A Mulher que Chora | La Llorona

México | Mexico | 28’28’’ | 2019
Director: Rosana Cuellar
Production: Rosana Cuellar, Alejandro Albert, Gabriel Stavenhagen

Escola | HFBK University of Fine Arts Hamburg, DE

Synopsis

A surrealist film about a group of children living in a house without adult supervision who feel haunted by the ghost of Llorona -the legendary Mexican ghost of a woman who murdered her children, and whom they hear sighing at night. Their powerful fantasy guided by their fear, unleashes a chain of events that lead them to become a part of this legend themselves.

Biography

Rosana Cuellar (1984) is a Mexican artist based in Hamburg, Germany. As a film director, Rosana has a unique style that combines her interest for interdisciplinary collaboration, to create oneiric pieces of metaphorical expression marked by a very distinctive aesthetic. Her short films have been shown in renowned film festivals around the world such as Cannes and Berlinale.

Bélgica| Belgium| 19’00’’ | 2019

Director: Amelia Nanni Escola | INSAS – Atelier de réalisation, BE

Synopsis

In an abandoned field, 8 year-old Hugo is playing at war. Suddenly, an intruder invades his territory: Aiché. He is a great loner and she has a strong head and therefore fascinates him. But their games are suddenly interrupted when they witness the expulsion of Aiché’s mother. Aiché then runs away, followed by Hugo. They will have to face a reality which is beyond them, and find solutions at their young age.

Biography

Amelia Nanni is French and Italian. After her graduation in film by the University of Paris 7, she took to the road, alone, around Asia for a year. She then continued her studies in INSAS – School of cinema in Brussel – in the direction departement. At the present time, she works on her master’s dissertation about a travel notebook and cinema.

Até ao fim do mundo | Till the end of the world |Tot het einde van der Wereld

Holanda| Netherlands | 26’33’’ | 2018

Realizadora|Director: Florence Bouvy
Produção | Production: Eene Helmus, Charlene Vos Escola | The Netherlands Film Academy, NL

Synopsis

Marie is eight years old and loves her dad. In a world where playful dreams can suddenly turn into empty eyes that don’t seem to see her, she tries to stand her own. A story about the strength of a child fighting for the unconditional love of her father.

Biography

Florence Bouvy studied philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, and soon after applied to the Netherlands Film Academy, where she was selected to study film directing. Her drive is to create experiences for the audience through the evocative power of film.

BeneMimi-MimieBen|BenandMimi-MimiandBen

EUA | USA | 15’00’’ | 2019

Director: Eva Rini May Cragg

Production: Apoorva Guru Charan Escola | Columbia University New York, USA

Synopsis

Taking care of her husband Ben, who refuses to permanently remove the washcloths tied to his hands, Mimi finds her marriage rotating in an almost surreal routine. Suppressed by his weakness, while simultaneously enabling it, she misses a connection to the outside world and to nature in all its harshness. Acting upon these claustrophobic feelings, Mimi secretly opens a window one night and allows a caterpillar to enter their home. Getting closer to the animal, she slowly rediscovers a more primal, free and almost mystical side of herself.

Biography

Eva Cragg began to make her first short films, both live action and animation, as she pursued her Master of Science in Architecture at the KTH Stockholm in Sweden. Upon completing her degree in 2014, Eva came to the Columbia University Graduate Film Program in New York City and graduated with an MFA in Screenwriting and Directing. In October 2018 Eva moved back to Germany and now lives in Berlin.

Alemanha | Germany| 14’59’’ | 2019

Director: Christina Tournatznés
Production: Mathias Nerlich, Felix Parson, Patricia D’Intino, Leo Pintér
Escola | Hochschule Macromedia
München, DE

Synopsis

At dawn, smugglers load 71 people from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran onto a truck to drive them from Hungary to Germany. During the journey, the refugees start knocking and screaming for help. Based on true events.

Biography

Christina Tournatzés studied film and television in Munich. She has been directing short documentaries and fiction shorts since 2015. The short film Cargo (2019) is her Thesis film.

