A DAY WITH MY MOTHER
An odyssey or quest in Iranian contemporary mid-class life. A wondering /conflicting couple, mother & her teen-age daughter Shadi, seek for some sort of drug which called (Ice) by driving alongside each other through the streets and neighbourhoods of the capital, Tehran. Mother is highly addicted, her permanent junk-provider was arrested by legal authorities. Thus she needs to find a new one. By leading role of the younger, they find a female drug-dealer. She is a hustler and deceiver. After losing their money, the blamed elder try to collect some cash by begging strangers. Eventually, they encounter a bizarre, cynic, silent male dealer. Not an end but a new departure for the rest of their route.

Zardosht Afshari
Born in Behbahan, Iran in 1982. At a young age, he was drawn to the world of cinema and theatre. In 2011, after graduation with a MA in Dramatic Literature from University of Tehran/ Faculty of Fine Arts, he started writing as a screenwriter and playwright for several student projects.
Early works included short stories and film scripts, the mainstay and passion of his recent work. Finally, love of filmmaking brought him to the process of making his own first short film “A day with my mother”.

zeroaster_zn@yahoo.com

RUNTIME ERROR
Video games are emergent systems with their own particular internal relationships. This animation mashes up and deconstructs game spaces taking on a multitude of forms, from scrolling on one axis to several separate screens. The blocky 2D grids plasticity is emphasized through a reduced color palette in order to favor formal representation of early video games against the photorealistic, logically consistent 3D game spaces of recent years.

Sandra Araújo
She is a visual artist that spent endless hours shooting at monsters and strolling through mazes. So, it only felt natural for her to evolve through an experimental and explorative process of the visual culture of video games and popular gif files in her animations. She still plays old school computer games.

sandraiaraujo@gmail.com

LAGOS SAND MERCHANTS
Film focuses on a group of ‘Sand Merchants’ on the outskirts of Lagos, arduously trawling the Lagos State Lagoon to unearth sand deep from the river bed for the construction industry.

Karimah Ashadu
(London, 1985). She is a British/Nigerian multi-disciplinary Artist. Her practice is research led, and investigates sentiments of movement and narration. In 2011, Karimah obtained a Master of Arts in Spatial Design from Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. In 2007 she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art and History of Art and Architecture, from The University of Reading School of Art, Berkshire. She has exhibited internationally. She lives and works between London, UK and Lagos, Nigeria.

karimah@karimahashadu.com

SEQUENZA
An experimental film project based on the composition Sequenza VIII for solo violin by Luciano Berio. Van Dam and de Boer explore how rhythm and the crystalline structure of this composition can be articulated in conjunction with moving images to go even deeper into the composition.

Manon de Boer
(°1966 in Kodaicanal, India) completed her artistic education at the Akademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Rotterdam, and at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Her work has been exhibited internationally and has also been included in numerous film festivals. De Boer currently teaches at Ecole de Recherche Graphique in Brussels, where she lives.

George van Dam
Namibian born violinist. He has been a committed performer of contemporary music since the early stages of his career. He has worked with leading composers of today as a soloist or within the context of contemporary music ensembles. His own work as a composer includes chamber music, music for theatre and dance performances and works with visual artists.

marie@augusteorts.be

TOKYO
The film’s leitmotif: Twenty seconds of fine metallic ritual percussion set as prelude. The hypnotic sound returns again and again. In between: silence.

Dietmar Brehm
Born in 1947 in Linz. 1967-72 studied painting at the University of Fine Arts/Linz. Professor at the University of Fine Arts/Linz. Drawing + painting, experimental films and photography. Numerous film screenings and exhibitions at home and abroad.

isabelle@sixpackfilm.com

RADIO ATACAMA
In 1966 the Chilean government evacuated the population of Pedro de Valdivia, a little town in the middle of the Atacama desert, due to the pollution of a near saltpeter plant. Benito Paften decided to stay in town, alone, for 13 years, with the sole company of a portable radio. The extreme loneliness evokes feelings of the elder, imaging invisible worlds to escape from reality.

Victor Cerdan
He earned a Ph.D. in Journalism at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. He is teaching Fictional Direction at the Universidad Camilo José Cela in Madrid, and Documentary screenwriting at the Instituto Universitario Tracor. He started his professional career as a reporter and producer of the Spanish TV show “Callejeros” (Streeters). Since 2011 he has been working as a director and screenwriter on Taifas Film.

fest@marvinwayne.com

SUPERVENUS
A plastic surgeon is creating in real time the new goddess of beauty.

