Kim Quy Bui NGUOI TRUYEN GIONG

Vietnam, 2014, 87′
THE INSEMINATOR

Feeling that his end is near, a father seeks extreme measures to guarantee that his mentally disabled son would continue the family lineage.

Kim Quy Bui
Born in Hanoi, Viet Nam, in 1983. She graduated with a B.A in Screenwriting at the Hanoi Academy of Theatre and Cinema in 2006.
She has written and directed these following screenplays and short films: The Sheet, Why is there no moon during the day (both were screened at Tampere Film Festival 2009, Angel of dreams, 35mm Passed The New Year’s Eve. Her screenwriting credits for full-length films include: RH108, Love Puzzle, Dream, Piggyback, “Strangers”. She has also written several nationally broadcasted TV series.
She also teaches at the TPD Center of The Vietnam Cinema Association, Arena School of Multimedia Education, and the Hanoi Academy of Theater and Cinema.
In 2013, she wrote “The Inseminator”, her debut full-length feature film as a director.

nicolpham@gmail.com

Damir Čučić RAKIJAŠKI DNEVNIK

Croatia, 2015, 81′
THE SPIRITS DIARY

Mario Haber (a.k.a. Eric Maria Strom) was a “modern-day alchemist” – a professional sound engineer and a dedicated manufacturer of home-made brandy. His house in the centre of Samobor was a sort of a spirits ‘temple’ to which many of his friends were invited for a tasting of brandy and liqueurs which he produced illegally in his basement.
For more than a decade he recorded their lively conversations and the sounds in the house and around the alcohol distiller, until he died in the summer of 2014.
The Spirits Diary is a visual reconstruction of Haber’s audio recordings, “a film to be watched with one’s ears”.

Damir Čučić
(Brežice, Slovenia, 1972) He started working in the field of audio-visual arts in 1989, as a member of the Enthusia Planck filmmaking group. Over the course of the past two decades he has been developing in many different areas of the audio-visual media, primarily as a movie director and editor, as well as a screenwriter and producer. His works belong to the category of experimental, documentary and feature films. He has directed a total of 40 documentaries, experimental films and feature shorts, including Četvrta smjena (‘The Fourth Shift’), Bića sa slika (‘Creatures from Paintings’), Zaboravljeni (‘The Forgotten’), La Strada, Stolac za ljuljanje (‘The Rocking Chair’), and Arabeska (‘Arabesque’). He is the recipient of numerous national and international movie awards. His films have been screened at festivals in about forty countries, as well as on numerous European public televisions. His full-length feature debut Pismo ćaći (‘A Letter to My Father’) won the Golden Arena Award for a feature film at Pula Film Festival in 2012, and Čučić himself was awarded as the best editor and the best debutant. His documentary Mitch – dnevnik jednog šizofreničara (‘Mitch – The Diary of a Schizophrenic’) was awarded at the Marseille Festival of Documentary Film (FID), and was screened at prestigious festivals such as Sarajevo Film Festival and DokuFest in Prizren. The Spirits Diary is his fortieth film to date.

ivanaivisic@me.com

Jorge Forero VIOLENCIA

Colombia, 2015, 79′
VIOLENCE

A man in chains, a young man who dreams of being part of something, and a militant from an armed group who must exercise cruelty despite not believing in it – they are all in caught up in the violence that they do not understand. The film, through three successive stories, gives unique faces to the tragic reality of the war.
The characters, each voluntary or involuntary part of a mechanism that overcomes them, reveal their greatness or misery in the “minimum” tasks that they deal to survive. From that – sometimes morbid – poetry of the everyday and the irrefutable truth of the details, we are shown a country with a sick and injured society. However, it is a country where people wish to find happiness nonetheless, by trying to live, dream, and love.

Jorge Forero
Graduated from Colombia’s National University, studied at the San Antonio de los Baños Film School in Cuba, and has an MA in Visual Arts from the University of Sao Paulo. He directed the short films unos De esos Días and sometamos o matemos, and the documentaries en el FonDo Del Pozo and armero- Deconstrucción. His work has been broadcast on Colombian television and has screened at major festivals around the world. Forero joined with Diana Bustamente and Paola Pérez to found Burning Blue, a production company that has co-produced films such as Enrica Pérez’s climas (Warsaw, 2014) and Diego Lerman’s reFugiaDo (Cannes, 2014). Most recently, he produced César Acevedo’s la tierra y la somBra (Cannes, 2015)

pascale@pascaleramonda.com

Charliebebs Gohetia GUKOD SA HAPAK SA BALUD

Philippines, 2015, 92′
CHASING WAVES

Young Sipat’s family lives in the remote Southern Philippines community Panyan where he has spent his entire life. However, they are forced by their landlord to leave the mountains to migrate to the unfamiliar landscapes of the seaside. Nervous but excited, Sipat is convinced that his greatest dream of experiencing the beach will be fulfilled. As he counts down the days to his departure with his best friend En-En, he is unaware of what the future will hold. The semi-unexplored terrain of Barangay Tamugan with its peaks, caves, falls and rivers forms a dramatic backdrop to the natural, unaffected performances by the child actors.

Charliebebs Gohetia
Started editing films in 2005 when still a university student, working on Brillante Mendoza’s Masseur, The Teacher, Foster Child and Slingshot. He has edited for Filipino filmmakers including Adolf Alix, Jr., Joel Lamangan. Goheita’s debut feature The ‘Thank You’ Girls competed at the Vancouver International Film Festival and became a cult hit in the Philippines. His sophomore film The Natural Phenomenon of Madness (2011) screened at the BFI London Film Festival and the Vancouver International Film Festival and received five nominations at the 2012 Gawad Urian 2012 including Best Picture and Best Screenplay. His documentary, How to Make a Visayan Chopsuey (2014) won Special Jury Mention in October at the 1st Cine Totoo Philippine International Documentary Film Festival. His recent films are Love and Everything After and Chasing Waves.

bebs@brooklynparkpictures.com

Ingo Haeb DAS ZIMMERMÄDCHEN LYNN

Germany, 2014, 90′
THE CHAMBERMAID LYNN

No chambermaid is as thorough as Lynn Zapatek: her whole world revolves entirely around the task of cleaning. In order to understand what drives other people, she rummages through the possessions of the hotel guests and hides under their beds at night, hoping to find the secrets behind their lives. When she comes across the call girl Chiara, who offers her services in the hotel, she dares to venture out of her cocoon…

