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Contents
Greetings 4 Awards and juries at MakeDox 6 Main selection 17 Newcomers 27 Country in focus: Poland 41 Short dox 51 Student dox 61 Kids and Youth program 71 люakeDox+ 81 MakeDox Layers 91 Movie Index 96 Impresum 97 MakeDox Family 98
Greetings
Living near water seems to change us. We encounter ourselves in a different light, we see our reflection in a different mirror, our thoughts flow unexpectedly, life smells distinctly. There are ideas as much as mosquitoes - enough to keep you awake all night. This year, our traveling cinema lived near water together with the second generation of the DocuSprouts! We dived alternately into the calm Struga Lake and in the depths of the documentary world. We discussed the freedom that comes along with the pure documentary form but also the need of a clean surrounding. The talks about the art of creating film stories were also talks about the responsibility and the awareness that everything we leave behind does have an effect, may it be film frames or pieces of waste; that collecting and selecting ideas about one’s film are as crucial as collecting and selecting waste. This is why we cleaned up, along with the children from Radozhda, the verdant shore of Struga Lake: in the piles of waste, our DocuSprouts got ideas about the films they would make on time for our jubilee edition, and we learnt, thanks to our Samir, how the paper waste can be transformed into something as beautiful as the covers of the catalog you are holding! Ecology of mind requires ecology outside the mind and vice versa! When waste is in question, every one of us is directing reality! Welcome to “MakeDox”!
Onion Award Jury — for the Best Film in the Main Program
Pirjo Honkasalo is a highly established and multi-awarded director and screenwriter of documentary films as well as Finland’s first female cinematographer to shoot a feature fiction. Hers are the prize-winning “The Trilogy of the Sacred and the Satanic (Mysterion, Tanjuska and the 7 Devils and Atman)” and the stunningly beautiful “The 3 Rooms of Melancholia”. Member of the American Film Academy, she has had well over thirty retrospectives of her work worldwide.
Wojciech Staroń is a Polish cinematographer and documentary director who graduated from the prestigious Łódź Film School’s Faculty of Cinematography. His “Argentinean Lesson” is among Poland’s most awarded documentaries in recent decades. Member of the European Film Academy and the Polish Society of Cinematographers, he received the Silver Bear at the 2012 Berlinale for Best Artistic Achievements in the cinematography category and the Bronze Camera at the 2013 Manaki Brothers Film Festival for the film “Papusza”.
Mariam Chachia decided to make documentary films almost a decade after she graduated with honors from the Georgian Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film State University, where she studied Theatre Directing and Acting. Her grandmother’s life story will inspire her first documentary film “Kirov Street #8”. In 2014, she founded the OpyoDoc, a production company that runs Projects For Social Change. She has won several important documentary awards and is currently co-producing and co-directing her second feature film with documentary filmmaker Nik Voigt. 7
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All MakeDox Film Awards are custom-made by the Slovenian academic scupltor Primož Seliškar.
Young Onion Award Jury — for the Best Film by First or Second-Time Director
Martichka Bozhilova is a producer and director of the Bulgarian AGITPROP production company and director of the Balkan Documentary Center since 1999. She is also a jurist, theologist, curator and former bar owner and holder of European Diploma in Cultural Project Management. She has co-produced with Germany, France, Finland, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, USA, Greece, Cyprus, Croatia, Romania, OAE, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary as well as with international networks such as National Geographic and HBO. Her highend author driven films have been selected and awarded at the most prestigious film festivals and broadcast all over the world. “Touch Me Not” won the Golden Bear Winner at this year’s Berlinale. Miguel Ribeiro studied Science of Communication in his hometown at the New University of Lisboa. Since 2012, he is programmer and Program Coordinator of Doclisboa - International Film Festival, one of the most established European film festivals. He is currently part of the executive board of Apordoc, the Portuguese Documentary Association. He is a former member of the artistic collective Rabbit Hole, an artistic platform and collective for creation, experimentation and curatorship. In 2016, he founded the production company Filmes do Asfalto. Nik Voigt is a director and producer based in Tbilisi. He graduated with honors from BA Photography and Video Production at De Montfort University and before coming to Georgia, he has worked as editor/cameraman and producer/ director in Botswana, the Czech Republic and in London. Today he lives and works in Tbilisi from where he is involved in numerous international documentary film projects and commercial projects. Nik has produced “Listen To The Silence”, a Golden Dove winning documentary at DOK Leipzig 2016 and is now directing a feature documentary with Mariam Chachia in Georgia. He is also the head of “Listen To The Future”, a fund dedicated to improving the lives of young deaf people in Georgia. 9
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Sliced Onion Award — for the Best Short Film
Ingibjörg Halldórsdóttir studied film and art theory at the University of Iceland. She has worked in production and programming at the Reykjavik International Film Festival (RIFF) over a period of five years. She is now the cofounder of Iceland Documentary Film Festival, the country’s first international documentary festival , which will have its first edition in summer 2019
Xavier Marrades is a filmmaker born in Barcelona where he studied Audiovisual Communication and discovered his focus on the experimental side of filmmaking. After completing his Master Degree in Documentary Film at the School of Visual Arts in New York, he entered the world of documentary filmmaking shifting between the territory of highly personal documentary and experimental film. His poetic approach is recognizable in all his works ranging from travelogues, portraits, to ethnographical films. Besides “Cucli” which is his first short documentary, he has previously made two full-length films “The Stranger’s Land” (2009) and “The Pilgrim’s Dive” (2016).
