{"id":4392,"date":"2024-11-13T16:20:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T16:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portofemme.com\/international-short-films\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T11:09:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:09:22","slug":"international-short-films","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/portofemme.com\/en\/international-short-films\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alemanha | Germany | 80\u201956\u2019\u2019 | 2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Julie and Vincent are in love. Madly in love. After waiting for her all day, Vincent finally has Julie all to himself. But Julie\u2019s cell phone keeps ringing and ringing. Passion, sex and jealousy. What really happens behind closed doors? <\/p>\n

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Marina Ziolkowski is a French-American filmmaker. Marina was selected for her experimental videos in 2014 by EROIN, a label dedicated to emerging female filmmakers. <\/p>\n

In 2018 she directed her short film But You Look So Good in Los Angeles. It won the audience award at the Paris Champs Elys\u00e9es Festival. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A Rapariga que Vem a\u0300s Quintas | The Girl Who Comes on Thursdays | Xoves de Comadres<\/h5>\n

Espanha | Spain | 19\u201900\u2019\u2019 | 2020<\/p>\n

Director: Noemi Chantada<\/p>\n

Producer: Alexandre Cancelo<\/p>\n

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Her world was already like an empty anthill, a dry swarm to which a cricket has come to sneak<\/p>\n

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Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n

Noemi Chantada (Vigo, 1982) holds a degree in Image from the EISV. In 2016, she founded Islandia Producciones company, to develop other projects, starting with the documentary short film, her first feature: <\/p>\n

A Mulher Invis\u00edvel (2017). Then she co-directed the documentary Sorrisos Transformadores with her partner Oscar Pardo and this year she presented her first <\/p>\n

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Assia | Assia<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Marrocos\/Franc\u0327a | Morocco\/France | 11\u201948\u2019\u2019 | 2018<\/p>\n

Director: Malika Zairi
\nProducer: Malika Zairi<\/p>\n

Synopsis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Assia is a young 15-year-old girl who has a triple culture: French, Moroccan and Portuguese. As part of civic education work, she must define the notion of \u201cliving together\u201d without using writing. Through her work, Assia will explain her discomfort, an injustice of which she and her family were victims during the attacks of November 2015 in Paris. <\/p>\n

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Malika Zairi, 45 years old, is a moroccan-french director born in Paris. After working for over 15 years as a social worker, helping children and families, she decided to follow her passion for film. She has thus far made 4 independent films, which have been selected in many festivals. <\/p>\n

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Ate\u0301 Amanha\u0303 | See You Tomorrow | A\u0300 Demain<\/h5>\n

Franc\u0327a | France | 18\u201947\u2019\u2019 | 2019<\/p>\n

Director: Pauline Mabille<\/p>\n

Producer: Didier Fraisse<\/p>\n

Synopsis<\/strong><\/p>\n

This day should have been an ordinary one for a married couple, a taxi driver, a nurse, a casting director, and three childhood friends. Their daily lives intertwine in the streets of Paris. They have nothing in common and yet their destinies will be linked at the end of the day. <\/p>\n

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Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pauline Mabille, self taught, she wrote and directed her first short film Right here or over there in 2015, which won several prizes internationally. In 2019, a producer gave her the chance to write and direct See you tomorrow, and as a Parisian girl, this story was really close to her heart. It is currently in circulation in numerous festivals, with several awards already to its credit. She is now writing her first feature film. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Comprometida | Comitted | Yom Ragil<\/h5>\n

Israel | COUNTRY | 20\u201900\u2019\u2019 | 2018
\nDirector: Lee Gilat
\nProducer: Aviv Ben Shlush, Ori Burg, Roei Zioni<\/p>\n

Synopsis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leah forces her younger sister Batya to confront their father\u2019s mental illness for the first time.<\/p>\n

Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lee Gilat is a screenwriter for many successful Israeli TV series.<\/p>\n

Also a screenplay editor, Lee worked on the films Footnote by director Joseph Cedar and The Good Words by director Shemi Zarhin. Lee teaches a screenplay class at the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem and is one of the founders of the Women in Film and Television Forum in Israel. <\/p>\n

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Da Cor do Ce\u0301u Sem Nuvens | On the Colour of a Cloudless Sky<\/h5>\n

Brasil | Brazil | 16\u201904\u2019\u2019 | 2019<\/p>\n

Director: Helena Guerra
\nProducer: Giovanni Pirelli, Helena Guerra<\/p>\n

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A modern fable telling the story of Simone, a mannequin that works at a fashion store in S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s city centre.<\/p>\n

