Beginning 2013, Programme

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SEPTEMBER

2013

X I I S t . P e t e r s b u r g I n t e r n a t i o n a l F e s t i v a l of Debut and Student Films

PROGRAMME

XII St.Petersburg International Festival of Debut and Student Films

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within St.Petersburg International Film Forum with the assistance of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the St.Petersburg Government and the Committee for Culture Founder St.Petersburg Filmmakers’ Union 13-20 SEPTEMBER 2013

PROGRAMME ACCREDITATION 12 September (14.00 – 19.00) 13 September (from 12.00) Cinema house, 4 floor 13 September 16.00 CINEMA HOUSE, 4 floor OPENING OF THE PHOTO EXHIBITION 16.30 CINEMA HOUSE BIG CINEMA HALL OPENING CEREMONY THE SIGNATURE by Pavel Semchenko, Russia/Germany, 2013 Idea and concept Mikhail Shemyakin, Vyacheslav Polunin and Anton Adasinsky Cast The same and Martykh The Great 14 September 12.00 BLUE CINEMA HALL NON-COMPETITION PROGRAM CINE-PARALLEL MANHOOD Fiction, colour, 16`20``, 2012

Film School Station Next, Hvidovre, Denmark Director Jonathan Gelvan THE BOY WHO WAS AFRAID OF NOTHING Fiction, colour, 12`54``, 2012

Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, ELO Film School, Helsinki, Finland Director, Scriptwriter Anastasia Lobkovsli THE LAST PIPER Fiction, colour, 19`55``, 2013

Nordland College of Art and Film, Lofoten, Norway Director, Scriptwriter, Sound Iain Forbes CONTROLLED Fiction, colour, 16`, 2012

Art University Kassel, Germany Producer, Director Hendrik Maximilian Schmitt A MILKSHAKE AT GINA’S Fiction, colour, 15`, 2012

International Film School, Cologne, Germany Director Florian Ross THE COUNT Fiction, colour, 23`19``, 2012

National School of Сinema and Television (NFTS), Beaconsfield, Great Britain/Italy Director Adel Oberto THE PREDICTABLE LIFE OF SEBASTIAN Fiction, colour, 8`10``, 2012

Met Film School, London, Great Britain Director, Scriptwriter Davur Djurhuus

13.00 BIG CINEMA HALL COMPETITION PROGRAMME SHORT FILMS STUDENT FICTION FILMS EAT Fiction, colour, 6`, 2012

German Film and Television Academy (DFFB), Berlin Director Moritz Kramer T’ADHIB Fiction, colour, 14`, 2013

Madrid Film and Audiovisual School (ECAM), Spain Director Raquel Bedia

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NEWBORN Fiction, colour, 9`, 2012

The National High School La Femis, Paris, France/Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy, Ludwigsburg, Germany Director, Scriptwriter Vincent Le Port ONE OF YOU Fiction, colour, 5`, 2013

Kiev National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television, Ukraine Director, Scriptwriter, Director of Photography, Sound Ivan Sekach ANGER Fiction, colour, 20`, 2012

St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television, Russia Director, Scriptwriter Mikhail Kulunakov BEWARE – THE DOGS Fiction, colour, 12`, 2012

L.V. Prasad Film and TV Academy, Saligramam, Chennai, India Director, Scriptwriter Mugil Chandran JOURNEY WITH HAND LUGGAGE Fiction, colour, 30`, 2012

University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland Director, Scriptwriter Arkadiusz Biedrzycki

14.00 BLUE CINEMA HALL PRESENTATION PROGRAMME INTERFILM BERLIN THE PUB Animation, 7`45``, 2012, UK

Director, Scriptwriter, Animation Designer Joseph Pierce REW DAY Animation, 6`40``, 2012, Bulgaria

Director, Scriptwriter SvilenDimitrov IMPARFAIT DU SUBJECTIF Fiction, 7`30``, 2011, France/Luxembourg

Director David Grumbach TRAM

Animation, 7`, 2012, France/Czech Republic

Director Michaela Pavlatova COCKATOO Fiction, 11`, 2011, Australia

Director Matthew Jenkin SLIPPERY SAP TRAP Fiction, 10`, 2012, Sweden

Director Anna Azcarate

15.00 BIG CINEMA HALL COMPETITION PROGRAMME SHORT FILMS STUDENT FICTION FILMS WAITING FOR THE THAW Fiction, colour, 20`, 2012

National Institute of the Performing Arts (INSAS), Brussels, Belgium Director, Scriptwriter Sarah Hirtt FORTUNE FADED Fiction, colour, 3`, 2012

Stuttgart Media University, Germany Director Alexander Heringer CEBU Fiction, colour, 12`, 2012

International School of Film and Television (EICTV), Havana, Cuba Director, Scriptwriter Pablo Belaubre FAMILIAR STRANGERS Fiction, colour, 23`08``, 2012

