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Sahar International Short Film Festival provides a platform for Young and Emerging, professional and talented Filmmakers to showcase their cinematic talents.
This Festival created in September 2014 and The producer and Management Team are: Mandana & Sahar Ansari and Martin Gleeson.
Thank you to all distributors who participated and collaborated with us.
Thank you to Aimee Belmore the Editor in Chief of chain of Newspapers including Saddleworth Independent in North west of England.
On 24th to 31st July 2021
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Official Selection Announcement
The Sahar International Short Film Online Festival 8th Edition
2021
Short Films
The Sahar International Short Film Festival the 8th Edition 2021
We are proud to announce the official selection of the 8th Edition of Sahar International Short Film Festival 2021. We are going to stream 38 Short films with a variety of Genres and themes from different countries.
The Films are from Afghanistan, Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Iran, Iraq, India, Italy, Israel and Palestine, Portugal, Spain, Franc, Germany, Syria, Sweden, Turkey and The Uk.
This Online Festival will be held from 24th to 31st July 2021.
The audience can watch these short films from this website and the YouTube channel of the Festival for free.
Please feel free to send your opinion and feedback to email: saharfilmfestival@gmail.com
Certainly, your opinion will be considered in our future work.
During the time of the Festival, we plan to invite some Filmmakers who participated with us to discuss their project. Clubhouse is a new platform which is designed for these days, but unfortunately not everyone can easily access there. Therefore we asked filmmakers to send a very short video to talk about themselves and their evaluation of their project during pre to post production.
You are able to find these in the links below.
If you are interested to participate with us as an investor, supporter, or collaborating with us in the technical or creative part as a journalist, Judge on the jury panel, Graphic design, Animator...
please do not hesitate to send your Cv by contacting us at: saharfilmfestival@gmail.com
"A House in the Country"
(UNA CASA EN EL CAMPO)
Premiere
Director: Victor Cuadrado
2019
Duration: 15'
Fiction Drama
Synopsis:
Sara's mind has been trapped in an incident that occurred with her husband Agustin. An infinite loop that has destroyed the lives of both.
Director Biography: After studying audiovisual direction and screenwriting, he works mainly as an assistant director, and in 2017 he began directing the second unit of films such as Contratiempo and During the Storm, by O. Paulo, or Legado en los Bones and Offering a Storm, by F. González. Molina, among others. He is currently preparing his first feature film as a director..
Spain
Language: :Spanish
Audience: + 12
"Deliverence"
Director: Denis Klein
Duration: 9 '
2021
Dance
Synopsis:
DELIVERANCE is a short film about a dance artist, who tries to make a living from her passion but will have to face many challenges. Especially during this hard time of the pandemic situation which affects a majority of artists and live performers.
Bio Filmography: Filmmaker since 10 years, I usually works for events, culture, video clip and online promotion Passionate about images, I work in this field primarily through film, culture, music and travel. 5 words to describe me: Adventure, Energy, Precision, Dedication and Discretion.
Belgium
Audience: + 12
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SISFF 2021 Official Selection
"About Her"
Premiere
2021 - January
Director: Rabab Mrhege
Duration: 16'
Fantasy Drama
Synopsis:
The story of a woman … a city … a homeland … everywhere in the Arab world … in times of war and peace … how they betrayed and tortured her for money and for the sake of shameless and delusional freedom … and monitors the diverse real and fake human social relations and the relationships of artists with some of them, the social media (Facebook) ruled in passing judgments on us … an attempt to continue to be despite our different colours and beliefs … an attempt not to be among the losers … Not to be the fuel About her. Come sip an extra dose of hope and sleep quietly.
