CTIFMF 2018 Festival Catalogue by CTIFMF

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FILM MARKET &FESTIVAL THE 2018 EDITION

CREATE COLLABORATE CELEBRATE

FESTIVAL CATALOGUE

The best of European cinema 2018 LUX FILM PRIZE Official Selection

BORDER Gräns

by Ali Abbasi Sweden, Denmark

STYX

by Wolfgang Fischer Germany, Austria

DONBASS

HAPPY AS LAZZARO Lazzaro Felice

by Lukas Dhont Belgium, Netherlands

THE OTHER SIDE OF EVERYTHING Druga strana svega

THE SILENCE OF OTHERS U-JULY 22 El silencio de los otros Utøya 22. juli

by Mila Turajlić Serbia, France, Qatar

LUX PRIZE .EU

GIRL

by Sergei Loznitsa Germany, Ukraine, France, Netherlands, Romania

by Almudena Carracedo & Robert Bahar Spain, USA

by Alice Rohrwacher Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany

by Erik Poppe Norway

MUG Twarz

by Małgorzata Szumowska Poland

WOMAN AT WAR Kona fer í stríð by Benedikt Erlingsson Iceland, France, Ukraine

Message From The Mayor

Message From The Director

Juries

International Features

South African Features

LGBT

Documentaries

Shorts

BRICS SHORTS

157

Panorama

175

LUX

190

YOUTH

200

Brazil

206

SCREENING SCHEDULE

213

FILM CATEGORY INDEX

217

CONTENTS.

A MESSAGE FROM the Executive Mayor of Cape Town Cape Townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s film industry is a vibrant sector with a wealth talent, innovative thinkers, and diverse locations. The Cape Town International Film Market and Festival is an excellent showcase for our industry and I want to welcome local and international visitors to enjoy this celebration of our talent. Film has the amazing ability to tell stories that takes us to farthest galaxy and back but also holds the most ordinary event that gets audiences talking. This all happens on the biggest movie screens or the smallest phone. Film brings us closer together as we celebrate our diverse communities and share stories. I am incredibly proud that more than 170 films will be presented at the festival and it certainly bears witness to the fact that Cape Town is the hub of film making in Africa. Recently, the City of Cape Town and all film industry players came together to sign a pledge that will ensure the sector offers an even more competitive offering to local and international players in film, television, commercials, animation and gaming.

Cape Town knows the world owes us nothing and efforts like this festival shows how Capetonians are actively pursuing opportunities to grow the industry. As a City we are creating an enabling environment for the film sector to innovate and grow while they create jobs and opportunities for a diverse and inclusive Cape Town. It therefore gives the City great pleasure to support this initiative. I therefore want to encourage everyone to create, collaborate and celebrate for the next 10 days of the festival and beyond.

Patricia de Lille Executive Mayor of the City of Cape Town

A MESSAGE FROM THE FESTIVAL DIRECTOR The Cape Town International Film Market & Festival is celebrating another milestone this year. In 2007, the need for a World Cinema Film Festival emerged. As many of our cinema fans would know, this is the oldest and the largest World Cinema film festival in Cape Town. Over these last years, the festival has been the flagship event on the ever-vibrant cultural calendar of the City of Cape Town. Our audience is taken on a cinematographic journey through so many countries when they watch the films. This concept has proven to be successful, as witnessed by the growing attendance rate every year. We would like to invite you to discover the line-up of great films in this year’s edition with several of this year’s World Première films like Ave Maryam from Indonesia. From South Africa, we have Cut-out-Girls by Nicola Hanekom, Captive (Ko nkanga) by David Kabale & Dominee Tienie by Sallas de Jager. There are many more movies that were awarded prestigious film awards and Oscar entries for the Foreign Language film section and several films from Italy will also grace our screens like Dogman, the winner of 12 international awards, as well as Luca Miniero’s I’m Back (Sono Tornato) A politically incorrect comedy that poses a disturbing question: what if Mussolini is really among us again? The festival offers a strong LGBT focus this year. Several cutting-edge features will be screened: Just Friends, Kanarie, Malila:The Farewell Flower , I Miss You When I See You and the brand new Mario by Marcel Gilser from Switzerland. From Belgium we have Girl by Lukas Dhont, one of the films from our LUX Prize films brought to you in cooperation with the European Parliament Film Division. Please read more about this amazing project in the catalogue. Our programme would not be complete, of course, without offering our loyal supporters a great selection of documentaries and Short films from all over the world. Do not miss the screenings of Searching for Ingmar Bergman about the life and loves of this great director or The State Against Nelson Mandela and the others, which marks the centenary of Nelson Mandela’s birth.

Film Festivals around the world have become the go-to place for the top players in the film industry to show off what they’re up to, while shedding light on where the medium could be headed. Here in Cape Town we do not shy away to new ideas and trends and therefore you will have the option to attend several in-depth discussions, Masterclasses, pitching sessions and much more at the Film Market starting on the 17th October. Please visit our website for more info. I recently read a comment that was made on one of our social media posts “What once began as an idea continued as tradition” I want to take this opportunity to thank my fellow Board of Directors for helping this idea to become a tradition. They are amazing. They have been working diligently on several projects and situations to address finances, marketing, fundraising and truly deserve our commendations and appreciation. I would like to give a special thank you to our Festival Manager Nazeer Ahmed, the Festival coordinator Mari Baccan and Market Director Elias Ribeiro and his team. To all the volunteers a big hearty thank you for all the hard work that still waiting to happen. To the City of Cape Town for allowing us to play our part in this cultural journey during the years – I thank you for your continued support. To our new sponsors and partners welcome and thank you for joining us on this journey. And lastly to you the audiences that supported us on this journey and still do, to each one of you a big big Thank You. I and look forward to seeing you at this year’s Festival. Please enjoy the films !

Leon van der Merwe Festival Director & COO

Create. Collaborate. Celebrate.

MEET THE JURIES. INTERNATIONAL FEATURES Klaus Eder Patrick Shai Fatma Alloo

SOUTH AFRICAN FEATURES Cristian Hordila Nse Ikpe-Etim Faith Isiakpere

DOCUMENTARIES Sherif Awad Nakai Matema Ramadan Suleman

LGBTQ FILMS Taghmeda Achmat AndrÃ¨ Crous Dr. Melanie Chait

NEW VOICES Isabella Weber Manouj Kadaamh Amadou Seck

SHORT FILMS Jack Chiang Lizelle Bischoff Stacey Lefine

KLAUS EDER

Klaus Eder. Born 1939 in the German city of Augsburg. From 1959 Studies of German literature at Stuttgart university. 1966-1968 editor of the monthly film magazine “film”. From 1968 film critic of the national public radio “Bayerischer Rundfunk”. Books, among others, on Andrzej Wajda, Luis Bunuel, on Nikita Mikhalkov and Andrei Konchalovski, Arturo Ripstein, Im Kwon-taek, Nagisa Oshima; co-author of a History of Bulgarian Cinema. Curator of a series of 30 films of the German 50s “After the War, Before the Wall” at the New York Film Society of Lincoln Center (2002). Curator of a series of films by German director Helmut Käutner, accompanied by a book published by the Goethe Institute (2007). 1986–2007 programmer of the Munich International Film Festival. Adviser for a variety of festivals. Member of international juries in many festivals (among them Venice, Montreal, Istanbul, Moscow, Karlovy Vary, Odessa, Jerusalem, Bari). General Secretary of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) from 1987. Lives and works in Munich, Germany.

Fatma Alloo

Founder of Zanzibar Film Festival Born in Zanzibar Fatma finished her primary and secondary school education there. She attained her ‘A’ levels in Britain together with a course in Pitman’s shorthand and typing while assisting her husband with his Ph.D. theses. After spending a few years as a housewife she later on decided to attain further education and became a journalist. She is involved in creating media visual images so as to impact the television programmes which has been introduced in Tanzania in 1994. She is the founder director of Non-Government Organization Resource Centre (NGORC) based in Zanzibar, a project of Aga Khan Foundation (AKF), in 1996-2000. Alloo is presently a co-ordinating resident faculty of International Honor’s Program (IHP)from Boston University. She also has numerous published works world wide.

Patrick Shai

Patrick Shai is a celebrated South African actor who has appeared in numerous stage plays, television productions and feature films.vvShai started his career at Safari Ranch as a dancer with Mzumba African Drama and Ballet. He went on to scoop many awards on both television and stage. A great storyteller, passionate actor with deeper understanding of characters. A multi-awards for both screen and stage and for directing as well. The name Patrick Shai is synonymous with productions like Sophiatown, Baby Come Dude, Taxi To Soweto, Ashes To Ashes and currently 7nd Laan. Patrick is also an uncompromising, unflinching and tell it all Gender Activist who confronts gender violence and femicide. Patrick is also one of the founder member of Free Film Makers – an alternative to then-mainstream television in South Africa.He has appeared in numerous television series.

Cristian Hordila

Born in 1986, Cristian Hordila graduated the Business University in Cluj. He became active within the film industry in 2006, when he worked as a volunteer for Transilvania IFF. In 2008 he was the coordinator in the Accreditation Department, and in 2010 he led the Ticketing Department. Since 2012, Cristian is the Managing Director of Romanian Film Promotion Association. In 2013 he was elected in the Board of the European Film Promotion and became involved in supporting and promoting European cinema internationally (Shooting Stars or Producers on the Move). In 2013, along with Tudor Giurgiu, he founded in Cluj Film and Urban Culture Association. Cristian Hordila is also the manager of Casa TIFF, a cultural center that aims to promote film education and the need for expression through art. Starting 2011, he is also involved in film production (Superman, Spiderman or Batman, Gobbel). He is now involved in the production of the From the Shadows documentary.

Nse Ikpe-Etim

Nse Ikpe Etim is a multiple award-winning actress with a strong and loyal following. An alumnus of FGC Ilorin and the university of Calabar, where she bagged a BA in theatre arts, she started her screen career anchoring a show on NTA Calabar, but her big break came with the feature length film Reloaded, for which she earned an AMAA award nomination. She is better known for her roles in Kunle Afolayan’s Phone Swap, Ikechukwu Onyeka’s Mr and Mrs Shirley Frimpong Manso’s devil in the detail, Funke Fayoyin’s The Visit and Biyi Bandele’s Fifty. Her most recent works include; Akin Omotoso’s A Hotel Called Memory, Meg Rickards’ Tess, the yet to be released Yiko Koko’s Three Tramps and the Law and Jeta Amata’s The American King. Etim was nominated for Best Actress in a lead role at the 8th Africa Movie Awards for her role in Mr and Mrs and in 2014, won the best actress in a Drama at the African Movie Viewers Choice Awards for her role in Tope Oshin’s A Journey to Self, where she portrayed the character Nse. Last year, Etim also won Best International Actress at IARA UK for her role in the critically acclaimed Tess.

Sherif Awad

Sherif Mohamed Mahmoud Awad is Egyptian Film Critic. He is also translator, curator and festival programmer. Born in Cairo, he is an art/film/video critic who also worked as a programmer, communications attaché and editor of film publications since 1993 in both Cairo and Alexandria Film Festivals. Between 1993 and 2000, Awad was Marketing Manager in the Egyptian regional offices of Fox/Warner and UIP. In the last few years, he curated Arab and foreign film/ video programs in several European countries including Italy, Sweden and Ireland as well as in the Egyptian Contemporary Art Gallery Darb 1718. In addition to his contribution to several specialized publications, he was Chief Editor of both The Ticket Entertainment Magazine and the art journal Contemporary Practices. He is currently holding the position of the Film/Art Editor of Egypt Today Magazine, the leading English published monthly magazine in Egypt. Awad is also writer/producer for film/art TV shows on satellite channels broadcasting in the Middle East area including the weekly program Film News airing on Nile Cinema TV.

Faith Isiakpere

Faith is a director at MOMENTS ENTERTAINMENT, a fully black- owned film & TV Production Company based in South Africa. Faith has South African Permanent Residency status and has been living in SA since 1994 MOMENTS ENTERTAINMENT has produced several award winning documentaries and 6 Feature films and currently working on an Animation feature film “Princess Adana”. Faith is the co-founder of ABC- Africa’s Best Channel (A children and youth TV and Media channel in Nigeria) Faith has completed many award-winning productions including 6 feature films, numerous television and stage productions- and is currently working on a feature length documentary on ‘Mandela’s Africa” and a feature animation film “Princess Adana and the Calabash of Doom”

Nakai Matema

Nakai is a veteran Zimbabwean producer whose filmography eclipse all other contemporary Zimbabwean filmmakers. Since the 1990s, she has been involved with and worked for various film organisations that have mapped the local Zimbabwean film industry, including the Southern Africa Film Festival (SAFF), Framework International and Ice Films. She was instrumental in the establishment and growth of the Zimbabwe International Film Festival Trust (ZIFFT), where she became Executive Director in 2008. While at ZIFFT, she ran the iconic Short Film Project (SFP). During her tenure, she produced over 30 films from emerging filmmakers and continues to produce cutting edge films and develop Zimbabwean filmmaking talent. Film she produced at SFP have been nominated for Africa Movie Academy Awards and have won a string of Zimbabwean National Arts Merit Awards. Talented alumni of the short film projects include Marian Kunonga, Rumbi Katedza, Tongayi Chirisa, Tafadzwa Njovana and Ben Mahaka.

Ramadan Suleman

Ramadan Suleman, director, writer and producer was born in 1955 in Kings Rest Bluff, near Durban, South Africa. He studied at the School for Research in African Theatre. He was one of the founding member of the Dhlomo Theatre, a first black theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa. After studying in Paris, then at the London International Film School, he worked as assistant director with two of Africa’s legendary filmmakers. His short film The Devils Children (89) won a certificate of merit at the Chicago film festival. In 1997, he directed his first feature Fools, which won the Leopard d’Argent at the Lorcarno International Film festival and the European prize at FESPACO in Ouagadougou. His second feature Zulu Love Letter (2004) won several awards internationally. In 2009 Suleman released Zwelidumile a feature length documentary at the Durban International Film Festival and also launched “Zulu Love Letter”, the screenplay, published by Wits Press, which he co-authored. His latest project as producer is Noire Ici, Blanche La-Bas a documentary by Claude Haffner and Beyond the Picket Line, a first feature by Lentswe Serote.

Andrè Crous

André Crous born South African now living in Czech Republic With Afrikaans as his mother tongue he is no stranger to other languages and speak English, French, German and Czech. ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS: Doctorate in Drama and Theatre Studies (Film Theory), University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Master’s degree in Audiovisual Studies, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris-III), France. Licence in Film Theory and Comparative Literature, Université Louis Lumière (Lyon-II), France. BA (Honours, cum laude) in French Comparative Literature, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. BA in Language and Culture, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. ROLES: Contributing writer, film section, Lógr (quarterly Czech-language literary publication), Founder and film critic of the review website Newcelluloid. com, Chief film critic for The Prague Post, Chief film critic for the Afrikaans literary website Litnet, Chief film critic for Die Matie, the official student newspaper of the University of Stellenbosch, Member of FIPRESCI, Served on various Juries including Troia International Film Festival, Setúbal, Portugal.

Taghmeda Achmat

Honors Degree in Women and Gender, University of Western Cape. Managed Out in Africa Development Programme Film Workshops, Organizing and promotion of emerging black artists. Since 2016 managing a Face Book page on sex and sexuality for Women Currently doing a Masters Literature Review on the Invisibility of Queer Muslim Women for African Gender Studies with Dr Fatima Seedat . Co-founder, Chairperson, membership of 400, coordination and establishment; organizing the first Gay Pride march in Cape Town in 1993, organizing protests against racist and homophobic night clubs; organized the first Gay and Lesbian film festival in Cape Town. Attended the Ilga conference in Barcelona and won the Felipa da Sousa award organized by IGLHRC at the Stonewall 25th anniversary march.

Melanie Chait

Melanie is an award- winning documentary filmmaker. In the 1980s she directed Veronica 4 Rose, the first LGBTI film made for British TV by a predominantly lesbian crew which still screens internationally. She is also credited for the first South African LGBTI film Out in Africa and recently produced Walking in my Shoes, an award- winning feature documentary. When her persona non grata status was withdrawn in 1994 she returned to SA and became the Special Advisor to SABC’s CEO and created the Programme, Planning and Co-production Department. In 2000 Melanie was appointed to the SABC Board and was Chairperson of the Restructuring and Strategic Sub-committee. In 2003 she established a film school for the growing number of disadvantaged matriculants. Today Big Fish School of Digital Filmmaking has trained well over 2000 youth who work in film and TV. Melanie has been voted one of the top women in media and received the Investing in Culture platinum award from the Minister of Arts and Culture. She is committed to creating a new generation of socially aware filmmakers.

Isabella Weber

Born in Naples and based in Rome, Isabella studied Cinema in Rome where she achieved the Master in Film & Media Studies in 2013. From 2011 she has been working at the Giornate degli Autori – the independent side-section of the Mostra del Cinema di Venezia - as consultant for the film selection, acting also as Secretary of the Jury and as Project Manager of “28 Times Cinema”, a programme co-organized by the Lux Film Prize, Europa Cinemas and Giornate degli Autori, that brings 28 young European film-lovers to the Venice Film Festival to follow professional trainings. Since 2013 Isabella collaborates with the Lux Film Prize of the European Parliament as an external consultant. In 2015 she starts working with Europa Distribution as Communication Consultant, assisting the conception and organisation of professional workshops dedicated to film distributors and taking care of the communication of the Association. Passionate film-lover and avid reader, Isabella started in 2018 her collaboration with the Paris-based consulting company Initiative Films working on Script Analysis and Literary Adaptations.

Amadou Seck

Amadou Saalum Seck was born in 1952 in Dakar (Senegal). After the baccalaureate, he attended between 1973 - 74 the University of Dakar at the Faculty of Letters (English Dept.). In addition to his school career, he has been a member of the cultural clubs “David Diop” and “Watoo Sita” where he actively participates in their theatrical activities. In 1974, he passed the entrance exam at Air Afrique and underwent a training at the Port-Bouet school in Abidjan from which he graduated.

In 1977, he resigned from Air Afrique and emigrated to Germany where he accomplished in 1978 in the entrance examination at the Munich Higher School of Television and Cinema (HFF). As part of his examinations for the graduation diploma, he produced and directed in 1987/88 “Saaraba”, his first feature film of which he is also the author of the screenplay. SECK co-created a film school in Dakar for Cinema / TV in 1979.

Manouj Kadaamh

Manouj Kadaamh is an Indian Film writer ,director & distributor well known for his award winning film Kshitij – A Horizon. With an overall 18 years of experience in film industry. Started his career as a co-writer for various T.V. serials in Indian television industry , and well known for his managerial and production skills. He gained experience working on various projects as a Chief A.D at “Shop 24 Seven” India’s First T.V. Marketing Channel and also India’s Official Entry to Oscars Marathi Movie Shwass. His directorial debut film Kshitij – A Horizon , has been officially selected on 21 various international film festivals till date & have been critically acclaimed all over the world. He was awarded as Best New Director at the Cape Town International Film Festival 2017 , South Africa. Was honoured with the International Council For Film & Television ( ICFT) - UNESCO Gandhi Medal at (IFFI) Goa 2017. He bagged best screenplay award at 5th Aruangabad IFF 2018. Recipient of the best director title at 55th Maharashtra State Awards 2018. Also Received Special Jury Award at the 8th SAARC film festival 2018, Colombo, Srilanka.

Jack Chiang

Born in Taiwan, grew up in South Africa since the 80’s. Jack started his interest in films by writing reviews on the architecture faculty paper- “Ths Wk” during his college days. In 2006, he was invited to join the programme panel for Durban International Film Festival, the longest running film festival in Southern Africa; and in 2016, he served as Associate Programmer at Joburg Film Festival. Jack also produced various of documentary films that were selected for Rotterdam International Film Festival in The Netherlands, Africana Americano Asiano Film Festival in Milan, Italy, and at Tate Modern Museum in London. Those films were also aired on South African open air TV channel e-TV. Currently Jack consults for Busan International Film Festival of South Korea and Golden Horse International Film Festival of Taiwan and recently Macao International Film Festival, as the African selection adviser and is continuing to assist and promote young talented African filmmakers. Jack is based in Durban and is producing a narrative feature film. Shooting starts in late 2018.

Lizelle Bischoff

With South Africa creating around 25 films yearly, Lizelle Bischoff has made it her mission to promote South African cinema to a wider audience. She is founder of the film festival Africa in Motion. In 2014 she set up the “South Africa at 20: the Freedom Tour” to celebrate 20 years of democracy in the country. Her PhD research, conducted at the University of Stirling, focused on the role and representation of women in West and Southern African cinema. In her postdoctoral research at the University of Edinburgh her regional focus shifted to East Africa and she conducted research into the emerging film industries in East Africa, specifically in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Lizelle has done field research on African film in various African countries (including South Africa, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania), and have attended numerous international and African film festivals, often as speaker and jury member.

Stacey Lefine

Stacey is promoting artists and upping their social footprint on social media platforms as well as television and radio. Planning and co coordinating music videos. Running the planning, development and final product of the merchandise Panache. Selecting ambassadors for Panache. Using industry connections in the radio and television she ensures that their music is being played and shown. Stacey is watching and sorting of over 400 entries into the correct SAFTA categories Managing an online digital RSVP management company and Manage events on the digital system. She Created the SAFTAs Project Plan and are managing the roll-out of all the film selection phases of the SAFTAs concept. Stacey has been the coordinator for the foreign film selection jury selecting the film for the Oscar’s Foreign Film section. She also oversees the International Emmy’s Jury process.

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NAE CARANFIL

6.9 ON THE RICHTER SCALE (6,9 PE SCARA RICHTER) SK Nouveau 5, 11 Oct @ 12pm | Nu Metro 4, 13 Oct @ 10.30pm

Nae Caranfil, born 1960, Bucharest. He is a Romanian film director and screenwriter, son of important Romanian film historian and critic Tudor Caranfil. He graduated in 1984 from the Caragiale Academy of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography (UNATC) in Bucharest, where he has also taught as a professor. Caranfil made his feature film debut with E Pericoloso Sporgersi (1993) and continued with road movie comedy Asfalt tango. His movie Filantropica(2002) was a critical success and attracted lots of popularity for Caranfil. Nae Caranfil wrote the screenplay for all his movies and worked on the music for the first two of them (E Pericoloso Sporgersi and Asfalt-tango).

DIRECTOR: Nae Caranfil COUNTRY: Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 117min

SyNOPSIS A humble Romanian actor in his 40â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, hardly surviving between a complicated part in a musical, a depressed and pathologically jealous wife, and the obsession of an imminent, devastating earthquake, becomes the willing victim of his manipulative father who appears in his life for the very first time. But in the end, what seems like a visit to hell turns into a path of redemption as Tonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s journey evolves. His leading role in Orpheus in the Underworld perfectly mirrors his chaotic life on the verge of collapsing. The parallel, musical world turns his apocalyptic thoughts into an explosion of sheer vitality.

AWARDS

Gopo Awards Romania 2018 - Best Sound

27 STEPS OF MAy RAVI BHARWANI

Ravi Bharwani graduated from the Jakarta Institute of the Arts (IKJ) in 1990. After directing several commercials, documentaries, short movies and madefor-TV movies, he made his feature film The Rainmaker which premiered in Asian New Current, Busan International Film Festival. It was later selected to the Bangkok, Jakarta, Rotterdam, Barcelona,Shanghai, Vladivostok, Cinemanila international film festival. It won the best film in the Asia new talent award in Shanghai, China. Jermal (2009) his second feature, where he worked with two other directors, Rayya Makarim and Utawa Tresno, was selected for screening in Pusan, Rotterdam, Melbourne, Montreal, Vancouver, Edinburgh, Copenhagen and numerous other International film festivals and has received several awards.

Nu Metro 5, 15 Oct @ 12pm | Nu Metro 4, 17 Oct @ 2.30pm DIRECTOR : Ravi Bharwani COUNTRY: Indonesia | YEAR: 2018

| TIME: 110min

SyNOPSIS Eight years ago, 14 year old May was raped by a group of men. May’s father is devastated, blaming himself for not being able to keep his daughter safe. Traumatized significantly by this incident, May with draws completely from life. She imprisons herself in her father’s house. She blocks out all emotions and constructs a protective bubble around her. While May lives her life without connections, emotions, or words, her father, trapped by feelings of guilt and rage leads a double life. With May, he is a gentle soul who would sacrifice everything to provide comfort and protection for his daughter. But in the boxing ring, he is pure rage; a fighter who fights to channel his rage. Father and daughter have lived this way for 8 years until a stranger, a magician, moves in next door and creates a small crack in May’s carefully erected protective wall. The magician stirs May’s sense of wonder and in doing so awakens her emotions. She becomes brave enough to search and face her once lost feelings, sensations, impressions, and memories. With the help of the magician and props, May re-enacts the rape in order to free herself and move forward.

A KASHA HAjOOj KUKA

Hajooj Kuka is the founder of Refugee Club and the director Beats of the Antonov. Kuka was born in Sudan of the Mahas ethnic group, but relocated with his family to the United Arab Emirates. Kuka travels frequently between Nuba Mountains and the Blue Niles for his creative works. He resides in both Sudan and Kenya. Kuka previously worked at Middle East Broadcast Network in Virginia and Shilo Incorporation in New York City as a video editor and post production tech/ editor. He is currently creative director at 3ayin, a Sudanese Arabic reports of violent conflict occurrence in Sudan.

Nu Metro 4, 10 Oct @ 5.45pm | Nu Metro 5, 16 Oct @ 10pm DIRECTOR: Hajooj Kuka COUNTRY: Sudan, South Africa, Qatar, Germany | YEAR : 2018 | TIME: 78min

SyNOPSIS A Kasha is a universal offbeat love story set in a time of civil war - but the war is in Sudan and it is happening right now. We follow Adnan, an AK47-loving rebel, his long-suffering love interest, Lina, and the army dodging Absi, over a fateful 24 hours in a rebel-held area of Sudan.

Aside from the Beats of the Antonov, Kukaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s other documentary, Darfur Skeleton under his other name (Hisham Hajomar), was based on the agonising reality of the displaced Sudanese in the aftermath of the ruination of the Kondowa forest. Kuka through his work shows his non-violent resistance ideology by depicting through creative visualisation, the struggle and resistance of the people of Sudan caught in the web of intractable conflicts.

AVA SADAF FOROUGHI

Sadaf Foroughi is an Iranian born, Montrealbased filmmaker. She began her artistic career in 2003 by creating and producing short films, documentaries and video art. In 2005, she was selected to participate in the Berlinale Talent Campus as a writer/director. Foroughi participated in the Berlinale Talent Campus,where she was selected to participate in the Why Democracy? short film project. Her short documentary ‘Féminin, Masculin’ (2007) was nominated for the Best Non-European Film Award at the Grand Off-EuropeanOff Film Awards in Warsaw, and won the Best Short Film award at the Oxford Brooks University Annual Film and Music Festival. Sadaf’s debut feature film AVA had its premier in the Toronto International Film Festival in 2017. Ava was given a honourable mention as the best Canadian debut feature film and awarded the Discovery Section FIPRESCI Prize at Toronto International Film Festival 2017.

Nu Metro 4,11 Oct @ 8.30pm | Nu Metro 5, 17 Oct @ 2.30pm DIRECTOR : Sadaf Foroughi COUNTRY: Iran, Canada | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 102min

SyNOPSIS Ava’s first visit to the gynaecologist with her mother is a traumatic experience for the 16-year old young woman. Trauma gives way to anger when Ava discovers her mother’s dishonesty and learn of the rules she broke, when she was the age Ava is now. Bewildered and enraged, Ava attempts and fails suicide at school. To avoid being expelled, she accepts a deal to snitch on her classmates, but a guilty conscience is a heavy burden. Misunderstood by her parents and tormented by school, Ava decides on a third way forward.

AWARDS

Toronto International Film Festival 2017 Best Canadian First Feature Film - Honorable Mention Discovery - International Critics’ Award (FIPRESCI)

AVE MARyAM ERTANTO ROBBy SOEDISKAM Ertanto Robby Soediskam is an independent Director. Graduated from Jakarta Institute of Arts he had produced several short films and feature films, screened in Indonesia and several International and local Film Festival. Takut - Omnibus 7 Directors 6 Stories (2009) Official selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2009; 7 Hati 7 Cinta 7 Wanita (2010) Nominee for Best Screenplay, Indonesian Film Festival 2009; Dilemma, Omnibus 5 Directors 5 stories (2012); Best Feature movie Moscow F=Detective Film Festival 2012; Official Selection Pittsburgh Film Festival 2012; Official Selection Asia Pacific Film Festival 2012; Best Cinematography Indonesian Film Festival 2012.

Nu Metro 5, 12 Oct @ 10.30pm | SK Nouveau 5,18 Oct @ 5.30pm DIRECTOR: Ertanto Robby Soediskam COUNTRY: Indonesia | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 85min

SyNOPSIS Semarang 1998, Maryam (40 years old) was assigned to help a nursing house, Maryam was born in a moslem family, which makes her used to interact with various people from different religion. She packs all of her stuff and goes to Ambarawa. Maryam meets 7 elder nuns where they live in an inhumane condition. Maryam tries her best to help the retired nuns. Maryam does her daily activity to maintain the church. She does all the work including house cleaning, bathed the elder nuns, preparing the food for those who needed, and also sun-bathes the elder nuns every morning. Sometimes at 2.00 A.M the elder wakes her up by hitting the spoon to ask for her help. During Maryam’s tough time, she is informed that there will be new Pastor to lead the Church named Yosef (35 years old) and they start to get to know each other. Yosef who is liberal, contradicts Maryam’s character, but somehow that was the kind of conversation that Maryam wants. They are getting more intense than ever. Maryam starts to have feelings to Yosef. Yosef and Maryam begin their relationship, but this resulted in Maryam’s negligent towards her task. She arrives at the nursing home late where she is supposed to prepare the food for the elder nuns and she forgets to give Sister Monic her medicine. One day, Yosef and Maryam go to the beach where all the nuns asleep. Yosef celebrates Maryam’s birthday by giving Maryam a cake. He asks Maryam to make a wish and blows the candle. Maryam, realizes that it is a mistake. She begins to cry. They go back to the nursing house in silent. When Maryam arrives in the nursing house the elders already prepare a surprise party for her 40 th birthday. Maryam cries and hug the nuns, realize that it is a mistake for her to go to the beach with Yosef. She begins to question her loyalty and commitment.

BINGO DANIEL REzENDE

Daniel Rezende was born in São Paulo, Brazil. Since early in his career he established himself as a prominent film editor, he was nominated for an Academy Award for his work with Fernando Meirelles in “City of God’ (2001) and won a BAFTA Award and the Cinema Brazil Grand Prize for the same film. Rezende has edited more than 15 feature films, among them are “The Motorcycle Diaries” (2004) and ‘Dark Water” (2005) from Walter Salles, “The Year My Parents Went on Vacation” from Cao Hamburger, “Elite Squad” (2007), “Elite Squad 2” (2010) and “RoboCop” (2014) from José Padilha, “Blindness” (2008) and “360” (2011) from Fernando Meirelles and “The Tree of Life” (2011) directed by Terrence Malick. He started directing in 2008, with the praised short film “Blackout”, then went on to direct the TV series “Fora de Controle” (2012), HBO’s “The Man of Your Life” (2017) and most recently two episodes of Netflix’s “The Mechanism” (2018). “Bingo” is his debut as a feature film director.

Nu Metro 4, 10 Oct @ 8.30pm | Nu Metro 6, 16 Oct @ 2pm DIRECTOR: Daniel Rezende COUNTRY: Brazil | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 113min

SyNOPSIS Based on a true story, “Bingo” is a film about the man behind the mask. Augusto is an actor hungry for a place in the spotlight, following the footsteps of his mother, a stage artist in the 50’s. While starring in soft porn and soap operas he finally gets the chance to conquer the crowds when he is cast as “BINGO”, a television host clown. With his irreverent humor and natural talent, the show is a big hit, but a clause on his contract forbids him to reveal his true identity. Augusto becomes an anonymous celebrity. With makeup on, he brings happiness to children across the country but not to his own son Gabriel, that sees his father distancing himself in search of recognition. Filled with irony and humor and an exaggerated pop look from the backstage universe of the Brazilian 80’s television, the film tells the incredible and surreal story of a man that whilst looking for his artistic value, finds his personal decay.

AWARDS

5 awards in various International Film Festivals.

BLUE WIND BLOWS TETSUyA TOMINA

Tetsuya TOMINA was born in Kushiro of Hokkaido, Japan and went to the UK to study filmmaking at London Film School. After coming back to Japan, His short film, “At the Last Stop Called Ghost Chimney” (‘13), was selected at 18th BUSAN IFF’s Wide Angle Competition, won “BLENCONG AWARDS” in 8th JOGJA-NETPAC Asian FF and was screened in many film festivals across the world. “Blue Wind Blows” (‘18) (Originally titled SMOKE ON THE WATER) which won 2015 Asian Cinema Fund’s script development fund and also was selected in 2015 Asian Project Market by BUSAN IFF, is his debut feature film. His upcoming project “A mountain Splits” has been selected in 16th Hong Kong - Asian Film Financing Forum 2018. The story is again set in Sado island, inspired by a history of once-existed Sado Gold Mine.

Nu Metro 6, 11 Oct @ 5pm | Nu Metro 5, 15 Oct @ 10.30pm DIRECTOR : Tetsuya Tomina COUNTRY: Japan | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 88min

SyNOPSIS Ao, 12 years-old boy lives with his mother Midori and little sister Kii on Sado island, Japan. He misses his father who has gone missing without a trace. While Midori tries to deal with the loss in her own way, Ao and kii run across the island and scream at the ocean. In the mysterious transfer student Sayoko, who inconspicuously swipes books from a school library, Ao finds a confidant. Few words are needed between two, dreamy children. Together, they feel less alone. This film tells of a tale of dreams, loss and monsters.

DOGMAN MATTEO GARRONE

Matteo Garrone was born in Rome in 1968. He is the son of a theatre critic, Nico Garrone, and a photographer. In 1996 he won the Sacher dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Oro, an award sponsored by Nanni Moretti, with the short film Silhouette (1996), that became one of the three episodes of his first feature film Land in Between (1996). He won Best Director at the European Film Awards and at the David di Donatello Awards for Gomorrah (2008). His film Reality (2012) competed in competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and won the Grand Prix. His latest film Tale of Tales (2015) was selected to compete for the Palme dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.

Nu Metro 5, 13 Oct @ 5pm / 17 Oct @ 5.45pm DIRECTOR: Matteo Garrone COUNTRY: Italy | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 120min

SyNOPSIS Marcello, a small and gentle dog groomer, finds himself involved in a dangerous relationship of subjugation with Simone, a former violent boxer who terrorizes the entire neighborhood. In an effort to reaffirm his dignity, Marcello will submit to an unexpected act of vengeance.

AWARDS

12 awards in various International Film Festivals.

FACES jOSEPH A. ADESUNLOyE Joseph Adejuwon Adesunloye is a BritishNigerian film director-writer-producer. He was born in Lagos, Nigeria and grew up in London. Joseph developed an interest in film and theatre from a young age. In his teens he decided to pursue a career in film. He graduated from the University of Aberdeen with a Masters of Arts in English Literature and Film Studies and subsequently attended the London Film Academy.Plain Sight also premiered at Raindance and was nominated ‘Best British Short Film’.

SK Nouveau 5, 12 Oct @ 2.30pm | Nu Metro 6, 14 Oct @ 10.15pm DIRECTOR: Joseph A. Adesunloye COUNTRY: UK | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 82min

SyNOPSIS Faces is a multi-narrative feature film set across four storylines that follow a group of characters as their lives begin to unravel. Aisha is in a marriage that has become stale, when her wish to get pregnant finally becomes reality, she receives some very unexpected news. Louie and Gaspard are a gay couple who are happily in love but when Louie’s female financée suddenly shows up in the picture, all that they hold dear begins to fall apart. Adam and Luke are best friends, but an attack on Adam at a party threatens to create a schism between them. Sindiso runs a charity for women to which she has dedicated herself. When the centre begins to have financial troubles with the real risk of closing, Sindiso has to question her fundamental motivations. In the middle of the bustling city we watch as their worlds begin spiralling apart.

I’M BACK (SONO TORNATO) LUCA MINIERO

Luca Miniero (born 17 January 1967) is an Italian director and screenwriter. Born in Naples, after graduating in Letters Miniero moved to Milan where he started working as a director of commercial shorts. In 1998 he started collaborating with Paolo Genovese co-writing and co-directing the short film La scoperta di Walter; the duo made their feature film debut in 2002, with the critical acclaimed comedy film A Neapolitan Spell. Miniero made his solo-directing debut in 2010, directing the box office hit Benvenuti al Sud.

Nu Metro 6, 11 Oct @ 8pm | Nu Metro 5, 17 Oct @ 12pm DIRECTOR: Luca Miniero COUNTRY: Italy | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 100min

SyNOPSIS “You were a people of illiterate, after 80 years I go back and I find a people of illiterate.” Rome. Our days. After 80 years since his death, Benito Mussolini is among us again. The war is over, his Claretta is gone and everything seems changed. Apparently. His return is casually filmed by Andrea Canaletti, a young documentary filmmaker with great aspirations but few, very few successes. Believing him to be a comedian, Canaletti decides to make him the protagonist of a documentary that will finally consecrate him to the world of cinema. The two thus begin a surreal cohabitation, that between trips to Italy, hosted TV and curious moments of confrontation with the Italians of today, leads the Duce to be known and recognized more and more, to the point of becoming the protagonist of a show on TV and get ahead of being able to reconquer the country... A politically incorrect comedy that poses a disturbing question: what if he really comes back?

I AM NOT A WITCH RUNGANO NyONI

Directors born in Zambia and willing to bear witness on this country are something of a rarity. This is nonetheless the case of Rungano Nyoni, a young woman whose native town is Lusaka although she did not stay there long. She was indeed still a little girl when she emigrated to Great Britain with her parents. It is in Wales that Rongano actually grew up and from Birmingham University that she graduated... only to study drama at the London University of Arts. The five shorts that bear her signature were selected in many festivals throughout the world and were multi-awarded. Two of them were filmed in her native Zambia, which is also the setting of her excellent first feature “I Am Not a Witch” (2017), where she narrates, in a half-quizzical half-poetic tone, the misadventures of a nine-year girl arbitrarily accused of being a witch. An internationally acclaimed work that reveals Nyoni’s talent to a wide audience while at the same time bringing little known Zambia to the fore.

