INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY
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(B)ELLAS
Espanha | Spain| 14'45" |2020
Realizadora|Director: Laia Suru Valverde, Clara Rodríguez Aransanz
Elenco|Cast: Cecilia Bellorín, Mª Luisa Casado, Mercè Altarriba, Clara Palau, Elisa Di Pietro, Antònia Pallach, Sílvia Muntané, Agua Swan Bach, Nega Lucas
Produção|Production: Alicia Estallo, Angela Berruezo
Biography:
A visual symphony conducted by 8 elder women who reflect on different topics concerning the conception of their own bodies inside a patriarchal system that constantly attempts to possess them. We live in a system that invisibilizes elder people. In the case of women, this stigma is aggravated due to the prejudices, social norms and beauty canons that patriarchy constantly imposes over us. In between documentary and video art, [B]ellas successfully breaks the stereotype that conceives ageing women as vulnerable, dependent and pleasing beings through a vindication of their experience, bodies, capacities, wrinkles and beauty.
Biography:
Clara Rodríguez Arasanz spent the past eight years working as a director, solo filmmaker, camera operator and camera assistant in Berlin, Hanoi and Barcelona. Among her most prominent works are [B]ellas, winner of the Young Filmmakers Prize by La Bonne Maison and Barcelona City Hall, directed along Laia Suru Valverde, and G3G Rècords: Poder mirar als ulls, selected at the In-Edit International Film Festival. She is currently working on a new documentary in Berlin.
Laia Suru Valverde worked with directors such as Jordi Boquet (Ni oblit, ni perdó). Her most noted projects include her debut as a director with documentary [B]ellas and the series (Im)Perfectas, which she wrote and created. Apart from that, she collaborated in several short documentaries of renowned ESCAC (Cinema and Audiovisual School of Catalonia), mainly in the position of DIT.
KIRUNA - A BRAND NEW WORLD | KIRUNA - UM MUNDO NOVO
KIRUNA - PŘEKRÁSNÝ NOVÝ SVĚT
República Tcheca |Czech Republic | 87’00” | 2019
Realizadora|Director: Greta Stocklassa
Elenco|Cast: Timo Vilgats, Abdalrahman Josef, Maja Jannok Björnström
Produção|Production: Analog Vision, Veronika Kührová, Michal Kráčmer
Synopsis:
Apocalyptic depiction of an area literally engulfed by the mining industry is presented in this documentary that observes the eponymous northern Swedish city, part of which was abandoned due to activities in the nearby iron mine. The mining company’s management decided not to halt profitable mining activities and instead made the decision to move the residents of the threatened district. Using footage shot in the city inside the Arctic Circle and directly in the mines, the director has uncovered subtle film imagery, and using the stories of three protagonists now living in a bizarre inter-time, imaginatively addresses the topics of resettlement, tradition, and respect for a particular location. “The dystopian story of Kiruna is about lost people looking for a home in an uprooted city. It shows the dark side of the advanced society, whether in Sweden or the Czech Republic.” G. Stocklassa
Biography:
Greta was born in 1993 in Opočno, Czech Republic. She comes from Czech-Swedish family. At the beginning, she lived in Prague, then the family moved to Stockholm in 2005. In 2013 she started studying in Prague at the documentary department FAMU. Identity is the main theme through her films. Her The Still Life of Vera was premiered at Short Joy at IDFF Jihlava and screened at Vision du Reel, Neisse Film Fest and DOK.Fest München. In 2015 she made it to the short list of student film prize Magnesia Award (Czech Lions). She works with stylization and fine formal visualization. Her films are at the edge of document, fiction and experiment. Filmography: Kiruna - A Brand New World (2019), Tic Toc (2017), The Still Life of Vera (2015), Medium Grey (2015), Mum and Emma. Emma and mum. (2014), The sky in a net (2014), Hospital – chapter I. (2014).
MORGANA
Austrália |Australia | 71’00” | 2019
Realizadoras|Directors: Isabel Peppard, Josie Hess
Elenco|Cast: Morgana Muses
Produção|Production: Karina Astrup
Synopsis:
Morgana is an artistic character portrait of a 50-year-old housewife, who re-invents herself as a sex-positive feminist porn star. Filmed over five years, this documentary chronicles Morgana’s journey from repressed housewife to international “sex-positive at any age” icon, and her struggles with self-acceptance and mental health. An inspiring and uplifting film, taking you on a wild ride that is both intimate and universal.