Diana Dabrowska is a film critic and journalist writing for the monthly Film & TV camera magazine “KINO” in Poland as well as for Cinema Scope magazine in Canada during the largest film festivals in Europe. She works at the University of Łódź where she teaches Italian film history and Italian language. She is currently completing her PhD about the construction of the Italian identity (so-called italianness) by the media during the economic boom in the 1960s. Dabrowska also works as a coordinator for Cinergia Forum of European Cinema in Łódź. 1 1
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Onion Seed Award Jury — for the Best Student Film
Tamara Kotevska is born in Prilep, Macedonia. In 2016, she graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Skopje. Her graduation film, the documentary “StudANTS“, won the Best Balkan Film Award at the Tirana International Film Festival in Albania. She is currently co-directing and co-writing the documentary film “Honey Land”.
Eol Çashku is an Albanian filmmaker who plays several music instruments. He has studied film directing in Paris and since 2004, he is the Head of productions of the Academy of Film and Multimedia Marubi, having produced more than 250 short fictions, 50 documentary films and 4 animation cartoons. For almost two decades, he has also been the producer, writer, director of OraFilm and has worked in Albanian, French and German film industry. As a producer and reporter for Associated Press Television News, he has been covering major events in Albania for more than a decade. He is also the festival manager of the International Human Rights Film Festival Albania since 2006 and member of the Albanian Filmmaker Association “Lumiere”.
Vladimir Dimoski is a cinematographer who completed his film education at FAMU’s Master Degree Program in the Czech Republic. He has gained international experience working as a photography director and camera assistant for professional and student productions based in Europe, Canada and Asia. He is the author of thirty short and documentary films and of one feature film. 1 3
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Moral Approach Award Jury — for the Film with Best Moral Approach
Pirkko Saisio is a Finnish author and actress and one of the most active and prominent figures of public discussion in the Finnish media. She has also published under the pseudonyms of Jukka Larsson (a male) and Eva Wein (a Jewish woman). She has a broad literary output, dealing with many kinds of text from novels, film screenplays all the way to librettos for the ballet. Her novel “Concrete Night” was adapted into the eponymous feature film, directed by Pirjo Honkasalo in 2013. Saisio received her degree in acting from the Finnish Theater School (now Theatre Academy) in 1975 and has worked there later as a professor of dramaturgy for six years. She is a doctor of honor of Tampere University. She has won four times the Lea prize, the highest drama prize in Finland. She has been nominated five times for the highest literature prize in Finland, Finlandia prize, and won it with her novel ”The Red Book of Parting” in 2003. She donated the whole amount of the prize to SETA, an organization that has been fighting for human rights and sexual equality for 40 years. Ismet Ramikevik is born in Serbia. In 1984, he graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University "St. Cyril and Methodius" - Skopje in the class of prof. Petar Hadji Boshkov where he now works as a full-time professor. He has realized more than 20 solo exhibitions and has participated in more than 200 group exhibitions in the country and abroad. He has won 20 awards. Jasna Frangovska is a journalist with a long-lasting experience in a series of daily newspapers, magazines and radio stations, where she often worked on the editorial position. She graduated from the Faculty of Journalism in 1986. In 1992, she received the "Krste Petkov Misirkov" Award for the NNNRV radio program and in 2009 the "Nova Makedonija" Annual Award. She is the author of the Sergej Andreevski’s travelogue "The Way of the Brush Stroke" (2006) and of the Monograph on the actress Milica Stojanova (2008). 1 5
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France/ 2017/ 89’
Faces, Places
Agnès Varda, JR
Visages, Villages
Script: Agnès Varda Photography: Romain le Bonniec, Claire Duguet, Nicolas Guicheteau, Valentin Vignet, Raphaël Minnesota Editing: Maxime Pozzi Garcia Music: Matthieu Chedid Production: Cine Tamaris, JRSA, Rouge International, Arte France Cinema, Arches Films
The charming 89-year-old filmmaker Agnès Varda and the young photographer JR embark on a road trip around France to meet people, photograph them and post huge prints of the portraits up on the buildings where they live. Driven by Varda’s insatiable curiosity to understand the world around her, this film is a social experiment and a generous project, which in a time defined by division and crisis unites people and gives them hope.