SK Nouveau 5, 14 Oct @ 2.30pm | Nu Metro 5, 19 Oct @ 2.30pm DIRECTOR: Rungano Nyoni COUNTRY: Zambia, UK, France, Germany | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 93min

SyNOPSIS Following a banal incident in her local village, 8-year old girl Shula is accused of witchcraft. After a short trial she is found guilty, taken into state custody and exiled to a witch camp in the middle of a desert. At the camp she takes part in an initiation ceremony where she is shown the rules surrounding her new life as a witch. Like the other residents, Shula is tied to a ribbon which is attached to a coil that perches in a large tree. She is told that should she ever cut the ribbon, she’ll be cursed and transformed into a goat.

AWARDS

16 awards in various International Film Festivals.

ISABELLE MIRKO LOCATELLI

Mirko Locatelli was born in 1974 in Milan. He studied cinema at “University of Studies” in Milan and dropped out in 2000 to dedicate himself to journalism. He collaborated with a large variety of newspapers included “Il Corriere Della Sera”, at the same time carried on his main interest: cinema. In the same year he opened the site “www.cinemaindipendente.it” aming young filmmakers to meet and discuss independent movies through the platform. The website also propagates cinema culture, organizes screenings, cinema courses and production projects. Gathering people he met during his studies, in 2001, opened “Officina Film”, a production company which deals with communications. With Officina films he directed his first advertisement and in 2003 directed a documentary on the set Chemical Hunger (2003) by Antonio Bocola e Paolo Vari, and a short film “Il Confine”. In 2004 he directed Come prima (2004) an independent film. In 2005 he directed Crisalidi (2005), a documentary which was critically acclaimed. In 2008 his first feature film The First Day of Winter premiered at the Cape Winelands International Film Festival and won the Grand Prix Award for Best Film.

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DIRECTOR: Mirko Locatelli COUNTRY: Italy, France | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 90min

SyNOPSIS Isabelle is a French astrophysicist, she lives in Italy in a big house surrounded by vineyards on the hills near Trieste. The sun shines on the countryside, the sea, not far away, crashes against the rocky shore, the landscape is a paradise and her son Jérôme, like every summer, will visit her as he does every summer. Isabelle loves him very much, she is ready to do anything for him, but the meeting with Davide, a young man who is going through a difficult time, will alter the course of their lives and Isabelle will have to make a choice, the consequences of which will be devastating.

DENNIS GANSEL

jIM BUTTON & LUKE THE ENGINE DRIVER (jIM KNOPF UND LUKAS DER LOKOMOTIVFÜHRER) Nu Metro 4, 11 Oct @ 10am | Nu Metro 5, 14 Oct @ 12.30pm

Dennis Gansel, born in Hannover in 1973, started shooting his first TV movie THE PHANTOM when he was still a student at Munich film school HFF. It won him a Grimme Prize 2001 and the Audience Award at the Baden-Baden festival. He followed it up with comedy GIRLS ON TOP (2001) starring Diana Amft, Felicitas Woll and Karoline Herfurth. THE DOWNFALL (2004, also co-script) starring Max Riemelt and Tom Schilling won him the Bavarian Film Prize for Best Director. It also won awards in Fajr, the Hamptons and Viareggio. His drama THE WAVE (2008, also co-script) starring Jürgen Vogel earned a Jupiter Award for Best Director, the German Film Prize in Bronze, the Script Prize in Torino and the Special Jury Prize in Istanbul, and was screened at Sundance. His modern vampire movie WE ARE THE NIGHT (2010, also co-script) starring Karoline Herfurth, Nina Hoss, Jennifer Ulrich, Anna Fischer and Max Riemelt, won the Special Jury Prize at the Catalonian International Film Festival in Sitges. In 2012, he shot thriller THE FOURTH ESTATE (also co-script) starring Moritz Bleibtreu and Max Riemelt. In 2016, Dennis Gansel shot his first major Hollywood film, action hit sequel MECHANIC: RESURRECTION starring Jason Statham, Tommy Lee Jones and Jessica Alba.

DIRECTOR: Dennis Gansel COUNTRY: Germany | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 105min

SyNOPSIS On the tiny island of Morrowland there are only two mountains, a picturesque palace, one house, a grocery store, a set of train tracks and four inhabitants. They lived in peace for many years until one day the mailman delivers a mysterious package - in it, an adorable, baby boy from a far away, unknown land. So the Morrowlanders took in the orphan boy and named him Jim. When Jim turns 10, he discovers he is not from Morrowland and becomes desperate to know who is he and where is he from? As Jim grows older King Alphonse also worries about the day when he will need his own house, for which there is no space on the tiny island. So one day the King commands that Luke, who has become Jim’s best friend, get rid of his beloved steam engine Emma, in order to create room on the island. As Luke doesn’t have the heart to break away from dear Emma he quickly decides to leave the island with her without telling anyone. Unbeknownst to Luke young Jim overhears his plans to run away. The boy will convince Luke to leave together and will begin the greatest adventure of their lives.

jUST LIKE My SON (SEMBRA MIO FIGLIO) COSTANzA QUATRIGLIO Constance Quatriglio , born in Palermo , 1973, married to Daniele Vicari, and they have a daughter. She is a film director Italian and her debut film, L’isola, was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2003 at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs ( Silver Ribbon for the original soundtrack of jazz trumpeter Paolo Fresu ). He has also made several documentary films, broadcast on television and winners of various festivals, including the Turin festival. Tales for The Island was presented, again in 2003, at the Venice Film Festival and The World was on show at the first edition of the Rome Film Festival . In 2009 at the international festival of Locarno presented the film’s Special Event My human heart on the Italian singer Nada Malanima, broadcast on Rai Tre. She is the director of Terramatta , a special event at the Venice Days of the Venice Film Festival 2012, where he won the “Premio Civitas Vitae”. Successfully welcomed by public and critics, Terramatta was nominated Film Critics 2012 by the National Film Critics Union, won the Efebo d’argento and the award for best documentary film at the Italian Film Festival in Madrid. Terramatta won the Silver Ribbon for the Best Documentary 2013.

SyNOPSIS “Who are you?” “I’m your son. I’m Ismail.” “I have no son named Ismail.” Ismail is a man who has lived in Europe with his brother, Hassan, since they were children. The two escaped the persecution carried out by the Taliban in Afghanistan during the first years of the new millennium. Their mother, who never stopped waiting for news of her children, does not recognize him. After several uneasy phone calls, Ismail will meet with the fate of his family, dealing with the senselessness of the war, the history of his people, the Hazara, and the oldest form of love, that of a mother for her child.

KETEKE PETER SEDUFIA

Peter Sedufia is a product of the National Film and Television Institute, Ghana with BFA degree in film directing. He has directed several short films with varied awards, including FESPACO to his credit. He directed “Master and 3 Maids” comedy series and “Keteke” 2017 also being his debut feature length film, which won awards in Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) 2017, Luxor African Film Festival 2018 among others. “Sidechic Gang” 2018, is his second feature length film. He is the CEO of OldFilm Productions and the founder of The Director’s Call workshops.

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DIRECTOR: Peter Sedufia COUNTRY: Ghana | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 98min

SyNOPSIS “KETEKE” tells a story focused on the 1980s rail service system in Ghana. A couple, BOI (AdjeteyAnang) and ATSWEI (Lydia Forson), living in Puna, is bent on delivering their first baby in their home town Akete. Very close to the childbirth, the couple heads to Akete. Unfortunately, they miss the train, and the train service is the only means of transport from the outskirts to the town. In their haste to get there, they compound their situation with a wrong decision and they find themselves in the middle of nowhere. Now, will the couple make it on time for the delivery, or, risk losing the baby and mother?

MANHOOD (FÉRFIKOR) PETER POLITzER

Peter Politzer is an award winner narrative and commercial film editor. He collaborated many festival winner and commercially successful feature films in Hungary. Manhood is his first feature directed and actually edited himself.

Nu Metro 5, 16 Oct @ 12pm / 18 Oct @ 12pm DIRECTOR: Peter Politzer COUNTRY: Hungary | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 77min

SyNOPSIS I’m Samu, my mom is blonde and short, I’m dark-haired and tall. My father’s from Cameroon, but I don’t really remember him, because I was three when my parents had a fight and he went back home, and ten years have passed since then. Mom shows me pictures of him on the computer but I’m not really interested. It’s Sunday, and it was Monday when my mom got hit by a car.My name is Frank, just past 40. I’m the circus juggler who puts plates on sticks and spins them, and he keeps adding more, using his hands and even his feet, then he puts one on his nose, and none of them fall off, even though, let’s say he does a sommersault in the meantime. OK, just kidding. I’m really a musician, classical musician, bass player. I just used the juggling as an analogy for what it feels like to be me today.My name is Dezso. I’m 91 years old and a cheat. I was born a cheat (my mother didn’t plan me, I just smuggled myself in with my dad) and I was raised a cheat (my parents praised the kid who got the better grades so I always falsified my report cards, the teacher’s diary, and later world history...) and I was a cheat my whole life, because I was a photographer.

ONE STEP BEHIND THE SERAPHIM DANIEL SANDU

Born in 1977, Daniel Sandu graduated The MEDIA University â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Film school in Bucharest. He is screenwriter and director of short films, feature films and TV series. In 2013 he wrote and directed HORSEPOWER, a short film produced by Velvet Moraru (Icon Production). The film was shown at Transilvania IFF, at NexT IFF (Romania). In 2012 he directed the short film SECOND VOICE, produced by Ada Solomon (HiFilm Productions). The film won the Special PRIZE at Anonimul IFF 2013 and in 2011 he was the producer, writer and director of the short film THE COUNTING DEVICE co-produced by Ada Solomon (Parada Film) that was selected in the official competitions of Sarajevo IFF, Cambridge IFF, Montpellier IFF, Leuven IFF and won the Jury award at Leiden ISF. In 2008 he developed the screenplay for the feature film ONE STEP BEHIND THE SERAPHIM. He wrote and directed the short film entitled THE APPLE in 2001 and in 2000 wrote, directed and produced MEMORY SLICE, a short documentary, awarded with The Special prize at Eco-Etno-Folc SlÄ&#x192;tioara FF.

Nu Metro 6, 13 Oct @ 7pm / 18 Oct @ 8.30pm DIRECTOR: Daniel Sandu COUNTRY: Romania | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 150min

SyNOPSIS Romania, nowadays .Gabriel is a 15-year-old teen, who wants to become a priest, he is thereby admitted to an Orthodox College. Trying to fit in first but finally realizing the system is totally corrupted and abusive, he is rapidly with 3 other classmates labelled as rebel students by the school board. Caught in the fight for power between an incorruptible but abusive priest and a cunning, crooked and unscrupulous secular teacher, the students learn that lying, stealing, cheating, gambling and betraying are things they have to master in order to survive in the seminary. Who will graduate and become a priest? What kind of priests will they make after spending several years in this system? 10 awards in various International Film Festivals.

ALEXEy KUzMIN-TARASOV

PETER’S ODySSEy SK Nouveau 5, 10 Oct @ 12pm | Nu Metro 5, 15 Oct @ 10am DIRECTOR: Alexey Kuzmin-Tarasov, Anna Kolchina COUNTRY: Russian Federation | YEAR: 2018 | TIME : 74min

ANNA KOLCHINA

Alexey Kuzmin-Tarasov - Born on 30/12/1984 in Moscow. In 1996 moved to Cologne, came back to Moscow and graduated from GITIS in 2011. Anna Kolchina - Born on 23/12/1986 in Moscow. In 2008 graduated from MSU and in 2012 finished the workshop “Documentary filmmaking and producing”. 2018 - Peter’s Odyssey (DEBUT AS DIRECTOR)

SyNOPSIS Petya, a 12 year old boy, spends his summers in a suburban Moscow dacha with his grandmother. His blissful summer of 1996 comes to an abrupt end when his parents decide to immigrate to Germany. Unwilling to adapt to the new reality Petya embarks on a fantasy journey back home. Based on a true story which took place in the late 1990s.

RAFIKI (FRIEND) WANURI KAHIU

Wanuri’s first feature film From A Whisper, based on the real events surrounding the 1998 twin bombings of US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania won Best Narrative Feature in 2010 at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles, as well as five awards at the African Movie Academy Award, including Best Director and Best Screenplay. In 2009 Wanuri produced TV documentary For Our Land about Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Professor Wangari Maathai for MNET, a pan African cable station. In 2010, her short science fiction Pumzi premiered at Sundance film festival and went on to win best short film at Cannes Independent Film Festival and the silver at Carthage Film Festival (Tunisia). Pumzi also earned Wanuri the ‘Citta di Venezia 2010’ award in Venice, Italy. Her second feature film Rafiki based on the short story “Jambula Tree” premiered at Cannes 2018 and was nominated for the Queer Palm. Wanuri is the creator of the Afrobubblegum genre, fun, fierce and frivolous black content that celebrates joy and hope. Wanuri is a TED fellow and a World Economic Forum cultural leader.

SK Nouveau 5, 11 Oct @ 6.15pm / 15 Oct @ 8.15pm DIRECTOR: Wanuri Kahiu COUNTRY: Kenya | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 83min

SyNOPSIS Rafiki (lit. “Friend”) is a 2018 Kenyan drama film directed by Wanuri Kahiu. Inspired by Ugandan Monica Arac de Nyeko’s 2007 Caine Prize Winning short story “Jambula Tree”, Rafiki is the story of friendship and tender love that grows between two young women, Kena and Ziki, amidst family and political pressures. The film had its international premiere in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. Rafiki was banned by the Kenya’s Film and Classification Board (KFCB) “due to its homosexual theme and clear intent to promote lesbianism in Kenya contrary to the law”. KFCB warned that anyone found in possession of the film would be in breach of the law in Kenya, where gay sex is punishable by 14 years in jail. The ban raised international outrage by the supporters of LGBT rights.

SILENT NIGHT (CICHA NOC) PIOTR DOMALEWSKI

Piotr Domalewski, film director, screenwriter and actor. His short films have won awards at various festivals across Europe. He is also a playwright. His play Five square meters has been awarded at the Metafory Rzeczywistostości Contest, a National competition for playwrights. His film Stranger has won Grand Prix at the International Film Festival Cinema forum in Warsaw. His feature debut Silent Night won Golden Lions –Grand Prize at 42nd Polish Film Festival in Gdynia.

Nu Metro 5, 15 Oct @ 5.30pm | Nu Metro 6, 19 Oct @ 12pm DIRECTOR: Piotr Domalewski COUNTRY: Poland | YEAR: 2017 |

TIME: 100min

SyNOPSIS Adam (Dawid Ogrodnik), who lives and works abroad, visits his family home in the Polish provinces on Christmas Eve. At first, he keeps the real reason for his visit to himself, but it isn’t long before he starts letting one relative after another in on his plans. His father (Arkadiusz Jakubik), his brother (Tomasz Ziętek), who he’s fallen out with, his sister (Maria Dębska) and her husband (Tomasz Schuchardt) all have a significant role to play in his scheme. Things get even more complicated when he announces that he’s going to be a father. At that point, in line with time-honoured Polish tradition, alcohol appears on the table. Nobody in the family has the slightest suspicion that the ensuing events of that Christmas Eve are going to have a massive impact on all their lives.

AWARDS

20 awards in various International Film Festivals.

SUPA MODO HEROES LIVE FOREVER ONE FINE DAY FILMS in co-production with GINGER INK FILMS AFRICA in association with DW AKADEMIE presents STYCIE WAWERU MARRIANNE NUNGO NYAWARA NDAMBIA in SUPA MODO cinematographer ENOS OLIK supervising cinematographer VOLKER TITTEL production designer NEHA MANOJ SHAH supervising production designer ULI HANISCH LAURIKA VENTER editor CHARITY KURIA supervising editor CHRISTIAN KRÄMER original music SEAN PEEVERS supervising screenplay NATJA BRUNCKHORST IAN MASTERS supervising director CLAUDIA PRIETZEL produced by SARIKA HEMI LAKHANI SIOBHAIN “GINGER” WILSON TOM TYKWER MARIE STEINMANN-TYKWER GUY WILSON written by MUGAMBI NTHIGA SILAS MIAMI WANJERI GAKURU KAMAU WANDUNG’U directed by LIKARION WAINAINA

Artwork by Ng'endo Mukii

SUPA MODO LIKARION WAINAINA

A Kenyan Filmmaker born in Moscow, Russia, lives and works in Nairobi, Kenya. Likarion started making films before branching to Theatre as an Actor.He became a member of the Phoenix Players,Nairobi Kenya, from 2007 and later worked as a theater Director all the while working in the film industry as a Gaffer,Cinematographer then Director. In this time he has gathered a wealth of experience and showcased his talents in various productions. As a cinematographer he has also worked on a number of documentaries and commercials and has directed TV shows. He has done a number of short films, His film ‘Between the Lines’, being one of his first short films, later became the first Kenyan Film to be projected on an IMAX screen in Kenya and got him a nomination at the AMCVA awards 2015 for “Best New Online Media”. And his other works have gained him multiple nominations and awards. His most recent Short Film endeavor was taking part at the 48Hour Film Festival 2015 where he and his team worked on the film Bait. It won several awards including Best Director, Audience Choice awards and Judges Choice awards. The film later was selected as one of the top short films screened at the Cannes Film Festival (2016).

Nu Metro 4, 12 Oct @ 8pm | Nu Metro 6, 17 Oct @ 5.30pm DIRECTOR: Likarion Wainaina COUNTRY: Kenya | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 74min

SyNOPSIS Story of a young girl whose dream of becoming a superhero is threatened by terminal illness, inspiring her village to rally together to make her dream come true.

AWARDS

7 awards in various International Film Festivals.

T jUNCTION AMIL SHIVjI

Amil Shivji is based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, his homeland, as a freelance filmmaker and lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam. He has set up an independent production house called Kijiweni Productions that is committed to telling local stories with an international standard. He also founded Kijiweni Cinema where African classical films are screened monthly followed by discussion and debate. He has written, directed and produced a few short fiction films that have addressed issues ranging from corruption and land grabbing to a commentary on the growing class divide. They have received worldwide recognition, participating in prestigious festivals such as International Film Festival Rotterdam and FESPACO in Burkina Faso as well as picking up many accolades on the way including winning Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Choice Award in Zanzibar and Best Director and Best Short film in Africa. His debut as a feature film producer was with Aisha (2015) and has been screened in Los Angeles, Seattle, Washington, Tanga, Toronto, Singapore and picked up four awards at the Zanzibar International Film Festival in July 2016. He recently released his directorial debut for a feature film called T-Junction (2017) that opened ZIFF 2017 and garnered three awards on the closing night.

Nu Metro 5, 11 Oct @ 2.30pm | Nu Metro 6, 16 Oct @ 10am DIRECTOR: Amil Shivji COUNTRY: United Republic of Tanzania | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 105min

SyNOPSIS After the passing of her estranged father, Fatima makes an unlikely friend at a hospital, Maria. Bound by pain, Fatima keeps coming back to hear Mariaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tale of the T-junction where she found love and loss in a ragtag community.

THE BALL (BALON) PASQUALE SCIMECA

Pasquale Scimeca, born in a small pleasant village in Sicily. After high school he moved to Florence where he graduated in Arts and he travelled to Europe and Africa. Author and producer among the most coherent European indipendent filmmakers on Scimeca, many degree theses were written in the most prestigious italian universities. With many of his films: “Placido Rizzotto”, “The Undesirables”, “Sem Terra”, “Passion of Joshua the Jewisc”, “Rosso Malpelo”,“The House by the Medlar Tree”, “Biagio” , participated, winning numerous awards, in official selections of the most important international festivals: Toronto (3 times), Venezia (5 times), Locarno (2 times), Pusan, London, Tokyo, Mar del Plata, Rio de Janeiro, L’ Havana, Shanghai, Cape Town, Giffoni, Roma, ecc. His films have been distributed, as well as in Italy and in many countries including: Usa, Australia, Canada, Japan, Iran, Spain, France, ecc.

SK Nouveau 5, 16 Oct @ 5.45pm | Nu Metro 6, 17 Oct @ 2.30pm DIRECTOR: Pasquale Scimeca COUNTRY: Italy, Sierra Leon | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 94min

SyNOPSIS AMIN and his sister ISOKE’ live in a village of poor people (without electricity or water) in Sub-Saharan Africa. One day, a band of predators attack the village, burn their home, and kill parents and brothers. Left alone, the two children flee north to the desert, where they are rescued by a couple of archaeologists who take them to Libya. Here they are captured by a militia, after months of imprisonment, of violence and work as slaves, they succeed in getting on a boat that drives the anchor towards the unknown…

AWARDS

TFF Torino Film Festival “Festa Mobile” - 2017 Gli occhiali di Gandhi Film Festival for Kids – Giardini Naxos - 2018 Cavalluccio Marino

THE ETERNITy BETWEEN SECONDS ALEC FIGURACION

Born, and raised in Bicol, and based in Manila, Jan Alec Figuracion is a 25-year-old filmmaker who has a degree in Psychology at the University of Santo Tomas, and holds a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Special Award in Directingâ&#x20AC;? recognition for his short thesis film at the International Academy of Film and Television in Cebu, Philippines. His first feature film, Bitukang Manok, for Cinema One Originals 2014, won Best Cinematography. He also works as a freelance editor and his works include 1st Sem for CineFilipino 2016, Hinulid for QCinema 2016, and other commercial video projects. The Eternity Between Seconds, his second feature, won five awards in the CineFilipino Film Festival 2018 in the Philippines including Best Film and Best Direction.

Nu Metro 6, 14 Oct @ 8pm | SK Nouveau 4, 16 Oct @ 6pm DIRECTOR: Alec Figuracion COUNTRY: Philippines | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 90min

SyNOPSIS Two strangers meet in Korea and form an intimate relationship as they bond over their loneliness, conversations and neuroses.This is a story about finding comfort in strangers, fleeting connections and moments that are never meant to last.

THE GREAT BUDHA + HSIN-yAO HUANG

As a documentary filmmaker, HUANG HsinYao is known for the satirical tone used to portray the dream and the disappointment of youth and the humorous narrative that enhances the preposterous situations one often faces in life. Bluffing (2005) won Best Documentary at the Golden Harvest Awards. His visual poem, Nimbus, shot by himself, won the Jury Prize at the 2010 Taiwan International Documentary Biennale, Best Cinematography at the Golden Harvest Awards and several other international film awards. In 2010, Taivalu bagged the Grand Prize and Best Documentary at the Taipei Film Awards.

Nu Metro 4, 14 Oct @ 2.15pm | Nu Metro 5, 17 Oct @ 8.15pm DIRECTOR: Hsin-yao Huang COUNTRY: Taiwan | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 102min

SyNOPSIS Pickle is a night security guard at a bronze statue factory. His colleague, Belly Bottom, works as a recycling collector during the day, and Pickle’s biggest pleasure in life is flicking through the porn magazines Belly Bottom collects in the small hours in the security room. Having late night snacks and watching television are an integral part of their dull lives. One day when the television is broken, their lives are changed forever. The story involves gods, the middle-aged men’s sexual desire and the conversation between ghosts and humans. Maybe the audience will find it preposterous, but isn’t life itself a farce?

AWARDS

15 awards in various International Film Festivals.

THE HEART FANNI METELIUS

Fanni Metelius is an actress and director, known for Force Majeure (2014), Banga inte(2011) and The Heart (2018).

Nu Metro 4, 12 Oct @ 5.30pm / 17 Oct @ 10.30pm DIRECTOR: Fanni Metelius COUNTRY: Sweden | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 100min

SyNOPSIS We follow a young couple, Mika and Tesfay, for 156 weeks â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from the first time they meet until long after their relationship has ended. The film centres around the attitudes of sex and love of young adults today, and is a generational tale of intimacy, sexuality, and inner revolution.

THE HOME ASGHAR yOUSEFI NEjAD Born in 1969 in Tabriz, Asghar Yousefi nejad is a graduate of Film Directing. He’s been an established film critic and writer in Iranian film periodicals and he’s made short films, documentaries and TV series since 1990. The Home is his first feature film.

Nu Metro 5, 13 Oct @ 2.30pm / 16 Oct @ 8pm DIRECTOR: Asghar Yousefi Nejad COUNTRY: Iran | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 78 min

SyNOPSIS An old man has died and left a will, requesting his relatives, including his only child, Sayeh, to give his body to the autopsy room of the city’s medical college. Sayeh, as the only child and inheritor, disagrees with her late father’s demand and refuses to deliver the body to the college agent. Different people, including her relatives and neighbors, try to convince her to respect and follow her father’s wish, however, her decision is not changed!

AWARDS

Transilvania International Film Festival 2018 Special Jury Award

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN TANG GAOPENG

Tang graduated from Beijing Broadcasting Institute in 1997 with a major in TV Commercial Creativity & Production. Tang worked for Beijing Culture Art A/V Publishing House, China Central Television Station Channel 2 and Zenith Film Productions (Beijing) as a Creative Group Head and a short film/MV/TVC director before starting his own studio and beginning a career as an independent director in 2002. Tang is regarded among the most outstanding TVC directors in China, well recognized for his conceptual thinking ability, visual narrative skills, pragmatic execution, unique sense of humor, as well as the delicate human touch in his works. At the 17th Shanghai international film festival in 2014, as co-writer of screenplay “The Road Not Taken”, Tang won the Special Regard Award for Film Market and he made his first feature film based on this script in 2016.

Nu Metro 2, 13 Oct @ 12pm | SK Nouveau 5, 17 Oct @ 12pm DIRECTOR: Tang Gaopeng COUNTRY: China | YEAR : 2018

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SyNOPSIS In the depths of western China’s Gobi Desert, Yong (Wang Xuebing) operates a dilapidated ostrich farm, which is the last throw of the dice for him as he tries to win back his ex-wife and repair his life. One day, Mr. Wu (Wang Xufeng) comes looking for a debt to be repaid. When Yong can’t come up with the money, Wu leaves a lonely little boy (Zhu Gengyou) behind, telling Yong to look after him. Suspecting his ex-wife might be considering another marriage, Yong can only take the boy along as he goes to find her. In three days crossing the Gobi, they meet a sad and depressed female trucker Mei (Ma YiLi), and the three lonely people become a pseudo-family.More people join the action and the relationship between Yong and the boy is constantly tested and evolving over this journey. In the end, through these series of random encounters, every person embarks on their own path of no return.

THE WEDDING RING (zIN’NAARIyÂ!) RAHMATOU KEÏTA

Born in Niger, the award winner, Rahmatou Keïta is a daughter of the Sahel. She is descendant of its oldest dynasty, the one of Sundjata Keïta. As she puts it, she is of the true essence of the Sahelian countries : She is Fulaani, Songhoy and Mandigo. After studying philosophy and linguistics in Paris, she started her career in France. Before becoming a movie director, she made herself a name as a journalist for European TV channels. With the team of the TV Magazine “L’Assiette Anglaise”, on French television France 2, they won the prestigious “7d’Or” Award. In 1993, she decided to devote her time to her true passions: writing and directing. She went on to direct documentary films. She directs short films and create the TV series Femmes d’Afrique (Women from Africa) (26 x 26 minutes episodes – 1993-1997), screened on national channels in Africa. With friends, Rahmatou Keïta started Sonrhay Empire Productions, to produce films “off” beaten tracks.

Nu Metro 2, 11 Oct @ 10am | Nu Metro 4, 19 Oct @ 4.45pm DIRECTOR: Rahmatou Keïta COUNTRY: Niger | YEAR: 2016 | TIME: 96min

SyNOPSIS Tiyaa is a student, member of a prestigious aristocratic family. She is back home to sultanate of Damagaran, in Niger Republic, for the Winter holidays. As planned, she is expecting the young man she met in the university she is studying, in France, to make a formal proposal of marriage. He too comes from a prestigious family, not far from Damagaran, in the Emirate of Maïduguri and her parents cannot reject such an eligible fiancé. Tiyaa is overwhelmed... While expecting him, she has time to inform her friends of this secret Parisian love. Life is pleasant and peaceful but time passes and the handsome suitor is slow to come. Tiyaa has the opportunity to discover in her surroundings other women whose love stories, marriage, desertion or divorce tell of the relationship between men and women in the Sahelian society.

THE WORLD IS FLAT (LA TERRE EST PLATE) MATTEO CARREGA BERTOLINI Matteo Carrega Bertolini was born in 1990. He grew up between France, Switzerland and Italy. In 2010 he directed his first short film « In The Wild Room » and opened in Sofia International Film Festival. Since then he directed many narrative shorts and explored also more experimental fictions. ‘The World is Flat’, presented at WEMW – work in progress programme during Trieste Film Festival, is his first feature film.

SK Nouveau 5, 13 Oct @ 8pm | Nu Metro 4, 18 Oct @ 5.30pm DIRECTOR: Matteo Carrega Bertolini COUNTRY: Switzerland, France, Italy | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 76min

SyNOPSIS Jean is a young man at the end of his studies, wandering in a city too big for him. His monotonous reality is shaken up when Antoine, a charismatic musician, takes him under his wing. The two comrades, bound by a powerful friendship, are carried away by the magical and unpredictable journey of life.

LETIzIA LAMARTIRE

WE’LL BE yOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL (SAREMO GIOVANI E BELLISSIMI) Nu Metro 6, 14 Oct @ 5.30pm | SK Nouveau 5, 19 Oct @ 12pm

Letizia Lamartire (1987) graduated from both the Conservatory in music and from the Accademia dello Spettacolo UNIKA in Bari, in acting. She then went on studying directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. Her graduation short film LITTLE ITALIAN GIRLS had its world premiere at the 32nd Venice International Film Critics’ Week. WE’LL BE YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL is her first feature film.

DIRECTOR: Letizia Lamartire COUNTRY: Italy | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 92min

SyNOPSIS Isabella still sings Tic Tac, the song that made her famous in the early nineties, when she was only seventeen. Her place is the Big Star, which has also become her second home. Her young son Bruno is her guitarist. The two are inseparable, they perform every night together and they share a ramshackle but happy life of unpaid bills and midnight strolls around the city. Bruno, however, dreams of a different musical career. Light touches of comedy and the music bring to life the slow but necessary separation between mother and son, a crucial and painful detachment. Just like the end of any other love story.

a lack of love story by h.pálmason MASTERPLAN PICTURES IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH JOIN MOTION PICTURES PRESENT WITH SUPPORT FROM DANISH FILM INSTITUTE NEW DANISH SCREEN & ICELANDIC FILM CENTRE A H.PÁLMASON FILM WINTER BROTHERS ELLIOTT CROSSET HOVE SIMON SEARS VICTORIA CARMEN SONNE LARS MIKKELSEN PETER PLAUGBORG MAKE-UP ARTIST KATRINE TERSGOV COSTUME DESIGNER NINA GRØNLUND PRODUCTION DESIGNER GUSTAV PONTOPPIDAN COMPOSER TOKE BRORSON ODIN SOUND DESIGNER LARS HALVORSEN EDITOR JULIUS KREBS DAMSBO CINEMATOGRAPHER MARIA VON HAUSSWOLFF DFF EXECUTIVE PRODUCER PER DAMGAARD HANSEN CO-PRODUCER ANTON MÁNI SVANSSON PRODUCERS JULIE WALTERSDORPH HANSEN & HLYNUR PÁLMASON WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY HLYNUR PÁLMASON

WINTER BROTHERS (VINTERBRØDRE) HLyNUR PALMASON

Hlynur Pálmason is an artist / filmmaker born in 1984 in Iceland. He started out as a visual artist and continued his career in filmmaking by pursuing education at the Danish National Film School. His graduation film, A Painter (2013), won best short film at Odense IFF, Reykjavík IFF and was nominated for The Danish Film Academy. His latest short film, Seven Boats (2014) premiered at Toronto IFF. His debut film Winter Brothers will premiere in the main competition in Locarno in 2017. Hlynur lives in Copenhagen with his fiancé and three children and is currently working on his second feature, A White, White Day, parallel with exhibiting art work and video installations.

SK Nouveau 4, 15 0ct@ 6.15pm / 16 Oct 8.30pm DIRECTOR: Hlynur Palmason COUNTRY: Denmark, Iceland | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 94min

SyNOPSIS A brother odyssey set in a rural chalk-mining community during a cold winter. We follow two brothers working in this harsh environment focusing on the younger brother Emil, who distills moonshine made from stolen chemicals from the factory. Emil is an outsider, an oddball, who made a conscious choice for loneliness and is only accepted by the mining community due to his older brother Johan. Emil longs for passion, for being wanted and loved. When a fellow worker becomes sick, the moonshine and Emil are prime suspects. Gradually a violent feud erupts between him and the tightly-knit mining community. Parallelly, Emil feels betrayed by his brother when he finds out that the neighbor girl Anna, the subject of his unfulfilled desires, chooses his older brother instead of him. Revenge, loneliness, and lack of love pervade this modern brother odyssey.

AWARDS

27 awards in various International Film Festivals.

SOUTH AFRICAN FEATURES

AyA KHALID EL-jELAILATI

With years of experience as a Director, Screenwriter, Producer and Entrepreneur, Khalid has an authentic filmic style, shaped by his love for classic cinema. Having been raised between two cultures, that of Lebanon and South Africa - which informs his strong visual identity that is dynamic, traditional and uniquely emotive. “The most important elements of cinema for me is story and character. A great combination of both gives you a film that’s captivating, thought provoking, and sophisticated.”

Nu Metro 5, 10 Oct @ 6pm / 12 Oct @ 2.30pm DIRECTOR: Khalid EL-Jelailati COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 60min

SyNOPSIS Written in 2 Days Filmed in 3 Days ‘AYA’ is a film that follows the anguish and resilience of Aya Seniya (Danica Del Ray) as she is dragged through the hell of being trafficked by Boyade Van Cleef(Richard Gau) who she meets online. This will be the first feature film offering from IMAGE STATE FILMS an exciting new Johannesburg based Motion Picture and Television studio. This dark thriller from Screenwriter, Director and Producer Khalid El-Jelailati serves as a meditation on the reality and consequences of human trafficking. A spiraling narrative that delves into a world of deception, manipulation and violence. Staying true to the stories that are taking place in our society, where young women and children are being trafficked and we’re still unable to prevent it, quite the opposite – things seem to be getting worse. This project is a first of its kind in South Africa, a fully independent, microbudget film that was written in 2 Days, prepped in 5 Days and filmed over 3 Days. Our aim is to prove that creating a micro-budget, quality feature film with minimal resources is absolutely possible for anyone who dares to try.

CAPTIVE (KO NKANGA) DAVID KABALE

David Kabale is a AFDA film graduate, acquiring hes degree in motion pictures specializing in the field of Cinematography. He now runs a production company called Silverback media, shooting music videos and short films from an array of genres and has collaborated with countless house hold musicians. Running a production company has pushed him to further his knowledge, opting him to direct and script write his own content, moulding him into a jack of all trades in the film industry.

Nu Metro 5, 15 Oct @ 8pm | Nu Metro 6, 17 Oct @ 12pm DIRECTOR: David Kabale COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 105min

SyNOPSIS After an immigrant woman moves into her auntâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house, she experiences sexual abuse at the hands of her in law. She must now make a choice of whether to submit or fight.

CUT-OUT GIRLS NICOLA HANEKOM

Born in South African, Nicola Hanekom studied drama at the University of Cape Town and City Varsity. She has been a freelance actress, director and writer for the past twenty years. Her theatre work, produced by her husband, Grant Swanby through their company Haas & Kaas, includes a series of site specific productions Betésda’, ‘Lot’, ‘Babbel’, ‘Trippie’ and ‘Land van Skedels’. These together with her latest play ‘In glas’ have garnered twelve Kanna awards, eleven Fiësta awards, two ATKV writing awards and one Aartvark award. Nicola was also awarded the Eugene Marais prize for her collection of plays ‘Die pad byster’. She has written and directed two short films’, ‘Trippie’ and ‘Unspoken’. Her short, ‘Trippie’ won two Silwerskermfees awards. ‘Cut-Out Girls’ is her first feature film.

SK Nouveau 4, 11 Oct @ 8.30pm | Nu Metro 4, 17 Oct @ 6.30pm DIRECTOR: Nicola Hanekom COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 85min

SyNOPSIS Cut-Out Girls is the story of how six young women’s lives are altered by the actions of two aspiring sportsmen. Kevin and Mike are young men trying to get ahead in the competitive world of tennis. When one of them discovers a dangerous key that can unlock their potential, things get out of hand. Their worlds become intertwined and spiral out of control. A small series of seemingly insignificant moments weave together with devastating consequences. In every moment lies a choice. The frightening truth is that we all can turn from ‘us’ to ‘them’. The trick, the prayer, the hope is that we won’t. Cut-Out Girls is inspired by the #MeToo movement and is a film about date rape aimed at creating social change.

DEEP END EUBULUS TIMOTHy

At the age of eleven Eubulus Timothy knew he wanted to be a filmmaker as he had just produced he’s first 8mm movie, a gangster flick entitled ‘Young Destroyers’. It was only later that he had the heart and drive to change careers, fulfilling his childhood dreams in the New South Africa by writing, directing and producing, Bridging The Gap, for ETV, the second largest national television network. It was the first ever, live broadcast from Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela spent most of his 27 years of incarceration. His contribution to the industry in South Africa, though very short, led him to be elected as the founding Chairperson of the Cape Film Commission in Cape Town. He recently won the Hartley-Merrill National Screenwriting Award in Hollywood for he’s script Surf ‘n Bhoondi. He also received the Dhevarum Award for his contribution to the Indian community in South Africa in 2003. Eubulus was nominated for The Paul Robeson Award 2005 Fespaco in Bufino Faso. He was consultant to the Durban Film Office.

SK Nouveau 4, 14 Oct @ 6.15pm | SK Nouveau 5, 15 Oct @ 5.30pm DIRECTOR: Eubulus Timothy COUNTRY : South Africa | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 90min

SyNOPSIS Sunitha aspires for what is not expected of her. She has to dig deep with a new resolve and confidence to overcome familiar cliches and introduce new lifestyle choices in a traditional community and rise above her father’s expectations to become her own woman.