Holanda| Netherlands| 19’50’’ | 2019

Director: Myrte Ouwerkerk

Production: Rik Aerts, Nicky Onstenk Escola | The Netherlands Film Academy, NL

Synopsis

In an air polluted future, 20 year-old drummer Olly wants only one thing: to get inside the dome, where the air is clean and the best musicians live. In order to get in, he must take a series of absurd tests that pass false judgements on him. Will Olly cave and behave the way the system wants

Biography

As a child Myrte acted in several Dutch films and television series. At the age of 16 she decided to turn into directing. She followed a course at Open Studios and started studying at the Grafisch Lyceum in Rotterdam. In 2014 Myrte got accepted at the Netherlands Film Academy. In the third year she directed the film Van Binnenuit (2018). Myrte wants to give the viewer a different perspective on our everyday life.

O elefante no quarto | The elephant in the room

Suiça·| Switzerland| 19’30’’ | 2018

Director: Chanelle Eidenbenz

Production: Filippo Bonacci Escola | Zürich University of the Arts, CH

Synopsis

Irna senses that the relationship with her son Jago is getting more and more hopeless. She seeks refuge in her own world, whose center is Elias, a rubber doll. While Irna holds on to her own reality with all her might, Jago is desperately trying to make his mother understand.

Biography

Chanelle Eidenbenz did an artistic propaedeutic course and worked as a freelancer, producing casting videos at home and abroad. In 2017 she did an interdisciplinary graduate program “Transcultural Collaboration“ in Hong Kong. In 2018 she received her Bachelor of Arts in Film from the Zurich University of the Arts. Next to her own projects she works as script supervisor and assistant director.

Sou Mackenzie| I am Mackenzie

EUA | USA | 19’43’’ | 2019

Realizadora|Director: Artemis Anastasiadou

Production: Lauren Izard
Escola | The University of Texas at Austin, EUA

Synopsis

Vasco is exposed to his brother’s extremist ideals, expressed through the National Socialist Black Metal genre. However, Vasco does not identify with the nature of the movement and hides from his brother an essential aspect of his life, in order to avoid a fraternal break, while tracing the path of self-acceptance.

Biography

Artemis Anastasiadou is a versatile director from Greece, working across genres both on comedies and dramas. Her directorial work has been screened at SXSW, Austin Film Festival, Athens International FF, Oak Cliff FF, FilmFest Dresden, Cine Las Americas, Film Festival of Drama among others. Her latest short I am Mackenzie (2019) premiered at SXSW Festival and won the Texas Shorts Jury Award.

Um peixe numa Tigela de ponche | A fish in a punch bowl | Fisch-Bowle

Alemanha| Germany| 13’24’’ | 2019

Realizadora|Director: Tanja Hurrle
Escola | Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, DE

Synopsis

Mika, a sensitive 10 year-old boy, tries to save a goldfish from a bully. That’s when he meets Lotte. He immediately falls in love with this self confident girl. But his feelings of joy are diminished when he comes home to his fighting parents. A few days later, Mika catches his father packing his bags. Angry and sad Mika runs away from home. Will he be able to deal with his parent’s divorce?

Biography

Tanja Hurrle directed her first short film at the age of eight. In high school she began submitting her films to festivals which led to some awards, including an Honorable Mention at the Up-and-Coming International Filmfestival Hannover and several nominations for the Deutsche Jugendlmpreis (German Youth Film Award). Her short film Wonderland won first prize at the Visionale Hessen.

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Islândia | Iceland| 15’00’’ | 2019

Realizadora|Director: Anna Karín

Produção|Production : Anna Karín Escola | The Icelandic Film School, IS

Synopsis

Lísa is fifteen years old and lives with her mother in the suburbs in Iceland. She is different from girls her age, and she hasn’t reached puberty. She is isolated and has a big secret about herself. Regular uncomfortable doctors visits and struggling with her self image

Biography

Anna Karín is a filmmaker based in Reykjavík, Iceland. She graduated from the Icelandic Film School from the directing and producing department. She is quite new to the film industry but her decision to go to film school two years ago was very spontaneous. Now she works at RÚV, Island’s National Television Broadcasting Station, where she is filming, editing, producing and directing material for the younger generation.