St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television, Russia Director, Scriptwriter Evgeny Nedelku BEAST Fiction, colour, 13`03``, 2013

University of North Carolina, School of the Arts, USA Director, Scriptwriter, Producer Jean-Jacques Martinod TO WAR WE GO Fiction, colour, 30`, 2012

University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland Director, Scriptwriter Krzysztof Kasior

15.45 BLUE CINEMA HALL JURY CHOICE Nailya Golman 12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST Fiction, colour, 89`, 2006, Romania

Production – 42 Km Film Director, Scriptwriter Corneliu Porumboiu

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16.45 BIG CINEMA HALL COMPETITION PROGRAMME DEBUT FEATURE FILMS IN BLOOM Fiction, colour, 102`, 2013, Germany/France/Georgia

ST.PETERSBURG PREMIERE Production – Indiz Film (Germany), Arizona Productions (France), Polare film LLC (Georgia) Directed by Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Gross

17.30 BLUE CINEMA HALL JURY CHOICE Dunja Kusturica TIME STANDS STILL Fiction, colour, 103`, 1982, Hungary

Production – Budapest Filmstudio Director Peter Gothar

19.15 BIG CINEMA HALL COMPETITION PROGRAMME DEBUT FEATURE FILMS NOTHING BAD CAN HAPPEN Fiction, colour, 110`, 2013, Germany

RUSSIAN PREMIERE Production – Verena Grafe-Hoft, Junafilm Director, Scriptwriter Katrin Gebbe

19.30 WHITE CINEMA HALL MASTER-CLASS by director Tim Sutton 22.00 No-popcorn Cinema Hall, 9 Belinskogo Best of Beginning Film Festival 2007-2012 Best Fiction Film 2007 THE BEAD Director Marie Dvorakova Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts, (FAMU), Prague, Czech Republic Grand Prix 2008 MAZAL Director, Scriptwriter Roy Sher Tel Aviv University, Israel Best Animation Film 2008 SOONER OR LATER Director, Scriptwriter, Animation Designer Jadwiga Kowalska Lucerne High School of Art and Design, Switzerland Special Diploma of the Jury For Originality and Craft 2009 SIGNALIS Director, Scriptwriter Adrian Fluckiger Lucerne High School of Art and Design, Switzerland Grand Prix 2010 HOME GAME Director Bogdana Vera Lorenz International Film School, Cologne, Germany Best Fiction Film 2010 GRANDMA HAS GONE Director, Scriptwriter Tomasz Jurkiewicz University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland Grand Prix 2011 ONE MORE TIME! Written, directed, animated by Ekaterina Ovchinninkova, Tatiana Okruzhnova, Alina Yakhieva, Elena Petrova, Natasha Pavlycheva Aleksandr Petrov’s Workshop, Yaroslavl, Russia Best Fiction Film 2012 HELLO KITTY Director, Scriptwriter Millo Simulov National University of Drama and Film (UNATC), Bucharest, Romania

15 September 12.00 BLUE CINEMA HALL NON-COMPETITION PROGRAMME CINE-PARALLEL MOMO Fiction, colour, 29`59``, 2012

Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (VSMU), Bratislava, Slovakia Director, Scriptwriter Teodor Kuhn

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OUTSIDE Animation, colour, 8`20``, 2012

Vilnius College of Technology and Design, Lithuania Director, Scriptwriter, Director of Photography, Animation Designer Greta Stanciauskaite FUNDAMENTUM Fiction, colour, 20`, 2012

Baltic Film and Media School (BFM), Tallinn, Estonia Director Margus Raid TANGO IN THREE SPACES AND THREE CHARACTERS Fiction, colour, 19`, 2012

University of Arts in Belgrade, Faculty of Drama Arts, Serbia Director, Scriptwriter Strahinja Savic FOLIUM Fiction, b/w, 17`13``, 2012

Academy of Film and Television Turan University, Kazakhstan Director, Scriptwriter Tamirlan Sembekov

13.00 WHITE CINEMA HALL MASTER-CLASS by director of photography Alisher Khamidkhodzaev 13.00 BIG CINEMA HALL COMPETITION PROGRAMME SHORT FILMS STUDENT FICTION FILMS THE EARTH STOPS Fiction, colour, 21`50``, 2012

High School of Audiovisual Production (ESR A), Paris, France Director, Scriptwriter Nicolas Diego EARLY BIRDS Fiction, colour, 21`, 2012

The London Film School (LFS), United Kingdom Director Jeroen Bogaerts LAMENT Fiction, colour, 3`, 2013

Northern Film School at Leeds Metropolitan University, Great Britain Director, Scriptwriter, Sound Archie Short DIARY OF A YOUNG DOCTOR Fiction, colour, 25`, 2013