DOMINEE TIENIE SALLAS DE jAGER

Born in August 1979 in South African, Sallas has been telling stories through music as a member of the famous Afrikaans music group, Klopjag, since 2002. He started his film career as the co-writer and a producer of the much celebrated Afrikaans drama Roepman in 2010. He also wrote and produced the award winning films Verraaiers and Stuur groete aan Mannetjies Roux before making his directorial debut with Musiek vir die Agtergrond in 2013. He followed it up with writing and directing the globally celebrated Free State in 2015 and the South African box office hit Jonathan in 2016. To date the films he wrote or co-written the screenplays for, won 17 awards and numerous nominations, a testament that he understands character and writing for cinema. He won “Best African Director” at IIFFSA 2014 for Musiek vir die agtergrond as well as “Best director” at the 2016 Luxor African Film Festival in Egypt for Free State.

SK Nouveau 4, 12 Oct @ 8.30pm | Nu Metro 6, 15 Oct @ 5pm DIRECTOR: Sallas De Jager COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 97min

SyNOPSIS After sixteen years as the reverend of the mother church, Tienie Benade is confronted with a steep decline in the number of churchgoers and a modern society that is rapidly changing. Do clergymen, or even the church, still have a role to play in this world? He is trying his best to adapt and make sense of the changes, but, in the process, he is alienating his wife and children. After an incident with a dying vagrant, Tienie finds himself at a crossroads. Will he be able to regain his self-confidence and win back the love of his family and will he be brave enough to provide guidance to his congregation in this new era? Based on the play by Dana Snyman.

EPIPHANy jOSEPH jONES UMBA

A Director, Writer & Editor, Joseph Jones Umba, born June 16, 1992 in Lubumbashi, DRC graduated with an honors degree from AFDA in live performance. Subsequently directing two features.

Nu Metro 4, 14 Oct @ 8pm | Nu Metro 5, 17 Oct @ 10am DIRECTOR: Joseph Jones Umba COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 104min

SyNOPSIS After a clerical insemination error, an acquiescent woman must choose between her conservative husband and a child that has eluded her.

AWARDS

Gopo Awards Romania 2018 - Best Sound

MAyFAIR SARA BLECHER

Originally from South Africa, Blecher’s family moved to New York when she was 12 years old. Her family is originally of Jewish Lithuanian origin, which informs some of her work. After a brief spell at Georgetown University, Blecher lived in Paris for a year and enrolled in film school upon her return to New York. In 1992, shortly after graduating, she returned to South Africa. She directed the documentaries Surfing Soweto and Kobus And Dumile. She was nominated for Best Movie Director at the 2013 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards for her first film Otelo Burning, a story of how 16-year-old Otelo Buthelez learns how to surf amidst apartheid. The film won 17 awards internationally. It is in Zulu with English subtitles and stars Jafta Mamabolo, Thomas Gumede and Tshepang Mohlomi. Following the success of Otelo Burning, Blecher received funding from the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) for a “slate of films”. Her second film Ayanda premiered October 10 at the 2015 BFI London Film Festival and took international honors at the LA Film Festival in 2015. Blecher graduated from NYU. She is married and has three children.

Nu Metro 5, 11 Oct @ 8pm | Nu Metro 6, 15 Oct @ 7.45pm DIRECTOR: Sara Blecher COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 92min

SyNOPSIS This fourth film from acclaimed South African director and DIFF regular Sara Blecher provides a fresh look at the gangster genre from a very different perspective. Set in the Johannesburg suburb of Mayfair, an area that was previously defined as ‘Indian’ by the architects of apartheid but has since become a melting pot of new migrants from across the continent, the film tells the story of the relationship between crime boss Aziz (Rajesh Gopie) and his son Zaid (Ronak Patani). As the film progresses, Blecher peels back the layers of moral hypocrisy that lurk beneath the veneer of Aziz’s respectability. Zaid rejects and abhors everything about his father’s moral choices & until he learns that his dad once had to make the exact same choice that he is now being forced to make. By providing a female perspective on both a traditionally male genre and a story about manhood, Blecher has created a film that both celebrates and extends the limits of the genre. A compelling story about family, freedom and faith, Mayfair is another truly South African film from one of the country’s most gifted directors.

SEW THE WINTER TO My SKIN jAHMIL X.T. QUBEKA

Award-winning filmmaker and screenwriter Jahmil X.T. Qubeka’s body of work has spanned over 15 years, covering a broad spectrum of disciplines. His documentary and feature film work has received accolades, awards and critical acclaim at prestigious international film festivals including Toronto International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, London Film Festival, and Pusan International Film Festival, amongst others. In 2005 an AIDS documentary he directed for Sesame Street won a prestigious Peabody Award in America. Among his many successes, Jahmil was the 2014 South African Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year in the Film category. His second feature film Of Good Report (2013) has the inauspicious reputation of being the first feature film banned in PostApartheid South Africa. The first African film in Official Competition at the London Film Festival, it went on to win the BAFTA LA Best Feature Prize at the Pan African Film Festival and numerous awards at the Africa Movie Academy Awards including Best Feature. It also received an unprecedented seven awards at the South African Film and Television Awards, including Best Film and Best Director.

SK Nouveau 5, 16 Oct @ 8.15pm DIRECTOR: Jahmil X.T. Qubeka COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 131min

SyNOPSIS A cinematic ballad of indigenous outlaw John Kepe, Sew the Winter to My Skin explores the true myth of a legendary black rebel folk hero in mid 20th century South Africa, a time that foreshadowed Apartheid, one of the most viciously racist political regimes in human history. In the rural Great Karoo region, the bandit John Kepe terrorises white farmers, stealing their livestock and supplies to give back to his impoverished communities. General Botha, an embittered World War II veteran, becomes obsessed with the capture of the notorious Kepe and leads an epic manhunt for him through the mountains, where he is rumoured to occupy a mysterious cave. Evading capture for over a decade, outwitting Botha and the settlers, John Kepe’s raids become ever more brazen and his escapes from the authorities ever more daring. The outlaw’s legend grows in the hearts and minds of the poor and marginalised indigenous population, and the self-proclaimed “Samson of the Boschberg Mountains” emerges as both an enigma to his pursuers and a romantic object of adoration for his fellow victims of oppression. With John Kepe’s very existence representing a threat to the inevitable march of colonial displacement, the hunt to capture and kill the outlaw reaches a desperate crescendo, and his mythological status as a hero and symbol of resistance is cemented forever.

SODIUM DAy RIAz SOLKER

Riaz Solker has worked in various capacities as a writer, director, producer, actor and lecturer over the past twenty years in the South African film industry. Notable highlights in his career include his eightpart mini-series ‘Here’s to Good Times’, as well as placing third in the worldwide standings of the 48 Hour film competition, where his short film ‘Past Tense’ screened at the Cannes Film Festival. Riaz currently teaches directing and acting at City Varsity Cape Town.

Nu Metro 5, 10 Oct @ 7.45pm | SK Nouveau 5, 12 Oct @ 12.30pm DIRECTOR: Riaz Solker COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 100min

SyNOPSIS Sodium day is a drama/comedy/tragedy slice-of-life film about a tumultuous day in the life of a mixed bag of students at a poor government school on the Cape Flats called John Shelby High. Grade 12Y (the class letter is after the surname of the class teacher) is the only class doing Mathematics at a matric level at the school. It’s September, a month away from the matric exams and they still don’t have a maths teacher. Six woefully unqualified temps have already come and gone during the year leaving everyone hopelessly inadequately prepared for the upcoming finals. The class is made up of a cynical and disenfranchised mixed group of black and coloured students, and the latent racism that still exists in this environment often rises to the surface. A newly qualified white substitute teacher arrives to teach maths, though he isn’t a maths teacher…he’s qualified as a History and English teacher. Through his eyes we are introduced to the characters in the class. The day is further complicated by the arrival of a teacher and a group of students from a rich, upper class school, whose day-long visit is part of a cultural exchange programme, but who are shunted around from class to class by cynical, burnt out teachers who don’t want interlopers in their classes, until they arrive at 12Y, because the substitute teacher doesn’t know any better. A clash of approaches, cultures and personalities ensues.

THE HARVESTERS (DIE STROPERS) ETIENNE KALLOS

Etienne Kallos is a Greek-South African Director. His early works, documentaries, were screened at the Berlin International Film Festival. His first short, Doorman, was presented at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival (Cinéfondation section) and at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. His thesis film, Firstborn, won the Lion d’Or for Best Short Film at the Venice Film Festival in 2009. The Harvesters is his first feature.

Nu Metro 4, 10 Oct @ 2.30pm | SK Nouveau 5, 17 Oct @ 8.30pm DIRECTOR: Etienne Kallos COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 102min

SyNOPSIS South Africa, Free State region, isolated stronghold to the Afrikaans white ethnic minority culture. In this conservative farming territory obsessed with strength and masculinity, Janno is different, secretive, emotionally frail. One day his mother, fiercely religious, brings home Pieter, a hardened street orphan she wants to save, and asks Janno to make this stranger into his brother. The two boys start a fight for power, heritage and parental love.

Etienne Kallos est un réalisateur grecosud africain. Ses premiers travaux, documentaires, sont sélectionné au Festival de Berlin. Son premier court-métrage de fiction, Doorman, est présenté en 2007 aux Festivals de Cannes (dans la section Cinéfondation) et de Sundance. Son film de fin d’études, Firstborn, remporte le Lion d’Or du meilleur court-métrage à Venise en 2009. Les moissonneurs est son premier long-métrage.

WE ARE THANKFUL (SIyABONGA) jOSHUA MAGOR

Joshua Magor (b. 1991) is a South African filmmaker originally from KwaZulu Natal. After developing an interest in filmmaking at high school, Joshua earned a scholarship to study English Literature and Economics at the University of Edinburgh and then progressed to do his masters degree in Filmmaking at the London Film School. Working as a director, writer and cinematographer Joshua’s short films have been screened and won awards at over twenty festivals around the world. Most recently his debut feature “Siyabonga” was selected for the Official Competition at Locarno Film Festival, making its world premiere in the Concorso Cineasti del Presente section. “Siyabonga” will be make its national premiere at the Cape Town International Film Festival.

Nu Metro 4, 11 Oct @ 2pm | Nu Metro 5, 13 Oct @ 8.30pm DIRECTOR: Joshua Magor COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 97min

SyNOPSIS Siyabonga, named after main character Siyabonga Majola, is a docufiction film set in contemporary KwaZulu Natal. In the film we follow Siyabonga, a young man making theatre plays in the township of Mphopomeni. One day he hears the surprising news that a movie is to be made in a nearby town and makes it his mission to be a part of the film. From conspiring with a maid to steal wifi from the umlungus, to rejecting a friend’s plea for him to improve his luck by using witchcraft, Siyabonga’s journey takes him to a meeting with the film’s director where we observe the conversation that caused We Are Thankful to come into existence. A film based on real events, re-enacted by those who lived through them, we follow this extraordinary man as he does all he can to try and improve his life and take control of his fortune.

LGBT

GIRL LUKAS DHONT

Lukas Dhont was born in Ghent, Belgium. He graduated with a diploma in audio-visual arts from the KASK School Of Arts in Ghent. His short films, CORPS PERDU and L’INFINI, received numerous prizes. L’INFINI also qualified for the Oscars in 2015. Throughout his studies, he focused on fiction but also explored the possibilities of documentary. In 2016 Lukas Dhont participated in the Cannes Cinéfondation residency with the script for his first feature film, GIRL. This film combines themes the filmmaker has already explored, including: dance, transformation and identity. Lukas Dhont collaborates regularly with choreographer and dancer Jan Martens with whom he co-signed a performance titled “The Common People”.

SK Nouveau 5, 11 Oct @ 8.15pm | Nu Metro 4, 19 Oct @ 2pm DIRECTOR: Lukas Dhont COUNTRY: Belgium | Netherlands | TIME: 105 min | YEAR: 2018

SyNOPSIS Determined 15-year-old Lara is committed to becoming a professional ballerina. With the support of her father, she throws herself into this quest for the absolute at a new school. Lara’s adolescent frustrations and impatience are heightened as she realises her body does not bend so easily to the strict discipline because she was assigned male at birth.

I MISS yOU WHEN I SEE yOU SIMON CHUNG

Chung was born and brought up in Hong Kong, and from the age of fifteen, in the city of Toronto in Canada, where he attended high school. He was later educated at York University in Toronto, where he majored in Film, followed by Hong Kong Baptist University, in Kowloon Tong in Hong Kong, where he made his first independent films in the technical department and at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Shatin, in Hong Kong’s New Territories, where he took a master’s degree in Cultural Studies

Nu Metro 6, 11 Oct @ 2pm | Nu Metro 4, 15 Oct @ 5pm DIRECTOR: Simon Chung COUNTRY: China | TIME: 93 min | YEAR: 2018

SyNOPSIS In a story that is constantly mutating, director Simon Chung mines the territory between gay and straight, love and obsession. After 10 years apart, one friend travels to Australia to catch up with the other. If Jamie has moved on with his life, Kevin had a breakdown from which he is still recovering. From out of the blue, he relocates to Hong Kong where he insinuates himself into Jamie’s life—staying at his apartment, working at his tutorial center, and hanging out with his girlfriend. When a student pursues one of the men, long-buried secrets rise to the surface, forcing a reckoning with the past.

Chung’s first film short was Chiwawa Express, made in 1992. His first full-length feature film, Innocent, made in 2005, premiered at the Hong Kong International Film Festival and won the NFB Best Canadian Film Award at the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival. His second feature, End of Love, premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2009, while his third, Speechless, premiered at the BFI London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. He is a founding member of Ying e Chi, an independent film distributor in Hong Kong.

jUST FRIENDS (GEWOON VRIENDEN) Nu Metro 6, 10 Oct @ 2.30pm / 13 Oct @ 10pm DIRECTOR: Ellen Smit COUNTRY: The Netherlands | TIME: 78 min | YEAR: 2018

SyNOPSIS Dreamy medical student Yad moves backs home after too much partying in Amsterdam and not enough studying. He attempts to land a job as a surf instructor, but ends up as home help for elderly clients, much to his parent’s disapproval. He is at his client Ans’ home when Yad meets Joris, Ans’ grandson, who is dealing with his own family drama – including carting his father’s dead ashes around. They share an instant chemistry, but Joris plays coy, ignoring Yad’s request for his number. Ans plays matchmaker and helps Yad get Joris’ attention. Their relationship blossoms, but they are forced to deal head on with their personal family dynamics before becoming anything more than just friends. When two different worlds collide, a defiant love erupts On the 10th anniversary of his dad’s death, Joris still tries to come to terms with his father’s absence when he meets the free-spirited Yad, who returns back home to his family after living on his own. Although very different, there is an instant spark between the two and they want to be more than “just friends”, but both have issues with their mothers that threaten to jeopardize their relationship.

KANARIE CHRISTIAAN OLWAGEN Christiaan Olwagen started his career in theatre. A Rosalie Van der Gucht and Standard Bank Young Artist recipient. Theatrical highlights include The Seagull, A Doll’s House, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and The House of Bernarda Alba.

SK Nouveau 4, 10 Oct @ 8.30pm / 17 Oct @ 8.30pm DIRECTOR: Christiaan Olwagen COUNTRY: South Africa | TIME: 120 min | YEAR: 2017

SyNOPSIS A coming-of-age gay & lesbian musical war drama about a small town boy who gets chosen to serve his compulsory two year military training in the South African Defence Force Choir and Concert group- known as the “Canaries”- during the height of the Apartheid regime.

MALILA: THE FAREWELL FLOWER ANUCHA BOONyAWATANA Born in Nakhon Phanom, north-eastern Province of Thailand, in 1981. Anucha Boonyawatana is the Thai independent film director and founder of G-Motif Production, one of the largest video production companies in Thailand. Anucha’s final academic year film “Down The River”, combination of Buddhist philosophy and Thai art and a love story of a gay couple, won Young Thai Artist Award and has been shown at several film festivals. Anucha collaborated with TUC, Thai-American Public Health Agency (under the US government) and UNESCO to direct the online movie “Love Audition1,2” aim to promote health and relationships among Thai gay teenagers. In 2012, her short film “Erotic Fragments No.1,2,3” was screened in competition in Berlinale Shorts at Berlin International Film Festival. Anucha’s first feature film “The Blue Hour” is selected to be in Panorama section of Berlin International Film Festival 2015. Malila is the director’s second feature film.

Nu Metro 2, 14 Oct @ 12pm | SK Nouveau 4, 19 Oct @ 5pm DIRECTOR: Anucha Boonyawatana COUNTRY: Thailand | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 96min

SyNOPSIS A visual poetry of life of a couple combined with a traditional Thai Bai Sri art and Buddhist philosophy. Pitch and Shane, who once were lovers, are trying to heal the pain of their contemporary lives by reviving their old romance through the fabricating of the traditional Thai ornament which is made of leaves and flowers and symbolizes love and virtue. When Shane finds out that Pich is dying, he decides to be a monk forever.

MARIO MARCEL GISLER

Born in 1960 in Altstätten, Switzerland. Since 1981 lives in Berlin. Studied Drama and Philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin. Since 1985 works as producer, screenwriter, director and as lecturer at various film schools in Switzerland and Germany. 1999 Swiss Film Award, Best Fiction Film for “F. est un salaud”. 2013 Zurich Film Award for “Rosie”. 2015 Swiss film Award, Best Documentary Film for “Electroboy”.

SK Nouveau 5, 14 Oct @ 8.15pm | Nu Metro 6, 16 Oct @ 5.30pm DIRECTOR: Marcel Gisler COUNTRY: Switzerland | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 124min

SyNOPSIS A young Swiss soccer player has been training very hard but his hopes of professional advancement are complicated by the fact that he falls in love with a fellow player in the — excuse the pun — straightforward drama Mario. Though a tad too protracted, this is again an accessible work that tackles German-speaking Switzerland’s complex attitude toward homosexuality in the vein of some of the earlier work from director Marcel Gisler, such as the crowdpleaser Rosie and the fascinating documentary Electroboy. It caused a minor scandal when it was dropped from the Ecrans Junior program in Cannes, which is aimed at school kids, over objections about its contents, even though it was rated as suitable for “all audiences” in France, where it will be released Aug. 1. Indeed, there is nothing objectionable about this feature, which is so well acted it managed to take home statues in the best actor and best supporting actress categories at the most recent Swiss Film Awards. Besides Switzerland, Germany and France, this well-made if familiar drama has already sold to several other territories as well, including Arti Film in the Netherlands, Peccadillo in the U.K. and Wolfe Releasing stateside.

POSTCARDS FROM LONDON STEVE MCLEAN

Steve McLean studied politics and philosophy at the University of East Anglia. Everything was going according to plan, until one day he enrolled in a “History of Film”class where he was exposed to Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock. On returning to London, he pursued his new found interest in the visual arts by working in the Art Department on commercials and music videos. Over the years Steve worked with artists such as George Michael, The Communards, and Depeche Mode. He then directed pop videos for, amongst others, Jimmy Sommerville. Steve moved to New York to develop a feature project based on the writings of the American artist David Wojnarowitz. The critically acclaimed film ‘Postcards From America’ produced by Christine Vachon at Killer Films – played in competition at Sundance, Berlin and The New York Film Festival. Following the success of Postcards From America, Steve found himself working in other fields, until a chance meeting with Lizzie Francke, one of the Senior Film Fund Execs at the BFI. The meeting ignited Steve’s passion for film once more, and with the financial and creative support of Lizzie and the BFI, Steve created Postcards From London.

SK Nouveau 5, 12 Oct @ 6pm | Nu Metro 6, 17 Oct @ 8pm DIRECTOR: Steve McLean COUNTRY: UK | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 88min

SyNOPSIS Postcards From London tells the story of beautiful teenager Jim who, having travelled from the suburbs, finds himself in Soho where he falls in with a gang of unusual high class male escorts – The Raconteurs – who specialise in post-coital conversation. From shy novice to sought after escort, and eventually artist’s muse, Jim would be the toast of the town if it wasn’t for his annoying affliction – Stendhal Syndrome – a rare condition which causes him to hallucinate and faint. When Jim is roped into the world of detecting art forgery, could his condition bring about his downfall?

RETABLO ALVARO DELGADO APARICIO A film director, he studied psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science and innovation design at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), before going on to attend the London Film Academy. After making two highly successful short films, Retablo is his debut feature. It was developed through the Sundance Feature Film Program Lab and screened at the 2017 Festival de Cine de Lima where it won the prize for Best Peruvian Film.

Nu Metro 6, 16 Oct @ 8.30pm | Nu Metro 5, 18 Oct @ 5pm DIRECTOR: Alvaro Delgado Aparicio COUNTRY: Peru, Germany, Norway | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 95min

SyNOPSIS Segundo sees silence as his only option for dealing with his father Noé’s secret. The 14-year-old lives with his parents in a village high up in the mountains of Peru. Noé is a respected artisan and Segundo’s role model. With loving eye for detail, he artfully crafts altarpieces for church and homes, and is preparing his son to follow in his footsteps. But cracks form in their tight bond.

SOLDIERS STORy FROM FERENTARI IVANA MLADENOVIC

Ivana Mladenovic was born in Serbia. After studying Law in Belgrade, she moved to Bucharest, Romania where she graduated in Film Directing at the National School of Film and Theatre (UNATC) in 2010. In 2011 she finished her MA studies in Film Directing at the same university. Her short student films were shown at various film festivals around the world. She started working on her first feature documentary, Turn Off the Lights(2012), in 2009 and finished it after three years of work. The film follows three young ex-convicts after their release from prison. The documentary was developed in the acting workshops organized in the Jilava prison by director Florin Serban who invited her to join the project. “Turn Off The Lights” premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2012 and later won the Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Documentary and the Gopo Award for Best Romanian Documentary. She appeared as an actress in Radu Jude’s acclaimed feature film Scarred Hearts (2016).

Nu Metro 5, 15 Oct @ 2.30pm | SK Nouveau 5, 18 Oct @ 8pm DIRECTOR: Ivana Mladenovic COUNTRY: Belguim, Romania, Serbia | TIME: 120min | YEAR: 2017

SyNOPSIS Seeking someone to smooth his introductions to the cautiously closedoff, police-harassed local “gypsy” society, Adi stumbles upon garrulous, guileless, beer-bellied Alberto (Vasile Pavel-Digudai), who went from a rough upbringing to a long prison stint. After a couple years of homelessness, he’s living with a wealthy crime-boss cousin as a glorified servant. Ostensibly heterosexual, he’s half-hustler, half-suitor in his dealings with Adi, who it turns out isn’t averse to a little same-sex nookie, either. The relationship develops from there, though it seems on the verge of imploding at any minute. With a child’s impulsiveness and no sense of adult responsibility, Alberto, who has a gambling problem, constantly taxes Adi’s limited finances. Word of their liaison soon gets around, with a feared cousin threatening to “break all their legs” over the disgrace if he sees them. Naturally, Adi’s hopes of gaining access to the general community and its musicians go up in smoke. But the two men are equally attracted and indecisive enough to keep this awkward match going on for a while.

THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST DESIREE AKHAVAN

Akhavan made her first short film Two Drink Minimum while studying in London as a graduate student. In 2010, she wrote and directed the short film Nose Job. Akhavan has regularly appeared in her own work since after writing, directing, and acting in the lesbianthemed web series The Slope.for which she and Ingrid Jungermann, her creative partner, were named to Filmmaker’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2012. The series premiered in 2011. She plays a writing student in Season 4 of Girls. The role was offered to her after Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner saw her film Appropriate Behaviour. In 2014, Akhavan’s film Appropriate Behaviour, in which she plays an alternative version of herself, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The film was first written as her senior thesis paper as a graduate student at New York University. Although it is inspired by personal events in Akahvan’s life, such as the break up of her first lesbian relationship, she has asserted that the film is not autobiographical. That year, she was also selected for the Sundance Institute’s Episodic Story Lab for her pilot script Switch Hitter. She has stated she drawn inspiration from people such as Woody Allen, Todd Solondz, and Noah Baumbach.

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DIRECTOR: Desiree Akhavan COUNTRY: France | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 93 min

SyNOPSIS In 1993 after teenage Cameron is caught in the backseat of a car with the prom queen, she is sent away to a treatment center in a remote area called God’s Promise. While she is being subjected to questionable gay conversion therapies, she bonds with some fellow residents as they pretend to go along with the process while waiting to be released.

WALKING WITH SHADOWS FUMNI IyANDA

Nu Metro 5, 12 oct @ 8pm | Nu Metro 6, 18 Oct @ 12pm DIRECTOR: Fumni Iyanda, Aoife Kelly COUNTRY: Nigeria, UK | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 95min

AOIFE KELLy

Funmi Iyanda is a multi-award winning TV host, Writer, Film and TV producer. She was creator of Nigeria’s most iconic talk show, NEW DAWN for which she won 57 industry awards including the Nigerian Media Merit Award for TV presenting. Aoife O’Kelly is an Irish writer/director, based in London. In 2016, she completed her MA in Directing Fiction at Goldsmith’s University. She also holds a BA in English Literature and Psychology and an Msc in Applied Digital Media. Aoife has worked in TV and film production for nearly a decade, She has worked on a variety of formats and subject matters including docs, features and animation.

SyNOPSIS In Lagos, Nigeria, Ebele Njoko has been running away from his true identity his entire life. A search for validation and love from his family, has led him to create a character at variance with himself but one more acceptable to society. Suddenly, Adrian’s past and secrets have caught up with him and his world soon begins to crumble as he frantically tries to control the growing ripple effect of a revelation. In a context of strong religious and cultural beliefs the repercussions of this news soon threatens the perfect life he had created. Adrian now has to confront past traumas and starts a quest for acceptance and understanding. Walking In Shadows is adapted from Jude Dibia’s 2005 book of the same title, which was awarded Sweden’s Natur och Kultur Prize.

DOCUMENTARIES

AMAL MOHAMED SIAM

Siam is a documentary and fiction films director and a cinematographer who has received several international grants and prizes in support of his films, including from Sundance Institute, World Cinema Fund, CNC, Aide aux Cinémas du Monde, Sorfond, Vision Sud Est, Doha Film Institute, IDFA Bertha Fund, Catapult Film Fund, Hot Docs Blue Ice Fund, OIF, Cinereach, Arab Fund for Arts & Culture and Screen Institute Beirut. His films were shown in international film festivals such as KVIFF, NYFF, Hot Docs, Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage and IDFA. Whose Country was sold by Wide House in France and distributed by Kino Lorber and been broadcasted by ITVS in the US among other channels. His last film Amal was IDFA’s Opening Film 2017. Siam’s cinematography can be seen in The Trials of The Spring (dir. Gini Reticker, producer Abigail Disney – Fork Films) which Siam line produced as well, and The Path (dir. Senain Kheshgi) – both films coproduced with ITVS.

Nu Metro 5, 11 Oct @ 6pm | Nu Metro 4, 15 Oct @ 2.30pm DIRECTOR: Mohamed Siam COUNTRY: Egypt, Lebanon, France, Germany, Norway, Denmark YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 83min

SyNOPSIS Amal is a feisty teenager growing up in post-revolution Egypt while they’re both undergoing a tremendous change. Within a constant political turmoil, Amal searches for her place, identity and sexuality in a patriarchal society. Amal, whose name literally translates to “hope”, is embarking on a 6 year compelling journey from childhood to adulthood. Along the way, she realizes her limited options as a woman living in an Arab police state.

AWARDS

FidaDoc 2018 Human Rights Prize Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqGSRPajThQ

DANCHI WOMAN AKIKO SUGIMOTO

Born in 1979 in Tokyo. After graduating from university, SUGIMOTO worked for a television production company. After working in various industries outside the visual industry for several years, she studied scriptwriting. Since 2008, SUGIMOTO has visited Seaside Road Danchi apartment complex in Yokohama and completed her own independent film, “Seaside Road Danchi Story” in 2009. The film was screened at the “CREAM International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama” and independently mainly in Yokohama. SUGIMOTO is interested in recording and presenting some of the “lives” of people in “housing complexes” in Japan and the world.

Nu Metro 2, 12 Oct @ 10am | Nu Metro 4, 16 Oct @ 12.30pm DIRECTOR: Akiko Sugimoto COUNTRY: Japan | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 66min

SyNOPSIS 85 years old and never married, Shizu has spent the past 3 decades living in one “Danchi” - the Japanese word for public housing - and filling it with the lifetime of souvenirs that have always kept her company. When the danchi is scheduled for demolition, Shizu and neighbors must say goodbye to their homes, and move into newer danchi that are too small to hold all of Shizu’s momentos.This intimate documentary captures Shizu’s sense of humor, and profound nostalgia, as she sorts through relics of her past, and chooses which memories she must fit into her new home, and which ones she can let go of. Trailer: https://vimeo.com/131187237

DIAMONDS, BACKPACKS AND A MATCHBOX AMIRAH TAjDIN

Amirah Tajdin (1986), is a Kenyan artist and filmmaker. She graduated from Rhodes University with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Photography) in South Africa and Goucher College Maryland (USA). She is most recently a Sundance Institute Fellow having participated in both the Director’s Lab in 2018 and the Screenwriters Lab in 2017 in Utah with her feature film project Hawa Hawaii set in the Swahili community of Mombasa, Kenya (currently in development). She splits her time between Africa and the Middle East balancing freelance commercial directing work as well as independent fiction and documentary both locally and internationally. Her co-directed short, Marea de Tierra (2015) premiered at the Cannes Director’s Fortnight as part of the Chile Factory Residency. The film was also part of Sundance Film Festival in 2016 under the International Shorts Program and went to play over twenty film festivals globally. She has written & directed numerous visual pieces. Fluorescent Sin (2011) and His To Keep (2013) both short films, played various festivals, with Fluorescent Sin garnering Jury Special Mention awards at the Zanzibar International Film Festival and Film Africa London.

Nu Metro 6, 10 Oct @ 5pm | Nu Metro 5, 18 Oct @ 10am DIRECTOR: Amirah Tajdin COUNTRY: UAE, UK, Kenya, Jordan | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 72 min

SyNOPSIS It’s been over six years since the Syrian revolution. In this lyrical homage to the pains of plight, Diamonds, Backpacks and a Matchbox chronicles the ongoing aftermath of the revolution, recounted by some of it’s ‘survivors’. These survivors, known to us simply as Syrian Refugees, recount their personal upheavals and hopes, both on an emotional and physical scale. In doing so, they piece together one of history’s (on going) darkest chapters, from a first hand experience. Thus becoming the testaments of a displaced nation, a portrait of Syria, from inside refugee camps across Jordan and Lebanon, which were filmed over the months of December 2016 to January 2017.

DISTRICT SIX RISING FROM THE DUST WEAAM WILLIAMS

Weaam Williams, is a screen-writer, director and poet. She has found her voice as a woman and activist using cinema. Weaam started her career in the film and TV industry as writer for a popular South African TV drama series, titled “Soul Buddyz”. Her directorial debut, Hip-Hop Revolution (48min), had its International Premiere at Silverdocs (Washington DC) in 2007. It won the Best Edited Film award at NYC Reel Sisters Film Festival in 2008, and has been broadcasted in 28 countries. In 2009-2013 she undertook an independent filmmaking project: “A Khoe Story Docu- Trilogy” for Southern African distribution. The three part documentary series is about the language, genocide and remaining culture of South Africa’s indigenous people. It has been acquired as official high school and university curriculum material in South Africa. During this period, she was invited as a juror to the International Emmy’s Documentary Competition (2012). Weaam undertook her latest film, District Six Rising from the Dust in 2013 after moving into District Six. The film is a personal story from the inside looking out.

Nu Metro 6, 18 Oct @ 6.30pm DIRECTOR: Weaam Williams COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 90min

SyNOPSIS The memory of District Six is an iconic to Cape Town as Table Mountain. It is remembered as a cosmopolitan neighbourhood, and a hub of art, music and culture. In 1960 District Six was declared a whites only area. This declaration was formalized with the Apartheid Group Areas Act of 1966. It is estimated that approximately 60 000 t0 80 000 people were forcibly removed form District Six. The director’s mother was one of those families that was forcibly removed with her parents, siblings, uncles, aunts and grandparents. A “tribe”, a community uprooted from their home and businesses of four generations. I moved into District Six in December 2013 in a home restituted to my family, and so the journey of the film started. The documentary is a deeply personal story, which examines the microcosm within the macrocosm and the legacy of intergenerational pain and dispossession of wealth. It also reflects on SA’s current restitution process. The film is visually and aurally rich with moments of “fly on the wall’ perspective as well as access to nuanced moments of the Cape community, featuring clips from “District Six The Musical”

A film by Rehad Desai

EVERYTHING

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This film is the third and final part of a trilogy and is preceded by Miners Shot Down and The Giant is Falling.

DIRECTOR: REHAD DESAI PRODUCERS: ANITA KHANNA REHAD DESAI ZIVIA DESAI KEIPER CO-PRODUCERS: JACQUELINE JONES GRANT CLARK MAARTEN SCHMIDT DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: NIC HOFMEYR EDITORS: MEGAN GILL ARYA LALLOO GEERT VEUSKENS MUSIC COMPOSER: YANNOUS AUKEMA CONTRIBUTORS: ERAN TAHOR ARYA LALLOO RICHARD PAKLEPPA www.uhuruproductions.co.za PARTNERS: Ford Foundation, Department of Trade and Industry, Brot fur die Welt, National and Film and Video Foundation, Al Jazeera, EO/IKON-docs, DRTV Deckert Distribution GmbH

EVERyTHING MUST FALL REHAD DESAI

Rehad Desai is a Producer/Director who runs his own company Uhuru Productions. In 2009 he completed a post graduate diploma in documentary through Eurodoc. He has produced over numerous feature length documentaries, many broadcast internationally, accepted into numerous festivals and been received with critical acclaim. His second last film Miners Shot Down won local and international critical acclaim garnering over 28 prizes including the Taco Keiper award for investigative journalism and an International Emmy for best documentary. His latest film The Giant is Falling won best South African Feature Film at the Johannesburg International Film Festival in 2016. Everything Must Fall is the final part in this trilogy of films.

SK Nouveau 4, 13 Oct @ 8.30pm / 15 Oct @ 8.30pm DIRECTOR: Rehad Desai COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 85min

SyNOPSIS An unflinching look at the #FeesMustFall student movement that burst onto the South African political landscape in 2015 as a protest over the cost of education, and morphed into the most militant national revolt since the country’s first democratic elections in 1994. The story is told by four student leaders at Wits University and their Vice Chancellor, Adam Habib, a left-wing, former anti-apartheid student activist. When Habib’s efforts to contain the protest fail, he brings 1000 police on to campus. There are dire consequences for the young leaders: Mcebo Dlamini is arrested and charged with serious offences, Shaeera Kalla is shot 13 times with rubber-coated bullets; others, fearing the involvement of the state security agencies, are forced into hiding. At the heart of the film sits an intergenerational conflict connecting us to an important contemporary discourse on the conceptualisation of higher education as a public good. To date, there have been unprecedented numbers involved, three deaths and 800 arrests. By blending dramatic unfolding action with a multi-protagonist narrative, much of the drama lies in the internal struggles the activists have around the weight of leadership. Threaded through the film is a pulse of anticipation, shared across the generational divide, that somehow these youth have reached breaking point and won’t back down until they achieve the kind of social transformation, that previous generations had long given up on.

FILM SCHOOL AFRICA NATHAN PFAFF

Nathan Pfaff grew up in Papua New Guinea and received a BA in Film Production at Taylor University. Nathanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passion is to surround himself with different cultures and share powerful stories that allow people a new perspective to see the world differently. His dream is to unmask local heroes to be an encouragement to others. This is Nathanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first feature-length documentary. His short documentary, The Advocate, won an Emmy award in 2014.

SK Nouveau 4, 14 Oct @ 8.30pm | Nu Metro 6, 19 Oct @ 2pm DIRECTOR: Nathan Pfaff COUNTRY: USA | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 89min

SyNOPSIS A Hollywood casting director leaves her lucrative career behind in order to teach filmmaking to youth in an impoverished community in South Africa. In an environment resistant towards art and film, the students learn the true power and impact of storytelling.

FOOD FIGHTER DAN GOLDBERG

Dan is an award-winning producer and director who began his career in newspapers and magazines, ending up on staff at the Sydney Morning Herald and The Bulletin. In his TV career, he has tried to shine the light in dark corners of society, or on social issues he cares deeply about, or simply to give voice to the voiceless. His TV credits include Bushwhacked! series 1, 2 and 3 for ABC3, which has won multiple awards, including the 2014 Asian Kids TV Show of the Year and two Logie nominations (2015 and 2016); Code of Silence for ABC, which won the 2014 Walkley Award for Best Documentary; and Brilliant Creatures for ABC & BBC, which was nominated for a Logie and an AACTA. He directed Passport To Hope for Foxtel in 2010, Pitch Battle for the ABC in 2014 and the 4-part arts series for Foxtel, The Archibald, in 2017. Food Fighter is his first feature-length documentary. His journalism has been published in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Bulletin, The Australian, The Age, The SunHerald, The Brisbane Times, The Observer, The New York Forward, The Big Issue and Newsweek Magazine, among others.

Nu Metro 5, 10 Oct @ 2.45pm | Nu Metro 6, 17 Oct @ 10am DIRECTOR: Dan Goldberg COUNTRY: Australia | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 86min

SyNOPSIS This is the story of one woman’s crusade against food waste...Ronni Kahn used to be a contributor to Australia’s annual $20 billion food waste bill when she ran a successful corporate events company producing milliondollar dinners.Then she realised the absurdity of throwing away perfectly edible food and traded capitalism for social activism in 2004 by founding OzHarvest, a food rescue charity. Now, she’s taking on politicians and big business to expose an inconvenient truth: that four million tonnes of edible food is discarded in Australia every year while up to two million Aussies suffer from food insecurity. And to add insult to injury, this food waste ends up in landfill, harming the environment by creating greenhouse gas emissions. Filmed over two years and across four continents, ‘Food Fighter’ follows Ronni’s crusade as she partners with the United Nations, rubs shoulders with royalty and Jamie Oliver’s juggernaut, rifles through dumpster bins and holds government to account. From the recent death of her daughter-in law to the very recent birth of her first grandchild, Ronni’s personal rollercoaster runs parallel to her meteoric rise as the face of food waste. Conceding she lacked the “courage” to stay and fight the Apartheid regime in her mother country, ‘Food Fighter’ also follows Ronni’s road to redemption, an inspirational woman bidding to make peace with her past. In the end, it reveals what sort of individual it takes to effect such profound change globally.

