INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY

A Mulher com a sua própria Luz | The Woman With Her Own Light

Brasil | Brazil | 64’19’’| 2019
Director: Sinai Sganzerla Producer: Mercúrio Produções

Synopsis

Helena Ignez is one of the main female figures of Brazilian cinema. She developed a new style of acting.

Nowadays, she directs independent films. The documentary tells some of the History of Brazilian cinema, its political context and Helena’s trajectory.

Biography

Sinai Sganzerla has been working with film production and film festivals for over 15 years. Her first film as director and screenwriter O Desmonte do Monte (2018) was awarded the Prize for Best Research in the Poster Archive – International Film Festival, 2018. Sinai Sganzerla was selected for the special session Directors in Focus of SANFIC – Santiago International Film Festival, edition 16, 2020, for the screening of the film The Woman With Her Own Light.

Synopsis

Women of various ages, experiences and sexual preferences speak about their orgasms in all sincerity. Poetic, abstract and metaphorical images take us to the core of their sensations. Talking about orgasms, the protagonists talk about their desires, their sexuality. With sensitivity, poetry and humour, the film takes us into the intimacy of women. The film is a collective adventure, driven by a common desire to break some taboos that still weigh on female sexuality.

Biography

Women of various ages, experiences and sexual preferences speak about their orgasms in all sincerity. Poetic, abstract and metaphorical images take us to the core of their sensations. Talking about orgasms, the protagonists talk about their desires, their sexuality. With sensitivity, poetry and humour, the film takes us into the intimacy of women. The film is a collective adventure, driven by a common desire to break some taboos that still weigh on female sexuality.

Diga o meu Nome | Say My Name

Brasil | Brazil | 78’00’’ | 2019
Director: Juliana Chagas Gouveia Produção | Producer: Kiki Garcia, Martha Ferraris

Synopsis

A documentary telling the story of two Brazilian trans women. While struggling for the right to have the name and gender with which they identify in all official documents, they seek the respect from their families and society. Selem, 45, is a transvestite; Diana, 22, a transsexual woman.

Biography

Juliana Chagas Gouveia is the director and screenwriter of the 26-minute medium-length documentary As Pastoras. The feature-length version, As Pastoras – Vozes Femininas do Samba, won an Honorable Mention at the International Houston Black Film Festival 2019 and Visões Periféricas 2019. Director and scriptwriter of Say My Name, produced in partnership with CINEBRASiLTV

Faquir | Fakir

Brasil | Brazil | 92’19’’ | 2019
Realizadora : Helena Ignez Producer: Mercúrio Produções

Synopsis

The feature-length documentary Fakir portrays the success of fakirism in Brazil, Latin America, and France. This circus art show is presented and analyzed through archives that reveal the success of these presentations with their pain resistance championships and the large audience, including politicians and governors. Fakir spans current footage of contemporary artists who keep this art alive in performances and shows.

Biography

Helena Ignez, com mais de 60 anos de produção em diversos campos das artes cénicas e cinematográficas, estreou-se como atriz ao lado de Glauber Rocha, em Pátio (1959). Dirigiu filmes como Reinvenção da Rua, Canção de Baal, e Luz nas Trevas – A Volta do Bandido da Luz Vermelha. Fakir é o seu úlLmo longa- metragem.

Fomos Tolas por Pensar Que ia ser DiverIdo | We Were Fools for Thinking It Was Going to Be Fun

Brasil | Brazil | 64’19’’ | 2019
Director: P_A_C – Plural Authorship CollecLve
Producer: Animal Tank

Synopsis

The film follows the turbulent road trip of artists Aay and Zed, as they tour a new performance piece across America. They capture the daily joys and tensions of their friendship and collaboration through the lenses of their phones as they struggle to live up to their feminist empowerment mantras. Their delusional optimism soon fades as they are confronted with each other’s insecurities and must fight to stay connected.

Biography

Plural Authorship Collective (P_A_C) is the artist duo Aay Liparoto and Zed Morales, based between Brussels and Edinburgh. They use durational and immersive character performances in daily life to explore how physicality offers new insights and knowledge.

Madrinhas: Histórias de Vaginismo | Godmothers: Vaginismus Stories |

MADRINAS: HISTORIAS DE VAGINISMO

Espanha | Spain | 18’38’’ | 2019 Realizadora | Director: Laura Laplana Producer: Laura Laplana

Synopsis

Vaginismus is a condition where involuntary contractions of vaginal muscles make penetration impossible. The protagonists in this short film prove that vaginismus can be overcome with physiotherapy. They begin shaping an artistic project to raise awareness about the condition.

Biography

Laura Laplana, born in Málaga in 1996, graduated in Journalism and Film Studies from Carlos III University of Madrid. She created Godmothers: Vaginismus Stories after an exchange at California State University, Long Beach.

