DAY 5 | 3P > 6PM
F | 14’ | 2013 | Turkey
Following an unexpected phone call, two sisters learn that they will have to live together with their grandmother. And they react negatively. Then they try to persuade their mother not to live with the grandmother. Upon this, the mother starts to question her positioning in terms of life and death. On the other, she notices that the love among them has ended.
SEMIH KORHAN GÚNGER
He was born in Eskisehir in 1984. He left school and started business life. After that he graduated high school of distant education, he achieved to enter Mar- mara University, Faculty of Communication Department of Radio TV & Cinema and he is continuing his education life.
F | 24’ | 2013 | Ukraine
Every boy has his day. The day when it seems to him that he had become a man. What does it take to wake up the adult inside a youngling? Andrew is a young guy who lives with his mother in a small town. After a trip to his rarely seen father, he feels that it is time to be the master of his destiny.
MARINA ROSHCHYNA
Maryna Roshchyna was born in Dresden, Germany, in 1988. She studies film directing at Karpenko-Kary Kyiv National University of Theatre, Film and Television.
A | 5’ | 2013 | Portugal
Using a mixed technique of stop motion and traditional animations, “Bad Cat” tells us the story of a different girl, whose best friends are cats. Based on true facts, the narra- tive ponders on a theme of difficult approach, in a precarious balance between joy and inner conflict.
EVA MENDES
Eva Mendes holds a MA in Illustration by Escola Superior Artística do Porto, Guimarães. She has a BA in Fine Arts – Sculpture by Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto (2009) and she was awarded an Erasmus scholarship at at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, Italy. Between 2011/12 she developed an illustration project Porticus in collaboration with Teatro Nacional de S. João. She works as an illustrator with thea- tre company Cão Danado.
JOANA DE ROSA
Joana de Rosa holds a MA Illustration by Escola Superior Artística do Porto, having her work represented at the Museum Militar do Porto collection. She holds a BA in Scul- pture by Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto, and nowadays she Works as na illustrator freelancer.
SARA AUGUSTO
Sara Augusto holds a BA in Fine Arts Multimédia by Faculdade de Belas Artes da Univer- sidade do Porto, and she develops work in the field of artistic creation and audiovisual. Nowadays she collaborates with theatre company Cão Dando in creating and managing multimedia contents.
F | 20’ | 2013 | Poland
After an argument with her lover, a young woman recklessly gets into the parked car of a mysterious stranger. Their brief encounter will lead to mutual attraction, insight and fatal accomplishment, during a journey to the end of the night. Through a maze of colorful flashbacks, intricately related to the main character’s painful past, the des- tiny of the young woman is inevitably connected to that of an imaginary fish.
PIOTR SULKOWSK
Piotr was born in Sptember 1983. He graduated with a degree in Ethnology at University ofWarsaw and studied at the National Polish Film School in Lodz.
E/V | 4’ | 2008 | Portugal
Inevitably connected to a sense of freedom and to a sense of despair. Inevitably con- nected to you. There will always be this connection among her, you and me. There will always be a trauma that will connect me to you. Now I can see a landscape of failures reflected in it. A landscape I acknowledge and to which I dedicate myself repeatedly.
MIGUEL BONNEVILLE
Miguel Bonneville was born in Porto in 1985. He finished the acting course at Academia Contemporânea do Espectáculo, Visual Arts course by pela Fundação Calouste Gulben- kian and Autobiography, life stories and artist lives course by CIES-ISCTE. Through per- formances, video, drawings, photography, music and artist’s books, Miguel Bonneville introduces us to self biographic stories centred on the destruction and reconstruction of identities. Bonneville presents his works at art galleries and national and interna- tional festivals, mainly the projects ‘Family Project’ and ‘Miguel Bonneville’, namely in Spain, Germany, Poland, Estonia, Italy, Argentina, USA, China.
DOC/V | 38’ | 2013 | Portugal
The life of a family in Africa, between the 50s and 70s, narrated from archival images shot in 8mm.