While rehearsing for an important speech, she observes the women passing in front of her display throughout the day, pondering on the human condition and what it means to be a woman today<\/p>\n

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Helena Guerra (S\u00e3o Paulo 1989) graduated in cinema from FAAP, 2008. Founder and co-director of the cultural space Marieta, which is located in downtown S\u00e3o Paulo, and partner, director and executive producer, of Irm\u00e3os Guerra Filmes <\/p>\n

In 2017, her script On the colour of a cloudless sky was contemplated and produced by the Public Notice for Support to the Short MINC. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Diagonal | Diagonal | DIAGONALE<\/h5>\n

Sui\u0301c\u0327a | Switzerland | 05\u201941\u2019\u2019| 2019<\/p>\n

Director: Anne Thorens<\/p>\n

Producer: Anne Thorens<\/p>\n

Synopsis<\/strong><\/p>\n

A young couple is already in the heat of the action when she asks him for a condom. He doesn\u2019t have one, but that doesn\u2019t seem to put a curb on his enthusiasm. <\/p>\n

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Anne Thorens began her career at an early age with the Broadway Company. Versatile, she does not stop at the play, and works on her writing for different scenarios, including two selections at the Aubagne International Film Festival, a SIRAR Award in 2018 and a selection in the prestigious Valence Writing Festival in 2019. She just completed her first film directing with Diagonale, while already preparing the next one. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dois Corpos numa Praia | Two Bodies on a Beach | Kaksi Ruumista Rannalla<\/h5>\n

Finla\u0302ndia | Finland | 20\u201900\u2019\u2019| 2019<\/p>\n

Director: Anna Paavilainen<\/p>\n

Producer: Misha Jaari, Mark Lwoff<\/p>\n

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Synopsis<\/strong><\/p>\n

A woman wakes up on a beach wrapped in plastic, half-naked and in high heels. \u201cNot again\u201d, she sighs and decides to find out who is behind this. She persuades an older woman who has been pushed to the margins of society to accompany her on her revenge trip. <\/p>\n

During their journey through classical cinematic landscapes, the two women have to face their own lusts, conflicts between generations, and their fragile ideologies.<\/p>\n

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Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anna Paavilainen is a Finnish director, writer and actor. Her breakthrough performance as an actor was in Zaida Bergroth\u2019s The Good Son (2011), of which Paavilainen was nominated with The Jussi Prize. After several prestigious theatre, film and TV roles, Paavilainen moved to Sweden to study at Stockholms Filmskola. PLAY RAPE, a monologue play written, directed and performed by Paavilainen, was received with generous reviews and extensive attention in the media. The play has been translated into several languages. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Em Alerta | On the Lookout | Qui Vive<\/h5>\n

Be\u0301lgica | Belgium | 19\u201941\u2019\u2019 | 2019<\/p>\n

Director: Anai\u0308s Dubois<\/p>\n

Producer: Laurent Denis<\/p>\n

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August 1914. Germany invades Belgium and terrorizes the population. Despite being pregnant, Louise is taking care of the farm, her young boy and the crops. While the front rumbles a few kilometers away from her home, a man turns up at the farm in the middle of the night <\/p>\n

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Ana\u00efs Dubois, at the age of 15, was bitten by the movie bug and decided to devote her studies to cinema. Leaving the Institut des Arts de Diffusion armed with a diploma, Ana\u00efs cuts her teeth in the professional world on movie sets. From location manager to assistant director, she works on multiple projects and also starts to develop her own. A World War I enthusiast, thanks to her first short film, On the lookout, she takes us into the middle of the Belgian countryside at a heart-wrenching moment. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Linda Menina | Good Girl | Kiltti Tytto\u00f6<\/h5>\n

Finla\u0302ndia | Finland | 11\u201956\u2019\u2019 | 2019<\/p>\n

Director: Merja Maijanen<\/p>\n

Producer: Merja Maijanen<\/p>\n

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After being awarded for being a good girl, a naive little girl learns what it really means to be one.<\/p>\n

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Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n

Merja Maijanen studied her Bachelor Degree in Media in 2003. After graduating she worked in film festivals, film centres and started a company with her mother; a cinema with a movie themed cafe. She has two Master\u2019s Degrees; MA in Screenwriting from Salford University and MA in Directing from KinoEyes European Movie Masters\u2019 program. Currently Merja is working in a Finnish production company and writing her first feature film. <\/p>\n