HEAR My MUSIC RON STEWART

Ron Stuart, Director born in the New York area and educated at McGill University and the University of British Columbia, he has taught Anthropology and Sociology at the University of B.C. and at Columbia College for over 40 years. Research includes field work among the Coast Salish First Nation of B.C., and in Japan, during periods of residence between 1972 and 1989. Ron has produced several CD’s and numerous concerts in collaboration with his wife, Wendy B. Stuart. Their company, WRS Productions, is active in event production and collaboration with other producers. They founded Cultural Odyssey Films five years ago as a platform for the production and promotion of ethnographically-based documentaries. Ron & Wendy reside in Vancouver, and spend December to February in Gardens, Cape Town. Ron is a graduate of the Vancouver Film School, and has produced and directed several documentaries.

Nu Metro 6, 13 Oct @ 5pm | Nu Metro 4, 19 Oct @ 12.30pm DIRECTOR: Ron Stewart COUNTRY: South Africa, Canada | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 50min

SyNOPSIS “Hear My Music – the Dizu Plaatjies Story” Dizu Plaatjies is a performer, scholar and cultural activist who has devoted his adult life to indigenous African music. His journey from childhood in the Eastern Cape and Langa Township to concert stages world-wide, is a compelling story that is the focus of this documentary. He has a vast international following, both of overseas students at the University of Cape Town, where he teaches, and fans of his recordings and concert work. Throughout his career he has maintained a commitment to nurturing a younger generation of artists, and founded the iconic “Amampondo” ensemble. Among the first African musicians to tour extensively, they became familiar to world music lovers in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and throughout Africa. They were a personal favourite of the late Nelson Mandela and Bishop Desmond Tutu. Dizu recognized the need of local musicians for access to authentic and reasonably priced indigenous instruments, and has embarked on a program of instrument-making with apprentices from the region. His love of traditional African melodies and rhythms from various cultural sources has led to significant “salvage ethnomusicology” work. Apart from his own Xhosa heritage, he has promoted the musical styles of groups throughout southern Africa.

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KINshASa mAKaMBO A FILM BY DIEUDO HAMADI photography DIEUDO HAMADI sound CHRISTIAN L.L., DIEUDO HAMADI editing HÉLÈNE BALLIS sound editing and mix PHILIPPE CIOMPI colorgrading and mastering CHRISTER LARSEN production LES FILMS DE L’ŒIL SAUVAGE and KIRIPIFILMS coproduction ALVA FILM, BÄRBEL MAUCH FILM, FLIMMER FILM AS, MUTOTU PRODUCTIONS, SERVICE COMPRIS and ARTE FRANCE, RTS RADIO TÉLÉVISION SUISSE, AL-JAZEERA ENGLISH with the support of CNC, ÎLE-DE-FRANCE and PROVENCE-ALPES-CÔTE-D’AZUR REGIONS, PROCIREP ANGOA, ORGANISATION INTERNATIONALE DE LA FRANCOPHONIE, ASSOCIATION 11 11 11, FONDATION UN MONDE PAR TOUS, BERLINALE WORLD CINEMA FUND, WEST NORWEGIAN FILM CENTER, FONDATION ALTERCINÉ, SCAM with the support of OFFICE FÉDÉRAL DE LA CULTURE and the participation of CINÉFOROM and the support of LOTERIE ROMANDE poster PAULINE LAURENT international sales ANDANAFILMS

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KINSHASA MAKAMBO DIEUDO HAMADI

Dieudo Hamadi was born in Kisangani (Democratic Republic of the Congo) in 1984 and studied Medicine in 2005-2008. He then attended several documentary workshops. He is author of two short documentaries Ladies In Waiting and Zero Tolerance that caught the attention of several festivals in Europe (Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam) and Canada (Toronto). Ladies In Waiting received the ‘‘Pierre and Yolande Perrault’’ scholarship at Cinema du Réel (Paris) in 2009. In 2013, with Atalaku, his first feature documentary about the 2011 election campaign in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he won the Joris Ivens award for best first film, presented by Marceline Loridan (Cinema du Réel), Best Foreign Film at the San Diego Black Film Festival (USA), the Jury Prize at FIDADOC (Agadir, Morocco) and 3 other awards. In 2014, National Diploma receives both the International Prize of the SCAM and the Potemkin award at Cinéma du Réel (France), is selected at TIFF (Toronto). In 2017, Mama Colonel was selected at the Berlinale Forum where it won two awards, then nearly 80 festivals worldwide, 15 awards including the Grand Prize of the Cinéma du Réel 2017.

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DIRECTOR: Dieudo Hamadi COUNTRY: The DRC, France, Switzerland, Germany, Qatar, Norway YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 75min

SyNOPSIS Christian, Ben and Jean-Marie are fighting for political change of power and free elections in their country, the Democratic Republic of the Congo.But the incumbent President refuses to relinquish power. How can the course of events be changed? Must they join forces with the historical opposition leader and his powerful party? Is dialogue still possible or must they resign themselves to a popular uprising and the risk of a blood bath? « Kinshasa Makambo » immerses us in the combat these three activists are engaged in, a combat that neither bullets, nor prison, nor exile seem able to stop.

LEFT ON PEARL SUSAN RIVO

Susie Rivo, Director and Producer of LEFT ON PEARL, holds a BA from UC Berkeley in Peace in Conflict Studies (1990) and an MFA in Cinema Production from San Francisco State University (2002). She received a 2011 Massachusetts Cultural Council award for film and video work. Her award-winning short film AMY was an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival. AMY screened at over twenty film festivals and was broadcast on a number of PBS stations, including San Francisco’s KQED and New York City’s WNET, as well as on Czech Republic Television. AMY streams on KQED Interactive. Susie’s documentary-inprogress, “Guardians of the City” was awarded funding from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture’s Fund for Jewish Documentary Filmmaking. Other directing/producing credits include: “Facing Climate Change in Boston”, produced for Mayor Tom Menino’s series of public workshops on the city’s 2010 Climate Action Plan; “The Spirit, The Struggle and the Songs: Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising”; “Harvard Contract 2001” for the Hotel and Restaurant Workers’ Local 26; and “The Safest Four Walls”, for Jewish Family and Children’s Services AIDS Project.

SK Nouveau 5, 11 Oct @ 10am | Nu Metro 5, 18 Oct @ 2pm DIRECTOR: Susan Rivo COUNTRY: USA | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 55min

SyNOPSIS In 1971 classified ads for employment were still segregated by gender, battered women’s shelters did not exist, abortion was illegal, and a married woman couldn’t open a bank account without her husband’s permission. LEFT ON PEARL is about the movement that changed all that. LEFT ON PEARL is a 55 minute documentary about a highly significant but littleknown event in the history of the women’s liberation movement, the 1971 takeover and occupation of a Harvard University-owned building by hundreds of Boston area women. The ten-day occupation of 888 Memorial Drive by women demanding a Women’s Center and low income housing for the community in which the building stood, embodied within it many of the hopes, triumphs, conflicts and tensions of Second Wave feminism. One of the few such takeovers by women for women, this action was transformative for the participants, and led directly to the establishment of the longest continuously operating Women’s Center in the U.S. Through television news from the time, newspaper headlines, found footage, and extensive interviews with participants and eyewitnesses of varied sexual orientations, racial, class and ethnic backgrounds (including both supporters and opponents of the takeover) LEFT ON PEARL provides a riveting and often humorous look at a fascinating historical moment.

MARIE-MADELEINE: A FEMALE CHIEF FLORENCE AyISI

Florence AYISI is an award-winning professor of International Documentary Film at the University of South Wales, UK. She has taught film and media studies at various universities in the UK for over 20 years. The main focus and vision of Florence’s filmmaking is constructing and presenting counter cinematic narratives from a womancentred and Pan-African perspective - telling African stories in which the subjects have ‘agency’ and a ‘voice’. Her work refocuses the cinematic lens to not only decolonize the African gaze and image, but to also redefine how African people and their cultures are perceived and imagined.Florence has made several films in Cameroon and Tanzania. Her first feature-length documentary film, Sisters in Law (Co-directed with Kim Longinotto, 2005) has won over 30 prestigious film awards including Cannes Film Festival - Prix Art et Essai, Audience Award at International Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), The Peabody Award (USA) for Outstanding Achievement in Electronic Media. In 2006, Sisters in Law was long-listed for Academy Award nomination - Oscars.

Nu Metro 6, 12 Oct @ 5.30pm | SK Nouveau 5, 17 Oct @ 2.45pm DIRECTOR: Florence Ayisi COUNTRY: Cameroon | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 66min

SyNOPSIS A woman is to be enthroned as chief in Nkol Ngock I, a small village in Cameroon. This is a rare occurrence in most African societies where the position of chief is customarily handed down from father to son. This documentary presents a rare glimpse into a community undergoing change. Social attitudes towards gender equality are changing, as men openly acknowledge and speak about the importance of women in development. One man says “women are doing more to encourage development than men. I believe a female chief will bring new things.” Even though some villagers consider Marie-Madeleine a ‘stranger’ because she lives in the capital city of Yaoundé, she is determined to learn about her culture and integrate into village life. As Marie-Madeleine beats the real African drum on her enthronement day, the gentle sounds signal a break with tradition. It is the dawn of a new era in the village of Nkol Ngock I; a Woman will be their traditional leader. Residents are optimistic that she will bring much needed development to the village.

NEW MOON PHILIPPA NDISI-HERRMANN Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann (1985, Germany) is an artist employing the craft of poetry, filmmaking and photography. Drawn to narratives about Childhood, Memory and Women, Philippa has an interest in Psychic Ancestry, Spirituality and the rhythm of the Ocean. Her personal work is a mélange of autobiographical documentary and poetry. An alumna of IDFA Summer School 2013 (Amsterdam), Berlinale Talents 2016 and a fellow of RAW Académie 2016 (Dakar), her Visual Poem Seeds, won the Ecumenical Jury Award at Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2017. Her recently completed feature-length Documentary, New Moon, has won The Artistic Achievement Award in a Long Documentary at the Luxor African Film Festival 2018 and The Ladima Award for African Women Documentary Filmmaker at ZIFF 2018.Philippa has exhibited at Turner Contemporary (UK, 2017), with the Goethe Institut, at The National Museum (Kenya, 2013) and in collaboration with The Sundance Institute, at MoCADA (New York City, 2011). Philippa moonlights as an Intuitive Guide and DJ. Her first home is Nairobi, Kenya. She has a penchant for cooking, laughing with kindred spirits, dancing to songs that touch her heart and reading Maulana Rumi.

SK Nouveau 5, 13 Oct @ 3pm / 16 Oct @ 10am DIRECTOR: Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann COUNTRY: Kenya | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 70mins

SyNOPSIS In New Moon, filmmaker & photographer Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann embarks on a journey that takes her to the island of Lamu. Her intentions are to make a documentary about the island’s transformation from an obscure, predominantly Muslim Stone town to a port city. The gigantic port project & coal plant are the external elements that threaten the rhythm of Lamu though the real disruption is revealed as we watch Ms. Ndisi Herrmann confront a new spiritual awareness. Her search takes her to a woman called Raya and her young son, Ahmed. It is in their home that her narrative anchors & a more personal entry point begins. Fragments of Lamu life unfold like chapters in a book: a man scaling a fish, children bathing by a dock, a baptism, a visual diary of a woman not entirely sure of where she is headed with only her instincts guiding her. We see Ms. Ndisi Herrmann tackle the contradictions of being a modern, liberal woman embracing Islam & grappling with the complexities of her chosen faith.

AWARDS

The Ladima Award for African Women Documentary Filmmaker NBO Film Fest (Mar 2018) Luxor African Film Festival (Mar 2018)

ONE TABLE TWO ELEPHANTS jACOB VON HELAND

SK Nouveau 5, 12 Oct @ 8pm | Nu Metro 5, 19 Oct @ 10am DIRECTOR: Jacob von Heland, Henrik Ernstson COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 84min

HENRIK ERNSTSON

Jacob von Heland and Henrik Ernstson are researchers and filmmakers who are born in Sweden but have worked scholarly and professionally in southern and eastern Africa for more than 15 years. They share a mutual research focus on urban political ecology, knowledge politics, visual science-and-technology studies (STS) and the use of artistic practices, with a particular interest in environmental politics of cities of the global South. Heland is a filmmaker and researcher at the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory in Stockholm where he leads the arts-science project “Towards a Visual Environmental Humanities in the Digital Era: Filming and Writing as a Bimodal Research Practice”. Ernstson, with a past as theatre producer and with long-term collaborations in Cape Town and South Africa.

SyNOPSIS This is a film about bushmen bboys, a flower kingdom and the ghost of a princess. Entering the city through its plants and wetlands, the many-layered, painful and liberating history of the city emerges as we see how biologists, hip hoppers, and wetland activists each searches for ways to craft symbols of unity and cohesion. But this is a fraught and difficult task. Perhaps not even desirable. Plants, aliens, memories and ghosts keep troubling efforts of weaving stories about this place called Cape Town. This film follows different ways of knowing and tries to be a vehicle toward difficult yet urgently needed conversations about how race, nature and the city are intertwined in our postcolonial world. Based on the explorative idea to treat film-as-research/research-as-film, the film makers use cinematic and audiovisual registers to texture our understanding of Cape Town—from intimate relations to structural issues—to move us beyond simplistic understandings while providing possibilities to translate what is happening “there” to wider conversations about race, nature, and the city in other places of the world.

OF FATHERS AND SONS TALAL DERKI

Talil Derki was born in Damascus and is based in Berlin since 2014. He studied film directing in Athens and worked as an assistant director for many feature film productions and was a director for different Arab TV programs between 2009 and 2011. Furthermore, he worked as a freelance cameraman for CNN and Thomson & Reuters. Talal Derkis short films and feature length documentaries received many awards at a variety of festivals. His feature documentary RETURN TO HOMS has won the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Grand Jury Prize in 2014. The same year, he was al member of the international Jury at IDFA

Nu Metro 6, 15 Oct @ 10.30pm | Nu Metro 5, 16 Oct @ 2pm DIRECTOR: Talal Derki COUNTRY: Germany,Lebanon,Qatar,Syria | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 100min

SyNOPSIS If you want to tame your nightmares, you need to capture them first. That’s what Syrian documentary filmmaker Talal Derki learned from his father. As in his previous film RETURN TO HOMS, he returns to his homeland and becomes part of life in a war zone. For more than two years he lives with the family of Abu Osama, an Al-Nusra fighter in a small village in northern Syria, focusing his camera mainly on the children. From a young age, the boys are trained to follow in their father’s footsteps and become soldiers of God. The horrors of war and the intimacy of family life are never far from one another. At the nearby battlefront Abu Osama fights against the enemy, while at home he cuddles with the boys and dreams of the caliphate. Talal Derki sets out to capture the moment when the children have to let go of their youth and are finally turned into Jihadi fighters. No matter how close the war comes, there’s one thing they’ve already learned: they must never cry.

SEARCHING FOR INGMAR BERGMAN MARGARETHE VON TROTTA The daughter of Elisabeth von Trotta and the painter Alfred Roloff, Margarethe von Trotta was born in Berlin in 1942 and spent her childhood in Düsseldorf. After fine art studies, she moved to Munich to study Germanic and Latin language. She then joined a school for dramatic arts and began an acting career, in the theatres of Düsseldorf and afterwards in the Kleines Theater of Frankfurt in 1969 and 1970. At the end of the 1960 she moved in Paris for her studies and immersed herself in the film-lover circles of the time. She took part in script redacting and directing of short films and discovered via the Nouvelle Vague directors and critics the films of Ingmar Bergman and Alfred Hitchcock.

SK Nouveau 5, 13 Oct @ 5.30pm | Nu Metro 4, 18 Oct @ 7.45pm DIRECTOR: Margarethe von Trotta COUNTRY: Germany, France | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 110min

SyNOPSIS Internationally renowned director Margarethe von Trotta examines Ingmar Bergman’s life and work with a circle of his closest collaborators as well as a new generation of filmmakers. This documentary presents key components of his legacy, as it retraces themes that recurred in his life and art and takes us to the places that were central to Bergman’s creative achievements.

THE LONG SEASON LEONARD RETEL HELMRICH After Indonesian independence the Helmrich family repatriated to the Netherlands during the Indo diaspora. Leonard Retel Helmrich is a Dutch cinematographer and film director. He was born the 16th of August 1959 in Tilburg, Netherlands and has lived in Amsterdam since 1982. He received highest honours for international documentaries at the Sundance Festival and was the first twotime International Documentary winner at the International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA).[1]. In June 5, 2018 he was rewarded by the Dutch King WillemAlexander with the title Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion, a very high distinction. Helmrich is famous for perfecting the ‘Single Shot Cinema’ filming method and his related technical camera innovations. “...you can move inside an event and go with your camera to the right spot, at the right moment,... That’s what the whole single-shot cinema is about: trying to think of the world as a kind of clockwork, a machinery, with everything interrelated. The bigger and smaller things are just as important. In a clockworks you can’t pull out a little gear because the whole thing jams. The solution is to become one of the clockworks.”

Nu Metro 4, 12 Oct @ 2.30pm / 17 Oct @ 12.30pm DIRECTOR: Leonard Retel Helmrich COUNTRY: The Netherlands | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 115 min

SyNOPSIS Nine million Syrians have left their homeland since the breakout of the war. Most of them have ended up in camps like Madjal Anjar in the Beqaa Valley, just over the border in Lebanon. This camp was set up by seasonal workers from Raqqa who were unable to return when their city was taken over by IS. Some of the camp’s inhabitants rent land to cultivate crops, while others earn a little toiling in the fields of a local farmer who treats them with contempt. The rest of the time they spend waiting for the bus that brings goods and news from Raqqa. In conditions such as these, frustration rapidly turns to conflict, traumatized children become aggressive and women’s freedom of movement is very restricted. Multi-award-winning director Leonard Retel Helmrich uses his hallmark single-shot cinema verité style to probe deep into life in the camp. The fluid motion of the camera—sometimes high in the air, sometimes gliding just above ground level—allows him to get extremely close to the camp’s inhabitants, bringing home the human drama behind the abstract number of nine million.

NICOLAS CHAMPEAUX

THE STATE AGAINST NELSON MANDELA AND THE OTHERS Nu Metro 4, 13 Oct @ 8.30pm | SK Nouveau 5, 17 Oct @ 6pm DIRECTOR: Nicolas Champeaux, Gilles Porte COUNTRY: France | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 105min

GILLES PORTE SyNOPSIS Nicolas Champeaux is a reporter for Radio France Internationale (RFI) . In 1993, he graduated from high school Jean Macé Rennes before studying journalism and moving to the capital. At RFI, he specializes in the Africa service dealing with themes as diverse as religion in Africa, Islam, Boko Haram in Nigeria and even the intervention of Vladimir Putin in Syria. He is in charge of the daily news Today in France as well as Network Europe. Gilles Porte (born 11 May 1965) is a director, screenwriter, cinematographer, and assistant cameraman. He is a member of société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques (SACD), of société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (SACEM) and of l’association française des cinémas d’art et d’essai (AFCAE).

2018 marks the centenary of Nelson Mandela’s birth. He seized centre stage during a historic trial in 1963 and 1964.But there were eight others who, like him, faced the death sentence. They too were subjected to pitiless cross-examinations. To a man they stood firm and turned the tables on the state: South Africa’s apartheid regime was in the dock. Recently recovered archival recordings of those hearings transport us back into the thick of the courtroom battles.

AWARDS

Durban International Film Festival 2018 Audience Award - Best Film

WHISPERING TRUTH TO POWER SHAMEELA SEEDAT

Former Fulbright scholar Shameela Seedat is a human rights and governance specialist turned filmmaker. She holds a Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in Law from Columbia University in New York. Shameela worked for the South African Constitutional Court, the UNDP/ UNIFEM in New York and the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), and also made submissions or consulted for the South African parliament, the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and Global Integrity (GI). She has published widely on human rights and democratic accountability and has addressed the Parliament of the DRC, the UN Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, the International Civil Forum against Corruption in Indonesia and South Africaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National Anti-Discrimination forum. WHISPERING TRUTH TO POWER is her first feature-length documentary

Nu Metro 5, 14 Oct @ 6pm | SK Nouveau 5, 18 Oct @ 12pm DIRECTOR: Shameela Seedat COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 86min

SyNOPSIS Former Fulbright scholar Shameela Seedat is a human rights law specialist turned filmmaker from South Africa. She worked at the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the UNDP/UNIFEM in New York and at a Democracy Think-Tank, and has also published widely on human rights and democratic accountability. Eight years ago, she turned to documentary-filmmaking and has since been commissioned by various local and international television stations and institutes to make character-lead, human and political interest documentaries. WHISPERING TRUTH TO POWER is her first feature-length documentary.

SHORTS PROGRAMME 1

SPEAKING DAGGERS SALLy MCLEAN

Sally has worked in production for Channel Nine, Endemol Southern Star and others on programs including Big Brother, Australian Idol, The X-Factor and 1 VS 100, written and produced a number of short films and two theatrical productions (which she also directed), and is currently writer/ director/producer for her first feature-length documentary, Champion (the story of Franz Stampfl), due for release in 2018 and the award-winning web series Shakespeare Republic.

SK Nouveau 5, 10 Oct @ 10am | Nu Metro 4, 15 Oct @ 12pm DIRECTOR: Sally McLean COUNTRY: Australia | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 12min

SyNOPSIS Love and revenge over coffee and cakes.Eight Shakespeare characters. Five different plays. One café. This is Speaking Daggers.Eight people enjoy a fine day at an outdoor café. At first glance, it could be a scene from anywhere in the modern world until they begin to speak. Eight characters from five different Shakespeare plays discuss love, revenge, deceit and power in overheard conversations, set against the backdrop of coffee, cakes and waitresses in crisp white shirts.”… it’s lucky film and theatre aficionado Sally McLean has a passion for the Bard’s work … Speaking Daggers shows the best of Shakespeare.” – Be Melbourne

ALBERT MEISL

THE VICTORy OF CHARITy (DIE LAST DER ERINNERUNG) SK Nouveau 5, 10 Oct @ 10am | Nu Metro 4, 15 Oct @ 12pm

Albert Meisl is known for his work on The Father Tapes (2015), Die Last der Erinnerung(2016) and Der Sieg der Barmherzigkeit (2017).

DIRECTOR: Albert Meisl COUNTRY: Austria | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 24 min

SyNOPSIS Musicologist Mr. Szabo has dedicated himself to collecting archival material from the history of Austrian pop music. Due to a unfortunate coincidence, an original stage costume of a Viennese beat band from the 60s landed in a charity clothing collection. To retreive the rare piece, Szabo doesn’t shy away from a veritable break-in. His young, aspiring colleague Mr. Fitzthum helps him - not entirely voluntarily. Because unlike Szabo he has a lot to lose: his job, his career and above all, his freedom.

AWARDS

Special Mention of the jury (Festival du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand 2018) “Best Comedy” (Landshut Short Film Festival 2018)

WALy’S PROBLEM EL HADj GUEyE

El Hadj Gueye is from Touba, Senegal. Theatre is his passion and he founded Gëm Gëm Africa (Believe in Africa) Theatre Company in 2003, which has exhibited shows in cities across Senegal and in many festivals, including the Negro Art Festival. Waly’s Problem is El Hadj’s first short film.

SK Nouveau 5, 10 Oct @ 10am | Nu Metro 4, 15 Oct @ 12pm DIRECTOR: El Hadj Gueye COUNTRY: Senegal | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 13 min

SyNOPSIS 13 year old Waly has not yet been circumcised. He is a laughing stock at work and the shame of the neighbourhood. Even the girl he has fallen for has rejected him. What can he do…that’s Waly’s problem!

AWARDS

BAOBAB AWARD of Film Africa 2017 EYEFULL 2017 of Afrika Eye Film Festival 2017

A LOW-BUDGET FILM PAULO LEIERER

Paulo Leierer has worked in the industry for close to a decade now, as an executive producer, writer director and fist assistant director on multiple projects.

SK Nouveau 5, 10 Oct @ 10am | Nu Metro 4, 15 Oct @ 12pm DIRECTOR: Paulo Leierer COUNTRY: Brazil | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 13min

SyNOPSIS A mixture of corporate film, archive footage and making of, the film is an attempt of the scientists from the BRazilian Institute of Alternative and Secondary Importance Research to fight the lack of funding, the closure of the institute and to keep their dreams alive.

SNAFU MARK DATUIN

Mark is an award-winning writer/director/ producer. He is also the founder of MAD Resilience Films in where he has written, directed and produced 28 short films and theatre productions. In 2014, his film Basted won Best International Film at the Milledgeville Film Festival. That was the first of a slew of accolades he collected for his subsequent films White Lock and Still Closed. He has received over 70 official selections on the festival circuit in France, Germany, Canada, India, the US and the UK. He has also been a featured panelist in Atlanta and Toronto, where he discussed the art of Writing a Short Film, and Diversity in the Film Industry.

SK Nouveau 5, 10 Oct @ 10am | Nu Metro 4, 15 Oct @ 12pm DIRECTOR: Mark Datuin COUNTRY: Canada | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 10 min

SyNOPSIS Strangers sitting at opposite ends of an upscale bar are obsessed with misperceptions of each other.

30 CONSTANTINOS PATSALIDES Constantinos PATSALIDES / Film and Documentary Director Constantinos Patsalides was born in 1981 in Nicosia. His latest short film titled “30” was released in 2018 and is included in the Short Film Corner Market, catalogue of Cannes (14-19 May 2018). For the next two years, he will be among the members of the Board of Directors of the Association of Film Directors in Cyprus (Film Representative, March 2017-2019). His films have been screened in many international film festivals in Spain, Sweden, India, Greece, USA, Cyprus and Alexandria and have been theatrically released in London, Hungary and Cyprus.

SK Nouveau 5, 10 Oct @ 10am | Nu Metro 4, 15 Oct @ 12pm DIRECTOR: Constantinos Patsalides COUNTRY: Cyprus | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 10 min

SyNOPSIS The short film titled “30” is a human story that people from every corner of the world, who went through war and its consequences, can identify with. The story is about loss, refugees, missing persons and the dramatic experience of those who lived through the tragic events of the Turkish invasion in Cyprus, in 1974. The narrative approach of the story is represented by the mother’s silence, a silence emerging from the depth of her soul. A silence that bleeds while fate has its own determining role in life. A silence that will convert into waiting and hope until the very end. The shots focus on the faces of the characters, reflecting their human dimension while penetrating their souls, carrying questions that rise from the circumstances of what they are going through.

THE LIGHTKEEPER zACH BANDLER

Zach Bandler is an actor and director, known for The Lightkeeper (2018), The Stairs(2016) and Switched at Birth (2011).

SK Nouveau 5, 10 Oct @ 10am | Nu Metro 4, 15 Oct @ 12pm DIRECTOR: Zach Bandler COUNTRY: USA | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 16min

SyNOPSIS Set on a remote stretch of stormy coastline, a hardened young woman agrees to dinner at the home of an aging recluse.

AWARDS

Winner of the 61st CINE Golden Eagle Award for Independent & Emerging Media

SHORTS PROGRAMME 2

SUNKEN PLUM ROBERTO F. CANUTO

Nu Metro 2, 11 Oct @12pm | Nu Metro 4, 18 Oct @ 2.30pm DIRECTOR: Roberto F. Canuto, Xiaoxi Xu COUNTRY: China | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 20 min

XIAOXI XU

Roberto Fernandez Canuto is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He belongs to a new generation of filmmakers from Spain with learning or working experiences internationally and with multicultural influences. Roberto F. Canuto is one of the first European directors to establish stable collaborations within the Chinese industry. Since 2010 he co-directs all his films with the Chinese director Xu Xiaoxi and together open a film production company in China, Almost Red Productions.

SyNOPSIS A transgender Chinese woman receives news of her mother’s death. As the only ‘son’, she feels obligated to return to her birthplace, even though she’ll have to hide her true self from family and friends.Working at a nightclub in Chengdu, a transgender Chinese woman receives an unexpected visit from her cousin, informing her that the mother she has brushed aside, has died. As the only “son”, she feels obligated to return to her birthplace for the sake of her family, even though she’ll have to hide her true self from those that once shared her past.

NO PROBLEM (KEIN PROBLEM) MAGNUS MILLANG

Magnus Millang is an actor and writer, known for Danish Dynamite (2012), Kein Problem(2017) and Zulu Awards ‘13 (2013).

Nu Metro 2, 11 Oct @12pm | Nu Metro 4, 18 Oct @ 2.30pm DIRECTOR: Magnus Millang COUNTRY: Denmark | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 19 min

SyNOPSIS Copenhagen, late 1990s. When the lead singer of Denmark’s secondbest cover band calls in sick, the band’s two insecure backup singers start backstabbing each other over the role as lead singer for the night. Who knew that jambands could be the scene of a life-or-death drama? May the best man in denim shorts and denim vest win.

MAjOR TOM KHALED MEDHAT MOEIT A student at faculty of engineering, port said university in egypt and studied filmmaking by attending the workshop of the venice film festival winner youssry nasrallah and a workshop with director sherif el bendary. I made my first short film called major tom which got screened at the alliance française de Port Said and won best film at Zawya short film festival. My research focus is currently on discovering all the ships NASA sent that have an interesting story such as the voyager1 that was sent in 1977.

Nu Metro 2, 11 Oct @12pm | Nu Metro 4, 18 Oct @ 2.30pm DIRECTOR: Khaled Medhat Moeit COUNTRY: Egypt | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 15 min

SyNOPSIS Thomas’s loneliness led to a lack of communication skills which made him use his walkman to describe his feelings. All these problems stood in the way of him trying to go to Space. The choice of a female narrator who speaks in French throughout Major Tom, mirroring a sex symbol from one of the protagonist’s favorite French films, allows the director to avoid any weak or unnecessary dialogue, and creates a suitable medium to inventively explore Tom’s coming of age and obsession with sex. By taking dialogue out of the equation almost completely, the filmmaker gives himself the freedom to use his camera in creative ways, alternating between close-ups and fixed camera settings which reflect Tom’s inner struggle. The influence of New Wave icons such as Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut is clear in the filmmaker’s stylistic choices, the chaotic jump cuts and fragmented narration true to the nature of Tom’s turbulent mind.

AWARDS

8 awards in various International Film Festivals

RED VELVET M SAMIR & y. MAHMOUD Mahmoud Samir is a filmmaker and online film critic based in Cairo, Egypt. He’s a senior student at the High Cinema Institute at the Directing Program in Cairo. His first documentary short Emmanuel was selected in the 34th BUFF International Film Festival in Malmo, Sweden & won the Special Prix at 3rd Des Arts // Des Cinés Danse Et Cinéma Festival at Saint Etienne in France this year.Youssef Mahmoud is a visual effect supervisor and co-founder of Squids Visual Arts, a post-production company based in Cairo, Egypt.His work has been featured at 3d TOTAL and CG RECORDS. He worked on numerous Egyptian projects including features and TV serials. His first foray in directing was through a number of commercials & music videos.

Nu Metro 2, 11 Oct @12pm | Nu Metro 4, 18 Oct @ 2.30pm DIRECTOR: M Samir, Y. Mahmoud COUNTRY: Egypt | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 15 min

SyNOPSIS When Nancy suffers from a sudden cardiac arrest in a morning, her only chance of survival lies in the hands of her oblivious five years old son Asser.

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3 awards in various International Film Festivals.

MMA MOEKETSI REABETSWE MOETI

South African Film and Television Award winner (best tv drama writer 2017) Reabetswe Moeti is a filmmaker, a TV enthusiast, a writer and director based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Rea’s a masters graduate from the acclaimed National Film and Television School in the UK. Her passion and flair for introspective storytelling sets her apart as a contemporary film and TV creative of her generation. Mma Moeketsi is Rea’s 2nd short film, her first short ‘The Virgin Vegan’ received a warm reception from it’s multiple film festival screenings across the world.

Nu Metro 2, 11 Oct @12pm | Nu Metro 4, 18 Oct @ 2.30pm DIRECTOR: Reabetswe Moeti COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 25min

SyNOPSIS On 16 August 2012, the South African police opened fire on striking miners at the Marikana Platinum Mine, 34 miners were killed and 78 wounded. Mma Moeketsi’s only son was among the strikers - this is HER story. Based on a true story, Mma Moeketsi is a domestic worker from rural Lesotho working for a suburban family in Johannesburg. Her son Moeketsi is an illegal miner at the Marikana Platinum Mine, North West of South Africa. In the wake of the wage increase strike from 15 August 2012, Moeketsi’s phone is off and he is nowhere to be found. Mma Moeketsi can do nothing but wait pensively for her son to call her or at least pick up her phone calls. One part of her life is at a standstill while her physical presence must still operate as the housekeeper of her suburban employers, in an empty, lonely silence.

ELO HELEN TAKKIN

Helen Takkin was born in 1988 in Estonia. She studied in Baltic Film and Media School. Helen works mainly as a commercial director in Estonia and in foreign countries. “Elo” is her first professional short film.

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Nu Metro 2, 11 Oct @12pm | Nu Metro 4, 18 Oct @ 2.30pm DIRECTOR: Helen Takkin COUNTRY: Estonia | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 15 min

SyNOPSIS Elo is a stubborn kindergarten child whose sole purpose is to escape the repression of her evil teacher. One day a new teacher Helena appears and Elo’s life changes completely.

I.O.C. GERARDO SOTO

Soto was born in Mexico and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He moved to Los Angeles, California after his first year in college. At a very early age, Gerardo started to produce and write music. Given the lack of resources and slow pace lifestyle in Tulsa he decided to head for California to surround himself with other like-minded creatives and started an experimental band project. While traveling and touring with his band, he began to direct the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music video and took a cinematic approach in the way he conceptually designed the projected visuals and live psychedelic lighting for their live shows. This same approach lead him to a curiosity about film and storytelling. This curiosity continued to drive his creativity with music into a more scenic fashion stirring away from stylized song structure. Soto found himself fully immersed into film, taking courses, studying the technical side of a world that had already felt natural to him. In 2016, he created the concept and went back to his hometown of Tulsa to film I.O.C. his debut short film. I.O.C., is a drone one take expressionist film about public schools in America.

Nu Metro 2, 11 Oct @12pm | Nu Metro 4, 18 Oct @ 2.30pm DIRECTOR: Gerardo Soto COUNTRY: USA | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 14 min

SyNOPSIS An intimate portrait of a teenage boyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memories the morning of his high school shooting.

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STARDUST ALDO SOTELO LÁzARO A Degree in Communication Sciences by the ITESM Mexico City campus, he has completed various specialized workshops in film schools in Mexico and Cuba. He has worked as a documentary filmmaker and journalist mainly for foreign media. He has participated in short films and a feature film as first assistant director. Stardust is his first fiction production as director.

SK Nouveau 5, 13 Oct @ 10am | Nu Metro 4, 18 Oct @ 10am DIRECTOR: Aldo Sotelo Lázaro COUNTRY: Mexico | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 14min

SyNOPSIS Adan lives day-to-day helping his father Hilario to collect garbage. An unexpected visit to the school, will reconfigure Adan’s whole universe.

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A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO SHOES ROByN GRACE

Robyn studied Drama & Film, and English Literature at Victoria University in Wellington, she went straight on to start a career in the theatre, working in lighting, stage management, publicity and eventually Directing, with the critically acclaimed “Dry White and Friendly”. She also directed Alan Brough in his Comedy sensation “You’ve been a bad bad boy Elvis” which toured from NZ to the Montreal Comedy Festival. She also worked in South Africa on the hit “District 9” for Peter Jackson’s company Wingnut Films. Robyn first short film “A Women’s Right To Shoes” as Writer, Director is currently in the festival circuit, having screened at Palm Springs Shortfest 17, Salento International Festival 2017, Coronado Island Film Festival 2017, been shortlisted for Malta International Festival 2017 and the 4th New Zealand Film Awards 2017, early in 2018 it is scheduled to screen at the Beloit International Film Festival 2018, and the World of Women Film Fair Middle East as part of 2018 International Women’s Day celebrations.

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SK Nouveau 5, 13 Oct @ 10am | Nu Metro 4, 18 Oct @ 10am DIRECTOR: Robyn Grace COUNTRY: New Zealand | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 15min

SyNOPSIS Alice is happily married, the only thing out of sorts is that she has one foot bigger than the other. After placing an ad, she finds an opposite foot partner, Hayley, and they start a rather uneasy shoe shopping friendship. One day Alice comes home to find that her husband is in fact leaving her for her opposite foot double. To add insult to injury, Hayley has taken back all the other shoes she bought, leaving Alice with only one shoe of each pair. So begins her demise into madness, and our film begins. We find her walking and counting her steps all the way to her local pub, wearing one shoe, hoping to find the new couple there and embarrassing them. It only serves to embarrass herself. As a different shoe comes out each night, and is left as an offering outside the pub door, we slowly watch her recovery.

THE LAST LULLABy BIRGIT KÄSPER

Director, writer Birgit Käsper born Estonia, Rapla, October 17th 1996.Studied at the European Film College 2017/18

SK Nouveau 5, 13 Oct @ 10am | Nu Metro 4, 18 Oct @ 10am DIRECTOR: Birgit Käsper COUNTRY: Denmark | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 10min

SyNOPSIS THE LAST LULLABY is a short film about a family tragedy based on a true story. On a day when a ten-month-old baby took his first steps no one could imagine that the next day would be his last one, but that’s exactly what happened. This story follows a young family: a firefighter, his wife, and a baby boy. On a beautiful spring day, something happened that no one expected. An uncontrollable force of nature - wind - took away their baby boy’s life in a twisted game of fate. The father, a young firefighter, hears the news in the most unpleasant way possible, while the mother and grandfather are desperately fighting to save the baby’s life. When the father arrives, his worst nightmares are confirmed, in the most horrific way, the little life is gone. The everyday hero, devoted to his family and dedicated to saving the lives of strangers, had to face the reality of death once again, but this time around in a very personal way.