Ingo Haeb
He was born in Hamburg in 1970 and, after working as an intern in various capacities at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf, studied Directing at the Media School in Cologne and then Screenwriting at the German Film and Television Academy (dffb). His directorial debut, the drama NEANDERTAL, was released in 2008 and was followed in 2012 by the tragi-comedy SOHNEMÄNNER. Ingo Haeb was awarded the Eurovision Prize for his script of AM TAG ALS BOBBY EWING STARB, which won the 2005 Max Ophüls Prize. More recently he has written an episode of the series BLOCH and a full-length TV drama for WDR (together with his wife Christina Ebelt); he also worked with Studio Braun, a comedy trio from Hamburg, on a script entitled FRAKTUS – THE LAST CHAPTER OF MUSIC HISTORY, which will be their cinematic debut. For the film adaptation of “The Chambermaid”, a novel by Markus Orths, he once again functioned as director as well. Ingo Haeb lives in Cologne.

patra.spanou@yahoo.com

Mahmoud Kamel OUT OF ORDER

Egypt, 2014, 99′
OUT OF ORDER

A hustler and drug addict finds a crime video of a widow from his neighbourhood killing a child. He blackmails her to pay-off his debt only to get tangled in a twisted and altered relationship in which they fall into addiction until the murder is unexpectedly unraveled.

Mahmoud Kamel
A known film director he was born in Cairo, Egypt where he studied filmmaking in the Higher Institute of Cinema and graduated as top of his league. Made several award-winning short movies. After years of studying and working in Europe, he went back home to work on his feature Gil Project Mekano. His films include Mekano, a romantic psychodrama, Adrenaline, Adam’s Village. As a winner of the Fullbright commission grant, travelled to the US to do a Masters in independent filmmaking and production at the UCLA. Later returned to Egypt to direct a TV series called The Blind Cat. Then he directed and co-wrote his fourth feature Midnight Party, a one-location movie. Working on a TV series in Dubai, while preparing for his fifth feature film.

abdallah.alshami@mad-solutions.com

Juan Daniel F. Molero VIDEOFILIA (Y OTROS SÍNDROMES VIRALES)

Peru, 2015, 103’
VIDEOPHILIA (AND OTHER VIRAL SYNDROMES)

A teenage misfit spends her first days out of school slacking and experimenting with drugs and cybersex. She meets Junior online, he’s an amateur porn dealer on a delusional journey regarding the end of the world and other conspiracy theories. Once they meet in the ‘real world’ unusual events start to unfold as bizarre characters appear in this contemporary non-love story that takes place in a Lima of spiritual decay, psychodelia and pre-Inca ruins splattered within the city sprawl. Videophilia is the reason why this film and its characters are mutating into something over which we have no control.

Juan Daniel F. Molero
Born in Lima in 1987. Filmmaker, film editor and cultural entrepreneur based in Lima, having also lived in Buenos Aires and New York where he earned his first experience in film journalism, video blogging, experimental film and film programming. Founded Tiempo Libre Studio in 2012 with which he makes films, workshops, screenings, editing residencies, and other film related activities. His work is specialized in lo-fi, genre bending and hybridization of images that have manifested in non-fiction and experimental narratives screened at many renowned international venues and festivals such as MoMA, Rotterdam, New Horizons, BAFICI, FIDMarseille, Valdivia, Filmadrid, Lima Independiente and La Habana. His latest feature film, Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes), won the first Tiger Award for Peruvian cinema at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2015 and got the Hubert Bals Fund for Post-Production in Fall 2014.

jd@tiempo-libre.org

Andrea Baldini FERDINAND KNAPP

France, 2014, 15′
FERDINAND KNAPP

Ferdinand Knapp is the pre-eminent actor in French theatre, revered by all. While preparing for a new play, the lines between his character’s malevolent personality and his own begin to blur until reality warps into a nightmare, compelling him to commit an irredeemable act. Freely inspired by the astronautic-cathodic vicissitudes of the great mining engineer of the mental system, Oreste Fernando Nannetti, who died at the Volterra psychiatric hospital in 1994. But still he endures, like a shadow beneath the cosmos.

Andrea Baldini
Was born in Italy and lives in Paris. After studying cinema at the University of Pisa, he directed two short films chosen for numerous festivals and put on as video installations in several European cities. His short film Ferdinand Knapp had its international premiere in competition at the 71° Mostra d’Arte Cinematografica di Venezia, and has already won multiple international prizes. He is currently developing his first feature film.

a.baldini@ymail.com

Gregg Biermann ITERATIONS

USA, 2014, 5’ 37’’
ITERATIONS

“A sequence from Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954) is sliced into nineteen columns, each moving at a slightly different speed, getting progressively faster from left to right. Only at one instant do all nineteen columns briefly align. This film invites us to experience different instants of the scene simultaneously, invoking our desire for time to cohere into a single instant but only briefly allowing for this satisfaction.” — Jaimie Baron

Gregg Biermann
A video artist whose work comes out of the avant-garde filmmaking tradition but takes advantage of the power of recent digital technologies to advance rigorous compositional strategies.

mubbazoo@optonline.net

Mariana Caló & Francisco Queimadela A TRAMA E O CÍRCULO

Portugal, Italy, 2014, 35’
THE MESH AND THE CIRCLE

Over the course of several months, Mariana Caló and Francisco Queimadela collected visual testimonies of various labour and ludic activities and other daily practices rooted in empirical knowledge. Establishing intuitive relations between concrete gestures and substances, sensorial experiences and analogical thinking, the authors have created a fragmentary film immersed on the idea of transformation of matter, generating a revolving movement that metamorphoses itself over time.

