48th INTERNATIONAL FILM Argentina FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM Ceniza verde January 23 – February 3, 2019 World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Short
Director(s): Pablo Mazzolo IFFR SHORTS Prod. Countries: Argentina Prod. Year: 2019 DISTRIBUTION LIST Length: 10 Genre: Experimental Contact: Pablo Mazzolo Email: [email protected] Log lines from IFFR catalogue. Phone: +54 1145559253 Logline: A film painted with the light of a sun-
drenched spot in Sierras de Córdoba where In order of country history manifests itself as an apparition. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXjsXUEsS sQ Sold territories:
Bicicletas International premiere Programme section: Voices Short Director(s): Cecilia Kang Prod. Countries: Argentina Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 27 Genre: Fiction Company: Orquídea Cine Contact: Cecilia Kang Email: [email protected] Phone: +54 91163739860 Logline: Lila has writer’s block. When her boyfriend receives a gift from another woman, Lila is triggered to seek inspiration. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JDiqGvAj -A Sold territories:
Resonancias Austria World premiere Programme section: Voices Short Cavalcade Director(s): Lucila Mariani World premiere Prod. Countries: Argentina Programme section: Bright Future Short Prod. Year: 2019 Director(s): Johann Lurf Length: 15 Prod. Countries: Austria Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2019 Company: Marea Length: 5 Contact: Lucila Mariani Genre: Experimental Email: [email protected] Contact: Gerald Weber Phone: +54 1169813488 Email: [email protected] Logline: Malena likes to swim. One day she gets Phone: +43 15260990 water in her ear and starts feeling drawn to the Logline: Cavalcade deals with basic elements of sea. the motion picture: movement and standstill, as Trailer: a turning wheel interacts with strobe light https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_O2nd- synchronized with two 35mm cameras. GHK4 Sold territories: Sold territories:
Azerbaijan Australia salt, pepper to taste All These Creatures World premiere Programme section: Voices Short Programme section: Voices Short Director(s): Charles Williams Director(s): Teymur Hajiyev Prod. Countries: Australia Prod. Countries: Azerbaijan Prod. Year: 2018 Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 13 Length: 21 Genre: Fiction Genre: Fiction Company: Simpatico Films Company: Fil Production Contact: Wouter Jansen Contact: Teymur Hajiyev Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +31 641518779 Phone: +994 124969663 Logline: An adolescent boy attempts to untangle Logline: A young woman seeks to escape the his memories of a mysterious infestation, the suffocating atmosphere at home and unravelling of his father, and the little creatures wanders the streets of Baku, portrayed as a inside us all. wonderful blue-grey city. Sold territories: Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUTbYPJB Ttc suffers from a form of autism so severe that most Sold territories: specialised institutions refuse to take him in. Trailer: Bangladesh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX7XfxT8 zN8 Lost Tune Sold territories: World premiere (festival) Perfect Cut Programme section: Ammodo Tiger Short World premiere Competition Programme section: Bright Future Short Director(s): Reetu Sattar Director(s): Sirah Foighel Brutmann, Eitan Efrat Prod. Countries: Bangladesh Prod. Countries: Belgium Prod. Year: 2018 Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 13 Length: 8 Genre: Experimental Genre: Experimental Company: Company: Messidor Contact: Reetu Sattar Contact: Sirah Foighel Brutmann Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +88 1712801903 Phone: +31 611289279 Logline: Enchanting audio performance in which Logline: Diamonds, forever an object of desire, musicians play a long note on a harmonium, as a are also the hardest substance on the planet, counterpoint to religious fanaticism in carving winding lines into our retina. Bangladesh. Trailer: Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR1zgWol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdcQRXoj NPE dys Sold territories: Sold territories:
Belgium Wages of the Imagination Kev World premiere Programme section: Say No More Programme section: Scopitone Director(s): Clémence Hébert Director(s): Dries Meddens Prod. Countries: Belgium Prod. Countries: Belgium Prod. Year: 2018 Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 50 Length: 35 Genre: Creative Documentary Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Dérives asbl Contact: Dries Meddens Contact: François Rapaille Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +32 485265025 Phone: +32 22272234 Logline: After a 20-year hiatus, British cult band Logline: Kev is a pale-looking teenager who Terminal Cheesecake was revived in 2013. Not as a rich man’s hobby, but out of sheer necessity: Logline: A visual poem narrating the 'exile blues' the band provides a lifeline for drummer John through spoken-word performance, improvised Jobbagy and guitarist/non-conformist Russel rhythms, historical objects, documents and a Smith. Trippy noise-psychedelica provides an universal colour. escape from at times grim reality. Sold territories: Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHqwxpP Terril Hoz8 World premiere Sold territories: Programme section: Bright Future Short Director(s): Bronte Stahl Van ver staat het stil Prod. Countries: Belgium, Portugal, Hungary International premiere Prod. Year: 2019 Programme section: Bright Future Short Length: 13 Director(s): Eva van Tongeren Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Countries: Belgium Contact: Bronte Stahl Prod. Year: 2018 Email: [email protected] Length: 18 Phone: +1 4016225906 Genre: Creative Documentary Logline: Painstaking analysis of the peculiar Company: Animal Tank, De Imagerie geography of Charleroi, forever marked by the Contact: Eva van Tongeren 1956 mining disaster and the ecological rebirth Email: [email protected] that followed. Phone: +32 497118778 Trailer: Logline: An exchange of letters between the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_zStluoSz filmmaker and a paedophile evokes powerful Q emotions. But she wants to understand his Sold territories: motives. Sold territories: Het geluk van honden Programme section: Say No More Ultramarine Director(s): Nina de Vroome World premiere Prod. Countries: Belgium Programme section: Ammodo Tiger Short Prod. Year: 2018 Competition Length: 23 Director(s): Vincent Meessen Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Countries: Belgium, France, Canada Company: Blauwhuis Prod. Year: 2019 Contact: Nina de Vroome Length: 42 Email: [email protected] Genre: Experimental Phone: +32 494236094 Company: Jubilee Logline: An observation on sheperd dogs during Contact: Inneke Van Waeyenberghe their training for police work. But these Email: inneke.van.waeyenberghe@jubilee- unfathomable dogs also observe us. art.org Trailer: Phone: +32 473934109 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7asQwir_ k4 retrieve cultural origins. Sold territories: Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px7X2SPR Bosnia and Herzegovina 1Oc Sold territories: J Cartuchos de Super Nintendo em Programme section: Say No More Director(s): Gaetano Liberti Anéis de Saturno Prod. Countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy International premiere Prod. Year: 2018 Programme section: Soul in the Eye Length: 44 Director(s): Leon Reis Genre: Fiction Prod. Countries: Brazil Company: Nigel Trei Production Prod. Year: 2018 Contact: Roberto Cavallini Length: 19 Email: [email protected] Genre: Fiction Phone: +39 3474926837 Company: Logline: A reclusive cartographer briefly engages Contact: Elvio Franklin into a dialogue with a woman. The whole world Email: [email protected] shivers when these two people get close. Phone: +55 (85)997702257 Trailer: Logline: Faced with despair, Cecil blows on a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3isuI47g_L Super Nintendo’s cartridge in his A neighbourhood. His attempt to reboot the game Sold territories: of life. Sold territories:
Brazil BR3 International premiere NoirBLUE – Déplacements d'une Programme section: Soul in the Eye danse Director(s): Bruno Ribeiro International premiere Prod. Countries: Brazil Programme section: Soul in the Eye Prod. Year: 2018 Director(s): Ana Pi Length: 23 Prod. Countries: Brazil, France Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2018 Company: Length: 27 Contact: Bruno Ribeiro Genre: Creative Documentary Email: [email protected] Contact: Ana Pi Phone: +55 21967025583 Email: [email protected] Logline: A free-flowing capturing of the lives and Phone: +33 648263539 loves of three friends in a close-knit community. Logline: A compelling performative audiovisual Sold territories: essay on the diasporic experience of reconnecting with the African continent to Caçador Afronte International premiere Programme section: Soul in the Eye Programme section: Voices Short Director(s): Bruno Victor, Marcus Azevedo Director(s): Leonardo Sette Prod. Countries: Brazil Prod. Countries: Brazil Prod. Year: 2018 Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 15 Length: 20 Genre: Creative Documentary Genre: Fiction Company: Company: Dezenove Som e Imagens Contact: Bruno Victor Contact: Leonardo Sette Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +55 6183441315 Phone: +55 8199854271 Logline: The process of transformation and Logline: Somewhere in the jungle a lonely, empowerment of a young man, black and gay, introverted man starts a new life. Now all he whose account is mixed with testimonies of needs is a wife. others. Sold territories: Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhSfV2tW Primeiro ato GvM World premiere Sold territories: Programme section: Ammodo Tiger Short Competition Crua Director(s): Matheus Parizi World premiere Prod. Countries: Brazil Programme section: Voices Short Prod. Year: 2019 Director(s): Diego Lima Length: 19 Prod. Countries: Brazil Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2019 Company: Filmes de Abril Length: 19 Contact: Matheus Parizi Genre: Fiction Email: [email protected] Contact: Diego Lima Phone: +55 1123720434 Email: [email protected] Logline: Real life invades the theatrical bubble in Phone: +55 83999568929 this urgent drama, in which two Brazilian Logline: A cautious portrait of a young woman theatre students swap acting lessons for street whose rough daily life leaves no traces behind protest. her. Trailer: Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V9bp4I9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CubfnauD Ack 3P0 Sold territories: Sold territories:
Pontes sobre Abismos Prod. Year: 2018 International premiere Length: 24 Programme section: Soul in the Eye Genre: Fiction Director(s): Aline Motta Contact: Lorran Dias Prod. Countries: Brazil Email: [email protected] Prod. Year: 2018 Phone: +55 21998232905 Length: 8 Logline: A couple is back living together, Genre: Experimental updating invisible forces of the past and Contact: Aline Motta expanding boundaries of everyday life. Email: [email protected] Trailer: Phone: +55 21988152542 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7kaoHPn Logline: Triggered by an unveiled family secret, 2zw Aline Motta’s ancestral quest confronts the Sold territories: traditional paradigms about miscegenation Quantos eram pra tá? related to racism in Brazil. Sold territories: International premiere Programme section: Soul in the Eye Way Up in the Sky Director(s): Vinícius Silva International premiere Prod. Countries: Brazil Programme section: Say No More Prod. Year: 2018 Director(s): Thiago Brito, Isabella Raposo Length: 29 Prod. Countries: Brazil Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2018 Company: Studio L Length: 13 Contact: Vinícius Silva Genre: Experimental Email: [email protected] Company: Dilúvio Produções Phone: +55 11982974879 Contact: Thiago Brito Logline: About the everyday life of three students Email: [email protected] at a public university and the dilemmas of racial Phone: +55 21988670574 segregation in Brazilian society. Logline: What do you do when you wake up and Sold territories: heaven signals that the end of the world may be Eu, minha mãe e Wallace nigh? Trailer: International premiere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lQ9l_QP Programme section: Soul in the Eye Director(s): Eduardo Carvalho, Marcos Carvalho WQE Sold territories: Prod. Countries: Brazil Prod. Year: 2018 Perpétuo Length: 22 International premiere Genre: Fiction Programme section: Soul in the Eye Company: Heco Produções Director(s): Lorran Dias Contact: João Leal Prod. Countries: Brazil Email: [email protected] Logline: The story of a photo of a single mother, violin piece based on a Bosnian popular song. an absent father and a child shows the Sold territories: importance of a single image. Sold territories: I Regret International premiere Cambodia Programme section: Bright Future Short Director(s): Jonathan Culp Prod. Countries: Canada A Million Years Prod. Year: 2018 European premiere Length: 8 Programme section: Voices Short Genre: Experimental Director(s): Danech San Contact: Wanda vanderStoop Prod. Countries: Cambodia Email: [email protected] Prod. Year: 2018 Phone: +41 63511317 Length: 20 Logline: From ‘Facebook overshare’ through Genre: Fiction ‘giving your movie a shitty review’ to ‘missing Company: Anti Archive your own funeral’: everyone has regrets. Contact: Park Sungho Sold territories: Email: [email protected] Phone: +85 515881012 27 thoughts about my father Logline: Two youths spend the day talking and World premiere sleeping in a nature reserve. Is that waiter real or Programme section: Ammodo Tiger Short not? Competition Trailer: Director(s): Mike Hoolboom Sold territories: Prod. Countries: Canada Prod. Year: 2019 Canada Length: 25 Genre: Experimental Mais un oiseau ne chantait pas Company: None Contact: Mike Hoolboom Programme section: Say No More Email: [email protected] Director(s): Pierre Hébert Phone: +1 4162605702 Prod. Countries: Canada Logline: Poignant portrait of the filmmaker’s Prod. Year: 2018 father, who died last year, told in 27 brief Length: 6 contemplations, including personal moments Genre: Experimental and exceptional archive footage. Contact: Jade Wiseman Sold territories: Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 5145212116 -225 Logline: Scratched directly on 35mm film stock, this abstract film is a visual interpretation of a Chile Cuba
ALTIPLANO Pattaki International premiere World premiere Programme section: Ammodo Tiger Short Programme section: Soul in the Eye Competition Director(s): Everlane Moraes Director(s): Malena Szlam Prod. Countries: Cuba Prod. Countries: Chile, Argentina, Canada Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 21 Length: 16 Genre: Creative Documentary Genre: Creative Documentary Contact: Gregorio Rodríguez Contact: Malena Szlam Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +53 55383162 Phone: +1 5145269960 Logline: Shrouded in moonlight and trapped by Logline: Ancestral salt flats, volcanic deserts and water scarcity, inhabitants are hypnotized by coloured lakes transform into a vibrating Yemaya, goddess of the sea. Ektachrome landscape full of evocative visual Trailer: rhythms in color and form. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUrxnOOH Trailer: sNM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxHQWLd Sold territories: 1Opk Sold territories: Czech Republic
Colombia Apart International premiere El laberinto Programme section: Voices Short Programme section: Regained Director(s): Diana Cam Van Nguyen Director(s): Laura Huertas Millán Prod. Countries: Czech Republic Prod. Countries: Colombia, France Prod. Year: 2018 Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 10 Length: 21 Genre: Experimental Genre: Experimental Company: FAMU Contact: Laura Huertas Millán Contact: Alexandra Hroncova Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +33 667783951 Phone: +42 724753713 Logline: A guide takes us through the jungle to Logline: Three young voices candidly share their the ruins of a villa, a replica of a famous mansion experience of the sudden loss of a parent in this from the soap opera Dynasty. honest, dreamy animation. Sold territories: Sold territories: homes to build a new future.