Frédéric Doazan
French experimental filmmaker and animator. He cofounded the video collective la-cause.org in 2004. He recently created with 2 French animators a periodical animated show : 12fps.net

frederic@la-cause.org

THE PORNOGRAPHY: THE DESIRE
A short experimental video on desire, a sexual one, a desire of having money, of being desired, of being unique, of being left alone. Based mainly on improvisation, the video portrays three women cat lovers and a dandy lover staying in the same house near to the beach, and tries to touch the mystery of tension that happened between them.

Michel Ducerveau
He is a European contemporary artist who works in video, painting, drawing, performance, photography and installation. Since his education in Paris, he has participated in several exhibitions around the world. He is also a founding member of High Life Low Fidelity where the contemporary poetry meets the experimental music and the contemporary art.

oskourduservo@yahoo.fr

HIPPOS
A few naked women and children are bathing in a river. They are being secretly observed by a group of men, who, at one point decide to approach them, in a violent manner, as if inspired by the behaviour of hippopotamuses.

Piotr Dumala
Born in 1956, a film director, animator and graphic designer, professor of the Lodz Film School, Poland, Konstfack College in Eksjo, Sweden and Harvard University in Cambridge, USA. Winner of over 70 film awards, the most important of which include Grand Prix Krakow, Grand Prix Zagreb, Grand Prix Espinho, Special Jury Award in Annecy, Special Jury Award in Gdynia.

festiwale@fumistudio.com

THE ILLMANNERED MILKMAN
Teddy Milks is a motorbike rider with little to no talent. His claim to fame is the odd circumstance that he sweats milk. Teddy ‘the milkman’ Milks. He does his best to ignore this fact and to keep the myth of a motorbike champion alive. Together with his trainer Kent he sets up a camp. Away from the buzz around his person, in the outskirts of town, where industry fades into nature. They are living the dream and trying to avoid waking up.

Willehad Eilers
(Germany, 1981) He lives and works in Amsterdam. He graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and has been artist in residence at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. Eilers deals with modern day society, focusing on the absurdities and oddness of day to day life and routines.

tessajanssen@eyefilm.nl

HERE I AM…THERE YOU ARE…
During a game of foreplay of dominator and dominated, between a married couple, the two come to realize that reality is stronger than the imagination. As the plot develops, raises the question of who is in control, who is controlled and who in actuality is the one controlling them both.

Dikla Jika Elkaslassy
Born on the 1st of November 1979, Haifa, Israel. At the age of 18 attended the School of visual arts in New York and studied Animation. At 2003 began studies of acting at the ‘Haderch’ studio of acting in Tel-Aviv, during this studies starred doing acting roles on Israeli television and films. At 2013 graduated the trade school of cinema ‘Minshar for Art‘ in Tel Aviv.

jikas1@gmail.com

GOODBYE
The last farewell. Author assembles a series of parting scenes, split screen style, and divests them of their spatial and temporal logic: A game of bodily contact and movements, shifting between tenderness and brutality, weaves an increasingly intricate web that achieves a symbiotic fusion with the eponymous score of the artist; both on the screen and beyond.

Karin Fisslthaler
Born 1981 in Oberndorf near Salzburg/Austria. Graduate of Fine Arts, Experimental Design, at the University of Art and Design Linz (A). Lives and works in Linz and Vienna.

karin.fisslthaler@gmx.at

FILM WITHIN A FILM
An attempt to ‘revive in film’ the beach and the building desolate in wintertime, through merging and separating, accelerating. The author is also in search of his own lost time.

Petar Fradelić
Author of short films, he started his career in the Cine Club Split. His most notable works We Are All Alone Here, Ego and Sanctuary won a number of film awards. Now, 25 years later, he is active again making films at the Cine Club Split.

produkcija@kinoklubsplit.hr

MINERITA
Cerro Rico in Potosí (Bolivia) is a lawless territory, characterised by brutal violence. The miners risk their lives every day, digging for silver and zinc in crumbling galleries. The ones that survive think they’re entitled to anything and everything. And that’s when they go on the hunt… for women. Lucía (40), Ivone (16) and Abigail (17), who work as night watchwomen or inside the mine, are struggling to survive in an inhuman inferno. Their only weapon is their courage… and dynamite.

Raúl de la Fuente
Pamplona, 1974. Film and television producer, director and screenwriter since 1996. After working for a variety of audiovisual production companies, he founded Kanaki Films to produce his own audiovisual projects. He is currently directing the feature film Un día más con vida (aka Another Day of Life) based on the work of the same name by Ryszard Kapuscinski.

kimuak@filmotecavasca.com

OPTICAL SOUND
A classic found-footage work comprising hundreds of fragments of opening credits from 35mm films.