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MAP TO THE STARS PEDRO jAEN R.

Artist began a self-taught in 1996, after working with various magazines. At this stage, from 1997 to 2000, are a large number of works related to the synthetic image and literary narratives and his first short films. In 2000 he went to Madrid to study Audiovisual Communication at the European University, graduating in 2005. He worked on numerous short films, among them X-Y (2004). He completed his training with the director / producer Antonio Gonzalo, the prestigious scriptwriter Syd Field, and at the ECAM. Since 2007 he has shot several short films, among them Ophthalmos, Salvation, When it snows on the ice of hell and Orpheize, being selected and awarded in several festivals around the world, and attending some as prestigious as Cannes, San Sebastian or Sitges.

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SK Nouveau 5, 13 Oct @ 10am | Nu Metro 4, 18 Oct @ 10am DIRECTOR: Pedro Jaen R. COUNTRY: Paraguay | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 15min

SyNOPSIS After the loss of her mother, a little girl arrives at an orphanage. Outside, the greatest discovery awaits her.

NUCLEAR SHADOWS MAREK LESzCzEWSKI He studied theatre arts and art history at the University of Łódź. Currently he is a 3 year student majoring in film directing at the Warsaw Film School. Furthermore he is a creator of short feature films and music videos. He also has experience as a director’s assistant on the set of a feature film. His interests include travelling which translates to almost 30 visited countries and living in Georgia and Germany.

SK Nouveau 5, 13 Oct @ 10am | Nu Metro 4, 18 Oct @ 10am DIRECTOR: Marek Leszczewski COUNTRY: Poland | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 15min

SyNOPSIS A lone boy wanders the desolate wastes that once were his homeland. A catastrophic event scorched the surface of Earth and took everything from him, everything except his dignity. He wants to find a place for a proper burial of his younger brother he carries on his back.

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ONE MORE DAy SK Nouveau 5, 13 Oct @ 10am | Nu Metro 4, 18 Oct @ 10am DIRECTOR: Aleksandr Shymko COUNTRY: Ukraine | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 15min

SyNOPSIS Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an ordinary day. He cleans the same airport terminal, but suddenly, something forces him to change his everyday routine. He leaves the airport and hurries up to the house where a single woman and her daughter live. He makes them trust him quickly by persuading them that he has come to help. So the woman lets him enter her house. The stranger looks around and it seems that everything in this place is familiar to him. It will be clear soon what has brought him there indeedâ&#x20AC;Ś

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LUMIÉRE HRISTINA BELOUSOVA DANTE RUSTA I was born in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) in 1987. After school I was accepted into Mark Weil’s theatre school in 2006.Graduated from this school I became an actress at the “Ilkhom” theater.In 2015 together with Dante Rustav founded the company on production of movies “Dante Rustav Films”. And same year, I shot the debut movie.Since 2017 I draw cartoons. My short films and cartoon artworks have won different awards and have been featured on various festivals (more 100 International Film Festivals).

SK Nouveau 5, 13 Oct @ 10am | Nu Metro 4, 18 Oct @ 10am DIRECTOR: Hristina Belousova, Dante Rusta COUNTRY: Uzbekistan | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 30min

SyNOPSIS The brothers Lumiere opened the cinema for the world more than a century ago, but to this day there are born new pioneers – who are investigating this huge world is cinema.

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AN AUTOBIOGRAPHy (EN AUTOBIOGRAFI) MARI MANTELA

Mari Mantela (born 1978) studied film directing at the Aalto University in Helsinki. Mantela Ě s awarded short films have been screened in international festivals as well as in television in Finland and Sweden. For a decade Mantela worked internationally directing commercial productions and gained a strong visual style which often combines digital imagery with traditional and character driven storytelling. Mantela is currently working on her debut feature THEIA, a scifi- western set in future Lapland.

Nu Metro 6, 13 Oct @ 2pm | Nu Metro 4, 19 Oct @ 10am DIRECTOR: Mari Mantela COUNTRY: Finland | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 35min

SyNOPSIS Two days before her retirement Anja makes a decision: She will not leave her work in a rental cars parking hall deep under the ground, a place where she has worked for 45 years like a queen bee, nursing cars and the mechanics around her. But when the boss upstairs sends a young trainee down who is ready to replace her, Anja is forced to face the fact â&#x20AC;&#x201C; her life as she knows is coming to an end.

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CHARLOTTE CAyEUX

THOSE WHO CAN DIE (CEUX QUI PEUVENT MOURIR) Nu Metro 6, 13 Oct @ 2pm | Nu Metro 4, 19 Oct @ 10am

After getting a Master of cinema at the University Paris 3, Charlotte Cayeux directed 5 short movies since 2011 : “Scene”, “Resurgence”, “Tapi’s three new adventures”, “Nassara” and “Those who can die”.

DIRECTOR: Charlotte Cayeux COUNTRY: France | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 19min

SyNOPSIS Zoé, 15 years old, enters a strict boarding school. Around her, pupils are playing and attending classes with faded eyes. Through their obsequious facade, the supervisors’ violence lurks. One day Zoé meets Marie and understands what they are destined for.

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HUNTERS AND GATHERS (jĂ&#x201E;GER UND SAMMLER) ANDREAS RAMM

Andreas Ramm was born 1985 in Malchin, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (former German Democratic Republic). After high school and different jobs in different industries, all of which have nothing to do with the medium of film - since 2011 Study of Film Studies, Audiovisual Publishing and Media Dramaturgy at Johannes GutenbergUniversity Mainz.

Nu Metro 6, 13 Oct @ 2pm | Nu Metro 4, 19 Oct @ 10am DIRECTOR: Andreas Ramm COUNTRY: Germany | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 15min

SyNOPSIS The year is 2044. A violent conflict permeates throughout the country. Various zones are ridden by chaos and terror. To put down riots, the regime sends troops but does not shy away from biological warfare. The wind seems to carry the toxic substances to every corner of the region. Virtually indifferent to this, an off-track sniper unit prowls one of the recently embattled zones. Haggard, yet thinking themselves safe, they wander through the streets and rows of houses of the war stricken metropolis. Their aim is to make contact with the rest of their unit. In this forlorn world, they become aware of the consequences of their actions only late. The line between good and evil has become unclear. The battle is hopeless and there is no end in sight. Because war is hell and it has imprisoned mankind. Following a military confrontation, two haggard soldiers try to make contact with their unit unsuccessfully. However, the destroyed city holds dangers, which go beyond both past and future

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AyA MOUFIDA FEDHILA

Moufida Fedhila is a Tunisian filmmaker, visual artist and film producer. Her works has been shown in numerous solo and collective exhibitions around the world and are part of public and private collections. She is a member of the jury at film festivals in Europe and in the Maghreb such as The Francophone Trophies for Cinema. Her film “Offside” was selected for more than 30 film festivals and won the prize of Best Documentary Short Film at the Tunisian Filmmakers Festival in 2015 and the Special Jury Prize at the International Festival of Cinema and Education in Fès (Morocco) 2016. In 2017, Moufida Fedhila’s new film “AYA”, a short drama inspired by true events, will be released. She lives and works between Paris and Tunis.

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Nu Metro 6, 13 Oct @ 2pm | Nu Metro 4, 19 Oct @ 10am DIRECTOR: Moufida Fedhila COUNTRY: Tunisia | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 23min

SyNOPSIS In Tunis lives Aya, a smart little girl, with her Salafist parents. But one day a special event disrupts the life of this family.

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Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage JCC 2017

WHEN THE FISHES SANG GIUSEPPE SCHIFANI

Giuseppe I’ve been working as a full-time Still Photographer for “Studio OIDA” in Palermo and previously as a freelance Production Assistant for: Aspekt Telefilm, Hamburg Antea, Roma - G.R. Production, Paris ,This is my first short film .

Nu Metro 6, 13 Oct @ 2pm | Nu Metro 4, 19 Oct @ 10am DIRECTOR: Giuseppe Schifani COUNTRY: Italy | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 15min

SyNOPSIS Little Gaetano travels to Sicily to visit his grandad who enthrals him with his life as a fisherman and with his stories. These tales, rooted in Sicilian tradition, are rendered in the film in the fantastic language of animation. Gaetano will return to Sicily lured by those legends.

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LEVAN TSINTSADzE

THE MAN WITH THE BICyCLE (DER MANN MIT DEM FAHRRAD) Nu Metro 5, 14 Oct @ 10am | Nu Metro 4, 16 Oct @ 10am

Levan Tsintsadze was born in 1982 in Georgia. He came to Germany to study economy, however studed Levan film at the Ruhrakademie in Schwerte. He lives and works since 2014 as independent filmmaker in Duesseldorf/Germany FilMograPhy 2014 TRAUMSEQUENZ (B/W 7 min, Super 8mm, Fiction) 2010 EINIGE FRAGMENTE ÜBER G. (Color, 15 min, VHS, Fiction)

DIRECTOR: Levan Tsintsadze COUNTRY: Germany | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 15min

SyNOPSIS After a year apart from social life, aiming to be focused in his thinker’s profession, acharacter feels like going out to bike. By the German filmmaker Levan Tsintsadze, the film has a classical and humorous narrative about the abstract activity of thinking against actions and what is concrete

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ANCHORWOMAN IOANNIS MONASTIROPOULOS Ioannis Monastiropoulos: director, screenwriter and actor. He was born in 1984 in Thessaloniki and is of Greek Pontian descent. He initially studied Mechanical Engineering at the Technological Educational Institute of Serres, a town in Northern Greece. After graduating, he decided to study drama at Iakovos Kampanellis drama school in Athens. He graduated 4 years later and he started working in the theatre but quickly evolved to become a screen actor. His need to express himself through words led him to study script writing which resulted in writing three short film scripts and one feature film script. He continued studying film techniques and as a result he shot one of his own short films ‘‘Anchorwoman’’.

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Nu Metro 5, 14 Oct @ 10am | Nu Metro 4, 16 Oct @ 10am DIRECTOR: Ioannis Monastiropoulos COUNTRY: Greece | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 20min

SyNOPSIS An ambitious reporter follows a dark path towards success. Unknown to her, this path leads her to a life changing confrontation with her grandmother. This film, Anchorwoman, explores the mass media system and how it affects our lives. This exploration is presented through the eyes of these two women, who have served and nurtured the system.

THE INNER SIDE DÁNIEL REICH

Dániel Reich, born in 1986, is a hungarian director, cinematographer. From 2005-2010 he attended Hungarian FILMACADEMY (University of Theatre and Film Arts, Budapest), cinematography department. He made 3 feature films and more than 14 short films as a cinematographer. He won three times the Goldeneye Award from the Hungarian Society of Cinematographers (H.S.C.) for his short film works.

Nu Metro 5, 14 Oct @ 10am | Nu Metro 4, 16 Oct @ 10am DIRECTOR: Dániel Reich COUNTRY: Germany | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 15min

SyNOPSIS Domi is a 33 years old autistic boy, who never speaks and lives with his mother and father. They try everything to cure him, but no effect. The mother cynically tells the story of their unlucky family, she is hopeless. Only the books bring happiness in Domi’s life. He is obsessed by books. The family tries a new psychologist, Aliz, who soon realizes how important the books are for Domi. Now Aliz starts to write a story for Domi. This book changes the world around Domi, we see the story becoming alive and driving the boy towards the solution.

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PRATIK KHANDHADIyA Having started his career as an Asstn Director in Hindi feature film ‘Raja Hindustani’, Pratik went on to work on TV commercials for various clients with Mobius and Palette Ad.Production Houses and Advertising Agencies in Mumbai. Having had his fill of TVC’s he took a sabbatical to rediscover himself and found social issues which plague Indian Society intriguing, one of which he has highlighted and written and directed into ‘Gandhi v/s Tareekh Pe Tareekh’ ( Gandhi v/s Justice). Pratik with Daisy currently run Ad Production Cos.,Megapixel and Piece of Cake Productions in Mumbai.

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GANDHI V/S jUSTICE (GANDHI V/S TAREEKH PE TAREEKH) Nu Metro 5, 14 Oct @ 10am | Nu Metro 4, 16 Oct @ 10am DIRECTOR: Pratik Khandhadiya COUNTRY: India | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 20min

SyNOPSIS The story, inspired from true life events, is of a middle class man, Professor Narayan Gandhi, whose small house in an old building which stood in an upscale area of Mumbai, has been usurped by a unscrupulous builder. The builder is required to give Prof. an apartment in the newly redeveloped multi storeyed building constructed on the land where Professor Gandhi’s old house stood but refuses to give his house, knowing very well that he can manipulate the Judicial system to deprive the Prof. of his rights, just as he as done with other owners. The Professor is forced to go to Court and has to wage a 10 year long fight for justice in a Trial Court in the city of Mumbai where, he has to wrestle the Indian Judicial system which is misused by the rich and powerful. Is he successful in getting back his house? His struggle for Justice and his Mahatma Gandhian way of fighting for Justice, which could be an inspiration for many people worldwide who believe in Justice!

ARE yOU VOLLEyBALL?! MOHAMMAD BAKHSHI The main concept of the film story starts from a game. I decided to direct the story to a point where the kid’s game turned the border wires into volleyball net. I wanted to pitch an alternative idea of creating walls of peace and friendship, not a border of concrete.

Nu Metro 5, 14 Oct @ 10am | Nu Metro 4, 16 Oct @ 10am DIRECTOR: Mohammad Bakhshi COUNTRY: Islamic Republic of Iran | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 15min

SyNOPSIS A group of Arabic speaking asylum seekers arrive to an English spoken country border and can’t keep going. They are in conflict with border soldiers everyday untill a deaf-mute baby becomes a catalyst for better communication between two groups.

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ARE WE GOOD PARENTS? BOLA OGUN

Born and raised in Dallas, TX, Bola is an alum of the AFI Directing Workshop for Women, the inaugural class for Ryan Murphy’s HALF Mentorship Program and Robert Rodriguez’s upcoming series REBEL WITHOUT A CREW. She is currently in pre-production for a teenage Mr.Robot/Breakfast Club inspired project called THE BUGBYTES and a dark thriller HANGRY. Bola Ogun is known for her work on Are We Good Parents? (2018), Battleship (2012) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012).

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Nu Metro 5, 14 Oct @ 10am | Nu Metro 4, 16 Oct @ 10am DIRECTOR: Bola Ogun COUNTRY: USA | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 9min

SyNOPSIS When Lauren and Bill’s 14-year-old daughter says she’s going to her first dance with her classmate Ryan, they welcome the news with excitement... and hesitation. Lauren and Bill always assumed their daughter was gay, in the same way that most parents assume their child is straight (until given notice). Suddenly, they worry they have not provided an open environment that allows their daughter to be herself. Lauren and Bill do some introspection on their own parenting and ask, “Are we good parents?”

2 ANGELS RAMAzI BARANOV

Ramazi Baranov was born in a small town on the river Volga (Volsk, Russia) spent childhood near the Iranian border (Azerbaijan, Culfa) worked in central Russian TV channel “Russia 1”, based in Europe.

Nu Metro 5, 14 Oct @ 10am | Nu Metro 4, 16 Oct @ 10am DIRECTOR: Ramazi Baranov COUNTRY: Russia | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 9min

SyNOPSIS The exciting case in the launched sculptural studio taking place in a mild routine of the guardian docu-drama / magical realism.

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MANICURE ARMAN FAyAz

Born in iran 1982 masters degree of cinema ,director of photography of more than 100 films (fiction, and documentaries and short films). Director statement -The thick obscurity of the obsolete beliefs and the incomplete perception of the humans, fabricate a wall of ignorance to stand against the primary purpose of the nature, the creation. The unidentified gender is beyond the limitation of this wall. In the eye of the wall makers, they are the one monster who is out there to demolish this obsolete wall and annihilate their reservoir of fanaticism, whereas, they only want their one congenital birthright, the desire for the sex they bear inside but not outside.

Nu Metro 5, 14 Oct @ 2.30pm | SK Nouveau 5, 19 Oct @ 2.30pm DIRECTOR: Arman Fayaz COUNTRY: Iran | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 14min

SyNOPSIS After the unexpected death of his wife, a man struggles to deal with the aftermath under the eyes of the local villagers.

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PROBABLy FINE TSLIL TAMIM

Tslil Tamim was born in a Kibbutz in 1988, third son of a music teacher and a manager of a Toy Company. Currently resides in Tel Aviv, is graduate of the Excellence Program for new teachers. Lives his two dreams simultaneously, the world of Cinema, and the world of Education; Teaching Cinema at a High School in Tel Aviv for two years now. This film is Tslil’s final project for film school. During the course of his stud.

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Nu Metro 5, 14 Oct @ 2.30pm | SK Nouveau 5, 19 Oct @ 2.30pm DIRECTOR: Tslil Tamim COUNTRY: Israel | YEAR: 2016 | TIME: 30min

SyNOPSIS Yotam, a young-adult substitute teacher, is forced to accept a permanent teacher’s job after a tragedy at the school. In civics class he meets a special kid, Zvi. The connection between them affects Yotam more than he had imagined.

BISMILLAH ALESSANDRO GRANDE Alessandro Grande (born in 1983) is an Italian director and screenwriter, Doctorate in Performing Arts at the University of Tor Vergata and teacher in directing and screenplay. He achieved notoriety in the shorts circuit in 2010 with “In my prison”, presented as the only short work at the Roma Fiction Fest (2010) and then obtaining over 100 official selections throughout the world and more than 40 awards. In 2013 he presents “Margerita” at the 43rd Giffoni Film Festival. The short has so far received 78 awards including: Best Film at the Ischia International Film Festival, Best Director Award at the Cyprus Int. Film Festival, and official selections at major festivals in the world: New York, Budapest, Pakistan, Toulouse, Montreal, Corinthia, Seoul. Margerita featured as one of the five finalists at the 69th edition of Nastri d’Argento. It also won the Federico Fellini award and became a F.I.C.E. Short, distributed in 450 cinemas.

Nu Metro 5, 14 Oct @ 2.30pm | SK Nouveau 5, 19 Oct @ 2.30pm DIRECTOR: Alessandro Grande COUNTRY: Italy | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 14min

SyNOPSIS Samira comes from Tunisia, she’s 10 years old and lives in Italy illegally with her father and her brother of 17 years old. One night, she will have to face a problem all alone that is bigger than herself.

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VIzA ROGER KOMLA B. GBEKOU Born on December 8 1987,Roger Komla Biova GBEKOU is a new name but talented movie director in the industry. After some years of training with some local video clip directors, he decided to continue his training by going to ECRAN the only but well know film school in Lome the capital city of Togo. He directed several video clips of several upcoming artists. After directing some trial short movies, viza became his major work acclaimed by film makers of his country. He is currently working on another project, a serie maned Aya (suffering).

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Nu Metro 5, 14 Oct @ 2.30pm | SK Nouveau 5, 19 Oct @ 2.30pm DIRECTOR: Roger Komla B. Gbekou COUNTRY: Togo | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 13min

SyNOPSIS After the death of her husband who was trying a clandestine immigration to the Sicily island, a young pregnant lady decided to use all possible means to get a French citizenship to her unborn child. Against all odds she decided to give birth in the France Embassy.

THE SHIELD THAT I CARRy BASMA FARHAT

Basma Farhat is a Lebanese director who has recently received a degree in filmmaking from the renowned Saint Joseph UniversityBeirut. Over the past 3 years, she has worked in the field as an assistant director on both short and feature films, music videos, and advertisements. “The Shield that I Carry” is her first official short film as a director; An experimental docu-drama that deals with her personal struggle as well as the societal attitudes prevalent in her environment in regards to the subject of the Islamic hijab.

Nu Metro 5, 14 Oct @ 2.30pm | SK Nouveau 5, 19 Oct @ 2.30pm DIRECTOR: Basma Farhat COUNTRY: Lebanon | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 19min

SyNOPSIS Basma is a girl who doesn’t wear the hijab. She faces a lot of situations and decides, for the first time, to show up in front of her parents wearing the hijab, to gauge their reaction and experience what lies deep inside of her.

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DIAPERS FOR MELQUIADES GANDHI RAMOS

Graduated in Communication Sciences from the UNAM, he has worked as a scriptwriter, editor, producer and producer in various media. His undergraduate thesis consisted of several interviews with filmmaker Carlos Reygadas. He is part of the permanent script workshop given by Michael Rowe. He has made five short films, one cineminuto, two documentaries on art and one series for television. At the same time, he has a career as a musician in the Gypsy jazz band Gandhi and the Infieles, with which he offers concerts throughout Mexico. He wrote and produced the album Canciones para la otra, with that band.

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Nu Metro 5, 14 Oct @ 2.30pm | SK Nouveau 5, 19 Oct @ 2.30pm DIRECTOR: Gandhi Ramos COUNTRY: Mexico | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 20min

SyNOPSIS Domingo, goes to the marketÂ´s town to sell hats. Along the way, he takes the opportunity to visit his brother Melquiades, who is terminally ill.

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FATIMA IMRAN HAMDULAy

Imran Hamdulay is a writer, director & producer based in Cape Town. He has produced & directed numerous projects working between film & commercials. He currently has two short films on the festival circuit: ‘Brother’ & ‘Fatima’. The films were a co-production between Red Kimono Media (UK) and Black Crow Films (SA), with Fatima receiving support from the National Film & Video Foundation of South Africa. Brother has thus far won the Best Film, Best Director & Best Cinematography awards at the Moscow Shorts Festival. With both films selected as semi-finalists at the Los Angeles CineFest. His debut feature film, Of Virtue, in development with the National Film & Video Foundation of South Africa, was selected as a featured project at Durban Filmmart 2018 and will be produced by David Horler and Proper Film. Imran is a Berlinale Talents alumni and currently lectures directing at City Varsity School of Media & Creative Arts.

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SK Nouveau 5, 10 Oct @ 7.45pm | Nu Metro 6, 15 Oct @ 2pm DIRECTOR: Imran Hamdulay COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 18 min

SyNOPSIS A devout woman defies her family’s wish to enter into an arranged marriage and suffers the tragic consequence as a result of her actions.

LOVE MOTEL SAMANTHA NEL

Samantha Nell is a South African writer and director. She graduated from NYU’s Tisch Asia in Singapore and has directed short films on four continents. Her short “The Beast” (2016), co-written/directed with Michael Wahrmann, premiered at the Director’s Fortnight in Cannes in 2016. She currently produces and directs commercials while developing her feature film which was selected for the Realness Screenwriter’s Residency in 2017.

SK Nouveau 5, 10 Oct @ 7.45pm | Nu Metro 6, 15 Oct @ 2pm DIRECTOR: Samantha Nel COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 10min

SyNOPSIS Love Motel is a dark comedy about an elderly couple trying to keep love alive. Neat freak Seung-Sook and her husband, Chang-Son, co-own a love motel. Unfortunately for them they no longer love each other. Seung-Sook is desperately lonely until she finds an unexpected connection with one of the motel guests. She finds herself torn between staying in a stale marriage and embarking on a new and exciting encounter.

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VIR ONTByT BERDENE BURGER

Writer/Director Janhendrik Burger is a South African filmmaker with an interest in the stranger side of film. He holds a degree in visual communication from the Open Window Art Academy and has directed many award winning shorts and television programs.

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SK Nouveau 5, 10 Oct @ 7.45pm | Nu Metro 6, 15 Oct @ 2pm DIRECTOR: Berdene Burger COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 10min

SyNOPSIS Ons his way to an important meeting Johan van Wyk is plagued by a filthy homeless man. The man gains possession of his ID card and forces Johan to buy him breakfast in exchange for the ID.

CAST IRON CAN’T BE WELDED BUKS ROSSOUW

Buks Rossouw is a qualified dentist and a keen film hobbyist who made some low budget films (“7X” and “Melting Point) with rudimentary equipment and friends as actors before eventually enrolling at Pretoria’s University of Technology to obtain a filmmaking degree. His student film “The Secret Jaunt” won the best film award and his graduation film “The Confidant” won the M-Net Television award. His recent short film “Potyster Sweis Nie” (Cast Iron Can’t Be Welded) was screened not in competition at the Siver Screen Film Festival in Cape Town.

SK Nouveau 5, 10 Oct @ 7.45pm | Nu Metro 6, 15 Oct @ 2pm DIRECTOR: Buks Rossouw COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 19 min

SyNOPSIS Set in rural South Africa during the 1970’s, a farmer transporting a broken cast iron stove learns something about humanity from a hitchhiking schoolboy but only after dropping him off.

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SKRyWERS ANONIEM CORNÉ KOEGELENBERG

Corné is a writer and a director that grew up in OUDTSOORN in the little Karoo. Living in a small Afrikaans town definitely gave him more time to grow his creative side as there where not much else to do. A gifted story teller, he chose film as the medium through which he would tell his stories, and his priorities are telling honest stories and making sure his voice stays original and unique. His short films has been shown all across South Africa and in Europe.For the past 2 years he has been working in reality and lifestyle television, and out of a desire to create more narrative work he made the short film SKRYWERS ANONIEM with basically no budget.

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SK Nouveau 5, 10 Oct @ 7.45pm | Nu Metro 6, 15 Oct @ 2pm DIRECTOR: Corné Koegelenberg COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 18 min

SyNOPSIS A support group for struggling writers that meets every Wednesday gets an unexpected guest. A mysterious man joins the group and claims that he cannot stop rewriting the world, and needs their help. The group finds him extremely interesting and debate where this unfortunate habit comes from, until he starts rewriting them as well.

THE CROSSING jAAK ERASMUS

Jaak Erasmus is a very passionate and unique film-maker from South Africa. Oorgang (The Crossing) is his debut film as writer and director.

SK Nouveau 5, 10 Oct @ 7.45pm | Nu Metro 6, 15 Oct @ 2pm DIRECTOR: Jaak Erasmus COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 22min

SyNOPSIS In a world within worlds, Karel tries to find his way back to her. Together with Albert, for years the two have been working on their project “FOREVER”. And finally, they proved that time and consciousness consists of matter. If they can work the machine, Karel will not only be able to move through time, but also through memories. And that’s how he finds her.

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CHANGE ALMARIDA REyNECKE

Almarida Reynecke is a first-time producer and director and studied performance art at the ADK (Academy of Dramatic Art) in Johannesburg. Aside from a number of supporting roles in television and film productions, she ran a chapter of the Playhouse drama school, giving training to kids and adults. She has been working with West Five Films over the past six years as an executive or associate producer, and has credits on Vrou Soek Boer, Finders Keepers and Sonskyn Beperk. Almarida is passionate about bringing strong female led stories of compassion, empathy and courage to the screen.

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SK Nouveau 5, 10 Oct @ 7.45pm | Nu Metro 6, 15 Oct @ 2pm DIRECTOR: Almarida Reynecke COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 15min

SyNOPSIS CHANGE follows the story of a person who, on all accounts, appears to be a happily married husband and father but is struggling with an inner turmoil that may prove too much to live with. William has always felt out of place. Incomplete. Something lacking in his life. And yet he sees what it is on a daily basis. He sees it in the bond between his wife and daughter. In the way women present themselves. They are the aspects of female life that he is so natural drawn to but of which he is denied due to traditional views on gender identity. William is forced to live a lie as not be judged. But such an existence is wearing, and William must now decide how much he is willing to sacrifice as to relieve him of his pain.

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DIPHIRI LE MAKUNUTU OBETT MOTAUNG

Obett Motaung is a young emerging filmmaker and theatre maker. He holds an MA from the University of Witwatersrand in Film & TV and won multiple awards at his time for his creative work. He is a judge for the Naledi Awards most prestigious theatre awards in South Africa. He has directed numerous ground breaking theatre works which have won awards. He won an award at Ekurhuleni International Film Festival for his latest film and his latest film Diphiri Le Makuntu has been selected to the Cape Town International Film Festival

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Nu Metro 4, 11 Oct @ 5:30pm / 17 Oct @ 10 am DIRECTOR: Obett Motaung COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 24 min

SyNOPSIS A prodigal son returns home with a secret that he is a secret agent who has mission to uncover a major crime lord who is in his home town. He is faced with the pressure from his father to take over the family church from him. He hesitates. He gets more pressure to solve the case and also has to make sure that he does not get exposed. Then he makes a breakthrough in the case and finds out the identity of crime lord is actually his own father who is busy using the church as cover. There is final show down between the father and son which end with the son killing the father. Then the son quits he job a secret agency under the masquerade of taking over from family church as the father passed away but only to take over the real family business of taking over the underworld.

SKIN DIVER KATyA ABEDIAN

Katya Abedian is a nineteen-year-old Iranian-African director born and raised in South Africa. Katya aspires to tell stories that may contribute to the progress of humanity. She is particularly interested in sharing and producing stories from the Middle East and Africa, as she believes the world lacks exposure to the beauty and depth of stories yet to be told from these perspectives of our human narrative.

Nu Metro 4, 11 Oct @ 5:30pm / 17 Oct @ 10 am DIRECTOR: Katya Abedian COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 15min

SyNOPSIS Skin Diver is a coming-of-age frame narrative which begins with a young, hearing-impaired girl opening a story book she has received for her birthday. The world she opens follows the growth of Saffron, a dreamer-stuck-inthe-suburbs. Saffron is finding ways to make sense of the depth of her feelings and constructs a world of her own in which she can breathe freely. Her isolated existence takes a turn after an unexpected encounter. The story follows the journey of a female who is learning how to grow her wings, and explores the beautiful dynamic of enduring friendships; ones that leave you inspired and much more comfortable in your own skin. However, true growth is never devoid of a fair dose of emotional struggle and Saffron is forced to deal with her own share of detachment and a plethora of intense feelings. The imagination of the young girl acts as a hollow reed through which we take part in Saffronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story, as we observe the process of emerging on the other side of discomfort, a more self-assured version of ourselves.

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MUSE SIyABONGA MKHOLO

Siyabonga Mkholo is a young passionate filmmaker from Johannesburg with a keen interest in screenwriting and directing. He has worked in the media industry for the past 3 years, having balanced his studies at The Academy of Television and Screen Arts with various industry projects outside of school. He has grown to understand and implement new trends that are currently shaping the industry into his own work. Having worked as a videographer and editor for a number of clients including Ornico, Blacknation Video Network and Balcony TV, he also produced the short film “Violins” which was nominated for best score at The Watersprite Film Festival in Cambridge. Siyabonga believes that content is gold and his mission is to collaborate with bright and creative minds to realize the potential in African storytelling.

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Nu Metro 4, 11 Oct @ 5:30pm / 17 Oct @ 10 am DIRECTOR: Siyabonga Mkholo COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 23min

SyNOPSIS Jones, a photographer diagnosed with Toxic Optic Neuropathy struggles to cope with the fact that he might lose his sight if he doesn’t quit drinking. Caught between the pressures of trying to make ends meat for him and his girlfriend whilst pursuing a creative career, drives him deeper down the abyss of alcoholism. It isn’t until tragedy strikes that he realizes the need to get his priorities in order or risk losing the one thing he truly loves. Trailer: https://filmfreeway.com/submissions/9575713

RUNNER MIKE MCDOUGALL

Mike worked for four years for a major telecoms company after graduating, before leaving to drive a Land Rover from London to Cape Town, raising fifty thousand dollars for charity on a journey that entirely changed his view on the developing world and life itself. Returning to the UK he worked for several years on various TV shows, including aerial filming which introduced him to the joy of helicopter flight and motivated him to become a commercial helicopter pilot. He spent the following years alternating writing and producing with flying for humanitarian services connected to the civil war in Sudan, tsunami in Sumatra, earthquake in Pakistan and reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan. The Runner is be Mike’s first professional short film.

Nu Metro 4, 11 Oct @ 5:30pm / 17 Oct @ 10 am DIRECTOR: Mike McDougall COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 22min

SyNOPSIS Louisa, 27, must achieve the Olympic qualifying time for her event– the 400m. She’s inspired by her late mother and the degrading, poor township life they endured. Her coach, Jacques, drives her on but her times aren’t improving. Jacques’s failing patience and her frustration explode. He doubts her commitment and she, his skills. Reconciling though, he explains only she can produce the last effort necessary. Timed by Tony, the assistant coach, she taps deep into the pain of her mother’s sacrifices and starts a lap without blocks and in bare feet - the way she competed as a kid. Tony – a secret admirer – shows she’s smashed the time. With blocks and spikes, probably the world record! Overjoyed, Louisa rushes to the doctor’s office where Jacques and the team doctor offer muted congratulations before telling her devastating news which destroys all Olympic hope and will end her promising young life...

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MASQUERADING: TO HELL AND BACK SOFIA DE FAy

Sofia began her writing and directing career in South Africa where she initially cut her teeth working for Nat Geo, Animal Planet and Discovery Channel. She has worked in all genres from investigative film making commercials, to elegant high-end corporate films, to brand films to sitcoms to soap operas to writing a feature film. Eleven years ago she moved to the Middle East where she did a lot of commercial work, but also accepted some tough challenges and made short and long films in the battlefields and crises zones of Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Somalia, Bosnia and Nepal. Sofia has won awards all over the world

Nu Metro 6, 12 Oct @ 2:30pm / 16 Oct @ 12pm DIRECTOR: Sofia de Fay COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 14 min

SyNOPSIS Two hilarious and eccentric old drag queens living in Cape Town, South Africa remember their lives and how they survived years of brutal and terrifying discrimination. The fifty year old drag queens remember the apartheid years, where up till 1994 in South Africa it was illegal to “masquerade” as the opposite sex. Both the drag queens did hard labor in a prison as punishment for “masquerading”. The one drag queen, Sandra Dee, believes they paved the way for the younger generation. They both remember the misfortune and “hell” that was unleashed on them because of their transgender identity and because of their race and color being Cape Colored. The film takes us on a poignant and funny journey through their shared memories laced with jealousy, rivalry and much love. The drag queens live in the Cape Colored township of Hanover Park, full of gangs and violence. Sandra involves herself in a lot of community work, including teaching skills to the youth and looking after a disadvantaged handicapped boy called “little balls” who is the first special needs drag queen. Sandra is also the brains and organizer of the gay pageant Miss Gay Legend celebrating older 40 year old drag queens. This sad, funny story from the harsh lands of South Africa is both beautiful and brutal, painful and poignant at the same time.

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GIVE A MAN A MASK AND HE WILL TELL yOU THE TRUTH Nu Metro 6, 12 Oct @ 2:30pm / 16 Oct @ 12pm

Eric is a conceptual visual artist. Living in Zimbabwe for 15 years, Eric has travelled Africa capturing landscape, wildlife and making social documentaries. Director Statement: In an age of visual fastfood, image loses its intrinsic value. With the development of the digital era we are all creators of image. We become spectators and are no longer a witness. Visuals are swallowed and digested and in an instant we are numbed by what we see. Eric Gauss links the topic with an abstract artistic reflection, creating a symbiosis of Art and Documentary.

DIRECTOR: Eric Gaus COUNTRY: Zimbabwe | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 12 min

SyNOPSIS The challenges this marginalised group face in Zimbabwe include stigma, abuse from the communities and rejection at health care facilities. In these times of extreme poverty and limited job prospects more men sell their bodies for sexual favour. In a country where the laws, religious and cultural beliefs discriminate homosexuality, the men are at risk from being found out by the family and the Church. Give a man a Mask and he will tell you the Truth uncovers the various ways the men hide their profession, sexual preference and character to protect themselves in their communities. An Art Documentary that records the tale through the use of the mask. A face to this harsh reality. Due to the sensitivity of this subject we have ensured all traces of identity are removed.

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FOOTPRINTS SARAH DUFF

As a travel writer and photographer, Sarah Duff spent nearly a decade travelling around the world, visiting more than 40 countries on assignments for newspapers and magazines, before studying an MA in Ethnography and Documentary Film at University College London. She now works as a freelance director and producer.

Nu Metro 6, 12 Oct @ 2:30pm / 16 Oct @ 12pm DIRECTOR: Sarah Duff COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 23 min

SyNOPSIS After centuries of oppression, the Khomani San, one of the last remaining groups of South Africaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first people, have won back some of their historic homeland in the Kalahari Desert. Voetspore (Footprints) follows their struggle for cultural survival as they capitalise on ancient knowledge of nature to run a wildlife hunting ranch.

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THE WATER DANCERS ROByN PALMER

Robyn Palmer is a graduate of the University of Cape Town. She is passionate about telling stories that matter through the medium of film and exploring the limits of its dynamism and resonance. Robyn believes in film as a truly accessible medium, imbued with the power of mass influence. Robyn’s directing debut was her 2016 short film, Cassandra, which premiered at the 4th Jozi Film Festival in South Africa and won the category for Best Student Film. The Water Dancers is Robyn’s documentary debut.

Nu Metro 6, 12 Oct @ 2:30pm / 16 Oct @ 12pm DIRECTOR: Robyn Palmer COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 25min

SyNOPSIS Dragonflies are the sentinels of the Earth. Being among the oldest creatures on our planet, they have lived in harmony with the indigenous plants and animals of Earth’s bountiful landscapes for 300 million years. We came, we conquered and we evicted them from their habitats. Now, after millennia of human recklessness, we are turning back to nature’s messenger, the dragonfly, for promise of a new way forward. South Africa’s scientists and industries are working to bring them back into our world through a creative system of connected corridors, known as Ecological Networks. The Water Dancers, a name from the Zulu Jigamanzi, “dancing on water,” invites you into the precious world of the small things to discover how their sensitive nature can help us design a passage into the future. Trailer: https://vimeo.com/257640016

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SKEIKIMA RAQUEL LARROSA

Nu Metro 6, 12 Oct @ 2:30pm / 16 Oct @ 12pm DIRECTOR: Raquel Larrosa COUNTRY: Spain | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 15 min

SyNOPSIS Sahrawi young people living at the Occupied Territories are required to study at the occupying country. How would you claim your identity in a hostile land? How could you live under harassment and repression? How would you make your voice break through the walls of silence?

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THE SHEIKH OF MUSSAFAH WALEED AL MADANI

A Syrian filmmaker born and raised in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, with a degree of Entrepreneurship and a passion for short documentaries. Currently freelancing full-time as a short films editor and a camera operator. Entering the universe of humanitarian documentaries, hoping to create widespread influential films.