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La bala de Sandoval The Stroker World premiere World premiere Programme section: Ammodo Tiger Short Programme section: Bright Future Short Competition Director(s): Pilvi Takala Director(s): Jean-Jacques Martinod Prod. Countries: Finland Prod. Countries: Ecuador Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 15 Length: 18 Genre: Creative Documentary Genre: Creative Documentary Contact: Tytti Rantanen Contact: Jean-Jacques Martinod Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +35 8504356092 Phone: +1 4384642824 Logline: Takala roams the corridors of a trendy Logline: In a rainforest in Ecuador, Isidro Varga co-working space, awkwardly touching people as and his brother recollect the times when a bullet part of a workers' well-being programme. and a broken bottle nearly ended his life. Sold territories: Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ythj9HlNi Birds in the Earth wI Programme section: Bright Future Short Sold territories: Director(s): Marja Helander Prod. Countries: Finland Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 11 Genre: Experimental
Finland Contact: Tytti Rantanen Email: [email protected] Fruits of the Loom Phone: +35 8504356092 World premiere Logline: Examination of the deeper questions Programme section: Bright Future Short concerning ownership of Sámi land through Director(s): Jaakko Pallasvuo, Antti Jussila, Jari dance performances by two young ballet Kallio students. Prod. Countries: Finland Sold territories: Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 32 Realms Genre: Experimental World premiere Contact: Jaakko Pallasvuo Programme section: Say No More Email: [email protected] Director(s): Patrik Söderlund Phone: +358 407712616 Prod. Countries: Finland Logline: In search of unrealised paradises, a Prod. Year: 2019 communist and a capitalist break into summer Length: 20 Genre: Experimental Length: 10 Company: Testifilmi Oy Genre: Experimental Contact: Jussi Eerola Contact: Gautam Valluri Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +358 400718268 Phone: +44 7759114105 Logline: Exploring geological epochs and Logline: Filmed in the Paigah tombs in India, kingdoms of life, Realms voyages through deep Midnight Orange tells of unresolved crescendos, time from the primeval ocean to a post-human thwarted anticipations and unmanaged future. escalations through architecture gone awry. Trailer: Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87eLGvem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5t2lpptgy gBk A Sold territories: Sold territories:
Or / Or, Hawick, may 18 France Programme section: Say No More Director(s): Jacques Perconte Foyers Prod. Countries: France Programme section: Bright Future Short Prod. Year: 2018 Director(s): Paul Heintz Length: 9 Prod. Countries: France Genre: Experimental Prod. Year: 2018 Contact: Jacques Perconte Length: 18 Email: [email protected] Genre: Creative Documentary Phone: +33 0660615408 Company: Les Films d'Argile Logline: Colour, time, gold and pixels melt and Contact: Thomas Hakim merge in this evocative abstract film, inspired by Email: [email protected] a fleeting impression of a bird above a river. Phone: +33 651164582 Sold territories: Logline: Empty streets, a suburb. A man recounts about the first time, desire, dizziness of TROPICS the ignition, forgetfulness, complete blackout. International premiere Trailer: Programme section: Bright Future Short https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW7dSZ30 Director(s): Mathilde Lavenne fm8 Prod. Countries: France Sold territories: Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 13 Midnight Orange Genre: Experimental World premiere Company: Jonas Films Programme section: Bright Future Short Contact: Elsa Klughertz Director(s): Gautam Valluri Email: [email protected] Prod. Countries: France Phone: +33 626641134 Prod. Year: 2019 Logline: Spiritual stories of a Mexican farm are conjured up through 3D animation. An attempt Indemnes to reveal the ghosts of a lost paradise. World premiere Sold territories: Programme section: Voices Short Director(s): Anaïs Volpé Toli Toli Prod. Countries: France World premiere (festival) Prod. Year: 2019 Programme section: Bright Future Short Length: 22 Director(s): Minia Biabiany Genre: Fiction Prod. Countries: France Company: Territoires Film Prod. Year: 2018 Contact: Emilia Derou-Bernal Length: 10 Email: [email protected] Genre: Experimental Phone: +33 672662049 Contact: Minia Biabiany Logline: Following a terrorist attack, lots of Email: [email protected] people are using Facebook to search for missing Phone: +59 0690938513 family members. Peacefully, Unharmed provides Logline: A visual poem linked with Guadalupian an answer to violence. colonial heritage, weaving forgotten voices and Trailer: stories together and bringing them back to light. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BldYP4Z4j Trailer: RY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNNk9vu Sold territories: 6gns Sold territories: BOX World premiere Le silence des sirènes Programme section: Voices Short World premiere Director(s): Matthew Barton Programme section: Ammodo Tiger Short Prod. Countries: France Competition Prod. Year: 2019 Director(s): Diana Vidrascu Length: 9 Prod. Countries: France Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Year: 2019 Company: Société Acéphale Length: 34 Contact: Lorenzo Bianchi Genre: Experimental Email: [email protected] Contact: Diana Vidrascu Phone: +33 681496162 Email: [email protected] Logline: An arresting glimpse into the Phone: +33 695813288 provisional boxing club in the Calais Jungle, Logline: Kafka's reimagining of the deadly sirens moments before the camp’s eviction. is the inspiration behind this intimate portrait of Sold territories: a young woman struggling with her identity. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgTFzhX6 nZE Sold territories: Blue Sisyphe Programme section: Say No More Programme section: Say No More Director(s): Apichatpong Weerasethakul Director(s): Driss Aroussi Prod. Countries: France Prod. Countries: France Prod. Year: 2018 Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 12 Length: 12 Genre: Experimental Genre: Experimental Company: Les Films Pelléas, Opéra National de Company: Prima Luce Paris Contact: Antonio Magliano Contact: Albertine Minart Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +33 630880978 Phone: +33 185143690 Logline: In the desert, a man extracts stones Logline: A woman lies awake at night. Nearby, a from a mountain and breaks them. His perpetual set of scrolled theatre backdrops unrolls to reveal labour becomes an act of meditation. two alternate landscapes. Sold territories: Sold territories: Germany The Sound Drifts World premiere Little Lower Than the Angels Programme section: Bright Future Short World premiere Director(s): Stefano Canapa Programme section: Rabbit Hole Prod. Countries: France Director(s): NEOZOON Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Countries: Germany Length: 8 Prod. Year: 2019 Genre: Experimental Length: 12 Contact: Stefano Canapa Genre: Experimental Email: [email protected] Contact: Friederike Kersten Phone: +33 617773089 Email: [email protected] Logline: Hypnotising audio tracks dance to the Phone: +49 1635530853 soundtrack of Canapa’s previous film about Logline: NEOZOON explores the memeification Jérôme Noetinger, Metamkine’s sound artist. of American Christian iconography and rituals, Cinema for your ears! finding rhythms and patterns in unlikely places. Trailer: Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_YppwKv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h__roZDn 2io ebo Sold territories: Sold territories:
Screen Length: 30 Programme section: Say No More Genre: Experimental Director(s): Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller Company: Fischer & el Sani, MAXXI, National Prod. Countries: Germany Museum of XXI Century Arts Prod. Year: 2018 Contact: Maroan el Sani Length: 18 Email: [email protected] Genre: Experimental Phone: +49 1799386571 Contact: Christoph Girardet Logline: In the Olympic marathon in Rome Email: [email protected] 1960, Ethiopian Abebe Bikila won Africa’s first Phone: +49 521178367 gold medal, running barefoot. Logline: A mesmerising accumulation of floating Trailer: imagery reverses the relationship between the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHmCrZK hypnotised subject and the hypnotist, and W-OI between the spectator and the screen. Sold territories: Sold territories: Maman Maman Maman Souvenir World premiere World premiere Programme section: Ammodo Tiger Short Programme section: Voices Short Competition Director(s): Miriam Gossing, Lina Sieckmann Director(s): Lucia Margarita Bauer Prod. Countries: Germany Prod. Countries: Germany Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 20 Length: 37 Genre: Experimental Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Schalten und Walten, Elbe Stevens Company: Film, Coin Film GmbH Contact: Ann Carolin Renninger Contact: Miriam Gossing Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +49 3053068445 Phone: +49 1787891175 Logline: A touching and observant portrait of an Logline: Lives affected by the sea, presented annual family gathering and the absurd odyssey through images of collected souvenirs and the grandmother embarks on after her death. personal stories about love, loss, distance and Sold territories: loneliness. Crowtrap Sold territories: International premiere Freedom of Movement Programme section: Bright Future Short World premiere (festival) Director(s): Callum Hill Programme section: Ammodo Tiger Short Prod. Countries: Germany, United Kingdom Competition Prod. Year: 2018 Director(s): Nina Fischer, Maroan el Sani Length: 15 Prod. Countries: Germany, Italy Genre: Experimental Prod. Year: 2018 Company: Contact: Callum Hill Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 5713356898 Phone: +44 7903806240 Logline: A letter from W.E.B. Du Bois is the Logline: Giving voice to the anxiety and rage of starting point for this colourful film about Brexit Britain, artist Callum Hill uses fire to weld inequality in Brazilian society. together real and fictional stories. Sold territories: Sold territories: Greece Walled Unwalled Programme section: Bright Future Short KG Director(s): Lawrence Abu Hamdan World premiere Prod. Countries: Germany Programme section: Bright Future Short Prod. Year: 2018 Director(s): Cynthia Madansky Length: 21 Prod. Countries: Greece Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Year: 2019 Company: Studio Lawrence Abu Hamdan Length: 11 Contact: Jarred Alterman Genre: Experimental Email: [email protected] Company: Phone: +1 9177556341 Contact: Cynthia Madansky Logline: At a Berlin studio, researcher Abu Email: [email protected] Hamdan recorded stories about court cases that Phone: +19178858638 revolved around sounds, heard or experienced Logline: The spirit of contemporary Athens is through walls. captured through dance, performance and the Trailer: writings of the Greek anarchist poet Katerina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNHyA9B Gogou. C1Hk Trailer: Sold territories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a78uhl4xt 8 Ghana Sold territories:
Pelourinho, They Don’t Really Care 37 Days About Us International premiere World premiere Programme section: Voices Short Programme section: Bright Future Short Director(s): Nikoleta Leousi Director(s): Akosua Adoma Owusu Prod. Countries: Greece Prod. Countries: Ghana Prod. Year: 2018 Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 23 Length: 9 Genre: Fiction Genre: Creative Documentary Company: Marni Films Company: Obibini Pictures Contact: Nikoleta Leousi Contact: Akosua Adoma Owusu Email: [email protected] Phone: +30 6974747599 Logline: Slightly frenetic, poppy animation Logline: Maria is pregnant and works in a beauty featuring a Buddhist elephant, a social media salon. When she gets fired, she decides to go on addicted chicken and a tree trunk with insect birth strike. phobia. Sold territories: Sold territories:
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E-Ticket Night Horse World premiere World premiere Programme section: Ammodo Tiger Short Programme section: Regained Competition Director(s): Jeroen Van der Stock Director(s): Simon Liu Prod. Countries: Japan, Belgium Prod. Countries: Hong Kong, USA, United Prod. Year: 2019 Kingdom Length: 19 Prod. Year: 2019 Genre: Experimental Length: 13 Contact: Jeroen Van der Stock Genre: Experimental Email: [email protected] Contact: Simon Liu Phone: +32 486697993 Email: [email protected] Logline: A few trucks hit a road that eventually Phone: +1 347 403 3794 leads to a hallucinogenic crossroads and a stable Logline: Frantic re-cataloguing of a personal with a psychedelic horse. archive and a vehicle for the re-birth of forgotten Sold territories: images in 35mm still photographs, obsessively tape-spliced together in evolving rhythmic The Pioneer patterns. International premiere Sold territories: Programme section: Voices Short Director(s): Ishihara Umi Wong Ping's Fables 1 Prod. Countries: Japan World premiere (festival) Prod. Year: 2018 Programme section: Ammodo Tiger Short Length: 27 Competition Genre: Experimental Director(s): Wong Ping Contact: Ishihara Umi Prod. Countries: Hong Kong Email: [email protected] Prod. Year: 2018 Phone: +81 7721933713 Length: 13 Logline: In this glamorous dystopian sci-fi set in Genre: Crossmedia Project Japan in the near future, government agents Company: Wong Ping Animations Lab distribute pills that prevent memory loss. Contact: Maggie Yim Trailer: Email: [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYzh1D2G Phone: 28100314 LGY Prod. Countries: Lithuania, France Sold territories: Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 11 The Monster and the Woman Genre: Experimental European premiere Company: ART SHOT, Tripode Productions & Programme section: Voices Short Perspective Films Director(s): Ikeda Akira Contact: Luce Grosjean Prod. Countries: Japan Email: [email protected] Prod. Year: 2018 Phone: 674232951 Length: 30 Logline: This idiosyncratic animation explores Genre: Fiction the depths of our subconscious, with uncanny Contact: Yasue Nobusawa characters and situations ultimately proving to Email: [email protected] be very human. Phone: +81 356891018 Sold territories: Logline: There’s a monster about. The villagers are terrified and the police seem powerless. One Mexico woman seems to know more. Sold territories: Piramide erosionada World premiere On the Border Programme section: Bright Future Short European premiere Director(s): Colectivo Los Ingrávidos Programme section: Bright Future Short Prod. Countries: Mexico Director(s): Yoshiki Nishimura Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Countries: Japan Length: 9 Prod. Year: 2018 Genre: Experimental Length: 7 Company: Genre: Creative Documentary Contact: Colectivo Los Ingrávidos Contact: Wanda vanderStoop Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +52 2385936585 Phone: 4163511317 Logline: The pyramid used to be a mountain. Logline: Ocean trash on the beach can be Wild, single-frame, free jazz film experience with surprisingly captivating. Human amorality, rocks, stones and rampant plants that stick to irresponsibility and ocean waves collaborate to your retina. create these objects. Sold territories: Sold territories: Meteorito Lithuania European premiere Programme section: Bright Future Short The Juggler Director(s): Mauricio Sáenz Programme section: Voices Short Prod. Countries: Mexico Director(s): Skirmanta Jakaitė Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 15 reality, humour and a dose of frenzied Chaabi Genre: Experimental music to tell a story of displacement, Contact: Gloria Mascorro biotechnology and privacy. Email: [email protected] Trailer: Phone: +52 5554485345 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3nPMdda Logline: Mysterious ‘bird men’ seek the place the u00 sun rises. In rituals they balance between life and Sold territories: death. Sold territories: Netherlands El futuro studie voor een veldslag International premiere World premiere Programme section: Voices Short Programme section: Bright Future Short Director(s): Ernesto Martínez Bucio Director(s): Esther Urlus Prod. Countries: Mexico Prod. Countries: Netherlands Prod. Year: 2018 Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 12 Length: 7 Genre: Fiction Genre: Experimental Contact: Gloria Mascorro Contact: Esther Urlus Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +52 5554485345 Phone: +31 104781873 Logline: Caught between despair, fear and hope, Logline: Thanks to a special printing technique, a mother and son walk into a forest to identify a the film images look hand-drawn. Inspired by body. Late Medieval sketches of falling horses. Sold territories: Sold territories:
Morocco Video Home System Programme section: Say No More Party on the CAPS Director(s): Guusje America World premiere (festival) Prod. Countries: Netherlands Programme section: Ammodo Tiger Short Prod. Year: 2018 Competition Length: 36 Director(s): Meriem Bennani Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Countries: Morocco, Switzerland Contact: Guusje America Prod. Year: 2018 Email: [email protected] Length: 26 Phone: +32 479773211 Genre: Creative Documentary Logline: A man digitises audio-visual material Contact: Meriem Bennani and revives obsolete media. Interviewed by his Email: [email protected] daughter on camera, he tries to heal their Phone: +1 9173865828 relationship. Logline: Moroccan sci-fi using augmented Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdsCQc_1 unrelated events that appear to be deeply T5I entangled. Sold territories: Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWhW3V Snor 4yqJA World premiere Sold territories: Programme section: RTM Director(s): Michael Middelkoop Global Windshield, The Musical Prod. Countries: Netherlands European premiere Prod. Year: 2019 Programme section: Rabbit Hole Length: 13 Director(s): Momu & No Es Genre: Fiction Prod. Countries: Netherlands Company: DPPLR Prod. Year: 2018 Contact: Daniel Dow Length: 18 Email: [email protected] Genre: Crossmedia Project Phone: +31 646017711 Contact: Lucía Momu Logline: In a district of Rotterdam overcome by Email: [email protected] an influx of gentrification and yuppies, recently Phone: +34 656356247 widowed Harry has a hard time adapting. Logline: Cruise through a desolate digital Scrambling to protect his area from losing it’s landscape and get a glimpse into our future in traditional way of life, Harry spearheads a this wild new musical by Momu & No Es. protest committee. When even his drinking pals Trailer: cave in to a relocation bonus, they urge Harry to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlwksDfr8 stop wasting his life living in the past. 5c Trailer: Sold territories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bccbhUAz zZI Joost Sold territories: World premiere Programme section: RTM Above Us Only Sky Director(s): Bouba Dola World premiere Prod. Countries: Netherlands Programme section: Bright Future Short Prod. Year: 2019 Director(s): Arthur Kleinjan Length: 25 Prod. Countries: Netherlands, Czech Republic Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Year: 2019 Contact: Bouba Dola Length: 28 Email: [email protected] Genre: Experimental Sold territories: Contact: Arthur Kleinjan Email: [email protected] Vader op zoon Phone: +31 623067975 International premiere Logline: An investigation into a plane crash Programme section: Voices Short becomes the entry point to a web of seemingly Director(s): Thomas Stokmans Prod. Countries: Netherlands Phone: +31 621555353 Prod. Year: 2018 Logline: "What does the animal see when it looks Length: 7 at me?" Three animals and a woman study each Genre: Fiction other in an enclosed space. Contact: Thomas Stokmans Trailer: Email: [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tci7jqovt0 Phone: +31 612152132 Q Logline: Father practices. His son listens. He gets Sold territories: a sip of dad’s coffee. That night there is a show. Trailer: Nehemías https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER4Zv9Kp World premiere bX0 Programme section: Ammodo Tiger Short Sold territories: Competition Director(s): Daniel Jacoby Het Ding (untitled, 1957) Prod. Countries: Netherlands, Peru World premiere Prod. Year: 2019 Programme section: RTM Length: 16 Director(s): Mels van Zutphen Genre: Experimental Prod. Countries: Netherlands Contact: Theus Zwakhals Prod. Year: 2018 Email: [email protected] Length: 16 Phone: +31 206244423 Genre: Creative Documentary Logline: A portrait of Christian, who migrated Company: Sculpture International Rotterdam/ from the city to the jungle village of Cocachimba, CBK Peru, where he finds himself an outsider. Contact: Mels