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Festivals and awards: • Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature, USA (2018) • National Society of Film Critics Award for Best NonFiction Film (2017) • New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best NonFiction Film (2017) • The Golden Eye - The Documentary Prize, Cannes Film Festival, France (2017) Selected Filmography: • Les glaneurs et la glaneuse/ The Gleaners and I (2000) • Les plages d'Agnès/ The Beaches of Agnès (2008) • L’Univers de Jacques Demy/ The World of Jacques Demy (1995) • Les Demoiselles ont eu 25 ans/ The Young Girls Turn 25 (1993) • Mur Murs (1981) • La Pointe Courte (1956)
UK, Ireland/ 2017/ 115’
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami
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Sophie Fiennes Script: Sophie Fiennes Photography: Remko Schnorr Editing: Sophie Fiennes Music: Ivor Guest Звук/Sound: Sophie Fiennes Production: Katie Holly, Sophie Fiennes, Beverly Jones, Shani Hinton Festivals and awards: • Toronto International Film Festival, Canada (2017)
Larger than life, wild, scary and androgynous – Grace Jones plays all these parts. Yet here we discover her as lover, daughter, mother, sister and even grandmother and reach beyond the iconic mask. Taking us on a holiday road trip across her native Jamaica with her son Paolo and niece Chantal, the film reveals a Grace we have not seen before, someone who reminds us of what it is to dare to be truly alive. In all her apparent contradictions, Grace Jones may appear an exception, but she is also a point of identification: she is the exception that proves the rule.
Selected Filmography: • The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (2012), • Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (2010), • The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (2006), • Hoover Street Revival (2001)
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Serbia, Croatia, France/ 2017/ 78’
In Praise of Nothing Slatko оd Ništa
A satirical documentary parable about Nothing, in which Nothing, tired of being misunderstood, runs away from home and comes to address us for the first and the last time. This is an epic adventure, shot over 8 years in 70 countries: the Nothing roams the world like a fallen prophet, trying to persuade us of its natural, necessary and ultimately constructive role – using Iggy Pop’s voice.
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Boris Mitić Script: Boris Mitić Photography: 62 cinematographers in 70 countries Editing: Boris Mitić Sound: Bruno Tarrière, Ivan Uzelac Music: Pascal Comelade & The Tiger Lillies Production: Dribbling Pictures, Anti-Absurd, La Bête Festivals and awards: • Beldocs Film Festival, Serbia (2018) • CPH:DOX, Denmark (2018) • Shanghai Film Festival, China (2018) • Moscow Film Festival, Russia (2018) • IDFA, The Netherlands (2017) • Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland (2017) Selected Filmography: • Goodbye, How Are You? (2009) • UNMIK Titanik (2004) • Pretty Dyana (2003)
Romania/ 2017/ 86’’
Licu, a Romanian Story Licu, o Poveste Rom Nească
This Romanian story is about the life of a man lost in history. Licu is a 92-year-old man having outlived war, peace, communism, the revolution and post-revolution. He has suffered, loved, laughed and cried for over 92 years. This is a story about the passing of time and old age, a reflection on our own ephemerality.
