FICTION SHORT FILMS INTERNATIONAL
A BROKEN-HEARTED SOLSTICE |SOLSTÍCIO DE UM CORAÇÃO PARTIDO
Canadá | Canada |12'22" | 2020
Realizadora|Director: Fanny Lefort
Elenco|Cast: Élodie Grenier, Sébastien Tessier, Mathieu Lepage, Éva-Maude T-Champoux, Rose-Anne Déry, Tatiana Zinga Botao, Étienne Thibeault
Produção|Production: Olivier Normandin
Synopsis:
A professional mascot named Fauve gets dumped on the summer solstice, aka the longest day of the year. The icy storm she’s plunged into doesn’t quite fit with the current heatwave.
Biography:
In 2016, after directing a dozen music videos and documentaries, Fanny created her first fictional web series, Bête à papa,which was broadcast on LIBTV (Illico). She also has two short films to her name: Sauce à spag (2018 – It earned the special jury mention at the Cinema on the Bayou festival in Louisiana) and A Broken-Hearted Solstice (2019 (2019). Director's photography: Solstice d’un cœur brisé (2020); Jenny (2019); Je suis prof (2019); Sauce à Spag (2018); Selfie Nation (2017); Bête à Papa (2016).
Biography:
It was during her studies at the University of Paris 8 that Marie Cogné made her first Marie Cogné made her first short film, in 16mm. Subsidized by the CNC (selective aid before production) and carried out within the framework of the G.R.E.C., Les deux font l'oaire (2000) was selected in competition in Pantin, and won the Young Film Prize and the Language Prize. Most innovative film at the FFCV Festival in Paris. She also works on films by other directors. In 2013, she makes the image on Luc Battiston's short film Amoureux Solitaires numerous selections, including Pantin, Clermont-Ferrand, and awarded the CNC Quality Prize). In 2017, she edited the animation short film film La mort, Père et fils de Vincent Paronnaud (Winshlus) and Denis Walgenwitz (more than 100 selections in festivals and 19 awards, nominated for the 2019 Césars). At the same time, between 2005 and 2016, she produced a dozen making of, for films such as Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, La tourneuse de pages by Denis Dercourt, Simon Werner has disappeared by Fabrice Gobert, Le Moine by Dominik Moll... (for Diaphana, 2.4.7. Films or I'm Happy). Since 2014, she has been teaching at the University of Paris 8 as a lecturer.
CAMILLE AND I | CAMILLE E EU
França | France|18'14" | 2020
Realizadora|Director: Marie Cogné
Elenco|Cast: Camille Hugues, Chloé Renaud, Jeanne Arènes, Julien Urrutia, Agnès Oudot, Valentin Johner, Anna Mihalcea, Kloé Lang, Émilien Gobard, Clément Boissières, Jean-Matthieu Hublin, Simon Cottin-Marx, David Houri, Jérémie Graine, Hélène Rilly, Simon Sastre, Vivien Fish-Romito, Brigitte Faure, Arnaud Dupont, Gilles Carré, Valérie Moureaux, Marius Cogné Fraysse, Delphine Biard-Gobard, Émilie Desjardins, Juliette Allauzen, Cédric Moreau, Jean-Pierre Cogné, Sacha Cogné Fraysse, Mélanie Forret, Prosper Hillairet, Nicolas Rabaud, Julie Deh, Emmanuelle Lombard, Marie Parouty, Marie Bruno.
Produção|Production: Olivier Berlemont
Synopsis:
Camille and I tells the story of a couple of women from 2003 to today through various key moments in its construction, from their coming-out to their marriage, including the birth of a child. We follow the genesis of this family sometimes in scenes of couples, sometimes through the eyes of others. Images or words, more or less striking, hurtful or funny, follow one another in a multitude of brief scenes, at different times, in different places, over the years.
FERROTIPOS| FERRÓTIPOS
Espanha|Spain|14'00" | 2020
Realizadora |Director: Nüll García
Elenco | Cast: Susana Abaitua, Adolfo Fernández, Alba Flores
Produção|Production: Fernando J. Monge, David Torres Vázquez
Synopsis
A model is taking a photo shoot with a recognized photographer. He proposes to take the photos with the naked torso to convey that insecurity caused by nakedness. He wants to talk about how vulnerable women feel in this society.