van Zutphen Sold territories: Email: [email protected] Phone: +31 626124478 Kiezen voor liefde Trailer: Programme section: RTM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Khgks_tx Director(s): Ruben Broekhuis S0 Prod. Countries: Netherlands Sold territories: Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 7 The animal that therefore I am Genre: Fiction World premiere Contact: Hans Groenendijk Programme section: Voices Short Email: [email protected] Director(s): Bea de Visser Sold territories: Prod. Countries: Netherlands Prod. Year: 2019 Kiss the Sky – Eye Trick the I Length: 10 World premiere Genre: Experimental Programme section: Bright Future Short Contact: Bea de Visser Director(s): Donna Verheijden Email: [email protected] Prod. Countries: Netherlands, Colombia Prod. Year: 2019 Contact: Bastiaan Bosma Length: 18 Email: [email protected] Genre: Experimental Phone: +31 765872441 Company: Logline: Fascinating portrait of Eric de Boer, Contact: Theus Zwakhals AKA Ricky de Sire, self-declared king of Dutch- Email: [email protected] language rock ‘n’ roll. For nearly 4 decades, this Phone: +31 206244423 singer-songwriter has worked steadily on an Logline: Visually attractive essay on trompe- oeuvre that is as idiosyncratic as it is l’oeil, deception, privileges, seductions and false misunderstood. The eternal outsider retains the freedoms. How to live in the post-privacy age? hope that one day he’ll break through to a mass Sold territories: audience with his life’s work. Trailer: Robert F. Kennedy Funeral Train – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd54xeUv The People’s View k_k World premiere Sold territories: Programme section: Bright Future Short
Director(s): Rein Jelle Terpstra Within the Temple Without Prod. Countries: Netherlands World premiere Prod. Year: 2019 Programme section: Regained Length: 8 Director(s): Matthew C. Wilson Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Countries: Netherlands Company: Prod. Year: 2019 Contact: Edith van der Heijde Length: 10 Email: [email protected] Genre: Experimental Phone: +31 644110918 Company: Video Power Logline: A cinematographic reflection on a Contact: Rosa Vrij historic train journey seen from the people’s Email: [email protected] perspective, with photographs, home movies Phone: +31 651173240 and witness accounts. Logline: A journey into the economic Sold territories: unconscious – which is now collective and digital, but which was once mediated by ritual. De koning van de Nederlandstalige Trailer: Sold territories: rock & roll World premiere Home of the Brave Programme section: Scopitone Programme section: RTM Director(s): Bastiaan Bosma Director(s): Rien Bexkens Prod. Countries: Netherlands Prod. Countries: Netherlands Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 33 Length: 3 Genre: Creative Documentary Genre: Fiction Company: Excelsior Recordings Company: Koala Koncepts, HipHopHuis Contact: Jeffrey de Roode Paranon Email: [email protected] World premiere Programme section: Ammodo Tiger Short Sold territories: Competition what remains Director(s): Zeno van den Broek World premiere Prod. Countries: Netherlands Programme section: Bright Future Short Prod. Year: 2019 Director(s): belit sağ Length: 15 Prod. Countries: Netherlands Genre: Experimental Prod. Year: 2018 Contact: Theus Zwakhals Length: 7 Email: [email protected] Genre: Creative Documentary Phone: +31 206244423 Contact: Theus Zwakhals Logline: Paranon revolves around the idea of Email: [email protected] juxtapositioning fundamental elements of sound Phone: +31 206244423 and image, by manipulating various parameters Logline: Many people in the Kurdish city of Cizre in shifting canon structures. are trapped between life and death. belit sağ Trailer: conjures up apparitions in her images. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hVvXukJ4 Sold territories: IE Sold territories: Orbit
World premiere Pareidolia Programme section: Voices Short World premiere Director(s): Tess Martin Programme section: Bright Future Short Prod. Countries: Netherlands Director(s): Nan Wang Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Countries: Netherlands Length: 7 Prod. Year: 2019 Genre: Experimental Length: 11 Contact: Vanja Andrijevic Genre: Experimental Email: [email protected] Contact: Nan Wang Phone: +385 14834445 Email: [email protected] Logline: In Orbit, spinning drawings show the Phone: +31 619520888 flow of energy through our planet, allowing us to Logline: Abstract patterns made on 16mm film ponder our place in the natural cycle. are used as source material for finding similar Trailer: figurative images by an online search engine to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymgrdmjz create visual poetry. CuM Trailer: Sold territories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MNcuMX gmmc Sold territories:
RTM: Roffa Film Club 2 remake of Nature Boy, a song that originated Programme section: RTM there. Director(s): Sold territories: Prod. Countries: Netherlands Prod. Year: 2018 New Zealand Length: 48 Genre: Fiction Ziarah Contact: International premiere Email: Programme section: Bright Future Short Sold territories: Director(s): Bridget Reweti Prod. Countries: New Zealand, Indonesia The Sasha Prod. Year: 2018 World premiere Length: 10 Programme section: Ammodo Tiger Short Genre: Experimental Competition Contact: Mark Williams Director(s): María Molina Peiró Email: [email protected] Prod. Countries: Netherlands Phone: +64 2102551648 Prod. Year: 2019 Logline: On an uninhabited Indonesian island Length: 20 where the nobleman Tupaia is believed to be Genre: Experimental buried, Bridget Reweti telescopes then and now. Contact: María Molina Peiró Sold territories: Email: [email protected] Phone: +31 631943840 Nicaragua Logline: In 1972, Charles Duke lands on the Moon. The Sasha deals with humanity’s constant Ombligo de agua struggle with temporal and spatial limitations. World premiere Sold territories: Programme section: Voices Short Forest on Location Director(s): Laura Baumeister World premiere (festival) Prod. Countries: Nicaragua, Mexico Programme section: Bright Future Short Prod. Year: 2019 Director(s): Persijn Broersen, Margit Lukács Length: 23 Prod. Countries: Netherlands, Germany, Poland Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2018 Company: Tanacatana Films Length: 12 Contact: Laura Baumeister Genre: Experimental Email: [email protected] Company: Broersen & Lukács Phone: 5215527903721 Contact: Theus Zwakhals Logline: Young, well-off overachiever Alina seeks Email: [email protected] solace in the arms of people who’ve had less luck Phone: +31 206244423 in life. Logline: A virtual replica of Białowieża primeval Trailer: forest. Iranian singer Yazdani performs his https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wROnxXh 2yyY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzyumONc Sold territories: lHc Sold territories: Norway Poland TÅKE None Acid Rain Programme section: Bright Future Short World premiere Director(s): Inger Lise Hansen Programme section: Voices Short Prod. Countries: Norway Director(s): Tomek Popakul Prod. Year: 2018 Prod. Countries: Poland Length: 15 Prod. Year: 2019 Genre: Experimental Length: 26 Contact: Benjamin Cook Genre: Experimental Email: [email protected] Company: Animoon Phone: +44 7092111413 Contact: Zofia Jaroszuk Logline: The spectacle of fog appearing in Oslo, Email: [email protected] the Azores, Beijing and Phone: +48 790751509 Newfoundland, beautifully captured in various Logline: A teenage girl runs away from her film formats. depressing small town and forms a progressively Sold territories: weirder friendship with a drug dealer. Trailer: Pakistan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdWP5bH MiVU These Silences Are All the Words Sold territories: World premiere (festival) Programme section: Ammodo Tiger Short Portugal Competition Director(s): Madiha Aijaz Casa de vidro Prod. Countries: Pakistan World premiere Prod. Year: 2018 Programme section: Voices Short Length: 15 Director(s): Filipe Martins Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Countries: Portugal Contact: Madiha Aijaz Prod. Year: 2018 Email: [email protected] Length: 23 Phone: +92 3452004154 Genre: Fiction Logline: Madiha Aijaz’s observational Contact: Né Barros documentary on public libraries in Karachi, Email: [email protected] Pakistan, contemplates the slow disappearance Phone: +351 220194667 of the Urdu literary tradition. Logline: A portrait of Carlos, a humble man Trailer: addicted to drugs, living in a glass house on a busy city street. Lisbon 2090 be a Garden of Earthly Delights? Trailer: Sold territories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LpyPutv1 Rg Mar Portuguez Sold territories: European premiere Programme section: Edgar Pêra Anteu Director(s): Edgar Pêra Programme section: Ammodo Tiger Short Prod. Countries: Portugal Competition Prod. Year: 2018 Director(s): João Vladimiro Length: 9 Prod. Countries: Portugal, France Genre: - Prod. Year: 2018 Company: Bando à Parte Length: 29 Contact: Ana Soares Genre: Fiction Email: [email protected] Company: Terratreme Filmes, Pomme Hurlante Phone: +351 918169162 Films Logline: Portugal’s latest entry in the Contact: Salette Ramalho international sub-genre of fishing documentaries Email: [email protected] is set to Fernando Pessoa’s eponymous poem. Phone: +351 252646683 Sold territories: Logline: Aesthetically pleasing, playful narrative about a boy left as the last survivor in his village. Sombra luminosa Who will bury him when he dies? None Trailer: Programme section: Regained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZpK2SXf Director(s): Mariana Caló, Francisco Queimadela wyk Prod. Countries: Portugal Sold territories: Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 22 Lisboa-boa 345 D.T. (Remix 2019) Genre: Creative Documentary World premiere Company: Programme section: Edgar Pêra Contact: Filipa Henriques Director(s): Edgar Pêra Email: [email protected] Prod. Countries: Portugal Phone: +351 213466172 Prod. Year: 2018 Logline: A re-signification of the museum space Length: 9 where unique connections are intertwined. Art Genre: - as the empire of change. Company: Bando à Parte Trailer: Contact: Ana Soares Sold territories: Email: [email protected] Phone: +351 918169162 Logline: 345 D.T. means: 345 years after the 1755 earthquake that annihilated Lisbon. Will charming impression of their deceased friend.