Director Bio:
Rabab Mrhege Actress, Filmmaker, Writer and Owner of Karma Productions & Distribution She studied at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus (1998-2001). - She holds a diploma in cinema sciences and visual arts from the Arab States Broadcasting Union and the General Film Organization in Damascus (2017-2018) She directed the following short films: 1- The face of departure 2- The absurd face 3- Theatre and cinema 4- A lost homeland 5- The first face … my mother (the gold winner of the Damascus Festival 2019) 6- about her
Language: Arabic
Syria
Subtitles English
Content rating Suitable for all audiences
"ElephantBird" (Filmnorgh)
Director: Masoud Soheili
Duration: 15'
2019 - January
Dark Comedy Drama
Synopsis:
A mini-bus is on a journey across the mountains to Kabul. Each person on the bus has a reason to take this journey. An old man is traveling to give a turkey to his grandchild, as his last wish before dying. However, the main road is blocked by insurgents. They decide to use an alternative road, which is not very secure, and there is still the possibility of getting caught by insurgents.
Biography: Amir Masoud Soheili is an awarded filmmaker, Festival director and programmer. He has been one of the seven most honoured Iranian short filmmakers in 2015. He was born in 1988 in Mashhad, Iran. He studied cinema in Indonesia and South Korea. Just with His second short film "Blue eyed boy" he won 20 international awards from more than 140 international film festivals. He was member of the juries of Yogya Netpac Asian Film Festival, Viddsee Juree awards in Indonesia, Avanca International Film Festival in Portugal, SAARC Film Festival in Sri lanka and International Documentary, Short Film Festival of Kerala in India and Malatya International Film Festival in Turkey. He is co-founder and creative director of "Asia Peace Film Festival" in Pakistan.
Language: Persian Dari
Afghanistan - IRAN
Audience: + 12
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"Decoys"
Premiere
Director: Jack Davies
Audrey Thevenin
Duration: 2 '
2020
Narrative
Synopsis:
It is a narrative short film about mental health during Corona time and recovery through self realization. It has been written with Jack Davies.
Director Bio:.
Audrey Thevenin: grew up in a little town in France, and now can call London her home. She has been passionate about photography since she was very young and wanted to do chose photography as her career. She went to university and graduated an English degree then moved to stay in London. She now works as a photographer assistant and on different projects she got a job as a director of photography. What she has realized there are no rules for making the perfect shot,. She continued we must just be creative and have an eye for details because a good composition is not going to suddenly happen, you need to create it."
UK
Audience: + 12
"The Son
of The Sun"
Director: Saeed Fatemi
Duration: 13' : 54''
2020
Biopic
Synopsis:
"The Son of the Sun" is the memorial documentary in respect of The late master "Mohammad Reza Shajarian" in an Art Biopic short Form.
Director Bio:
Saeed Fatemi is an British - Iranian Short Film Director. He is a Novelist, an actor, Dubbing.. His last short film is "The son of the sun".
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Language: Persian
UK
Content rating Suitable for all audiences
"Bars"
Director: Waleed Zedaney
Duration: 3 ', 02''
2020
Educational & Political Fiction - For Young generation
Synopsis:
The story of a civics teacher called Essam. Essam teaches in the classroom as usual, until one of the students asks him about the term democracy. He reacted to student in different way until the bell rings to finish the lesson.
Director Bio:
Waleed Zedaney was born in June 15, 1992, Tamar - Israel. He is a director; has participated in many short films, including those who won international prizes in Short Film Competitions -Orshena short film, win Award of Excellence - indie festival California 2016. Zedany also wrote scripts for commercial advertisements, and participated in filming television programs (Editing - Camera Man). He studied film directing in D&B academy Turkey. Director Statement
Palestine - Israel
Language: Arabic
Content rating Suitable for all audiences
"Vacation"
Writer/Director: Jack Davies
Duration: 4:01
2020
Sci-Fi Drama
Synopsis:
A woman sends a man through a time machine with surprising.
Producer: Gloria Daniels-Moss Film
Director Biography:
Jack Davies is an award-winning writer, director and producer, based in London, who has written five commissioned feature scripts, with short films at Venice Film Festival and festivals around the world; writing, directing and producing a feature film, Eve, which won the Lighthouse Film Festival in New Jersey, USA.
