz, Santiago Riquelme
Composer: Lorenzo Perelmuter
Editor:
Laura S. Núñez, Lara Maltz, Santiago Riquelme
Producer:
Lara Maltz
Argentina, 1992. Visual artist, stop motion director and animator. Graduated from the Scenography career at the Metropolitan School of Dramatic Art in 2014, in Buenos Aires. Trained in workshops with different artists in disciplines such as engraving, drawing, painting and sculpture. She continued her studies graduating from the Master of Stop Motion Animation at the Barcelona Film School. “Ashkasha” is her first film as a director, a short where her entire artistic universe is set in motion.
Franco is a lively child that loves to venture into the woods to take photos of insects and small animals, which he watches in wonder. One day, during one of his expeditions, he comes across an impossible creature: a giant, monstrous floating fish. The trauma of this vision changes him forever: he becomes obsessed with the monster and draws it repeatedly, for many years, trying to reproduce it perfectly. Beniamino, his dog, constantly tries to distract him from his obsession and bring him back to life.
Франко
ALESSANDRO CINO ZOLFANELLI grew up in Rome, Italy, where he attended film studies at the University of Roma Tre. Upon graduation he moved to Berlin where he studied sculpture while working as a crew member in several short films. During that time he developed a strong interest in stop-motion animation as a meeting point between his passions for cinema and sculpture and started working on his directorial debut: “Black Eyed Dog”, a stop-motion animated short film.
Director: Alessandro Cino Zolfanelli
Writer: Alessandro Cino Zolfanelli
Cinematography: Lorenzo Scudiero
Animation: Alessandro Cino Zolfanelli
Composer: Francesco Sottile
Editor: Niccolò Notario
Producer:
Andrea Gatopoulos, Marco Crispano, Leonardo Kurtz, Dario Laudati, Alessandro Cino Zolfanelli, Giulia Grandinetti, Jeroen Zijlstra
A magnetic storm is approaching the solar system which effects all living things differently. On a remote planet Dale, a plant-lover’s lonely life is in danger. With the slowly approaching storm tension grows bigger and erupts into massive aggression between the habitants which makes everybody dangerously insane. The well controlled aggression in the society blows up like a bomb...
Director: Sofia Laszlovszky
Writer: Sofia Laszlovszky, Zsombor Benyovszky dr
Animation: Sofia Laszlovszky, Csaba Zabos
Composer:
Gabor Keresztes, Freakin’ Disco
Editor: Balazs Fekete
Producer: Zsombor Benyovszky dr
SOFIA is an animation director, architect, dancer. She was born in Hungary and graduated from Budapest University of Technology and Economics as an architect in 2009. Then Sofia continued her studies at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design as a media artist. Inspired by the avant-garde artists of the 20th century she began her own route by picturing blurry areas where reality and dreams are shaking hands. / 2022. Botanica Exotica / 2018. ChronoSync
Ласловски, Чаба Забош Музика: Габор Кереш, Freakin’ Disco
Монтаж:
CRAB / РАК
POLAND / ПОЛША / 2022 / 08’42’’
Animals are our silent companions; they have witnessed the greatest achievements and most horrible failures of humankind. They live their lives parallel to ours – they are our food, our tools or, in the best case, we just don’t notice them. Usually our victory means death for them, but there are moments where the situation changes…
Животните са нашите мълчаливи спътници; били са свидетели на най-големите постижения и най-ужасните провали на човечеството. Те живеят паралелно с нас - те са нашата храна,
Director: Piotr Chmielewski
Writer: Piotr Chmielewski
Cinematography: Tomasz Sobczak
Animation: Paulina Szewczyk
Composer: Wojtek Urbański
Editor: Gabriel Goubet
Producer: Wojciech Leszczynski
Оператор:
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PIOTR CHMIELEWSKI is a stop-motion animation autodidact who dedicated his knowledge and skills to raise social issues with visual materials. He does campaign animations for various non-governmental organizations and he makes his first steps as an art house film director. Animation called “Crab” is his debut and hopefully first part of film series that will show important historical events from animal perspective.
DANCING IN THE SHADOWS /
DANCING IN THE SHADOWS is the story of a lonesome and deflated figure who aimlessly roams the metropolis at night. They gradually realise that their shadow has come to life, moving freely from and separate to its owner. Their shadow soon discovers new ways to move. The protagonist is first apprehensive about their shadow’s new found rhythm of movement, but they slowly become awe-struck. After encountering another shadow, together they dance and transcend into a new dimension through this unison.
“Танцуване
sees herself as an all-round creative with a growing curiosity for the ways in which people find themselves within certain spaces or places. She strives to build the strongest connection to my surroundings using the creative means of communications she knows best.
Director: Elliot Bloom, Alexandra Gordon-Gibson
Writer: Elliot Bloom
Animation: Paulina Ziółkowska, Agata Leniartek
Composer: SRAB
Producer:
Alexandra Gordon-Gibson, Elliot Bloom
Музика: SRAB
ELLIOT is fascinated by both the surreal and the abstract, having taught Afro-Surrealism to BA students, his focus is on how these tools can help reveal and raise our consciousness to the absurdities of our current reality.
Ills of fortune have deported a ballet dancer Sergei to a suburban kolhoz. Here he’s having his mundane fights against routine, domestic animals and alcohol.
PRIIT TENDER is an Estonian animator – the director, designer and writer of many short animated films. His author films are driven by surreal imagery, black humor and dark existential journeys. Priit’s films have won prizes and nominations from the most important short and animation film festivals, including Annecy, Ottawa, Hiroshima, Dresden, Fredrikstad, Utrecht, etc…
Director: Priit Tender
Writer: Priit Tender
Cinematography: Ragnar Neljandi
Animation: Marili Sokk, Egert Kesa
Music by: Neoton Familia “Marathon”, Ion Suruceanu “Clar de Luna”, P.Tshaikovski “Swans Lake”
Editor: Priit Tender
Producer: Kerdi Oengo
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/cwhw8vnn20138hf/Koerkorter_trailer.mp4?dl=0 www.nukufilm.ee Facebook: Nukufilm OÜ
EGOLAND / ЕГОВРЪХ
SPAIN / ИСПАНИЯ / 2022 / 19’47’’
Marek Molek and Bruno Grassi are on the verge of reaching the summit of The Great Troll, the last and most difficult unclimbed mountain. A heavy storm, exhaustion and adverse snow conditions prevent them from actually reaching the summit, which is very near. Bruno and Marek argue about whether or not they should tell the truth. During the hazardous descent, one of them will attempt to persuade the other one by any means. In the meantime, Mike Bacon, the special correspondent covering the news, is unable to get in touch with them and is waiting anxiously at base camp. Марек
Director: Ignasi López Fàbregas
Writer: Ignasi López Fàbregas
Composer: David Bergés
Producer: Ana Benigna Vega Pérez
IGNASI LÓPEZ was born in Barcelona in 1972. He graduated at the Art and Design Centre Escola Massana of Barcelona in 1993.
BIOFILMOGRAPHY:
Projecte inbestigadó- 2014
Mano killer- 2016
Criaturitas- 2016
Viacruxis- 2018
Moscardones- 2019
El gran hito (The Great Milestone)- 2020
EVEN STONE FLOWS / ДОРИ
SLOVAKIA / СЛОВАКИЯ / 2022 / 03’18’’
Even stone flows - iron and glass flow too - just slower. Everything takes some moment. Time can be fluid. A short visual poem about the fluidity of being.
We are two artists namely MICHAELA ČOPÍKOVÁ and VERONIKA OBERTOVÁ working together as “Ové Pictures” since 2010. Our background is rooted in the traditional animation, we have created animated films, music videos, commercials and all kinds of animations for documentaries or educational purposes. Formally, our works gradually shifted from traditional animation to more diverse forms.
“Ние
Pictures” от 2010 г. насам. Опитът ни се корени в традиционната анимация, създавали сме анимационни
Режисьор:
Ové Pictures Музика:
Ové Pictures
Участват:
GARRANO / ГАРАНО
PORTUGAL, LITHUANIA
A Garrano horse is forced to pull a heavy load under a blazing sun. Young boy Joel discovers a man who is about to set a forest on fire.
DAVID DOUTEL and VASCO SÁ started co-directing animation films 12 years ago. Since then, they have presented 4 short films and are currently working on their first animated feature film. They are co-founders of BAP - Animation Studio, where they work as directors and producers.
Director: Vasco Sá, David Doutel
Writer: David Doutel, Vasco Sá
Animation: Alexandra Ramires, Leonor Pacheco, Miguel Lima, Vykintas Labanauskas
Composer: Jonas Jurkūnas
Producer:
Agnė Adomėnė, Rodrigo Areias, David Doutel, Vasco Sá
Cast: António Durães, David Doutel, Paulo Calatré, Rodolfo Areias Режисьор:
ICE MERCHANTS / ТЪРГОВЦИ
PORTUGAL,
FRANCE, UK
Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.
JOÃO GONZALEZ (1996) is a Portuguese film director, animator, illustrator and a musician with classical training in piano. Recipient of a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, he did a Masters at the Royal College Art (UK), after finishing his BA at ESMAD (PT). He has a big interest in combining his musical background with his practice in authorial animation, always taking the role of composer and sometimes instrumentalist in the films he directs, occasionally setting them to a live performance.
Director: João Gonzalez
Writer: João Gonzalez
Cinematography: João Gonzalez
Animation: João Gonzalez, Ala Nunu
Composer: João Gonzalez
Editor: João Gonzalez
Producer: Bruno Caetano, Michaël Proença Режисьор:
Жоао Гонзалес Сценарист:
Гонзалес Оператор: Жоао Гонзалес Анимация: Жоао Гонзалес, Ала Нуну
Two little mice , Valentino and Mariapippa, live together in a garret. They are madly afraid of the house cat which never misses the opportunity to chase them when she sees them. One day, just because of their great fear, they lose the opportunity to grab a piece of cheese that is stolen from under them by Amilcare, their neighbor. Despite their great despair they discover that up in the sky there is a huge wheel of cheese, men call it Luna!
Director: Claudio Giusti
Writer: David Boldrini
Cinematography: Claudio Giusti
Animation: Claudio Giusti
Composer: David Boldrini
Editor: Claudio Giusti
Producer: David Boldrini
Cast – voices:
Francesco Marchetti, Ana Seixas
CLAUDIO GIUSTI is an author and a freelance animator based in Florence, Italy and specializes in 2D character animation and visual storytelling. He studied Painting at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts and animation and motion design at the Nemo Academy of Digital Arts where now he teaches and supervises the production of student’s short films. He is one of the founders of Fat Unicorn creative studio, an artist collective that works in the world of animation and illustration.
INNER POLAR BEAR / БЯЛАТА
A film exploring the alternative human and animal perspectives on the implications of climate change using sand animation to illustrate a piece of writing by acclaimed novelist Jeanette Winterson.
Director: Gerald Conn
Writer: Jeanette Winterson
Cinematography: Gerald Conn
Animation: Gerald Conn, Marianne Lang, Harrison Brain
Composer: Benjamin Talbott
Editor: Gorilla Post Production
Producer: Naomi Jones
Cast: Maxine Peake
GERALD CONN is an award winning filmmaker with over twenty years of experience whose films have been broadcast on Channel 4 and BBC and shown at numerous international festivals. He specialises in sand-on-glass animation and won the 1998 BAFTA Wales for his film The Comet’s Tale and has been nominated on four other occasions. Gerald has taught animation for a number of years in schools and colleges and has travelled to France, India, Japan and USA to run workshops and to talk about his work.
Режисьор:
Анимация:
Gorilla Post Production
ISLAND / ОСТРОВ
ISRAEL / ИЗРАЕЛ / 2022 / 07’38’’
Island recounts the history of a small secluded island over the course of several millennia, to reveal a telling lesson about human nature. From the island’s rise to riches to its ultimate fall into ruins, the film explores the island’s different chapters over time: a heap of boulders, a massive guano deposit, a tropical oasis, a colonial territory, a prosperous republic, and an open-pit mine eventually devouring the island to the point of bankruptcy and desolation. “Остров” разказва
MICHAEL FAUST is a painter, animator and production designer. Faust won multiple international awards for his first animation short Beton (2006) including the Special Distinction Award in the Annecy International Animation Festival of 2007. Since then, Michael has participated in many film projects both as a production designer and an illustrator. In 2021 Faust won the Israeli Film Academy award for his work on the film Legend Of Destruction. He teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Art and at Sapir College.
Director: Michael Faust
Writer: Michael Faust
Animation: Michael Faust Composer: Roy Shakked
Producer:
Michael Faust Режисьор:
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/763733137
https://www.studiopotemkin.com/
KISS ‘N’ RIDE
USA / САЩ / 2022 / 07’46’’
On her way home from a lovely cafe date, a woman finds reminders of her date in every little thing, prompting her to fall in love with the Chicago winter night around her and dream of the date ending differently.
Director: Olivia Jensen
Writer: Olivia Jensen
Animation: Olivia Jensen Composer: Daniel O’Hearn
Producer: Olivia Jensen
Музика:
OLIVIA JENSEN is an animator and illustrator in Chicago, IL. She loves all things elegant and emotional, and is inspired by stories that evoke raw, real emotions.
Poetic testimony of a family crossing time and space to the rhythm of the uncontrollable crises of the youngest.
After studying Applied Arts, GILLES CUVELIER joined the first DMA Cinéma d’animation de France, at the E.S.A.A.T in Roubaix in 1998, before being accepted at the Gobelins, from which he graduated in 2002.
He began his professional career at Films du Nord, which produced his first film, Chahut, in 2005. He is also one of the creators of the production company Papy3D, as well as the Studio Train-Train in 2006 and 2007.
Animated film “Lupus in fabula” was inspired by a children’s poem “Once Upon a Time there was a Lion”, by a famous Serbian children’s poet Dusko Radovic. Our hero, Wolf, is faced with existential problems of the modern age, dreaming of being more adapted, more secure and protected. By wishing to be what he thinks is his better self, he’s forgetting that by succumbing to this wish he’s at the same time losing the only thing that truly matters - his freedom.
Анимационният филм “Вълк
TANJA BRZAKOVIC was born in Belgrade. She received a master‘s degree in Directing from the University of Belgrade in Serbia, as well as from the University of Hamburg, in Germany. Her films have won many awards at numerous film festivals.
VUK PALIBRK is a director, comic artist and an illustrator born in 1987 in Belgrade, Serbia. In 2016 he finished his master studies at Berlin University of the Arts in the department of Visual Communications, topic Illustration.
Director: Vuk Palibrk, Tanja Brzaković
Writer: Tanja Brzaković
Ilustrator: Vuk Palibrk
Animation: Vuk Palibrk
Composer: Janja Lončar
Producer: Nebojša Miljković
Cast:
Jelena Bosanac
Режисьор:
Сценарист: Таня Бързакович
Оператор: Вук Палибрк
Анимация:
Палибрк
Лончар
MONEY AND HAPPINESS /
SERBIA / СЪРБИЯ / 2022 / 09’47’’
The hamsters live and work in Hamsterland, a perfect state with a perfect economy. The GDP grows steadily, there is no unemployment, and 100% of the population declare themselves to be happy.
ANA NEDELJKOVIĆ was born in Belgrade in 1978. She graduated in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. She was awarded a PhD in art practice at the same faculty. She is a visual artist, director, animator and educator.
NIKOLA MAJDAK JR. was born in Slovenia in 1972. He has an MFA from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, camera department. For the past 20 years he has been a freelance cameraman, animator, director and lecturer.