INÊS ALVES
After graduating in Novas Tecnologias da Comunicação by Universidade de Aveiro and a course in Cinema Production, Inês finished the International MA Humanidades na Europa: Convergências e Aberturas with the thesis “As relações entre o cinema neo- realista italiano e os três filmes portugueses: Nazaré, Dom Roberto e Os Verdes Anos” at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She at- tended a semestre at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain and another at Universidade Degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy. She interned at Os Filhos de Lumière, cul- tural society, where she assisted the organising of cinema awareness workshops for kids and teenagers. Nowadays she is based in Berlin, interning at magazine Berlinda, a cultural magazine of the city and the Portuguese language diaspora. Apart from small short experimental films, A Simpler Life is her first film work.
DOC/V | 43’ | 2013 | Germany
Saihou is an asylum-seeker from Gambia living in Germany. He is dreaming to marry his girlfriend Anna, but the authorities refuse to issue the required documents. Then comes the shocking news: Saihou will be deported...
DENISE DISMER
Denise Dismer, born in 1975, graduated in Romance philology and journalism at Freie Universität Berlin. She started her career writing for newspapers and magazines. Now she is working for more than ten years as a TV reporter for several public broadcasters. “Anna & Saihou” is her first documentary movie.
DOC/V | 32’ | 2011 | Portugal
Uncle Rui has to go back. After 72 hours in freedom, the film follows him in his last mo- ments before he gets back. A personal portrait of the director about his uncle, all the family that surrounds him and the concept of time.
MÁRIO MACEDO
Born in 1989 in a little village in the north of Portugal, he completed a degree in Sound and Image in 2010, moving to Denmark to continue his studies at the European Film College. Now he belongs to the 73collective, based in Copenhagen, where he develops new projects related to film, both fiction and documentary, and music videos. He works too as a film critic for a Portuguese website. His latest films are Tio Rui and The Com- plex of Elvin Theodor.
DAY 6 | 3PM >6PM
F | 18’ | 2011 | Portugal
Morning Light closes a circle of three short films by Cláudia Varejão on family (dis) encounters, where the roads do not always coincide and unexpected disruptions are not necessarily the result of a failure. Everyday life hides larger and quieter forces and their understanding is often presented as a task too violent or even useless. Whatever the look that is allowed to live, the transcendence of human relations will always be there, front, unwavering and gross. Morning Light approaches the distance between three generations - mother, daughter and grand daughter. In a dense river that unites them, for no apparent reason other than exhaustion, a fissure emerges.
CLÁUDIA VAREJÃO
Was born in Porto in 1980. She began her film studies in Lisbon, first on camera and then later took a directing course at Restart. She has also done an intensive course on feature film directing at the International Film Academy in São Paulo and, undertook further film studies with the German Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin as part of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s Creativity Program.
A | 12’ | 2010 | Portugal
Salva had the gift of feeling the life of nature through her body. She lived in the forest across the river with Ábia his mother and she was happy until the day her life changed. Men and women of the village forced her to watch the burning of her mother accused of witchcraft. Years later the fear that the villagers had to her mother is the same that move them against her.
CLÁUDIO JORDÃO
Cláudio Jordão was born in 1972 in Olhão, Portugal. He has a degree in Design by Uni- versidade do Algarve, where he taught. In 1997 he stated a multimedia company PANTAPOIEIN. In 2003 started to collaborate with advertisement agency FOOTE CONE & BELDING – Portugal as motion designer, directing several advertisement films.
NELSON MARTINS
Nelson Martins was born in 1972, at Jamba, Angola. He has a degree in Design of Com- munication at Algarve University. Director of several commercial spots, video clips, animated illustration for TV and webpages. Director and producer at KotoStudios.
A | 7’ | 2009 | Portugal
A ritual of three decades that takes place in a café. A fortune-telling mother and a dis- tant father and an excessively noisy family.
ALEX FOZBLAU
Alex Gozblau was born in 1971.He is a young director, scriptwriter, makes illustration for press, painting, illustrated books, comics, animation cinema, advertising, and de- sign for books, theatre and radio.
JOÃO FAZENDA
João Fazenda was born in 1979. He lives and works between Lisbon and London. He studied Graphics Arts and has a degree in Painting by Faculdade de Belas Artes de Lis- boa. He participated in several individual and collective exhibitions. He won several prizes in some comics competitions he was awarded with his illustrations, namely with the Award of Excellence by the Society of Newspaper Design and the Great Prize Stuart of Press Design.
A/E | 6’ | 2012 | Canada
Wind burial, influenced by Shamanism, is an old Mongolian tradition. When someone dies, the corpse is carried on a cart until a bump causes the body to fall. The place where the corpse lands becomes a simple tomb.