St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television, Russia Director Ruslan Pestov ON VIOLENCE Fiction, colour, 11`07``, 2012

Film School Station Next, Hvidovre, Denmark Director August Engholm Aabo STUDIES ON HYSTERIA Fiction, colour, 5`, 2012

Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy, Ludwigsburg, Germany Written and directed by Gabriel Borgetto, Bernd Faass, Matthias Bauerle

14.00 BLUE CINEMA HALL PRESENTATION PROGRAMME WIZ-ART THE RIVER Fiction, colour, 13`, 2012, Australia

Director Tarquin Netherway JAMON Animation, colour, 8`, 2012, UK

Director Iria Lopez MAYBES

Fiction, colour, 33`, 2012, Austria

Director Florian Pochlatko MOBILE HOMES Fiction, colour, 13`, 2013, USA/France

Director Vladimir de Fontenay COMMEMORATION Fiction, colour, 24`, 2012, Ukraine

Director Iryna Tsilyk IN VINO VERITAS

Animation, colour, 10`, 2012, Czech Republic

Director Aneta Kyrova Zabkova

15.00 BIG CINEMA HALL COMPETITION PROGRAMME SHORT FILMS STUDENT FICTION FILMS SIMULACRUM Fiction, colour, 14`, 2012

Buenos Aires Film University (UCINE), Argentina Director, Scriptwriter Nicolas Torchinsky

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THE DEER Fiction, colour, 14`06``, 2012

National Institute for Film, Television and Interactive Media (INIS), Montreal, Canada Director, Scriptwriter Remi St. Michel ECHO Fiction, colour, 20`, 2012

University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland Director, Scriptwriter Marcin Filipowicz SEAGULL Fiction, colour, 32`, 2012

Higher Courses of Scriptwriters and Film Directors, Moscow, Russia Sleepwell Pictures; Itysh Film, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Director Elizaveta Stishova HOW TO SAY GOODBYE Fiction, colour, 10`52``, 2012

Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, ELO Film School, Helsinki, Finland Director Ulla Heikkila

15.45 BLUE CINEMA HALL JURY CHOICE Alisher Khamidkhodzaev HIGHWAY Documentary, colour, 52`, 1999, Kazakhstan

Production – DUNE Production Director, Scriptwriter Sergey Dvortsevoy

16.45 BIG CINEMA HALL COMPETITION PROGRAMME DEBUT FEATURE FILMS 36 Fiction, colour, 68`, 2013, Thailand

RUSSIAN PREMIERE Production – Aditya Assarat, Pop Pictures Co. Ltd Director, Scriptwriter, Producer Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit

17.30 BLUE CINEMA HALL JURY CHOICE Alisher Khamidkhodzaev ANTON’S RIGHT HERE Documentary, colour, 120`, 2012, Russia

Production – Seance Workshop, CTB Film Company Director, Scriptwriter Lyubov Arkus

19.15 BIG CINEMA HALL COMPETITION PROGRAMME DEBUT FEATURE FILMS BLACKBIRD Fiction, 107`, colour, 2012, Canada

RUSSIAN PREMIERE Produced by Marc Almon (Story Engine Pictures), David Miller (A71 Productions), Jason Buxton (Festina Lente Productions) Director, Scriptwriter Jason Buxton

21.30 CINEMA HOUSE, 4 floor Hand-made filmstrip festival DIASAUR 2013 - NOSE

16 September 12.00 BLUE CINEMA HALL NON-COMPETITION PROGRAMME CINE-PARALLEL DEBT Fiction, b/w, 16`, 2012

St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television, Russia Director Evgeny Tatarov DRY STALKS Fiction, colour, 16`01``, 2013

St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts, Russia Producer, Director, Scriptwriter Alexey Zamorsky DEER VALYA Animation, colour, 6`45``, 2013

The Russian Federation State University of Cinematography, Moscow, Russia Producer, Scriptwriter, Animation Designer Djalil Rizvanov

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JOURNEY Fiction, colour, 22`26``, 2013

The Russian Federation State University of Cinematography, Moscow, Russia Director Pavel Ganin THE NORM OF LIFE Fiction, colour, 22`, 2013

Higher Courses of Scriptwriters and Film Directors, Leevandia Entertainment, Moscow, Russia Director, Scriptwriter Evgeny Byalo THE BROOK Fiction, colour, 12`45``, 2012

St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television, Russia Director, Scriptwriter, Production Designer, Animation Designer Radmila Kononova THE WALLET Fiction, b/w, 15`08``, 2012

Kiev National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television, Urkaine Director, Scriptwriter Andrey Makarchenko

13.00 BIG CINEMA HALL COMPETITION PROGRAMME SHORT FILMS STUDENT FICTION FILMS FERTILE LAND Fiction, colour, 12`38``, 2012