Director: Ana Nedeljković, Nikola Majdak Jr
Writer: Ana NEDELJKOVIĆ
Cinematography: Ana NEDELJKOVIĆ (art director), Nikola MAJDAK (DoP)
Animation: Ana NEDELJKOVIĆ, Leon VIDMAR, Nikola MAJDAK
Composer: Dušan PETROVIĆ
Editor: Milina TRIŠIĆ
Producer: Jelena Mitrović (Film House Baš Čelik), Tina Smrekar (Finta Film), Peter Badač (B FILM)
Режисьор: Ана Неделкович, Никола Майдак-младши Сценарист: Ана Неделкович
Оператор: Ана Неделкович (художествен директор), Никола
My airline is the third in a series of videos produced in my apartment. The idea is to produce a video in my place of living, with the means and the objects that are at hand. The stop motion technique coupled with Photoshop touch-ups make it possible to put things into motion. Washing machines become plane reactors. My bed : aerial scenery. The living room : the aisle of an air plane. The sheet : a parachute. I start with nothing to achieve everything, or rather a semblance of everything.
„Моята авиокомпания“ е третият от поредица видеоклипове, заснети в моя апартамент. Идеята е
направя
с подръчни средства и предмети. Стоп-моушън техниката, съчетана с корекциите на Photoshop, правят възможно задвижването на нещата. Пералните машини се превръщат в самолетни реактори. Моето легло: въздушен пейзаж. Всекидневната: пътека на самолет. Чаршафът: парашут. Започвам с
ANTOINE CEUNEBROUCKE did an architecture school in Versailles (France). He‘s working actually as an space designer at the Grimaldi Forum Monaco. At the same time, he does some short videos using his home, mostly in stop motion. Some of his videos was published by different medias on internet.
Director: Antoine Ceunebroucke
Writer: Antoine Ceunebroucke
Cinematography: Antoine Ceunebroucke
Animation: Antoine Ceunebroucke
Composer: Antoine Ceunebroucke
Editor: Antoine Ceunebroucke
Producer: Antoine Ceunebroucke
Cast: Antoine Ceunebroucke
Режисьор:
Анимация:
POLAND / ПОЛША / 2022 / 16’24’’
Most of the changes in climate and landscape in the area of the Aral Sea are the outcomes of one of the worst man-made eco-catastrophes in human history. The Aral Sea is dying. Inspired by the place on the borders of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and the stories and destinies of the people that the director has met when she was exploring the disaster of Aral Sea.
JOANNA KOZUCH (1977) graduated at Fine Art studies of University of Arts in Poznan and University of Silesia in Katowice. She is also a teacher on Animation department at Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, where she finished her PhD. studies. Her filmography includes: Game (2004), Fongopolis (2014, awarded by Slovak national film award for The Best Animation), 39 Weeks, 6 Days (2017), Music Box (2019, which was created as part of the Happiness Machine project).
Director: Joanna Kozuch
Writer: Joanna Kozuch, Katarína Moláková
Animation: Marek Jasaň, Joanna Kozuch, Michaela Mašáňová, Agata Mikina, Marta Magnuska, Jolanta Dudzińska, Matej Babic, Michalina Musialik, Justyna Pazdan, Janusz Martyn
Composer: Martin Hasák
Editor: Marek Šulík
Producer: Peter Badač (BFILM) Режисьор:
RED RABBIT / ЧЕРВЕН
IRELAND / ИРЛАНДИЯ / 2022 / 04’50’’
An anthropomorphic rabbit struggles to find peace and relaxation at home. These attempts are thwarted by a destructive shoulder devil, who takes glee in ruining any chance of tranquility.
Антропоморфен
RORY KERR is an Irish animator/Filmmaker, who has worked on many independent and studio projects, including various music videos and content for acts like Hozier,Villagers,Wolf Alice,Courtney Barnett.
Hozier, Villagers, Wolf Alice, Courtney Barnett.
Director: Rory Kerr
Writer: Rory Kerr
Cinematography: Rory Kerr
Animation: Cliona Noonan, Rory Kerr, Keith Kavanagh, Jack O’Shea, Paul Ruttledge
Composer: Jamie Kerr
Editor: Rory Kerr
Producer: Ciara Roche
Cast: Claire Jenkins
https://vimeo.com/731685562
https://www.instagram.com/rorytoon/
REGULAR RABBIT /
IRELAND / ИРЛАНДИЯ / 2022 / 07’43’’
With story and visuals purposefully separated, a Regular Rabbit battles a comically absurd onslaught of disinformation. He is not the nightmare being told. He is as shown, a regular ol’ stupid rabbit doing his usual rabbit stuff! The narrator is full of s#!t!! How is this so hard to believe?! Fake news!! Where’s the evidence?! Agh!!! He is nothing more than a Regular Rabbit!
EOIN is an independent director of animation. Originally from Ireland, Eoin now lives and works in Vancouver, Canada. His films have taken the top prize at over two dozen film festivals, alongside nominations at the European Film Awards, the Canadian Screen Awards, and the Irish Film and Television Awards. In addition to a shortlisting for the 86th Academy Awards.
Director: Eoin Duffy
Writer: Eoin Duffy
Animation: Henrique Barone
Composer: Leo Pearson
Producer: Jamie Hogan Cast: Rory McCann Режисьор:
Анимация: Енрике Бароне
Музика: Лео Пиърсън
Продуцент: Джейми Хоган
Участват: Рори Маккан
REST IN PIECE / ПОЧИВАЙ
FRANCE / ФРАНЦИЯ / 2021 / 09’35’’
Midyan decides to run away from his war-torn home. He packs his bag with objects that remind him of his loved ones and embarks on a journey into the unknown. Soon he is starving and resorts to eating the objects he has packed. The effects are monstrous yet they give him the strength to carry on through the scorching desert. Eventually, he arrives half-dead on the other shore of the sea and eats the most precious of his objects: a family portrait. This gives him the strength to finish his journey.
Director: Antoine Antabi
Writer: Antoine Antabi
Cinematography: Antoine Antabi
Composer: Erik Wiesbaum
Editor: Antoine Antabi, Maximilian Raible
Producer:
Jasper Wiedhöft, Laure Dahout
ANTOINE ANTABI was born in Damascus in 1983 and graduated from the University of Fine Arts in Damascus. He finished his studies in 2006 with a degree in stop-motion animation. His first stop-motion film SILENT THOUGHTS premiered at the Damascus International Film Festival and won the bronze award for short film competition. After leaving Syria, he has lived in Dubai and Lebanon. Since 2019 he lives in Leipzig, Germany, and works as a graphic designer and photographer, while developing stop-motion projects at the same time.
SHAKESPEARE FOR ALL AGES
Shakespare’s works are timeless – this film proves it!
HANNES RALL is Professor for Animation Studies and Associate Chair (Research) at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University Singapore. He is also a successful director of independent animated short films: His works have been selected for 845 international festivals and won 80 awards.
Director: Hannes Rall
Writer: Hannes Rall
Cinematography: Hannes Rall
Animation: Siew May Khoo, Jay Septimo
Composer: Patrick Kuhn Botelho
Editor: Hannes Rall
Producer: Hannes Rall
SUZIE IN THE GARDEN /
CZECH REPUBLIC / ЧЕХИЯ / 2022 / 13’19’’
Suzie is a little blond girl who goes with her mother and dad to an allotment outside the city. One day she meets a black dog and discovers a mysterious garden. Who is it that lives there? Suzie is a little afraid. But what to do when you are afraid of someone, but you find their key on the path?
Director: Lucie Sunková
Writer: Lucie Sunková
Cinematography: Jaroslav Fišer
Animation: Lucie Sunková
Composer: Aliaksandr Yasinski
Editor: Anna Ryndová
Producer: MAUR Film
Оператор:
LUCIE SUNKOVÁ (*1974) was born in Prague, Czech Republic, where she studied Václav Hollar School of Art and FAMU (Film and TV Academy). Lucie Sunková is a scriptwriter, artist, director and animator. She focuses mainly on one animation technique: painting with oil paints on glass under the camera. She writes and illustrates books for children.
Анимация:
Музика:
Продуцент: MAUR Film https://vimeo.com/672693001
PORTUGAL / ПОРТУГАЛИЯ / 2022 / 08’07’’
Every city has its collector or antique dealer, a mole that walks around in ruins looking for things, stories or treasures. Vicente was a mean old man, short of words. In his collection, he lacked the pyx of mercy he so admired. The despair of not seeing his desire fulfilled leads him to illness. On the feast of the land, the procession visited the sick. Vicente receives a visit from the priest, seeing, as in a prodigy, the prior in great robes, holding the wonderful pyx in his hands.
Всеки град има свой
Cineclubist, director and author of several works of illustration and comics.
MATOS BARBOSA, born in Oliveira de Azeméis in 1935, found in drawing and in cinema his form of expression par excellence. With Vasco Branco and Manuel Paula Dias, he signed some of the most internationally awarded films of the Portuguese amateur cinema. From documentary to animation, his films have a strong inspirational component of the landscape, the stories and the people of Beira Litoral.
Director: Manuel Matos Barbosa
Writer: Manuel Matos Barbosa
Cinematography: Manuel Matos Barbosa
Animation: Manuel Matos Barbosa, João Oliveira
Composer: Joaquim Pavão
Editor: António Osório
Producer: António Costa Valente
Voice: Ruy de Carvalho
THE BENEFACTORS /
SWITZERLAND / ШВЕЙЦАРИЯ / 2022 / 08’49’’
A weary young man thinks he found the perfect patrons for his rickshaw tours, but he soon finds out that his new customers can be very demanding.
Director: Christophe Lopez-Huici
Writer: Christophe Lopez-Huici
Cinematography: Christophe Lopez-Huici
Animation:
Christophe Lopez-Huici, Natacha Baud-Grasset
Composer: Jérôme Vittoz
Editor: Jérôme Vittoz
Producer: Nicolas Burlet
CHRISTOPHE LOPEZ-HUICI is a Swiss/French artist who graduated from Parsons School of Design. He lived ten years in New York, six years in London and is currently living in Barcelona.
The film’s inspired by events of the year 1920 that’d brought two nations closer: Poland and Japan. The story is told from a 10-year-old boy’s perspective, showing the history of orphans who lost their families and had to rush into manhood to fight for their lives. Thankfully to the help provided by the people of good will they had their childhood brought back.
Филмът
IZUMI YOSHIDA (born in 1989). Lodz Film School graduate. Since 2017 she’s been lecturer at Art School in Lodz. Her first film “Kinks” that were nominated in many festivals and won many awards including one at Split Film Festival in Croatia and another on Animator in Poland. In 2019 she’s been Polish Film Institute’s expert in animation film domain.
Director: Izumi Yoshida
Writer: Izumi Yoshida
Cinematography: Jan Paweł Traszka
Animation: Joanna Stępień, Joanna Szlembarska
Composer: Didier Falk
Editor: Gabriel Goubet
Producer: Anna Mroczek Режисьор:
THE FOAM AND THE LION /
PORTUGAL / ПОРТУГАЛИЯ / 2022 / 17’00’’
On July 6th, 1808, the “Bom Sucesso” caique and 18fishermen left Olhão, in Portugal, towards Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), taking with them the good news that Portugal was finally free of Napoleon’s enemy troops. But in the midst of a great storm, men lose their bearings and faith. The “Bom Sucesso” caique enters an enchanted realm, where a fantastic Marine Creature falls in love with him and will try to save him from a tenebrous Monster in the service of the enemy.
На 6 юли 1808 г. кайкът “Bom Sucesso” и 18 рибари напускат Олхао, Португалия, в посока Рио де Жанейро (Бразилия), носейки със себе си добрата новина, че Португалия
CLÁUDIO JORDÃO is one of the most recognized and awarded directors of Portuguese animation cinema. Graduated in Design from the University of Algarve, he was a professor of animation there. Specialist in 3D animation, his advertising animation films have been awarded several times in CANNES. Scriptwriter and director, he is the author of a unique work in cinema in Portugal.
On a hot August afternoon, the family gathered at the table remembers uncle Botão: the Colonial War, emigration to France, where he lived and worked thirty years as a garbage man. Memories of each are crossed to tell the story of a man who lived a hard life through humor and fantasy, like when he returned to Belmonte, in a van full of trash, turned into a real treasure.
Director: Laura Gonçalves
Writer: Laura Gonçalves
Animation: Inês Teixeira, Marta Reis Andrade, Alexandra Ramires, Vitor Hugo Rocha, Maria Francisca Moura, Dimitrije Mihajlovic, Laura Gonçalves, Alessandro Novelli
Composer: Ricardo Santos Rocha
Producer: Rodrigo Areias
In 2009 finishes the course Art and Multimedia at Faculdade de Belas Artes in Lisbon and enters the animation world as a final art and animator in the studio Sardinha em Lata. In 2012 she directs her first animation short “Three Weeks in December”, completing her Animation MA at Arts University Bournemouth. In 2013 she moves to Porto, where she starts working at Bando à Parte as an animator and painter. In 2016 she co-directs with Alexandra Ramires (Xá), the animation short “Drop by Drop”.
THE LEGEND OF GOLDHORN / ЛЕГЕНДАТА
SLOVENIA
/ СЛОВЕНИЯ / 2022 / 13’35’’
A hunter heads out to the mountains to mend his broken heart. On his way, he can’t escape the visions of his lover who left him. As he loses his mind, his dark side comes to life. The shadow guides him to hunt the mythical Goldhorn and ultimately leads him to his demise. Based on the Slovenian folktale, a story about greed and our relationship towards nature. Musical score made with traditional Slavic instruments.
LEA VUCKO, illustrator by education and animator by profession, has animated on Prince Ki-Ki-do, Weasel, Spela Cadez’s OITNB Netflix commission and Somewhere Else, a contemporary puppet play. She is the co-creator of two site-specific projects that were selected for Animafests’ Animation goes MSU (Petris, Spring Cleaning) and cofounder of OCTOPICS production studio. The Legend of Goldhorn is her debut shortfilm.
A surreal animated documentary based on historical records, The Pioneers is a mesmerising rhythmic experience honouring the animal passengers aboard their 59 rocket test flights prior to the first human voyage to space. This film aims to remind us of the sacrifices, experiences and tragedies of these forgotten and overlooked pioneers.
SIMON COTTEE is an Australian 2D animator and director living in Montreal with his wife, 3 kids and an anxious golden retriever.
In 2021, he finished his 3rd animated film The Pioneers, collaborating with renowned musician Kid Koala. His previous two films The Duck (2014) and The Wedding (2012) have received multiple international festival awards.
He has worked on 8 animated films with the National Film Board of Canada and was animation director on the 2017 CBC First Nations documentary Run as One. In 2019 he co-founded Studio Tortu with his longtime collaborator and mentor, 2D animator auteur Malcolm Sutherland. They are currently in production on their most ambitious animation project, Dragon Hunter.”
Director: Simon Cottee
Writer: Simon Cottee
Animation: Simon Cottee
Composer: Kid Koala
Editor: Simon Cottee
Producer: Simon Cottee
Режисьор:
Анимация: Саймън Коти
Музика: Kid Koala
Монтаж: Саймън Коти
Продуцент: Саймън Коти
THE QUEEN OF THE FOXES /
In the hopes of seeing their queen smile again, a group of foxes rummage through the city’s trash, searching for all the love letters that were never sent.
Director: Marina Rosset
Writer: Marina Rosset
Composer: Rahel Zimmermann
Producer: Marina Rosset
MARINA ROSSET was born in 1984 in Lausanne, Switzerland. She studied animation at the ENSAV La Cambre in Bruxelles and at the Lucerne School of Art and Design (HSLU) where she graduated in 2007. Since then, she’s been writing, directing and drawing short animated films. She also works as a film editor and as an illustrator.
THE RECORD / ПЛОЧАТА
SWITZERLAND / ШВЕЙЦАРИЯ / 2022 / 08’38’’
An antique music instrument dealer receives a magical vinyl record from a traveller: “It reads your mind and plays your lost memories”. Obsessed by this endless record, the antique dealer listens to it again and again and the forgotten memories of his childhood reemerge.
