STUDENTS SHORT FILMS
Green House | Flor de Estufa
Portugal | Portugal | 14'42" | 2020
Realizadora|Director: Laís Andrade
Elenco | Cast: Nádia Yracema, Cátia Rodrigues
Produção | Production: Margarida Franco
Escola | School: Universidade da Beira Interior
Synopsis:
The silent tale of an immigrant woman looking for a better life. As she struggles with loneliness and poverty, she is unable to forget what she left behind. A look at the exploitation of immigrants in Portugal, through the eyes of a greenhouse worker.
Biography:
Laís Andrade was born in 1997 in Brazil and moved to Portugal at the age of four. In 2020, she finished her Master's Degree in Film at the University of Beira Interior. For the final project, she wrote and directed Flor de Estufa (2021) based on her community’s stories. She is now working on her next short film, based on her own migration experience as a child. She also works as a screenwriter, script supervisor, and assistant director.
Biography:
Born and raised in Chennai, a colorful conglomerate of urban villages, Apoorva was fascinated by the power of Tamil filmdom in state politics, igniting a passion for creating films that are socially and politically aware. In 2016, she was selected to attend the International Filmmaking Academy in Bologna. Apoorva is currently based in Prague and her primary goal is to explore personal stories around socially relevant contemporary ideas and themes.
Kanya | Kanya
Índia, República Checa | India, Czech Republic | 15'30" | 2020
Realizadora|Director: Apoorva Satish
Elenco | Cast: Mona Khakade, Balaji Rajashekar, Tarunya Satish, Nithara Rahul, Harish Kumar
Produção | Production: Michal Sikora, Apoorva Satish
Escola | School: Film & TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts
Synopsis:
Kanya intimately explores the inner dissonance of an adolescent girl who is experiencing puberty in a traditional Indian family. Kanya‘s natural maturing along with her physical and psychological transformation are neglected and her inner disharmony escalates, leading her to finally muster the courage to revolt against the system that clearly defines and sets the standards of the conventional status of a woman.
Biography
Pollyanna Popermâjer was born in Stockholm, Sweden. Since childhood she's been on an artistic journey, experimenting the ways of artistic expression through music, acting and filmmaking. She has then been moving more and more towards directing.
Lamb | Lamm
Suécia | Sweden | 12'43" | 2021
Realizadora|Director: Pollyanna Popermajer
Elenco | Cast: Martina Hemmingsson, Hugo B Hjelm
Produção | Production: Pollyanna Popermâjer
Escola | School: Fridhems folkhögskola
Synopsis
When Linda gets a phone call about her little brother, their relationship is changed forever. What happens when we have to choose between those we love, and what we believe is right?
Biography
Student of Film Directing at The Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice. Director and screenwriter of feature and documentary shorts films: The Whisperer (2019), The Gap Is Always Third (2019), When The Night Comes (2021), The Delivery (2021).
The Delivery | Rozwiązanie
Polônia | Poland | 24'50" | 2021
Realizadora|Director: Katarzyna Sikorska
Elenco | Cast: Marta Ścisłowicz, Ksenia Tchórzko, Arkadiusz Brykalski, Wojciech Solarz
Produção | Production: Adrianna Orych
Escola | School: Krzysztof Kieslowski Film School in Katowice
Synopsis
Alicja is counting the weeks until the birth of her daughter.. Oksana, a young Ukrainian, arrives to help her bring the long-awaited daughter to the world. Tension grows. Hour by hour, envy, fear, and uncertainty intensify.
Biography
Paula Loffler is a director and producer. In her professional trajectory, she had the opportunity to work in various cultural products such as: films, soap operas, series, commercials, events, plays, dance performances, lectures, exhibitions, shows and book fairs.
The King in a Cage | Rei na Gaiola
Portugal | Portugal | 6'19" | 2021
Realizadora|Director: Paula Loffler
Elenco | Cast: Rui Quintas, Carolina Gaspar, Leonor Teles
Produção | Production: André Pedro
Escola | School: Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias
Synopsis
Simone struggles with her relationship with her father since he was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. On a Saturday afternoon, she finds an old chess board and plays with Ernesto. Both are awakened by their memories.
Biography
Ting Tu‘s major was Radio and Television Production in Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications in China. She is studying in MA filmmaking at London Film School now.
Turn Over | Turn Over
Reino Unido | United Kingdom | 11'00" | 2022
Realizadora|Director: TING TU
Elenco | Cast: Edmund Fargher
Produção | Production: Hazel Francesca Magnoni
Escola | School: London Film School
Synopsis
A poor homeless man knows there is a lot of food in an art gallery. He sneaks into the art gallery because he is hungry. He eats a lot of cake and then falls asleep in this warm gallery by accident. Flat on the floor, he is considered as a performance art by rich people. When the homeless man wakes up, people clap and shake his hand. At this moment, he decides to pretend to be an artist.