Mariana Caló & Francisco Queimadela
Mariana Caló (PT, 1984) and Francisco Queimadela (PT, 1985) began their sharing and collaboration during their studies at the Fine Arts Academy in Oporto and have been working as an artist duo since 2010. Their practice is developed with a privileged use of moving images, which intersects installative and site‐specific environments, and also drawing, painting, photography and sculpture. Grantees of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation for an international artist’s residency in Gasworks and awardees of the BES Revelation prize, in 2012. Finalists of the10th edition of Edp New Artists prize and winners of the Lo Schermo dell’ arte Film Festival International Prize, in 2013.They have present their work in several exhibitions.

dir.portugalfilm@indielisboa.com

Pierre Yves Clouin SHOOTING STAR

France, 2015, 4’
SHOOTING STAR

It is because I’m shooting this star that this star is a shooting star…

Pierre Yves Clouin
P. Y. Clouin’s videos have been selected in festivals worldwide: the International Film Festivals of San Francisco, Chicago, Thessaloniki, Moscow, Split, Los Angeles, the Biennial of Moving Images Geneva, VideoBrasil, Videonale, Ars Electronica, Sundance and FID Marseille.

py@clouin.fr

Camilo Colmenares QUIMTAI

Germany, 2015, 6’ 5’’
QUIMTAI

Play of abstract forms, patterns, rhythms and sounds. “Quimtai” is an experimental animation based upon pre-colombian patterns of the now extinct Tairona and Quimbaya indigenous cultures of Colombia.
The animation was laser engraved directly onto 35mm Black Lead film.

Camilo Colmenares
Born 1976 in Bogotá, Colombia, graduated from the Film School of the National University of Colombia in 2004. In 2014 he finished his postgraduate studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM). “Quimtai” is his graduation project at the KHM. He lives and works in Cologne.

camilocolmenares@gmail.com

Kadesha Drija TIMID SUCTION

UK, 2015, 4’ 20’’
TIMID SUCTION

Timid Suction is a 2D, hand-drawn animation short tackling everyday experiences of unhappy couples. Adopting a darkly comical tone, it depicts a growing domestic malaise within an ageing relationship.

Kadesha Drija
22-year-old animator and filmmaker living in London who specialises in 2D animation. After recently graduating from The University of Westminster with First-Class Honours in a BA Animation, Kadesha has been busy working on a number of different projects. Having honed her 2D Animation skills for the last three years, Kadesha has had experience working on a number of different animation films with a mixture of techniques.

kadeshadrija@gmail.com

Cesar Gananian & Alexandre Moura FILME SOM

Brazil, 2014, 9’ 17’’
FILM SOUND

Roberto Michelino is an inventor of sound instruments who goes through the city surrounded by sounds he creates himself. The plastic and sound composition are an invitation for the audience to immerse in a hypnotic and kinesthetic experience. A film to see the sound and to listen to the images.

Cesar Gananian
Graduated in Cinema at the FAAP University of São Paulo and studied his masters in film direction at the Escuela de Cine y Television Septima Ars in Madrid. He has always had an intense relationship with short film productions. Having directed more than six short films and one feature film in Brazil, Spain and Armenia, he has participated in the leading Brazilian festivals and at several international festivals. He founded his own film producer FILMDESIGN in 2010, and has worked as an editor and screen writer for Tv Folha. The videos written/edited by Cesar – in Brazil and also in New York -­ have reached more than 3 million views. One of his videos has won the most important journalistic prize in Brazil, the Esso Journalism Award.

cesargananian@hotmail.com

Max Hattler ALL ROT

UK, Germany, Hong Kong, 2015, 4’
ALL ROT

Responding to the compositional and aesthetic qualities of abstract expressionism and cameraless animation, All Rot uses photographic reanimation to render the mundane environment of a decaying crazy golf course into a rapturous split-screen experiment in synaesthetic cinema.

Max Hattler
German animation and new media artist Max Hattler holds an MA in Animation from the Royal College of Art and a Doctorate in Fine Art from the University of East London. His short films, animation installations and audiovisual performances challenge the spaces between abstraction and figuration, aesthetics and politics, sound and image, precision and improvisation. Most recent works include The Many Faces of Fernando Pessoa, Wayúu pattern-inspired animation triptych —O|, abstract split-screen film All Rot, and the Hattlerizer 2.0 live performance. Max has taught, exhibited and performed around the world. He lives in Hong Kong where he is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.

festivals@maxhattler.com

Fabien Kaiser DE SCHNUUF

Switzerland, 2014, 11’
THE BREATH

Deep underground the action force is preparing for the imminent case of emergency. Surveillance cameras are tracking the descent. The head is burning. Constriction puts pressure on the chest. In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.

Fabian Kaiser
Born in Herisau in 1986, Fabian Kaiser grew up in Eastern Switzerland and worked as a graphic designer for several years. He graduated in film from the Zurich University of the Arts (zhdK) and is in his Master studies in film editing.

laura.zimmermann@zhdk.ch

Thomas Kaske DOCUMENT: HOYERSWERDA | FRONTEX

Germany, 2014, 16’
DOCUMENT: HOYERSWERDA | FRONTEX

Four contract workers from Mozambique are reporting their view of the racial attacks, which happened in Hoyerswerda in September 1991. Their stories were captured in the form of protocols with the help of Waltraud Spill, a German woman who helped a lot of African co-workers to deal with the daily life in the former GDR. These protocols and edited Archive Footage from Hoyerswerda are combined with surveillance footage from Frontex where you can see how the arrests of refugees were recorded by a drone. Frontex uses this footage for internal trainings.
What does this make one think of the last 23 years of the European asylum policy? Could these stories have also taken place at the Greek-Turkish border in 2015?

Thomas Kaske
Born in 1984 in East Brandenburg. During school he was also living in Nairobi.
He finished his M.F.A in Media Art / Media Design at Bauhaus University Weimar. He produced different short documentaries in Berlin and Vienna. Since 2008 he is working for the MA Visual and Media Anthropology at the FU Berlin. He is interested in the use of archive footage and in rewriting and deconstructing history through Media Art.
In 2015 he joined the production company Molly Aida Film as a Junior Producer.

tkaske@posteo.de

Daniel King THE GLASS RECORD

USA, 2014, 5’ 33’’
THE GLASS RECORD

A skipping across the mediated surface of scanner architecture. A not-so-exhaustive visual accumulation of reflection and transparency at the contact point where the physical becomes digital. What happens when looking becomes recording? When does transparent glass reveal its opaque nature? The Glass Record seeks to expose the invisible surface that has become ubiquitous in a hall of two mirrors.