JONATHAN LASKAR studied fine arts (Aix-Marseille, France), music (Aix-en-Provence Conservatory, France) and architecture (Bauhaus-Weimar, Germany). After working as architect in Basel, he studied animation in Lucerne, where he graduated with the film FROM EARTH AND INK (2013). Since 2013, he works in Geneva with i.a. Georges Schwizgebel. In 2022 he releases his directorial debut short film THE RECORD.
ство (Екс-Марсилия, Франция), музика (Консерваторията в Екс-ан-Прованс, Франция) и архитектура (Баухаус-Ваймар, Германия). След като работи като архитект в Базел, започва да учи анимация
Director: Jonathan Laskar
Writer: Jonathan Laskar
Animation: Jonathan Laskar, Sébastien Godard
Composer: Jonathan Laskar
Editor: Jonathan Laskar
Producer:
Sophie Laskar-Haller
Cast:
Robert Bogdan Hatisi, Emmanuel Laskar, Samuel Müller
Suna, a twelve-year old girl, lives in a forest and sleeps among leaves. One day, she meets a two hundred-year old man, who offers to pass on to her a hidden knowledge…
дванадесетгодишно
скрито знание.
The films ARMINE ANDA co-wrote and produced were selected by many international film festivals receiving around thirty awards. Among them, her director debut, a short fiction WIND BLOWS, was made in Abbas Kiarostami Workshop. Anda is a recipient of Orange Armenia Book Award for her fantasy novel THE INHABITANTS OF ANKIMURE published with her illustrations. THE SONG OF FLYING LEAVES, the first animation she directed, is co-written with Ukrainian film director Roman Balayan.
At the mercy of the dentist’s chair, the protagonist cannot escape the confrontation with pain and the dregs of the miserable human condition. To distract himself, he takes refuge in a fantasised story of fishermen and the sea.
Director: Claudius Gentinetta
Writer: Claudius Gentinetta
Cinematography: Claudius Gentinetta
Animation: Simon Eltz, Cécile Brun
Composer: Balz Bachmann
Editor: Claudius Gentinetta
Producer: Claudius Gentinetta
Sound design: Peter Bräker
1968, born in Lucerne. Studies in graphic design and animation in Lucerne, Liverpool and Kassel. 1995 scholarship year in Cracow. Working as freelance graphic artist and animator in Zurich. Claudius Gentinetta one of the most acclaimed animation filmmakers in Switzerland. He is especially known for his award-winning short films THE CABLE CAR, SLEEP and SELFIES, which all became huge international festival hits.
After an accident, a man is forced to live with limitations. His everyday life is characterized by isolation and strenuous rehabilitation. A reflection on falling and getting up.
Director: Ivan Morales Jr.
Writer: Ivan Morales Jr.
Cinematography: Ana Valeria González
Animation: Diana Menestrey, Igor Shin Moromisato, Ivan Morales Jr.
Composer: Rogério Pimentel Teixeira
Editor: Ivan Morales Jr.
Producer: Ivan Morales Jr.
Cast: Lino de Oliveira Gonzalez
The German-Brazilian artist IVAN MORALES JR. graduated as a film editor at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV (EICTV) in Cuba. In 2005 he received a scholarship at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, where he lives now. He regularly gives workshops at the EICTV in Cuba. Under the stage name Richard There he has released animated short films, comic books and music albums. He has already toured several countries with a live performance combining his music and animation.
A young girl’s dream quickly turns around when reality hits.
Director: Rickie Cai
Writer: Rickie Cai
Cinematography: Rickie Cai
Animation: Rickie Cai, Ida Cai
Editor: Rickie Cai
Producer: Rickie Cai
Cast: Liv Jonsdotter
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Сценарист:
RICKIE CAI was born in 2001 and is an up and coming Swedish director and cinematographer who works both in animations and in live action. He is passionate about storytelling and visual arts.
WITHOUT US /
NORWAY / НОРВЕГИЯ / 2022 / 08’38’’
What would happen if we suddenly disappeared, if all human beings just vanished from the face of the earth. How would nature react if it were suddenly relieved from our constant pressure. What would the world look like without us?
Какво
JULIE ENGAAS is educated at the National College of the Arts in Oslo and Volda University College where she graduated in 1998. She has directed several animated shorts and animated documentaries, and her films have been screened at numerous international festivals such at the Sundance festival and Clemont-Ferrand and sold to several TV-networks. Some of her films are «In a few years everything will be different» 2017 «Blame it on the Seagull» 2014, «Sound-Shadows» 2008 and «Leonid Shower» 2004.
A boy in his mid twenties is staying alone in his apartment and everyday he sees from the window a child hitting a ball against the wall of a garage. The older boy doesn’t know if he should join the child and play ball with him.
Director: Emy Mirel Ivasca
Writer: Emy Mirel Ivasca
Cinematography: Emy Mirel Ivasca
Animation: Emy Mirel Ivasca
Sound design: Miche Marcu
Editor: Emy Mirel Ivasca
Producer: Emy Mirel Ivasca
IVAȘCĂ EMY-MIREL (born 6 August 1994) is a romanian self-taught animator and film director, he graduated Film School at “Hyperion” University from Bucharest (2018-2021).
A BLOODY GRAVEYARD STORY
Three teenagers sneak into an eerie cemetery at night to summon an exceptionally terrible ghost with an ancient ritual. But they did not expect what they encounter there.
Cast: Clay Reynolds, Kayla Jackson, Justin Schaffner, Natalie Rose
VANESSA STACHEL likes to move thematically somewhere between horror and colourful glitter fairies. She studied communication design, worked freelance in the field of film/advertising/ motion design and began studying directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Germany in 2020.
A Dog Under a Bridge shows how I view the society, in which I took the shape of a dog to observe people, trying to eliminate the loneliness of living in the city. It ended up that things which seemed normal to human could be much ridiculous in the eyes of a dog.
Director: Tang Rehoo
Writer: Tang Rehoo
Cinematography: Tang Rehoo
Animation: Tang Rehoo
Composer: Xu Zhaojun
Editor: Tang Rehoo
Producer: Liu Jian
Born in 1994 in Hangzhou, China. Graduated in 2016 from CAA (China Academy of Arts) as a Bachelor (Animation). Graduate film - “The Pear”. Graduated from CAA as a Master in 2021 (Humanistic Animation). Graduate film - “A Dog Under Bridge”. Working and living in Hangzhou up to now.
Анимация:
BOOM / БУМ
FRANCE / ФРАНЦИЯ / 2022 / 05’36’’
A couple of dumb birds tries its best to protect its eggs from a volcano eruption.
Director: Gabriel Augerai, Romain Augier, Laurie Pareira de Figueiredo, Yannick Jacquin, Charles di Cicco
Writer: Gabriel Augerai, Romain Augier, Laurie Pereira De Figueiredo, Charles Di Cicco, Yannick Jacquin
Cinematography: Romain Augier, Charles Di Cicco
Animation: Laurie Pereira De Figueiredo, Yannick Jacquin, Gabriel Augerai
Composer: Mathis Marshall
Editor: Gabriel Augerai
Producer: Julien Deparis
CARP XMASS /
CZECH REPUBLIC / ЧЕХИЯ / 2022 / 07’40’’
Carp XMass is a short naturalistic dramedy, a truly lovely family film. Once upon a time in a small village in a far-away land, carp are preparing for Christmas eve - peaceful and happy as required by the traditions. But Christmas has failed to meet these values a long time ago. They have become the peak of the year-round consumption and there are some who may lose their lives in the honor of these sacred days.
After studying graphic design and working at Greenpeace, ANNA HERIBANOVÁ (1990, Prague) decided to study animation at the Film and TV School of The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). She graduated with Carp Xmass as her final project. Her previous short exercise, Fabulous World, was seen at Tricky Women and PAF in Olomouc.
Director: Anna Heribanová
Writer: Anna Heribanová
Cinematography: Martin Šafus, Tomáš Kotas
Animation: Anna Heribanová, Martin Šafus
Composer: Dead Pigeon, Olaf Olafsonn, Kilián Kešner, Michal Skořepa,
Death of the Gods is a film about growing up and realising that your parents aren’t as powerful and superhero-like as you think they are.
From being these unmovable giant figures in our minds that can move mountains and do anything, to realizing they are just normal people.
We wanted to create a piece that sees the positive in this transformation, that hugs the vulnerable person behind our idea of them.
“Смъртта
LETO S. MEADE is an animation director. Graduate of UCA Farnham and the National Film and Television School, Leto interweaves different techniques and styles in his films and VR games, exploring the power of the visual medium of animation. His short films have won many awards and have been screened both in the UK and abroad.
Director: Leto Stojanovic Meade
Writer: Hipatia Arguero Mendoza
Cinematography: Wouter Verheul
Animation: Leto Stojanovic Meade, Jade Fielden, Kira Rich
Composer: Aaron King
Editor: Jon Atli Gudjonsson
Producer: Karima Sammout-Kanellopoulou
Cast: Angelo Audi Moonsam, Ben Crystal
HEADPRICKLES / В СМИСЪЛ?
POLAND / ПОЛША / 2022 / 08’20’’
If you are being bothered by intrusive thoughts, such as: How many plastic bags are optimal for packing one banana?; What ensures victory in the skeleton competition?; Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? Or Should I shower with my socks on? Will I face any consequences?--then - that’s great! “Headprickles” will give you an answer to at least one of these questions. The film consists of over a dozen animated enigrams connected by the motif of being trapped in a loop of absurdity.
Director: Katarzyna Miechowicz
Writer: Katarzyna Miechowicz
Animation: Katarzyna Miechowicz
Composer: Katarzyna Miechowicz
Editor: Piotr Baryła
Producer: Agata Golańska Режисьор:
анимирани
Born in Rzeszów, Poland in 1995. Graduate of Film Animation and Special Effects Department at the Polish National Film School in Lodz.
Анимация:
Музика:
Монтаж:
JOURNEY IN AMNESIA /
BELGIUM / БЕЛГИЯ / 2021 / 05’27’’
Loïc, former worker in a gravel quarry, has lost all of his memory after an accident, and cut himself off from the world. One day, an event pushes him to go outside, where he witnesses the first snowfall since his amnesia. Loïc gets absorbed by long forgotten sensations and wanders. In his mind, he finds the way back to his quarry. Лоик,
Director: Anouk Kilian-Debord
Writer: Anouk Kilian-Debord
Cinematography: Anouk Kilian-Debord
Animation: Anouk Kilian-Debord
Composer: Lionel Polis
Editor: Anouk Kilian-Debord
Producer: Vincent Gilot Cast: Karine Vuillermoz Режисьор:
Born and raised in the south of France, ANOUK KILIAN-DEBORD studies art in Toulouse, then moves to Brussels in 2017 to learn filmmaking at La Cambre. There, she discovers the thrill of stop-motion animation and makes “Voyage en amnésie” in 2021.
https://www.instagram.com/anouk_kiliandebord/
CZECH REPUBLIC / ЧЕХИЯ / 2022 / 07’40’’
Mirek has a huge belly and nobody knows why. Diets and strenuous exercise don’t help. His big belly causes many complications. The simple act of putting on socks turns into a hellish mission. We follow the stories of several heroes, each with unusual troubles. Where do they stem from?
Director: Marie Urbánková
Writer: Marie Urbánková, David Dvořák
Cinematography: Marie Urbánková, Jaroslav Fišer
Animation: Marie Urbánková
Composer: Kateřina Koutná
Editor: Juraj Ondruš
Producer: Martin Vandas, Mária Moťovská
Режисьор:
After graduating from SUPŠ Žižkov, majoring in scenography, she studied film and television graphics at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague under the guidance of Jakub Zicha. During her studies she made a short animated film for children, “The Concrete Jungle”. She graduated with a master’s film “Mom is always right”.
OUT OF HABIT / ПО
UNITED KINGDOM / ВЕЛИКОБРИТАНИЯ / 2022 / 06’10’’
The film tells the story of a person that is unable and unwilling to fit in the constrains implied by society at the cost of most - if not all - of his relationships with people. He is a misfit, who lives life as if it is an ordinary duty. The only person that has stuck with him through the years is his inner voice, and even he is fed up with the main character’s inability to sort out his life.
Филмът разказва
IVANA SAVOVA is an animator from Sofia, Bulgaria. She graduated from Kingston University London with a BA in Illustration and Animation in 2020 and continued her exploration of the audio-visual world at the Royal College of Art. Ever since she has worked on documentary animations in collaboration with the National Film and Television School and right now she is working on a film about ADHD in children.
Director: Ivana Antonova Savova
Composer: Micaela Carballo
Producer: Royal College of Art Cast: James Rose, Freddie McKee
Royal College of Art
PENTOLA / ПЕНТОЛА
ITALY / ИТАЛИЯ / 2022 / 07’12’’
It’s not so easy to be a hero. But you, Pentola, you are my superhero.
LEO ČERNIC (1995) is an author of short animated films, madly in love with small independent film production and humble, sincere artists. He graduated in film and television directing at the Academy of Theater, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana and then continued his studies in animation at the Experimental Center of Cinematography - Piedmont branch in Turin. In his films he always tries to capture the stories about losers and their dreams - perhaps he recognizes himself as one of them.
PINOCCHIO, a young wooden child, wants to escape the creepy toy factory of his father, GEPETTO. But GEPETTO is a bossy, narcissistic pervert who dangerously tries to stop PINOCCHIO in his emancipation and locks him in his bedroom. In his run, PINOCCHIO breaks some machines in the factory and GEPETTO, in a burst of outrage, destroy PINOCCHIO in his wood shell. But PINOCCHIO comes back as real boy and escapes his father. The factory falls apart and PINOCCHIO leaves GEPETTO in the wreckage. Пинокио,
Director: Valentin Clauzon, Guillaume Collin, Paul Goubet, Stella Jullian, Loic Lemoine, Theo Miramon, Aymeric Richard, Laura Salomoni
Composer: Paul Collin
Producer: ESMA
ESMA
Animated short film from a group of students from the french school ESMA.
After the Industrial Revolution, the division of labor became clearer. Many people have to work in one position for a long time. Unfortunately, not everyone is satisfied with his or her work. Had primitive people similar problems in modern society? We interviewed five primitive people, let’s see what they´ve said.
Born in China in 1992. Now studying Animation at Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF.
Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF.
Director: Hao Yu
Animation: Hao Yu
Composer: Yunzheng Hu
Cast (voices): Hao Yu, Danni Bai, Zhaoqin Zhang, Yuantian Gao, Lin Zhu, Shengteng Zhang, Yunzheng Hu, Richard Forstmann, André Correia, Guitong Li
Production: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF Режисьор:
Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
RESTING FOG / МЪГЛА
HUNGARY / УНГАРИЯ / 2022 / 05’14’’
Resting Fog is an experimental animation short, that takes place in a fictional, secluded sanatorium in the light from the setting sun’s last rays. Through associative imagery, the short introduces the process of reliving memories and the disintegration of those, using the tools of drawn animation as well as digital effects.
“Мъглата в покой” е експериментална късометражна анимация, чието действие се развива в измислен, уединен
NIKOLETT FÁBIÁN is a postgraduate student at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. She has worked as an animator in several productions over the years, but background design is the one closest to her heart. Nikolett´s main area of interest is experimental animation, and atmosphere creation is of paramount importance to her. In her work, she strives to transform elements of reality into visual poetry. Also, she is passionate about collecting inflatable beach accessories!
Linh is a Vietnamese mother who lives with her son in America. When her father visits and insists on cooking a traditional Vietnamese meal, Linh is confronted with the past and culture she left behind.
MAI VU is an animator/ animation director from Sai Gon, Vietnam. She started making stop-motion short films in 2010, and started writing, animating and directing in stop-motion series Say Hi To Pencil. From 2016, she has been making stop-motion for a number of commercials and in 2020, she started the MA for Directing Animation at the National Film and Television School, UK, to further pursuing her directing career and telling stories from Asian perspective.