Biography
Nüll García, Madrid (1986). She debuts as director with Ferrotiposafter a long acting career. She graduated in Acting in 2009 from RESAD. She also studied with Andrés Lima, Ángel Gutiérrez and Catalina Lladó. In the last years, she has worked as an actress in numerous plays, television series, feature films and short films. In addition, she is part of La Extraña, a theater company that investigates the work of Bertolt Brecht, author of The exception and the rule.
Biography
Luiza Campos is a Brazilian director in constant search for the true narrative, whether in fiction or documentary. Luiza has a fun and sensitive approach to all of her work. After directing the TV series Descolados for MTV, Destino Lua-de-Mel for Discovery Channel and Julie e os Fantasmas for Band, Mesa Pra Dois for GNT, Luiza created and directed the documentary Alphaville for the German channel Arte/ZDF and the short film Próxima, financed by the Edital Cultura Inglesa, and which it is being screened in several festivals. Luiza currently works with advertising films for major Brazilian agencies such as F-Nazca, Almap/BBDO, Neogama, Africa, Dentsu, Havas, Salve Tribal and its clients Itaú, Santander, Cannon, Suzuki, Dove, Boticário, Natura, Nextel, Vivo, Skol and TIM. She is one of the founders of the TETA collective, which aims to produce content written, directed and carried out by women.
FRAMED EM QUADRO
Brasil|Brazil|11'28" | 2020
Realizadora |Director: Luiza Campos
Elenco|Cast: Antoniela Canto, Caetano O'Maihlan, Athena Beal, Fabio Acorsi, Gabriela Fortanell, Isabella Lemos, Manuela Afonso, Vanessa Bruno
Produção|Production: Vetor Filmes, Fernando Lopes
Synopsis
In an advertising film set, things can easily get unsettling.
Biography
Sanja Milardović was born in Rijeka in 1987. She graduated in acting and puppetry from the Academy of Arts in Osijek. After finishing her studies, she moved to Zagreb where she performed in numerous theatrical productions at Teatar &TD, Zagreb Dance Center, Teatar Rugantino, Moruzgva theatre, and Mala Scena theatre. Besides acting, she directed several theatre plays: Ronilac bisera (Diver of Pearls), Nabavit ću si mačka (I'll Get Myself a Cat), Pristajanja (Landings), Studije o divljoj gusci (Surveys of Wild Geese), and Mala čuda (Little Wonders). She is a member of the Croatian Association of Independent Artists and the Croatian Society of Dramatic Artists. In 2012 she participated in the Acting Studio workshop as part of the Sarajevo Film Festival's Talent Campus programme. Her 2014 debut as a short fiction film director Just Like Thatwas shown in competition of international film festivals: Zagreb Film Festival, UNICA in St. Petersburg, 20min/max International Short Film Festival, FeKK Ljubljana Short Film Festival, and Revue of Croatian Short Films. She is currently in post production of her sophomore short fiction I'm Not Telling You Anything, Just Sayin'The film was supported by Croatian Audiovisual Centre and has participated on European Short Pitch - Nisi Masa.
I'M NOT TELLING YOU ANYTHING, JUST SAYIN' | NÃO ESTOU TE FALANDO NADA, APENAS DIZENDO
Croácia/França |Croacia/France|18'00" | 2020
Realizadora |Director: Sanja Milardović
Elenco | Cast: Olivera Baljak, Iva Simic, Dean Krivacic
Produção|Production: Olivier Berlemont
Synopsis
Zrinka arrives in her hometown for a few days to do some location scouting. She stays at her mother Tanja's place. Since Tanja's behaviour seems strange, Zrinka takes her location scouting in order to find out what is troubling her. Finally, Tanja's emotional breakdown brings the two closer together.
Biography
Mireia Noguera (Barcelona, España, 1992) Director and Writer of the awarded short films worldwide Centrifugado (2017) and I never left you alone released in the Official Selection of the Sitges Film Festival 2019. Director and writer of the series Comando Squad - Reset produced by YouPlanet, Flooxer and Atresmedia and La Treintena produced by Legendary Global and Espotlight available in VIX USA and Latinoamerica. Represented by the Spanish agency AlterEgo. Currently, she is working on her first length film.
I NEVER LEFT YOU ALONE | NUNCA TE DEIXEI SOZINHA
Espanha | Spain | 18'18"| 2019
Realizadora|Director: Mireia Noguera
Elenco|Cast: Clàudia Pons, Nora Navas, Valeria Alonso, Valeria Pérez, Josep Maria-Alejandre Salat
Produção|Production: Mammut Films S.L, Sound & Fury Films S.L
Synopsis
Claudia, a teenager who has always felt a strange rejection to her mother, goes with her to clean up the old family house where they used to spend the summer. Once there, Claudia finds the ghosts of her past and she has no option but to face them.