UK
Language: English
Audience: + 12
"What's Left"
Director: Jack Davies and Massimo Amici
Duration: 1.29''
2020
Sci-Fi Drama
Synopsis:
A film about loss and life and recovery
UK
Language: English
Audience: + 12
"Between the Shores
(Zwischen den Ufern)"
Director: Benjamin Lehmann
Duration: 28'
Drama
Synopsis:
January 1984: Lena Peters, a young citizen of the GDR, has an urgent wish to flee to her family in the West. After the Ministry for State Security accused her of the planned escape from the USSR, she decided to flee that same night together with her fiancé Bernd Steger and her friend Fritz Lange. Will they manage to overcome the dreaded border system and swim through the ice-cold Elbe to get to West Germany?
Director Bio:
Benjamin Lehmann is a 20-year young film producer and enthusiast from Hamburg, Germany who is currently looking for his role in creating films. In his first short film
Between the Shores" he was director, author and played a supporting role
Language: German
German
Content rating Suitable for all audiences
"t3mp0"
Premiere
Director: Marcio Riscado
Duration: 8 '
2020
Synopsis:
t3mp0 proposes reflection on finitude, ours and all things. Discuss faith, life and death. It exposes the dreams and frustrations of his character, an old watchmaker who recounts his thoughts in a testament letter to his grandson.
Director Bio:.
Marcio Riscado holds a Bachelor's degree in Social Communication from PUC-RJ, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and a postgraduate degree in Higher Education. Journalist, university professor since 1988, photographer, musician, director and director of photography. He directed the award-winning fiction "Núm3r0" and the documentary series "Sober Fontography" and "Artes do Aficio". Co-director of "In the Dark". He has worked as Director of Photography for several award-winning films such as: "We”, "Lullaby for Dinosaurs", "Turn Off the Light When You Enter", "Weekend with Cristine", "My Sweet Nurse", "Lapa, Secrets and Other Drugs", "Before that Come to Pop Our Brains "in addition to advertising films and institutional videos.
Brazi
Audience: + 12
"Distant Light"
Premiere
Director: Victor Luiz Riona
Duration: 4'
2021
Drama
Synopsis:
A woman wanders the places that once meant something about her past love. There, between the darkness, the memories and the shadows of the day, she thinks she sees him. She remembers fragments of a life... perhaps lived, perhaps only desired..
Director Bio:
Víctor Luiz Riona (1997), graduated in film direction from ECAM. He has alternated his duties as director and scriptwriter with assistant jobs in different production and direction teams in national series and short films. His first professional works were Paraíso 63 (2018) and La gallinita ciega (2019). This last short film was part of the official section of the Rhode Island International Film Festival and was entered in the Goya 35 Edition Awards. Director Bio: Víctor Luiz Riona (1997), graduated in film direction from ECAM. He has alternated his duties as director and scriptwriter with assistant jobs in different production and direction teams in national series and short films. His first professional works were Paraíso 63 (2018) and La gallinita ciega (2019). This last short film was part of the official section of the Rhode Island International Film Festival and was entered in the Goya 35 Edition Awards.
Spain
Language English
Audience: + 12
"The Divine Visions
of Hildegard von
Bingen"
Director: Paul Vernon
Duration: 10' : 44''
2019
Experimental
Synopsis:
The Divine Visions of Hildegard von Binge is a film commission from Filthy Lucre supported by the Arts Council & directed by Paul Vernon. The film is an interpretation & visualization of visions supposedly bestowed by God upon the German mystic & nun Hildegard von Bingen which lead her to invent natural sciences, languages, paintings, writings & music. The film premiered at Hackney Showroom with a live score and vocalist for its intended event Lingua Ignota, a Filthy Lucre concert themed around invented languages and also screened at the Stone Nest on Shaftesbury Avenue and at the Festival de Cine Experimental in Colombia.