Гон, Виетнам. Започва да прави стоп-моушън късометражни филми през 2010 г. , както и започва работа по стоп-моушън сериала Say Hi To Pencil. От 2016 г. прави стоп-моушън за редица реклами, а през 2020 г. започва магистърска степен по режисура
From the branches, Temi tries to catch the Moon. She climbs to the top branches and fails. Temi sees fireflies going towards the Moon in a procession. Temi clings to one of them, and falls on the forest floor and loses sight of the Moon. Temi is surprised by a bright human structure with the Moon on it. Temi regains hope and runs away at full speed. Temi lands in a new unknown environment, where she almost gets crushed several times. Temi climbs the human construction, but the Moon is far away. The wind takes Temi but she is crushed to the ground. Temi wakes up in weightlessness in front of the Moon filling a porthole.
Director: Marie Bordessoule, Adriana Bouissie, Nadine de Boer, Elisa Drique, Chloe Lauzu, Vincent Levrero, Solenne Moreau
A Short film by the students MARIE BORDESSOULE, CHLOÉ LAUZU, ADRIANA BOUISSIÉ, VINCENT LEVRERO, NADINE DE BOER, SOLENNE MOREAU, ÉLISA DRIQUE.
FRANCE / ФРАНЦИЯ / 2022 / 07’57’’
On his way for his important job interview, Noah runs out of gas. Left with no alernative, he has no choice but to embark with Katia, a tornado chaser.
JULIA LE BRAS-JUAREZ, EMMIE MARRIERE, MARIANNE FOURMANOIT, LAURA TECHER, LOUISE-MARIE ROUSSELIE, JEAN DELAMARRE and ALEXIS PROST have graduated from the Supinfocom Rubika school (Valenciennes, France) with a Master in digital director. In 2022, they co-directed the short film “Synchrony”. ДЖУЛИЯ ЛЬО
Supinfocom Rubika
Director: Julia Le Bras-Juarez, Emmie Marriere, Marianne Fourmanoit, Laura Techer, Louise-Marie Rousselie, Jean Delamarre, Alexis Prost
Writer: Julia Le Bras-Juarez
Cinematography: Julia Le Bras-Juarez
Animation: Marianne Fourmanoit, Laura Techer, Louise-Marie Rousselie
Composer: Pierre-Antoine Naline
Editor: Alexis Prost Producer: Philippe Meis
Cast: Dorothée Pousseo, Romain Benitez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnQRoGjJ9S8 or https://www.dropbox.com/s/g2hgwlfhil2l97o/SYNCHRONIE_PASSAGERE_Trailer.mp4 https://www.instagram.com/synchroniepassagere/ 225
THE BUILDING AT 9 ETZEL ST.
ISRAEL / ИЗРАЕЛ / 2022 / 08’52’’
In a residential apartment building amidst heavy renovation required by the National Outline Plan #38, three neighbors are losing control of their lives. A series of meetings between the residents and a Palestinian construction worker raise the need to be saved from the Israeli temporary reality that has become constant.
BAR VAKNINE and TAMAR SHARVIT are script writers, designers, and animation film makers. They are graduates of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.
Director: Bar Vaknine, Tamar Sharvit
Writer: Bar Vaknine, Tamar Sharvit
Animation: Bar Vaknine, Tamar Sharvit, Matan Levi
Cast: Amit Leor, Anna Dubrovitsky, Carmit Mesilati, Rodie Kozlovsky
Режисьор: Бар Вакнине, Тамар Шарвит Сценарист: Бар Вакнине, Тамар Шарвит
Анимация: Бар Вакнине, Тамар Шарвит, Матан Леви Участват: Амит Леор, Анна Дубровицки, Кармит Месилати, Роди Козловски
The elderly at the nursing home have their heads shaved. The protagonist who works there sees them but can’t read their expressions. However, from one instance, he finds himself looking closely at their faces.
JINKYU JEON was born 1987 in Seoul, South Korea. 2015 Graduated from Korea National University of Arts of Animation. After graduation, He worked as an animator at the Studio Shelter for two years (2015 2017). And 2022 Graduated from Tokyo University of Arts of Animation.
Bernard works behind the windows of a ticket booth at the Town Hall Square subway station and is waiting for something he seems to have forgotten. One day, however, a little tiger shows up and turns Bernard’s orderly life upside down. A short film about an unexpected visitor, annoying radio songs and the lust for life!
Бърнард работи зад
CHRISTIAN KAUFMANN was born in Bonn in 1993 and studied Media Design in cologne. After finishing his studies in 2015, he worked as a Motion Designer for multiple television productions. In 2016, he began studying Animation at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. Till his diploma in 2022 he created several animated shorts.
Director: Christian Kaufmann
Writer: Christian Kaufmann
Cinematography: Christian Kaufmann
Animation: Vanessa Schneider, Yannick Stark, Felicitas Schmelz, Christian Kaufmann
A crew of miners digs coal 500 meters underground. Miners must fulfill the daily plan. But with each hit with the pick, it becomes more and more difficult to get to the coal in the safe zone. The foreman decides to take risks and dig coal in the danger zone.
Director: Adilet Karzhoev
Writer: Adilet Karzhoev
Cinematography: Karash Zhanyshov
Editor: Adilet Karzhoev
Producer: Adilet Karzhoev
ADILET KARZHOEV was born on 04.07.1988 in Kyrgyzstan. In 2011, he received a Bachelor’s degree from the Kyrgyz-Turkish University “Manas” (department of Radio, TV and Cinema). In 2019, he received a Master’s degree of American University in Central Asia (department of Journalism).
BUSY / ЗАЕТ
NORWAY / НОРВЕГИЯ / 2021 / 06’52’’
The reality of beach snails is not that much different from human lives, filled with an intricate interplay of social interaction and solitude, curiosity about the world and its rigid rules, fleetingness of life and the resilience to go on.
Реалността
JAN OTTO ERTESVÅG (1969) holds an MA in Animation from the Royal College of Art in London (1997). His films have been screened and awarded worldwide. After 12 years of animating and directing in a variety of animation styles in Oslo, he is now based in Aalesund on the northwest coast of Norway where he now makes both animated and live action films outdoors in the scenery. Over the recent years he has made a trilogy “from the shore”, directing awareness towards lifeforms and civilization.
Director: Jan Otto Ertesvåg
Writer: Jan Otto Ertesvåg
Cinematography: Janne K. Hansen
Editor: Jan Otto Ertesvåg
Producer: Jan Otto Ertesvåg
DICKS THAT I LIKE /
GERMANY / ГЕРМАНИЯ / 2022 / 13’19’’
Visual artist Daniela Torres creates colorful ceramic dick sculptures inspired by the men who have been dicks to her. In this intimate artist portrait, Daniela shares her struggles, anger and catharsis as she creates a sculpture modeled after a series of unsolicited dick pics. She also shares her process with a diverse group of women who come together in one of her popular Berlin-based dick sculpting workshops. It’s a hands-on approach to healing trauma that yields beautiful results.
Визуалният артист Даниела Торес създава цветни керамични скулптури на пишки, вдъхновени от
Director: Johanna Gustin
Cinematography: Jonathan Gustin
Composer: Max van Dusen
Editor: Fionn George Cast:
Daniela Torres
JOHANNA GUSTIN is a writer and director from New York, now living and working in Berlin. After graduating from Smith College, she moved to Hamburg, Germany with a Fulbright scholarship and completed an MA in Cultural Studies with her thesis “Here Come The Brides: Homosocial Female Relationships in Contemporary Wedding Film Comedies”. Johanna has centered cinema in her life — personally and professionally — from a young age. Her academic background makes her an insightful observer of the structural and cultural norms and boundaries affecting our everyday lived experiences.
ENDLESS RETURN / БЕЗКРАЙНО
Immersed in the green heart of a shady valley, an artist sculpts his new work with the help of a swarm of bees. His name is Francesco, he speaks the language of animals and his days are a never-ending ritual made of effort and mystery.
Потопен
Director: Andrea Bersani
Writer: Andrea Bersani
Cinematography: Andrea Bersani
Composer: Arturo Garra, Martino Pellegrini
Editor: Andrea Bersani
Producer:
Claudia Di Lascia, Kinedimorae srl
Cast: Francesco Panozzo Режисьор:
Graduated in Cinema and Visual Arts from Roma Tre DAMS University, specialized in documentaries at A.C.T. Multimedia in Cinecittà, Rome and at IED Master in Milan. He loves to tell hidden, precious stories through film-making. His debut award-winning feature-length documentary “My brother’s voice” has been screened in the US, in the UK and in Italy.
Eva and Ramona met in the summer of 1971 as ten-year-olds in the former GDR. They formed a lifelong friendship across the border between East and West. Later, their friendship was banned by Stasi. Despite their strong bond, there are unresolved issues between them. Eva decides to invite Ramona to Sweden to resolve the past. Through their friendship, our understanding of how the wall between East and West affected the individual’s self-esteem deepens.
Ева и
MINKA JAKERSON studied cinematography at The National Film School of Denmark and has worked with moving images in various contexts and collaborations. In 2012, she directed the short film THE YEARNING ROOM which premiered at the Gothenburg Film Festival and competed at the Berlinale Generation Film Festival. Beside cinematography assignments Minka is developing her first feature film at Cinenic film. Her work is mainly concerned with private and intimate stories set in a wider political context.
Director: Minka Jakerson
Writer: Minka Jakerson
Cinematography: Minka Jakerson
Composer: Lisa Montan
Editor: Christoffer Hallberg Sevholt
Producer:
Erika Malmgren, Annika Hellström
Cast:
Eva Wilms, Ramona Scholz Режисьор:
Оператор:
EVA RAY / ЕВА
UNITED KINGDOM / ВЕЛИКОБРИТАНИЯ / 2021 / 15’00’’
‘Eva Ray’ is a short documentary exploring the personal choice of a WebCam girl; the sexual liberation, ownership and unabated desire to entertain others kinks and desires. “Ева
Director: Ross Casswell
Cinematography: Ross Casswell
Composer: Ross Casswell
Editor: Ross Casswell
Producer: Stefania Silvestri
ROSS CASSWELL is an award-winning director who seeks out stories that challenge rather than complement the commentary of our times. His stripped-down cinematic aesthetic and, at times, unorthodox approach all contribute to his unique voice.
Режисьор:
Монтаж:
GRAND NATIONAL / ГРАНД
CANADA / КАНАДА / 2021 / 21’00’’
The film Grand National follows one of the competitors at the largest truck and tractor pull event in Canada where we can observe the strong bonds that are formed between humans and machines.
Филмът
“I have a training in filmmaking and in sociology. My practice-based research brings together media arts and experimental ethnography to follow human and other-than-human entities in different types of assemblages. My films, photographs and installations explore the multiple dimensions of the modes of existence that emerge from these hybrids.” “Имам
Director: Serge-Olivier Rondeau
Writer: Serge-Olivier Rondeau
Cinematography: Hugo Ferland-Dionne
Composer: YlangYlang
Editor: Serge-Olivier Rondeau
Producer: Serge-Olivier Rondeau
Cast: Donald Labonté
YlangYlang
KAMBANA / КАМБАНА
SPAIN / ИСПАНИЯ / 2021 / 15’00’’
Mother and twin sons are socially rejected because of being twins. In the Mananjary region of Madagascar, there is a popular belief that twins are carriers of misfortunes.
Director: Samuel Pastor
Writer: Samuel Pastor, Jonatan Pisonero
Cinematography: Samuel Pastor
Composer: Adrián Berenguer
Editor: Samuel Pastor
Producer: Jonatan Pisonero
Cast: Donald Labonté
SAMUEL PASTOR, born in Alicante in 1986. He studied audiovisual production and shows in 2004. He has been a photographer and creator of audiovisual pieces since then. He seeks to capture realities in the most natural way possible.
Dimitris left Athens at the age of 35 to live in a quiet village, make surfboards, and find peace.
Director: Lefteris Pasalidis
Writer: Lefteris Pasalidis
Cinematography: Pavlos Lygouris
Composer: Kimis & Bebis, Playground Circus
Editor: Lefteris Pasalidis, Pavlos Lygouris
Producer: Lefteris Pasalidis
Cast: Dimitris Stratis
I was born in Kavala (aka Poor Man’s Monaco) in 1996. I was only caring about drums until I watched Fight Club at the age of 12 and thought “Films are cool, I want to make films for a living”.
So I moved to Thessaloniki at the age of 18 to study Films at Fine Arts of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki but stuck working as a music video director since 2017 while I’m still trying low-key to become a rockstar.
¨Роден
Оператор:
PICHÉ RETURNS TO THE RING /
At 64, Bruno resumes training in order to return to the boxing ring one last time. After two difficult hip surgeries, this former boxer, now a village baker, decides to organize an epic amateur match to bring his community together and to celebrate his “rebirth”. During this memorable evening, 10 friends will come to face him for 10 two-minute rounds. Like a man’s fight against the passing of time, Bruno has made a point of passionately celebrating life at an age when most people are quietly retiring. На
HELGI PICCININ is a Quebec independent filmmaker who has developed a unique and intimate approach to documentary cinema. Since 2005, his films have shown a profound sensitivity to the themes of identity and difference. Curious by nature and attuned to the poetry of the everyday, he is driven by the desire to reveal unusual or uncharted universes. His work has been screened in many international festivals, and he has created several digital projects for museums, universities, and institutions.
Director: Helgi Piccinin
Writer: Helgi Piccinin
Cinematography: Vincent Allard
Animation: Josiane Lapointe
Composer:
Marjo, Pierre-Luc Lecours, Michel Rivard, Gerry Boulet
Editor: Juliette Guérin
Producer: Helgi Piccinin
Cast: Bruno Piché
SEARCHING HELENY / ТЪРСЯ
BRAZIL, SPAIN / ИСПАНИЯ,
/ 2022 / 29’20’’
Heleny Guariba, philosopher and theatre director, disappeared in 1971 under the Brazilian dictatorship. “Searching Heleny” uses the stitched and animated memories of her loved ones to reveal us what could not be told in words. Inspired by the arpilleras, tapestries made with leftovers of fabric and simple stitches under the horrors of Pinochet regime in Chile that become a unique form of political resistance. Хелени
Producer: Giuliano Conti, Esther Vital, Iñigo Oses Maestro Cast: Dulce Muniz, Celso Fratescchi, José Carlos Días, Olavo Leite Ribeiro
ESTHER VITAL is a psychologist and textile artist. She researches and promotes arpilleras (Chilean tapestries) as a mean of expression and confrontation under violent and oppressive circumstances. Searching Heleny is her first film an attemp to adapt to a cinematographic format this ancestral, soft, subversive and testimonial language to speak about traumatic issues.
Who makes the world’s best ice cream? Ask anyone in Maine, and they’ll agree: North Street Dairy Cone, a literal mom-and-pop operation that has been hand-making original ice cream from secret recipes for 58 years. How does a local and seasonal business thrive for so long when the town around it slides into recession? And what will become of the beloved ice cream shop when its current owners retire?
A.V. HELM grew up in Waterville, Maine, surrounded by the forests and lakes that would later become some of his greatest inspirations. He began making films at age 11, starting in computer animation. His filmmaking career has taken him across 6 continents and dozens of countries. His work as a director has received over 60 awards, including 6 Cannes Lions and 7 Webby Awards. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California.
Director: A.V. Helm
Writer: A.V. Helm
Cinematography: A.V. Helm
Editor: A.V. Helm
Producer: A.V. Helm
Cast: Rachel Paradis, Don Paradis, Melissa Paradis
Режисьор: А. В. Хелм Сценарист:
А. В. Хелм Оператор: А. В. Хелм
Монтаж:
А. В. Хелм Продуцент: А. В. Хелм
Участват:
In this endless pandemic area, where our sexuality has sometimes had to evolve, has been tested, women from different backgrounds offer their intimate testimonies, addressing their desires and pleasures in solitude.