Biography
Born in Paris in 1988, Noémie Merlant is an actress and director. Trained at the Cour Florent in 2012, she was named in 2017 as one of the best female hopes for the 42nd César ceremony for her role in Le ciel attendra attendra by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar. In 2019, the jury of the Riviera International Film Festival awarded her the Best Actress Award for her performance of Charlie in Nathan Ambrosioni's The Paper Flags. She shared the lead role in Portrait de la jeune fille en feufeature film by Céline Sciamma, which was acclaimed at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival for its Screenplay Award. In 2020, Zoé Wittock's feature film Jumbowas released in which she plays a new lead role. Insolence Productions, who produced the film, allowed her to come back behind the camera as a writer and director. Her next short film Shakira, produced by Anaïs Bertrand and Pascaline Saillant, was screened by the CNC and ARTE France.
SHAKIRA| SHAKIRA
França | France| 25'03"| 2020
Realizadora |Director: Noémie Merlant
Elenco | Cast: Catalina Danca, Gimi-Nicolae Covaci, Artur Vasile, Razvan Rupa, Clara Lama, Roberta Adina Rupa, Flori Rupa, Printu Rupa, Christophe Bedes, Alin Constantin, Elvis Mocanu Vasile
Produção|Production: Insolence Productions, Anaïs Bertrand, Pascaline Saillant
Synopsis
While trying to save her family from a return to the street, Shakira, a young gypsie woman, meets Marius, a member of a robber gang...
Biography:
Tong Mao was born in Changsha, China. It was during her job at a high school TV station that she fell in love with filmmaking. While at Beijing Film Academy, she mainly focused on student film producing and directing. After she graduated in 2016, she worked as a producer’s assistant and applied herself to film distribution and promotion. Encouraged by her coworkers, she decided to pursue further education on film directing. While at Emerson College (Boston), she has made several fictional and experimental films as well as several short scripts. In 2021, she finished her first major production, the short film Shimmer Summer. It is about diversity and fluidity in gender identity and expression, is also about friendship and family affection Shimmer Summer was submitted in various festivals around the world in 2021. For now, she is eager to explore different aspects of film and storytelling.
SHIMMER SUMMER VERÃO CINTILANTE自然光
China|China| 25'42"| 2021
Realizadora |Director: Tong Mao
Elenco | Cast: liyang Sima, Minjia Zhao, Sisi Han
Produção|Production: Jingyao Wang, Linna Ye
Synopsis:
Ou Yuan hopes that his new friend Xu Duo can join him to watch the once-in-a-decade total solar eclipse. It’s not until Xu leaves that Ou Yuan realizes he isn’t necessarily intrigued by Xu herself but rather the character traits they share. As the eclipse occurred in time, Ou Yuan doesn‘t want to just be an audience of it…
Biography:
Izumi Ohtomi is a film director/writer based in Tokyo. She studied Film Studies at St. Cloud State University in the U. S. After graduating, she returned to Japan and joined a film production company where she had multiple roles including assistant director and translator in domestic and international film productions. In 2013, her first feature film was selected and screened as part of Focus on World Cinema program at The Montreal World Film Festival.
SHIBUYA, TOKYO 16:30
Japão | Japan| 14'58"| 2020
Realizadora|Director: Izumi Ohtomi
Elenco|Cast: Ann Ogawa, Ryushin Tei, Takumi Matsuzawa, Ayari Mikoshiba
Produção|Production: Satoshi Yoshida, Kayo Yoshida
Synopsis:
Shibuya, Tóquio 16:30 is a drama about Aoi, an aspiring filmmaker/assistant director who visits the office of Toriumi, an independent film producer, seeking an opportunity to collaborate with him. Toriumi likes her screenplay and shows his interest in producing her directorial debut film. However, despite Aoi’s delight, the discussion starts to derail. When Aoi refuses to accept the producer’s irrational demand, he shows doubt in her ability to act on unexpected situations. Is he testing her aptitude or just trying to take advantage of her? Confused, she gets lost between doubt and desperation to believe in her dream opportunity.
Biography:
Sarah Heitz de Chabaneix, a graduate from The National Theater School of Canada, started her cinema career as an assistant director, before launching into script writing and film directing. She has since written and directed several award-winner short movies. Among them: Spooning (2020), Under Mom’s Skirt (2017), The Whispers (2015) e I’m A Blank Page (2012). (2012). She is currently writing feature-length fictions, short films, TV shows, produced in France.