Daniel King
A visual artist and educator from the United States focusing on the way technological progress relates to a sense of human presence and place using still and moving images, in a lens-based practice. King has exhibited his photographs, films, and videos nationally and internationally, in visual art exhibitions, sound art installations, and film festival screenings.

contact.dking@gmail.com

Vladislav Knežević A.D.A.M.

Croatia, 2014, 12’ 45’’
A.D.A.M.

A film about the attempt to obtain control over a monitored piece of space junk which unexpectedly gained consciousness.

Vladislav Knežević
Studied filmmaking at the Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Art and De Vrije Academie (Audio-visual Dept.) in Den Haag. Professionally works as a freelance director for TV and various productions since 1993. He has been into experimental film, video and sound processing since 1988. He has also initiated and organized several film programmes and presentations (Reference to Difference, Videodrome TV edition, 25th FPS Festival).

vanja@bonobostudio.hr

Nina Kreuzinger RETTUNGSGRIFFE

Austria, 2014, 7’ 50’’
RESCUE GRIPS

Injured, wounded, exhausted, unconscious people everywhere. Can the world still be saved or: Can we save each other?

Nina Kreuzinger
Analog photographer: Super8, 16mm, 35mm and 6×6 medium format. Born in 1976, lives in Vienna, Austria. 2008 – 2012 film studies with Friedl Kubelka/vom Gröller at the School for Independent Film and Artistic Photography. 1996 – 2009 communication studies, sociology and German philology (University of Vienna, master`s degree). 2010 – 2012 Street Casting for Ulrich Seidl (“Paradise: Love”, “Paradise: Hope”,“Im Keller”) and Prisma Film (“Schubert and I”), assistance for “In the Open“ by Albert Sackl (Nomination European Film Awards 2012). Journalist since 1997 (daily newspapers, magazines, radio).

nina.kreuzinger@ymail.com

Hyung-suk Lee NAN MIYONGSAGA ANIYA

South Korea, 2014, 18’
I’M NOT A HAIRDRESSER

A man working at the death experience service helps an old woman and her grandson to go through an unusual experience.

Hyung-suk Lee
Born in Seoul, South Korea. He is currently studying at Graduate School of Communication and Arts Yonsei University. His first short film, Templementary (2001) was screened for the Wide Angle section in the 6th Pusan International Film Festival. Chapter 2 : How To Breathe (2002) won Best Short Film Award at Pusan International Film Festival. Under Construction (2005) won Best Asian Short Film Award at Bangkok International Film Festival. Western Movie (2010) was screened for the Dragons & Tigers series in Vancouver International Film Festival.

film@paran.com

Pierre Liebaert LIBRE MAINTENANT

Belgium, 2014, 11’ 20’’
FREE NOW

The models who replied to his ad wanted to pose in the intimacy of closed doors, as if this face to face with the photographer whom they knew nothing about was the one thing they had been waiting for.

Pierre Liebaert
Born in 1990 in Mons, Belgium. He graduated from the Superior School of Image Arts Le 75 in 2011, Brussels.

pierre.liebaert@hotmail.com

Michael MacGarry FLIES.

South Africa, 2014, 10’
FLIES.

Set in Pretoria, South Africa in 1995, the film concerns an elderly Afrikaans former-civil servant (municipal architect) whom – years after the death of his family in an accident – is the sole inhabitant of a large, derelict downtown apartment complex he once designed. When he accidentally witnesses a political assassination, he is forced into a violent confrontation with modernity, and is ultimately killed by his own building.

Michael MacGarry
A visual artist and filmmaker based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He holds a Masters Degree in Fine Art from the University of the Witwatersrand. He is a fellow of the Gordon Institute of Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) at the University of Cape Town and recipient of the Standard Bank Young Artist Award 2010 (Visual Art). As a filmmaker he has written and directed five narrative short films, and five feature-length video artworks, and is a recipient of an El Ray Award – Excellence in Narrative Short Filmmaking, Barcelona Film Festival 2015 as well as a nominee for the Huysmans Young African Filmmaker Award 2015. As a visual artist Michael has exhibited internationally for more than ten years including TATE Modern, Guggenheim Bilbao, Kiasma Museum – and has published four monographs on his work. His practice is focused on the ongoing ramifications of imperialism on the African continent.

mike@mod-am.com

Carlo Francisco Manatad JUNILYN HAS

Philippines, 2015, 15’
JUNILYN HAS

The papal visit has left dancers in a nightclub jobless. While waiting for the Pope to leave, Junilyn is forced to practice a few tricks her boss picked up from Thailand. Soon she realizes that there is no liberty in escape and that true freedom lies in being bold.

Carlo Francisco Manatad
A filmmaker from the Philippines. A graduate of the University of the Philippines Film Institute where his short film Hollow (Hungkag), was awarded Best Thesis Film. One of the most prolific editors in the Philippines today, he has collaborated with numerous filmmakers for independent and mainstream film projects. He is also an alumnus of the Asian Film Academy, the Berlinale Talent Campus, and the Docnet Campus Project. He is currently working on his first feature film, A Wrong Season (Diri Maupay na Panahon) – about the devastation of his hometown by a supertyphoon.

carlo.manatad@gmail.com

Carlo Francisco Manatad JUNILYN HAS

Philippines, 2015, 15’
JUNILYN HAS

The papal visit has left dancers in a nightclub jobless. While waiting for the Pope to leave, Junilyn is forced to practice a few tricks her boss picked up from Thailand. Soon she realizes that there is no liberty in escape and that true freedom lies in being bold.

Carlo Francisco Manatad
A filmmaker from the Philippines. A graduate of the University of the Philippines Film Institute where his short film Hollow (Hungkag), was awarded Best Thesis Film. One of the most prolific editors in the Philippines today, he has collaborated with numerous filmmakers for independent and mainstream film projects. He is also an alumnus of the Asian Film Academy, the Berlinale Talent Campus, and the Docnet Campus Project. He is currently working on his first feature film, A Wrong Season (Diri Maupay na Panahon) – about the devastation of his hometown by a supertyphoon.

carlo.manatad@gmail.com

Courtney Marsh WAR WITHIN THE WALLS

USA, Vietnam, 2015, 28’
WAR WITHIN THE WALLS

Chau, a teenager living in a Vietnamese care center for kids disabled by Agent Orange, struggles with the reality of his dream to one day become a professional artist.