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Nu Metro 6, 12 Oct @ 2:30pm / 16 Oct @ 12pm DIRECTOR: Waleed Al Madani COUNTRY: United Arab Emirates | YEAR: 2016 | TIME: 10min

SyNOPSIS A father-son unstable relationship, born and raised amongst the ruins of damaged engines and mistreated cars. Diving in to a story where the father was never forgotten and the son never forgot. Struggling to get back up on his feet, whilst, being oblivious to the resemblance between his father and himself. The story takes place in Musaffah, the industrial area of the capital of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi. The word â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheikhâ&#x20AC;? is a honorific title in the Arabic Language, given to the heads of tribes, and it is usually given at birth.

SHORTS PROGRAMME 10

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SOL NDIyATHEMBA

Born in Port Elizabeth,South Africa and has lived most of his life in Pretoria since age 7. He started his career working for various companies mostly in sales and marketing. He studied Multimedia studies with the University of South Africa(UNISA) for a year. Thereafter, he attained a National Diploma in Film and Television production at Tshwane University of Technology, recently completed his B-tech Degree in Film & Television production under the same institution. In 2016, he was selected as one the National Film and video foundation(NFVF) delegates to be part of the Canadian International documentary festival(Hot Docs) in Toronto. Ndiya is a young and vibrant Actor/Filmmaker groomed from a solid performing arts, Theatre background now actor/filmmaker.

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DIRECTOR: Ndiyathemba COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2016 | TIME: 29min

SyNOPSIS A young upcoming boxer Sol, embarks on an adventure to discover the truth behind his fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death after he hears that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to be commemorated by the government for being a former political activist. He quarrels with Coach about the truth, who knew his father very well. Linda khumalo, a journalist digs through her archival research to help Sol find the truth and harmony with his father death. Trailer: https://vimeo.com/256921469

A LEGAL AFFAIR AVIWE KOMSANA

Aviwe Komsana is a young, bold filmmaker who studied Television Production (Majoring in Producing) at AFDA. After graduating from AFDA film school with BA Honours degree, she took a job working for a production company under the pressure and insecurities of not making money and being broke. She completed her internship contract deciding not to renew it. Instead she took the road less travelled â&#x20AC;&#x201C; starting a company of her own and a company with her like-minded business partners, with zero capital. This highly energetic and insightful gift to the team sees her role in Pigeons and Turtledoves as the driver and consolidator of all major processes to bring the powerful stories of redemption to audiences both near and far. Her pursuits include poetry, music, discipling and filmmaking; all to the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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DIRECTOR: Aviwe Komsana COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 28 min

SyNOPSIS A junior, insecure lawyer is promoted and makes partner in her law firm, however, her elevation comes at the cost of losing her daughter, which in her life would mean permitting history to repeat itself.

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BONOBO zOEL AESCHBACHER

Born in Paris in 1993. Of Swiss and US nationalities, his first passion was music, which resulted in a fulfilling collaboration with Tony Tran, and the genesis of the duet band Ugly Kids in 2010. This led to subsequent collaboration with another artist from Velvey, Julie Hugo of Solange La Frange, as well as other regional artists (Montreal Jazz Festival, Babelec, etc.). This creative experience, in its unimpeded growth, and guided by his formal studies at ECAL, became manifested in video, clip, and then short film making. And an indisputable transforming passion for filmmaking. In 2016, he joined force with Christophe M Saber, fellow director, to found Apollo Projects with its unique contribution to the 7th Art.

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DIRECTOR: Zoel Aeschbacher COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 24min

SyNOPSIS When the elevator of their public housing breaks down, the fates of Felix, a disabled pensioner, Ana, a single mother struggling with her move and Seydou, a young man passionate about dance, intertwine towards an explosive ending where their limits will be tested.

HEELS ON WHEELS HEATH FyNN

I studied film at Durban University of Technology, and have always loved storytelling, taking part in stage plays from Primary school up until High school, andthe Drama society during tertiary.I joined SuperSport as a cameraman in 2007, working with many high-profile clients, a major highlight of which was working at the 2010 FIFA World Cup at the opening game & magazine inserts during the tournament. In 2012, I started directing more selffunded short films, music videos & Fashion Films.In 2014, I took up photography and supplemented my skills at Vega Design School up until 2015, I then began work on weddings and Portrait photography on various subjects.The NFVF Youth Programme has been my highest directorial achievement so far, and I look forward to continue honing my storytelling skills.

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DIRECTOR: Heath Fynn COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 24min

SyNOPSIS Heels on Wheels is a motivational narrative that takes a close look at South African wealth through WaronaNare, a young beautiful wheelchair model from Mafikeng in North West Province, who was paralysed with Polio at the age of 3. She just landed a comfortable corporate job in Vaal. Warona is a breadwinner in her family. Warona make sure everything is on point every morning before going to work, with the help of her grandmother. One beautiful evening while watching TV she is intrigued to see runaway models in one of South African fashion Shows and her interest in modelling escalated as she becomes more and more fascinated by it, but her situation still limits her ambition.

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UNDER THE RAINBOW PIETER SMUTS

Pieter Smuts started his film career in 2012 after three years of study at the African Film and Drama Academy in Cape Town, graduating with a BA in Motion Picture Medium. Immediately after college he joined the local film and commercials industry where he has spent the last five years working under and learning from industry legends on an array of large scale productions. He draws inspiration from many great filmmakers though the works of The Coen Brothers, Park Chan-wook and David Fincher are a particularly strong influence on him.

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DIRECTOR: Pieter Smuts COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 30min

SyNOPSIS Under the Rainbow is set in a modern day South Africa – a vignette into the lives of two working class men - Bonile and Alhein, as they travel the city by night hanging cardboard signs with tomorrow’s news headlines on them. The film has two narrative threads – one being the journey of Alhein and Bonile, the other being the cinematic retelling of news events – these stories are a varied and mostly a grim reflection of the state of modern South Africa. The headlines on the news boards Alhein and Bonile are hanging up describe the events of these stories – thus connecting the two narrative threads.

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SHI JIAN QU NA ER LE 111min/Color/DCP/1:2.39/2017 Country: Brazil, Russia, India, South Africa, China 111min/Color/DCP/1:2.39/2017 Genre: Drama Country: Brazil, Russia, India, South Africa, China Genre: Drama ma Language Portuguese, Russian, Hindi, IsiXhosa, Sesotho and Chinese 111min/Color/DCP/1:2.39/2017 Russia,India, India,South South Africa, China Genre: Drama ,l,Russia, Africa, China Country: Brazil, Russia, India, South Africa, China Genre: Drama Russian, IsiXhosa, Language Portuguese, Genre: Drama razil, Russia, India, South Africa, China Country: Brazil, Russia, India, SouthHindi, Africa, China Sesotho and Chinese Genre: Drama ortuguese, Russian, Hindi,IsiXhosa, IsiXhosa, Sesotho andChinese ChineseDONG rtuguese, Russian, Hindi, Sesotho and Produced by: JIA Zhang-ke, Ping Country: Brazil, Russia, India, South Africa, China Drama Language Portuguese, Russian, Hindi, IsiXhosa, Sesotho and Chinese Russian, Hindi,Brazil, IsiXhosa, Sesotho and Chinese Portuguese, Country: Russia, India, South Africa, China Produced by: JIA Zhang-ke, DONG Ping JIAZhang-ke, Zhang-ke,DONG DONG Ping Country: Brazil, India, South Africa, China JIA Ping Language Portuguese, Russian, Hindi, IsiXhosa, Sesotho Chinese Country: Brazil, Russia, India, South Africa, China Production co.:Russia, Xstream Pictures (Beijing) , Huanxi Mediaand Group Limited Language Portuguese, Russian, Hindi, IsiXhosa, Sesotho and Chinese Russia, India, South Africa, China by: JIA Zhang-ke, DONG Ping Xstream Pictures (Beijing) ,Huanxi Huanxi Media Group Limited Produced by: JIA Zhang-ke, DONG Ping :.:Brazil, Xstream Pictures (Beijing) , Media Group Limited Production co.: Xstream Pictures (Beijing) , Huanxi Media Group Limited Language Portuguese, Russian, Hindi, IsiXhosa, Sesotho and Chinese Language Portuguese, Russian, Hindi, and Directors: Walter SALLES, Alexey FEDORCHENKO, Madhur BHANDARKAR, Produced JIA Zhang-ke, DONG PingIsiXhosa, Language Portuguese, Russian, Hindi, IsiXhosa, Sesotho Sesotho and Chinese Chinese ner co.: Xstream Pictures (Beijing)by: , Huanxi Media Group Limited ter SALLES, Alexey FEDORCHENKO, Madhur BHANDARKAR, SALLES, Alexey FEDORCHENKO, Madhur BHANDARKAR, Production co.: Xstream Pictures (Beijing) , Huanxi Media Group Limited Produced by: JIA Zhang-ke, DONG Ping e Portuguese, Russian, Hindi, IsiXhosa,Alexey Sesotho and Chinese Russia, India, South Africa, China Directors: Walter SALLES, FEDORCHENKO, Madhur BHANDARKAR, Produced by: JIA Zhang-ke, DONG Ping Walter Alexey FEDORCHENKO, Madhur Pictures BHANDARKAR, mil X.T.SALLES, QUEBEKA, JIAZhang-ke Zhang-ke Production co.: Xstream (Beijing) , Huanxi Media Group Limited Produced by: JIA Zhang-ke, DONG Ping mil X.T. 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communities, of people dead, or wounded. the region ofleaving Minasthousands Gerais. A private displaced, mining company's dam burst over several 1 communities, leaving thousands of people displaced, dead, or wounded. the region of Minas Gerais. A private mining company's burstis over several People are moved to shelters after the tragedy. Joyful memory ofdam the past still vivid, but People are moved to shelters after the tragedy. Joyful memory of the past is still vivid, communities, leaving thousands of people displaced, dead, or wounded. they need to keep on living beyond the confines of the loss and reinvent themselves. but they need keep on beyond the loss and reinvent themselves. People aretomoved to living shelters after the confines tragedy. of Joyful memory of the past is still vivid, but they tomoved keep on beyond confines the as loss and is reinvent themselves. People to living shelters afterofthe tragedy. Joyful memory ofhope, the past is will still be vivid, but Past need willare not be forgotten because memory. Asof long there there future. Past need will not forgotten because memory. Asoflong there hope, there will be future. they to be keep on living beyondofthe confines the as loss and is reinvent themselves. Past will not be forgotten because of memory. As long as there is hope, there will be future. 2. Breathing 2. Breathing Past will not be forgotten because of memory. As long as there is hope, there will be future. Russia Directed by Alexey FEDORCHENKO Russia by Alexey FEDORCHENKO 2. Written Breathing by Directed Alexey FEDORCHENKO, Lidia KANASHOVA by Directed Alexey FEDORCHENKO, Lidia KANASHOVA Russia by Alexey FEDORCHENKO 2. Written Breathing

Written byof Alexey Lidia KANASHOVA Russia Directed by Alexeythe FEDORCHENKO In the world snow,FEDORCHENKO, beyond reach of the railway and down at a remote valley live Zina Written by Alexey FEDORCHENKO, Lidia KANASHOVA In the world of snow, beyond the reach of the railway and down at a remote valley live Zina and her husband Nazar. and her husband Nazar. In the world of snow, beyond the reach of the railway and down at a remote valley live Zina Nazar. and her husband In the world of snow, the reach of thewith railway and down at abrings remotethe valley liveinto Zina Nazarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accusation ofbeyond Zina having an affair the railway driver couple a Nazarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accusation of ZinaZinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s havingaccordion, an affair with thefrom railway driver brings couple into in a and her fight. husband Nazar. serious He smashes a gift the driver, leavingthe her weeping serious fight. He smashes Zinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accordion, a gift from the driver, leaving her weeping in Nazarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accusation of Zina having an affair with the railway driver brings the couple into a the snow. When he hurries out to chase her, he accidentally falls and injures himself badly. the snow. When hurries out to chase her, he accidentally injures himself badly. serious fight. He he smashes Zinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accordion, a gift the falls driver, leaving her weeping in Nazarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accusation of Zina having an affair thefrom railway driver brings the couple into a In order to save Nazar, Zina has to use thewith broken accordion asand oxygen pump, filling the In order to save Nazar, Zina has to use the broken accordion as oxygen pump, filling the the snow. When he hurries out to chase her, he accidentally falls and injures himself badly. serious fight. He smashes Zinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accordion, a gift from the driver, leaving her weeping in cabin with broken tunes. cabin with broken tunes. In order toWhen save he Nazar, Zina to useher, the he broken accordion asand oxygen pump, filling the the snow. hurries outhas to chase accidentally falls injures himself badly. cabin with broken tunes. In order to save Nazar, Zina has to use the broken accordion as oxygen pump, filling the Time can be blink of seconds or eternity. If love is here, time goes nowhere. Time blink tunes. of seconds or eternity. If love is here, time goes nowhere. cabin can withbe broken Time can be blink of seconds or eternity. If love is here, time goes nowhere. 3. Mumbai Mist ( ) 3. Mumbai Mist Time can be blink( ) ofbyseconds or eternity. If love here,by time goesChhel, nowhere. India Directed Madhur BHANDARKAR is Written Sanjay Priyanka GHATAK by Madhur BHANDARKAR Written by Sanjay Chhel, Priyanka GHATAK 3. India MumbaiDirected Mist ( ) by Madhur BHANDARKAR Mumbai, Written bythe Sanjay Chhel,city Priyanka GHATAK 3. India MumbaiDirected Mist ( ) Chandrakant spends his retirement time in busiest in India. In this India Directed by Madhur BHANDARKAR Written by Sanjay Chhel, Priyanka GHATAK Chandrakant spends his retirement time in Mumbai, the busiest city in India. In this ever-changing landscape of life, he feels abandoned until he meets a ten-year-old orphan ever-changing landscape ofretirement life, he feels abandoned until he meets acity ten-year-old Chandrakant spends time in Mumbai, the busiest in India. orphan In this Charlie in the park. Theirhis spirit blossoms up because of this unexpected friendship. Charlie in the park. Theirhis spirit blossoms up because of this unexpected friendship. ever-changing landscape ofretirement life, he feels abandoned until he meets acity ten-year-old Chandrakant spends time in Mumbai, the busiest in India. orphan In this Charlie the park. Their spirit blossoms because of thishe unexpected friendship. ever-changing landscape of life, heChandrakant feelsup abandoned until meets ten-year-old orphan Yet oneinday, Charlie disappears. anxiously looks fora him all over the city Charlie in the park. Their spirit blossoms up because of this unexpected friendship. Yet one day, Charlie disappears. Chandrakant anxiously looks for him all over the city because Charlie has given him the most precious thing â&#x20AC;&#x201C; time. because Charlie has given him the most precious thing â&#x20AC;&#x201C; time. Yet one day, Charlie disappears. Chandrakant anxiously looks for him all over the city because Charlie has given him the most precious thing â&#x20AC;&#x201C; time. Yet one day, Charlie disappears. Chandrakant anxiously looks for him all over the city 4. Still Born ( ) because Charlie has given him the most precious thing â&#x20AC;&#x201C; time. 4. Still Born ( )

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Chandrakant spends his retirement time in Mumbai, the busiest city in India. In this ever-changing landscape of life, he feels abandoned until he meets a ten-year-old orphan Charlie in the park. Their spirit blossoms up because of this unexpected friendship. Yet one day, Charlie disappears. Chandrakant anxiously looks for him all over the city because Charlie has given him the most precious thing – time. 4. Still Born ( ) South Afica Directed & Writen by Jahmil X.T. QUEBEKA

In a future virtual reality, every snowflake is tagged; every raindrop can speak, and every individual’s life is predestined. The program that runs this world is as ancient as the beginning of time. No one knows how this came to be, nor can anyone take control of his or her life. Nobomi SX1, a programmed janitor, is somehow inspired to change her destiny even if it means to risk her life. She uses all her effort to create something different for herself, a path 《时find 间去the 哪儿meaning 了》电影of 说明书 a human. where she could feel life itself and being 5. Revive ( )

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The spring equinox awakes the earth. In Pingyao, a city of 2700-year history, ancient city walls stretches as far as you can see. 38-year-old Tao and Liangzi are a couple with a teenage daughter, working as performers in tourist attraction. When the two-child policy is introduced, the couple decides to have another baby. Though many difficulties lie ahead, like age and body conditions, they are determined. Just like what Tao says, ‘We can still get back, bit by bit, what time has stolen from us’.

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Project info Executively produced by JIA Zhang-Ke. Following the vast positive reception and critiques on the first BRICS co-production of “Where Has Time Gone,” the same team initiated a new project. Gathering five female directors from China, Russia, India, and South Africa, each to make a 《半边天》电影说明Brazil, 书 short film on the subject of “Contemporary Female Sentiments and the Society” from feminine visual perspectives. The five independent shorts are then 1 compiled into an analogy feature film called “Half the Sky.”

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Synopsis: "Half the Sky" has become an important theoretical generalization and practice of feminism worldwide. Through their works and realizations, the five women directors comprehend, listen to and focus on feminine values. Talented Brazilian director Daniela THOMAS used a realistic style to tell a story about a woman who has been harmed by her family, gathers courage to embark on a healing, yet long journey to return to her hometown in “Back”; Winner of the Roberto Rosselini Award for best film at Pingyao International Film Festival with her debut feature “Suleiman Mountain,” Russian director Elizaveta STICHOVA speaks in a humorous way about a country woman defies oppositions and have a “Cyber Romance” with an inmate, which leads to a series of unexpected events in “Catfishing”; From the same team that produced “Dangal,” directed by Ashwiny Iyer TIWARI, “ Taken for Granted” uses the familiar Indian melodrama style to tell a story about a mother who has been overwhelmed by years of doing chores, asks to be on a holiday away from her family, to regain her self-values; China’s much-anticipated new director, Yulin LIU, brings to table “the Dumpling.” A Story about a girl who lost her father, then her and her mother’s lives becomes dramatically changed when the mother enters a new romantic relationship; South African director, Sara BLECHER receives quite a few international attentions in recent years. Her film, “The Measure of a Woman” raises the question of whether the protagonist, a female competitive rower who’s being doubt of her eligibility to compete in the gender category due to the masculine appearance, should change herself and become “womanly,” as the society expects.

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International Film Festival with her debut feature “Suleiman Mountain,” Russian director Elizaveta STICHOVA speaks in a humorous way about a country woman defies oppositions and have a 1. BACK (归乡)with an inmate, which leads to a series of unexpected events in “Catfishing”; “Cyber Romance” From the same team that produced “Dangal,” directed by Ashwiny Iyer TIWARI, “ Taken for Granted” uses the familiar Indian melodrama style to tell a story about a mother who has been overwhelmed by years of doing chores, asks to be on a holiday away from her family, to regain her self-values; China’s much-anticipated new director, Yulin LIU, brings to table “the Dumpling.” A Story about a girl who lost her father, then her and her mother’s lives becomes dramatically changed when the mother enters a new romantic relationship; South African director, Sara BLECHER receives quite a few international attentions in recent years. Her film, “The Measure of a Woman” raises the question of whether the protagonist, a female competitive rower who’s being doubt of her eligibility to compete in the gender category due to the masculine appearance, should change herself and become “womanly,” as the society expects.

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Brazil ｜ Directed & Written by Daniela THOMAS Brazil ｜ Directed & Written by Daniela THOMAS

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2. CATFISHING (线上爱人) Brazil ｜ Directed & Written by Daniela THOMAS Maria HELENA, a struggling and spirited woman in her fifties, lives in a squatted building in downtown São Paulo (the giant metropolis of Brazil). Her past comes back to haunt her and she 2

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must return to her remote hometown in the abandoned mining country of Minas Gerais to face the family that once hurt and forsook her. Inspired by the Christian tale of the “prodigal son”, BACK, shows the journey of Maria HELENA after she finds out that her mother is very ill and wants to see her before she dies. She grudgingly undertakes the trip back to São Joao, the tiny, archaic village she was born in, after decades of absence and, on the long way, has the chance to heal old scars.

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rural village by a river in Russia. Through the Internet, she falls in love with a humorous Russia ｜ Directed by Alexey Elizaveta STISHOVA Written by Alisa KHMELNITSKAYA charismatic inmate. The man sings songs and plays guitar for her over video chats, and where Valentina, a middle-aged single woman lives a simple and naïve life with her old mother in a quiet, also share vowsintoRussia. each Through other. Soon, the inmate gets out of the prison, and rural villagesweet by a river the Internet, she falls in love with a humorous andValentin delicately preparing for man the day his arrival. Her mother and neighbors, the they other hand charismatic inmate. The singsofsongs and plays guitar for her overthe video chats, andon where also share sweet vows to and each want other.to Soon, inmate gets out of the prison, and Valentina is The skeptical about the man bursttheher imaginative bubble of Internet romance. delicately preparing for the dayroses of his in arrival. Her mother and the neighbors, on the other hand, are finally arrives in a boat with his hands, as promised. Charismatic as always, but Vale skeptical about the man and want to burst her imaginative bubble of Internet romance. The man leaves with disappointment… finally arrives in a boat with roses in his hands, as promised. Charismatic as always, but Valentina leaves with disappointment…

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Amongst the clusters of houses in Old Delhi resides the amusing Batra family. Homemaker & Salon owner ‘Seema Batra’ manages the home and family (her husband, 2 children and in-laws) with utmost sincerity. Till one day Seema takes an ingenious decision after an incident at home where she feels taken for granted and needs a break from responsibilities of daily family routine. This sudden pronouncement creates an upheaval within the family. TAKEN FOR GRANTED by Ashwiny Iyer TIWARI, is rooted in the subculture of societal truth. It is a slice of life, emotional journey of a wife, mother and daughter in law, finding her true self in a world of ‘family and responsibility’.

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China ｜ Directed & Written by Yulin LIU Xiaodan ZHOU. At some point during this year, Shuxian met Chef DONG and their hearts bonded. On this night, they are making ‘jade dumplings’ together to have for dinner with Xiaodan in hope that 4 she will accept their relationship. Xiaodan rejects the dumplings and more devastatingly, rejects their relationship. She thinks Chef DONG is inferior to her deceased father and doesn’t ‘match’ their family’s socio-economic status. Chef DONG leaves Shuxian. A year later, Shuxian QIN doesn’t mention Chef DONG to her daughter anymore. In fact, they don’t talk at all anymore. Under her mother’s silent treatment, Xiaodan is on the edge of a nervous breakdown. Shuxian seeks out Chef DONG after hearing that he is getting married. They shared some ‘old words’ and those ‘old words’ awoke Xiaodan who was hiding behind a tree nearby; and dramatically changed the lives of mother and daughter. China ｜ Directed & Written by Yulin LIU

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A year after her husband’s death, Shuxian QIN lives a simple life together with her daughter Xiaodan ZHOU. At some point during this year, Shuxian met Chef DONG and their hearts bonded. On this night, they are making ‘jade dumplings’ together to have for dinner with Xiaodan in hope that she will accept their relationship. Xiaodan rejects the dumplings and more devastatingly, rejects their relationship. She thinks Chef DONG is inferior to her deceased father and doesn’t ‘match’ their family’s socio-economic status. Chef DONG leaves Shuxian. A year later, Shuxian QIN doesn’t mention Chef DONG to her daughter anymore. In fact, they don’t talk at all anymore. Under her mother’s silent treatment, Xiaodan is on the edge of a nervous breakdown. Shuxian seeks out Chef DONG after hearing that he is getting married. They shared some ‘old words’ and those ‘old words’ awoke Xiaodan who was hiding behind a tree nearby; and dramatically changed the lives of mother and daughter.

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seen, exhibited and played around She partnered with 5 the seen, exhibited and played around the world. world. She partnered with Daniela THOMAS directs and writes creates opera and DanielaSalles, THOMAS directs and writes films, films, creates opera and theater theater Walter writing and co-directing three features, Foreign Land Walter Salles, writing and co-directing three features, Foreign Land sets, designs exhibitions and installations. Her work has been Daniela THOMAS directs andcreates writes films, creates opera and theater sets, designs exhibitions and creates installations. Her work has been (1996), Midnight and de (2008), and many (1996), Midnight (1998) (1998) and Linha Linha de Passe Passe (2008), and many shorts, shorts, seen, exhibited and played around the world. She partnered with sets, designs exhibitions and creates installations. Her work has been seen, exhibited and played around the world. She partnered with including a Je segment She co-directed including a Paris, Paris, Je T’aime T’aime segment (2006). (2006). She also also co-directed Walter Salles, writing and co-directing three features, Foreign Land seen, exhibited and played around the world. She partnered with Walter Salles, writing and co-directing three features, Foreign Land Sunstroke (2009), with partner in theater, Felipe Hirsch. Daniela Sunstroke (2009), with her her partner inPasse theater, Felipeand Hirsch. Daniela (1996), Midnight (1998) and Linha de (2008), many shorts, Walter Salles, writing and co-directing three features, Foreign Land (1996), Midnight (1998) and Linha de Passe (2008), and many shorts, directed and wrote feature Vazante (2016), which opened the directed and wrote the the feature films films Vazante (2016), which opened the including a Paris, Je T’aime segment (2006). She also co-directed (1996), Midnight (1998) and Linha de Passe (2008), many shorts, including aSection Paris, Je T’aime segment (2006). She and alsolatest co-directed Panorama in the 67th Berlinale, 2017. And her feature Panorama Section in the 67th Berlinale, 2017. And her latest feature Sunstroke with her in Hirsch. Daniela including a(2009), Paris, Je T’aime segment (2006).Felipe She also co-directed Sunstroke (2009), with her partner partner in theater, theater, Felipe Hirsch. Daniela The Last Dinner will soon The Lastand Dinner willthe soon be be released. released. directed wrote films (2016), which opened the Sunstroke (2009), her partner in theater, Felipe Hirsch. Daniela directed and wrote with the feature feature films Vazante Vazante (2016), which opened the Panorama Section in 67th Berlinale, 2017. And her feature directed and wrote the feature Vazante (2016), opened the Panorama Section in the the 67th films Berlinale, 2017. And which her latest latest feature The Last Dinner Dinner willinsoon soon be released. Panorama Section the be 67th Berlinale, 2017. And her latest feature The Last will released. The Last Dinner will soon be released. Born Born in in Moscow, Moscow, Russia, Russia, Elizaveta Elizaveta STICHOVA STICHOVA received received her her degrees degrees from the Russian University of Theatre Arts (GITIS). In from the Russian University of Theatre Arts (GITIS). In 2014, 2014, she she participated at the Berlinale Talents Campus, and after completing participated at the Berlinale Talents Campus, and after completing Born Russia, Elizaveta received her Born in in Moscow, Moscow, Russia, Elizaveta STICHOVA STICHOVA received her degrees degrees several short films, in first feature film several short films, in 2017, 2017,of Stichova’s Stichova’s first(GITIS). featureIn length length film from the Russian University Theatre Arts 2014, she Born in Moscow, Russia, Elizaveta STICHOVA received her degrees from the Russian University of Theatre Arts (GITIS). In 2014, she “Suleiman Mountain” was selected at Toronto (TIFF), San Francisco “Suleiman Mountain” was selected at Toronto (TIFF), San Francisco participated at Berlinale Talents Campus, and from the and Russian of Theatre Arts (GITIS). In completing 2014, she participated at the the University Berlinale Talents Campus, and after after completing (SFIFF), international film across the world. (SFIFF), and many many international film festivals festivals across the length world. The The several short films, in 2017, Stichova’s first feature film participated at the Berlinale Talents Campus, and after completing several short films, in 2017, Stichova’s first feature length film film was also awarded the Roberto Rosselini Award for best film at film was also awarded the Roberto Rosselini Award for best film at “Suleiman Mountain” was selected at Toronto (TIFF), San Francisco several short films, in 2017, Stichova’s first feature length film “Suleiman Mountain” was selected at Toronto (TIFF), San Francisco Pingyao International Film Festival (PYIFF) in 2017. Pingyao International Film Festival (PYIFF) in 2017. (SFIFF), many film The “Suleimanand Mountain” was selected at festivals Toronto across (TIFF), the Sanworld. Francisco (SFIFF), and many international international film festivals across the world. The film was also awarded the Award film at (SFIFF), international filmRosselini festivals across the best world. film was and also many awarded the Roberto Roberto Rosselini Award for for best filmThe at Pingyao International Film Festival (PYIFF) in 2017. film was also awarded the Roberto Rosselini Award for best film at Pingyao International Film Festival (PYIFF) in 2017. Pingyao International Film Festival (PYIFF) in 2017.

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Ashwiny Ashwiny Iyer Iyer TIWARI TIWARI has has won won several several awards awards like like Cannes Cannes Lions Lions since since she started pursuing her passion in filmmaking in 2014. she started pursuing her passion in filmmaking in 2014. Ashwiny Iyer TIWARI won several awards Lions Ashwiny Iyerher TIWARI has haswith wonhighly severalacclaimed awards like like Cannes Cannes Lions since since She made Battey She made pursuing her debut debut with highly acclaimedinNil Nil Battey Sannata, Sannata, she started her passion in filmmaking 2014. Ashwiny Iyer TIWARI has won several awards like Cannes Lionsat since she started pursuing herDebut passion in filmmaking in 2014. awarded Filmfare Best Director Award and Best Actor awarded Filmfare Best Debut Director Award and Best Actor at the the she started pursuing her passion in filmmaking in 2014. Silk Road International Film Festival. In 2017, she made the romantic Silk Road International Film Festival. In 2017, she made the romantic She her with highly acclaimed Nil Battey Sannata, She made made her debut debut with highly acclaimed Nil Director Battey award Sannata, comedy Bareilly Ki Barfi which won the at comedy Bareilly KiBest BarfiDebut whichDirector won her her the Best Best Director award at awarded Filmfare Award and Best Actor at She made her debut with highly acclaimed Nil Battey Sannata, awarded awards Filmfareand Best Debut Director India Award and Best Actor at the the Filmfare Zee Cine Awards, Filmfare awards and Zee Cine Awards, India Silk International Festival. In 2017, romantic awarded Best Film Debut Director andmade Best the Actor at the Silk Road RoadFilmfare International Film Festival. In Award 2017, she she made the romantic comedy Bareilly Ki Barfi which won her the Best Director award at Silk Road International Film Festival. In 2017, she made the romantic comedy Bareilly Ki as Barfi which won herpowerful the Best Directorinaward at She was selected one of the She wasawards selected asZee one of Awards, the most mostIndia powerful women women in 2016 2016 in in Filmfare and Cine comedy Bareilly Ki Barfi which won her the Best Director award at Filmfare awards and Zee Cine Awards, India Femina. Ashwiny has now collaborated with Fox Star Studios to make Femina. Ashwiny has now collaborated with Fox Star Studios to make Filmfare awards and Zee Cine Awards, India a film on (an Indian dying sport). a filmwas on Kabaddi Kabaddi (an Indian dying sport). She selected as one of the most She was selected as one of the most powerful powerful women women in in 2016 2016 in in Femina. Ashwiny has now collaborated with Fox Star Studios to make She was selected as one of the most powerful women in 2016 in Femina. Ashwiny has now collaborated with Fox Star Studios to make a film on Kabaddi (an Indian dying sport). Femina. Ashwiny has now collaborated with Fox Star Studios to make a film on Kabaddi (an Indian dying sport).

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She was selected as one of the most powerful women in 2016 in Femina. Ashwiny has Yulin now collaborated with FoxNYU Star Tisch Studios to make Born in Beijing, China, LIU graduated from School of 《半边天》电影说明书 a film (an Indian dying sport). the ArtsoninKabaddi Filmmaking. 《半边天》电影说明书《半边天》电影说明书 Born in Beijing, China, Yulin LIU graduated from NYU Tisch School of In 2014, the short narrative God, acclaiming awards at both Born in Beijing, China, Yulinfilm LIUDoor graduated from NYU Tisch School of the in Filmmaking. BornArts in Beijing, China, Yulin LIU graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Academy6 Awards (Oscar®) and the Annual Directors Guild the Student Arts in Filmmaking. the Arts in Filmmaking. of America Student Film Awards. Door God was selected into over 50 In 2014, the short narrative film Door God, acclaiming awards at both international film festivals and multiple awards. awards at both In 2014, the Academy short narrative filmwon Door God, acclaiming the Student Awards and the Annual Directors Guild In 2014, the short narrative film(Oscar®) Door God, acclaiming awards at both the Student Academy Awards (Oscar®) and the Annual Directors Guild of America Student Film Awards. Door God was selected into over 50 the Student Academy Awards (Oscar®) and the Annual Directors Guild In America 2016, Yulin directed her first feature film Someone to Talk to, which of Student Film Awards. Door God was selected into over 50 international film festivals and won multiple awards. of America Student Film Awards. Door God was selected into over 50 was selectedfilm intofestivals many film festivals including Busan, Cairo and Berlin international and won multiple awards. international film festivals and won multiple awards. Film Festivals, and the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards, etc. In 2016, Yulin directed her first feature film Someone to Talk to, which In 2016, Yulininto directed feature film Someone Talk and to, which was selected manyher filmfirst festivals including Busan,to Berlin In 2016, Yulin directed her first feature film Someone toCairo Talk to, which was selected into many film festivals including Busan, Cairo and Berlin Film Festivals, and the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards, etc. was selected into many film festivals including Busan, Cairo and Berlin Film Festivals, and the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards, etc. Film Festivals, and the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards, etc. Born and raised in Johannesburg, Sara BLECHER graduated with honors from NYU film school. Born and raised in Johannesburg, Sara BLECHER graduated with As anand award winning documentarySara director and producer, Sara’s debut Born raised Johannesburg, BLECHER graduated with honors from NYUin school. Born and raised infilm Johannesburg, Sara BLECHER graduated with feature from OteloNYU Burning over 17 international awards and was honors film won school. honors from NYU film school. named by CNN as one of the top ten African films of the decade. As an award winning documentary director and producer, Sara’s debut Ayanda premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival and was selected to As an award director and producer, Sara’s feature Otelo winning Burningdocumentary won over 17 international awards and was debut As an award winning documentary director and producer, Sara’s debut open theOtelo Durban International Film Festival. Sheawards recentlyand completed feature Burning won over 17 international was named CNN as onewon of the top17ten African films of theand decade. feature by Otelo Burning over international awards was her fourth feature Mayfair which soonfilms to beofreleased. named by CNN asfilm one ofLos the Angeles top tenwill African thewas decade. Ayanda premiered at the Film Festival and selected to named by CNN as one of the top ten African films of the decade. Ayanda at the Los Angeles Film Festival and was selected to open thepremiered Durban International Film Festival. She recently completed Ayanda premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival and was selected to open the Durban International Film Festival. She recently completed her fourth feature International film Mayfair which will soonShe to be released. open the Durban Film Festival. recently completed her fourth feature film Mayfair which will soon to be released. her fourth feature film Mayfair which will soon to be released.

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Chinese Director, writer and producer. Since 1998, JIA Zhang-ke has directed 11 full-length movies and a number of short films, among Executive Producer which Still Life was awarded Golden Lion for Best Picture at the 63rd Executive Producer Chinese Director, writer and producer. Since 1998, JIA Zhang-ke has Executive Producer Venice International Filmand Festival. Mountains May Depart won himhas Best Chinese Director, writer producer. Since of 1998, Zhang-ke directed full-length movies and a number shortJIA films, amonghas Chinese 11 Director, writer and producer. Since 1998, JIA Zhang-ke Screenwriter at the 10th Asian Film Awards and Audience Award at the directed 11Life full-length moviesGolden and a number short films,atamong which Still was awarded Lion for of Best Picture the 63rd directed 11 full-length movies and a number of short films, among 63rd San Sebastián International Film Festival. His latest film Ash is which Still Life was awarded Golden Lion for Best at thehim 63rd Venice International Film Festival. Mountains May Picture Depart won Best which Still Life was awarded Golden Lion for Best Picture at the 63rd Purest White was selected in competition in Cannes. Venice International Film Festival. Mountains May Depart won him Best Screenwriter at the 10th FilmMountains Awards and Audience Award the Venice International FilmAsian Festival. May Depart won himatBest Screenwriter at the 10th Asian Film Awards and Audience Award at 63rd San Sebastián International Film Festival. latest film Ashat is the Screenwriter at the 10th Asian Film Awards andHis Audience Award the In 2010, Jia receivedInternational the LeopardFilm of Honor of the Festival delisfilm 63rd San Sebastián Festival. His63rd latest film Ash Purest White was selected in competition in Cannes. 63rd San Sebastián International Film Festival. His latest film Ash is Locarno. In 2015, was honored with theinLifetime Purest White was he selected in competition Cannes.Achievement Purest White was selected in competition in Cannes. Award Carrosse d’Or (Golden Coach) at the Cannes International Film In 2010, Jia received the Leopard of Honor of the 63rd Festival del film Festival. In 2010, Jia received the Leopard Honor of the 63rd Festival del film Locarno. In 2015, he was honoredof with the Lifetime Achievement In 2010, Jia received the Leopard of Honor of the 63rd Festival del film Locarno. In 2015, he was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award Carrosse (Golden Coach) theLifetime CannesAchievement International Film Locarno. In 2015,d’Or he was honored withatthe Carrosse d’Or (Golden Coach) at the Cannes International Film Festival. Director’s StatementAward Award Carrosse d’Or (Golden Coach) at the Cannes International Film Festival. Festival.

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Locarno. In 2015, he was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award Carrosse d’Or (Golden Coach) at the Cannes International Film Festival.