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The Cow Saudi Arabia World premiere Programme section: Voices Short First Feature Director(s): Toma Selivanova Programme section: Regained Prod. Countries: Russia Prod. Year: 2019 Director(s): Bentley Brown Length: 26 Prod. Countries: Saudi Arabia Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2018 Contact: Toma Selivanova Length: 14 Genre: Creative Documentary Email: [email protected] Phone: +79 035168311 Company: Aboudigin Films Logline: Patient observations of three Contact: Bentley Brown Email: [email protected] generations of women living together within hand's reach, but simultaneously distant from Phone: +1 2146826447 Logline: A year before the legalisation of cinema one another. Trailer: in Saudi Arabia, a predominantly female team https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Whn8jU attempt a first feature film. Sold territories: UYT8 Sold territories: Serbia Rwanda Kameradin I GOT MY THINGS AND LEFT Programme section: Bright Future Short International premiere Director(s): Doplgenger Collective Prod. Countries: Serbia Programme section: Voices Short Director(s): Philbert Aimé Mbabazi Sharangabo Prod. Year: 2018 Prod. Countries: Rwanda, Switzerland Length: 6 Prod. Year: 2018 Genre: Experimental Length: 23 Company: Contact: Doplgenger Collective Genre: Fiction Company: Imitana Productions, Cocoon Email: [email protected] Productions Phone: +33 180601983 Contact: Simone Soleil Späni Logline: Based on archival images from Yugoslav Email: [email protected] cinema, this film shows the fragmented experience of the woman and her broken body. Phone: +41 795494483 Logline: In memory of Eric, his friends spend a Sold territories: night together. Their conversations provide a
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South Africa Company: Contact: Jaco Bouwer Survive Email: [email protected] Programme section: Voices Short Phone: +27 833890334 Director(s): Gerald Machona Logline: RATGIRL is a digital artist who crafts Prod. Countries: South Africa alluring Instagram stories tracing the echoes of Prod. Year: 2018 apartheid in South Africa, until she completely Length: 4 loses herself in her work. Genre: Fiction Trailer: Company: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0MS5Rg- Contact: Justin Davy I_g Email: [email protected] Sold territories: Phone: +11 7881113 Logline: Music video and video art work about South Korea the call for radical changes by black students engaging in protests at South African Maria by the Sea universities in 2015 and 2016. Sold territories: World premiere Programme section: Voices Short A Few Common Phrases Director(s): Tawfiq Nizamidin World premiere Prod. Countries: South Korea Programme section: Bright Future Short Prod. Year: 2019 Director(s): Judith Westerveld Length: 38 Prod. Countries: South Africa Genre: Fiction Prod. Year: 2019 Contact: Tawfiq Nizamidin Length: 5 Email: [email protected] Genre: Experimental Phone: +86 18515575330 Contact: Judith Westerveld Logline: A man and a woman are on a date. It Email: [email protected] quickly becomes apparent that their views are Logline: During a first practice session in the very different. Khoe language Khoekhoegowab, commonly used Trailer: words and phrases linger in the landscape. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O4PlrcNr Sold territories: sI Sold territories: this country is lonely World premiere Programme section: Rabbit Hole Director(s): Jaco Bouwer Prod. Countries: South Africa Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 18 1A
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No me despertéis Chopin Programme section: Voices Short International premiere Director(s): Sara Fantova Programme section: Bright Future Short Prod. Countries: Spain Director(s): Tris Vonna-Michell Prod. Year: 2018 Prod. Countries: Sweden Length: 21 Prod. Year: 2018 Genre: Fiction Length: 13 Company: Escac Films Genre: Experimental Contact: Txema Muñoz Company: MAO Productions TVM DK HB Email: [email protected] Contact: Diana Kaur Phone: +34 943469998 Email: [email protected] Logline: 2009 in Bilbao. Jone is a teenager during Phone: +46 704245341 a peak of political unrest which clashes with her Logline: Staged objects, ephemera, slide father’s government position. projections and spoken word: the debris of a Trailer: decade long research project on sound poet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz8js8tdy Henri Chopin. Ks Sold territories: Sold territories: The Mirrored Message Sweden World premiere Programme section: Say No More Interbeing Director(s): Benjamin Tiven World premiere Prod. Countries: Sweden, USA Programme section: Bright Future Short Prod. Year: 2018 Director(s): Martina Hoogland Ivanow Length: 13 Prod. Countries: Sweden Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Year: 2019 Company: Length: 11 Contact: Benjamin Tiven Genre: Experimental Email: [email protected] Company: BRF – B Reel Film Phone: +1 2679739508 Contact: Karin Drake Logline: A film about scientists testing a new Email: [email protected] device that uses specialised circuitry to transfer Phone: +46 86518426 data between computer networks and living Logline: Shot with a thermal camera, Interbeing plants. is based on documentation of social structures Sold territories: and their approaches to trust and fear.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be29pL89e The Cup Is Already Filling Up Switzerland International premiere Programme section: Bright Future Short Suite lacustre Director(s): Debora Elgeholm World premiere Prod. Countries: Sweden Programme section: Frameworks Prod. Year: 2018 Director(s): Fabrice Aragno Length: 8 Prod. Countries: Switzerland Genre: Experimental Prod. Year: 2019 Contact: Debora Elgeholm Length: 20 Email: [email protected] Genre: Art Film Phone: +46 736762037 Contact: Fabrice Aragno Logline: Based upon children’s experiences of Email: [email protected] Virgin Mary apparitions, this film deals with the Logline: Shot entirely from a boat on a lake, this feeling and responsibility of being chosen. evocative film confronts the viewer resolutely Trailer: with their sensitivity for the moment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0VXGicg Sold territories: Gps Sold territories: horizōn World premiere Psychic Programme section: Regained World premiere Director(s): Sid Iandovka, Anya Tsyrlina Programme section: Bright Future Short Prod. Countries: Switzerland, Russia, USA Director(s): Tova Mozard Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Countries: Sweden Length: 7 Prod. Year: 2019 Genre: Experimental Length: 20 Contact: Anya Tsyrlina Genre: Creative Documentary Email: [email protected] Company: Picky Pictures Phone: +41 795702532 Contact: Daniel Pynnönen Logline: An exploration of the collective Email: [email protected] fantasies about 'Siberia' and 'Communism' in the Phone: +46 708214063 forbidding state archives of the former Soviet Logline: Psychic dives into the commonplace Union. phenomenon of psychics in the Hollywood area. Trailer: Littered around town, they function as a type of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA2rc8Cu low-budget therapy. wd8 Sold territories: Sold territories:
Touching Sound Programme section: Say No More Director(s): Johannes Binotto Prod. Countries: Switzerland Prod. Year: 2018 Contact: Su Hui-yu Length: 4 Email: [email protected] Genre: Experimental Phone: +886 285012138 Contact: Johannes Binotto Logline: In his characteristic style of slow-motion Email: [email protected] camp, Su Hui-yu invokes lost scenes from a Phone: +41 764273132 glitter-scattered, blood-splattered orgy from a Logline: Found-footage video of a woman 1985 cult film. opening Pandora’s box. Strange, radioactive Trailer: sound waves affect the film's surface and the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q1i- character’s hands. dmCzDY Sold territories: Sold territories:
Hier Double Ghosts International premiere World premiere Programme section: Say No More Programme section: Laboratory of Unseen Director(s): Loïc Kreyden Beauty Prod. Countries: Switzerland Director(s): George Clark Prod. Year: 2018 Prod. Countries: Taiwan, Chile, United Kingdom Length: 4 Prod. Year: 2019 Genre: Experimental Length: 31 Company: Lucerne University of Applied Genre: Experimental Sciences and Arts Contact: George Clark Contact: Loïc Kreyden Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +44 7957371805 Phone: +41 764569977 Logline: In 1995, Raúl Ruiz shot La comedie des Logline: A life-size doll is making a phone call in ombres in Taiwan, but never edited the an entirely black space. A pantomime in which a material. George Clark wonders what this work movie becomes theatre. could have been like. Sold territories: Sold territories:
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The Glamorous Boys of Tang No history in a room filled with World premiere (festival) people with funny names 5 Programme section: Ammodo Tiger Short World premiere (festival) Competition Programme section: Bright Future Short Director(s): Su Hui-yu Director(s): Korakrit Arunanondchai, Alex Prod. Countries: Taiwan Gvojic Prod. Year: 2018 Prod. Countries: Thailand, USA Length: 15 Prod. Year: 2018 Genre: Experimental Length: 31 Genre: Creative Documentary Logline: As automated voice Kanya guides Contact: Regina Lazarenko foreign guest Alex through Thai resort Bangsaen, Email: [email protected] he grows curious about what she isn’t showing Phone: +44 7778545625 him. Logline: This dynamic film is charged with the Sold territories: idea of community – among humans and non- humans – in Thailand’s contemporary moment Turkey of instability. Sold territories: Gulyabani Programme section: Bright Future Short The Mental Traveller Director(s): Gürcan Keltek World premiere Prod. Countries: Turkey, Netherlands Programme section: Ammodo Tiger Short Prod. Year: 2018 Competition Length: 34 Director(s): Taiki Sakpisit Genre: Creative Documentary Prod. Countries: Thailand Company: 29P Films Prod. Year: 2019 Contact: Gürcan Keltek Length: 18 Email: [email protected] Genre: Experimental Phone: +90 2165320886 Company: Logline: Gulyabani is a restless spirit. With the Contact: Taiki Sakpisit aid of a clairvoyant, her tumultuous past is Email: [email protected] recounted through her diary and letters. Phone: +66 22589941 Sold territories: Logline: The Mental Traveller meditates on the passing of time, external behavior and sensory realities on a psychiatric ward in Thailand. USA Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fFJOGlrzF Vesuvius at Home Y Programme section: Regained Sold territories: Director(s): Christin Turner Prod. Countries: USA, Italy A Room with a Coconut View Prod. Year: 2018 Programme section: Rabbit Hole Length: 14 Director(s): Tulapop Saenjaroen Genre: Experimental Prod. Countries: Thailand Company: Radio Televisione Italiana (RAI) Prod. Year: 2018 Contact: Christin Turner Length: 28 Email: [email protected] Genre: Experimental Phone: +1 9512653650 Company: Electric Eels Film Logline: A class on Pompeii and Vesuvius sounds Contact: Tulapop Saenjaroen predictable, but this film adds quite a few Email: [email protected] curious connotations to this historical Phone: +66 816369888 phenomenon. Trailer: The Air of the Earth in Your Lungs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjjfL5w3hT European premiere I Programme section: Rabbit Hole Sold territories: Director(s): Ross Meckfessel Prod. Countries: USA Hi I Need to Be Loved Prod. Year: 2018 Programme section: Rabbit Hole Length: 11 Director(s): Marnie Ellen Hertzler Genre: Experimental Prod. Countries: USA Contact: Ross Meckfessel Prod. Year: 2018 Email: [email protected] Length: 11 Phone: 1-925-899-6660 Genre: Creative Documentary Logline: Shot on 16mm, Ross Meckfessel’s Company: MEMORY sensual odyssey through natural landscapes and Contact: Marnie Ellen Hertzler digital textures satisfyingly defies concrete Email: [email protected] interpretation. Phone: +1 9192181217 Trailer: Logline: Marnie Ellen Hertzler hires actors from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EoFCRkz Craigslist to perform her spam emails in this u2o consideration of modern image-making in an Sold territories: algorithmic era. Trailer: Please step out of the frame. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXg_fHpJ0 Programme section: Rabbit Hole 5A Director(s): Karissa Hahn Sold territories: Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Year: 2018 The Glass Note Length: 4 European premiere Genre: Experimental Programme section: Bright Future Short Contact: Karissa Hahn Director(s): Mary Helena Clark Email: [email protected] Prod. Countries: USA Phone: +1 2033055247 Prod. Year: 2018 Logline: Using Super-8, a desk and a laptop, Length: 9 Karissa Hahn creates a playful choreography of Genre: Experimental body and screen. Contact: Mary Helena Clark Sold territories: Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 8039749306 Faceshopping Logline: An eerie and surprising reflection on cinema, voice and embodiment by way of stones, Programme section: Rabbit Hole skin and digitally generated imagery. Director(s): SOPHIE, Aaron Chan Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v- Prod. Countries: USA, United Kingdom JKLpjpqA8 Prod. Year: 2018 Sold territories: Length: 4 Genre: Music meaning and perception of blackness. Company: Industry Plant Sold territories: Contact: Aaron Chan Email: [email protected] Pwdre Ser: the rot of stars Logline: An eye-popping music video for International premiere electronic musician SOPHIE’s single, Programme section: Deep Focus Short Faceshopping. Director(s): Charlotte Pryce Trailer: Prod. Countries: USA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srm4Cy7a Prod. Year: 2019 Y2s Length: 7 Sold territories: Genre: Experimental Contact: Charlotte Pryce The Tree Email: [email protected] World premiere Logline: An encounter with a mysterious, Programme section: Bright Future Short luminous substance and the mythical star jelly. Director(s): Henry Hills Coronal Kirlian photography joined with hand- Prod. Countries: USA processed images. Prod. Year: 2019 Sold territories: Length: 10 Genre: Experimental Contact: Henry Hills Email: [email protected] This Action Lies Phone: +43 69910246410 Programme section: Bright Future Short Logline: Meticulously edited, frame by frame, Director(s): James N. Kienitz Wilkins The Hare Krishna Tree comes to life, more than Prod. Countries: USA 40 years after the images were shot. Prod. Year: 2018 Sold territories: Length: 32 Genre: Experimental Eulogy for a Black Mass Company: The Automatic Moving Co. European premiere Contact: James N. Kienitz Wilkins Programme section: Rabbit Hole Email: [email protected] Director(s): Aria Dean Phone: +1 2075766053 Prod. Countries: USA Logline: This Action Lies is about the limits of Prod. Year: 2018 observation; about staring very hard at Length: 6 something while listening to something else. Genre: Experimental Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=- Contact: Olivia Barrett 4zkEtJjpzs Email: [email protected] Sold territories: Phone: +1 2139735327 Logline: This narrated compilation of videos Lost Episode interrogates the structures that shape the World premiere Programme section: Rabbit Hole Director(s): Christopher Radcliff Prod. Year: 2019 Prod. Countries: USA Length: 12 Prod. Year: 2019 Genre: Fiction Length: 8 Contact: Daniel Chew Genre: Experimental Email: [email protected] Company: Phone: +1 4089660008 Contact: Christopher Radcliff Logline: As a teen girl’s experiences play out on- Email: [email protected] screen, we see comments from unseen spectators Phone: +1 7245613890 in this haunting evocation of social media ennui. Logline: Christopher Radcliff cuts together Sold territories: various reactions to a terrifying, fabricated Mickey Mouse cartoon, in this unsettling Red Film experimental piece. World premiere (festival) Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F- Programme section: Ammodo Tiger Short SQnvj8wso Competition Sold territories: Director(s): Sara Cwynar Prod. Countries: USA Life After Love Prod. Year: 2018 Programme section: Bright Future Short Length: 13 Director(s): Zachary Epcar Genre: Experimental Prod. Countries: USA Contact: John Thomson Prod. Year: 2018 Email: [email protected] Length: 8 Phone: +1 2123370679 Genre: Experimental Logline: A dizzying array of colours, textures and Contact: Zachary Epcar literary quotations point to the perfidious Email: [email protected] capitalist pressures on women to conform and Phone: +1 415 2716965 consume. Logline: A shifting in the light of the lot, where Sold territories: parked cars become containers for a collective experience of estrangement. Cut from Liquid to Snake Trailer: Programme section: Regained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN21I7W Director(s): Leslie Thornton DR4M Prod. Countries: USA Sold territories: Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 26 Genre: Experimental Contact: Leslie Thornton first Email: [email protected] World