Director: Ananda Safo
Writer: Ananda Safo
Composer: Sylvain Texier
Editor: Pauline Chabauty, Fanch Le Bos
Producer:
Ten2Ten - Gwenaëlle Clauwaert Режисьор:
ANANDA is a graduate of the ensab (ecole nationale supérieure des arts de bourges), so filmmaking is both a logical outcome and continuation of her relationship with the image. She has been writing and directing since childhood. Her years of amateur theatre, circus and dance practice have made her more fully conscious of the rhythm of dialogues, of her ability to guide actors as well as developing corporal expression. Following several fiction and documentary projects in short format, she is working on various scripts, from a creative documentary to a virtual reality animation project, the latter being also her first fiction feature film. She regularly explores musicvideos, with a preference for telling a story. Ananda often chooses to represent a sublimated, refined vision of reality. Its themes are recurrent: the origins of creation, the loneliness of its characters, their disillusionment, their flaws, their doubts, the explosion of their burdens, their hopes.
Продуцент: Ten2Ten - Gwenaëlle Clauwaert
SIRENS / СИРЕНИ
GERMANY / 2022 / 13’23’’
Monolithic power plants; billowing columns of smoke; the backdrop of a red sun. Sirens captures Germany’s coal-fired power plants in their final years of generating energy. Shot entirely from helicopters, the film takes us on a journey through industrial wastelands, thus recalling the passage of Ulysses’ boat through the Sirens’ strait. An odyssey through the dystopian industrial world that has left a permanent mark on earth’s ecosphere.
ILARIA DI CARLO is an Italian artist and filmmaker based in Berlin. She studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Rome and at Central Saint Martins College of Art in London. Her films have been screened at numerous prestigious international film festivals, including Cork Film Festival and Oberhausen among others. Her short film The Divine Way won 37 awards including the Barbara Aronofsky Latham Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
Sergio Cortesi dedicated his life to solar observation. At the “Specola solare” in Locarno, between 1957 and 2021, he made over 15.000 sunspots drawings, driven by the faith of a monk to whom his own god never gave an answer.
Director: Davide Palella
Writer: Davide Palella
Cinematography: Sebastian Petri
Editor: Davide Palella
Producer: Sebastian Petri Cast: Sergio Cortesi
Режисьор:
Монтаж:
DAVIDE PALELLA graduated at NABA in 2019 with his first medium-length film, Sirio. In 2021, he received a development grant at In Progress with his new project, Shura, mentored by Michelangelo Frammartino. Sonnenstube was realized during the 2022 Locarno Spring Academy.
THE MAESTRAT ON FILM /
SPAIN / ИСПАНИЯ / 2022 / 16’30’’
Images and a territory. The ghosts of the past come face to face with the present.
Изображения
Director: Fermín Sales
Writer: Fermín Sales
Composer: Nousons. Toni Rossi, Ricard Belencoso
Editor: Andreu Signes
Producer: Fermín Sales
Cast: Santiago Miralles, Mari Carmen Sardà, Lourdes Bellmunt
FERMÍN SALES. Albocàsser (Spain), 1990. In his work, he combines the disciplines of audiovisual creation and cinematographic research. He constantly reflects around the concepts of territory, memory and the image’s value in contemporaneity. He has directed the projects: The Glauber Journey (2014-2015); El Maestrat Filmat (20172023); He is currently working on the films: Transhumance Territory (2020 - In process); Collapsing Landscapes (2022 - In process).
Failed by a care system that continuously ignored evidence of the abuse she suffered as a child, Louise was saved by her determination to escape home and become an artist. Fifty years later, Thrown Away Child explores how her case was able to slip through the cracks, and how she uses her past to fight for the rights of looked-after children.
Director: JD Donnelly
Cinematography: James Parsons
Composer: Matt Valentine
Editor: Jake Morris
Producer: Kate Savin Cast:
Louise Allen Режисьор:
Working as a writer and director in LONDON, JD DONNELLY balances commercial work with finding human interest stories from all over the UK and bringing them to life. Thrown Away Child is his first documentary on the festival circuit and was made as a passion project during the COVID-19 pandemic. He has multiple projects currently in development for 2023.
https://www.instagram.com/thrown_away_child_doc/
TOUCH DOWN / ТЪЧДАУН
SWITZERLAND / ШВЕЙЦАРИЯ / 2022 / 24’38’’
Ready, set, hut!
The recently founded Winterthur Warriors Ladies launch their mission with a lot of enthusiasm and a proper share of pioneering spirit: To establish their team and American football in Switzerland for women. An absolute rarity in the picturesque, conservative Alpine country. Thus, again and again, they encounter obstacles and challenges that threaten the further team development...
Готови, на линията, старт! Наскоро основаните
ANDI BÄNZIGER
BIOGRAPHY: Creative Producer and founding member, docyard GmbH (since 2019); Scientific Collaborator PUK Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich (2017 – 2019) and ZHAW School of Applied Sciences Winterthur (2010 – 2016); PhD in Media Sciences, University of Basel (2009)]; Scientific Assistant, Institute for Media Sciences, University of Basel (2005 2010); Master in Sociology, University of Basel (2005)
Cast: Patrick “Coach” Feller, Océane “Ocean” Bayle, Andrea “The Rock” Erni-Brüngger, Claudia “QB” Lütolf, Pary “Chess in Action” Nuri, Oliver “Baggi” Baggenstoss
Режисьор: Анди Бенцигер, Арън Марти
Сценарист:
sity Hospital Zurich и ZHAW School of Applied
UNDER THE LAKE / ПОД
GREECE / ГЪРЦИЯ / 2022 / 16’32’’
As a mountainous village in Greece sinks under the lake, the memories of its inhabitants emerge from the water. Когато
Director: Thanasis Trouboukis
Writer: Thanasis Trouboukis
Cinematography: Konstantinos Koukoulios
Sound: Leandros Dounis, Nikos Linardopoulos
Editor: Yannis Chalkiadakis
Producer: Thanasis Trouboukis, Greek Film Centre Режисьор:
THANASIS TROUBOUKIS explores cinema on the fluid border between fiction and documentary. He is a graduate of Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains in France. His short films have been selected by numerous festivals, among them Oberhausen ISFF, Sarajevo FF, Palm Springs IFF, Hong Kong IFF, Reykjavik IFF, Vienna Shorts, Encounters FF, Helsinki IFF, London SFF, Premiers Plans - Angers FF, Montreal Festival du nouveau cinéma, Filmfest Dresden ISFF, Drama ISFF and Thessaloniki IFF.
Филмите на ТАНАСИС ТРУБУКИС
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кино.
Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains
множество фестивали, сред които Oberhausen ISFF, Sarajevo FF, Palm Springs IFF, Hong Kong IFF, Reykjavik IFF, Vienna Shorts, Encounters FF, Helsinki IFF, London SFF, Premiers Plans - Angers FF, Montreal Festival du nouveau cinéma, Filmfest Dresden ISFF, Drama ISFF и Thessaloniki IFF.
Abel has the qualities to be the perfect dancer, but weaknesses, mistakes of youth, drugs, and childhood traumas change the direction and offer another journey. Abel accepts himself and moves forward by seeking purification - passing through various existential phrases. At this moment, as we observe the Ocean’s song and Abel’s dance, we experience the freedom of the spirit.
Абел
PETYA ATANASOVA was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1992. Recently, she finished her Film Directing Master at New Bulgarian University. Petya found her passion in Film Directing and took part in a one-year Film Production course in Berlin, Germany, in 2017. There she made three short films and experienced working in all departments of the Cinema. Since then, Petya has worked in the film industry and has constantly improved her skills with education and courses with the best professionals in Filmmaking. Currently, Petya is building her Production company focused on sustainable filmmaking and collaboration. Her last short film “Morning” 2020, won multiple student festival awards and recognition around the world.
Director: Petya Atanasova
Cinematography: Deyan Parouchev
Composer: Maria Karakusheva
Editor: Deyan Parouchev, Petya Atanasova
Producer: Petya Atanasova
Cast:
Abel Yares
Музика: Мария
Монтаж: Деян Паручев, Петя Атанасова
Продуцент: Петя Атанасова
Участват: Абел Йарес
https://www.instagram.com/abel_shortfilm/
AT SPIRAL’S END /
CZECH REPUBLIC
Animated documentary based on authentic recordings presents the struggle with addiction through visual symbols and shortcuts. Alongside the characters we take a journey out of the vicious cycle of addiction, from one end of the spiral to the other. There lies the memento and uncertainty, but also hope.
Анимационният
ELIŠKA KERBACHOVÁ, born in 2000 in Prague, is currently a student at the Animated film department at FAMU.
Director: Eliška Kerbachová
Writer: Eliška Kerbachová
Animation: Eliška Kerbachová
Sound: Peter Balog, Martin Polák
Editor: Viola Bláhová
Producer: Tomáš Šimon Режисьор:
BELOW THE SURFACE / ПОД
NETHERLANDS / НИДЕРЛАНДИЯ / 2022 / 14’00’’
Elkin left his family in Colombia and came to Europe to explore his gender identity. As a sex worker, he searches for himself through his various alter egos. Parallel to his physical journey, he is in a mental quest within himself. Елкин
Елкин е в мисловно търсене в себе си.
TOMAS PONSTEEN (São Paulo, 1993) studied Documentary Directing at The Netherlands Film Academy. In 2022 his graduation documentary Filho won the VPRO Documentary Award. In that same year he got selected for IDFA Project Space to develop his new film.
ТОМАС ПОНСТЕЙН (Сао Пауло, 1993) учи документална режисура в
Director: Tomas Ponsteen
Writer: Tomas Ponsteen
Cinematography: Katja van den Broeke
Composer: Alexandros Tomagian
Editor: Alex Elsinga
Producer:
Patou ten Cate, Hannah van Helden
Cast: Elkin
UNITED KINGDOM / ВЕЛИКОБРИТАНИЯ / 2022 / 15’00’’
Tilly, Miah and Safa are three young women who endure debilitating period pain. Following an adolescence with little menstrual education, support or relief, they navigate the physical and emotional toll of intense pain while trying to maintain a normal life. Тили,
EVA is a recent graduate of Bournemouth Film School. After working as a crew member on several shorts at university, this piece is her directorial debut. Originally from Belfast, she has since returned and is focused on research and filmmaking with groups challenging Northern Ireland’s social and political stagnation.
SWITZERLAND / ШВЕЙЦАРИЯ / 2022 / 10’40’’
It’s 10:35 p.m., the night shift at the University Hospital Zurich begins. We accompany a midwife who, in the intense and long nightly routine, always sensitively and empathically encounters a wide variety of life stories, mothers and babies. This cautious film shows the side of the midwife in this intimate moment and also portrays what the shift outside the birthing room looks like for her. Часът е 22:35
Director: Christof Bruggmann
Writer: Christof Bruggmann
Cinematography: Christof Bruggmann
Editor: Christof Bruggmann
Producer: Volko Kamensky
Cast: Michelle Andermatt Режисьор:
https://vimeo.com/791170252
christofbruggmann.ch
Born 1998 in Flawil, Switzerland. In 2019 creative preliminary course at the Zurich University of the Arts. Currently studying film at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.
DRIVING FORCE / ДВИЖЕЩА
GERMANY / ГЕРМАНИЯ / 2022 / 30’00’’
Dream job: Racing driver! In the male domain of motorsport, this goal seems impossible for women. Nevertheless, Laura Kraihamer and Claudia Hürtgen have made it into this high-risk sport. While Laura fights for victory every week, Claudia looks back on an outstanding professional career. Two women driven by passion who defy all odds.
Мечтана
DANIELA MAGNANI HÜLLER was born in Munich in 1995 as a German-Brazilian. After graduating from high school in Munich, she spent a year in Rio de Janeiro before returning to Germany to study media in Passau, where she started with her first camera and editing work. Since 2019, she has been studying documentary film directing at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF).
Director: Daniela Magnani Hüller
Writer: Daniela Magnani Hüller
Producer: Theodor Fusban Cast: Laura Kraihamer, Claudia Hürtgen
FAMILIAR STRANGER /
SWITZERLAND / ШВЕЙЦАРИЯ / 2022 / 19’24’’
Sara’s grandfather has left a void in her family. Who is Kamran Taan? The filmmaker sets off in search of clues and travels to La Spezia - the coastal city where he is said to have lived. What does kinship mean when you’ve never met? Unexpected events and revelations gradually form a narrative. A road movie about family and identity.
Дядото
SARA FURRER (*1992) and FABIAN LÜTOLF (*1992) are Swiss photographers and filmmakers living in Lucerne and Bern. In 2022 they graduated from the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts with a Bachelor of Arts in Film.
Director: Sara Furrer, Fabian Lütolf
Writer: Sara Furrer, Fabian Lütolf Cinematography: Marlen Schmid
Filmmaker Tomas Ponsteen was adopted from Brazil and does not feel the need to search for his biological mother. Since revelations about adoption abuses, he wonders to what extent his choice not to search is without obligation.
TOMAS PONSTEEN (São Paulo, 1993) studied Documentary Directing in The Netherlands Film Academy. In 2022 his graduation documentary Filho won the VPRO Documentary Award. In that same year he got selected for IDFA Project Space to develop his new film.
FOXY GIRLS /
CZECH REPUBLIC / ЧЕХИЯ / 2021 / 12’46’’
An honest report about womanhood, love and youth. Taboo topics that are a daily part of all women’s lives, through the authentic confessions of four friends. Честен
Director: Maja Penčič
Writer: Maja Penčič
Cinematography: Šimona Mullerová, Ludmila Cimbůrková, Františka Bakošová, Maja Penčič
Editor: Idni Beganovič
Producer: Mikoláš Ježek
Оператор:
The author is a Czech student with roots in the Balkans. She is studying the third year of documentary filmmaking at FAMU in Prague. She creates her films intuitively and chaotically, she is interested in beauty, emotion and magic. Next to her boyfriend, also author, cooperation with Idni Beganovič, with whom she edits films, is essential for her.
Women’s voices rise to deliver testimonies of victims of sexual violence. It is by reconstructing a story with these fragments of experience that a societal portrait is painted over the course of the documentary. Like a mosaic, the pieces stick together to build a unique story that could be that of any human. The images are meant to be a reappropriation of the female body in order to offer it a place as a body-subject and never again as a body-object.
Гласовете
MARIE-LOU BÉLAND is a committed filmmaker (Director-Editor) who wants to break down and denounce the prejudices that are still too present in our society. It is through her camera that she expresses her vision of the world. Specialized educator from first training, her past in the social environment tints her creations and her desire to meet others. She began in the world of cinema by passion and in a self-taught way to finally complete a Baccalaureate in cinema at UQAM and several professional training courses, notably at INIS.
Director: Marie-Lou Béland
Writer: Marie-Lou Béland
Cinematography: Raphaëlle Loranger
Sound: Sandrine Desrosiers
Editor: Andréa Thibault
Producer: École des médias, UQAM, Marie-Lou Béland
Cast: Cyriel Truchi-Tardivel
Режисьор:
GEAMĂNA / ГЕАМАНА
GERMANY / ГЕРМАНИЯ / 2022 / 30’00’’
Long ago, Geamăna was a Romanian village in the Apuseni Mountains, home to about 1000 people. Today, only the church spire rises from the poisonous mud of a neighbouring copper mine. Almost all the houses have sunk and their inhabitants fled. Only a few people held on to their home. On the edge of the past, Valeria Praţa strives for her present - and is threatened by the future.
Преди много време, Германия
MATTHÄUS WÖRLE studied journalism at the University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Then he went through a video journalism scholarship from the Mediencampus Bayern. Further professional positions followed at Süddeutsche Zeitung, Bayerischer Rundfunk and nautilusfilm GmbH. Now he works as a freelance video journalist and is studying documentary film at the University of Television and Film Munich.