ALISI TELENGUT
Alisi Telengut, born in 1989, graduated from the BFA in Film Animation and is going to pursue a MFA in Film Production at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University. She explores animation with the under-camera technique through painting, colors and textures.
F| 27’| 2013 | France
We are all leaning beings. That is our way of standing tall. Buffalo Bill’s son does not shoot as well as his father, but he is training. Maybe Paul cuts hair just as well as his father does, but to do so, his dad would have to give him a chance, or, at least, see him. Two different fights, two different times, for one same urge to be recognized, two dif- ferent stories that never stop rebounding of one another.
SIMON LELOUCH
Simon Lelouch tem trabalhado como assistente de realização com Jean-Marie Poiré, Philippe de Broca, Claude Lelouch, Didier Kaminka, Patrick Braoudé, Pierre Etaix... Re- alizou várias curtas metragens, apresentadas e premiadas em festivais, realizou cerca de 30 anúncios para marcas internacionais e co-produziu o filme «Entre Adultes». Tam- bém promoveu no mercado francês o conhecido filme “L’argent dette” de Paul Grignon, com downloads na internet superiores a 40 milhões.
F | 25’ | 2013 | Russia
The son of a country priest runs from his house after an argument with his father, but he is forced to come back to save his family.
ARTEM VOLCHKOV
Artem Volchkov was born on January 22, 1988, in Lytkarino, Moscow region. Follow- ing high school graduation, from 2005 to 2008, he studied at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI). In 2008 Artem applied at the State Institute of Cinemato- graphy (VGIK) and was admitted to the film directing faculty, Abdrashitov’s workshop.
E/FF | 6’ | 2012 | Italy
Go Burning Atacama Go is a reflection on the concept of memory and time after the violent departure of a friend. Denied images that travel in a lyrical and gaseous state of perception, through the elaboration of the cinematographic mistake. A film about ecstatic transparency as a way to go through this pain. Something I like to define as cinema-therapy.
ALBERTO GEMMI
Alberto Gemmi (Reggio Emilia, Italy, 1984) has studied film direction in Paris. Since se- veral years dealing with experimental cinema and video installations, focusing on the interaction between sound, images and historical memory. His experiments are developed around abandoned footage and films archive. Made in Heaven is his first work following this direction. In 2010 he directs in Paris the short- movie Stuck Within showed both in Italy and France. In 2012 his documentary I Colon- nelli di Roma has been selected at RIFF – Rome Independent Film Festival. His latest work Go Burning Atacama Go won the best prize at Lucca Experimental Film Festival and has been screened in other international festival (Belgrade, Stuttgart, Sarajevo, Milan, Rome, Bologne).
FF | 6’ | 2010 | USA
Boston, 1951, uncle Tommy makes home movies... then brings along his camera as a soldier in the Korean War.
JARED KATSIANE
Jared Katsiane teaches youth filmmaking in the same public housing development where he grew up in Boston. His award-winning films have screened at 450 international festivals.
DOC | 10’ | 2012 | Portugal
This is a film about crises, economy, survival and greed. A film about...
CARLOS SILVA
Carlos Silva was born in 1974 in Portugal. He studied audiovisual and funded the cine- club of Angeja. He collaborates at the studios of cineclub Avança and he is charge for composition and montage of several fiction, documentary and advertisement films. He has already worked on post-production of more than 50 films. He has recently gradu- ated in cinema at ESAP (Escola Superior Artística do Porto).
V | 14’ | 2006 | Portugal
They thought life would have been simple. Every obligation, every problem involved in material life would find a natural solution. Each morning, it would be nice to seat at the kitchen table after having a shower and even before getting dressed, they would have breakfast. On the table there would be butter, pots of jam and pieces of toast. It would be early. It would be the beginning of a long day of work.
SUSANA NOBRE
Susana Nobre (1974). In 1998 she graduates in Communication Sciences at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She collaborated in setting up the Filmmaking Lab of Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, where she participated in several video productions com- missioned by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. In 2004 Susana developed together with producer Raiva a workshop for senior citizens (financially supported by ICAM/MC) star- ting from a piece about memory. In the Summer 2005 she attended under he Creativity and Artistic Creation Programme by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, the Film Directing course in collaboration with The London Film School. She taught the Film Directing class at Escola Superior de Artes e Design de Caldas da Rainha in 2010. She is a funder partner of TERRATREME OFICINA – Cultural Society, started in 2012. She has directed the films The Swimmers, 2001; Daycare Hospital, 2003, It would have been simple, 2006 and Lisboa Província, 2010. Right now she is preparing the documentary Vida Activa and she coordinates the documental series No trilho dos naturalistas – As missões botâni- cas em África, a project by several authors.