Biography:
Isabel Peppard is a highly skilled multi-disciplinary artist who works across the mediums of film, sculpture and stop motion animation. Her multi-award winning work has screened at top-tier festivals, including Melbourne International Film Festival, Sitges and Annecy, as well as at art institutions such as GOMA (QLD), MOMA (Rio De Janeiro) and ACMI (Melbourne). Her short film Butterflies (starring Rachel Griffiths) won the Dendy Award at the Sydney Film Festival and was broadcast nationally on SBS Television. Isabel regularly exhibits at the Beinart Gallery, an international surrealist art collective, is currently writing a live action/animation hybrid horror feature and is developing a short stop motion animated Virtual Reality project. Isabel’s work uses gothic fairytale and handmade symbolic elements to tell humane stories of existential horror and personal transformation.
Josie Hess (they/them) is an award-winning filmmaker working across horror, comedy, documentary and porn. Josie’s work has included extensive collaborations with Permission4Pleasure producer Morgana Muses and co-directing their first feature documentary Morgana, which premiered at Melbourne International Film Festival. Josie produced The Grave of Saint Oran, a short stop motion film based on a poem by Neil Gaiman with Director Jim Batt, premiering at Sydney International Film Festival. Josie’s film work has also made waves in the porn world, with Labia of Love winning ‘Hottest Artful Porn Award’ at the Toronto International Porn Awards and also picking up ‘Best Fetish Film’ for ‘Having my Cake’.
MUJEREANDO. THE LAMENT OF A GODDESS | MUJEREANDO. O LAMENTO DE UMA DEUSA
MUJEREANDO. EL QUEJÍO DE UNA DIOSA
Espanha|Spain| 87'00"| 2020
Realizadora|Director: Carmen Tamayo Leo
Elenco|Cast: Pilar Fernández, Tamara Pérez, Emilia Gálvez, Rosa Quiles, Candela Franconetti, África de los Reys, Charo Jurado, Macarena Machado, Estrella Franco
Produção|Production: Maria Tamayo, Cuenta3 Comunidad Creativa, Nuria Dorado
Synopsis:
A group of homeless women find the best of the therapies in the theater. In the previous weeks to the new play premiere, we meet these goddesses. Will the audience give them a standing ovation?
Biography:
Carmen Tamayo Leo - Prado del Rey-Cádiz, 1979. She graduated in Social Work and Dramatic Arts in Cristina Rotas Academy. She has directed 3 theatre companies (3 Antié, La Pecera and Mujereando). Her plays are characterized by social protest and they have a careful aesthetic analysis. 8 plays have appeared as a collective creation for the last 12 years. On the big screen, she performed the role of Gloria in the film No te supe perder and she starred in a few short films, No quiero, La última parada, Mentira and Espich. Her debut as a director is Mujereando. The lament of a goddess.
POLYPHONY - WOMEN IN AUDIOVISUAL | POLIFONIA - MULHERES NA TÉCNICA
POLIFONIA - MULHERES NA TÉCNICA
Brasil | Brazil |24'26" | 2020
Realizadora|Director: Thais Robaina
Elenco|Cast: Evelyn Santos, Fernanda Frate, Julia Zakia, Kali Robaina, Michelle Rodrigues e Thais Robaina
Produção|Production: 8 milímetros, Maria Fonseca, Diego Octávio
Synopsis:
The Brazilian audiovisual market is male, straight, white and elitist! If you disagree, we challenge you: in the next production you are present, count how many people are working and how many of them are women, LGBTQI +, non-white and from the periphery. Math gives you the answer! If we want a more plural, more diverse, plural market, it is urgent to talk about it. We invite Evelyn Santos, Fernanda Frate, Julia Zakia, Kali Robaina, Michelle Rodrigues and Thais Robaina in the first episode of the Polifonia series and we also want to invite you to watch, listen and, especially, to debate with us!