Director: Matthäus Wörle
Writer: Matthäus Wörle
Cinematography: Max Kölbl
Composer: Giuliano Loli
Editor:
Felicitas Sonvilla, Matthäus Wörle
Producer: Paul Scholten
Service Producer: Herbert Gruenwald, Anca Titorov
Sound: Matthäus Wörle
Cast:
Valeria Praţa Режисьор:
All residents of this small town know him as “Ded” (Grandfather). Ruslan Gainutdinov, the hero of this film, is a 72 years old man who lives alone on the shore of the lake. He lost his wife 2.5 years ago and since then every day he takes stones of different sizes to her grave.
ALTYNKYZ SHARSHENKULOVA was born on July 18, 1998. From 2005-2016 - studied in school Toktogul Satylganov. The 2021 year finished at the Kyrgyz-Turkish University “Manas”, at the Faculty of Communication, the Department of Radio, TV, and Cinema. Altynkyz Sharshenkulova, participant and laureate of some international film festivals.
Ljiljana, 65 years old, lives in the town of Derventa in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She has been a widow for eight years. For a long time, Ljiljana has been talking about her desire to make a change in her life. Her niece Sara from Switzerland visits her with her camera and shows her multifaceted personality through the film.
Лиляна,
SARA ČOLIĆ was born in 1997 and grew up in Lucerne, Switzerland. In 2019–2022, she pursued her bachelor’s degree in film/video at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU). She graduated with a major in directing. As a way of expression, she uses the medium of film in various forms, from documentary to experimental film.
ALINE BAVIER was born in 1993 and grew up in Graubünden and Liechtenstein. She studied journalism and communication sciences with a minor in film (UZH). In 2019-22, she pursued her bachelor’s degree with the focus on directing and camera at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU). Currently she works as a Journalist and Filmmaker.
Director: Sara Čolić, Aline Danielle Bavier
Writer: Sara Čolić, Aline Danielle Bavier
Cinematography: Aline Danielle Bavier
Composer: Damjan Čolić, EVAL
Editor: Dejan Barać, Sara Čolić
Producer:
Edith Flückiger, Volko Kamensky, Nathalie Oestreicher, Roland Unterweger
Maria, a 48-years old woman, is trapped between two worlds--one guided by asceticism, the other fuelled by the need to reconnect and be with her two sons. Through carefully composed shots and minimalistic sound, we glimpse into her everyday life, thoughts, and emotions.
Мария, 48-годишна
Director: Ana Vijdea
Writer: Ana Vijdea
Cinematography: Ana Vijdea
Editor: Ana Vijdea, Cosmin Nicoara
Producer: Ana Vijdea, Cosmin Nicoara
Cast: Maria Tantas
Режисьор:
Оператор:
Монтаж:
ANA VIJDEA was born and brought up in Romania. She studied Cinematography and Media at Babes-Bolyai University (RO), and Film Directing at Syracuse University (USA) under the auspices of the Fulbright program. Throughout her studies she made several films that were screened and awarded at various international film festivals such as IDFA, True/False, DocEdge among others. In 2017 she was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Cinema” by Filmmaker Magazine. Ana is currently pursuing a master’s degree in documentary filmmaking through DocNomads. Her first semester film, May the Earth Become the Sky, premiered in Doclisboa, where it won the Best Short Film award.
Участват:
NAVARINOU SQUARE /
GREECE / ГЪРЦИЯ / 2022 / 12’14’’
The redevelopment of Navarinou Square in the center of Thessaloniki signifies the end of an era. Memories and collective dreams are buried beneath the new playground. Through a personal reflection about the past, the filmmaker is trying to explore the impact of time on our lives and the relationship between human and public space. Преустройството
Director: Andreas Lazidis
Writer: Andreas Lazidis
Cinematography: Andreas Lazidis
Composer: Thomas Dimitrakoulias
Editor: Andreas Lazidis
Producer: Andreas Lazidis
ANDREAS LAZIDIS was born in Thessaloniki in 1995.He is a student in the Department of AudioVisual Arts of Ionian University. During his studies he has worked various projects on the fields of film-making and photography that were screened at the school festivals. His last film (Navarinou Square) is the first one which will have international screening.
The elevator of the nursing home turn into the stage as the old dancer explores the limits of his body, memory and the passage of time. Trapped between four walls, he must face the helplessness of his own languish shell. Starring Jan Minařík, the soloist of Pina Bausch theatre and the greatest Czech dancer of the 20th century.
Асансьорът на старческия
MARIE-MAGDALENA KOCHOVÁ graduated from the Department of New Media at the University of West Bohemia and she is currently studying at the Department of Documentary Film at the Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Her short films Will the World Remember Your Name? and Apparatgeist were both screened at Ji.hlava IDFF.
UNITED KINGDOM / ВЕЛИКОБРИТАНИЯ / 2023 / 19’34 / 06’40’’
Nella loves to play football. She dreams of becoming the best player in the world. And her diabetes? Not a problem at all!
Sweet Life observes the tireless efforts of her family, spearheaded by her mom Alina, to make Nella’s life seem as normal as possible. For Nella this is puzzling: sure, she is a bit different, but why does everything need to be so complicated?
By getting Nella a new glucose reader, Alina hopes that all their lives will get a bit easier. Нела
PIETER GENEE (1994) is a Dutch-born, London based director. He just finished his Ma in documentary directing at the National Film and Television School. Recently he directed observational documentaries in regions across South Africa, Scotland and the Netherlands. Pieter is very interested in the aesthetics of mood, and finding stories where the place, person and past perfectly coalesce. He is a firm believer in careful considerations regarding representation in front and behind the camera.
The documentary The Divine Flower explores how today’s generation of young women can break free from (learned) patterns of guilt and shame surrounding body image and sexuality and learn to put their own physical pleasure and self-image first. Using both documentary scenes and symbol-driven images, the film sheds light on the current status of female pleasure.
Документалният
TESSA VAN DER RIET (Amsterdam, 1996) is a (documentary) director and photographer currently based in Barcelona. In 2022 she graduated as a documentary director from the Netherlands Film Academy. Her work touches on several important themes, such as identity and social structure, but Tessa is especially interested in finding ways to connect people. In her work, she never loses sight of aesthetics. Lately, she has been particularly concerned with issues around girls’ and womxn’s emancipation.
Director: Tessa van der Riet
Cinematography: Hugo van Roosmalen
VFX Supervisors: Stevenson Lacroes, Olaf Gilliot
Composer: Adam Claussen
Editor: Marieke Schoenmakers
Producer: Hannah Borchard, Eleonora Minervino
Production Design: Isa Soares
Art Direction: Shaniqua Etienne
Sound Design: Sam Titshof
Choreographer: Thu Hang Pham
Dancers and Models: Aissa Kraayenbrink, Sigourney Henning, Thu Hang Pham, Dionne Bakker, Vainergill Thurnim, Lulu Verstegen, Rose SaIl Sao, Laila Spee, Jazzy van Wersch, Roos Ferrero, Rosa Hillebron, Latifa Mwazi as VENUS, Romy Raymann & Nolan, Aas, Sayanie Mohamed Ali, Eugenée Anita, Sophie Berentsen, Merel Hogerheijde, Lisanne Huisman, Chanti Mai, Caitlin Ricketts, Angel-Rose Oedit Doebé, Nina Schwebke, Eva Sierksma, Laila Spee, Yelappa Visser
TO EAT BREAD / ДА
POLAND / ПОЛША / 2022 / 10’22’’
Baskharon lives in a small town in the middle of Egypt, known for calcium mines. He found himself at the wrong time in the wrong place. So what can he do to eat bread?
Башкарон
MOHAMED RABIE - young Egyptian filmmaker, based in Poland. Student of cinematography of Warsaw Film School. He gained his experience in photoshoots and advertisements in Egypt.
Director: Mohamed Rabie
Writer: Mohamed Rabie
Cinematography: Mohamed Rabie
Composer: Rami abdo
Editor: Abdelrahman Fekry
Producer: Maciej Ślesicki
Cast: Baskharon abo monier & Veronica
SLOVAKIA
/ СЛОВАКИЯ / 2021 / 29’42’’
Stories of the three Slovak migrants in the US with different dreams, experiences and reasons for leaving their homeland share one common thing – living illegally in their dream country. Documentary essay tells stories that are unknown, but we can easily call them the modern history of migration for the American Dream. What are the relationships between migrants and the place that the migrant left? Are there already two separate worlds, glued together only for the duration of one “online touch”?
Director: Denisa Parobekova
Writer: Denisa Parobekova
Cinematography: Adam Rohal, Roman Supej, Karin Kesziova, Denisa Parobekova
Animation: Zuzka Vranka Ziakova, Helena Elly Friedmannova
Composer: Martina Kachlova
Editor: Ema Adamove
Producer:
Natalia Cesankova, Karina Sporinova
DENISA PAROBEKOVÁ (1996, Slovakia) graduated in Documentary Filmmaking at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. During her studies, she created several short films and collaborated on various film and radio projects and exhibitions. In addition to directing, she also devotes herself to music and literary creation.
WITH MY THOUGHTS ON THE SEA /
While more and more fishermen in Piombino find themselves economically forced to sign on with large fishing boats, Nedo remains independent. But this freedom has its price. While we go fishing with him on his small boat, we follow his thoughts on the tides, the changing world and the unpredictable and powerful being: the sea.
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Director: Fabiana Fragale
Cinematography: Fabiana Fragale
Editor: Fabiana Fragale
Producer: Fabiana Fragale (Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln)
Cast: Nedo Catinelli
FABIANA FRAGALE was born in Zurich in 1994. The Swiss-Italian filmmaker is living in Cologne since 2015 and is a student at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Her cinematic works are concerned with anti-capitalist and intersectional-feminist topics. In 2018 she founded the art collective Polsprung. In 2023 she showed her first feature-length documentary film “Lonely Oaks” at the Berlinale.
BEST FILM EXPERIMENTAL
1 MTH/MIN
BELGIUM / БЕЛГИЯ / 2021 / 03’45’’
1 MTH/MIN is a reflection on space-time in a cinematographic form. Each image represents a 24-hour scan taken each day from March 21 to June 21. Through the frame of a window, the landscape stages natural spring phenomena: the blossoming of trees, weather changes, the extension of daylight until the summer solstice...
1 MTH/MIN е отражение на пространство-времето във филмова форма. Всяко изображение представлява 24-часово сканиране, правено всеки ден от 21 март до 21 юни. През рамката на прозорец пейзажът
ETHANN NÉON is a Belgian director. He studied animation cinema in Brussels and obtained a master’s degree in Plastic, Visual and Space Arts. He makes experimental films around the notion of space-time in a cinematographic form. His current practice focuses on the processes of visual reconstruction of time and the division of space within the framework of the screen.
Among intrusive and sought-after memories, a woman hears a disconcerting call from the depths of her being. A cryptic cry for help that becomes intelligible guides her to the original wound, to her inner child, becoming her own protector.
Director: Angélica Restrepo, Carlos Velandia
Writer:
Angélica Restrepo, Carlos Velandia
Cinematography: Angélica Restrepo, Carlos Velandia
Animation: Angélica Restrepo, Carlos Velandia
Composer: Carlos Velandia
Editor: Angélica Restrepo, Carlos Velandia
Producer: Carlos Velandia, Angélica Restrepo
Cast: Luz Mery Guzmán
ANGÉLICA RESTREPO & CARLOS VELANDIA - Colombian filmmakers with background in Film Programming and New Media, whose work focuses on feminism, anti-hegemonic representation and expanded animation. Their films have premiered several times at the Annecy International Animation Festival and have won the ZINEBI Grand Award at the International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao and the Silver Lynx Experimental Award at FEST - New Directors | New Films.
In a universe that looks like nothingness, two beings seem to exist only to come into contact.
EMMANUEL GRAS turned to cinema after studying history. He joined ENS Louis-Lumière and worked as a cinematographer while making his own films. His first documentary feature, Bovines, was presented at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the César for best documentary. Shot in the DRC, his film Makala won the Critics Week Grand Prize. His latest feature film, A People, tells the story of the Yellow Vests movement, which shook up France for an entire year.
A boy looks at images of a story from his past, the story of an interrupted love. Cinquemarzo is the journey into the memories, moments, sounds and sensations of someone who has lost something and no longer knows how to go back or how to go forward.
Director: Stefano Malchiodi
Writer: Lorenzo Bagnatori, Stefano Malchiodi
Cinematography: Maria di Stefano
Composer:
Dario Tatoli, Giulia Vallisari
Editor: Stefano Malchiodi
Producer:
Camilla Gazzola, Nicola Maiello, Walter de Majo, Alessandro Elia, Guglielmo d’Avanzo, Francesca Andriani
Cast: Claudio Larena, Alessia Peruzzi
STEFANO MALCHIODI was born in Seriate, in the province of Bergamo, on May 20, 1991. After high school, he enrolled in the film production course of the Luchino Visconti Civic School of Cinema in Milan, where he graduated in 2014 with a thesis on independent cinema. From January 2015 to December 2017 he attended and graduated in the editing course of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. Between 2018 and 2019 he made Anne, who won the David di Donatello for best short film in 2021.
DEAR PASSENGERS / УВАЖАЕМИ
ESTONIA
/ ЕСТОНИЯ / 2022 / 11’00’’
A lonely traveler embarks on a journey to find relief for a hidden yearning. Her restless longing spreads around and forces fellow passengers to face their own desires and disappointments.
MADLI LÄÄNE is an Estonian film director, screenwriter and editor. Her last short film Three August Days(2018) premiered at the SXSW festival and has participated in many international film festivals. Her short documentary ABC premiered at the Berlinale film festival 2012. She graduated as film editor from ifs internationale filmschule köln in 2007. Currently Madli is working as an editing lecturer at Tallinn University Baltic Film and Media Arts School.
късометражен филм “Three August Days” (2018) е на фестивала SXSW и участва в
Director: Madli Lääne
Writer: Madli Lääne
Cinematography: Heiko Sikka E.S.C
Composer: Patrick McGinley
Editor: Emeri Abel, Kaupo Muuli
Producer:
Johanna Maria Paulson, Evelin Penttilä
Cast: Maie Jaanikivi, Karina Želenko, Helena Sootna, Dmitry Darling, Eduard Iganus, Emily Blasen, Jaan Kuusemets, Sandra Lange, Maarja Eliisabet Roosalu
Subjective emotional walk, where the direction is indicated by emotions instead of steps. Feelings create the space, music sets the rhythm, tones are translated into colors. EO DE ME is an experimental film emphasising the synthesis of what is seen, heard, and felt. The catharsis of everyday life as visualization of music.
Субективна емоционална разходка, при
със
ката задава ритъма, тоновете
периментален филм,
VIKTORIE ŠTĚPÁNOVÁ is a student of Prague’s FAMU. Her previous film, the animated documentary Inside, was nominated for a student Bafta and selected for countless festivals around the world. Her work is intermediate. Apart from animation, Viktorie is also involved in illustration commissions, painting, fashion, and the creation of music videos.
Director: Viktorie Štěpánová
Writer: Viktorie Štěpánová
Cinematography: Viktorie Štěpánová, Václav Pavlíček
Our common pain, although experienced individually and uniquely, is what connects us. It is the ambiguity and variety of our existence that allows us to imagine an infinity of variables, some of these alternatives may be malignant, and some benign.
SHUNSAKU HAYASHI (b.1992, Osaka) is a painter and experimental filmmaker, explores the intersection of experimental film, animation and painting. “Interstitial (2017)“ won the Grand Jury Prize for Animation Short at 23rd Slamdance Film Festival. “Railment (2017)” received the Chris Frayne Award for Best Animated Film at 55th Ann Arbor Film Festival. “Leaking Life (2019)” was official selected at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival.
ХАЯШИ (р. 1992 г., Осака) е художник и режисьор на експериментални филми, изследва пресечната точка на експерименталния филм, анимацията и живописта. „Interstitial (2017)“ печели Голямата
An experimental short film which explores the human mind in confrontation with that which exists outside of its own limits, and which questions the relationship between identity and memory or lack thereof. By combining a variety of different mediums and visual styles, the film seeks to capture the fragmented and confused nature of a human mind in various states of being.