Experimental film centre, Italian National film school (CSC), Rome, Italy Director Daniel Mejia WHAT REMAINS Fiction, colour, 5`, 2012

Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy, Ludwigsburg, Germany Director, Scriptwriter Liv Scharbalke COURT Fiction, colour, 10`30``, 2012

Tel Aviv University, Israel Director, Scriptwriter Dekel Nitzan BIRDIE Fiction, colour, 14`, 2012

Warsaw Film School. Poland Director, Scriptwriter Ewa Kochanska WHITE HORSE Fiction, colour, 28`, 2013

Higher Courses of Scriptwriters and Film Directors, Moscow, Russia Director, Scriptwriter Sergey Solovyov B-DAY Fiction, colour, 4`, 2012

The Film and Television Academy “Konrad Wolf”, Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany Directed by Olaf Held, Кагl Наgеn-Stetzer MIRUNA Fiction, colour, 20`, 2012

Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School (PWSFTViT), Lodz Director, Scriptwriter Piotr Sulkowski

14.00 BLUE CINEMA HALL PRESENTATION PROGRAMME IN THE PALACE THE VISITOR Animation, colour, b/w, 8`30``, 2013, Bulgaria/The Netherlands

Director, Director of Photography, Animation Designer, Scriptwriter George deChev DOGS Documentary, colour, 27`48``, 2012, Cuba

Director, Scriptwriter, Director of Photography Pedro Pio BOTEV IS AN IDIOT Fiction, colour, 8`51``, 2012, Bulgaria

Director, Scriptwriter Deyan Bararev BARVALO Fiction, colour, 25`44``, 2012, Denmark

Director, Scriptwriter Rasmus Kloster Bro LONELINESS Fiction, colour, 16`25``, 2012, France

Director Liova Jedlicki

15.00 BIG CINEMA HALL COMPETITION PROGRAMME SHORT FILMS DEBUT FICTION FILMS INTO THE TUNNEL Fiction, colour, 15`35``, 2012

Grupo Cine Arte, Barcelona, Spain Director, Scriptwriter Sergio Roman

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UNCLE SEREF AND HIS SHADOW Fiction, colour, 14`, 2013

Independent production, Turkey Director, Scriptwriter, Producer Bugra Dedeoglu CURTAIN CALLERS Fiction, colour, 20`, 2012

Mobile Art Production (MAP), Sweden Directed by Jonathan Bepler, Ann-Sofi Siden THE CEMENT MIXER Fiction, colour, 16`, 2012

Mandragora, Bucharest, Romania Director, Scriptwriter Liviu Sandulescu BANDITS Fiction, colour, 16`24``, 2012

Petit film, Paris, France Director, Scriptwriter Antoine Giorgini BATTLEHEART Fiction, colour, 24`, 2012

Polish Filmmakers Association Munk Studio, Warsaw Director, Scriptwriter Tomasz Matuszczak

17.00 BIG CINEMA HALL COMPETITION PROGRAMME SHORT FILMS DEBUT FICTION FILMS LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT Fiction, colour, 14`, 2012

1st Sight Films. London, United Kingdom/Spain Director, Scriptwriter Mark Playne YOU CAN’T DO EVERYTHING AT ONCE, BUT YOU CAN LEAVE EVERYTHING AT ONCE

Fiction, colour, b/w, 15`, 2012

Terrain vague, Lausanne, Switzeland Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Director of Photography Marie-Elsa Sgualdo ANA Fiction, colour, 6`, 2013

Creatrix Fama, Bucharest, Romania Director, Scriptwriter, Producer Mirona Radu THE ADVENTURE OF MARRIED COUPLE Fiction, b/w, 11`, 2013

Key Film, Tehran, Iran Director, Scriptwriter, Producer Keywan Karimi BUTTER LAMP Fiction, colour, 15`, 2013

AMA Productions, France/China Director Wei Hu THE COMPANION Fiction, colour, 20`, 2012

Independent production, Peru Director, Scriptwriter Alvaro Delgado Aparicio SKIN Fiction, colour, 13`11``, 2012

Avenue A Films, Columbia University, NY, USA Director Jordana Spiro BUENOS AIRES (GOOD AIR) Fiction, colour, 12`, 2013

TLCA, Madrid, Spain Director Daniel Gil Suarez SAFE Fiction, colour, 13`, 2013

VZ Pictures, Seoul, South Korea Director Byoung-Gon Moon

17.30 BLUE CINEMA HALL JURY CHOICE Nicolas Entel SINS OF MY FATHER Documentary, colour, 94`, 2009, Argentina

Production – Red Creek Productions, Arko Vision Director Nicolas Entel

19.00 BIG CINEMA HALL SPECIAL SCREENING AND THERE WAS FIRE IN THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH Documentary, colour, b/w, 78`, 2013, Austria/Ecuador/Germany