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Ana Dumitrescu Photography: Ana Dumitrescu Editing: Ana Dumitrescu Sound: Jonathan Boissay Music: Curcio Domenico Production: Taskovski Films Ltd. Festivals and awards: • Golden Dove – International Competition, DOK Leipzig, Germany (2017) • CineDoc, Georgia (2018) • Solidarity Tel Aviv Human Rights Film Festival, Israel (2018) • Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2018) • One World Film Festival, Romania (2018) • Zagreb Dox, Croatia (2018) Selected Filmography: • Omul cu vioara/ The Violin (2017) • Licu, o poveste românească / Licu, a Romanian story (2017) • Le Temps de la Lumière/ Time of Light (2016) • La Chaise Verte, un Chat sur un Trapèze et autres histoires ordinaires/ The Green Chair, a Cat on a Trapeze and Other Ordinary Stories (2013)
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Germany, Syria, Qatar, Lebanon/ 2017/ 98’ ’
Of Fathers and Sons Of Fathers and Sons
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Talal Derki Photography: Kahtan Hasson Editing: Anne Fabini Sound: Sebastian Tesch Music: Elias K.S. Production: Co-production: Festivals and awards: • Full Frame Film Festival, USA (2018) • IDFA, The Netherlands (2017) • Sundance Film Festival, USA (2017)
The filmmaker returned to his homeland where he gained the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years. The camera follows Osama (13) and his younger brother Ayman. They both love and admire their father whose only dream is to establish an Islamic Caliphate. But while Osama seems to follow the path of Jihad, Ayman wants to go back to school. No matter how close the war comes—one thing they have already learned: they must not cry.
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Selected Filmography: • Of Fathers and Sons (2017) • Ode to Lesvos (2013) • Return to Homs (2013) • Hero of the Sea (2010)
Slovenia, Croatia/ 2017/ 60’
Playing Men Playing Men
This is a playful film about playing, about the beauty of the game and about men that play. In a time that may or may not be ours, men play, deadly seriously, yet with airy joy somewhere by the Mediterranean. The director films everything with serious lightness until he hits a creative block. In order to continue, he needs to rethink the rules of the game.
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Matjaž Ivanišin Script: Matjaž Ivanišin Photography: Gregor Božič Editing: Matic Drakulić Sound: Borna Buljević, Ivan Antić Production: Nosorogi Co-production: Restart Festivals and awards: • Special Jury Mention, Zagreb Dox, Croatia (2018) • Georges de Beauregard International Prize, Marseille International Documentary Festival, France (2017) • Best Documentary Award, Festival of Slovenian Film, Slovenia (2017) • Prix d’Aide à la Distribution Ciné, Entrevues Belfort – International Film Festival, France (2017) Selected Filmography: • Hiške/ Little Houses (2014) • Karpopotnik/ Karpotrotter (2013)
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Denmark/ 2017/ 90’ ’
The Distant Barking of Dogs The Distant Barking of Dogs
Ten-year-old Oleg lives in a small village in the eastern part of Ukraine - a warzone that often echoes with anti-aircraft fire and missile strikes. Oleg lives here with his grandmother, who has taken care of him since the death of his mother. Life becomes increasingly difficult with each passing day, and the war offers no end in sight. In this now half-deserted village where Oleg and Alexandra are the only true constants in each other’s lives, the film witnesses the gradual erosion of the child’s innocence beneath the pressures of war without failing to shows just how fragile, but crucial, close relationships are for survival.
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Simon Lereng Wilmont Photography: Simon Lereng Wilmont Editing: Michael Aaglund Sound: Pietu Korhonen, Heikki Kossi, Peter Albrechtsen Music: Uno Helmersson, Erik Enocksson Production: Final Cut for Real Co-production: Mouka Filmi, Story, Bayerischer Rundfunk and Arte Selected Filmography: • Chikara - Sumobryderens Søn/ Chikara - the Sumo Wrestler’s Son (2014) • Fægtemesteren/ The Fencing Champion (2014) • Traveling with Mr. T (2012) • Above the Ground, Beneath the Sky (2008) • Ramonas rejse/ Ramona’s Journey (2004)
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USA, Mexico/ 2018/ 75’’
America América
Directors:
Erick Stoll, Chase Whiteside Photography: Erick Stoll Editing: Chase Whiteside, Erick Stoll Sound: Christian Giraud Festivals and awards: • Dox: Award Special Jury Mention, International Competition, CPH: Dox, Denmark (2018) • Best First Feature, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, USA (2018) • Best Documentary, Ashland Independent Film Festival, USA (2018) • Illuminate Award, Sheffield Doc/Fest, UK (2018)
Diego, a young circus artist, must return home and reunite with his brothers after their ninety-three-year-old grandmother, América, falls from her bed, causing their father to be jailed under accusation of elder neglect. Diego is a dreamer who sees poetry and purpose in this tragedy. He believes América, despite her immobility and advanced dementia, fell willfully, to bring the separated family back together. But Diego’s dream of familial cohesion fades as the brothers clash over money and the distribution of labor, the most difficult question being how long will they put their lives on hold to care for América?