Director Bio:
Paul is the director and editor of short dance, experimental and documentary films. He has worked on TV commercials, feature documentaries, red carpet premieres, music videos, shorts and TV shows as an assistant director, camera and other roles. In 2021 he publishes his second photobook: Strange Space.
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UK
Audience: + 12
"The Drawning Goat"
Director: Sebastian Johansson Micki
Duration: 27'
2020
Sci-Fi Drama
Synopsis:
Luca arrives by plane to visit his dad and his new family in Sweden. Luca is eager to make a good impression and to be accommodating, but the visit does not go as planned and a stressed incident releases the underlying tensions.
Director Biography Filmography :
(2020) The Drowning Goat (2020) Sustainable Professionality (2018) Cancel (2015) Class Trip
Sweden
Language: English
Audience: + 12
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"Palace"
Premiere
Director: Prince Car,
Matthieu Ponchel
2019
Duration: 14'
Fiction Drama
Synopsis:
What is love? Can we love several people? Shahan: I like you a lot Julien. Julien: I’m thinking about the fact that you have a boyfriend.
Directors Biography:
Prïncia was born in Marseille in a theater family and has learned cinema in Bruxelles. He opens this year a movie school for young people from poor neighborhoods with whom she will write her first long feature.
Matthieu has been a photographer since 2013.
He is constantly navigating from cinema to photography and vice versa. In 2010 he creates Studio Lambda, a collective of different artists with whom he'll make several awarded short movies. Since 2016, he's working on his first long feature.
France
Language French
Content rating Suitable for all audiences
"Abril"
Premiere
Director:
Aleix Masferrer López
2020
Duration: 05'
Synopsis:
Inspired and recorded during the 2020 quarantine
Spain
Language: Spanish
Content rating Suitable for all audiences
"Mother Reflio"
Director: Alex Masferrer Lopez
2019
Duration : 11 '
Synopsis:
Helena receives Enrique's visit after many years of his disappearance. They have a hard conversation. Enrique tries to explain the reason for this abandonment. Helena is so disappointed that she does not allow him to explain what happened
Spain
Language Spanish
Content rating Suitable for all audiences
"It's better there"
Premiere
Director: Hasanain Alhani
2020
Duration: 11'
Animation
Synopsis:
As for human nature that denies life’s end and loves the life’s adventure, the newborn child loves life’s challenges. Hence, coming to life’s end immediately is awful unless involving into its difficulties. But there are some circumstances makes human to close the womb that he came from.
Director Biography:
An Iraqi director graduated from Baghdad university in 2004 from the college of fine arts. He directed many documentary and fiction films for cinema and TV. Also, he participated in many local and universal festivals. Moreover, he is the founder and manager of the al-Nahar international festival and jury for several festivals. Also, he works in an Iraqi TV channel
Iraq
Language: Image
Content rating Suitable for all audiences
"Great Emptiness"
Director: Emre Dotter
2020
Duration : 8'
Synopsis:
Billions of people across the globe have become physically isolated and held captive by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Biography:
Born in 1982, Emre Doter started his photography journey in 2000 at Victoria University, Canada. After graduating Anadolu University, Turkey, in 2005, he earned his master’s degree at Fashion Photography at Accademia Italian, Florence in 2007. He started his professional carrier at Roberto Quale’s Studio in Florence, working for brands like Gucci, Salvatore Ferragamo, D&G etc. In 2008 and he established his studio in Istanbul. Starting with Elle Decoration (Turkey) at his early years, he did photo and video shooting focused on places, people and cultures. Based in his studio in Istanbul, he basically works on architectural, interior, still-life, life style and travel photography.