RUSSIAN PREMIERE Executive production - University of Fine Arts (HFBK),Hamburg, Germany Director, Scriptwriter, Producer Bernhard Hetzenauer

19.30 WHITE CINEMA HALL MASTER-CLASS by documentary filmmaker Nicolas Entel

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17 September 12.00 BLUE CINEMA HALL NON-COMPETITION PROGRAMME CINE-PARALLEL THE OTHER SIDE Fiction, colour, 17`, 2013

Centre of Cinema Training, Mexico City, Mexico Director, Scriptwriter Natalia Moguel PERSPIRE Fiction, colour, 19`, 2012

Centre of Cinema Training, Mexico City Director, Scriptwriter Carmen Martinez OSLO Fiction, colour, 13`, 2012

International School of Film and Television (EICTV), Havana, Cuba Director Luis E. Donas BLACK MIRROR Fiction, colour, 12`, 2012

International School of Film and Television (EICTV), Havana, Cuba Director Lillah Halla THE DUEL Fiction, colour, 9`30``, 2012

The National School for Cinematographic Experimentation and Filmmaking (ENERC), Buenos Aires, Argentina Director Juan Guerci GOGEL Fiction, colour, 13`, 2013

Beit Berl Academic College of Arts, Israel Director, Scriptwriter Yoav Genut THE CITIES OF MY YOUTH Fiction, colour, 10`, 2012

Tel Aviv University, Israel Director, Scriptwriter Moshe Rosenthal A KNOCK ON THE DOOR Fiction, colour, 10`, 2013

Beit Berl Academic College of Arts, Israel Director, Scriptwriter Eliran Elya

13.00 BIG CINEMA HALL COMPETITION PROGRAMME SHORT FILMS STUDENT DOCUMENTARY FILMS ALEHIN’S DEFENCE Documentary, colour, 16`, 2012

St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television, Russia Director, Scriptwriter, Sound Vadim Viner WOOD Documentary, colour, 25`, 2012

International School of Film and Television (EICTV), Havana, Cuba Director Daniel Kvitko VAGABOND PAR EXELLENCE Documentary, colour, 13`, 2013

Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Finland Director Аnnе Lahtinen EXIT POINT Documentary, colour, 17`, 2012

Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School (PWSFTViT), Lodz Director Jagoda Szelc THE LOVE AGENCY Documentary, colour, 27`, 2012

Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts, Sweden/Russia Director, Scriptwriter, Director of Photography Martina Carlstedt

14.00 BLUE CINEMA HALL PRESENTATION PROGRAMME ARES Film & Media Festival (within Animatters Film Network AFN SCREENINGS) SOULS 6`, 2011, Italy

Director Guglielmo Manenti AN ECO-STORY 2`10``, 2011, Italy

Director Luca Contieri AMAR 8`, 2010, Spain

Director Isabel Herguera DAISY CUTTER 6`, 2010, Spain

Directed by Enrique Garcia, Ruben Salazar FUGA E COMPIACIMENTO 2`21``, 2010, Italy

Director Matteo Bonvicino

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WHO WATCHES THE WATCHERS? 3`41``, 2010, Italy

Director Matteo Bonvicino INNER SOUND 10`, 2010, Italy

Produced by Lemeh42 THE PAINTER OF SKIES 9`40``, 2009, Spain

Director Jorge Morais Valle UNDER THE PILLOW 8` 25``, 2012, Spain

Director Isabel Herguera

15.00 BIG CINEMA HALL COMPETITION PROGRAMME SHORT FILMS STUDENT DOCUMENTARY FILMS ON THE HOOK Documentary, colour, 22`, 2012

St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television, Russia Director Darya Orkhan STRAIGHT WITH YOU Documentary, colour, 19`, 2012

Utrecht School of Visual Arts, the Netherlands Director Daan Bol MORE THAN ICE-CREAM WONG KWONG Documentary, colour, 13`, 2012

The Open University of Hong Kong Director Riley Leung SOLILOGUY Documentary, colour, 13`34``, 2012

Edinburgh College of Art/Screen Academy Scotland Director Magda Dragan DREAM GIRL Documentary, сolour, 20`, 2012

Lucerne University of Applied Science and Art, Switzerland Director, Scriptwriter Oliver Schwarz THE WISTLE Documentary, colour, 17`, 2012

Polish Filmmakers Association Munk Studio, Warsaw Director, Scriptwriter Grzegorz Zariczny

17.00 BIG CINEMA HALL COMPETITION PROGRAMME SHORT FILMS DEBUT DOCUMENTARY FILMS KING OF PUMPKINS Documentary, b/w, 12`, 2013

St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television, Russia Director Kirsten Gaynet EPECUEN Documentary, colour, 8`, 2012