Експериментален
EIMEAR is a Dublin-based artist, specialising in the areas of animated and experimental filmmaking. She is hugely inspired by the process of artistic experimentation, always eager to both broaden her sensibilities through research and interdisciplinary investigations, and to integrate this research into explorations of the limits of the projects and mediums she is engaged with.
Director: Eimear Young
Writer: Eimear Young
Cinematography: Tony McDonald, Donal Young, Eimear Young
In SUNSPOTS, several 16mm shots of the sun are layered and superimposed, paired with a soundscape consisting of volcanos, fire, plastic and the audible solar sounds recorded by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). В SUNSPOTS няколко 16-милиметрови
Director: Yannick Mosimann
Cinematography: Yannick Mosimann
Composer: Yannick Mosimann
Editor: Yannick Mosimann
YANNICK MOSIMANN, born 1989 in Bern, Switzerland, is a filmmaker, sound-artist and photographer. His body of work comprises several films and video Installations, as well as collaborative works as a filmmaker and musician with a diverse spread of artists.
Yannick Mosimanns work focuses on intuitive processes, sensorial experiences and the re-imagination of narratives. It deals with themes like the anthropocene, nature and human perception. Yannick lives and works in Bern.
In the artificial environment of the paddy field, water—an element of nature—follows the rules of the artificial. As a result, nature is made abstract, giving rise to a new form of beauty distinct from the natural state. “Stream” is expressed as a symbiotic cooperation between humans and nature. It also includes air.
В изкуствената среда на оризището, водата —природен елемент— следва изкуствени правила. В резултат природата става абстрактна, пораждайки нова форма на красота, различна от естественото състояние. „Поток“ се изразява като симбиотично сътрудничество между хората,
Getty Trust.
HIROYA SAKURAI was born in Yokohama, Japan. He is currently a professor, Seian University of Art and Design. His work can be found in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada and J.Paul Getty Trust.
Sakurai was awarded at “35th Asolo Art Film Festival (2016)”, Italy, “39th Tokyo Video Festival”, “18th FILE 2017 “, São Paulo (2017) and “56th Ann Arbor Film Festival” (2018)
Director: Hiroya Sakurai
Writer: Hiroya Sakurai
Cinematography: Hiroya Sakurai
Composer: Hiroya Sakurai
Editor: Hiroya Sakurai
Режисьор:
„35th Asolo Art Film Festival (2016)“, Италия, „39th Tokyo Video Festival“, „18th FILE 2017“, São Paulo (2017) и „56th Ann Arbor Film Festival“ (2018).
The 16mm film poem TURBULENCE stands in the field of tension between surreal fantasy and multi-layered reality. Telemach Wiesinger’s images of aeroplanes from the perspective of the traveler encounter kinetic wing objects by the composer Alexander Grebtschenko. The electronically controllable “Chimera’s“ - elegant bird wings with megaphone - unfold expressive “acting” presence. The dialogue between the sound level and the visual level opens up space for emotions, thoughts and interpretations. 16-милиметровата
реалност.
TELEMACH WIESINGER, born 1968 in Bielefeld/ Germany. Studies: Visual Communication at Universität Gesamthochschule Kassel / Germany, Diploma Master of Arts 1995. His multiple award winning 16mm analogue film works are presented in solo programs or performances and on numerous international festivals and locations. Telemach Wiesinger is also as visiting lecturer at universities and art schools. As photographer he is working for many art books and solo-exhibitions.
The flying - an adventure of the impulses. The faster it moves among the existing, the more adventures we enter. These adventures we type into a fast ice cream container, a plate from the perception as rational. We enter - the head. Go ahead, sit down, it’s phenomenal here.
Director:
Vasja Lebarič, Julij Zornik
Writer:
Vasja Lebarič, Julij Zornik
Cinematography: Vasja Lebarič
Animation: Vasja Lebarič
Composer: Vasja Lebarič, Julij Zornik
Editor: Vasja Lebarič
Producer: Jerca Jerič, Andraž Jerič
VASJA LEBARIČ decided to be a painter very early in life. He began studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, then in 2001 a year at Universität der Künste, Berlin, he joined an alternative art collective.
JULIJ ZORNIK began flirting with the world of audio in 1994 as a radio and television technician, and as a monitor mixer. To date, Zornik has designed sound for countless TV and radio ads, over fifty short and animated films, and more than sixty feature and documentary films.
The streets and avenues of Lisbon are covered with sand and gigantic dunes. The waters of the Tagus have receded. We don’t see anyone. What has happened to the city’s population? Empty, vacant buildings; abandoned performance halls; books lying on the floor, half-rotten - signs of a civilization that has since disappeared.
Улиците и алеите на Лисабон са
с населението на града? Празни,
Studied at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (Lisbon Film School).
In 2012 founded in partnership with David Gabriel the collective “Companhia do Inferno”, which is dedicated to the development and production of video-art projects and short films. Director, animator, illustrator and film editor. Lives and works in Lisbon.
Учи в Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (Филмова школа в Лисабон). През 2012 г. основава в партньорство с Дейвид
do Inferno”,
Director:
Micael Espinha
Writer: Micael Espinha
Cinematography: Markus Clemens, Roberto Lee Cortes, Micael Espinha, Armin Forster, Alexander Fradellafra, Hans Genthe, Peter H, Toa Heftiba, Sonja Ittenbach, Darya Jum, André Muga, Pedro Macedo, Mick de Paola, Sven van der Pluijm, Saskia Tolhuis, Eugen Visan, Jean Wimmerlin
Anna comes back home after years away to take care of her mother in last months of her life. She left the village as a child and now she comes back as a young adult and meets her childhood love, Alko. To her parents this encounter is an echo of mistakes made in the past. ‘Faithbreaker’ is a meditation about a moral cost of truth.
Director: Piotr Złotorowicz
Writer: Piotr Złotorowicz
Cinematography: Nicolas Villegas
Composer: Adam Walicki
Editor: Paweł Kowalik
Producer:
Ewa Jastrzębska, Jerzy Kapuściński, Jacek Bromski, Małgorzata Seck Cast:
Małgorzata Hajewska-Krzysztofik, Jacek Koman, Mirosław Zbrojewicz, Julia Szczepańska, Mateusz Więcławek
PIOTR ZŁOTOROWICZ graduated from Film Directing at the Polish National Film School in Lodz. His student films received over 80 awards and were broadcasted by Polish television. His graduation film ‘Mother Earth’ (2014) was awarded at 67th Locarno Film Festival among 27 other festival prizes. He made his theater debut with the monodrama ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ (2019) produced by Polonia Theatre in Warsaw. ‘Faithbreaker’ is his feature-lenght debut.
Режисьор:
QUEEN OF HEARTS / ДАМА
SPAIN / ИСПАНИЯ / 2022 / 65’00’’
Ian Fleming actually met her and she might have been a source of inspiration for his “Bond Girl” character. Born to a family related to the last Tzars of Russia, she became a spy of Nazy Germany and later, a double agent working for the British (“On His Majesty’s Service”). Larissa Swirski could have been the protagonist in a novel about spies but was, in actual fact, real. Until certain MI5 files were declassified not that long ago, almost nobody knew the true identity of “The Queen of Hearts” – a key figure in the espionage network woven around Gibraltar in World War II.
CHEMA RAMOS has directed: Documentary “The last concert” (Wonderers) 2021; Co-direction of the documentary “El Camino Invisible” (2020) together with Antonio Mejías; Video clip “Malos Pelos ; December 4” (Southern Films) 2020; Spot “Ispaprojext, Farmer Support” (Southern Films) 2020; Short film “A house in the field” 2011; Program “The Claim” 2010 ; 2011; Video clip “Pou – Música” 2010; Promo “Pou – Personal Configuration” (Funny Works Productions) 2010; Short film “Sex in Mozambique” (The Russian doll productions) 2005.
Obsessed with the disappearance of her best friend, who was a victim of sex trafficking, a journalist plots an undercover operation to expose the criminal network. But as her accomplices draw closer to the boss, the situation gets out of control, and they struggle to get out alive.
Director: Goce Cvetanovski
Writer: Goce Cvetanovski
Cinematography: Fejmi Daut
Composer: Dimitar Andonovski, Zoran Aleksikj, Milan Simovski
Cast: Musa Isufi, Slagana Vujosevik, Ismail Kasumi
Writer/Director GOCE CVETANOVSKI is an award-winning director and producer. After his feature directorial debut “The Business of Pleasure”, he’s currently in production of the animation feature “John Vardar vs the Galaxy”. Goce is also the first director of Macedonia’s most popular animated series “Bibi’s world” with over 60M views on Youtube. He has worked on commercial projects for clients such as Ed Sheeran, Samsung and Faith No More.
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RUSSIAN FEDERATION /
/ 2022 / 108’
The father of 12-year-old Ilya gets killed. But the murderer doesn’t go into prison. The whole village doesn’t care. Only his biathlon coach offers to help him. They have a deal that should result in killing the murderer. Will they finally do this?
Director: Evgeny Grigorev
Writer:
Evgeny Grigorev, Nina Belenitskaya
Cinematography: Artyiom Anisimov
Composer: Ivan Sintsov
Editor: Konstantin Larionov, Kirill Abramov
Producer:
Olga Erofeeva-Muravyeva, George Shabanov
Cast: Yura Borisov, Elizaveta Yankovskaya, Pavel Derevyanko
Born on March 17, 1979 in Koshuki village of Sverdlovsk region of Russia. Graduated from the Faculty of Journalism and worked on TV. Also graduated from the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). Shot ten films and received awards for them at festivals. President of the Russian Documentary Guild in 2012-2016, vice-president from 2016 till now. Founder & co-owner of Pervoe Kino Film Company, based in Moscow. Creative producer of Sverdlovskaya Film Studio from 2021.
Ida Pfeiffer (1797-1858): „Like a painter feels pressed to paint a picture, like the poet feels pressed to speak out his thoughts, thus I feel pressed to see the world.“ She was a world traveler, adventurer and travel writer from Vienna. In a time when traveling was a taboo for women, she covered 240.000 kilometers by the sea and 32.000 kilometers on four continents. Back then she was a famous person and the idol of many women, today only few people know the fearless Ida Pfeiffer. Ида Файфър (1797-1858):
Director: Petra Zoepnek
Writer: Petra Zoepnek
Cinematography: Petra Zoepnek
Animation: Petra Zoepnek
Composer: Gil Chéri
Editor: Petra Zoepnek
Producer: Petra Zoepnek
Cast: Susanne Berger
She studied „Experimental Visual Design“ at the Art University in Linz. She works as film editor for Anja Salomonowitz, Sabine Derflinger, Elfi Mikesch and many more. She plays the hawaiian guitar in the band „Gil Chéri“, which also makes music for films.
Режисьор: Петра Цьопнек
Сценарист: Петра Цьопнек
Оператор: Петра Цьопнек
Анимация: Петра Цьопнек
Музика: Джил Шери
Монтаж: Петра Цьопнек
Продуцент: Петра Цьопнек
Участват: Сюзан Бергер
BULGARIAN FILM ON FOCUS
BETWEEN
ME AND YOU / МЕЖДУ
BULGARIA/БЪЛГАРИЯ / 2022 / 20’00’’ / FICTION
During an unusual summer wedding, Sylvia’s surreal world, spawned by an unhealed trauma, comes to life, unlocked by a song about a void between her and her ex-boyfriend.
Director: Ilina Perianova /
Writer:
Ilina Perianova /
Producer:
Ilina Perianova, Eleni Dekidis, Marianna Perianova-Yagama, Georgi Nikolov /
CHILD’S PLAY
BULGARIA/БЪЛГАРИЯ / 2022 / 09’50 / FICTION
During intense interrogation, two young men come to understand that to win the game sometimes means to lose in real life.
Director: Devina Vassileva /
Writer: Zhaklin Peycheva /
Producer: Zhaklin Peycheva /
DEPERSONALIZATION /
The world returns to primal matter, the consumer is consumed.
Director: Spartak Yordanov /
Writer: Spartak Yordanov /
Producer:
Screening EmotionsPoli Angelova, Nikolay Todorov /
In
Toma
Director: Toto Mitovski
Writer: Toto Mitovski
Cinematography: Stoyan Doychev
Editor: Dimitar Yakimov
Producer: Kristina Samsarova
Cast: Samuil Garbov, Galya Kostadinova
CREDIBLE STORIES FOR AN ABSURD EVENING /
BULGARIA /
/ 2022 / 27’00’’ / FICTION
Men and women see the world differently.
Director: Georgi Dimitrov /
Writer:
Nelly Dimitrova, Georgi Dimitrov /
Producer:
Bulgarian National Television, in co-production with Miramar film, with the support of Bulgarian National Film Center /
Miramar FILM,
SNOWDROPS AT THE END OF THE TRAIN /
In a dystopian world, a woman fighting for her right to government-assisted suicide finds new reason to live after her last three snowdrops prove capable of producing free energy for all.
Director:
Galina D. Georgieva /
Writer:
Galina D. Georgieva & Decho Taralezhkov /
Producer:
Pavlina Jeleva, Irina Kitova /
SOMETIMES I DREAM I’M DYING /
A girl obsessed with social media gets lost in a world of dreams.
TALKING WITH MY STRANGER /
A young man buys an old car in order to impress his crush only to find out his new purchase is possessed.
Director: Zlatan Dekov /
Producer: Zlatan Dekov /
Director: Lora Markova /
Producer:
Dessy Tenekedjieva /
A lonely vampire, the last of his kind, followed by a film crew, embarks on his first venture into the world of humans after years of self- imposed isolation.
Director: Lina Pavlova /
Producer: Lina Pavlova, Rubecula Ltd / Лина
BULGARIA/БЪЛГАРИЯ / 2022 / 6’42”/ ANIMATION
Stream of personal memories about the fear of becoming a father.
Director:
Asparuh Petrov /
Writer:
Asparuh Petrov /
Producer:
Vessela Dantcheva, Compote Collective /
WAR / ВОЙНА
When everything seems hopeless and the world is in flames and ashes, on the last unburned island, in a ray light, WAR meets love in the face of a boy named PEACE.
Director: Dimitar Dimitrov
Writer: Dilyan Elenkov
Producer: Neli Gacharova
MARKET SCREENING
A COOKIE’S ADVENTURE /
FRANCE / ФРАНЦИЯ, 2022, 07’02’’ ANIMATION / АНИМАЦИЯ
ЛЕМАСОН, Зое РИВЕРА, Роман ТЕРСИНИ, Камий ТРИПОНЕ Продуцент: ЕСМА
Dimitri, a cookie knight, and his faithful friend Pépite are heading to the cookie King’s castle. He gives them a very important mission : bring back the Princess’s heart and win her hand. Their adventures across strange, sugary lands will be dangerous and scrumptious.
A MOST EXQUISITE MAN
ЕСТОНИЯ, 2021, 14’46’’ ANIMATION / АНИМАЦИЯ
Director: Jonas Taul
Producer: Kerdi Oengo
An existential answer to a Big Question about the ego of mankind and necessity of living in unity and harmony with nature.
AFTERMATCH / СЛЕД МАЧ
ITALY / ИТАЛИЯ, 2022, 19’00’’ FICTION / ИГРАЛЕН
Director: Stefano Monti
Producer: Damiano Giacomelli for YUK! Film
As children, three friends make a blood pact: they will never go against each other. They do not imagine that, only a few years later, the Second World War would force them to do so.
APOCALYPSE DOG /
Director: Aziliz Le Clainche, Camille Nasarre, Jing Qian, Juliette Barraux, Emma Plumey, Lucile Arnaud, Solène Cauchie
Producer: Philippe Meis (Supinfocom Rubika)
(Supinfocom Rubika)
In a post-apocalyptic universe, Bob and his dog Pasha survive in a wasteland. They are hungry, thirsty and tired. When suddenly, they see a city in the distance!