Turkey
Language: No dialogues
Content rating Suitable for all audiences
" The Forgotten"
(منسيون - نسخة قصيرة)
Premier
Director: TAREQ BADDAR
Duration: 28'
2021
Documentary
Synopsis:
Refugee camps near the shore,
miserable housing conditions,
scattered tents, and people who
are forgotten. A place where time
freezes and waits for emptiness. They ran away from humiliation in their country to an unknown fate. The Rohingya refugees between two fires: the horrific actions by the government of Burma or the wretched conditions of the tents in Bangladesh.
Director bio: Filmmaker, New York Film Academy graduate, working in the media field since 2009. worked as a Producer, Director, Writer, and Editor for various projects: Songs, music videos, commercials, programs, documentaries, and short films. The projects mentioned have been shown on multiple TV channels and independent cinema theatres. Directed two short fiction films: "Parallel World" & "Hoyam". The films have been selected in more than 35 festivals around the world and won three prizes from India and Sudan. Directed "The Forgotten", his first feature documentary talking about Burmese refugees in Bangladesh. Worked as a producer for “Touchline”, a short fiction film in 2020. The film won a grant from the Jordan Film Fund. Co-wrote two episodes of a documentary series called "Discover Turkey" presented by traveler Loay Al-Otaibi. Conducted filmmaking, workshops, and courses in various middle eastern countries. Worked as a lead producer and senior video editor at Nawaz Media production company in Jordan between 2014 and 2017. Co-founded “At Films”, his own film company at the beginning of 2017.
Bangladesh
Audience: + 12
"Pizza -
Black"
Director:
Fco Javier
Medina Gonzalez
2020
Duration: 15'
Synopsis:
A Boy Suffering From Agoraphobia. He is going to celebrate his birthday by ordering a pizza and...
Bio filmography SHORTS:
PIZZA-BLACK/THANKS/TO DANCE/FULL PLEASE/YES YES MY LOVE/INVISIBLES/LITTLE CREATURES OF GOD/RESPECT/MEMORIES/NORMALITY
Spain
Language: Spanish
Content rating +13
"Gracias" (Thanks)
Director: Fco Javier Medina Gonzalez
2020
Duration: 3'
Fiction
Synopsis:
Story is about lost in Corona time.
Spain
Language: Spanish
"Recuerdos" (Memories)
Director: Fco Javier Medina Gonzalez
Duration: 3'
Family
2020
Synopsis:
Starting from alzheimer's diagnosis to father...
Spain
Language Spanish
Content rating Suitable for all audiences
7_MINUTES
Director: CHRISTIAN SCHNEIDER
2020
Duration : 08'
- Crime
Synopsis:
Julia is a luxury sex worker. Rubens is a police inspector who lives a failed marriage, they don't know each other, until their destinies intersect.
Bio Filmography:
Master in Artistic Studies - Film and Image by University of Coimbra, Postgraduate in Visual Poetics and Photography from Feevale University, Graduated in Cinema by PUCRS University.
Brazil
Audience: +18
"Stench " (Hedor)
Director: Santiago
Roger Gaddy
2019
Duration : 11'
Synopsis:
A man tries to read in his room. But his concentration is interrupted by something that distracts him.
Bio Filmography:
Film workshops with final practices in 2018. Sound workshop for cinema 2018 by Norberto Ramírez. 2018. participates in the intensive Music Seminar for Audiovisual Media by Sebastián Scoffer 2018. Annual film workshop 2018 by Alejandro Arroz 2017. Annual Film Workshop 2017 by Alejandro Arroz 2016. Approves the Course "Sound and Digital Audio: Introduction to electroacoustic media for music production" by Mr. Damien Payao Esper. Audiovisual productions Director and screenwriter of the short film. Hedor produced in 2019.
Argentina
Language: Mute
Audience: +12
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"The Puppeteer"
Director:
Ruben Henges Bach
2020
Duration : 18'
Animation - Children
Premiere
Synopsis:
Once upon a time there was an orphan boy that lived in a small, old and sad village. But then the village received an unexpected visit from a Puppeteer, who brought joy to (almost) everybody. Although three of the villagers: the Major, the Captain and the Banker, reminded suspicious about that mysterious man.