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Selected Filmography: • Good White People (2016) • Remote Area Medical (2013) • Lifelike (2011) Chase Whiteside • Lifelike (2011)
Brazil/ 2017/ 70’’
Baroness Baronesa
Andreia and Leid are neighbors in a poor suburban slum of Belo Horizonte. Leid raises small children while her husband is in jail and Andreia dreams of moving to a safer neighborhood while she earns her living as a beauty stylist to the poor. This is a film about drugs, violence, sex, love, friendship, death, depicting life in favelas as never before - through women’s eyes.
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Juliana Antunes Script: Juliana Antunes Photography: Fernanda de Sena Editing: Affonso Uchôa, Rita M. Pestana Sound: Marcela Santos, Pedro Durães Production: Ventura, Filmes de Plástico Festivals and awards: • Best Film Award, Prix Marseille Espérance, Prix Renaud Victor, Marseille International Film Festival, France (2017) • Best Film Award, Valdivia International Film Festival, Chile (2017) • Best First Award and Best Film by Cineclubs, Ourense International Film Festival, Spain (2017) • Best Film in Latin America Competition, Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Argentina (2017) • Best Documentary, Havana Film Festival, Cuba (2017)
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USA/ 2017/ 67’
Brimstone & Glory Brimstone & Glory
For the people of Tultepec, the National Pyrotechnic Festival is explosive celebration, unrestrained delight and real peril. In celebration of San Juan de Dios, patron saint of firework makers, revelry engulfs the town for ten days. Plunging headlong into the fire, the film honours the spirit of Tultepec’s community and celebrates celebration itself.
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Viktor Jakovleski Script: Viktor Jakovleski Photography: Tobias von dem Borne Editing: Affonso Gonçalves Sound: Damian Volpe, MPSE Music: Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin Production: Dan Janvey, Elizabeth Lodge Stepp, Kellen Quinn Festivals and awards: • Golden Gate Award, San Francisco International Film Festival, USA (2017) • Art Doc Award – Special Mention, Sheffield Doc/Fest, UK (2017) • True/False Film Fest, USA (2017) • Hot Docs Film Festival, Canada (2017) • Dokufest, Kosovo (2017)
Croatia, Slovenia/ 2018/ 74’
Days of Madness Dani Ludila
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Damian Nenadić Script: Damian Nenadić Photography: Maja Šćukanec, Mladen Bađun, Srđan Kovačević, Damian Nenadić Editing: Sandra Bastašić Sound: Martin Semenčić Music: Miro Manojlović, Filip Sertić Production: Restart Co-production: Petra Pan Film Festivals and awards: • Special Mention, Zagreb Dox, Croatia (2018)
Филмов е неверојатна одисеја за Младен и Маја кои на позрели години „заглавуваат“ помеѓу демоните од минатото и разните апчиња што нивните матични лекари упорно им ги препишуваат наместо разговор. Соочени со слепилото на општеството кое ги отпишало како безнадежни и со здравствениот систем кој ги претворил во зависници, овие двајца ментално различни и неправично заборавени луѓе учат да се прифатат себеси и конечно ги баталуваат лекарите, решени да се грижат самите за себе. Човек не може а да не се праша: кој е, всушност, луд тука?
Selected Filmography: • Umjetnik na odmoru/ Artist on Vacation (2015)
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Germany, UK, Australia / 2018/ 94’’
Island of the Hungry Ghosts Island of the Hungry Ghosts
The Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean is one of the last discovered places on earth and home to one of the planet’s largest land migrations. Pulled by the force of the full moon, forty million land crabs begin their epic odyssey from the island’s jungle to its rugged coastline. The same jungle hides a high-security detention centre where thousands of asylum-seekers wait indefinitely to hear whether they can make their way to Australia. Meanwhile, local islanders carry out “hungry ghost” rituals for the spirits of those who died on the island without receiving a proper burial.