Buenos Aires Film University (UCINE), Argentina Directors Vеrеnа Kuri, Sofiа Вroсkеnshiге MY HOUSE WITHOUT ME Documentary, colour, 28`, 2012

Vezfilm Ltd, Warsaw, Poland Director Magdalena Szymkow SEMALU Documentary, colour, 20`, 2013

Port Actif, Kapellen, Belgium/Malaysia Director, director of photography Jimmy Hendrickx EMPEROR’S TOYS Documentary/Animation, colour, 10`, 2012

Polish Filmmakers Association Munk Studio, Warsaw Directed by Tomasz Godfryd, Jarosіaw Mozdzierz, Joanna Rusinek, Joanna Wojcik, Grzegorz Wierzchowski AMERICAN CAPITALISM, A SELF-PORTRAIT Documentary, colour, b/w, 9`, 2013

Independent production, Paris, France Director, Scriptwriter Thibault Le Texier BITTER HONEY Documentary, colour, 22`11``, 2013

Leevandia Entertainment, Moscow, Russia Director, Scriptwriter Aynur Askarov

18.30 WHITE CINEMA HALL Q&A - Manuela Morgaine, director of LIGHTNING

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18.45 BIG CINEMA HALL COMPETITION PROGRAMME DEBUT FEATURE FILMS THE PHOTOGRAPH Fiction, colour, 82`, 2012, Poland/Germany/Hungary

RUSSIAN PREMIERE Production Koncept Media Coproduction Companies: busse & halberschmidt Filmproduktion, Inorg Studio Director, Scriptwriter Maciej Adamek

21.00 BIG CINEMA HALL SPECIAL SCREENING LIGHTNING. A legend in four seasons Legend, colour, 230`, 2013, France

ST.PETERSBURG PREMIERE Production – Mezzanine Films, Envers Compagnie Director, Scriptwriter Manuela Morgaine

18 September 12.00 BLUE CINEMA HALL NON-COMPETITION PROGRAMME CINE-PARALLEL WATERMELON Fiction, colour, 15`, 2012

Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School (PWSFTViT), Lodz Director , Scriptwriter, Director of Photography Tato Kotetishvili PAPERBOX Animation/Documentary, colour, 9`, 2012

International Film School, Cologne, Germany Director, Scriptwriter, Director of Photography Zbigniew Czapla ROGALIK Documentary, colour, 17`, 2012

Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School (PWSFTViT), Lodz Director Pawel Ziemilski OLENA Fiction, colour, 14`58``, 2013

Gdynia Film School, Poland Director, Scriptwriter Elzbieta Benkowska SADNESS DARK BEAST Drama, colour, b/w, 20`, 2012

National Institute of the Performing Arts (INSAS), Brussels, Belgium Director, Scriptwriter Florian Berutti SUNDAY, WE WILL SEE Documentary, colour, 19`, 2012

National Institute for Film, Television and Interactive Media (INIS), Montreal, Canada Director, Scriptwriter Sophie B. Jacques

13.00 BIG CINEMA HALL COMPETITION PROGRAMME SHORT FILMS STUDENT ANIMATION FILMS SISTERS Animation, colour, 7`48``, 2012

Royal Academy of Arts KASK, Gent, Belgium Director, Scriptwriter, director of Photography, Animation Designer Lea Vidakovic STEFAN AND THE BEETLE Animation, colour, 12`, 2012

Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School (PWSFTViT), Lodz Director Piotr Loc Hoang Ngoc M.O. Animation, colour, 7`, 2012

Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU), Prague, Czech Republic Director Daniela Hurabova THE HEART OF STROMBOLI Animation, colour and b/w, 8`02``, 2012

The Film and Television Academy “Konrad Wolf”, Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany Director, Scriptwriter, Director of Photography, Producer, Animation Designer Tobias Deicke FULL MOON Animation, colour, 5`45``, 2012

Higher School of Visual Arts and Design (ENSAD), Paris, France Director Cervaise Zeline RONDO Animation, b/w, 5`, 2012

Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School (PWSFTViT), Lodz Director, Scriptwriter, Director of Photography Artur Kordas

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CHILI CON CARNE Animation, colour, 03`19``, 2013

The Emile Cohl School, Lyon, France Director Philippe Rolland PANDAS Animation, colour, 11`28``, 2013

Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU), Prague, Czech Republic/Slovakia Director, Scriptwriter, Animation Designer Matus Vizar THE REVENGER Animation, colour, 5`53``, 2013

The Film and Television Academy “Konrad Wolf”, Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany Director, Scriptwriter, Director of Photography, Animation Designer, Sound Grigori Zurkan PROJECT K-9 Animation, colour, 5`, 2013

Madrid Film and Audiovisual School (ECAM), Spain Directed by Francisco J. Cabrera, Alicia Esteban, Elsa Esteban, Juan E. Forero, Victoria Gonzalez, Adrian Parra, Iria Salgado, Pablo Serrano, Huijun Shen THE BUNGLED CHILD Animation, colour, 09`40``, 2012