Elke Groen
Born 1969 in Bad Ischl, Austria. Studied architecture and photography.

Christian Neubacher
Born in 1972 in Salzburg, Austria. Studied at the School of Graphic Arts in Vienna, photography class. Completed the course in cinema and science studies at the University of Vienna. He acts as a projectionist, journalist and curator of film festivals. Since 2009 Christian Neubacher works at the Austrian Screenwriters Association.

isabelle@sixpackfilm.com

NELSA
A mission in the midst of the Colombian rainforest. A sinister presence lingers about. A body subjugated to an environment that burns it inside out.

Felipe Guerrero
(Colombia 1975) He earned a degree in editing from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of Rome. For over a decade, he has worked in films that have been screened and awarded prizes worldwide. As a director, his film Paraíso (2006) won the Special Mention for first film at FIDMarseille. His film Corta (2012) has been exhibited in both international film festivals and contemporary art museums. He is currently working on his first fictional feature, Oscuro animal.

mutokino@gmail.com

SMILE AND THE WORLD WILL SMILE BACK
The film documents one winter’s night at the al-Haddad home in Hebron. A group of soldiers arrives for a routine night search there, for reasons unknown to the family. Diaa and Shatha al-Hadaad, brother and sister, pick up the home video camera and record the events as they unfold throughout the night. The soldiers force Diaa to stand facing a wall, saying they won’t leave unless he stops smiling.

The al-Haddads
A Palestinian family from the West Bank city of Hebron. The father, Abdelkarim and his two sons, Diaa and Ahmad, work as shoemakers; his daughter Shatha is a medical secretary. They have been volunteer photographers on the B’Tselem Camera Project since 2008.

Yoav Gross
Director of B’Tselem’s video department. He was born in Jerusalem in 1977 and holds a degree in film from Tel Aviv University.

Ehab Tarabieh
Coordinator of B’Tselem’s camera project. He was born in Majdal Shams in 1982 and holds a degree from the Sam Spiegel Film TV School.

helen@btselem.org

THE APPRENTICE HOMELESS
When did we come to lose our freedom in public space? Benches have been removed, performances banned and homeless people are finding it increasingly difficult to find somewhere to sleep. Collecting cardboard from a supermarket, and setting up a “home” upon the sidewalk, here the artist endeavors, through a performance, to create her own living space within public space. This is a document of a small act of resistance, attempting to restore public space to our own hands.

Yumiko Hayakawa
Born in Tokyo, Japan in 1975. Graduated from Seikei University in Japan, and the London School of Journalism in the UK. During her study in London, she started her filming career, and made her first documentary film “Brian and Co. Parliament Square SW1” in 2009. Now she is based in Tokyo, and has been making independent films on various social issues and organizing film workshops.

petiteadventurefilms@gmail.com

HINOKI FARM
The life of Mrs. And Mr. Kikuchi in the rural and mountainous region of the island of Kyushu in Japan. A study of daily work and the simple things in life. A way of life in old age.

Akiro Hellgardt
1997-2003 Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe
2009-2012 Postgraduate Study at Academy of Media Arts Cologne
Akiro Hellgardt lives and works in Cologne

ute.dilger@khm.de

ESCORT
Inexperienced members of the Dutch Border Patrol undergo an intensive training on escorting refused asylum seekers to their ‘country of origin’. To what extend can you get emotionally involved, while deporting these rejected refugees to their ‘homeland’?

Guido Hendrikx
(1987) He grew up in Eindhoven (The Netherlands). He studied Medicine (but quit after 2 months) and Liberal Arts & Sciences (Utrecht University), taking courses in the disciplines of film, criminology, journalism and philosophy. His documentary debut – Day is Done* – premiered on IDFA 2010 (competition for Dutch Documentary). In the same year he enrolled at the Dutch Film Academy in Amsterdam (Directing).

info@someshorts.com

TRISTES TARZAN
This film uses historical movie materials (‘Son of Tarzan’ films from 1920 and 1950) together with materials from a vast number of sources to produce a densely lyrical, tersely compacted meditation on brutality, martyrdom, Colonialism, and loss. The soundtrack – as involved and compelling as the visuals – is equally eclectic in derivation and serves to underscore both the intellectual and emotional charge of the film.

Doug Ischar
Since the early 1990s, Ischar has worked in sound, video, and photography. His work has evolved from large-scale multimedia installations to single-channel videos that address issues surrounding gay identity, desire, and loss. Currently an associate professor of photography at the University of Illinois, Chicago, he has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa; Photographers Gallery, London; L.A.C.E., Los Angeles; and Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo.

ruth@vdb.org

DETOUR
A hot humid uneventful day. A taxi driver has trouble controlling his young sons, embroiled in a childish, petty rivalry. They continue this rivalry outside, until a sudden encounter with a stranger shatters their innocence forever.