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EUA | USA | 14\u201944\u2019\u2019| 2019<\/p>\n

Director: Zoe\u0301 Salicrup<\/p>\n

Producer: Lauren Sowa, Tim Eliot<\/p>\n

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When a young mother takes a risk to provide for her daughter, a stranger turns her transgression into a nightmare.<\/p>\n

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Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n

Zo\u00e9 Salicrup, born and raised in Puerto Rico, is a narrative and commercial film director. Her short film GABI competed in numerous festivals such as Tribeca Film Festival, Palm Springs International Shortfest, and Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival. Zo\u00e9 is also an HBO\/DGA Directing Fellowship Finalist, a Cinefestival\/ Sundance Latino Screenwriters Project Fellow, and a Sundance Women\u2019s Financing Intensive Project Fellow. <\/p>\n

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Nesta Terra Somos Temporariamente Fantasmas | In This Land we\u2019re Briefly Ghosts | DI MYAY MHER THA YE KANA Phit Kae Tal<\/p>\n

Mianmar | Myammar | 16\u201901\u2019\u2019 | 2019<\/p>\n

Director: Chen-Wen Lo<\/p>\n

Producer: Chen-Wen Lo<\/p>\n

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Myanmar, 2013. A 12-year-old Burmese child soldier, imprisoned for deserting battle, is forced to either kill her older brother, a fellow deserter, or die alongside him. Based on actual events. <\/p>\n

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Chen-Wen Lo is a Taiwan-born writer, director and producer based in New York City. A graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Chen-Wen explores in her audio-visual work the impact of history on human emotions and the relationship between displacement, desire and resistance. Her short films have screened at festivals worldwide, including Busan, Taipei Golden Horse, Palm Springs, among others. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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O Bezerro | Mommy\u2019s Calf<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ru\u0301ssia | Russia | 15\u201900\u2019\u2019 | 2019 Realizadora | Director: Viktoria Runtsova Produc\u0327a\u0303o | Producer: Yuri Yarushnikov<\/p>\n

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1980. 1980. Vitya, a small boy, lives in a village near Ural mountains. His life changes when he is told a five-days old calf will forget about his mother in a few days. <\/p>\n

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Biography<\/p>\n

Viktoria Runtsova graduated from Schepkin Theater University in 2012. She has worked in theater, films and tv series as an actress. In 2016 she graduated from Svobodnoe Kino film school, with a Filmmakers Course of Dmitry Kupovyh. From 2018 to 2019 she did a course on film direction at the film school Industria. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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O Mentor | A Mentor<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Hungary | 29\u201900\u2019\u2019| 2018
\nDirector: Szonja Szabo\u0301
\nProducer: Edina Kenesei, A\u0301gi Pataki<\/p>\n

Synopsis<\/p>\n

Sarah e\u0301 uma adolescente solita\u0301ria cheia de paixa\u0303o escondida e amarga. Partilha os seus sentimentos apenas com o Mentor que conheceu na Internet. O Mentor apoia a rapariga desesperada sempre que recorre a ele a\u0300 procura de ajuda, embora nunca se tenham encontrado pessoalmente. Esta e\u0301 a raza\u0303o pela qual a rapariga confia cegamente no seu Mentor e cumpre todas as tarefas que lhe sa\u0303o atribui\u0301das por ele. <\/p>\n

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Biography<\/p>\n

Szonja Szab\u00f3 was born in 1983, Budapest, and studied at the Hungarian Film Academy (class of Tam\u00e1s Alm\u00e1si, 2007) and is a freelance filmmaker.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ondulac\u0327o\u0303es | Ripples<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Reino Unido | UK | 05\u201923\u2019\u2019 | 2017 Director: Aleksandra Czenczek Producer: Adriana Kulig<\/p>\n

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Maggie, a young woman with a generous body, arrives at a swimming pool. She loves swimming and being in the water; that is the only place where she can feel relaxed, light and free, far from the judging looks of other people. Today\u2019s swim though, unexpectedly for her, is not as usual. <\/p>\n