E/FF | 55’ | 2012 | Italy
A girl, after suffering a serious loss, goes trough the empty streets of a town far away. She’s alone and hurt. Where is she from? What is she looking for? The sounds and lights of the city take her into a journey within herself, at the roots of her pain.
LEONARDO MORO
Leonardo Moro was born in Spoleto in December 31th 1985. In 2010 he created the online magazine “Brown Bunny Magazine”. “Goodnight, Sofia” is his first film.
DAY 6 | 9:30PM > 00AM
F | 27’ | 2009 | Portugal
COLD DAY is a portrait of an elemental relationship, one that is prior to the outside world, the family. During a Winter in Lisbon, father, a mother, a son and a daughter ar- range the itinerary for a day spent by themselves.
CLÁUDIA VAREJÃO
Was born in Porto in 1980. She began her film studies in Lisbon, first on camera and then later took a directing course at Restart. She has also done an intensive course on feature film directing at the International Film Academy in São Paulo and, undertook further film studies with the German Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin as part of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s Creativity Program.
FF | 15’ | 2012 | Belgium
THIS IS FOR YOU deals with moments in other people’s lives when time and the sense of existing are absent for a very short while. The film maker is fascinated by those par- ticular images of people and fractions of time when the clock seems to have stopped ticking. THIS IS FOR YOU is a film about holding on and about time passing by and cau- sing many changes.
KAT STEPPE
Kat Steppe (1974) studied film and art. Her movie debut BEDANKT EN MERCI (‘Thanks and cheers’) was a documentary on disappearing popular cafés in the Westhoek, the far western part of Flanders, while her second film IK VERGEET U NOOIT (‘I will never forget you’) portrayed an old cemetery. Both documentaries were widely acclaimed for their visual skills and the memorable fusion of popular tale, humour and reflection about things that pass.
A/E | 8’ | 2012 | Serbia
An animated triptych which evokes the atmosphere of old Dutch paintings, where sis- ters are trapped in melancholy, facing the loss and emptiness over the missing one.
LEA VIDAKOVIC
Multimedia artist, working in the field of installation, performance and puppet anima- tion. 2010 - BA animation, HVO, Norway, 2011 graduated at the academy of arts, Zagreb, Croatia, 2012 - MA of audiovisual arts, Royal Academy of Arts KASK, Belgium. Exhibited on numerous solo and group exhibition and festivals, and is a winner of several art and film awards. Member of HDLU Association of Croatian artists and SULUV Association of artists from Vojvodina.
E/FF | 14’ | 2010 | Belgium
DECONSTRUCTION OF MEMORY (RECONSTRUCTION FOR A DREAM) can best be des- cribed as a visual search for the mechanisms of memory. They are triggered by a sound, an image, a feeling, a colour, a composition, and therefore they are illogical, tactile, and brief... Both in images and sound, the fleetingness of lost moments is brought to life and made tangible through a sensual and associative narrative style.
NATHALIE TEIRLINCK
Nathalie Teirlinck (1985) studied cinematography at the KASK Art School in Gent, Bel- gium. Thanks to a wild card issued by the Flemish Audio-visual Fund she was able to complete her latest short film ‘Venus vs Me’. Early 2010 the film had its international premiere at the prestigious Berlin Film Festival, where it received the European Film Award for Best Short. Among others, Nathalie also directed some music videos (Novas- tar, Admiral Freebee,...), commissioned films, video installations and two theatre plays produced by Malpertuis.
DOC/V | 10’ | 2012 | Portugal
A generation gap among people who live in the countryside, for the countryside. My grandmother and I.
TÂNIA DINIS
Tânia Dinis (1983) graduated in Theatre Studies at ESMAE – Porto, working as na actress in cinema and theatre. She started Lap-dance, Calças de Fato de Treino e Female a preview of video-performance and installation on woman, the nude and provovacation. Withinthe same programme there is Não são favas, são feijocas, a video-performance on the woman and generation gap.