Michael Kam
He is a graduate from the School of Film & Media Studies at Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore, where he completed an Advanced Diploma in Film Production. He has made 4 short films that have travelled to festivals such as Berlin, Odense, Uppsala and Hamburg and won several awards. Michael is currently a lecturer in film production at his alma mater.

mabelyn.ow@gmail.com

KINGDOM COME: RITUALS
The view we get is one of non-participation, an inaccessible anomaly to any form of definition which is the precise perspective the artists want to experiment with when looking at the space and surroundings of what signifies the German political centre, at political geography, participatory democracy and urban landscapes of power.
KINGDOM COME: RITUALS was initiated by the artists’ discovery of pigeon photography – a method developed by pharmacist Julius Neubronner nearly a century ago as a way of capturing aerial photographs. This method was used mainly for military purposes during World War I in the field of what would nowadays be called ‘unmanned reconnaissance’, a precursor of modern drone warfare.

Vika Kirchenbauer
She is an artist and filmmaker currently residing in Berlin. Her main media encompass film, video, sound and objects. Her work has been exhibited at Art Moscow, Abrons Arts Center NYC, Kunstmuseum Bonn, PACT Zollverein Essen, Kunstraum Bethanien Berlin and other world-famous contemporary art galleries, as well as film festivals: cph:dox Copenhagen Intʼl Documentary Film Festival, Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, Cork Film Festival, etc.

Martin Sulzer
He works as an artist and director in Berlin. His work has been exhibited at
KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, CACT Centro dʼArte Contemporanea Ticino, International Ink Art Biennale of Shenzhen, Center for Contemporary Art Plovdiv, Donaufestival Krems, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, European Media Art Festival
Osnabrück, KunstFilmBiennale Cologne, Amsterdam International Film Festival,
onedotzero London, São Paulo International Short Film Festival and Seoul International Film Festival.

mes.skinny.fists@gmail.com

BINARY PITCH
The architecture of the hall represents both the physical space and the location where the meaning is created. The key notions from Max Bense’s text Aesthetics and Programming (1968) are coded in zeros and ones by way of an animation procedure of lifting and lowering the seats in the auditorium. This cryptic confession of the machine anticipates the virtual reality in which all communication is mediated by the sequences of bits.

Vladislav Knežević
(1967) graduated from the Academy of Drama Arts (TV and Film Direction Dept.) in Zagreb and De Vrije Academie (Audio-visual Dept.) in Den Haag. Professionally works as a freelance director for TV and various productions since 1993. He is 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, 25 FPS International Experimental Film Festival).

vanja@bonobostudio.hr

THE HEAT
1. Coal or wood afire to redness, 2. High air temperature, 3. Vehemence of feelings.

Bartosz Kruhlik
Born in 1985. He is studying Film Directing at The National Film School in Lodz. His first documentary film “Tomorrow…” received 40 awards, and his first short fiction film “http://” was screened at the festival in Karlovy Vary as a part of the programme The Fresh Selection as one of the five most promising student films. His films have qualified a total for more than 200 international festivals. In 2013 received the Prize of the Ministry of Culture for outstanding artistic achievement.

kruhlik@wp.pl

THE PROPHET OF THE FARMHOUSE
A thirty something Eastern Finnish beef producer finds himself troubled by societal and ethical questions in the face of a strained economic climate.

Henrik Mennander
He is a documentarist and a music video director from Eastern-Finland. He graduated from Lahti institute of Design (Film and Television line) in 2005. The most noteworthy of Henrik’s work are the music videos he has directed, for example Ruoska – Mies yli laidan and Iiwanajulma – Absinttia, both of which received honorable mentions in Oulu Music Video Festival in 2007 and 2008.

mennander@hotmail.com

HELLO WORLD 🙂
In the near future, a private company has developed a technology that aims at boosting brain capacity. However, it requires from its customers to store their memory data on one single server. In this highly controlled world, a young woman has the power to change the course of events.

Raphael Mathé
Born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brasil. He studied Fine Arts and worked on several short films, before he decided to move to France. He got into the art direction department of La Femis the following year, and enjoys working on the production design as well as directing music videos and short films.

Etienne Larragueta
He is what you can call a „self-made man“. While studying law and business, he started working on film shootings. His passion for film is mostly based on his love for images, music and strong universes that the cinematographic language can create. Etienne is currently involved in the programme organized by La Femis and Ludwisburg in Germany.

sidekick.c@gmail.com

CHOLERA
Path. Acute, infectious disease, often epidemic and very serious.