premiere Phone: +1 9177481616 Programme section: Rabbit Hole Logline: From a phone recording made during Director(s): Daniel Chew, Micaela Durand the Trump election campaign to an eyewitness Prod. Countries: USA account of the bombing of Hiroshima: how to articulate an awareness of the world? Prod. Countries: USA Sold territories: Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 22 I've Never Been a Fisherman Genre: Experimental International premiere Company: Nationsack Filmworks Programme section: Rabbit Hole Contact: Cauleen Smith Director(s): Joe Stankus Email: [email protected] Prod. Countries: USA Phone: +1 3128341248 Prod. Year: 2018 Logline: Set in Noah Purifoy’s Outdoor Desert Length: 5 Art Museum, artist Cauleen Smith re-imagines Genre: Creative Documentary this unique space as a radical feminist utopia. Contact: Joe Stankus Sold territories: Email: [email protected] Phone: +51 88597646 Black Bus Stop Logline: Joe Stankus’s profile of filmmaker and World premiere street photographer Jay Giampietro and how he Programme section: Ammodo Tiger Short captures New York’s strangest citizens on Competition Instagram. Director(s): Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena N. Sold territories: Harold Prod. Countries: USA You Are an Amazement Prod. Year: 2019 World premiere Length: 9 Programme section: Bright Future Short Genre: Experimental Director(s): Emily Vey Duke, Cooper Battersby Company: Picture Palace Pictures Prod. Countries: USA Contact: Madeleine Molyneaux Prod. Year: 2019 Email: [email protected] Length: 28 Phone: +1 2122523187 Genre: Experimental Logline: Paying tribute to an iconic university Contact: Cooper Battersby gathering spot, black students chant and dance Email: [email protected] to the memories of the past. Phone: +1 3155065754 Trailer: Logline: Semi-autobiographical, experimental https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyZzYY- narrative film tells the story of a woman growing D-Mk up battling mental and emotional disability, but Sold territories: with a powerful drive for greatness. Sold territories: Words, Planets Programme section: Say No More Sojourner Director(s): Laida Lertxundi World premiere (festival) Prod. Countries: USA Programme section: Ammodo Tiger Short Prod. Year: 2018 Competition Length: 11 Director(s): Cauleen Smith Genre: Experimental Contact: Alice Lea language, ethics of ethnography and narrative Email: [email protected] storytelling under a metaphor of instructions to Phone: +44 2075033980 farm. Sold territories:
Logline: A playful blend of landscapes, portraits, fruit, Wong Kar-wai, Raúl Ruiz, cacti, some Uganda literary quotes, and power-pop, all in perfect harmony. Facing North Sold territories: Programme section: Voices Short Director(s): Tukei Peter Muhumuza Kodak Prod. Countries: Uganda International premiere Prod. Year: 2018 Programme section: Ammodo Tiger Short Length: 9 Competition Genre: Fiction Director(s): Andrew Norman Wilson Company: Tukei Tukei Prod. Countries: USA Contact: Tukei Peter Muhumuza Prod. Year: 2018 Email: [email protected] Length: 33 Phone: +257 713160770 Genre: Experimental Logline: As the bride prepares for her wedding Contact: Andrew Norman Wilson day in a small Ugandan village, she is torn Email: [email protected] between two futures for herself. Phone: +1 9196197479 Trailer: Logline: In 2012, Kodak went bankrupt. Enter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g113WD5 the mind’s eye of a blind former Kodak film WvBs technician, reconstructing the past in Sold territories: hallucinatory detail. Sold territories: United Kingdom
Instructions on How to Make a Film Suspended Island International premiere World premiere Programme section: Bright Future Short Programme section: Bright Future Short Director(s): Nazlı Dinçel Director(s): Jane Wilson, Louise Wilson Prod. Countries: USA Prod. Countries: United Kingdom Prod. Year: 2018 Prod. Year: 2019 Length: 13 Length: 16 Genre: Experimental Genre: Creative Documentary Contact: Nazlı Dinçel Company: Life To Live Films Email: [email protected] Contact: Ohna Falby Phone: +1 4152655802 Email: [email protected] Logline: A quest on performance, educational Phone: +44 7768512689 voice-over, analogue filmmaking, ASCII, Logline: In a moment of national reflection and anxiety, artists Jane and Louise Wilson the Skin) delivered the musical equivalent for contemplate the uncertain future of Britain. this kaleidoscopic video. Originally conceived as Trailer: a part of the series ‘The Unfilmables’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50rIevWF3 Sold territories: kQ Sold territories: Specialised Technique Programme section: Bright Future Short Baksteen verhalen Director(s): Onyeka Igwe Programme section: RTM Prod. Countries: United Kingdom Director(s): Katinka Schlette Prod. Year: 2018 Prod. Countries: United Kingdom, Netherlands Length: 6 Prod. Year: 2018 Genre: Experimental Length: 23 Company: FLAMIN Productions Genre: Creative Documentary Contact: Onyeka Igwe Contact: Katinka Schlette Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +44 2085530447 Phone: +31 642777288 Logline: In this found footage film with its Logline: A documentary exploring experiences of distinctive soundtrack the filmmaker studies the demolition and renewal in the Wielewaal, a colonial perspective, returning authorship to the temporary neighbourhood built after WWII in dancers. Rotterdam. By offering glimpses into people's Sold territories: homes, gardens, office spaces, streets and destruction sites, it tells a story of urban design Spender House and urban change, the emergence and loss of European premiere collective memories and nostalgia, and meanings Programme section: Say No More that are given to 'the material home'. Director(s): Emily Richardson Sold territories: Prod. Countries: United Kingdom Prod. Year: 2018 The Colour of Chips Length: 15 Programme section: Regained Genre: Experimental Director(s): Francesca Levi Company: Prod. Countries: United Kingdom Contact: Emily Richardson Prod. Year: 2018 Email: [email protected] Length: 34 Phone: +44 2077291344 Genre: Experimental Logline: The exploration of the architectural Company: Live Cinema UK qualities of a modernist house hints at many Contact: Lisa Brook latent narratives concerning its famous Email: [email protected] inhabitants. Logline: Francesca Levi transposed Parajanov’s Sold territories: classic The Colour of Pomegranates to the no less exotic seaside resort of Blackpool in the UK. Her sister, film composer Mica Levi (Jackie, Under Lasting Marks Logline: In times of anxiety and despair, Gibson Programme section: Voices Short delivers a visual poem brimming with life and Director(s): Charlie Lyne love, pondering the future of a world in flux. Prod. Countries: United Kingdom Sold territories: Prod. Year: 2018 Aykan Length: 14 International premiere Genre: Creative Documentary Contact: Charlie Lyne Programme section: Bright Future Short Email: [email protected] Director(s): Sebastian Buerkner Prod. Countries: United Kingdom Phone: +44 7913207949 Logline: At once heart-breaking and heart- Prod. Year: 2018 Length: 10 warming, this short documentary tells the story of sixteen men prosecuted for sadomasochism in Genre: Experimental Thatcher’s Britain. Contact: Matt Carter Email: [email protected] Sold territories: Phone: +44 2031412961 Edges: Waves Logline: Impressions of a city divided: no use World premiere trying to keep afloat in the tangle of images Programme section: Say No More stitched together into a stereoscopic whole. Director(s): Simon Payne Trailer: Prod. Countries: United Kingdom Sold territories: Prod. Year: 2019 Mum's Cards Length: 6 Genre: Experimental European premiere Contact: Simon Payne Programme section: Ammodo Tiger Short Email: [email protected] Competition Director(s): Luke Fowler Phone: +44 7826256708 Logline: Everything happens at the edges of the Prod. Countries: United Kingdom frame here. The action is minimal: two lines Prod. Year: 2018 build up an undulating pattern and unfurl again. Length: 9 Sold territories: Genre: Film Contact: Matt Carter I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead Email: [email protected] Programme section: Bright Future Short Phone: +44 2031412961 Director(s): Beatrice Gibson Logline: Hand-written index cards, filmed on Prod. Countries: United Kingdom 35mm: the key to stories where personal history Prod. Year: 2018 is linked to a love of sociology. Length: 20 Sold territories: Genre: Experimental
Contact: Alice Lea Email: [email protected] Phone: +44 2075033980