Director biography:
2009 Animation assistant in Teatree Pixel productions, with the Illustrator Carless Porta. As Director/Creator: 2009 Short film "La UdL i jo": Winner Short film Contest University of Lleida 2009 Short film "Polysemous" (Polysemic): Winner Short film Contest "Lantern Digital" 2010 Short film "Dona Pau al teu dialog" (Give peace to your dialogue): Winner Short film Contest "Animations per la Pau" (Animations for Peace)
Spain
Language Spanish
Content rating Suitable for all audiences
"Emillia"
Director: Cristina Guillen
2020
Duration : 16':26''
Synopsis:
The story is about Emilia
and her granddaughter
Silvia. Emilia is an old woman who gradually suffers from dementia and this issue affected her life.
Director Bio:
A jack of all trades and master of none. That's how I define myself. Restless from birth, I have never settled for NO for an answer. Call me persistent or stubborn, but proud to be like that and how far I've come because of that. " With more than 20 years of experience in the world of acting, Cristina Guillen has participated as an actress in numerous national and international projects. For instance, she has worked with Jeff Bridges in Los Angeles; participated in the British show “Snatch"; etc. At 17 she started as an international model, both in Paris and Milan, or New York where she worked for more than five years, but her concerns made her evolve until she founded her own modeling agency UNIKO MODELS in 2013. With "Emilia", she debuts as a Director, Producer and Screenwriter. "The school of life" in this case makes more sense than ever.
SPAIN
Language: Spanish
Content rating Suitable for all audiences
"Mobius"
Director: Francisco Hervada
Martín
2020
Duration :02'
Synopsis:
Narrative essay that applies the structure of the "Moebius strip" to two stories (front and back) that intertwine. It is recommended to see in "loop"
Director bio:
Francisco Hervada Martín (Tordesillas, 1972) has a degree in "Visual and auditory image sciences" from the Universidad Completeness de Madrid. Since 2000, he is professor in the Vocational Training of “Image and sound”. He has directed more than a dozen short films and three feature films. His last short-film, "I don't love you anymore" (2017), has more than 50 national and international selections and the Best Short Film Award in the section "Castilla y León en corto" of the last international festival SEMINCI of Valladolid.
Spain
Language: Spanish
Content rating Suitable for all audiences
"Happy As Larry"
Director: Ava Shacklady
2020
Duration : 16':26''
Animation - Children
Synopsis:
Through isolation and grief,
Larry is not very happy.
Through a small act of kindness (and a nudge from the cat) Larry takes steps to feel normal size again.
Director Bio:
Ava Shacklady is an emerging writer and animator from London. Her previous animation has featured
in numerous film festivals around the world, including winning ‘Best Animation’ at the 2020 British Film Festival.
Ava has illustrated a handful of fun children’s picture books in different styles. Ava’s experience has also grown
from working on various film and TV sets while completing her degree in ‘Illustration & Animation’ at Arts University
Bournemouth. In her spare time, you would find Ava writing scripts, running or cooking for her flat mates.
The Uk
Language: English
Content rating Suitable for all audiences
"Clouds...Clouds"
Director:
Carlos Alberto Matos Trindade
2018
Duration : 1''
Synopsis:
A movie almost abstract. Clouds, clouds, during air travel. The passing clouds, far away... endless….
Director Bio:
Born in Oporto, 1957. Degree in Fine Arts (Painting) by ESBAP (now FBAUP) in 1981. PHD in Contemporary Art by Universidad de Vigo, Spain (Sculpture Department, 2014), Scholarship from Fundación para a Chancie e a Technologic (FCT) between 2009-2012. He is Auxiliary Teacher at the Escola Superior Artistical do Porto (ESAP), being one of its founders. As artist, began to exhibit in 1978: he did five individual exhibitions and took part in more than 150 collective ones, in Portugal and abroad. Between 1976 and 1981 he worked in animation films, included two 16 mm films financed by the Instituto Portuguese do Cinema (IPC), produced by Cinematograph - collective de intervenor. Films: Flashbulb memories (2015)
Premiere
Production country Portugal
Shooting Location Italy
Language: Image
Language: Spanish
Content rating Suitable for all audiences
"Boon"
Director: RAJAT TALUKDAR
Duration: 4'
2019
Fiction - Children
Synopsis:
The story is about a child's life. One disabled man is begging on the street. A passerby is a clever child. How can help him in a different and honorable way of support?