Aritz Moreno
Donostia / San Sebastian, 1980. Studied Image at the Andoian Film and Video School. In 2003 he directed his first short, the award-winning Portal Mortal. In addition to directing short films, he currently produces all kinds of audio¬visual projects, from video clips to presentation videos for festivals.

kimuak@filmotecavasca.com

GOOD MORNING RESISTANCE
Very realistic morning ritual, we observe a father getting his children up and ready for school.

Adrián Orr
Born in Madrid, 1981. After his Master of Media Communications from the UCM he studied at the Lisbon Cinema School (ESTC) where he worked on a number of short films as DP. At the moment he combines his work as an assistant director on feature films and advertising his own directorial work.

mail@madridencorto.es

9 TAPES FROM THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE
The idea of surveillance and observation: Nine old VHS-tapes appear and unveil parallels between USA and slaughterhouse, between Basketball and Greece. The pictures get separated from their original context and are polled again about their narratives. The sound consists of VHS-noise.

Martin Paret
Born in Southern Germany and studied Geography. Since 2012 he is student at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne of documentary, experimental and animation film. Currently he is writing the script for a long documentary about Elisabeth and the ghosts of the past.

ute.dilger@khm.de

THE OPTIMISM
I’ll grab your arm and we’ll leave together.
No matter where we’ll go or what we’ll do, we have nothing to lose.
We’ll be fully alive, uniquely alive, preciously alive.

Jean-Gabriel Périot
Born in France, in 1974. He directed several shorts movies, both in video and cinema. He develops his own editing style using the archives. Between documentary, animation and experimental, most of Périot’s works deals with violence and history. His last works, including Diaes Irae, Even if she had been a criminal… and Nijuman no borei, were screened worldwide at numerous festivals and were honoured by many prizes.

festival_local@yahoo.fr

OPERATION CASTLE
Linguistic summaries for “Operation Castle” (1954) film where possible machine analysis and description of moving image were examined. Framework for linguistic summaries using video mining algorithms was proposed. Image analysis based on machine algorithms was simulated on technical level. In a near future full analysis on both technical and symbolic, more abstract levels may be also considered. Hermeneutic character of the original footage was retained. The study of peripheral vision, technology development and politics.

Filip Gabriel Pudło
Graduated from Warsaw University of Technology and The Polish National Film, Television and Theater School in Lodz at Cinematography and Television Production Department. He makes video artworks and programmable installations. He lives and works in Warsaw.

filipgabrielpudlo@gmail.com

REFRESHMENT
Water is spilled on a stone pavement leaving a small stain. As time passes the stain dries up, shrinks and changes shape. Just before the water is completely evaporated the process is put on hold. The new shape of the stain is then being enlarged and recreated with new water. This process repeats and with these interventions the ‘life’ of the stain is artificially refreshed and extended to an unnatural length. Which allows new shapes to evolve that otherwise could never have existed.

Johan Rijpma
(1984, the Netherlands) He obtained his Master of Arts degree at the Utrecht School of the Arts (Faculty of Art, Media & Technology). His films, animations, music videos and other artworks are often the result of his fascination by and exploration of the creative design process and the element of unpredictability.

johan@johanrijpma.nl

THE FOUNTAINHEAD
Phantasy that come up from the philosophical legacy of Ayn Rand developed in the forties and fifties known as objectivism and whose main outreach work, “The Fountainhead”, borrowed the language of architecture.

Borja Rodríguez
My work is fundamentally concerned with the complex relationship between society and its technologies. As an artist it didn’t take me long to begin exploring in a critical way these new social dynamics and the technologies that made them possible, making them my new reference contexts and performance of my creative research.
More specifically, my field of study is composed of art forms that either have made Internet and technology its specific policy context, their field of its main reflection subject.

borja.hombreorquesta@gmail.com

TEA PARTY
Five blind guests arrive to a tea party. A stranger is a potential threat in the darkness. The event turns into a nightmare for the attendants.

Outi Sunila
(b. 1970) She works mainly with video and installation art, experimenting with other media as well. For the past few years she has been focusing on both social and political themes in her works – from the viewpoint of an individual. Her language is narratively minimal, portraying one scene without dialogue.

submissions@av-arkki.fi

TABATÔ
Mutar, who fought in the war, is back in Guinea. In his luggage, he brings strange objects. Fatu, his daughter, takes the opportunity of Mutar ‘s absence to open his bag.
Shortly afterwards, Fatu’s boyfriend Idrissa finds Mutar with his hand soiled in blood and Fatu dead. It is then that Idrissa picks up a drum.