Director’s Statement

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BACK 7 THOMAS by Daniela When JIA invited me to make a film inspired by the beautiful sentence “Women can hold up half the sky” I immediately thought of the intriguing social mathematics of Brazil. Almost half the households Whenare JIAran invited me to make a film inspired by the no beautiful “Women can holdaup half the here exclusively by women. No husbands, fatherssentence in the picture. Like when country is sky” I immediately of the in intriguing social of Brazil. Almost half the households at war somewhere thought else. Women Brazil hold up mathematics half the land too. here are ran exclusively by women. No husbands, no fathers in the picture. Like when a country is at war else. Women in Brazil hold up land too. To tell somewhere a story in this curious society, I counted onhalf thethe incredible Maria Helena Dias, MANTEGA, a woman from the backlands of Brazil, whom I had met during the preparation for my feature 半边天》影说明书 To tell a story in who this curious I《 counted on电the incredible Maria Helena Dias, MANTEGA, a VAZANTE, and exuded society, talent and spirit. She opened up an universe, presenting me to her womanand from backlands I had met during the preparation my inspired feature family to athe thousand talesofofBrazil, life on whom the edges of Brazilian society. One of thesefortales VAZANTE, and who exuded talent and spirit. She opened up an universe, presenting me to her BACK. Mantega played the character based on her own story. Sandra Corveloni, the great actress, family sure and to a did thousand tales of life on the edges of Brazilian society. One of these tales inspired made she it beautifully. BACK. Mantega played the character based on her own story. Sandra Corveloni, the great actress, made sure it beautifully. Inspired by she the did Christian tale of the “prodigal son”, in BACK we follow the return of an estranged daughter to the dying bed of the mother who forsook her, and to the home of her resentful sister. Inspired by tale ofthrough the “prodigal son”, BACK we follow the of an and estranged Entwined in the this Christian tale, we travel a country thatinlives concomitantly in return the present in the daughter the dying of the mother forsook her, and to the of still her structured resentful sister. past, and to through the bed complexities of thewho relationships of women in ahome society upon Entwined in this tale, we travel a country that lives concomitantly in the present and in the ancient patriarchal canons and through the shackles of intolerance. past, and thetocomplexities the relationships of women in a“Women society still upon When JIA through invited me make a film of inspired by the beautiful sentence can structured hold up half the ancient patriarchal thought canons of and shackles of intolerance. sky” I immediately thethe intriguing social mathematics of Brazil. Almost half the households here are ran exclusively by women. No husbands, no fathers in the picture. Like when a country is at war somewhere else. Women in Brazil hold up half the land too. CATFISHING

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by Elizaveta STICHOVA To tell a story in this curious society, I counted on the incredible Maria Helena Dias, MANTEGA, a CATFISHING I was very happy to shoot the film in my country, because I had never did it except for student's woman from STICHOVA the backlands of Brazil, whom I had met during the preparation for my feature by Elizaveta work. Both of my films were shot in Kyrgyzstan. So I think that a long time in Asia had a big impact VAZANTE, and who exuded talent and spirit. She opened up an universe, presenting me to her on what I have finally made. family and to a thousand tales of life on the edges of Brazilian society. One of these tales inspired BACK. Mantega played the character based on her own story. Sandra Corveloni, the great actress, My point was to imagine how it could be in Russian village if we would have treated our traditions as made sure she did it beautifully. 8 asian people do. That's why together with production designer and costume disigner we created a world that could have been Russia in 21 century, where everything is mixed - horse cart and Inspired by the Christian tale of the “prodigal son”, in BACK we follow the return of an estranged

work. Both of my films were shot in Kyrgyzstan. So I think that a long time in Asia had a big impact on what I have finally made. My point was to imagine how it could be in Russian village if we would have treated our traditions as asian people do. That's why together with production designer and costume disigner we created a world that could have been Russia in 21 century, where everything is mixed - horse cart and contemporary bike, stove and notebook, Russian dress from 19 century and modern fancy keds. The second thing that I have really enjoyed is to work in a different genre, because my previous film was shoot in realistic type of filmmaking with long shoots. At first I had to find the way for actors to be realistic and at the same time not real. It was interesting part for my professional goals. And I really hope it worked. I would love to see how the audience will watch the film.

TAKEN FOR GRANTED by Ashwiny Iyer TIWARI

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In any woman’s journey across the world as soon as she is married the responsibility towards the family and the children becomes of utmost priority Taken for Granted is a thought-provoking tale which talks about the inner most feeling of her routine journey as a mother, wife and daughter in law which almost taken for granted after a while. Taken for Granted is an emotive narrative close to my spirit. Dressed in an artistic backdrop, the story is about a woman and her family laced with societal fact-fiction and the color of sentiments. I wanted to organically tell a story that creates empathy with the characters and catalyze an inner change in every individual. The film celebrates that it’s important to start seeing the other side of this beautiful woman and thank her everyday as she selflessly gives her whole life tendering and caring for every family member without thinking too much about her own self.

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for every family member without thinking too much about her own self.

DUMPLINGS 《半边天》电影说明书 by Yulin LIU That’s the question everyone’s contemplating. How to live? How to ease. live? That’s everyone’s contemplating. Live at That’s the the question state everyone’s seeking.

THE MEASURE OF A WOMAN How to live? That’s the everyone’s contemplating. Live That’sThat’s the question state seeking. Don’tat beease. common. the everyone’s attitude everyone maintains. Sara BLECHER by Live at ease. That’s the state everyone’s seeking.

Don’t be common. That’s the attitude everyone maintains. Don’t be common. That’s the maintains. The short film Dumplings is attitude a story everyone about a normal Chinese mother and daughter. They have The short Dumplings is resolve a story the about a normal Chinese mother daughter. have conflict andfilm grow apart. They conflict and support each other. and In the process, They they better The short film Dumplings is a story about a normal Chinese mother and daughter. They have conflict and grow Theythemselves. resolve the conflict and support other. In the process, they better understand each apart. other and Understanding “howeach to live”, they comprehend what’s “at conflict and grow apart. They resolve the conflict and support each other. In the process, they better understand each other and themselves. Understanding “how to live”, they comprehend what’s “at ease” and what’s “common”. understand each “common”. other and themselves. Understanding “how to live”, they comprehend what’s “at ease” and what’s ease” and what’s “common”. This mother and daughter relationship is reflective of millions of Chinese families, and at the same This daughter relationship is reflectivemodern of millions of Chinese families, and atseemingly the same time mother reflects and some of the ‘values’ that permeates society today. These ‘values’ This mother and daughter relationship is reflective of millions of Chinese families, and at the same time reflects someeveryone, of the ‘values’ that permeates modern are society today. These ‘values’the seemingly capture and trap but the mother and daughter lucky. They’ve escaped ‘values’ time reflects someeveryone, of the ‘values’ that permeates modern are society today. These ‘values’the seemingly capture and but the mother and daughter lucky. They’ve escaped ‘values’ that bind the trap common. capture and trap everyone, but the mother and daughter are lucky. They’ve escaped the ‘values’ that bind the common. 《半边天》电影说明书 that bind the common.

THE MEASURE OF A WOMAN 10 How to live? That’s the question everyone’s contemplating. 10 by Sara BLECHER

Live at ease. That’s the state everyone’s seeking.10 The Measure of A Woman is a very simple story. It shows the painful journey of a young 19-year-old Don’t be common. That’s the attitude everyone maintains. athlete who can row a scull with incredible speed – but who the world is not ready to accept. The short film Dumplings is a story about a normal Chinese mother and daughter. They have As the film traces the days and weeks that follow the extraordinary victory – we begin to unpack the conflict and grow apart. They resolve the conflict and support each other. In the process, they better issue of what defines a woman: her body? her voice? the mother who gave birth to her? the way understand each other and themselves. Understanding “how to live”, they comprehend what’s “at she pees? who she loves? how fast she rows? her competitors? or how she sees herself? It ease” and what’s “common”. grapples with the idea of how in modern society do we measure what defines someone as a woman. This mother and daughter relationship is reflective of millions of Chinese families, and at the same time reflects some of the ‘values’ that permeates modern society today. These ‘values’ seemingly Stylistically, this narrative is interspersed with interviews with many of the key players: the capture and trap everyone, but the mother and daughter are lucky. They’ve escaped the ‘values’ competitors, her mom, her coach, and head of the rowing federation - the idea being that in a short that bind the common. film there isn’t enough time to develop back story. Also here the narrative isn’t the story. The story is the impact these events have on this young girl.

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THREE WAy jUNCTION jUERGEN BOLLMEyER Fuelled by the vivid imagery of the everyday world around him - from epic natural settings to chaotic mega-cities - Juergen has travelled the globe creating visionary work for clients like Audi, Bayer, Blue Cross, BMV, Buick, Chevy, Coca-Cola, Deutsche Bank, Jaguar, Exus, Mercedes-Benz, Red Cross, Smart, Toyota, UBS, and many others. Juergen has embraced a uniquely naturalistic tone in all his work – a heightened realism, which seeks to reveal grace in the ordinary. His pure and powerful imagery has captured everything from sleek automobiles to the ever-changing contours of the human face. Melding classic broadcast commercial work with ground-breaking alternative and viral projects, Juergen was a creative mind behind a series of revolutionary internet virals for Daimler’s Smart car. Establishing a long-lasting relationship with ZDF (2nd German Television), one of Europe’s biggest TV stations, Juergen’s award-winning station IDs would go on to define the face of both stations for many years.

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Nu Metro 2, 12 Oct @ 12pm | Nu Metro 5, 14 Oct @ 11pm DIRECTOR: Juergen Bollmeyer COUNTRY: UK | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 101min

SyNOPSIS London-based architect Carl (Tom Sturridge) has unwittingly fallen into the trappings of a monotonous, corporate lifestyle, leaving behind the idealistic, creative artist he once was. In a bid to clear his mind – particularly with his proposal for an atrium hanging in the balance – he journeys to Africa and to the source of his inspiration; the grand dunes of Namibia. Fate then brings him together with the free-spirited traveller Lisa (Stacy Martin), who offers a welcome distraction from Carl’s quandary. The journey diverges into an unexpected love affair, when Carl opts to follow Lisa through the breath-taking Namibian landscape. Wrestling with his conscience, Carl struggles to find peace with such spontaneity, instead compelled to return home – if, it seems, he can even make it that far.

AyITI MON AMOUR GUETTy FELIN

Guetty Felin is an award-winning independent filmmaker, teacher, and film curator. Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and raised in New York, she holds an MFA from the university of Paris School of Cinema. Throughout her career, Felin has worked on factual and narrative films for European and American television. She produced and co-curated the critically-acclaimed Haiti on Screen in 2004 to celebrate Haiti’s bicentennial. She also helped to launch Haiti’s Film Festival Jakmèl in 2004.

SK Nouveau 5, 11 Oct @ 2.30pm / 13 Oct @ 12.30pm DIRECTOR: Guetty Felin COUNTRY: Haiti | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 90min

SyNOPSIS Set five years after Haiti was devastated by an earthquake, Guetty Felin’s Ayiti Mon Amour is both a love letter to the country and a reminder that there is still plenty of work to be done to get the land thriving again. Loosely framing the film around three interlocking narratives, Felin’s tells the story of a teenager who discovers he has super powers, a muse who finds it difficult to leave the story her author is writing, and an elderly fisherman who is trying to find a cure for his ailing wife. Filling each story with a magical neorealism, the film floats from one tale to the next with the ease of a fish swimming in a sparsely populated sea. The characters in Ayiti Mon Amour are thinly drawn, but in some ways that is actually a good thing. The film is not so much concerned with its plot as it is immersing the viewer into the Haitian culture. Felin’s shows the audience that Haiti is more than what is depicted on the news. It is vibrant and culturally rich land where the sense of community still thrives despite the tragedy that has occurred. Playing up the mystical side of the Haiti, Felin’s does not shy away from the serious agricultural concerns of the land as well. She shows how erosion caused by the quake has greatly impacted the fishing industry, as well as how some communities are still dealing with a lack of water and electricity. All of this makes for a captivating meditation on life and tragedy. Through her film, Felin reminds us that just because Haiti is not routinely on the nightly news anymore, that does not mean that the country should be forgotten from our hearts and minds. The ﬁlm Ayiti Mon Amour is presented in cooperation with the Embassy of Republic of Haiti in Pretoria.

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BECOMING ASTRID (UNGA ASTRID) PERNILLE FISCHER CHRISTENSEN Pernille Fischer ChristensenÂ´s debut film A Soap (2006) had its world premiere at the Berlinale in 2006 where it was awarded a Silver Bear - the Jury Grand Prize - and the Best Debut Film Award. Her second feature, the critically acclaimed Dancers, premiered in 2008. In 2011 Pernille once again experienced success in Berlin, when A Family was honored with the acclaimed FIPRESCI prize. In 2014 Someone You Love (2014) premiered at the Berlinale.

SK Nouveau 5, 12 Oct @ 10am | Nu Metro 6, 14 Oct @ 2.30pm DIRECTOR: Pernille Fischer Christensen COUNTRY: Sweden | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 123min

SyNOPSIS When Astrid Lindgren was very young something happened that affected her profoundly, and this combination of both miracle and calamity came to shape her entire life. It was an event that transformed her into one of the most inspiring women of our age and the storyteller a whole world would come to love. This is the story of when a young Astrid, despite the expectations of her time and religious upbringing, decided to break free from societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s norms and follow her heart.

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Transatlantyk Festival: Lodz 2018 Transatlantyk Distribution Award -New Cinema

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FIVE FINGERS FOR MARSEILLES MICHAEL MATTHEWS

Directing technically complex productions under pressure, has earned Michael a reputation for executing ambitious projects. Michael has a strong focus on emotive, visual storytelling. His work has been nominated and won awards both locally and internationally. Michael co-founded Be Phat Motel Film Company in 2007 with the aim to develop and produce progressive cinema, and has seen a number of projects into international development. In this period Michael has also made award winning commercials, short films and music videos, working with worldwide brands and artists. Michael’s half hour film, Sweetheart (2011), screened at festivals in South Africa, Poland, Russia, Germany, Australia, Switzerland, Austria, Greece, Singapore, Costa Rica and the USA. Sweetheart’s international interest led him to meetings with agents and studios including Fox, Warner Brothers and WME. In 2014 Michael directed the eight part web series, Ashbeclee. The comedydrama is in the tone of HBO ‘Girls’, but set in Perth Australia. Focused on three female lead characters dealing with quarter life crises and first world problems, it gained over 190 000 episode views.

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DIRECTOR: Michael Matthews COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 120min

SyNOPSIS Apartheid South Africa: The community of Railway, attached to the remote town of Marseilles, are the victims of brutal police oppression and only the young ‘Five Fingers’ are willing to stand up to them. Their battle is heartfelt but innocent, until hot-headed Tau kills two policemen in an act of passion. He flees, leaving his brothers and friends behind, but his action has triggered a violent fight that will leave both Marseilles and the Five Fingers Changed. Twenty years later, Tau is released from prison, now a feared and brutal outlaw, ‘The Lion of Marseilles’. But scarred and empty, he renounces violence and returns to Marseilles desiring only peace and to reconnect with those he left behind. At first, Tau finds Marseilles a town seemingly at peace. The battle for freedom was won, and now the grown Five Fingers are in prominent positions – as mayor, police chief and pastor of the old church. But when Tau reconnects with his childhood love, Lerato, now proprietress of the local tavern, and her fiery son, Sizwe, it becomes clear that rather than the haven he hoped for, Marseilles is caught in the grip of a vicious new threat and to his dismay, his old allies themselves may have allowed it in. Tau can keep his head down only so long. When he and his loved ones become direct targets, he is reluctantly compelled to fight again, once and for All. ‘Five Fingers for Marseilles’ fuses western influences, from classic to spaghetti and revisionist eras, into a contemporary South African drama played in local tongue by four generations of acclaimed South African stars, led by television icon, Vuyo Dabula.

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jUST BELIEVE (IO C’è) ALESSANDRO ARONADIO After graduating in Psychology in Palermo, Alessandro Aronadio specializes in directing at the Los Angeles Film School. In 2010 Due Vite per Caso (One Life, Maybe Two), his first feature film, was selected at the Berlin Film Festival (Panorama). In 2016 Aronadio writes and directs Orecchie (Ears). Since its debut at the Venice Film Festival, the film was acclaimed as a cult, a new way of making comedy in Italy. The film has won 16 awards in international film festivals. Io c’è (Just Believe), his third film, a mainstream comedy on the controversial theme of religion, was released in 2018. Photographer, essayist and screenwriter, Aronadio has recently written several films, among which Che vuoi che sia (What’s the big deal) by Edoardo Leo, I peggiori (Wacky Heroes) by Vincenzo Alfieri, both distributed by Warner Bros., and Classe Z, directed by Guido Chiesa.

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Nu Metro 4, 14 Oct @ 5.30pm / 16 Oct @ 10.30pm DIRECTOR: Alessandro Aronadio COUNTRY: Italy | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 100min

SyNOPSIS Massimo Alberti (Edoardo Leo) is the owner of the “Miracolo Italiano”, a luxury bed and breakfast now reduced to a dilapidated building. The crisis that has brought its business to its knees seems not to have touched its neighbors, a convent run by nuns always full of tourists to whom pious women offer shelter in exchange for a spontaneous donation. Tax-free. Massimo has an illumination: to survive he must transform the “Italian Miracle” into a place of worship. And to do so, he must found his own religion. Thus was born the “Ionism”, the first faith that puts the I in the center of the universe. Accompanying Massimo in his mission to the absolution of taxes and contributions, his sister Adriana (Margherita Buy), irreproachable accountant, and Marco (Giuseppe Battiston), writer without readers and perfect ideologist of the new creed. Get ready to convert!

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Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists 2018 Persol Award

LOVE jACKED ALFONS ADETUyI

Alfons Adetuyi is an award‐winning producer recognized for both navigating the complexities of financing international co‐ productions and producing successful cross‐ cultural films and television series. He has produced over 130 episodes of prime-time television, which have sold internationally to more than 60 counties including: the US, Canada and the UK. He initiated the first official co-production between Canada and South Africa with the ground breaking TV series EKHAYA: A FAMILY CHRONICLE in 1996 and returned to South Africa to produce and direct the popular medical series JOZI-H. A graduate of London’s Fanshawe College film program and the Canadian Film Centre’s Directors Lab. Alfons’ first film Survivors, about a black family forced to confront AIDS premired at the Toronto International Film Festival and was the first drama of its’ length to be written, produced and directed by people of color in Canada.

Nu Metro 4, 10 Oct @ 10.30pm

SK Nouveau 5, 15 Oct @ 3pm

DIRECTOR: Alfons Adetuyi COUNTRY: USA | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 100min

SyNOPSIS LOVE JACKED is a sophisticated small town Romantic Comedy with a twist: it involves a fake wedding, a fake funeral and a love triangle spanning two continents: North America and Africa. OK it has a lot of twists and a few turns, but it’s told in the tradition of classic Romantic Comedies such as THE FATHER OF THE BRIDE with a strong female protagonist and an overbearing father with African-American twists. In LOVE JACKED the characters take themselves and their situations seriously. Our empathy comes from watching two seemingly normal people being thrust into completely abnormal situations and our amusement comes from watching these two, otherwise reasonable human beings, cope with the giant lies that they have told. On the one hand, there is the sincere effort of a daughter trying to escape from under the domineering thumb of her father. On the other, it’s about the unbelievable lies she feels she must tell in order to establish her independence. In spite of all this, she does find true love, but in the last place that she expected to find it.

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SISTERS OF THE WILDERNESS KARIN SLATER

Karin Slater was awarded with the prestigious Trailblazer Award at MIPDOC Cannes 2008. An award given to five filmmakers around the world doing creative and innovative work in documentaries. She also received the Best South African Documentary Award at the 2008 Durban International Film Festival and the 2008 Apollo Film Festival for her film 50 Years! Of Love? In 2016 Kenya’s Water Women received an award in the social category at the New York Film and Television Awards. At Vision du Reel 2017 South African Focus Karin Slater had three of her documentary works screening which reflect the different ways she works within the documentary industry. In one work she was Director & cinematographer ‘50 Years of Love?‘, Jeppe on a Friday cinematographer and in Atrophy and the fear of Fading, Head Mentor.

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SK Nouveau 5, 10 Oct @ 2pm | Nu Metro 4, 13 Oct @ 6pm DIRECTOR: Karin Slater COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 90min

SyNOPSIS Five young Zulu women go into the iMfolozi wilderness in South Africa, on a journey of self-discovery; and learn about the plight of this primordial wilderness which is now severely threatened by an open-cast coal mine on its border, and an intensifying rhino poaching calamity.

STONE COLD jANE AUSTEN jON SAVAGE

Jon Savage is a maker of things. He began as a filmmaker at a young age until his musical career exploded in the form of a globetrotting rock band called Cassette. He has subsequently been a music producer, a DJ on South Africa’s national radio station, the music director of the SA Music Awards, the creator of the 5FM Mashlab phenomenon, a writer for Rolling Stone magazine, a film director and is now a content strategist and CEO of The Eye.tv.

SK Nouveau 5, 10 Oct @ 5.30pm | Nu Metro 4, 14 Oct @ 10.30pm DIRECTOR: Jon Savage COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2015 | TIME: 98min

SyNOPSIS Stone Cold Jane Austen (Jon Savage &amp; Rob Van Vuuren), are one of the great English-speaking South African rock bands of the past decade and are the unrecognized heroes considered to be instrumental in accidentally creating the Afrikaans rock revolution that gave birth to bands such as Fokofpolisiekar, Jack Parow and Die Heuwels Fantasties. They have inspired a revolution, yet failed to break through to the mainstream. One step away from total destitution the once-promising uncompromising punk band, have now taken to bone-headed tactics, over-rationalizations and harsh criticism of the SA music industry to survive. Unfortunately this just results in self-sabotage and even more estrangement from the music industry and further away from success. All this changes when they decide against all odds –to try and conquer the Afrikaans music market, despite not speaking the language and taking a last shot at making a name for themselves. South Africa’s almost forgotten legends make their comeback against all odds. This film about knowing when to give up versus believing that surrender is not an option is a fun film with a lot of heart, and essentially about the value of friendship.

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STRAy DUSTIN FENELEy

Born in Sydney in 1982, Dustin Feneley is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts Film School. His short films as writer and director (Night, Snow, Hawker, Eskimo Kiss) have won numerous awards and screened at over one hundred film festivals, including official selections at Cannes, London, Sydney and Melbourne. In 2006, his short film Snow premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the CinĂŠfondation selection. In the same year, Snow was exhibited at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. In 2007, Dustin was the recipient of the Qantas Spirit of Youth Award for Moving Image, the leading awards in Australasia for emerging creative talent. In 2011, he was awarded the Filmmaker Grand Prix at the Sapporo International Short Film Festival in Japan for his body of work in short films.

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Nu Metro 4, 12 Oct @ 10pm | Nu Metro 5, 17 Oct @ 10.30pm DIRECTOR: Dustin Feneley COUNTRY: New Zeland | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 104min

SyNOPSIS In a cold and remote landscape, two strangers struggle to repair their broken pasts. A young man is on parole after serving time for attempting to murder the man who killed his girlfriend in a hit and run. A woman is released from a psychiatric facility far from her homeland. These two damaged strangers cross paths in the mountains in winter and fall into a complex intimate relationship, putting to the test their capacity to trust and heal.

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Moscow International Film Festival 2018 Silver St. George - Best Actor

CRISTI PUIU

THE DEATH OF MR. LAzARESCU (MOARTEA DOMNULUI LÃzÃRESCU) Nu Metro 5, 14 Oct @ 8pm | SK Nouveau 5, 19 Oct @ 5pm

Cristi Puiu born 3 April 1967 is a Romanian film director and screenwriter. Puiu’s first interest in art was painting. In 1992, he was admitted as a student to the Painting Department of École Supérieure d’Arts Visuels in Geneva. After the first year he switched to film studies at the same school, where he graduated in 1996. He started working in film after his return to Romania. With Anca Puiu and Alex Munteanu, in 2004 he founded a cinema production company, naming it Mandragora. After returning to Romania, Puiu started writing and directing his first films.

DIRECTOR: Cristi Puiu COUNTRY: Romania | YEAR: 2005 | TIME: 153min

SyNOPSIS Mr. Lazarescu, a 63 year old lonely man feels sick and calls the ambulance. When it arrives, the paramedic decides he should take him to the hospital but once there they decide to send him to another hospital and then yet another... As the night unfolds and they can’t find a hospital for Mr. Lazarescu, his health starts to deteriorate fast.

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29 awards in various International Film Festivals.

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THE PLACE PAOLO GENOVESE

Born in Rome in 1966, Paolo Genovese earned a degree in Economics and Business. He began to work in advertising with McCann Erickson Italiana, realizing commercials that won awards at various domestic and international events. He taught “Tecnica e linguaggio audio visivo – Techniques and Audio Visual Language” at the European Institute of Design and “Tecnica e linguaggio pubblicitario – Techniques and Advertising Language” at the Telecom Italia (Res Romoli) school of communication. In the field of advertising he directed more than three hundred commercials, winning several domestic and international awards. Among these there are: Tim, Tre, McDonalds, Buitoni, Algida, indus, Corriere della sera, Rai, Perlana, Q8, FIAT Kelloggs, Renault, Citroen, Coop, National Geographic, Motta, Vitasnella, Cirio, Birra Moretti, Vanity Fair, Repubblica, Ferrarelle, Universal Studios, Lasonil, Volkswagen, Alleanza and Alpitour. In 2003 he was elected best advertising director of the year by a panel nominated by magazines in the field.

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Nu Metro 2, 10 Oct @ 10am | Nu Metro 5, 19 Oct @ 12pm DIRECTOR: Paolo Genovese COUNTRY: Italy | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 105min

SyNOPSIS A man sitting in a bar at the table at the bottom. He is always there, day and night, receiving continuous visits. Each of his clients wants something, is driven by a deep desire, a difficult wish to realize, if not impossible. Yet... everything for that man seems possible. “I can do it” he repeats to each of them. There is a price to pay, though. Who is this man and who sets the rules? It’s not important. Because choices and consequences only concern men sitting in front of him in that café, it is up to them to define what is good and what is evil, completely free to choose their own path. They are men in need of miracles, from time to time, they come back to tell how their lives proceeds weaving a plot in which their stories are interwoven, get complicated and are more and more tense, wonderful or terrible, tragic or full of poetry. And even that humble intermediary, in front of so much humanity, will no longer be impatient ...

THE REAL ESTATE (TOPPEN AV INGENTING) MÅNS MÅNSSON

Nu Metro 5, 10 Oct @ 10pm / 19 Oct @ 5pm DIRECTOR: Måns Månsson & Axel Petersén COUNTRY: Sweden | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 88min

AXEL PETERSÉN

SyNOPSIS Nojet inherits an apartment building. But the building turns on her and she realizes that the cash cow was in fact a curse. She takes control of the building by becoming more ruthless than the business around it.

Måns Månsson & Axel Petersén have created features, shorts &amp; docs shown world wide in Film festivals, art institutions &amp; galleries. Their first feature-collaboration Avalon premiered in Toronto 2011 and was awarded the Fipresci Prize for Best First Feature, followed by numbers of nominations & awards.

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THE WHALE CALLER zOLA MASEKO

Zola Maseko is a South African filmmaker who was born in exile in 1967. He was educated at Waterford / Kamhlaba College in Swaziland and the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College in Tanzania. In 1987, he joined Umkhonto We Sizwe the armed wing of the African National Congress. He later headed to the UK where he graduated from the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield. Masekoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first film was the documentary Dear Sunshine, released in 1992. In 1993 he produced and edited Scenes From Exile, four short films about his life in exile. In 1994 he returned to South Africa to write and directed his first fiction film The Foreigner a hard-hitting film about xenophobia. The film went on to win several international awards. In 1998 he directed a documentary The Life and Times of Sara Baartman which was a co-production between French 3 and South African Broadcast Corporation (SABC) 2. He was honored as the most promising South African Director when he won Best Newcomer Award at Sithengi (South African Film and TV Market) in Cape Town that same year. The documentary also won the award for Best Documentary. Maseko also won Best Documentary at the African Milano Film Festival the following year.

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Nu Metro 2, 14 Oct @ 10am | SK Nouveau 5, 16 Oct @ 2.45pm DIRECTOR: Zola Maseko COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2016 | TIME: 107min

SyNOPSIS Based on the novel by renowned South African author, Zakes Mda. The seaside village of Hermanus is overrun with whale-watchers; foreign tourists determined to see whales in their natural habitat. But when the tourists have gone home, the Whale Caller lingers at the shoreline, wooing a whale he has named Sharisha with cries from a kelp horn. When Sharisha fails to appear for weeks on end, the whale caller frets like a jealous lover, oblivious to the fact that the town drunk, Saluni, a woman who wears a silk dress and red stiletto heels, is infatuated with him. The two misfits eventually fall in love. But each of them is ill equipped for romance, and their relationship suggests the deeper concern is not so much the fragility of love, but the fragility of life itself when one surrenders wholly to the foolish heart.

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Joburg Film Festival 2016 Best African Film

WEST OF SUNSHINE jASON RAFTOPOULOS Jason’s obsession with cinema started when he shot his first images with a 8mm camera on a trip to Greece as a nine-year-old. Storytelling, images and sound soon became his language of choice. He lived in New York working in theatre for over ten years before going to film school. His short films have screened in Australia and internationally. His documentary From Dope to Dali Lama won the IF Award for Best Short Documentary, his final university film Father’s Day won Best Film and Best Screenplay. Jason’s films explore themes of love, identity, relationships, loss and redemption. West of Sunshine is his first feature film.

Nu Metro 4, 14 Oct @ 10am | SK Nouveau 4, 18 Oct @ 8.30pm DIRECTOR: Jason Raftopoulos COUNTRY: Australia | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 80min

SyNOPSIS Separated from his family and caught in a cycle of gambling and debt, Jim has less than a day to repay a violent loan shark. His day is turned upside down when he must look after his young son who is on school holidays. Jim’s relationship with his son is tested as his plans to pay back the loan fail. When his last desperate effort to repay the debt puts his son’s life at risk, he must make a choice between his past and a second chance at life.

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The LUX FILM PRIZE, established in 2007, is the film prize awarded each year by the European Parliament. The LUX FILM PRIZE pursues two main objectives: firstly, to foster and provoke a public debate on European topical issues, and secondly to support the circulation of European (co)productions within the Union. Herein lies the uniqueness of the initiative of the European Parliament. It creates a platform for sharing and belonging to a European public space, by discussing the same topic (the films in competition and the themes evoked by them) in the same place (a city in each Member State) and at the same time. On the other hand, given the linguistic fragmentation of Europe, it allows citizens to watch the films in their own language. In general, very few European films can cross language barriers or meet their intended public on such a scale. The LUX FILM PRIZE is an innovative way to communicate on major European policy areas through different approaches and to support cultural and linguistic diversity not only through legislation but with a tangible initiative.

2018 LUX FILM PRIZE OFFICIAL SELECTION

More than 50 films were considered by the members of the Panel, from the most talked-about world-premieres at the biggest film festivals to smaller national releases. Once again, this year the spotlight was put on diversity behind the camera. Many of the films selected were directed by women and first-time filmmakers, coming from every corner of Europe. Through a variety of themes, from immigration, populism, nationalism, the environment and globalisation, to war, memory, justice, gender, religion and diversity, these films mirror the challenges, developments, and fears within our society like never before. The 2018 official selection of 10 films highlights the best of contemporary European cinema. From all the films in the Official Selection, 3 films will take part in the LUX Film Prize Competition. In order to support the European film industry and help the most significant European (co-)productions to circulate beyond their national market, the European Parliament LUX Film Prize subtitles the 3 competing films into the 24 official languages of the European Union and screens them in all 28 EU countries during the LUX Film Days. In doing so, the European Parliament supports cultural diversity as it brings films to audiences across Europe and encourages debate on the issues they raise. The Lux Film Prize is happy to work with the Cape Town International Film Market & Festival to bring these films to the audiences in South Africa and to support the circulation of European (co)productions.

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BORDER (GRÄNS) ALI ABBASSI

Born in 1981 in Iran, Ali Abbasi has a background in literature with several short stories published in Persian. In 2002 he gave up his studies at Tehran Polytechnic University and travelled to Europe, where he finally settled in Stockholm, Sweden to study Architecture. In 2007, Ali graduated with a BA in Architecture and subsequently enrolled at the National Film School of Denmark, where he studied Directing. Ali’s First feature SHELLEY premiered in the Panorama section of the 2016 Berlinale.

SK Nouveau 4, 10 Oct @ 6pm | Nu Metro 6, 17 Oct @ 10pm DIRECTOR: Ali Abbassi COUNTRY: Sweden, Denmark | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 101min

SyNOPSIS Border guard is about Tina a woman who feels like she’s an outsider in her own community. She’s a customs officer who forms a special bond with a suspect she is investigating – as she discovers his true identity, she also realises the truth about herself. “The important thing is the love story and the coming of age of this 40-year-old woman who doesn’t know who she is, she gets to choose her own identity,” the director explains. “Through this supernatural journey you always feel this Nordic melancholy of a person that is connected with everything around her in nature but not with human beings. That’s the experience of being a minority.”

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4 Awards at Various International Film Festivals

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DONBASS SERGEI LOzNITSA

Sergei Loznitsa was born in Baranovichi, Belarus, in 1964. His family would later move to Kiev, where the young Sergei accomplished secondary education. In 1987 he graduated in maths and engineering from the Kiev Polytechnic Institute. Between 1987 and 1991, he develops his career as a scientist in the Institute of Cybernetics, where he studies complex systems and artificial intelligence in depth. At the same time, he translates from Japanese and starts to be keener on cinema, what led him to taking, in 1991, the State Cinematographic School admission test, in Moscow. He graduated in 1997 and started an attractive career as an essayist of documentaries with titles such as Life,Autumn (1998), Portrait (2002), Blockade (2005) or Northern Light (2008). In 2010 debuted in the fiction field with My Joy, and deals in depth in the genre withIn the Fog, FIPRESCI in the Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival. (Source: Festival de Cine Europeo de Sevilla)

Nu Metro 6, 11 Oct @ 10pm | Nu Metro 4, 16 Oct @ 5pm DIRECTOR: Sergei Loznitsa COUNTRY: Germany, France, Ukraine, Netherlands, Romania YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 110min

SyNOPSIS In the Donbass, a region of Eastern Ukraine, a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by gangs. In the Donbass, war is called love, propaganda is uttered as truth, hatred is declared to be love. It’s not about one region, one country or one political system, it’s about humanity and civilization in general. It’s about each and every one of us.

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32 awards in various International Film Festivals.

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GIRL LUKAS DHONT

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SK Nouveau 5, 11 Oct @ 8.15pm | Nu Metro 4, 19 Oct @ 2pm DIRECTOR: Lukas Dhont COUNTRY: Belgium, Netherlands | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 105 min

HAPPy AS LAzARRO (LAzzARO FELICE) ALICE ROHRWACHER

Born in 1981 in Fiesole, Alice Rohrwacher studied in Turin and Lisbon. She was involved in music and documentaries, working primarily as an editor and composer for theatre. THE WONDERS, which she wrote and directed, won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival 2014 and Best Film at Filmfest München 2014. It has been selected by major international festivals, such as New York, London,Abu Dhabi, and Busan.

SK Nouveau 4, 12 Oct @ 6pm | SK Nouveau 5, 14 Oct @ 5.30pm DIRECTOR: Alice Rohrwacher COUNTRY: Germany | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 125min

SyNOPSIS The story of Lazzaro, a peasant still shy of 20 and so good he appears stupid, and Tancredi, a young man of the same age but spoilt by his own imagination, is the story of a friendship. It’s a friendship that begins genuinely amid a flurry of secret schemes and lies. Full of light and youthful enthusiasm, it’s the first friendship Lazzaro has ever had. And it subsequently survives the passing of time and the disruptive consequences of a Big Swindle to bring the one, Lazzaro, to a huge, empty city in search of the other, Tancredi.

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3 awards in various International Film Festivals.

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MUG (TWARz) MAŁGORZATA SzUMOVSKA Born in 1973 in Kraków. She is the daughter of journalist and writer Dorota Terakowska and journalist and filmmaker Maciej Szumowski, sister of documentary director Wojciech Szumowski. She graduated from the National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź in 1998. Prior to her film studies, she read art history at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. She became a member of the European Film Academy in 2001. Małgorzata Szumowska has received numerous awards at international and Polish film festivals. Her film etude Silence made it onto the list of the 14 best films in the history of the Łódź film school, while Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute recognized the script for the feature film Stranger as one of the three best texts from Europe. Małgorzata Szumowska is among the most famous female directors of the young generation. With three full-length features to her credit - her debut Happy Man (2000), followed by Stranger (2004), and 33 Scenes From Life (2008) she has also made several documentaries and short films. Many of them received a lot of publicity, though the critics were most often divided in their views.

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Nu Metro 5, 13 Oct @ 10.30pm | SK Nouveau 4, 18 Oct @ 6.15pm DIRECTOR: Małgorzata Szumovska COUNTRY: Poland | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 91min

SyNOPSIS Jacek loves heavy metal and his dog. He converts the country lanes outside his door into a racing track and bombs down them in his little car. When he and his girlfriend Dagmara take to the dancefloor, everyone runs for cover. He enjoys his existance as a cool misfit in an otherwise stuffy environment, and keeps his muscles toned working on a building site close to the PolishGerman border where the world’s largest statue of Jesus is being constructed. But then his life is thrown badly off course by a terrible accident at work that completely disfigures him. Eagerly followed by the Polish media, Jacek becomes the first person in the country to receive a face transplant. He may be celebrated as a national hero and martyr, but he no longer recognises himself in the mirror. Meanwhile, the statue of Jesus grows taller and taller.

STyX WOLFGANG FISCHER

Wolfgang Fischer was born in 1970 in Vienna/ Austria. He studied Psychology and Painting at the University of Vienna followed by studies of Film at the Art Academy of DĂźsseldorf and at the Academy of Media Arts (KHM) in Cologne. Beside various teaching assignments he was working as an assistant for Paul Morrissey and Nan Hoover. He was awarded a scholarship by the Munich Screenplay Program and by Equinoxe Europe.

Nu Metro 2, 13 Oct @ 10am | SK Nouveau 4, 17 Oct @ 6pm DIRECTOR: Wolfgang Fischer COUNTRY: Germany, Austria | YEAR: 2018

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SyNOPSIS Rike - 40, a doctor from Europe - embodies a typical Western model of happiness and success. She is educated, confident, determined and committed. We see Rikeâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s everyday life, as an emergency doctor, before she fulfils a long-held dream and sails out to sea alone in her sailing boat. Her goal: Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean. But her dream holiday is quickly broken off on the high seas, when, after a storm, she finds herself near a stricken fishing boat. Around a hundred people are about to drown. Rike follows maritime law and radios for help. As her request is going nowhere, she is forced to make a fatal decision.