Courtney Marsh
Originally from South Florida, Courtney Marsh received her BFA from UCLA’s School of Film and Television. Upon graduating, Courtney worked extensively in the camera department under the mentorship of Salvatore Totino, ASC, AIC. Her short films have screened internationally and she has participated in programs with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences as well as Film Independent. Currently, Courtney is traveling to festivals to promote two of her short films while writing her first feature screenplay.

jerryfranck@gmail.com

Jolene Mok & Troels Primdahl FÓLK. HREYFINGAR. STAÐIR.

Iceland, 2014, 14’24’’
PEOPLE. MOVES. PLACES.

How to document or capture the particular ‘tone’ of homegrown inhabitants living in their everyday surroundings? And how to get each of them to express their own character with such an authenticity, that their portraits might even reveal something that they didn’t knew about themselves?

Jolene Mok
Born in 1984 in Hong Kong. An experimental artist, she takes video art & experimental film as her major creative platforms. Mok earned her M.F.A. in Experimental & Documentary Arts at Duke University in 2013. In 2012, she was a guest resident artist aboard R/V Atlantis for a major scientific research expedition as to explore deep-sea seeps off Barbados. Mok is currently on itinerant taking part in artist-in-residency programs.

Troels Primdahl
Born in 1984 in South Korea. Started as a choreographer and interdisciplinary artistic director. He has been studying MA in ‘Aesthetics and Culture’ at Aarhus University and trained at Aarhus Art Academy in ‘Installation and Conceptual Art’. Based in Berlin. Through his recent explorations of interdisciplinary approaches he searches for new transgressive interventions in the aesthetic mode of expression as well as in the existential and psychological questions in the political landscape.

lenelenelenejo@gmail.com

David Muñoz EL JUEGO DEL ESCONDITE

Spain, 2014, 23’
HIDE AND SEEK

A film crew travels to Lebanon to shoot a “Hide & Seek” game film in a Syrian
refugee camp.

David Muñoz
He writes, directs and produces documentary and fiction films, with more than 100 awards and 500 selections in film festivals. Winner of Goya Award to Best Short Documentary for “Flowers of Rwanda”. His film “The Infinite Jest” was a Jury Award for Best Short Documentary at the Aljazeera Documentary Film Festival. His film “Another Night on Earth” won the Film Critics FIPRESCI Award at DOK Leipzig, the NHK Presidential Award, also the Best Feature Documentary Award at Guanajuato International Film Festival. His short fiction film “About Ndugu” was a world premiere at the 63 Berlinale and Best Andalusian Short Film in Almeria International Film Festival. “Hide & Seek” was a World premiere at the 65 Berlinale Shorts official competition and a Jury Award, Biznaga de Plata, at the 18th Festival de Cine de Malaga.

hibrida@hibrida.es

Kerstin Neuwirth DIE BERGFRAU

Germany, Austria, 2014, 18’
MOUNTAIN MOTHER

Hallways. Doors. A donkey. The mother.
Water is flooding the room.
A girl in a river between vision and memory.

Kerstin Neuwirth
Born in Wolfsberg, Austria, in 1986, she lives and works in Cologne.
2006 – 2008 University of Vienna, Art History and Romance Languages
and Literature
2007 – 2008 University of Applied Arts Vienna, guest Photography student
2008 – 2014 Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Media and Fine Arts
Diploma Degree

ute.dilger@khm.de

Ken Ochiai SUMO ROAD – THE MUSICAL

Japan , 2015, 25’
SUMO ROAD ~ THE MUSICAL

An overweight exchange student with no friends decides to join the sumo team at a Japanese university. But to ensure his spot, he must stand up to the team leader and face him in an ultimate sumo match. Can he embrace the spirit of sumo or will he be cast out and friendless once again?

Ken Ochiai
Made his first film at age 12. Immediately following his high school graduation, he left his hometown of Tokyo, Japan, to pursue his dream of becoming a film director in the United States. To date, he has directed three theatrical features, and over 30 short films, commercials, and music videos. His first feature film, “Tiger Mask” (based on a legendary Japanese comic book series), was released in the fall of 2013 in several Asian countries. His second feature film, “Uzumasa Limelight,” was released in 2014. It won the Chevel Noir (Best Picture) and for Best Actor at the Fantasia International Film Festival, the Crystal Heart Award at the Heartland Film Festival, two audience awards at the New York Asian Film Festival, and Camera Japan in Holland. He was honored with the title of New American Filmmaker at the Hawaii International Film Festival, and received the Young Alumni Award from the USC Asian Pacific Alumni Association in recognition of his achievements in filmmaking.

assistant@kenochiai.com

Moira Pitteloud L’OFFRE

Switzerland, 2014, 14’31’’

THE OFFER
Sami, a young Swiss-Algerian man, goes to Bern to apply for a position in the Swiss Bureau of Intelligence. Applicants vying for the position are not allowed to discuss the recruitment process. But when he returns home, Sami can’t help telling his family about his employment possibility. All hell breaks loose.
Sami, who is nearly thirty, is torn between his professional ambitions, his conscience and his loyalty to his family. But it’s high time he found a job.
As the recruitment process becomes increasingly obscure, Sami is forced to wonder why he is being sought out for the position. Is it because of his qualifications or because of his Arab/Muslim background?

Moira Pitteloud
Born in 1990 in Lausanne, Switzerland. 2009 Studies Visual Arts at HGK (Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst) Basel. 2011-14 Attends HEAD-Genève (Haute école d’art et de design – Genève). 2014 BA in Cinema from HEAD-Genève.

Filmography
• 2014 L’offre, fiction, 14’
• 2013 La part des choses, fiction, short
• 2012 La brèche, fiction, short

frauke.knappke@magnetfilm.de

Nicolas Pourliaros HALF-LIFE

Greece, 2014, 5’ 33’’
HALF-LIFE

Harry is a young man in his thirties, who lives in Athens. We find him in the most difficult period of his life. He doesn’t have any money, he doesn’t have a job, they have cut his water supply because he could not pay the bills for his apartment. He is desperate and we see him taking a risky decision for his future in order to survive in Greece in the time of crisis.