João Viana
Born in Angola in 1966. Graduated in law at the university of Coimbra and studied cinema in Porto. He worked in the areas of production, sound, story-board, direction and scriptwriting. In 2007, he wrote the script “Olhos Vermelhos” for film director Paulo Rocha. He worked with prestigious film directors like Oliveira, Biette, César Monteiro, Schroeter, Seixas Santos, among others. He started to direct his own films in 2004 with the film “A Piscina” (in competition at the Venice Film Festival), co-directed with Iana Ferreira. At present he is working on his first feature film, produced by Papaveronoir.

liliana@curtas.pt

SOMETHING MUST BREAK
A love story between two young men where one is the androgynous Sebastian and one is Andreas who is not gay. They form a unity. It’s them against the polished Swedish Ikea-society. They dream about escaping boredom and the risk of becoming what everyone else is. And then there is Ellie- the superwoman growing inside of Sebastian who Andreas loves and fears. This is the summer when everything happens and both of them will choose paths that will determinate their lives forever. It’s a battle for love where Sebastian finally has to realise that he has to let Ellie loose, find the strength within him and not let his happiness depend on someone else

Ester Martin Bergsmark
Born in 1982, director Ester Martin Bersgmark trained at the Swedish University College of Arts Crafts and Design. With Mark Hammarberg he made Maggie in Wonderland (2008), which was awarded the Prize for Best European Documentary at Doc Alliance 2009 and a Guldbagge Award for Best Swedish Documentary; his other film credits include Fruitcake (2010) and She Male Snails (2012), which won the Audience Award, Prize for Best Cinematography, and Honorary Mention for Best Nordic Film at Göteborg International Film Festival.

philippe@outplayfilms.com

MY BLIND HEART
Kurt, who suffers from an incurable disease, rebels against his body and the limits that are set for him – whatever the cost.
After Kurt, who suffers from the rare Marfan syndrome and is almost blind, has killed his clinging mother, he goes on a journey where the boundaries between perpetrator and victim are blurred. Haunted by her calls, Kurt leaves the clients and nurses of a care home distressed. In the streets Kurt meets Conny, a 13-year-old runaway from a broken home. She readily participates in Kurt’s protest against his body, not knowing what moves him or into which abyss his journey is leading. How much guilt can one individual endure?

Peter Brunner
He is a filmmaker and musician from Vienna, Austria. He studied under director Michael Haneke at the Vienna Film Academy. His work includes many short films and music videos and he directed the Ferdinand Bruckner adaptation Sickness of the Youth in 2007 together with fellow students at the Vienna Film Academy, in which he also played the leading role of Freder. My Blind Heart is Peter’s feature film debut. His second feature We Are Sisyphos is currently in pre-production.

cataractoffice@gmail.com

A WOMAN AND WAR
An ex-whore turned bar proprietor, who does as she pleases. A novelist who’s lost all hope as the war continues. A discharged soldier who lost an arm in combat, who is tormented by the sins of war. They’re victims and war criminals. However they choose to live, the war is inescapable and they’ll lose their humanity. They must go on as long as they’re alive, exposing weakness, strength, wile, misery and pathos, everything that makes us human.

Junichi Inoue
Born in 1965 in Aichi, Japan. While preparing for his university entrance exams he had a fateful encounter with the legendary filmmaker Koji Wakamatsu at a local arthouse cinema. Inoue begged Wakamatsu to take him on as an apprentice on the spot but was told, “Go to university first and study film for 4 years.” So he enrolled at Waseda University while also working at Wakamatsu Productions. He joined a few productions as an assistant director. His directorial debut was in 1990 with an episode of an omnibus movie, A Hole in Underpants/Pantsu no ana, Mukesode mukenai Ichigotachi. Inoue made his screenwriting debut in 1994. Since then he has written screenplays constantly and in 2009 he attracted international attention with Pure Asia directed by Ikki Katashima. A Woman and War is his first feature-length movie.

kayoko_nakanishi@hotmail.co.jp

MELAZA
When the sugar mill is shut down, the village of Melaza was devastated, seems lifeless. Monica and Aldo, a young married couple, struggle for survival in an intent to save their world without losing their faith.