Director Bio:
Rajat is an educated Film director from India who has so much experience as a Short Film Director.
CURRENT STATUS:-
ASSOCIATED AS A FREELANCE LECTURER AT VARIOUS ACTING AND THEATRE INSTITUTIONS. WORKING AS A WRITER-DIRECTOR FOR TWO UPCOMING FULL-LENGTH HINDI FEATURE FILMS FOR DIFFERENT PRODUCTIONS.
India
Content rating Suitable for all audiences
"And then? All the opposite"(Et Apres? Tout l'invers)
Director: Samuel Bester
2020
Duration : 5 '
Synopsis:
5 short videos made for the Common Ground Project by Kiki Nicolle which proposes to take a look at the post-containment world. David Pollard displays on the streets of Marseille allowed the realization of these poetic little films.
Bio Filmography:
By exploring ambiguity through variations and deformations, Samuel Bester tries to increase dynamics between perception, interpretation and emotion. Using an often metaphorical poetic language, he wants to amplify curiosity by creating compositions where arrangements produce mental images. The apparent significances are scrambled, time and the memory always have a key function.
France
Language French
Content rating Suitable for all audiences
"Hate Dance"
Director: Beverley Callow
Duration: 15'
Women- Racism
Synopsis:
Dance teacher, Li Po is running
late to class, so she asks her
boyfriend, Tommy to drive her but he refuses her. When walks toward the academy Dance school she .....
Biography:
Award-winning, early career filmmaker Beverley studied Acting and Visual Arts (Photography, Textiles and Sculpture) at the University of Southern Queensland, worked as an actor on stage and screen and was a drama tutor for young people for 10 years. Beverley discovered filmmaking as a way to consolidate her skills and tell stylised experimental dramas with themes such as domestic violence, addiction, homelessness and male suicide.
While studying the technical filmmaking skills, she made her first films Starflower, Love Buttons and Happy Anniversary, a short, mobile phone film about child sexual abuse by a priest, which won awards in Australia and Spain
In 2011, Beverley directed the play The Salt Maiden, before returning to Queensland to make the film version. At the same time, she was selected to participate in Screen Producer’s Australia’s Emerging Producer’s Scheme. The Salt Maiden
screened internationally and won Best Film, Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography at Port Stephens Film Festival
2014 and Best Film at Coasties Film Festival, 2015.
Beverley returned to Sydney to study at the Australian Film Television & Radio School from 2015-2017. Her graduation film,
Hate Dance, about racism employed all female heads of departments, won Gold in the Student Category at the
Australian Cinematographer’s Society NSW Awards, 2018 and had its world premiere at Cyprus International Film
Festival 2019.
Australia
Language: English
Audience: + 12
"Today"
Aujourd'hui
Director: Francis Chillet
Duration: 20'
2020
Drama - LGBT
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Synopsis:
After three years abroad, Felix returns to his childhood village for Christmas. The memories come flooding back as he meets up again with old friends and he retraces moments that have forged the man he has become today,
Director Bio:
Francis is a young award-winning Filmmaker who just recently finished his education in Cinema at 315 a French cinema school. Before "Today" he produced several short films: El Sl C" w
est Demain", A quoi pensent ceux qui ne present pas. "Coup d coer"...