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MILA TURAjLIC

THE OTHER SIDE OF EVERyTHING (DRUGA STRANA SVEGA) Nu Metro 5, 12 Oct @ 5pm | Nu Metro 6, 18 Oct @ 2pm

Mila Turajlic’s first feature-length documentary, ‘Cinema Komunisto’, premiered at IDFA in 2010, and won 16 awards, including the Gold Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival. After studying Political Science and Media at the London School of Economics and film production in Serbia, Turajlic specialised in documentary filmmaking at La Fémis in Paris. She gained industry experience working on fictions films including Mel Gibson’s ‘Apocalypto’ and Rian Johnson’s ‘The Brothers Bloom’ before starting to direct and produce documentaries through her own production company, Dribbling Pictures. Turajlic is a producer of the Magnificent 7 Festival of feature documentaries in Belgrade, which she helped found in 2005

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DIRECTOR: Mila Turajlic COUNTRY: Serbia, France, Katar | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 100min

SyNOPSIS A door locked for 70 years in a house haunted by history. The story of an apartment in Belgrade turns a family chronicle into a portrait of a country in political turmoil. As the filmmaker seeks answers from her activist mother, their intimate conversation questions the responsibility of each generation to fight for their future.er 20 international awards including the New Directors prize at the 2013 San Sebastián Film Festival and the 2014 Nordic Council Film Prize. Benedikt Erlingsson is a 2016 Gan Foundation for Cinema award winner.

WOMAN AT WAR (KONA FER Í STRÍÐ) BENEDIKT ERLINGSSON Benedikt Erlingsson is an Icelandic director, author and actor. Erlingsson is well known as a stage director as well as for his roles in theatre, TV series and films. His solo performances are some of the most successful in the history of Icelandic theatre and were performed on stage by Erlingsson himself for six years. OF HORSES AND MEN, Erlingsson’s first feature film as a writerdirector.

SK Nouveau 4, 11 Oct @ 6pm | SK Nouveau 5, 16 Oct @ 12pm DIRECTOR: Benedikt Erlingsson COUNTRY: Iceland, France, Ukraine | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 101min

SyNOPSIS Halla declares a one-woman-war on the local aluminium industry. She is prepared to risk everything to protect the pristine Icelandic Highlands she love s… Until an orphan unexpectedly enters her life. DirecTors sTaTeMenT This movie is meant to be an heroic tale set in our world of imminent threat. An heroic tale told as an adventure. A serious fairy tale told with a smile. Our hero serves in this world as a kind of Artemis, the protector of the untouched and wild. Alone, facing a quickly changing planet, she assumes the role of saving mother earth and its future generations. Our point of view is very close to our hero’s, which is how and why we access her inner life. There is a book by Astrid Lindgren called The Brothers Lionheart, in which we have this dialogue between the two brothers: But then Jonathan said that there were certain things you have to do, even if they were difficult and dangerous. “Why is that?” I asked, surprised. “Otherwise you´re not really a person, just a little shit.” This is a film about a woman striving to be a real person.

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“Children should hear, see & express themselves, their languages & their life’s experiences through the electronic media that reaffirms their sense of self community & place” Africa Charter on Children’s Broadcasting The Children & Broadcasting Foundation for Africa (CBFA) will be hosting the youth film screenings from 10 October to 14th October at the V&A Waterfront. The CBFA is an NGO started in 1995 and has an extensive track record in lobbying for quality media for African children & youth. Our work includes policy, advocacy, research, training & productions. We look forward to this partnership with the CTIFMF to ensure full participation of African children & youth in learning and engaging in media literacy through film screenings, discussions and hands-on workshops and training.

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BIRDS OF PASSAGE (LES OISEAUX DE PASSAGE)

CRy OF LOVE

Nu Metro 5, 10 Oct @ 12:30pm | Nu Metro 4, 13 Oct @ 10am

DIRECTOR: Faith Isiakpere COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2016 | TIME: 114 min

DIRECTOR: Olivier Ringer COUNTRY: Belguim | YEAR: 2015 | TIME: 90 min

Nu Metro 5, 10 Oct @ 10am | Nu Metro 5, 12 Oct @ 10am

SyNOPSIS SyNOPSIS For Cathy, it is not always easy to be born on February 29th, especially when for her birthday, her father gives her an egg to hatch. But it is probably less difficult than to be suffering from myopathy as her best friend Margaux… Cathy a Young girl receives for her 10th Birthday a duck egg. The duckling chooses Cathy as best friend and Margaux as mother. Sadly Margaux sits in a wheelchair and her parents forbid her to let the duck in their house. To save the duck from becoming cat food, They come up with a plan to release the duckling in the presence of his congeners. This is the start of a great adventure as the two secretly go on journey, chased by their anxious parents and even the police forces.

Cry of Love is an eclectic mix of modern and traditional song, dance, drums and jazz from across Africa. Set in Johannesburg, it follows the lives of talented teens who come together in The Sanctuary - where they can create music. Starring the legendary South African songbird Yvonne Chaka Chaka and the award winning actress Leleti Khumalo, Cry of Love follows the lives of young and talented teens who escape the danger of the streets and find creative security in a theatre workshop called The Sanctuary. Here they are able to celebrate their ‘ubunto’ - the African expression of ‘I live through you’. Cry of Love combines a compelling narrative with music and contemporary human rights issues, which takes the viewer right to the heart of the problems facing modern day South Africa.

AWARDS

13 awards in various International Film Festivals.

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GAURU: jOURNEy OF COURAGE Nu Metro 4, 10 Oct @ 10am | Nu Metro 4, 12 Oct @ 10am DIRECTOR: Ramkishan Choyal COUNTRY: India | YEAR: 2016 | TIME: 124 min

SyNOPSIS The grandmother (Ila Arun) is on death bed and she has never been to her native place (myka) since her wedding. She desires to go to her native place before death but her son Ratnu refuses her to let her do so by saying that death is the only option at her age, not pilgrimage. Her 13 yr old grandson Gauru objects to this and questions his father but in times of draught Ratnu can just feed their belly, not their wishes. To solve the financial crisis of the family Ratnu and his wife migrate to the city and Gauru is given the responsibility to take care of the sheep. In times of draught the shepherds migrate to faraway places looking for better pasture. Gauru comes to know that this time the shepherds are migrating very near to grandmother’s village. He comes and shares this with his grandmother, who says that she can’t move an inch and her native place is million miles away!

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jIM BUTTON & LUKE THE ENGINE DRIVER (jIM KNOPF UND LUKAS DER LOKOMOTIVFÜHRER) Nu Metro 4, 11 Oct @ 10am | Nu Metro 5, 14 Oct @ 12:30pm DIRECTOR: Dennis Gansel COUNTRY: Germany | YEAR: 2018 | TIME: 105 min

SyNOPSIS On the tiny island of Morrowland there are only two mountains, a picturesque palace, one house, a grocery store, a set of train tracks and four inhabitants. They lived in peace for many years until one day the mailman delivers a mysterious package - in it, an adorable, baby boy from a far away, unknown land. So the Morrowlanders took in the orphan boy and named him Jim. When Jim turns 10, he discovers he is not from Morrowland and becomes desperate to know who is he and where is he from? As Jim grows older King Alphonse also worries about the day when he will need his own house, for which there is no space on the tiny island. So one day the King commands that Luke, who has become Jim’s best friend, get rid of his beloved steam engine Emma, in order to create room on the island. As Luke doesn’t have the heart to break away from dear Emma he quickly decides to leave the island with her without telling anyone. Unbeknown to Luke young Jim overhears his plans to run away. The boy will convince Luke to leave together and will begin the greatest adventure of their lives.

LOL WITH PRESIDENT MANDELA

My SHOES (SABBAT EL AÏD)

Nu Metro 4, 11 Oct @ 12:30pm | Nu Metro 4, 13 Oct @ 12:30pm

Screens with My Shoes (Sabbat el aïd)

Screens with LOL with President Mandela

DIRECTOR: Faith Isiakpere COUNTRY: South Africa | YEAR: 2012 | TIME: 30 min

DIRECTOR: Anis Lassoued COUNTRY: Tunisia | YEAR: 2012 | TIME: 30 min

SyNOPSIS

LOL with President Mandela offers a new insight into such a beloved symbol of freedom and peace, showing his kind heart and wonderful sense of humor. Through personal anecdotes he touches on subjects of women, scenes from Robben Island, fashion, education, celebrity status, and the racial imbalance. Each one shows Mandela’s ability to deal with these issues with honesty and humor, something that has set him apart in the world of modern politics. With never seen before footage and a special music tribute by Jackson Browne, this film provides a glimpse of Mandela’s brilliant wit and humor, and reminds us all why he continues to inspire millions and evoke such wonder and admiration

In a small village in the countryside lives Nader, a nine year old kid that loves to run. Pollito doesn’t run for a reason, he runs because he needs to, because that’s what he lives for. One day, when Ramadan is near its end and he is shopping for new clothes for the Aïd party with his family, he finds winged sneakers in a shop and he wants to buy them, but his father can’t afford them.In this half-length film, where animation is used to illustrate Nader’s great imagination, the story of how a child’s mind can throw down any wall to fulfill a dream is told, however impossible it may seem.

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RUNNING LIKE WIND Nu Metro 5, 11 Oct @ 12:30pm | Nu Metro 4, 14 Oct @ 12:30pm DIRECTOR: Hai Zhong COUNTRY: China | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 94 min

SURVIVAL LESSONS (UROKI VyzHIVANIyA) Nu Metro 5, 12 Oct @ 12:30pm | Nu Metro 5, 13 Oct @ 12:30pm DIRECTOR: Andrey Tomashevskiy COUNTRY: Russia | YEAR: 2016 | TIME: 83min

SyNOPSIS The film is based on the story of Qiongzhong Girl’s Team in Hainan Province, who had won the world youth football championship in Gothic Cup three times. It shows us in a humorous way that how a frustrated football coach leads a bunch of girls of Li nationality who have never seen a real football before to chase their football dream. It shows us the spirit of sports and youth with a touch of humor and also the unique culture and customs of Li nationality.

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SyNOPSIS Enya Aistov is a macho. He appreciates freedom and hates children. He used to be an aircraft commander. Now he pilots a small air-freighter on seaside resort islands. By a twist of fate he gets into a plane crash and ends up on an unfamiliar uninhabited island with 8 years old boy Kolya, who is sometimes a terrible pain. That is how this «survival game» starts…

THE CHILDREN OF GENGHIS (CHINGISIIN HUUHDUUD)

WALLAy

Nu Metro 5, 11 Oct @ 10am | Nu Metro 5, 13 Oct @ 10am

DIRECTOR: Berni Goldblat COUNTRY: Burkina Faso, France | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 90 min

DIRECTOR: Zolbayar Dorj COUNTRY: Mongolia | YEAR: 2017 | TIME: 101 min

Nu Metro 4, 10 Oct @ 12:30pm | Nu Metro 4, 12 Oct @ 12:30pm

SyNOPSIS SyNOPSIS The Mongolian people from long ago have had a tradition of three cultural games that have always been around during the time of festivities. Mongolian wrestling, racing horses and archery were among the three traditional games. This story will focus on the horse racing tradition. The town’s best horse race trainer Bold, has many people gathered at his house for a special announcement. Bold begins to brag about his horses and skills and how no one in town is better than him. Bold begins to talk about his most prized horse, the brown steed that still has yet to find its rider. After hearing this the townspeople recommend Dambii’s eldest son Dorj to be the rider. Upon hearing this Boldoo decides to ask Dambii’s son Dorj to be the rider for his horse. Dambii lives with his wife, Dolgor and three sons, Dorj (12 yrs old), Byambaa (8 yrs old) Nanzaa (4 yrs old) in the vast countryside in Mongolia. All of Dambii’s sons have a knack for the horse. When Bold recruits Dambii’s eldest son his middle son Byambaa gets angry that he wasn’t chosen to ride. When Byambaa gets angry that he wasn’t chosen he storms off.

Ady, a 13 year-old boy, no longer listens to his father, who raises him alone in southern France. The father running out of resources, decides to entrust Ady to his uncle Amadou for the summer. Uncle Amadou and his family live across the Mediterranean Sea in Burkina Faso! There, at 13 years of age, one must become a man but Ady, persuaded to go on holiday, understands things differently.

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A MESSAGE FROM The oFFice oF The consulaTe general oF Brazil in caPe Town It is with great joy that the Consulate General of Brazil invites everyone to the Brazilian Film Festival in Cape Town. With a selection of five films, we have tried to live up to the challenge of showcasing an array of varied works aimed at pleasing the widest possible audience. Two are documentaries, three are fiction – one of them elegantly shot in black and white. The themes range from music to sports, glory to tragedy, food to garbage, art to imagination. Significantly enough, the debut movie, Cartola, Music for the Eyes, on October 11th, marks the 110th birthday of one of Brazil’s most acclaimed samba musicians, whose poetic songs are now classics, but unfortunately little known amongst South Africans. This year the Consulate General of Brazil, the Labia Theatre and the Festival Director of the Cape Town International Film Market & Festival (CTIFM&F) have together rekindled a successful partnership that has been responsible for opening an important space for Brazilian cinematography in the Cape. In the past, especially between 2008 and 2012, Brazil had been a permanent exhibitor at CTIFM&F, then named Cape Winelands Film Festival. Now again, uniting forces, we are able to build an event of both entertaining and cultural purposes. Many thanks to Leon van der Merwe, Nazeera Hartley Roach, Elias Ribeiro, as well as to Labia Theatre’s Ludi Kraus, Biata Walsh and John Walsh. The festival adds to other important initiatives that have taken place this year such as the BRICS Movie Festival in Durban (22-28 July) and the film festival organized by the Embassy of Brazil at the Bioscope, in Johannesburg, in August. At a broader level, a greater space for collaboration between Brazil and South Africa has now been opened with the signing of the long-awaited bilateral agreement on cinematographic co-production just a few weeks ago on the 13th of September 2018. This agreement will create the necessary conditions for both countries to cooperate in the visual arts industry. Brazil already has cooperation agreements in this sector with 12 countries. South Africa is the first country in the African continent to have this kind of agreement with Brazil. Complex and interesting as they are, Brazil and South Africa certainly have lots of stories to display on the big screen – stories that carry the innovative, creative spirit of two countries that have a lot to share.

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CARTOLA, MUSIC FOR THE EyES LÍRIO FERREIRA

Labia, 11 Oct @ 8:30pm

| Labia, 13 Oct @ 6:15pm

DIRECTOR: Lírio Ferreira & Hilton Lacerda COUNTRY: Brazil | YEAR: 2007 | TIME: 88min

HILTON LACERDA

Hilton Lacerda first started in the cinemain 1988 as assistant of Lily Ferreira in The Crime of the Image. His main highlight came with the screenplay of Perfume Ball, directed by Lírio Ferreira, telling the troubled life of the Syrian-Lebanese immigrant Benjamin Abrahão Botto. He has also done documentaries, music videos. Lírio Ferreira was born in Recife in 1965. He became interested in directing while in college and won various awards for his feature debut BAILE PERFUMADO (1997), which premiered at the festival in Toronto. His second feature, ÁRIDO MOVIE (2005), was part of the Official Selection at Venice Film Festival. BLUE BLOOD is Lírio Ferreira’s third fictional feature film.

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SyNOPSIS “Cartola – Music for the Eyes” is a biographical documentary of one of Brazil’s main samba musicians of all time, Angenor de Oliveira, also known as Cartola (“tophat”). His life blends with the story of samba in Rio from 1930’s to 1970’s, as he was the precursor in the foundation of Mangueira, one of Brazil’s main samba schools. After disappearing from the music scene for a few years, Cartola was found by journalist Sérgio Porto in 1956 working as a car-washer. Porto took charge of starting to promote Cartola’s return, inviting him to radio shows and promoting his work with new partners. The screening of the movie on October 11th 2018 marks the 110th birthday of this unique artist.

AWARDS

Cinema Brazil Grand Prize 2008 Best Documentary Cineport - Portuguese Film Festival 2007 Best Documentary

ESTÔMAGO, A GASTRONOMIC STORy MARCOS jORGE

Marcos Jorge studied journalism in Brazil and cinema in Italy. His films and videos have won over 50 awards in festivals in Brazil and abroad. His video installations have been exhibited in France, Italy, Holland and Japan. He is the director of the documentary “O Ateliê de Luzia” (Luzia ́s Atelier) and author of the book “Brasil Rupestre,” both on Brazil’s rupestrian art. He has directed dozens of advertising films for Brazilian and international companies, winning several awards including Globo networks’ “Professional of the Year” and two gold medals at the New York Film Festival. His first feature-length fiction film, “ESTÔMAGO – A gastronomic story” won four awards at the 2007 Rio Film Festival.

Labia, 13 Oct @ 8:30pm DIRECTOR: Marcos Jorge COUNTRY: Brazil, Italy | YEAR: 2007 | TIME: 113min

SyNOPSIS The world is made of those who eat and those who get eaten. Raimundo Nonato, our protagonist, finds an alternative way: he cooks. He cooks first in a bar, then in an Italian Restaurant and then in prison - how did he end up in jail? He cooks and learns how to get by in a society divided in two between those who eat and those who get eaten. What he learns, are a series of rules he uses to his advantage: in the end, the cook must also get his share of food – and only he knows which part tastes best. Estômago is an adult fable on power, sex and cooking.

AWARDS

8 awards in various International Film Festivals.

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HELENO, PRINCE CURSED jOSÉ HENRIQUE FONSECA José Henrique Fonseca is a Brazilian filmmaker. He directed commercials and music videos for Conspiração Filmes, a film production company he founded along with Lula Buarque de Hollanda, Cláudio Torres and Arthur Fontes. He directed a television series, Agosto (co-directed with Paulo José), before making his feature debut in The Man of the Year (2003), which was awarded as best film at the 2003 San Francisco Film Festival. In 2005, he directed and produced in partnership with HBO Brazil the series Mandrake, based on stories written by his father in which criminal lawyer Mandrake was the protagonist. He directed the feature Heleno, based on the life of soccer player Heleno de Freitas and starring Rodrigo Santoro. He is a founding partner of Zola Filmes, where he is general director of entertainment.

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Labia, 12 Oct @ 8:30pm DIRECTOR: José Henrique Fonseca COUNTRY: Brazil | YEAR: 2011 | TIME: 116min

SyNOPSIS Heleno de Freitas was more than a football idol in the 1940’s Rio de Janeiro. Being a passionate and explosive genius as an athlete, as well as a charming and seductive man off the football fields, Heleno was set to be greatest Brazilian player during Rio’s golden years. However, his erratic behavior, lack of discipline and illness started to transform a journey of glory into one of tragedy. Filmed in black and white, this drama was based on the book “There has never been a man like Heleno” by Marcos Eduardo Novaes.

AWARDS

3 awards in various International Film Festivals.

THE HISTORy OF ETERNITy CAMILO CAVALCANTE Camilo Cavalcante has worked as a producer, screenwriter and director since 1995. He made 14 short films in different formats from VHS to Digital, as well as 16 mm and 35mm for which he has received more than 120 prizes. In partnership with Cláudio Assis, Cavalcante directed the documentary EU VOU DE VOLTA (I’M GOING BACK). For the theater, he directed the monologue O CÃO SEM PLUMAS (THE FEATHERLESS DOG), based on a poem by João Cabral de Melo Neto. Cavalcante produced and directed the TV series OLHAR (LOOK), that is now airing on the Canal Brasil TV channel.He is the founder of CINEMA VOLANTE LUAR DO SERTÃO which shows short films for free in cities in the semi-arid region of Brazil.He is currently doing post-production of the documentary BECO and working on the pre-production of KING KONG EN ASUNCIÓN, his second feature film.

Labia, 14 Oct @ 8:30pm DIRECTOR: Camilo Cavalcante COUNTRY: Brazil | YEAR: 2014 | TIME: 121min

SyNOPSIS A Historia da Eternidade is a synesthetic essay about love, desires and dreams. The narrative tells 3 stories that takes place in a village in northeastern Brazil with specific references in relation to time and space. A secluded place where everything happens at a measured pace, inspiring extremely visceral moments within the cycle that repeats itself eternally on the stage of human tragedy.

AWARDS

18 awards in various International Film Festivals.

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WASTE LAND LUCy WALKER

Lucy grew up in London, England, started directing theater in high school and continued as an undergraduate at Oxford University, where her plays won prestigious Oxford University Dramatic Society awards. After graduating at the top of her class with a BA Hons and MA Oxon in Literature, she won a Fulbright Scholarship to attend New York University’s Graduate Film Program, where she earned her MFA. While at NYU, she moonlighted as a musician and DJ, during which time she met Moby, who contributed the music for WASTE LAND. Lucy Walker uses dramatic filmmaking techniques to make documentary films, following memorable characters on transformative journeys that grant unique access inside closed worlds. In addition to WASTE LAND, Lucy Walker directed a second feature documentary that premiered at Sundance 2010: COUNTDOWN TO ZERO, a terrifying exposé of the current threat of nuclear terrorism and proliferation. Lucy’s previous film BLINDSIGHT premiered at Toronto and received audience awards at the Berlinale (Panorama), Ghent, AFI and Palm Springs film festivals, as well as nominations for Best Documentary at the 2007 Grierson Awards and British Independent Film Awards.

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Labia 14 Oct @ 6.15pm DIRECTOR: Lucy Walker COUNTRY: Bazil, UK | YEAR: 2010 | TIME: 99min

SyNOPSIS Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world’s largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of “catadores”— self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz’s initial objective was to “paint” the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both the dignity and despair of the catadores as they begin to re-imagine their lives. Director Lucy Walker and co-directors João Jardim and Karen Harley have great access to the entire process and, in the end, offer stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit.

AWARDS

Over 30 awards in various International Film Festivals.

DAY 2 | 11th October

SK NOUVEAU 4

6pm

Border 101 mins

8:30pm Kanarie

120 mins

6pm

CREENIN

DAY 1 | 10th October

Woman at War 101 mins

8:30pm Cut-Out Girls

85 mins

SK NOUVEAU 5

10am

Shorts 1 104 mins

10am

Left on Pearl 55 mins

12pm

Peter’s Odyssey 74 mins

12pm

6:9 On The Richter Scale 117 mins

2pm

Sisters of the Wilderness 90 mins

2:30pm Ayiti Mon Amour 90 mins

5:30pm Stone Cold Jane Austen 98 mins

6:15pm Rafiki 83 mins

7:45pm Shorts 7 106 mins

8:15pm Girl 105 mins

NU METRO 4

10am

Gauru-Journey of Courage 124 mins

10am

Jim Button & Luke The

12:30pm Wallay 90 mins

Engine Driver 105 mins

2:30pm The Harvesters 102 mins

12:30pm LOL with President Mandela +

5:45pm A Kasha 110 mins

My Shoes 50 mins

8:30pm Bingo 113 mins

2pm

We Are Thankful (Siyabonga)

10:30pm Love Jacked

97 mins

5:30pm Shorts 8 112 mins NU METRO 5

8:30pm Ava 102 mins

10am

10:30pm Kinshasa Makambo 75 mins

Cry of Love 114 mins

12:30pm Birds of passage 90 mins 2:45pm Food Fighter 86 mins

NU METRO 5

6pm

10am

Aya 60 mins

The Children of Genghis 101 mins

7:45pm Sodium Day 100 mins

12:30pm Running like wind 94 mins

10pm

2:30pm T Junction 105 mins

The Real Estate 88 mins

6pm

Amal 83 mins

NU METRO 6

8:pm

Mayfair 98 mins

2:30pm Just Friends 78 mins

10:30pm Keteke

5pm

Diamonds, Backpacks

and a Matchbox 72 mins

NU METRO 6

8:30pm Isabelle 90 mins

2pm

I Miss you when I see you 93 mins

10:30pm The Miseducation of

5pm

Blue Wind Blows 87 mins

8pm

I’m Back 100 mins

10pm

Donbass

Cameron Post 91 mins

NU METRO 2 10am

The Place

NU METRO 2 10am

The Wedding Ring

12pm

Shorts 2

DAY 3 | 12th October SK NOUVEAU 4 6pm

Happy as Lazzaro

8:30pm Dominee Tienie

125 mins

Becoming Astrid

SK NOUVEAU 5

2:30pm Faces

83 mins

6pm

Postcards from London 88 mins

8pm

One Table two Elephants 84 mins

NU METRO 4 Gauru- Journey of Courage 124 mins

12:30pm Wallay

90 mins

2:30pm The Long Season

112 mins

5:30pm The Heart

100 mins

8pm

Supa Modo

74 mins

10pm

Stray

103 mins

114 mins

12:30pm Survival Lessons

83 mins

2:30pm Aya

60 mins

5pm

The Other side of Everything

100 mins

8pm

95 mins

Walking with Shadows

10:30pm Ave Maryam

73 mins

NU METRO 6 2:30pm Shorts 9

Cameron Post

8:30pm Everything must fall

10am

Shorts 3

91 mins 84 mins

110 mins

12:30pm Ayiti Mon Amor

90 mins

3pm

70 mins

New moon

5:30pm Searching for Ingmar Bergman

110 mins

8pm

76 mins

The World is Flat

99 mins

6:15pm Deep End

8:30pm Film School Africa

90 mins 90 mins

SK NOUVEAU 5 10am

Five Fingers for Marseilles 120 mins

2:30pm I’m Not a witch

93 mins

5:30pm Happy as Lazzaro

125 mins

8:15pm Mario

120 mins

NU METRO 4 10am

West of Sunshine

80 mins

12:30pm Running Like Wind

94 mins

2:15pm The Great Budha +

102 mins

12:30pm LOL with President Mandela +

5:30pm Just Believe

100 mins

My Shoes

6pm

Sisters of the Wilderness 90 mins

8pm

104 mins

NU METRO 4 10am

Birds of passage

90 mins 50 mins

8:30pm The State Against Nelson Mandela

and the others

105 mins

10:30pm 6:9 On The Richter Scale

NU METRO 5 Cry of love

SK NOUVEAU 4

6:15pm The Miseducation of

123 mins 100 mins

10am

SK NOUVEAU 4

12:30pm Sodium Day

10am

DAY 5 | 14th October

97 mins

SK NOUVEAU 5 10am

DAY 4 | 13th October

NU METRO 5 Shorts 5

103 mins

12:30pm Jim Button & Luke The

The Children of Genghis 110 mins

12:30pm Survival Lessons

83 mins

2:30pm The Home

78 mins

5pm

120 mins

Dogman

10:30pm Stone Cold Jane Austen 98 mins

10am

NU METRO 5 10am

Epiphany W/P

8:30pm We Are Thankful (Siyabonga)

97 mins

10:30pm Mug

90 mins

Engine Driver

105 mins

2:30pm Shorts 6

112 mins

6pm

Whispering Truth to Power 86 mins

8pm

The Death of Mr: Lazarescu

11pm

NU METRO 6 2:30pm Becoming Astrid

NU METRO 6

153 mins

3 Way Junction

123 mins

5:30pm Marie-Madeleine: A Female Chief

2pm

Shorts 4

108 mins

5:30pm We’ll Be Young and Beautiful

66 mins

5pm

Hear My Music

50 mins

92 mins

8pm

105 mins

7pm

One Step Behind the Seraphim

8pm

The Eternity Between Seconds

Shorts 10

10:30pm Five Fingers for Marseilles

120 minss

NU METRO 2 10am

Danchi Woman

12pm

3 Way Junction

214

150 mins

10pm

78 mins

Just Friends

NU METRO 2 10am

Styx

12pm

The Road not taken

90 mins

10:15pm Faces

82 mins

NU METRO 2 10am

The Whale Caller

12pm

Malila:The Farewell Flower

DAY 6 | 15th October SK NOUVEAU 4

DAY 7 | 16th October

DAY 8 | 17th October

SK NOUVEAU 4

6:15pm Winter Brothers

90 mins

6pm

The Eternity Between Seconds

8:30pm Everything must Fall

85 mins

90 mins

8:30pm Winter Brothers

6pm

Styx

8:30pm Kanarie

105 mins 120 mins

SK NOUVEAU 5 12pm

SK NOUVEAU 5 10am

BRICS 1

12:30pm BRICS 2

10am

New Moon

3pm

12pm

Woman At War

Love Jacked

The Road not taken

113 mins

2:45pm Marie-Madeleine: A Female Chief

SK NOUVEAU 5 70 mins

6pm

66 mins

The State Against Nelson Mandela

5:30pm Deep End

90 mins

2:45pm The Whale caller

97 mins

and the others

94 mins

8:15pm Rafiki

83 mins

5:45pm The Ball

94 mins

8:30pm The Harvesters

102 mins

8:15pm Sew The Winter to my skin 131 mins

NU METRO 4 12pm

Shorts 1

2:30pm Amal 5pm

NU METRO 4

83 mins

10am

I Miss you when I see you 93

mins 7:45

Just like my son

NU METRO 4

104 mins

103 mins

Shorts 5

12:30pm Danchi Woman

Shorts 8

112 mins

103 mins

10am

12:30pm The long Season

112 mins

66 mins

2:30pm 27 Steps of May

110 mins

2pm

Halaal

6:30pm Cut-Out Girls

85 mins

5pm

Donbass

8:30pm Isabelle

90 mins

10:30pm The Heart

100 mins

10:30pm Just Believe

100 mins

NU METRO 5 10am

Peter’s Odyssey

74 mins

NU METRO 5

12pm

27 Steps of May

110 mins

12pm

Manhood

77 mins

10am

Epiphany

104 mins

2:30pm Soldiers Story From Ferentari

2pm

Of Father’s and Sons

100 mins

12pm

I’m back

100 mins

120 mins

5:30pm Shorts 10

105 mins

2:30pm Ava

102 mins

5:30pm Silent Night

100 mins

8pm

The Home

78 mins

5:45pm Dogman

120 mins

8pm

Captive

105 mins

10pm

A Kasha

110 mins

8:15pm The Great Budha +

102 mins

10:30pm Blue Wind Blows

87 mins

10:30pm Stray

104 mins

NU METRO 5

NU METRO 6 10am

T Junction

105 mins

NU METRO 6

12pm

Kinshasa Makambo

75 mins

12pm

Shorts 9

99 mins

10am

Food Fighter

86 mins

2pm

Shorts 7

106 mins

2pm

Bingo

113 mins

12pm

Captive

105 mins

5pm

Dominee Tienie

97 mins

5:30pm Mario

120 mins

2:30pm The Ball

94 mins

7:45pm Mayfair

8:30pm Retablo

95 mins

5:30pm Supa Modo

74 mins

10:30pm Of Father’s and Sons

10:30pm BRICS 1

NU METRO 6

8pm

Postcards From London 88 mins

10pm

Border

215

DAY 9 | 18th October SK NOUVEAU 4

DAY 10 | 19th October

WORLD PREMIERE

SK NOUVEAU 4

- Ave Maryam - Captive - Cut-Out-Girls - Epiphany - Everything Must Fall - Hear My Music - Walking With Shadows

6:15pm Mug

91 mins

5pm

8:30pm West of Sunshine

80 mins

96 mins

SK NOUVEAU 5 12pm

Malila:The Farewell Flower

SK NOUVEAU 5

Whispering Truth to Power

86 mins

2:30pm No screening available. 5:30pm Ave Maryam

12pm

We’ll Be Young and Beautiful

92 mins

2:30pm Shorts 6 73 mins

8pm

Soldiers Story From Ferentari

120 mins

5pm

112 mins

The Death of Mr: Lazarescu

153 mins

NATIONAL PREMIERE

NU METRO 4 10am

Short 3

12pm

BRICS 2

110 mins

2:30pm Shorts 2

105 mins

5:30pm The World is Flat

76 mins

Shorts 4

12:30pm Hear My Music

50 mins

2pm

105 mins

Girl

4:45pm The Wedding Ring

7:45pm Searching for Ingmar Bergman

NU METRO 5

10am

110 mins

108 mins

96 mins

One Table two Elephants

94 mins NU METRO 5

12pm

10am

Diamonds, Backpacks

2:30pm I’m not a witch

The Place

93 mins

and a Matchbox

72 mins

5pm

88 mins

12pm

Manhood

77 mins

2pm

Left on Pearl

55 mins

NU METRO 6

5pm

Retablo

95 mins

12pm

Silent Night

100 mins

8pm

Just Like My son

103 mins

2pm

Film School Africa

90 mins

The Real Estate

4:45pm Keteke NU METRO 6 10am

Mandela A True- Pan Africanist

100 mins

12pm

Walking with Shadows

95 mins

2pm

The Otherside of Everything

6:30pm District Six Rising from

the Dust

100 mins

8:30pm One Step Behind the Seraphim

216

150 mins

105 mins

98 mins

- Deep End - Dominie Tienie - Kanarie

OFFICIAL SELECTION 2018 CATEGORY INDEX INTERNATIONAL FEATURES 6.9 On The Richter Scale 11 (6,9 Pe scara Richter) 27 Steps of May 12 A Kasha 13 Ava 14 Ave Maryam 15 Bingo 16 Blue Wind Blows 17 Dogman 18 Faces 19 I’m Back (Sono Tornato) 20 I am Not a Witch 21 Isabelle 22 Jim Button & Luke The Engine Driver 23 Just Like My Son (Sembra Mio Figlio) 24 Keteke 25 Manhood (Férfikor) 26 One Step Behind the Seraphim 27 Peter’s Odyssey 28 Rafiki 29 Silent Night 30 Supa Modo 31 T Junction 32 The Ball (Balon) 33 The Eternity Between Seconds 34 The Great Budha + 35 The Heart (Hjärtat) 36 The Home 37 The Road Not Taken 38 The Wedding Ring (Zin’naariyâ!) 39 The World is Flat (La Terre est Plate) 40 We’ll Be Young and Beautiful 41 (Saremo Giovani e Bellissimi) Winter Brothers 42 SOUTH AFRICAN FEATURES Aya Captive (Ko nkanga) Cut-Out Girls Deep End Dominee Tienie Epiphany Mayfair Sew The Winter To My Skin

44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51

Sodium Day The Harvesters (Die Stropers) We Are Thankful (Siyabonga)

52 53 54

LGBT Girl I Miss you when I see you Just Friends Kanari Malila:The Farewell Flower Mario Postcards From London Retablo Soldiers Story From Ferentari The Miseducation of Cameron Post Walking with Shadows

56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66

DOCUMENTARIES Amal Danchi Woman Diamonds, Backpacks and a Matchbox District Six Rising from the Dust Everything must fall Film School Africa Food Fighter Hear my Music Kinshasa Makambo Left on Pearl Marie-Madeleine: A Female Chief New Moon One Table two Elephants Of Father’s and Sons Searching for Ingmar Bergman The Long Season The State Against Nelson Mandela and the others Whispering Truth to Power

68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85

SHORTS PROGRAMME 1 Speaking Daggers The Victory of Charity Waly’s Problem A Low-Budget Film SNAFU 30 The Lightkeeper

87 88 89 90 91 92 93

SHORTS PROGRAMME 2 Sunken Plum No Problem (Kein Problem) Major Tom Red Velvet Mma Moeketsi Elo I.O.C.

95 96 97 98 99 100 101

SHORTS PROGRAMME 3 Stardust A Woman’s Right To Shoes The Last Lullaby Map to the stars Nuclear Shadows One More Day Lumiére

103 104 105 106 107 108 109

SHORTS PROGRAMME 4 An Autobiography (En Autobiografi) Those who can die Hunters and Gatherers AYA When the fishes sang

111 112 113 114 115

SHORTS PROGRAMME 5 The Man With The Bicycle (Der Mann 117 Mit Dem Fahrrad) Anchorwoman 118 The Inner Side - A Belsa Oldal 119 Gandhi V/S Justice In-Justice 120 We Believe 121 Are You Volleyball?! 122

Are We Good Parents? 2 Angels

122 123

SHORTS PROGRAMME 6 Manicure Probably Fine Bismillah ViZA The Shield that I Carry Diapers for Melquiades

125 126 127 128 129 130

SHORTS PROGRAMME 7 Fatima Love Motel Vir Ontbyt Cast Iron Can’t Be Welded Skrywers Anoniem The Crossing Change

132 133 134 135 136 137 138

SHORTS PROGRAMME 8 Diphiri Le Makunutu Skin Diver Muse Runner

140 141 142 143

SHORTS PROGRAMME 9 Masquerading: To Hell and Back Give a Man a Mask and He will Tell You the Truth Footprints The Water Dancers Skeikima The Sheikh of Mussafah SHORTS PROGRAMME 10 SOL A Legal Affair Bonobo Heels on Wheels Under the Rainbow

145 146 147 148 149 150

152 153 154 155 156

BRICS SHORTS 1 When The Earth Trembles Breathing Mumbai Mist Still Born Revive

159 159 159 160 160

BRICS SHORTS 2 Back Catfishing Taken for Granted Dumplings The Measure of a Woman

165 166 167 168 169

PANORAMA 3 Way Junction 176 Ayiti Mon Amour 177 Becoming Astrid (Unga Astrid) 178 Five Fingers for Marseilles 179 Just Believe (IO C’E’) 180 Love Jacked 181 Sisters of the Wilderness 182 Stone Cold Jane Austen 183 Stray 184 The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Moartea 185 Domnului Lãzãrescu) The Place (Antonio) 186 The Real Estate (Toppen av ingenting) 187 The Whale Caller 188 West of Sunshine 189 LUX Border (Gräns) Donbass Girl Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro Felice) Mug (Twarz) Styx The Other Side of Everything (Druga Strana Svega ) Woman at War (Kona fer í stríð)

192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199

YOUTH Birds of passage 201 (Les oiseaux de passage) Cry of love 201 Gauru- Journey of Courage 202 Jim Button & Luke The Engine Driver 202 LOL with President Mandela 203 My Shoes (Sabbat el aïd) 203 Running Like Wind 204 Survival Lessons (Uroki vyzhivaniya) 204 The Children of Genghis 206 (Chingisiin huuhduud) Wallay 206 BRAZIL Cartola, Music for the Eyes Estômago, a Gastronomic Story Heleno, Prince Cursed The History of Eternity Waste Land

208 209 210 211 212

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