Carlos Lechuga
He trained as a film director in the Instituto Superior de Arte (Higher Art Institute) in Cuba and continued studying in the International Film and TV School specializing in scriptwriting. His work as a director includes several short films like Los Bañistas (The Swimmers) and Cuca y el pollo (Cuca and the Chicken), which received national and international awards. He wrote the scripts of four feature films: Club Habana (Havana Club), which won the Unpublished Script Award at the International No-Budget Film Festival; El edén perdido (The Lost Eden), winner of the Audience Award at the First Festival of Films for Television in Malaga, Spain; Penumbras and En fin, el mal. Melaza is his first feature film as a director.

acalvino@habanerofilmsales.com

HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY
A young girl from the countryside dreams of disappearing. She plays a lonely game of hide-and-seek while her mother quotes the Bible and her father relishes in alcohol and history…

Raya Martin
Born in 1984 in Manila, Philippines. Graduated from the University of the Philippines Film Institute in 2005. Worked as writer and researcher in local television, newspaper, radio and online magazines. He is the first Filipino filmmaker to be accepted in the Cinéfondation Résidence of the Cannes Film Festival. A retrospective of his works have been featured in Paris, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Las Palmas de Gran Canarias and South Korea. Martin is also a recipient of the 13 Artists Awards of the Cultural Center of the Philippines. His latest films in 2013 are How to Disappear Completely which won Best Picture and Best Director at Digital Lokal section of Cinemanila Film Festival in the Philippines and La Ultima Pelicula which was co-directed by Mark Peranson and premiered in Toronto Film Festival.

arleencuevas@gmail.com

CORN ISLAND
The Enguri River forms the border between Georgia and the break-away Republic of Abkhazia. Tensions between the two nations have not abated since the war of 1992–93. Every spring the river brings fertile soil from the Caucasus down to the plains of Abkhazia and north-western Georgia, creating tiny island: small clusters of no man’s land. The islands are havens for wildlife but occasionally also for man. Our story begins when an old Abkhaz farmer sets foot on one of the islands. The old man builds a hut for him and his teenage grand-daughter, he ploughs the earth and together they sow corn. As his granddaughter blossoms into womanhood and the corn ripens, the old man is confronted by the inescapable cycle of life.

George Ovashvili
Graduated from the film department of the Georgian State Institute of Cinema and Theatre in 1996 and studied at The New York Film Academy at Universal Studios in Hollywood in 2006. His feature debut Gagma Napiri/The Other Bank (2009) was screened at eighty international film festivals in more than fifty countries and won more than fifty international awards. Corn Island (2014) is his second feature film.

pascale@pascaleramonda.com

ROHMER IN PARIS
A love letter to legendary Nouvelle vague film-maker Eric Rohmer and the world capital of cinema. The film begins with a chance encounter with Rohmer in 1994, while he was filming Rendez-vous in Paris on location in Montmartre. This accidental connection becomes the basis for a passionate exploration Rohmer’s lifelong relationship with the city and the many cinematic journeys he made through it. Innovatively combining biographical documentary, psychogeography, speculative fiction, and remix, the film provides a narrated tour of Rohmer’s works, of modern Paris, and of the pains and pleasures of cinephilia.

Richard Misek
Born in Liverpool, and educated at Oxford and Harvard. After working as a video editor, he completed a PhD in Screen Studies at Melbourne University in 2008. He has since written numerous academic articles on film aesthetics, as well as a book on the history of colour in cinema (Chromatic Cinema, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). Rohmer in Paris is his first feature-length film.

pascale@pascaleramonda.com

TRAVELLING AT NIGHT WITH JIM JARMUSCH
“Travelling at night with Jim Jarmusch” is a documentary film in form of an intimate and intriguing portrait of director Jim Jarmusch, at work on the set of his latest film, Only Lovers Left Alive (starring Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, John Hurt, Mia Wasikowska…)

Léa Rinaldi
Graduate of an Audiovisual Master’s degree in the Sorbonne Paris IV, Léa Rinaldi worked at first as independent video-reporter and covered the current events of the cinema for Canal +, CinéCinéma and MK2. Then she moved on to directing short fictions, documentaries and experimental films. “Travelling at night with Jim Jarmusch” is her second documentary full-length film, portrait of the American independent film-maker.

aleafilms@gmail.com

THE GHOSTS OF SAN BERILLO
Past and present ghosts populate the old quarter of San Berillo.
1958 was the year of legge Merlin, the law that closed down the brothels in Italy. It was also the year San Berillo was razed to the ground and its 30.000 inhabitants rehoused in a new outlying suburban quarter. There is only one small piece of San Berillo left: a black hole at the centre of the city, crossroads of the stories that have passed through it, a mix of myth, legend, popular culture and brothels; and where since 1958 thousands of prostitutes have poured in, giving rise to one of the most important red-light districts of the entire Mediterranean. Year 2000: a raid by the security forces put an end to the forbidden quarter. Once again the inhabitants of San Berillo were forced to abandon their homes.