The National High School La Femis, Paris, France Director, Scriptwriter, Director of Photography, Animation designer Simon Filliot THE MAGNIFICENT LION BOY Animation, colour, 10`35``, 2013

The National Film and Television School (NFTS), Beaconsfield, United Kingdom Director, Animation Designer Ana Caro DAISY Animation, colour, 3`21``, 2013

The Emile Cohl School, Lyon, France Director Marie-Aimee Rabourdin REFUSAL Animation, colour, 5`13``, 2013

Tomas Bata University in Zlin, (TBU), Czech Republic/Norway Director, Scriptwriter, Director of Photography, Sound, Animation Designer Dominik Urban LIFE AND DEATH OF THE GREAT RASPUTIN Animation, b/w, 10`25``, 2012

Higher School of Visual Arts and Design (ENSAD), Paris, France Director, Scriptwriter, Director of Photography Celine Devaux THE BUTCHER Animation, colour, b/w, 5`13``, 2012

High School of Arts (ESMA), Toulouse, France Written, directed and cinematography by Boris Laprade, Fabian Masson, Stephanie Grard, Theo Girettes TRAPPED Animation, colour, 7`, 2012

Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy, Ludwigsburg, Germany Written, directed, animated by Alexander Dietrich, Johannes Flick LAST AUTUMN Animation, b/w, 4`11``, 2012

National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA), Sofia, Bulgaria Director, Animation Designer Sofiya Ilieva

14.00 BLUE CINEMA HALL PRESENTATION PROGRAMME BUSHO (as a part of Animatters Film Network AFN screenings) ME, MY WIFE AND OUR COW 7`10``, 2011, Iran

Director Azadeh Moezzi DOUBLE FIKRET 3`27``, 2012, China

Director Haiyang Wang SILENT-MIND 5`, 2011, Italy

Director Alessia Travaglini HISTORIA D’ESTE 7`20``, 2011, Spain

Director Pascual Perez A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE 1`55``, 2012, Ireland

Director Chris O’hara THIS IS NOT REAL 6`40``, 2011, UK

Director Gergely Wootsch COFFEE 5`40``, 2012, the Netherlands

Director Sjaak Rood BRIDE CAN 7`, 2011, Australia

Director Ronak Taher

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SLEEPINCORD 14`, 2011, Poland

Director Marta Pajek DIRTY FRIDAY 8`27``, 2010, Spain

Director Adrian Miguel Delgado ROSALIE 3`02``, 2012, Germany

Director Jan Jungbluth HUMAN BEINGS 3`10``, 2011, Iran

Director Mashaallah Mohammadi HOWL 6`45``, 2011, Israel

Director Natalie Bettelheim LUMINARIS 6`, 2011, Argentina

Director Juan Pablo Zaramella GIRL, SLIPPED INSIDE 4`, 2012, Turkey

Director IsikDikmen OH SHEEP! 5`40``, 2012, Germany

Director Gottfried Mentor

15.00 BIG CINEMA HALL COMPETITION PROGRAMME SHORT FILMS DEBUT ANIMATION FILMS THE NOISE OF THE WORLD Animation, colour, 13`35``, 2013

Los Animantes, Madrid, Spain Director Coke Rioboo ALBERT Animation, colour, 5`55``, 2012

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Artspoetica Animation Ltd, Budapest, Hungary Director, Producer, Scriptwriter, Director of Photography Csaba Bardos

Animation, colour, 13`56``, 2013

Hype.cg.,Porto Alegre, Brazil Director, Scriptwriter Gabriel Garcia CITY Animation, colour, 3`55``, 2012

Independent production, Belarus Written and directed by Andrei Tokindang, Dzianis Mizhui ON THE WING Animation, colour, 5`44``,2012

Pchela Studio, Moscow, Russia Director Vera Myakisheva BEERBUG Animation, colour, 7`43``, 2012

Katue Studio, Getxo, Spain, Basque Country Director, Producer, Scriptwriter, Editing Ander Mendia WINTER HAS COME Animation, colour, 5`40``, 2012

School-studio SHAR, Moscow, Russia Director, Scriptwriter, Director of Photography Vasily Shlychkov BLOOD Animation, colour and b&w, 6`15``, 2012

Geopoly Film, Sofia, Bulgaria Director, Scriptwriter, Editing Velislava Gospodinova IN THE BEGINNING OF TIME Animation, colour, 10`, 2012

Bonobostudio, Zagreb, Croatia Director, Scriptwriter Bozidar Trkulja THE RAILWAY WATCHMAN Animation, colour, 11`30``, 2011

Polish Filmmakers Association Munk Studio, Warsaw Director, Scriptwriter, Editing Piotr Szczepanowicz