E/DOC | 4’ | 2013 | Israel
A journey through noises of the night.
RANI AVIDAN
Rani Avidan is a film student at Tel Aviv University. This is his first film.
DOC/V/E | 16’ | 2012 | Poland
Agnieszka and Janusz were both convicted of murder. They wrote to each other for eight years but never met... Until today, when Agnieszka goes on leave and will see him for the first time.
DOC/E/V | 9’ | 2010 | Indonesia
Another Colour TV is a documentary film that showed a family interaction that ha- ppened in front of their television, and how television becomes a major way to escape from a reality that they are facing. This film captured a real situation of economical and cultural condition in a suburban family of Indonesia which mother became the center opinion among the family but ironicaly left alone with the television as her one and only friend in home. This situation makes a Mom put in values according to what she saw in television to her family. But, the other family members that have a lot of different source of values from outside, always reject her values.
THE YOUNGRRR
The Youngrrr is a videomaker collaboration project of Yovista Ahtajida (1992) and Dyan- tini Adeline (1991). They are taking education in Communication Major of University of Indonesia. They are known as stage videographer and build a videozone named ‘REC A GOGO’. The Youngrrr also made several video art. Their video have been screened in “Ja- karta32 2012” held by Ruang Rupa with their video, “Macam-macam Pekerjaan Macam- macam” as an output from workshop with Anggun Priambodo. Their experimental film ‘Another Colour TV’ (2013) screened on NOW WHAT #2 at Microscope Gallery, New York and their video art called ‘Pick Up Motorz’ (2013) get into official selection OK Video 6th International Video Festival that held by Ruangrupa in Jakarta.
A | 5’ | 2013 | Canada
A profound human-animal and human-nature relationship is represented by a painted world filled with a camel’s emotion and tears. The film is based on a real Mongolian nomadic story narrated by my grandmother.
ALISI TELENGUT
Alisi Telengut, born in 1989, graduated from the BFA in Film Animation and is going to pursue a MFA in Film Production at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University. She explores animation with the under-camera technique through painting, colors and textures.
E/FF | 17’ | 2011 | Argentina
A trip to Pamplona in the early 70s. Behind the lovely travel diaries, lies a story of love and intolerance.
GONZALO EGURZA
Born in Buenos Aires in 1984, he graduated at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires where he studied film direction. He teaches at the same University in subjects Audio- visual Techniques and Digital Techniques. Both of them, related to Experimental Film & Video-art. He is a founder member of the collective ARKHÉ, focused on research and management of art works and audiovisual productions. His personal audiovisual works consist in independent productions such as Experimental Film, Video Art and Video Installations. His films and videos were premiered at The International Shortfilm festi- val Oberhausen-Germany, Les Instant Video, BIEFF-Romania, Alchemy Film and Moving Image festival, International Super8mm Festival-Hungary, Ozu Film Festival, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Espacio INCAA, Fundación Telefónica, Centro Cultural Ricardo Ro- jas, Experiments in Cinema, Semana de Video Iberoamericano, among others. He has recently been awarded with the 1st price in the Independent Film Festival of La Plata 2011. And with the Argentinean creation award in the Bienal de la Imagen en Movimien- to (BIM) 2012.
E/FF | 15’ | 2013 | Argentina
A road movie test that combines found family films and different intervention tech- niques on the film material. It crosses video digital and analogical support. It has a minimal narrative line: a man travels from the city to the countryside, while homely shots alternate themselves with family motifs, which ware destroying or degradation the abstraction, as the car foes forward.
JEYMER GAMBOA
Jeymer Gamboa was born in 1980 in Santa Cruz de Léon Cortés, south of San José, the capital of Costa Rica. He majored in journalism and film production at the University of Costa Rica, and is part of Bisonte Producciones, a Costa Rican film collective. He has lived for the past six years in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he studied Image and Sound Design. Among the short films he has directed; “De cómo mirar a través de una ventana con ladrillos”, “Marino de tierra” and “Rastros”. He is author of the poetry book Días Ordinarios.
FRANCO CASTRO
Franco Castro was born Chilvicoy in 1984, and studies Image and Sound Design at UBA. He worked in short films as “Última Vuelta”, “Otro cielo” and “Trotamundo”, and edited the awarded documentary Horneros.