Nicolas Pourliaros
Born in Thessaloniki, the second largest city in Greece. He studied Journalism, English, Italian, Film direction. For the last fourteen year he works as magazine writer and since 2005 he is a columnist in the most famous Greek magazine “TV Viewer”. These days he is writing a new script for an upcoming film and he is planing to study a new language.

npour@me.com

Yang Qiu CASTLES

Australia, China, 2015, 12’ 47’’
CASTLES

Who is building the castles?

Yang Qiu
Born and raised in Changzhou, China. He was selected to the prestigious directing course at the Victorian College of the Arts.
In 2013, his short “The World” was selected into several international film festivals including the 63rd Melbourne International Film Festival. His short “Under the Sun” was selected for the 68th Festival de Cannes’ Cinéfondation. It was the only Asian short film in the official selection.
Qiu is currently developing his first feature project.

whoisqiuyang@gmail.com

SHORTS COMPETITION 2006 – SPECIAL AWARD – Emily Rochardson / PETROLIA

SHORTS COMPETITION 2006
SPECIAL AWARD

Emily Rochardson
PETROLIA
UK

Iñaki Sagastume TRA LA VITA E IL SONNO

Spain, 2014, 21’
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN LIFE AND SLEEP

A time-space where oscillating forces are let loose. Somewhere between life and sleep, light and darkness.

Iñaki Sagastume
Producer with a long experience in the field of the non-fiction films, who also makes his own film-works as a research method or just for the pleasure of it (with 8mm, Super8 and digital&analog video). The films he has produced or coordinated, and his own films, have been screened at a variety of international festivals, venues, TVs and online platforms. He collaborates with the Association Banda Bat in organizing Nokodek, a visual/sound experimental festival. He has also made live cinema sets for Minúsculo, Iñigo Ugarteburu, Fernando Carvalho and Ilia Mayer. He founded Filmotive in Bilbao in 2010 after having lived and worked in Barcelona.

info@filmotive.com

Mauricio Sanhueza DO YOU SMELL THAT?

Peru, 2014, 2’
DO YOU SMELL THAT?

In July 2012 Peru, according with The White House report (U.S.A.) regained its former distinction as the world’s top cocaine producer with 358 tons. This work portrays, in a sarcastic way, the mechanisms of power and the double discourse of a country that is promoted as a tourist destination but is ultimately better known for drug trafficking, and the violence and the death that this brings with it, not only within Peru but around the world.

Mauricio Sanhueza
(Peru,1978) Studied at the University of Lima from 1996 until 2000. He then continued his studies at the Lima visual arts school, Corriente Alterna, graduating in 2006 with top honors. In 2011 he obtain a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from San Marcos University. He has participated in several collective art exhibits and festivals in Peru and abroad since 2004. His videos have been screened at many international video-art and experimental short-film festivals and have won many awards.

huesos24@hotmail.com

Sabine Schöbel EZB 2011-2012. EINE SUPER8-UNTERSUCHUNG

Germany, 2014, 8’
ECB 2011-2012. SUPER 8 RESEARCH

While the turbulence that led to the European financial crisis in 2011 raged, a new skyscraper was being built for the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. This film was realised using super 8 footage taken over a year observing said construction site. Notions of time and crisis are expressed in the titles of the three chapters: “Exchange rate”, “Slow motion” and “Stills”. And more characters appear in this 7-minute-long experimental film in the final chapter “credits. To conclude, atop a golden dome of the shells of towers, a Greek flag flies high. EZB 2011-2012 was nominated for the Award of German Filmcritics 2014 (Best experimental film).

Sabine Schöbel
A film studies scholar and artist. She studied History of Art, German, Romance Language Studies and Architecture in Regensburg, Granada, Madrid and Potsdam and completed her doctorate at Frankfurt University on the first generation of female filmmakers in Europe. Sabine Schöbel work spans film studies, cinema, production design and experimental film. Her films Lupinen Löschen, Grunske, Heinrich and EZB 2011-2012 are all part of Arsenal’s distribution range. From 2010–2012 she was managing director of the Bundesverband kommunale Filmarbeit in Frankfurt/Main, since 2012, she works at the Berlin University of the Arts.

sasch@sasch-berlin.de

Momoko Seto PLANET ∑

France, 2014, 12’
PLANET ∑

Giant creatures are trapped inside the ice. Submarine explosions provoke a global warming, and a new life begins for animals.
Third piece from the PLANET series, after PLANET A (Locarno 2008) and PLANET Z (Berlinale 2011).

Momoko Seto
Born in Tokyo in 1980. She went to Tokyo’s French High School and then came to France to study fine arts at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Marseille and the Studio National des Arts Contemporains of Le Fresnoy.
She works at the French CNRS as a director and at the same time she also works on personal experimental shorts combining different techniques to create an original and poetic world based on everyday life elements. She lives and works in France.

carole.arlequin@gmail.com

Wojciech Sobczyk LATO 2014

Poland, 2014, 12’
SUMMER 2014

Harsh but poetic, the film is a treaty about the desire of domination and violence as the driving force of history, shown in the spectrum of grey. After a great battle, the surrounding landscape, devoured by great fire, looks apocalyptic. Meaningless flags flutter in a dead field. The film presents history as a sequence of recurring plagues and misfortunes where man, trying to find his own place, gets lost even more and falls even lower.

Wojciech Sobczyk
Animated film director, illustrator and photographer. He was born in 1974 in Piotrków Trybunalski. He graduated from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow where he currently works as an academic at the Animated Film Studio. His animated films “A Ladder” (1997) and “Spring 1999” (2000) have been screened at numerous festivals and film reviews in Poland and abroad.

marta.swiatek@kff.com.pl

Maryam Tafakory I WAS FIVE WHEN I BECAME A WOMAN

UK, 2014, 5’
I WAS FIVE WHEN I BECAME A WOMAN

An emotional tapestry that invites you to briefly share the lifelong torment of genital mutilation still forced upon many young girls around the world.

