INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY
Alicia Armstrong Larraín | Alicia Armstrong Larraín
Chile |29’44” | 2022
Director: Paula Armstrong
Producer: Paula Armstrong
Synopsis:
An unexpected email reveals to Paula, a young filmmaker, the existence of a Chilean director named Alicia Armstrong, who surprisingly bears her last name. She discovers that Alicia was the third female film director in Chile, making a single film in 1926, now lost. Paula will try to recover everything about Alicia and her movie, realizing that something deeper than a simple movie is hidden behind it.
Biography:
With a degree in Audiovisual Communication from Duoc Uc, she stands out in the fields of directing, scriptwriting and editing, participating in the short films ''Land of Nobody'', ''The Way of the Dogs'' and ''Enrique's shadow''. She currently works as an editor and director at Imago Producciones, an audiovisual production company dedicated to scientific divulgation. She has edited television series, both children's and non-children's, and a feature film awarded at international festivals called Atacamex 8081: Exploring the unknown. In addition, she belongs to the Nosotras Audiovisuales group.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/716910901
Apenas mais um dia | Just one more day
Brazil | 12' | 2023
Director: Samantha Joanne
Cast: Jessica Butke Lima, Rosangela da Silva Nascimento, Kauane Rafaela Dutra, Cintia Almeida Silva, Silvia Malikoski Favero, Glauce Elaine Correa Pisetta Savi
Production: Maculata Filmes
Synopsis:
How does each woman protect herself from the pain of the past? How do they reflect on the idea of time and the present silencing? Going through a space that allows encounters, reflections and new forms of production of subjectivities of women connected with themselves, the short film approaches individual stories to reflect on a space that allows the expansion of affections and desires that do not let them succumb to dehumanization.
Biography:
Born in Pirassununga/SP, Samantha Joanne is a film major at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. She researches Cinema within the prison context, proposing several interlocutions such as the film club project, entitled CineDelas. Since 2019, he has been active in Female Prison of Florianópolis, in partnership with a research group, entitled Theater and Prison - Infiltrations of the performing arts in spaces of deprivation of liberty.
Trailer:
Medusa’s Gaze | Les filles de Méduse
France | 26’20” | 2022
Directors: Bénédicte Alloing, Ellénore Lemattre
Producer: Thomas Dumont
Synopsys:
We are the models. We hold the pose to be depicted, for our bodies to originate images and works of art. Naked, we outstandingly catch the eye. We freeze to be observed for a long time and to be meticulously examined. And yet, we always vanish.
Biographies:
Bénédicte Alloing directed several documentaries, including “Digue du break”, “Encore debout” and “Eperlecques”. In parallel, she also creates videos for theaters and music venues under the Collectif Digital Vandal.
Medusa’s Gaze was Ellénore Lemattre’s first film. She is also an actress, a burlesque performer and a photographer. Among other things, she wrote twice about live modelling: in "Sang Froid" in 2010, and an essay titled “Sur la sellette” in the journal Amer in 2018.
Living Bodies | Cuerpos Vivos
Honduras | 17’24” | 2022
Director: Andrea Arauz
Producer: Andrea Arauz
Synopsis:
In the silence and complicity of a fragmented city, we learn through different women's bodies, the testimony of Amara. A young Honduran woman shares how she has suffered violence in one of the worst countries in the world to be a woman.
Biography:
Andrea Arauz is a Central American filmmaker. Resident in Honduras. Master in Documentary Film at the Barcelona Film School (ECIB). Executive Producer of Aurora Studio in Honduras. In 2021 she was the first Honduran documentary filmmaker to win the Logan Nonfiction Program grant in the US for her first long feature documentary as director “The Stillness of a Revolution”. She has worked as a director, producer, digital strategist, video editor and 2D animator for international and national NGOs in Honduras, always focusing on human rights.
Julie on line | Julie on line
France | 77’41” | 2021
Director: Mia MA
Cast: Julie Yaye Bigué Dieng
Producer: Florent Coulon
Synopsis:
One day, Julie heard voices threatening her. Doctors gave her electroshocks, marabouts tried to exorcise her, she ingested many medicines, drank a lot of potions, spent days in the hospital and long hours locked up at home trying to forget the past and imagine the future. To me, she is a precious friend, a sensitive soul, a resistant who decided that she would not make "a career as a victim". I have been filming her for five years. Together, we dive into her past and discover the story of a heroine.