Edoardo Morabito
Born in Catania in 1979, in 2003 he moved to Rome to attend a film editing course at the CSC, Rome. He works as a fiction and documentary film editor. Among other works he has edited the documentary ‘Io Sono Tony Scott’ by Franco Maresco, presented at the International Film Festival of Locarno in 2010; and the documentary ‘Andata e Ritorno’ by Donatella Finocchiaro, selected at the Venice Film Show. In 2010 he received a special mention under the Solinas Documentary Awards for the project ‘The Ghosts of San Berillo’, his first film directorship completed in 2013.

edoardomorabito79@gmail.com

ILLUSION
Eight people that cannot be more different meet in a BAR. For one night they escape their everyday life which is paralyzed of rituals and find themselves in a journey to their world of thoughts, their quintessential lust. Oppressed wishes, sexual fantasies and fears come to the surface and forgotten experiences are revealed. The evening takes its course… A visually stunning cycle between reality and illusion, a carousel of emotions with thrilling twists.

Roland Reber
After finishing his acting school in Bochum/Germany in the 70ies, Roland Reber worked as actor, writer and director at many German and international theatres. He has written more than 20 theatre plays and scripts as well as texts and poems. In 1981 he founded the Theatre Institute and worked as a director, author and actor. He was Head of the World Theatre Project (in the framework of the Decade for Cultural Development of the UNESCO and UN) which he founded in 1989 and worked as director and writer in Cairo, Mexico and the Caribbean. He was teacher for acting and directing among others in Moscow and the Caribbean. For wtp international he works as director, writer and producer since the year 2000. All his films have been shown in various international film festivals and have been distributed theatrically and on DVD. For his work he received many awards.

wtpfilm@wtpfilm.com

FROZEN MAN
Sailing on a Uruguayan navy vessel, a group of soldiers see their lives consumed by the duty. Their destination is Antarctica and they have to cross the ocean to bring provisions to a scientific base. Their journey, often strewn with icebergs, is long and full of danger. When the sailors have reached their destination, the landscape becomes dominant and the men slowly disappear. In the middle of the storm, all trace of humanity seems to be lost in the snow.

Carolina Campo-Lupo
She holds a degree in Audiovisual Communications and is the director of the production house Lobo Hombre, alongside with G. Castelli. She was coordinator of a documentary lab at ORT University and also dictated two classes within the Audiovisual Communication Course of that University. In 2010 she was selected for the Creators’ Scholarship of Ibero-America, granted by the AECID and the FONCA. Carolina Campo is the producer of many documentaries, including: The Flowers of My Family, Hospi and The Sun in Winter (co-writer). Also, she is a contributor of the magazines Godard! (Peru) and Mabuse (Chile).

carolina@lobohombrecine.com

Q
This film portraits a woman living in Mumbai, India, and a six year old girl from nowhere. The girl has a code name ‘doll’. Their lives had no contact point till getting implicated in an unstoppable mission. Woman, perfectly aware, girl, perfectly unaware. The time bomb of destiny has been started…

Sanjeev Gupta
Born 27 February 1985 in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. Bachelor of electronic media.
My love for cinema starts from my childhood when I went to see the shootings in Agra like Taj Mahal, Red Fort and other places. But cinema completely touched me when I saw a movie on national television channel film by Satyajit Ray Sir ‘Shatranj Ke Khiladi’ (Chess Players). After watching that film cinema attracted me in a different way. I grew up and I joined media college and after my graduation in 2006 I came to Mumbai to make films. I work with media & film production companies and at last in the year 2014, I made Q, my first feature film.

pulpcinemaproductions@gmail.com

Trailer: http://vimeo.com/92012441

GLOWING EMBERS
On the banks of the Ucayali river, in the Peruvian rainforest, three generations of the same family struggle to survive through their hand-made production of coal.

Bénédicte Liénard
Born on April 25, 1965 in Mons, Belgium. She is an assistant director and director, known for Une part du ciel (2002), awarded the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at the 2002 Cannes Festival, D’arbres et de charbon (2013) screened at the Visions du réel in Nyon and Toto le héros (1991).

Mary Jiménez
(Lima, Peru, 1948)She began her film career as a screenwriter in the mid-1970s. In 1981 she directed her first feature film, 21:12 Piano Bar, followed by Du verbe aimer, La Moitié de l’Amour (1984), Différences (1985) and L’air de Rien (1989). She taught almost exclusively for ten years before returning to directing with La position du lion couché (2006).

promo@cbadoc.be