Maryam Tafakory
(B. 1987, Iran) An animator and filmmaker living and working in London. She explores allegorical forms of visual narrative, inner monologues and storytelling in her part-documentary work, using abstracted, symbolic and textual motifs to convey a range of issues, struggles, protagonists and their representation on screen.

maryam@tafakory.com

Friedrich Tiedtke UNTEN DURCH

Njemačka / Germany, 2014, 4’ 30’’
DISFAVOUR

A little girl blocks a chubby man’s way. As he doesn’t want to be part of her game, a flood of accusations comes over him, in which he becomes a victim of a very self-satisfied generation of parents.

Friedrich Tiedtke
Born in 1991 in Eckernförde (Germany), Friedrich Tiedtke started making films when he was 12 years old. Since then he has directed numerous short films. He finished school in 2011. Having lived in Berlin for three years, he now works in Copenhagen (Denmark).

ft.produktion@gmx.de

Tuan Anh Tran Nguyen DOWNTOWN

Singapore, 2014, 1’ 32’’
DOWNTOWN

Downtown: There all the lights will glow.

Tran Nguyen Tuan Anh
(Born 1993) A visual artist based in Danang. He’s currently studying Digital Animation and Visual Developments at the School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

ezkhee@ntu.edu.sg

Theodore Ushev SONÁMBULO

Canada, 2015, 4’ 20’’
THE SLEEPWALKER

With the shade around her waist / she dreams on her balcony, […] Under the gypsy moon, / all things are watching her / and she cannot see them.
A surrealist journey through colours and shapes inspired by the poem Romance Sonámbulo by Federico García Lorca. Visual poetry in the rhythm of fantastic dreams and passionate nights.

Theodore Ushev
Theodore Ushev (1968) is an animator, graphic designer, illustrator and multimedia artist. He graduated from the National Academy of Arts in Sofia and moved to Montréal in 1999 to explore new media and digital animation. He is the director of award winning films such as Gloria Victoria, Lipsett Diaries, Drux Flux, Tower Bawher and many others.

vanja@bonobostudio.hr

Jan van IJken THE ART OF FLYING

The Netherlands, 2015, 7’
THE ART OF FLYING

Short film about “murmurations”: the mysterious flights of the Common Starling. It is still unknown how the thousands of birds are able to fly in such dense swarms without colliding. Every night the starlings gather at dusk to perform their stunning air show.
Because of the relatively warm winter of 2014/2015, the starlings stayed in the Netherlands instead of migrating southwards. This gave the filmmaker the opportunity to film one of the most spectacular and amazing natural phenomena on Earth.

Jan van IJken
(Amersfoort, the Netherlands 1965) A documentary photographer and filmmaker. He is specializing in personal photo and film projects.

info@janvanijken.com

Osi Wald SHIKOOF

Israel, 2014, 4’ 22’’
REFLECTION

An Israeli actor lands a supporting role in a major Hollywood production. He goes on an inner journey giving in to his fears on the day of his departure to the other Promised Land.

Osi Wald
An animation artist working in diverse techniques and for different formats.
In her work she explores the connections between dance and animation – collaborating with various choreographers in creating live shows, installations and video dance.
Key member of the animation team of “Waltz with Bashir” and “The Congress” by Ari Folman.
Lecturer at Bezalel Academy Of Arts And Design and at the School of Visual Theatre, Jerusalem.

festivals@jsfs.co.il

Izumi Yoshida KINKI

Poland, 2015, 10’
KINKI

Darkest secrets of the heart are revealed in a moment of total despair. Human life always remains confronted by death. Suicide is perceived as a form of loyalty to oneself.

Izumi Yoshida
Born in 06.22.1989 in Lodz.
2004 – 2009 A. Asnyk High School in Lodz. Class with German as the language of instruction.
2009 – 2014 The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz. Master’s Program in Film Animation and Special Effects.
2014 – present The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz. PhD Program in Film Animation and Special Effects.

festiwale@fumistudio.com

Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso SOUTHEAST ASIAN CINEMA: WHEN THE ROOSTER CROWS

Singapore, Italy, 2014, 88′
SOUTHEAST ASIAN CINEMA: WHEN THE ROOSTER CROWS

At one level, there are four subjects in this documentary: Brillante Mendoza – ultra neo-realist and pioneer in the regionalisation of Philippine Cinema; Pen-Ek Ratanaruang – American-educated “isolated man” and improvisational Thai New Wave auteur; Eric Khoo – an icon of Singaporean filmmaking and a food-loving, heat-hating lover of country and cinema; and Garin Nugroho – multicultural political filmmaker and magical realist extraordinaire.
At another level, there are four other subjects – the lives of ordinary people in provisional Philippines, an increasingly divided Thailand, censorship in Singapore, and an Indonesia finding its way through messy democracy.
Altogether, this is a wonderful celebration of the diversity and richness of Southeast Asian Cinema.

Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso
He has been working on the stage of the entertainment world as actor, director in theater since 1995. In 2000 he started his career in film with different courses of acting, directing, cinematography, editing in Italy and abroad. He graduated in cinema at La Sapienza university of Rome and in filmmaking at the New York Film Academy. He won a prize with the short film La città di Asterix in the Rome Fiction Fest 2010. In the same year, 2010, he made the documentary Through Korean Cinema produced by Blue Film and distributed by Wide House. It was screened in Busan Film Festival (Korea) and Tokyo Film Festival. His last work was a Behind-the-scenes of the Davide Manuli’s movie The Legend of Kaspar Hauser, and a Behind-the-scenes of Happy days Motel by Francesca Staach.

contact@margofilms.com

HPG FILS DE

France, 2014, 70′
WHAT’S YOUR JOB DADDY?

As he prepares to start shooting his new feature film, pornstar HPG witnesses his son’s first steps. His girlfriend, Gwen, sees it as an opportunity to put him against the wall: either he continues his life alone as a porn actor-director, or he takes responsibility and becomes a traditional filmmaker and a normal dad.
Shamelessly, he decides to stop everything and leaves his team in the lurch to shoot an improvised documentary on fatherhood. Camera in hand, he begins to ask his friends and relatives: how to be a good father? Between porn shootings, bottle-feeding and family discussions – a tragicomic week in the life of HPG.