Biography:
From Mato Grosso, Thais Robaina has lived in São Paulo for 4 years, but has already lived in five states in the country and in the USA, where he was inspired to develop the Bridge project, a documentary about Brazilians who make a living from music outside Brazil. Graduated in Audiovisual at UEG, for 9 years she has been part of camera crews in feature, short films, series, video clips and commercials. Among the outstanding works are the feature films Bixa Travesti and Casa de Antiguidades. And her work as a director in the first episode Polyphony - Women In Audiovisual. Filmmaker by training, artist by heart and samba artist from other lives, she develops works of authorship published on the Ajuntaria channel.
POST-ELECTION WORKS | TRABALHOS PÓS-ELEIÇÃO
POST-ELECTION WORKS
Estados Unidos da América | United States of America| 16'50"| 2018
Realizadora|Director: Kate Haug
Elenco|Cast: Catherine Hollander
Produção|Production: Kate Haug
Synopsis:
Combining a philosophical framework of Walter Benjamin with her present day production of political ephemera, the filmmaker/artist examines a circular nature of history and her identity as it evolves within the context of contemporary politics. A collage of internet imagery and personal reflection, Post-Election Works becomes a dialogue between the online, digital archive, activism and the narrator's subjective experience.
Biography:
Kate Haug is an artist living in San Francisco, California. In her work, she investigates history - its presentation and consumption. Her practice explores the circulation of information through ephemera, popular culture and historical documents, re-contextualizing and refiguring archival material to examine contemporary issues. She enjoys making her own ephemera and its anonymous distribution into public spaces. Her short films have screened internationally and include Pass, New Directors/New Films 1997, and Deep Creep, London International Film Festival 1999.
SAME/DIFFERENT/BOTH/NEITHER MESMO/DIFERENTE/AMBOS/NENHUM
Estados Unidos da América/Brasil | United States of America/Brazil| 18'30"| 2020
Realizadoras|Directors: Fernanda Pessoa, Adriana Barbosa
Produção|Production: Fernanda Pessoa, Adriana Barbosa
Synopsis:
In a period of isolation, far away from each other, 2 friends reconnect through 4 video-letters, inspired by the poetic gaze of women experimental filmmakers like Marie Menken, Joyce Wieland, Gunvor Nelson and Yvonne Rainer. Fernanda is a Brazilian living in São Paulo, Adriana is a Mexican-Brazilian living in Los Angeles. - they both share their inspiration while capturing the reality of these times: the pot-banging protests against Bolsonaro, a home moving, the passing of days that feel all the same, gentrification that won’t stop even during a pandemic, the Black Lives Matter protests and the yearning of meeting each other again soon.
Biography:
Fernanda Pessoa is a Brazilian filmmaker and visual artist, working primarily on documentary, experimental cinema and video-installations. She has a master’s degree in Film Studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, under Philippe Dubois’ direction. In 2017, Pessoa released her first feature documentary Stories our cinema did (not) tell, screened in over 25 international festivals and currently on Brazilian Netflix. Her second documentary Arid Zone received an Honorable Mention at DOK Leipzig. She has directed short films with international screenings and has done solo and group exhibitions. Her work has been screened in festivals such as IDFA, Doclisboa, DocsBarcelona, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Cinélatino Toulouse, Thessaloniki and in institutions such as REDCAT (USA), São Paulo’s Museum of Sound and Image, Paço das artes, among others.
Adriana is a Mexican-Brazilian filmmaker currently based in Los Angeles. Her work focuses on non-fiction cinema, experimental and hybrid narratives, addressing themes like immigration, colonization, LGBTQ+ rights, latino communities and faith as resistance. She directed the award winning short films Ferroada and La Flaca (The Bony Lady) - which were selected to over 100 festivals around the world. She also directed the feature documentary Madrigal for a Living Poet. She is currently producing the feature documentary Esu and the Universe, a co-production between Brazil and Nigeria, and is also developing her first narrative feature based on Mexican traditions related to death. Adriana is a member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia, Film Fatales, Chicana Director’s Initiative and Latino Directors.
STREET OUT| DEIXAR DE SER PUTA
SALIR DE PUTA
Argentina|Argentina |100'00" |2020
Realizadora|Director: Sofía Rocha
Elenco|Cast: Delia Escudilla, Laura Meza, Natalia Andrea Mitre, Eneide Ruiz, Georgina Orellano, Graciela Collantes, Margarita Meira, Valeria Salum, Valeria del Mar, Emily Matos, Silvia
Produção|Production: Sofia Rocha, Sofía Andrea de Luca, Belén Nuñez, Juan Tamagno, Victoria Mathé Leitner
Synopsis:
A choral account of women, who turned or have turned to prostitution, stands up to put to discussion abolitionism and legalization within the women’s movement and feminism, through their life stories, desires and convictions.