SYNTHETIC LOVE | AMOR SINTÉTICO AMOURS SYNTHÉTIQUES
França | France| 24'07" | 2020
Realizadora |Director: Sarah Heitz de Chabaneix
Elenco | Cast : Françoise Miquelis, Charles Clément, Tiphaine Daviot
Produção|Production: Tabo Tabo Films, Louison Blaizot, Suzanne Colin
Synopsis:
Diane, na casa dos cinquenta anos, fantasia com o enigmático Pierre, que trabalha com ela no posto de gasolina. Quando ela ganha uma viagem para dois pela França, ela decide convidá-lo para ir junto. Mas ela não sabia que Pierre já tinha alguém muito especial em sua vida ...
Biography:
Valerie Leroy começou sua carreira como atriz de filmes e séries de TV, após se formar em história e fazer mestrado em gestão cultural. Em 2013, ela se formou no “l’atelier scenario” em La Femis. Le grand bain is her first short film. She, since directed a second feature Let me dance. And she is developing her first feature film, les Empereurs, a comedy.
TEEN HORSES | CAVALOS ADOLESCENTES
França | France|20'45" | 2019
Realizadora |Director: Valérie Leroy
Elenco|Cast: Elsa Houben, Mathilde Abd El Kader, Alexia Chicot, Timothee Coetsier, Leelou Laridan, Mahe Laridan
Produção|Production: Offshore, Fabrice Préel-Cleach, Emmanuelle Latourrette
Synopsis:
After her parent’s divorce, Tania, 14 years old, starts a new life when she arrives during the year in a new French middle school. She has difficulties to face this sudden change, especially because in Finland she was used to follow trainings in a very welded team in a particular sport “hobby horsing”. In France, at school, she brings only the looser’s attention on her: the chubby girl, her spotty friend and a lone and sex maniac boy. And if it was her new team ? It’s a story about the oneself’s acceptation and the necessity to learn how to build oneself.
Biography:
Doğuş Özokutan (Nicosia, Cyprus, 10/26/1984) received her MFA degree in Visual Arts. Her debut short Random Attempts 2015), competed in several festivals worldwide and it was nominated for best film at the Oscars Qualifying Short Shorts & Asia 2016. Her second short film, Kısmet has been screened in 39 countries and nominated for audience awards numerous times, including at the BAFTA Qualifying Leeds International Film Festival. Özokutan’s animated short documentary, Çoban (Shepherd), completed in 2020, won the Remi Award at Worldfest Houston. The Delivery (2020) is her fourth short film as a director.
THE DELIVERY | A ENTREGA
Chipre, Turquía, Siria | Cyprus, Turkey, Syria | 11'55" | 2020
Realizadora |Director: Doğuş Özokutan
Elenco | Cast : İzel Seylani, Affet Sakallı, Hulusi Özoğul, Dilay Seylani
Produção|Production: Vasvi Çiftcioğlu, Murat Aktuğralı, Doğuş Özokutan, Laura Albasha
Synopsis:
Yusuf accepts the job of carrying refugees with his refrigerated meat truck, believing this is the only way to find money for saving his daughter’s life. When the smuggler shows up with the refugees, Yusuf realizes there are also kids that wouldn’t survive in a refrigerated truck, but still keeps on with the job, gambling with their lives.
Biography:
Camille Poirier is from Abitibi-Témiscamingue. She currently lives in Montreal where she obtained a bachelor's degree in film at UQÀM in 2014. First specialized in video editing, The Music Video is the first short fiction film she has made since the end of her studies. Her desire to make movies comes from a fascination with the world around her and her need to investigate it.
THE MUSIC VIDEO | O VIDEOCLIPE
Canadá | Canada | 13'54"| 2020
Realizadora|Director: Camille Poirier
Elenco|Cast: Marilou Forgues, Olivier Carignan, Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie, Zachary T. Gauthier, Rosie-Anne Bérubé-Bernier, Marcel Deslongchamps
Produção|Production: Camille Poirier
Synopsis:
In order to be in her older brother’s music video, Clara, a 13-year-old tomboy, agrees to undergo a radical change of style. She soon notices that this transformation changes her brother’s friend’s behaviour towards her.
Biography:
Leaving the Cours Florent Brussels in 2016, Julie then completed her training with acting class. Alongside her studies, she participated in a first collective theatrical creation. She later discovers her taste for directing on the creation Ongaonga. The desire to try her hand at directing gave birth to her first film, Vicious.