France
Audience: + 12
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"Fines"
Director: ÁNGEL SANTISTEBAN
AZORÍN
2020
Duration : 8': 55''
Synopsis:
An alcoholic is visited by a
mysterious little girl who is
looking for her mother. Soon
he will discover that she is related with part of a past that he is trying to forget.
Director Bio:
Direction of the short film "Fatal Situation" awarded at the Cordoba Festival and that of the Faculty of Information Sciences of Segovia. Direction of the short films "A que molo", " La noche de mañana", "33" and " Amanecer “. Production, Assistant Director, Regent and Actor in various short film projects. Producer and actor in spot "El hombre burbuja" for Grupo Pacc. Director of the short film “MMM” awarded at the Cambio y Corto Madrid, the 5th Cinexpress Badajoz and at the Primavera Film Festival.
Spain
Audience: + 12
"Pig's Rock
& Roll "
Director: Cleiton Cafeu
2020
Duration : 4'
Animation - Children
Synopsis:
As for human nature that denies life’s end and loves life’s adventure, the newborn child loves life’s challenges. Hence, coming to life’s end immediately is awful unless involving in its difficulties. But there are some circumstances makes human to close the womb that he came from.
Director Biography:
Director: Cleiiton Cafeu It tells of the adventure of a little pig, who, faced with his destiny to become bacon, and encouraged by his little friends, decides to run away during the night. At that moment, he is surprised by the butcher, who, in the face of danger, decides to provoke a distraction by playing and dancing rock and roll. We will only know the answer by watching the short film.
Brazil
Language : Image
Content rating Suitable for all audiences
Prayer to the Earth( Oraco a Terra)
Director: Cleton Cafeu
Animation
2019
Duration: 04 minutes
Synopsis:
This short film shows the suffering of people who live to fight for better days, as they reside in hostile conditions of the arid backwoods in Northeast Brazil. These people always find the strength to keep fighting for life. They never give up hope, despite having the bare minimum to survive, nor contemplate leaving their land; their home.
Director Bio:
Acting since 1984 in the animated film are - several commercials such as Lollo, Bond Boca, Snoopy, Garfield, Nesquick, kinder OVO, Chamita, etc. Animation of the opening of the film "O Casamento dos trapalhões", planning in the series "Aladdin - Disney" developed in Brazil, planning first animation "Senninha". Animations for the TV show: Manchete Network named Manual. Numerous storyboards for national and international films, TV series, and commercials in animation and live-action. Curtas produced: 2007 -Final Feliz, short award winning / 2014- Sad Nessie The tourist, finalist / 2014 - The rubber and the pencil, awarded / 2015 - The duel - only internet / 2015 - Toilet man, finalist / 2017 - McNóia and Dentinho - 7 episodes - season 1 - website. Short films in production: El Diablito - CGI animation and Kevin & Carol - stop-motion technique. Production country Brazil Shooting Location
Brazil
Language Portuguese
Suitable for all audiences
"Eva's Comet"
Director: Jd Shapiro
Alfonso Alfolin
Duration: 22': 17''
Fiction
Synopsis:
Life makes two different types of women in the same hotel room for a while and...
Director Biography:
JD Shapiro is an American screenwriter and a movie director known for writing the original script of “Robin Hood men in tights” directed
by Mel Brooks. And also for writing the script of Battlefield Earth, starring John Travolta and Forrest Whitaker.
JD has sold over a dozen screenplays to almost every major Hollywood studio including, Warner Brothers, Disney, New Line, Miramax,
Paramount & Twentieth Century Fox.
He directed his first movie “We married Margo” which won the jury Price at Slamdance Filmfestival among others
Alfonso Antolin, after studying philosophy at the University of Salamanca, in Spain.
Alfonso moved to Madrid to study filmmaking at TAI Madrid.
After graduating he worked in several tv shows like “Saturday nightlife” and as an editor working at record TV as well, but what really
inspires him is films.
He worked in many short films and music videos not only as a director but as a director of photography, something he self-taught and
he truly loves.
Italy
Audience: + 12