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Biography<\/p>\n

Cinema and Audiovisual Arts in France. Based in London since 2004, in 2016 she completed the Directing Series at the National Film and Television School and took part in BFI funded Filmonomics Program for female Writers and Directors. Most recent short Last Day of Summer received Young Artist Academy Award in LA for Best Performance (also known as \u201ckiddies Oscars\u201d) and Afrodite Award for Best International Film in Rome. It has also
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O Vera\u0303o dos 12 | The Summer of 12<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Taiwan | 25\u201900\u2019\u2019| 2019
\nDirector: Kuan-Ling Kuo
\nProducer: Yu-Zhen Wu<\/p>\n

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Synopsis
\nOn just another day training in the pool for the young members of the swimming team, the cusp of early puberty threatens to turn innocent friendship and camaraderie into something much more. <\/p>\n

Sixth-grader Yu-Hsuan has a closely guarded secret, but this tide of feelings inside is brewing into a storm\u2026<\/p>\n

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Biography<\/p>\n

Kuan-Ling Kuo, a graduate student in Shih-Hsin University\u2019s Department of Radio, Television & Film, was born in 1991 in Tainan, Taiwan. The Summer of 12 is her graduate work <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Reflexos Cheios de Vida | ReflecDons Full of Life<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Bulgaria | 26\u201934\u2019\u2019 | 2017 Director: Marieta Petchanska Producer: Denis Mujovic<\/p>\n

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Kim is a teenage girl who is eager to have fun and experiment in love affairs. In her quest for real love, she finds a door to a different reality. <\/p>\n

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Biography<\/p>\n

Marieta Petchanska graduated film studies and started her career in Spain. Her first student film called Amores Condicionales was selected at Valencia Short Film Festival in 2005. She has made documentaries and experimental videos in Spain, Cuba, Mexico and North America. She has worked for many years as a documentarist and DJ for the Latin Grammy Awarded Rapper Mala Rodriguez. The visual art of Marieta Petchanska is accompanying the shows of the artist on the World Wide music scene. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sala de Estar | Living Room<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Japa\u0303o | Japan | 16\u201924\u2019\u2019 | 2019
\nDirector: Jessica Barclay Lawton Producer: Jessica Barclay Lawton<\/p>\n

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Masayuki lives with his elderly mother and spends his nights wandering the streets, drinking and gambling. He amasses enough gambled winnings to finance her foreseeable future, before his final departure. When the time comes, Masayuki confronts oblivion with the help of a mysterious stranger <\/p>\n

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Biography<\/p>\n

Jessica Lawton premiered IN 2016 her Screen Australia funded web-series \u2018Movement at Tribeca Film Festival. Her short films combined have screened at over 50 festivals worldwide. Most recently she was awarded the \u201cCreators Fund\u201d through Creative Victoria to develop her debut hybrid feature film The Sweetness. <\/p>\n

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Selma Depois da Chuva | Selma After the Rain<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Brasil | Brazil | 11\u201938\u2019\u2019| 2020
\nDirector: Loli Menezes
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Selma is a trans woman who built her life away from the family. One day she gets a call to go to her elderly mother, who suffers from Alzheimer\u2019s and needs treatment. In this encounter, lost in confused memories, the two women remember forgotten pains and desires and revisit lost guilt and affection <\/p>\n

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Loli Menezes, filmmaker, producer and videomaker, Loli studied cinema and video at the University Sul de Santa Catarina. Her debut short, O corredor, won 10 awards at national festivals. With the short Selma after the Rain, she toured 12 countries and won 6 awards. She is a founding partner of Vinil Filmes, one of the most active producers in Santa Catarina. She is currently finishing her first feature film Tio Tommy and developing her first feature film Sangue de Groselha. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sincronizac\u0327a\u0303o | SynchronizaDon<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Polo\u0301nia | Poland | 19\u201954\u2019\u2019| 2019
\nDirector: Anna Kasin\u0301ska
\nProducer: Anna Kasin\u0301ska, Joanna Ruta Baranowska<\/p>\n

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In 2084, when the male sex is near extinction, four women wait for their menstrual cycles to synchronize. They all want to become mothers and there can only be one donor. When the day comes, the donor finally appears at their doorstep. During dinner he suffers an accident and seems to be dead. <\/p>\n

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Anna Kasi\u0144ska (born 1985) director, screenwriter, performer and former producer based in Warsaw, Poland. She graduated in Culture Studies from Warsaw University and studied Film and TV Production Organization at Lodz Film School. For several years she worked as a producer and associate director for numerous short- and full-length features and documentaries. Her first short film Synchronization as writer\/director has been screened at numerous films festivals around the world. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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EUA | USA | 06\u201958\u2019\u2019 | 2019 Director: Dawn Westlake Producer: Dawn Westlake<\/p>\n