MARKET SCREENING
ACE OF CLUBS /
FRANCE / ФРАНЦИЯ, 2021, 09’34” FICTION / ИГРАЛЕН
Director: Henri Kebabdjian
Producer: Jean-Baptiste Jouy
Nathan is joined by his daughter Camille by the racetrack. He hopes that by betting on the race, he will be able to afford the school of her dreams. But when Nathan discovers that Camille is admitted in another school far away, the race takes a whole other turn.
AS WE ALWAYS PLANNED /
Director: Zsolt Venczel
Misi lives as a prisoner of a closed institution without memories. He gets to know Juli and it turns out that their relationship goes back a long way.
BEAR HUG / МЕЧЕШКА
FRANCE, NORWAY / ФРАНЦИЯ, НОРВЕГИЯ, 2022, 10’33’’ ANIMATION / АНИМАЦИЯ
Director: Margrethe DANIELSEN
Producer: JPL Films - Mikrofilm
Режисьор: Маргрет ДАНИЕЛЗЕН Продуцент: JPL Films - Mikrofilm
An eager little bear, rejected by his birthday guests, begins his hunt for company. Нетърпеливо малко мече, отхвърлено
A story about a little paper figure’s journey of finding the strength to leave its home, the notebook where it was born, to explore the great world beyond. История
CALF / ТЕЛЕ
GERMANY /
Director: Friedrich Tiedtke
Producer: Andrea Schütte, Dirk Decker, Paulina Toenne
To stand on her own two feet a young woman fighting for the survival of her subsistence farm breaks with her parents, but with winter comes loneliness and a longing for the warmth of her family.
Director: Jacek Olejnik, Rafał Sankiewicz, Wojciech Sankiewicz, Bartosz Terlicki
Producer: Ferajna Filmowa Kapok
Kapok
How to maintain well balanced life, how not to fall, when everything around is falling? How to progress when all solutions seem to be wrong?
Как
погрешни?
CHRISTOPHER AT SEA
FRANCE, USA, UK /
2022, 20’18’’
FICTION, ANIMATION /
Director: Tom C J BROWN
Producer: Miyu Productions: Emmanuel-Alain RAYNAL, Pierre BAUSSARON; PSYOP: Amanda Miller, Hanna Stolarski, Nick Read; TEMPLE CARRINGTON & BROWN: Emily-Jane Brown
Miyu Productions:
CARRINGTON & BROWN:
Christopher embarks on a transatlantic voyage as a passenger on a cargo ship. His hopes of finding out what lures so many men to sea sets him on a journey into solitude, fantasy and obsession.
MARKET SCREENING
CLOSE YOUR EYES /
A heavy secret and oblivious parents. Тежка
CORRISPONDENZE
/
FRANCE / ФРАНЦИЯ, 2022, 07’15’’ ANIMATION / АНИМАЦИЯ
Two guys meet in a zoo. A mutual interest arises between them. Can animals talk?
DON’T BE CRUEL /
ITALY / ИТАЛИЯ, 2022, 15’00’’ FICTION / ИГРАЛЕН
Director: Andrej Chinappi
Producer: Valerio Antonini, Pietro Torcolini
Ninni and his father Amelio wish to redeem their modest lifestyle. An opportunity will arise when the father, who works as an Elvis lookalike, is called to perform in a rich seaside resort.
ECHO / ЕХО
GREECE / ГЪРЦИЯ, 2021, 11’36’’ ANIMATION / АНИМАЦИЯ
Ellie struggles with verbal communication and survives thanks to her landlady, Manu moves into the apartment directly across from her, their routines echo each other, and a connection emerges.
MARKET SCREENING
BUTTERFLIES /
ITALY / ИТАЛИЯ. 2022, 20’00’’ FICTION / ИГРАЛЕН
Director: Marco Pattarozzi
Producer: Sick Pine Video
Caterina spends the last summer with Patrick before he leaves for the USA. After a party in which alcohol is spiked with a psychotropic substance, she wakes up with rape marks that she has no recollection of.
FRAYA
Director: Clémentine Delbecq
Producer: Alta Rocca Films (France) / Les films du continent (Côté d’Ivoire)
Rufus and his uncle Alpha, both from Ivory Cost, run a dated hotel in the Perpignan area. In the early summer, Alpha goes to Ivory Cost to sell their family land and revive their hotel in France, which he will leave to his nephew. Rufus stays behind to run the hotel with his girlfriend Monika but Alpha’s return to his home country does not go quite according to plan…
FRIDA / ФРИДА
GERMANY / ГЕРМАНИЯ, 2021, 22’45’’ FICTION / ИГРАЛЕН
Director: Aleksandra Odić
Producer: Stanislav Danylyshyn
An encounter between a young nurse and her patient of the same age, Frida, on the border of professional distance and the desire for closeness.
HELLSCAPE /
FRANCE / ФРАНЦИЯ, 2022, 06’15’’ ANIMATION / АНИМАЦИЯ
Have you or your partner ever had an experience where you missed your period or been “late”?
I’VE BEEN DREAMING / СЪНУВАХ
POLAND / ПОЛША, 2022, 10’02’’ FICTION / ИГРАЛЕН
Director: Kacper Świderski
Producer: Warsaw Film School – Maciej
Can a dream become our nightmare, and that what drives us forward become our curse?
JUNGLE / ДЖУНГЛА
IRELAND / ИРЛАНДИЯ,
Director: Alan Hopkins
Producer: Husni Hafid
Truck driver Chris finds Bouba a young Libyan refugee, hiding in his truck. He blackmails him for passage to Calais. Their ensuing journey forces Chris to take stock of his life.
MARKET SCREENING
THE BOOB FAIRY /
FRANCE / ФРАНЦИЯ, 2021, 13’44’’ FICTION, ANIMATION / ИГРАЛЕН, АНИМАЦИЯ
Director: Léahn VIVIER-CHAPAS
Producer: Folivari : Didier Brunner, Damien Brunner and Sarah Delmas
Who will best play her part: the dancing lioness or the little girl we attempt to tame? Only the Boob Fairy will know who is really worthy of her attention.
LA ROBE / РОКЛЯТА
ITALY / ИТАЛИЯ, 2022, 06’00’’ FICTION / ИГРАЛЕН
Director: Olga Torrico
Producer: Adam Selo, Olga Torrico, Ivan Olgiati, Chiara Galloni
Олга Торико
In the apartment of a woman who recently passed away, a young cleaner empties a wardrobe full of old clothes, when she suddenly feels magically attracted by a colorful, vivid dress.
LITTLE DOGGIE / МАЛКО
GREECE / ГЪРЦИЯ, 2023, 26’00’’ FICTION / ИГРАЛЕН
Director: Giorgos Ntounis
Producer: Giorgos Ntounis
A young wannabe gangster eager to prove himself, gets caught up in a situation which will reveal his true colors.
Млад
MAMMARRANCA /
ITALY / ИТАЛИЯ, 2022, 14’59’’ FICTION
Director: Francesco Piras
Producer: Francesco Piras
Giovanni and Michele are eleven and nine years old and they live in Sant’Elia, a popular neighborhood on the outskirt of Cagliari. The lives of the two children suddenly seem to change when a scratch card ends up in their hands.
MARKET SCREENING
ITALY / ИТАЛИЯ, 2022, 14’00’’ FICTION / ИГРАЛЕН
Director: Alex Scopini
Producer: Stefano Carella
In 1922 two humble families of fishermen from Marche, Italy, decided to leave for America. But the unexpected happens: during a fishing trip a storm overwhelms and destroys their boat, their only survival source. Hopes turn into worries and fears, forcing them to make a choice that will condition the future of future generations.In 1922 two humble families of fishermen from Marche, Italy, decided to leave for America. But the unexpected happens: during a fishing trip a storm overwhelms and destroys their boat, their only survival source. Hopes turn into worries and fears, forcing them to make a choice that will condition the future of future generations.
През
MERMAIDS
The story of two bodies seeking breath in a melting world.
Director: Pierre Bessette
Producer: Pierre Bessette
MORNING GLORY / УТРИННА
ITALY / ИТАЛИЯ, 2022, 19’40’’ FICTION / ИГРАЛЕН
Director: JACOPO ARDOLINO
Producer: JACOPO ARDOLINO, PIERGIORGIO IDA’ LOJERCIO, ANDREA BORSANI, ALESSANDRO BORSANI PER MORCEGO FILMS
Режисьор: Джакопо Ардолино
Алесандро
MORCEGO FILMS
A successful porn director found himself attracted to a young aspiring actress she met during a casting. The ordinary audition will turn into a whirlwind chase to find out what she is hiding under the mask of the next-door girl.
Успешен
NUCLEAR FAMILY /
BELGIUM / БЕЛГИЯ, 2020, 19’12’’ FICTION / ИГРАЛЕН
Director: Faustine Crespy
In a desolate parking lot bordering the ocean, three young surfers take off one suit and put on another as they go through the rituals of growing up.
Three men grieve, in their distinct ways, the unbearable absence of someone they loved, to the detriment of loving each other.
FRANCE / ФРАНЦИЯ, 2022, 06’20’’ FICTION, ANIMATION / ИГРАЛЕН,
Director: Célia SEBBANE
Producer: Atelier de Sèvres: Catherine TOTEMS
Patopistou is a jester who dreams of becoming a famous and respected sculptor.
MARKET SCREENING
RACONTE-MOI UNE HISTOIRE /
FRANCE / ФРАНЦИЯ, 2021, 06’05’’ ANIMATION / АНИМАЦИЯ
Director: ARZALIER Sara, BRENCI Albane, DANIEL Lucie, DURU Sacha, GIL Anaëlle, JACOB Alice, MUNOS Laura, TCHIRIKHTCHIAN Inès
Producer: ESMA
Every evening, Solen tells a fantastic story in which she’s the main character to her little sister Luna. However, Luna’s far from guessing the secret hidden between the lines....
REMY WANTS TO DIE /
FRANCE / ФРАНЦИЯ, 2022, 05’37’’ ANIMATION / АНИМАЦИЯ
Director: Naëlle GAVERIAUX
Producer: Catherine TOTEMS
Remy wants to die. No matter how hard he tries, he can’t do it. He inevitably fails in unlikely ways. However, this time, everything seems to be perfect. Just as he is about to succeed, a strange frog disrupts his plans.
ROALD / РОАЛД
FRANCE / ФРАНЦИЯ, 2022, 05’40’’ ANIMATION / АНИМАЦИЯ
A birthday party escalate when an toad who perceives life in a cute and colorful way meets a paranoiac fly.
Партито
срещне параноична муха.
ROOTLESS / БЕЗ КОРЕН
SWEDEN / ШВЕЦИЯ, 2021, 05’33’’ ANIMATION, EXPERIMENTAL /
Director: Karolina Bergman Engman
Producer: Karolina Bergman Engman
Rootless is an animated short film based on photographs, reflecting upon the processing of the memory of a lost home.
MARKET SCREENING
SAMIRA /
ITALY / ИТАЛИЯ, 2022, 09’14’’
FICTION / ИГРАЛЕН
Director: Massimiliano Battistella
Producer: Dorval Pittaluga
In her waiting spot, lost in a corner where loneliness joins a sea of dreams, Samira sells her body to the customers of her street.
SCRATCH
САМИРА ITALY / ИТАЛИЯ, 2022, 6’00’’ FICTION
Director: Ginevra Migliarini
Producer: Dario Laudati, Leonardo Kurtz
It is the first light of dawn when the door of the house opens and Cecilia, in a red dress and false eyelashes, sneaks in. Fotinì has been awake all night waiting for her and is now preparing to face her.
When stung by a nettle, Sarah avoids making it worse by not scratching her itch. As everyday irritations start to accumulate, will she be able to resist the urge?
SPIRITS OF THE NAVEL OF THE WORLD /
CHILE, AUSTRIA / ЧИЛИ, АВСТРИЯ, 2019, 08’00’’ ANIMATION / АНИМАЦИЯ
Director: Waitiare Kaltenegger Icka
Producer: Waitiare Kaltenegger Icka, Marcelo Varas
Antique Rapa Nui legend presented as an animation in native language.
A story based on true events of one woman believing another woman cast a spell on her and her baby.
История,
SUCKING DIESEL
Director: Sam McGrath
Producer: Aisling Malone
After a bungled robbery attempt, a caustic petrol station owner must choose whether to protect her idiot employee or turn him over to the most dangerous man in Ballybeg.
SUNKEN STONES /
ITALY / ИТАЛИЯ, 2022 / 14’30’’
FICTION / ИГРАЛЕН
Director: Jordi Penner
Producer: Marco Benvenuti, Jordi Penner, Motion Studio
In the apparent stillness of a solitary lake, two brothers come to terms with the past, bringing to surface a memory that is impossible to ignore.
SUPER JESUS /
ITALY / ИТАЛИЯ, 2022, 19’53’’ FICTION / ИГРАЛЕН
Director: Vito Palumbo
Producer: MoveArt Film
Режисьор: Вито
MoveArt Film
Carlo - a kid- and Ugo -SuperJesus-, meet under the shadow of the Great Steel Mill of Taranto.
MARKET SCREENING
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE /
GERMANY / ГЕРМАНИЯ, 2022, 20’00’’ FICTION / ИГРАЛЕН
Director: Maximlian Bungarten
Producer: Maximlian Bungarten
Lev works at a construction site in a new suburban residential area in Western Germany. But things change, friends will leave and the forest becomes a place of desire.
THE END OF THE END OF THE WORLD /
AUSTRIA / АВСТРИЯ, 2022, 24’00’’ FICTION / ИГРАЛЕН
Director: Meike Wüstenberg
Producer: Flora Mair
High school friends Mia and Esther share an obsession with Columbine High School shooters.
THE MIRACLE OF STRAWBERRY LEAF /
ITALY / ИТАЛИЯ, 2022, 14’00’’ FICTION, EXPERIMENTAL /
Director: Claudia De Salve
Producer: Claudia De Salve, Enrico De Salve
Born in Russia, transplanted to Italy, Borislav is a young orphan boy who decides to dedicate his death to his father on behalf of freedom.
Producer: Agata Golańska, The Polish National Film School in Lodz
Clara looses one tooth while sleeping. Swallowed by a gigantic mouth, she enters an underground world where a Surreal Sci Fi advertising invites her to “ELECTRODENT” a clinic that promises to fix teeth... but not only.
A man is waiting for a test results. He expects the worst but at the same time hopes for the best. Distressed and afraid he spends a week in a limbo of his own creation, neither here nor there, dreading the things that haven’t happened yet.
MARKET SCREENING
WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR /
ITALY / ИТАЛИЯ, 2022, 08’00’’ ANIMATION / АНИМАЦИЯ
Director: Domenico Modafferi
Producer: Giovanni Grandoni
The tooth-mouse moves quietly in the darkness of people’s homes. Зъбната
WIND DAY
ITALY / ИТАЛИЯ, 2022, 20’00” FICTION / ИГРАЛЕН
Director: Enrico Poli
Producer: Rosita D’Oria (Pharos Film Company s.r.l.)
In a world now condemned by pollution, a man realizes only in the face of death that perhaps there is really no time to change things.
YOUTHFUL /
FRANCE / ФРАНЦИЯ, 2021, 15’50’’ FICTION / ИГРАЛЕН
Director: Vincent Duluc-David
Producer: Seize bis, Marie Delhommeau, Vincent Duluc-David
Режисьор: Винсент Дюлюк-Дейвид Продуцент: Мари Деломо, Венсан Дюлюк-Дейвид, Seize bis
On his bike, Titouan is jealous of his older brother, Quentin, who has his own motorbike.
По време
пътуването
собствен мотор.
GERMANY / ГЕРМАНИЯ, 2022, 04’25’’ FICTION, ANIMATION
Director: Jonatan SCHWENK
Producer: Jonatan SCHWENK
Small shimmering animals are in heat. A two-legged forest dweller encounters the lustful group. He and his companions snack on the little creatures and soon a feast begins.