VICIOUS | DEPRAVADAS
Bélgica | Belgium| 23'06"| 2021
Realizadora|Director: Julie d’Hennezel
Elenco|Cast: Emmanuelle Gilles-Rousseau, Indira Garcia, Jonathan Turnbull, Saskia Serru, Victor Vandecasteel
Produção|Production: Julie d’Hennezel
Synopsis:
The mysterious and dark Alex meets on her journey a young woman named Ali. A bit off, light and sweetly crazy, although she seems as lost as Alex can be. Together they get on the road and become friends.
Biography:
Behnaz (Teheran, Iran, 1982) is an Iranian Filmmaker who graduated in Persian Literature and studied Cinema in Bamdad International Art Institute in Tehran/Iran. She worked as Unit Production Manager in 316 directed by Payman Haghaniin 2014. She was assistant director in Ceremony Night short movie directed by Behnam Abedi in 2019, which both movies attended to many Film Festivals. So far , she directed a short movie The Performance in 2019 which has won the Award of Excellence from the 16th edition of Accolade Film Festival and Best Actress from the ‘’10’’ Film Festival.
PERFORMANCE
Irã | Iran | 11'16"| 2019
Realizadora|Director: Behnaz Eskandarnejad
Elenco|Cast: Nafiseh Zare, Sheyda Sajjadi, Diba Hakimelahi, Hasti Arshvarzan, Mina Alaya, Negar Hajiani, Mina Hasanloo, Bita Eskandarnejad, Elham Mirzayi, Paria Behzadian, Niki Hashemi, Sara Daviri
Produção|Production: Behnaz Eskandarnejad
Synopsis:
Paria the protagonist has become pregnant unwillingly. Mentally she is lost and she doesn’t want to share her pregnancy neither with her parents nor with any teachers/nurses at school. With the help of a classmate tries to abort her pregnancy.
Biography:
Olga Torrico studies between Rome, Paris, Bologna and Valencia, graduating in languages and literature, and specializing in Film Studies. Since 2014 she has been part of Elenfant Distribution, working as a short distributor. In 2016, with Adam Selo she founds the production company Sayonara Film, with which she produces shorts and creative documentaries. In 2017 she attends the screenplay writing school Bottega Finzioni and is one of the producers of the series 13.11 13.11 with Elenfant Film, presented in more than 70 festivals worldwide. She writes, directs and stars in her first short Gas Station, shot in 35 mm, winner of the program Extended Cinecampus, produced by Sayonara Film and Factory Film, in collaboration with Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.
GAS STATION | POSTO DE GASOLINA
Itália | Italy | 9’59"| 2020
Realizadora|Director: Olga Torrico
Elenco|Cast: Olga Torrico, Claudio Collovà, Gabriele Zapparata
Produção|Production: Sayonara Film, Factory Film, Associazione Terre di Cinema
Synopsis:
Alice works at a gas station. She doesn’t play anymore and she buried her fire for music deep inside. On a sultry summer day, her old music teacher shows up. And Alice starts wondering if she has stayed without her fuel for too long.
Biography:
Film Director for ESCAC. He has directed and scripted short films like Barren land (2011), They call me Owl (2013) and There was a place (2016), this one selected among the two best Master's projects to be produced by ESCAC Films. These projects have garnered more than 280 international selections and 75 awards, highlighting the Seville SEFF European Film Festival, Nevada’s Women Film Festival, Ciudad de Juárez International Short Film Festival, Viña del Mar International Film Festival and Camerimage, among others. The fashion film Winter kills Fall won the Best Fashion Film award at the Miami Springs International Film Festival in 2018. Her latest project is When the letter arrives, a short film for Doctors of the World, with a release date in 2021.
WHEN THE LETTER ARRIVES | QUANDO A CARTA CHEGAR
Espanha | Spain| 16'56"| 2021
Realizadora |Director: Irene Garcés Max Hailer
Elenco | Cast: Alba González Morante, Dan Jiménez, Tamara Berbés, Claudio Szabo, Miguel Ángel Rodrigo, Bernardo Aguilera, Jesús Salvador
Produção|Production: Wladimir Morante García, Sofi Gallego Van Seijen
Synopsis:
Brisa is 22, but the men who frequent the nightclub where she works like to think that she's younger. Between neon lights and music, she has learned Spanish from her childhood books and she dreams that her world would magically change.