15.45 BLUE CINEMA HALL JURY CHOICE Radostina Neykova TRIP Animation, colour, 8`, 2012, Bulgaria

Producer Nikolay Nikolov Written and directed by Radostina Neykova, Vladislav Budinov DOROGA (THE ROAD) Animation, colour, 12`, 2010, Bulgaria

Directed by Sotir Gelev, Alex Filipov

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THE PIANO PLAYER Animation, colour, 10`, 2012, Bulgaria

Production – NFC, Koulev Film Production Written and directed by Andrey Koulev, Asia Kovanova ANNA BLUME Animation, colour, 9`, 2010, Bulgaria

Director Vesela Dancheva

16.45 BIG CINEMA HALL COMPETITION PROGRAMME DEBUT FEATURE FILMS SHOPPING Fiction, 98`32``, colour, 2013, New Zealand

ST. PETERSBURG PREMIERE Production – Warp Films Australia Written and directed by Mark Albiston, Louis Sutherland

17.30 BLUE CINEMA HALL JURY CHOICE Ekaterina Sokolova AUTUMN CAME Cartoon film, b/w, 9`, 1999

School Studio Shar, Russia Director, Production Designer Ekaterina Sokolova FOOL...

Cartoon film, colour, 14`, 2009

A-Film Studio, Russia Director, Scriptwriter, Production Designer Ekaterina Sokolova SWEETHEART Cartoon film, colour, 12`, 2010

A-Film Studio, Russia Director, Scriptwriter, Art Director Ekaterina Sokolova

18.40 BIG CINEMA HALL SPECIAL SCREENING FINE, THANKS Fiction, 134`, colour, 2013, Slovakia

RUSSIAN PREMIERE Production - MPhilms Ltd Producer, Director Matyas Prikler

19.30 WHITE CINEMA HALL MASTER-CLASS by animation director Ekaterina SOKOLOVA

19 September 12.00 BLUE CINEMA HALL NON-COMPETITION PROGRAMME CINE-PARALLEL THE ERLKING Animation, b/w, 3`20``, 2013

The Emile Cohl School, Lyon, France Director Daniela Lindner CHAMBER MISIC Fiction, colour, 22`, 2012

10:15 Productions, Paris, France Director, Scriptwriter Julia Kowalski THE SALT BOULDER Fiction, colour, 21`, 2012

The National Studio of Contemporary Arts Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France Director, Scriptwriter Eliza Muresan NEWTON’S FIRST LAW Fiction, colour, 19`40``, 2012

Experimental film centre, Italian National film school (CSC), Rome Director Piero Messina DUET Fiction, colour, 23`15``, 2013

Karnameh Institute of Arts and Cultures, Tehran, Iran Director, Scriptwriter Navid Danesh WHY NOT TO KILL A FLY Animation, colour, 5`, 2013

Tarbiat Modares University, Faculty of Art and Studio Mosallas, Tehran, Iran Director, Sound Farhad Alizadeh

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XII St. Petersburg International Festival of Debut and Student Films BEGINNING

THE UMBRELLA Fiction, colour, 13`03``, 2012

Saint Joseph University, Institute of performing and audiovisual Arts and cinematography, Beirut, Lebanon Director, Scriptwriter Nour Ouayda

13.00 BIG CINEMA HALL JURY CHOICE Boris Nelepo YEGOR BULYCHOV AND OTHERS Fiction, colour, 90`, 1971, USSR

Production – Mosfilm Director, Scriptwriter Sergey Solovyov

14.00 BLUE CINEMA HALL PRESENTATION PROGRAMME FRESH FILM FEST NOTHING CAN TOUCH ME Fiction, colour, 30`, 2011, Denmark

Director, Scriptwriter Milad Alami THE WAIT Documentary, colour, 25`, 2012, Finland

Director Inka Achte FLAMINGO PRIDE

Animation, colour, 6`, 2011, Germany

Director Tomer Eshed

15.30 BIG CINEMA HALL COMPETITION PROGRAMME DEBUT FEATURE FILMS DOCTOR Fiction, 95`, colour, 2012, Russia

Production – Studio Genre, LLC. Director – Vladimir Pankov

15.45 BLUE CINEMA HALL PRESENTATION PROGRAMME FRESH FILM FEST PAVILION Fiction, colour, 68`, 2012, USA

RUSSIAN PREMIERE Director, Scriptwriter Tim Sutton

17.15 BIG CINEMA HALL SPECIAL SCREENING YOU AND THE NIGHT Fiction, colour, 91`, 2013, France

RUSSIAN PREMIERE Production Sedna Films Director, Scriptwriter Yann Gonzalez

20 September 18.00 BIG CINEMA HALL CLOSING CEREMONY 19.00 SCREENING OF AWARDED FILMS BIG CINEMA HALL

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