Synopsis<\/p>\n

A palavra francesa \u201cterroir\u201d e\u0301 utilizada em muitas li\u0301nguas e culturas para descrever os fatores de solo e clima que conferem ao vinho o seu cara\u0301cter. Metaforicamente, podemos olhar para a nossa educac\u0327a\u0303o humana e o cara\u0301cter resultante de va\u0301rias culturas mundiais como \u201cterroir\u201d. Factualmente, todos no\u0301s somos origina\u0301rios de mulheres, mas e\u0301 rara a cultura que respeita ou honra esta verdade. Porque pervertem o vaso da vida a\u0300 sua pro\u0301pria abnegac\u0327a\u0303o? <\/p>\n

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Dawn Westlake is president of Ron de Cana Prods, Inc. in Los Angeles. She has made 22 films since 2000 which have won 82 awards, including honours from Canon USA, Inc. and JVC-Tokyo. Dawn is also an actress,writer and producer, and has judged film festivals in the USA, France, Italy and Portugal. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Trabalho Manual | Cover Up | HANDARBEIT
\nAlemanha | Germany | 12\u201932\u2019\u2019 | 2019
\nDirector: Marie-Ame\u0301lie Steul
\nProducer: Marie-Ame\u0301lie Steul, Patricia Mestanza Niemi<\/p>\n

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The life of Ibrahim, a short tempered conservative Arabic censor, is turned upside down when his colleague Waleed discovers a compromising photo that could ruin his reputation. A race against the clock begins. The photo has to disappear. At all costs. <\/p>\n

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Marie-Am\u00e9lie Steul, born in Athens in 1986. After completing a BA in Applied Foreign Languages in 2007 she went to study film production at the prestigious University of Television and Film Munich. She graduated in 2012 after having produced several short films. Her graduation film Die Letzte Grenze was longlisted for the Best Short Fiction at the Academy Awards 2014. Since graduation she has been working as an assistant director. Handarbeit is her directorial debut. She is currently working on the script of the feature film version. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Turquia | Turkey | 07\u201949\u2019\u2019 | 2019<\/p>\n

Director: Mihriban Tandogan Produc\u0327a\u0303o | Producer: Mihriban Tandogan<\/p>\n

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A young woman is reflecting about her romantic relationship with her married lover while she is in beauty parlour, getting her body hair removed. There, she will encounter an unexpected guest. <\/p>\n

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Mihriban Tandogan graduated from the Communication Faculty of Anadolu University, and directed her first short film Waves in 2017. Cheating is her second short. In this process, the director founded her film company WATCHMYMOVIES, aiming to publish videos without censorship and enhancing her film ideas and topics. She also shoots pornographic films. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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UmDia|OneDay|UNDI\u0301A Colo\u0302mbia | Colombia | 18\u201900\u2019\u2019 | 2019 | Director: Annalisa Vozza | Producer: Annalisa Vozza<\/p>\n

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Cristian, a young rapper from a marginal neighborhood of Bogot\u00e1, earns his living by singing rap on a city bus with his friend John. He dreams of traveling to Ecuador to participate in a music contest and leave everything behind. One day, his daily routine is disrupted by the unexpected presence of his little sister, Jackeline, who did not attend school and followed him in secret. <\/p>\n

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Annalisa Vozza, was born in Italy, and directed and produced several documentaries and short films in different regions of the world. In 2009, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to pursue a MFA degree in Writing\/Directing Fiction in New York. In 2011, she received the Directors Guild of America \u201cBest Woman Student Filmmaker\u201d Jury Award for her thesis short film Alex. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Espanha | Spain | 15\u201900\u2019\u2019| 2018 | Director: Marta Bayarri | Producer: Oriol Ruiz<\/p>\n

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Marga is trapped in a routine life working in a slaughterhouse. Then, one day, a cow looks straight at her <\/p>\n

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Marta Bayarri is an actress, writer and director based in Barcelona, Spain. She got her start as a director with the short Una nit (2014). She followed it up with Fugit (2016), which was released to wide acclaim, achieving the Candidacy for the Goya Awards 2018. Vaca (2018) is her latest film, with a great international acceptance, 90 Official Selections in 19 countries, and received a nomination
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