Biography:
Sofía Rocha was born in 1991, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She graduated from the University of Buenos Aires University with a degree in Image and Sound Design and is a member of the Association of Filmmakers. Her works include Clandestino (2016), a fictional short film about clandestine textile work, with a long history and awards at festivals; and Street Out (2020), her first feature-length documentary on prostitution.
THE ART OF LIVING IN DANGER | A ARTE DE VIVER EM PERIGO
Irã/Alemanha | Iran/Germany|87'00" |2020
Realizadora|Director: Mina Keshavarz
Produção|Production: Mina Keshavarz, Gerd Haag, Kerstin Kieg, MinDoc Film Production, TAG/TRAUM Film Production
Synopsis:
Mina, the director of the film, and her grandmother Nurijan never got to know each other because Nurijan died before Mina was born. Despite this, the two women still have a lot in common. In an internal monologue Mina gradually reveals more about her grandmother's tragic story and unveils the secret of her mysterious death, which the family refuses to speak about even today. Until it becomes clear that generations of women face the same struggle and the fate of Mina and Nurijan is inextricably linked. Mina wants to embolden her grandmother and rewrite her family history. Her monologue and reappraisal of her family's history is a tribute to the struggle of generations of women before her and an appeal for a better future for the women of Iran.
Biography:
An award wining documentary filmmaker and producer Mina Keshavarz was born in Iran in 1984. She has made several awarded documentary films on social issues which have premiered in IDFA, Thessaloniki, Sheffield, Tribeca, London Film Festival. Since Mina established her documentary film production MinDoc Film Production in Iran in 2013, she produced and directed 2 interactive documentaries in co-production with the Netherlands and granted by Netherlands Film Institute. In 2016 She produced Braving the Waves a feature length documentary film directed by herself and supported by IDFA Bertha Fund, Sorfond, Fritt Ord, which won best documentary film award in London International Documentary Festival. The Art of Living in Danger has been supported by Arte/ZDF, NRW Cinema Fund and HotDocs International CrossCurrent Theatrical Fund. It also received best pitch award in MipDoc 2017 in Cannes. Mina recently produced Fish Eye directed by Amin Behroozzadeh which has been premiered in Visions du Reel 2020. This film won best film in progress award in Sarajevo Film Festival 2019. Mina is alumni of Berlinale Talents, HotDocs Emerging Docs Accelerator Lab, Nipkow FilmResidency, EsoDoc, Close-Up and Tribeca Film Institute, she has recently received a scholarship to study master program in social documentary in NewYork school of Visual Arts. Mina has been selected for one-year European Women Producers Mentorship Program 2020-2021 from EWA (Audio Visual Women Alliance in France). The Art of Living in Danger has already began its festival round from Sheffield Doc/Fest to Busan International Film Festival (Biff) and Inconvenient International Human Rights Film Festival in Lithuania to IDFA in Best of Fests section. This film won Best Documentary Film Award in Busan International Film Festival 2020. Mina is a jury member of One World Media Awards 2021.
VISIONS OF COPACABANA - A BRIEF TRILOGY OF CHANCE | VISÕES DE COPACABANA - UMA BREVE TRILOGIA DO ACASO
VISÕES DE COPACABANA - UMA BREVE TRILOGIA DO ACASO
Brasil/Portugal | Brazil/Portugal |19'19" | 2021
Realizadora|Director: Rita Brás
Produção|Production: Rita Brás
Synopsis:
A journey of adventure and self-knowledge based on images discovered on the bridge between Brazil and Portugal, during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Biography:
Documentarist and anthropologist, for a decade living on the bridge between Lisbon and Brazil. Filmography: Aqui, A Ocasião, A Ocasião Seguinte, Trésor, Minha Vizinha, e Visões de Copacabana. Since 2018 she coordinates the audiovisual channel PÓLEN, a project for the dissemination and documentation of environmental conflicts in Portugal.