HPG
A 45-year-old actor, director and producer of pornographic films, a pioneer of “gonzo” cinema in France. His autobiographical documentary HPG son vit, son oeuvre created a scandal and in 2006, HPG directed his first feature film, We should not exist, selected for the Directors’ Fortnight. In 2011, he confided thousands of hours of behind-the-scenes footage to the artist Raphael Siboni that gave rise to the documentary There is no sexual rapport. In 2012, he directed Hips Moves, distributed by Capricci, starring Eric Cantona and Rachida Brakni.

pierre.boivin@capricci.fr

Cem Kaya REMAKE, REMIX, RIP-OFF

Germany, Turkey, 2014, 96′
REMAKE, REMIX, RIP-OFF

Turkey in the 1960s and 1970s was one of the biggest producers of film in the world even though its film industry, Yeşilçam, didn’t have enough written material to start with. In order to keep up with the demand, screenwriters and directors were copying scripts and remaking movies from all over the world. Name any Western hit film, there’s a Turkish version to it, be it Tarzan, Dracula, The Wizard of Oz, The Exorcist, Rambo, Superman or Star Wars. These quickly and low-budget produced look-alike movies were adapted to the taste of local audiences with huge success in the rural Anatolian hinterland. What they lacked in equipment and budget they compensated through excessive use of manpower both behind and in front of the camera:
if Luke Skywalker hits one time, Turkish action hero Cüneyt Arkın hits a hundred times – and we know he means it!

Cem Kaya
A documentary filmmaker from Berlin with a quirky interest in found footage work. Coming from the field of cultural studies and trained as a cutter, his films combine a tense and often humorous storytelling with deep background knowledge of the issues he deals with. “Remake, Remix, Rip-Off” took seven years in making, in which Kaya watched and indexed hundreds of Yeşilçam (Turkish cinema) movies.

office.ludwigsburg@ufa.de

Jan Soldat HAFTANLAGE 4614

Germany, 2015, 60’
PRISON SYSTEM 4614

A documentary portrait of a self-built prison in which men can be improsened and tortured voluntarily.
“The inhabitants of the prison system are players in a game that not only reproduces the logic of power, domination and oppression, but makes it his own. The nightmare of adhesive is designed using this method as a parody and pleasure principle. The observational documentary approach that gives ironically the power play his credibility complicit takes part to the fiction of the room. It is only the fictional space of the prison, which ultimately can evoke the stage of a possible freedom.”
Giona A. Nazzaro (Programmer and Filmcritic)

Jan Soldat
Born in Karl Marx Stadt (GDR) in 1984, he has been making short films at Chemnitzer Filmwerkstatt since 2006. He finished studies in film and television directing at the ‘Konrad Wolf’ College of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg in 2008.

jan.soldat@yahoo.de

Khalik Allah FIELD NIGGAS

USA, 2014, 60’
FIELD NIGGAS

The film is a stark portrayal of the inner city struggle. It depicts an elusive beauty that so often goes unnoticed. Shot entirely at nighttime on the corner of 125th and Lexington avenue in Harlem, Khalik Allah’s camera encompasses, and richly depicts, the mental, physical and spiritual struggle of 125th and Lexington Avenue’s most exhausted and depressed inhabitants. The film, taking its name from Malcolm X’s famous lecture, “Message to the Grassroots,” takes us into a world that most of us would choose to avoid. Khalik’s objective is to shine light on fear and to dispel it, to prove that love exists everywhere no matter how much its presence has been obscured by poverty, addiction and pain. Ultimately, the film is a hauntingly honest, rich depiction of the poor.

Khalik Allah
B. 1985, he is a self-taught filmmaker and photographer. His work has been described as visceral, hauntingly beautiful, penetrative and profoundly personal. In August of 2010 Khalik asked his father to loan him a camera to take some casual photographs of his emcee friend, The Genius of The Wu-Tang Clan. But when Khalik was given a fully manual, analogue film camera, his casual interest quickly became serious. Up until that point he was focused mainly on film-making. Photography became an extension of that film-making, allowing Khalik to create more quickly by telling stories in a single frame. Photography and film-making are two overlapping circles that form a Venn diagram in his mind; the area where they overlap is the space he inhabits as an artist.

khalikallah@gmail.com

Hicham Lasri AL BAHR MIN OUARAIKOUM

Morocco, 88’
THE SEA IS BEHIND

Tarik is unable to shed a tear about the loss of his children, or that his life is in ruins. Instead he shrouds his moustache under a veil and sways his hips to the music as the procession moves down the street. Tarik is a H’Dya, a traditional dancer who appears in women’s clothes.
In his third feature film, Hicham Lasri tells us, in surreally beautiful black-and-white images, about traditions and trance, intolerance and violence, friendship and flesh and blood. And about animal love – albeit possibly inappropriate. Aided by raucous Moroccan rock music, Lasri composes a David Lynch-like state of intoxication to produce a truly modern Maghrebi cinematic experience.

Hicham Lasri
Born in Casablanca in 1977. After legal studies, he changed his orientation and began a career as a writer, playwright and script-writer. He wrote the first feature film for Omar Chraîbi, and then collaborated with other directors such as Taieb Louhichi, Lahcen Zinoun, Rachid El Ouali and Nabil Ayouch. He has received prestigious awards for his writing, short stories, and poetry. He has collaborated with producer Nabil Ayouch, and has made four short films and the feature The Iron Bone (2007). In 2006, he became the artistic director and writing director at Film Industry, where he has overseen the creation of 17 films within the framework of this ambitious project.
He combines his work as director (music videos, commercials and other creations besides the fiction) with the writing activity in association with other directors. He is also open to all possibilities of collaboration in all the Media.

alberto@ptd.lu

Jon Jost BLUE STRAIT

USA, 2014, 85’
BLUE STRAIT

Pure tone-poem narrative in which a middle-aged gay couple break up. In effect there is no “story,” rather a kind of visual music which envelopes this incident.

Director’s Statement:
Using the home of my long-time friend Stephen Taylor as my set, Steve, John Manno and I improvised a film centering on the break up of a middle-aged gay couple’s relationship. The film is really a tone-poem encircling this subject. The “story” is of minor importance, rather the ambience and setting take precedence. As a filmmaker I am very very tired of “stories” as normally shown in the cinema – in fact I can no longer watch such films at all, no matter how well done. I am trying to find other means, visual and aural, to evoke human behaviors and responses and to elicit emotional responses.

http://www.jonjost.altervista.org/