The End of Suffering (a proposal)
Sofia är panikslagen, igen. Universum bestämmer sig för att kontakta henne. En utomvärldslig dialog. En planetsymfoni för Mars, där folk drömmer i vaket tillstånd och slåss för kärleken.
Greece, 2020, 14, Direction: Jacqueline Lentzou, Production: Fenia Cossovitsa.
Jacqueline (Athens, 1989) is a writer/director whose cinematic language involves finding poetry in –seemingly- mundane premises and/or creating visual poetry through word and image association. She experiments with formats, duration and feelings.
Wood Child and Hidden Forest Mother
Djupt inne i skogen möter en jägare en märklig varelse han inte kan döda. Fast i ett skruvat drama av metamorfos, skapande och dekonstruktion påbörjar han en ändlöst färgsprakande mardrömsresa som för honom till en ny livfull värld … och kropp.
United Kingdom, 2020, 9, Direction: Stephen Irwin, Production: Stephen Irwin.
Stephen Irwin is a graduate of Central Saint Martins. His films have won numerous awards and been screened at over 100 international film festivals, including twice in competition at the Sundance Film Festival. The Obvious Child won the Silver Dragon at the Krakow Film Festival 2014, and Moxie was awarded the Grand Prize at the Ottawa International Animation Festival 2011. In 2018 he wrote his first feature length screenplay with support from Creative England and BFI NET.WORK through their Emerging Talent Fund.
Matadoras
Två argentinsk-tyska systrar växer ur den värld som dikterats av vuxna. Operation ungdom påbörjas. Dopet för deras nya liv tar plats i hemmets badkar, Madonnan tvättas ren och en grupp flickor från kyrkan dansar för barndomens fall. Den osannolika hjältinnan Madi växer mot ljuset. Att växa upp är bländande ljust.
Germany, 2020, 25, Direction: Sophia Mocorrea, Production: Sarah Valerie Radu.
After graduating high school, German-Argentinian Sophia Mocorrea trained as a media designer for image and sound, over the course of which she produced contributions for television. For her own projects she visited countries such as Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru and especially her second home Argentina. The development of the role of women between cultures, such as the image of reputed outsiders in our society, is the focal point of her works. During her directing studies at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf she was awarded with national and international scholarships to aid her cross-cultural research. Alongside writing her first feature film, she is currently finishing up her studies with her diploma short film Brautraub.
Liremu Barana
På dagen döljer solen sorgen i hennes röst. När natten faller speglar hennes ögon månens ljus. Arisa dansar dag och natt, sökande efter melodin som finns i vattnet som omger hennes ö, genomskinligt och evigt.
Guatemala, Norway, 2019, 9, Direction: Elvis Rigoberto Caj Cojoc, Production: Elisa Fernanda Pirir Ruiz.
Caj is an indigenous writer and film director born in Coban, Guatemala in 1990. He started to make films when he won the National Competition in Literature in 2008. He is currently developing his first feature.
De Berørte
Bara några minuter innan planet ska lyfta sker en incident som förhindrar avgången. En passagerare vägrar sätta sig i protest mot utvisningen av en annan passagerare på planet. Piloten hamnar då i en position där han högst motvilligt måste ta politisk ställning.
Norway, 2020, 13, Direction: Rikke Gregersen, Production: Stine Blichfeldt, Lydia Olsen.
Rikke Gregersen was born 1994 in Norway. She has experience from both theatre and literature studies, before she started her BA degree in film directing at Westerdals university in 2015. In her filmmaking she works with the combination of humour and tragedy, as she explores human behaviour and relations. Her graduation film “Dog eat dog” won the special jury prize during the BAFTA student film awards and went on to winning a Student Academy Award. This is her second short film
Swinguerra
På fotbollsplanen vid en skola övar dansare avancerade rutiner under uppsikt av en koreograf. Spänning och personliga begär byggs upp när de iakttas av en konkurrerande dansgrupp.
Brazil, 2019, 20, Direction: Bárbara Wagner, Benjamin de Burca, Production: Dora Amorim, Thais Vidal.
Bárbara Wagner, b 1980 in Brasilia, Brazil, graduated from the Dutch Art Institute in Arnhem in 2012. Benjamin de Burca, b 1975 in Munich, Germany, studied Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art and the University of Ulster. Since 2011 he has collaborated with Bárbara Wagner and their work has been frequently exhibited internationally.
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