Biography:
At the end of the 1990's, Mia Ma watched Jean-Pierre Thorn's film Faire kiffer les anges on her television set, driven by her love of hip hop dance. She discovered with enthusiasm a kind of documentary she had never seen before, which transforms intimacy into politics, and reality into cinema. She directed Riz cantonais in 2015, a medium-length film that tells the story of the complexity of miscegenation from an intimate point of view. In 2021, she directed Fréquence Julie, which explores the issues of madness and courage from the perspective of friendship. Today, Mia Ma works in parallel as a technician in the world of dubbing.
The Lost Letters - prison and exile of Republican women | LAS CARTAS PERDIDAS, la cárcel y el exilio de la mujeres republicanas
Spain | 75' | 2021
Director: Amparo Climent
Cast: Marisa Paredes, Alba Flores, Luisa Gavasa, Rosana Pastor
Production: Mitad & Mitad Producciones, Filmakers Monkeys, Tarannà Films
Sinopsys:
Fictional documentary that portrays real letters from women exiled or imprisoned during the Civil War. It is a tribute to the women who were victims of Francoism and who suffered a double repression, for being women and for being republicans
Biography:
Amparo Climent is a Valencian actress and multidisciplinary artist. She has written and directed some short films (Memories in the garden, ADN) and we remark her work in the documentary field with Tears of Africa and Idomeni’s Dreams, about the refugees crisis in Europe. Her short doc, Porters: slaves of the South, about labour rights of women at the Spanish- Moroccan border has travelled in more than 30 festivals and won several prizes.
The day I discovered that Jane Fonda was a brunette | Le jour où j’ai découvert que Jane Fonda était brune
France | 84' | 2022
Director: Anna Salzberg
Production: Les films du hasard & Flammes
Cast: Liliane Salzberg
Synopsis:
I ask my mother about her past feminist commitment, and why she made a child on her own. She doesn't answer me, so I find answers elsewhere, in archives, with a women's choir, and in film gestures that I make.
Biography:
Anna Salzberg is a filmmaker. She makes film essays, sometimes short and plastic, sometimes long and documentary, sometimes in between. She is also a sound designer. She likes to mix genres and work with Super 8 and 16 mm film.
I Am Trying to Remember | Saei Mikonam faramoush nakonam
Iran, Czech Republic | 15' | 2021
Director: Pegah Ahangarani
Producer: Kaveh Farnam
Synopsis:
I asked: "Why have they erased you?" He said: "Maybe they are scared." I said: "Whoever is scared, should erase themselves." He said: "In that case, the faces of the living would all be gone and only the dead would remain."
Biography:
Pegah Ahangarani is an Iranian actress, film director and musician. She has directed 7 documentaries and acted in more than 40 feature films. Her movies (where she starred or directed) have been shown in many festivals, including Berlinale, Toronto International Film Festival, Venice Film Festival.
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Category: Woman | Category: Woman
Canada | 60’16” | 2022
Director: Phyllis Ellis
Producer: Howard Fraiberg
Synopsis:
When 18-year-old South African runner Caster Semenya burst onto the world stage in 2009, her championship was not celebrated, but marred by doubt, her personal medical records leaked to the international media. The public scrutiny of her body, driven by racism and sexism, questioning the most fundamental right of who she is, a great champion. Following up on her award-winning film Toxic Beauty, Phyllis Ellis exposes an industry controlled by men putting women’s lives at risk while this policing of women’s bodies in sport remains, in a more nefarious way, under the guise of fair play.
Biography:
Independent filmmaker Phyllis Ellis is a native of Canada and has worked in Europe, Asia, Africa, India and the U.S. for the past thirty-five years as a filmmaker, writer, actor and producer. Her work addresses themes of justice, truth, transformation, and human rights.
Ferro's Bar | Ferro’s Bar
Brazil | 24’20” | 2023
Directors: Aline A. Assis, Fernanda Elias, Nayla Guerra e Rita Quadros
Producers: Nayla Guerra, Patricia Galucci
Synopsis:
Based on the reports of lesbians who frequented Ferro’s Bar, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, we discover a little bit of the life of lesbians during the military dictatorship in downtown São Paulo. We are led to an important episode in the formation process of the Brazilian lesbian movement, the “Levante do Ferro’s Bar”, also known as the “Brazilian Stonewall”.
Biographies:
Aline A. Assis - Studying Audiovisual at the University of São Paulo, she was part of the collective Cine Sapatão between 2020 and 2022.
Fernanda Elias - Co Organizes Cine Sapatão since its foundation in 2017, having worked with production, curatorship, translation and subtitling.