Synopsis

We all have a mother; many of us are mothers as well. BadMom explores the challenges of motherhood, breaking the ideal of the “good mother” through animations and in-depth interviews with mothers across Latin America

Biography

Amparo Aguilar, a filmmaker trained at ENERC, teaches documentary filmmaking at the National University of Mar del Plata. Her first documentary, BadMom, premiered at Malba CINE and is available on Vimeo On Demand.

Minha História é Outra | I Have Another Story to Tell

Synopsis

Is love between Black women more than a love story? I Have Another Story to Tell explores the most important layers of this question, following Niázia and her experiences of affection and identity.

Biography

Mariana Campos is a Brazilian filmmaker, graduated in Audiovisual Production from UNESA and Film Direction from Darcy Ribeiro Film School. I Have Another Story to Tell has been awarded at several international film festivals.

O Copo Está a Encher | The Cup is Already Filling Up | BÄGAREN ÄR RåGAD

Suécia | Sweden | 08’15’’ | 2018

Director: Debora Elgeholm

Producer: Debora Elgeholm, Trinidad Carillo, Torsten Rundqvist, Nils Friden

Synopsis

The film deals with the feeling of being chosen and the responsibility of being the Virgin Mary’s messenger. Using archive material, it tells the stories of children’s experiences in various Marian apparitions.

Biography

Debora Elgeholm is a Swedish filmmaker with an MA from Gothenburg School of Photography and Film. Her work has been exhibited at festivals like Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen and IFFR Rotterdam.

O Detentor do Olhar | The Beholder of the Eye

EUA | USA | 31’52’’ | 2019
Director: Karen Sztajnberg
Producer: Karen Sztajnberg, Brenden Hubbard

Synopsis

Volunteer models pose nude on Toronto Island, displaying their bodies and flaws unapologetically, in a way that seems unfathomable to a self-examining female crew.

Biography

Karen Sztajnberg navigates between video art and film, with her work screened at festivals like Big Sky Documentary Film Festival and Vox Feminae.

Synopsis

Ada is 19 years old. She accepts a dinner invitation from a man she knows, but things go out of control. She returns twice to confront him. Her story intertwines with others, each different, but all the same.

Biography

Alexe Poukine, director and screenwriter, studied anthropology and scriptwriting in Paris. Her first feature documentary, Dormir, Dormir Dans Les Pierres, was shown at numerous international festivals.

Synopsis

This documentary evokes more than 40 years of work and creation of Marion Hänsel’s cinema, a journey to discover a career of extreme coherence, a demanding and intimate work. Meeting of an atypical director who has also become a producer, of a woman with an overflowing energy who has never taken a “no” for a definitive answer. Over the water through the deserts, we question this cinema, its author, as well as the family of professionals who collaborated in her successive films

Biography

Tai Linhares is a Brazilian filmmaker and photographer. Her first short, Loom (2014), tells the story of workers from Rio de Janeiro’s periphery who were persecuted, arrested and tortured during the Brazilian military dictatorship. In photography, she’s interested in documentary realism as well as more abstract imagery, using long exposure techniques to capture light and movement. In addition, she has a Masters in communication (UFRJ), studied documentary film at the filmArche in Berlin, and currently devotes herself to the study of digital media in the bachelor programme Media Informatics at the Free University in Berlin.

Parda | Mixed Race

Brasil | Brasil| 29’00’’ | 2019
Director: Tai Linhares
Producer: Tai Linhares

Synopsis

An authoritarian regime plans to restore white supremacy in Brazil. Their first act is to demand the return of all white Brazilian citizens living abroad. In the midst of this political chaos, Tai needs to prove that she is not white, but is faced with uncertainty about her own racial identity. The film delves into the ambiguous concept of race in Brazil, exploring the traces left by its colonial past and the family history of the director. An exploratory journey between fiction and documentary.

Biography

Tai Linhares is a Brazilian filmmaker and photographer. Her first short, Loom (2014), tells the story of workers from Rio de Janeiro’s periphery who were persecuted, arrested and tortured during the Brazilian military dictatorship. In photography, she’s interested in documentary realism as well as more abstract imagery, using long exposure techniques to capture light and movement. In addition, she has a Masters in communication (UFRJ), studied documentary film at the filmArche in Berlin, and currently devotes herself to the study of digital media in the bachelor programme Media Informatics at the Free University in Berlin.

Synopsis

Amidst the hustle and bustle of the crowded Dubrovnik city walls, Mile and Jela are alone. They share good days as well as the bad ones. Had they only met earlier, they could have shared their youth, but old age can also be sweet when there is someone to share it with.

Biography

Ines Jokoš (1985, Osijek) has an MA in Journalism and Public Relations from the Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb. She is currently developing her next short documentary project Brane – a poetic intimist story dealing with the exclusion of blind people from audiovisual arts. She is a member of the Association for Communication and Media Culture, and holds lectures at the interdisciplinary film workshop for children and youth. Together with her colleagues, she has launched Croatian Short Films Revue ‘Filmska RUNDA’ in Osijek, Croatia.