Nayla Guerra - Works with cultural production at Cinemateca Brasileira. She has a degree in Audiovisual from the University of São Paulo. She is a member of Cine Sapatão since 2019.
Rita Quadros - Coorganizes Cine Sapatão since its foundation in 2017. She has a long history of LGBT militancy in São Paulo and experience with film clubs.
My Dad Gets a Smart Phone | My Dad Gets a Smart Phone
United States of America | 5’35” | 2022
Director: Sarah Wells
Cast: Jim Wells
Producer: Sarah Wells
Synopsis:
A short documentary about my dad getting a smart phone for the first time.
Biography:
Born and raised in the woods outside of Portland in the United States, Sarah Wells is a documentary filmmaker and cinematographer working in the Bay Area.
SOY NIÑO | SOY NIÑO
Chile, France | 62' | 2022
Director: Lorena Zilleruelo
Producer: Quentin Laurent, Elisa Sepúlveda- Ruddoff
Synopsis:
Bastian, a young trans boy, has to face a very difficult time in life: adolescence. It becomes even harder when he has to put his best efforts into asserting his individuality. Bastian’s journey introduces us to a newly open-minded Chile, more tolerant thanks to Chile's new generation.
Biography:
Born in Chile, in 1974, Lorena is a visual artist video and filmmaker who has obtained all her degrees in France. Her work deals with political action and collective memory. She has presented her work in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Norway, Thailand, Korea, and Chile. She studied at the Fine Arts schools of Grenoble and Paris-Cergy, at the Contemporary Arts School, Le Fresnoy and at La Fémis Cinema School, in France.
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Guerreras | Guerreras
Netherlands | 12’13” | 2023
Director: Lotte van Raalte
Producer: Lotte van Raalte
Synopsis:
An overwhelming portrait of women embracing nature as their home, listening to their bodies while speaking up for generations of women in a world of
ancestral trauma and gender inequality.
Biography:
Lotte van Raalte is a dutch photographer and director. At an early stage, traveling around the world, it was clear that she was fuelled by an attraction to culture and human stories. Today Van Raalte’s personal projects are guided by an interest in womanhood, sustainability and gender equality.
Fearless | Sin Miedo
Austria | 10' | 2022
Director: Cristina Rodríguez Cerro, Rocío Fernández Nicolás
Producer: Cristina Rodríguez Cerro, Rocío Fernández Nicolás
Synopsis:
Seven women of different nationalities tell us their experiences, points of view and reflections on a global reality they are fighting against: the patriarchal system.
Biographies:
Cristina Rodríguez Cerro and Rocío Fernández Nicolás are two Spanish filmmakers, who use audiovisual language as an activist tool to support the feminist movement. Twelve years after meeting at university in Spain, the two directors of this short film “Sin Miedo”, metin the city of Graz, Austria, where they currently live. They immediately resumed the path of feminist activism, coming together to produce videos on social and artistic topics, supporting women entrepreneurs.
My Maysoon | My Maysoon
Netherlands | 55' | 2023
Director: Batoul Karbijha
Producers: Janneke Doolaard, Harmen Jalvingh
Synopsis:
Batoul decides that making a film about what happened to her sister Maysoon, who disappeared on the Mediterranean Sea years ago, is the only way to deal with a pain so great that no one in her family can talk about it.
Biography:
Batoul Karbijha is a Syrian journalist and filmmaker who lives in Amsterdam. She moved to the Netherlands in 2014, and has since then worked as creative producer for short-form documentaries, particularly in conflicted and war-torn countries. She has an intimate approach, focusing on human rights, immigrants and refugees. One of her short-form film series “The 11 Years Old Rebel” has been nominated for Short Form Doc Award at the One World Media Awards.
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w0xR2H-_OU
Tutto apposto Gioia mia | Tutto apposto Gioia mia
France | 55' | 2022
Director: Chloé Gioia Lecci López
Producer: Gautier Raguenes
Synopsis:
Since my father's arrest, I have been recording our telephone conversations. Like every summer, I go to Catania in Sicily to visit my father's family. This time I film them and ask them about my father's youth. While walking through the volcanic city, I meet Giulio, a young man of eighteen years old. From our conversations, I try to understand why the path of delinquency is sometimes the only way out.
Biography:
Of Spanish and Italian origin, Chloé Lecci Lopez was born and raised in Paris. After studying cinema and specializing in documentary film, she conducted research in arts and languages and was interested in the relationship between cinematographic and ethno-musicological approaches.