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Gabrielle Brady Script: Gabrielle Brady Photography: Michael Latham Editing: Katharina Fiedler Sound: Leo Dolgan Music: Aaron Cupples Production: Chromosom film Germany, Third film UK, echotango Australia, Various films Germany Festivals and awards: • Best Documentary Film, Tribeca Film Festival, USA (2018) • Buyens-Chagoll Award, Visions du Réel, Switzerland (2018) • Best Documentary Film, Valletta Film Festival, Spain (2018) • Special Jury Mention, Edinburgh Film Festival, Scotland (2018) Selected Filmography: • The Island (2017) • Milagro/ Static Miracles (2014) • Los pantalones rotos (2013)
USA/ 2016/ 79’
Kedi Kedi
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Ceyda Torun Script: Ceyda Torun Photography: Charlie Wuppermann Editing: Mo Stoebe Sound: Burcin Aktan Music: Fontana Kira Production: Ceyda Torun, Charlie Wuppermann Festivals and awards: • Palm Springs International Film Festival, USA (2018) / !f Istanbul Independent Film Festival, Turkey (2016)
Hundreds of thousands of cats roam the metropolis of Istanbul freely. For thousands of years they have wandered in and out of people’s lives, becoming an essential part of the communities that make the city so rich. Claiming no owners, these animals live between two worlds, neither wild nor tame – and they bring joy and purpose to those people they choose to adopt. In Istanbul, cats are more than just cats – they are the mirrors to the people, embodying the indescribable chaos.
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Poland, Germany, Finland/ 2017/ 74’’
Over the Limit Over the Limit
Margarita Mamun, an elite Russian rhythmic gymnast, is struggling to become an Olympic champion. It is the most crucial year of her career and her last chance to achieve an ultimate dream, a gold medal. This nail-biting behind-the-scenes drama creates an intense portrait of a young woman who is desperately trying to handle her own ambitions and fulfill the expectations of the extreme Russian training system. Giving us an exclusive access to the hidden world, the film shows how the successful Russian system for training athletes transgresses boundaries.
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Marta Prus Script: Marta Prus Photography: Adam Suzin Editing: Maciej Pawlinski Sound: Maciej Pawłowski Production: Maciej Kubicki, Anna Kepinska (Telemark) Co-production: Ventana Film, Marianna Films Festivals and awards: • Silver Horn for the Director of the Best Feature-length Documentary Film, Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2018) • Audience Award, Krakow Film Festival (2018) • Documentary Award by BGL BNP Paribas, LuxFilmFest, Luxembourg (2018) • Little Stamp Award for Best Young Director, ZagrebDox, Croatia (2018) • Goteborg Film Festival, Sweden (2018) • Hot Docs, Canada (2018) • IDFA, The Netherlands (2017) Selected Filmography: • Mów do mnie/ Talk to me (2015) • Dzieci/ Kids (2014) • Marzenie Nastii/ Nastia’s dream (2014) • Osiemnastka/ Eighteenth birthday (2012) • Vakha аnd Magomed/ Vakha аnd Magomed (2010)
Finland, India, Norway/ 2017/ 55’
Raghu Rai - an Unframed Portrait Raghu Rai - an Unframed Portrait
A glimpse into the life of Raghu Rai, the legendary photographer who lived through some of the best and toughest times in India, and kept alive moments that have the power to humble us.
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Avani Rai Script: Avani Rai Photography: Avani Rai Editing: Menno Boerema, Archana Padhke Sound: Ashok Kumar, Susmit 'Bob' Nath Music: Naren Chandavakar, Benedict Taylor Production: Iikka Vehkalathi (IV FILMS LTD) Festivals and awards: • DocAviv International Documentary Film Festival, Israel (2018) • Docs Against Gravity, Poland (2018) • DocEdge Film Festival, New Zealand (2018) • Dokfest München, Germany (2018) • TRT Documentary Days, Turkey (2018) • IDFA, The Netherlands (2017)
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Lithuania/ 2017/ 85’
The Ancient Woods The Ancient Woods
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Mindaugas Survila Script: Gintė Žulytė, Mindaugas Survila Photography: Mindaugas Survila Editing: Danielius Kokanauskis Sound: Mindaugas Survila, Gintė Žulytė, Ainis Pivoras Production: Sengirė Festivals and awards: • Sidabrinė Gervė Awards for Best Cinematography and for Best Professional Work, Lithuanian Film Academy Awards (2018) • IDFA, The Netherlands (2017)
This is a poetic and atypical nature film about the various inhabitants of an old-growth forest, living on the ground, in the air and in the water. There is no narration, only an abundance of the rich, almost palpable sounds of the forest and of the magical situations captured by the camera. The lack of explanation leaves space for us to associate freely and simply experience the images.
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Selected Filmography: • The Field of Magic (2011)
Slovenia, Austria/ 2017/ 106’
The Family Družina
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Rok Biček Script: Rok Biček Photography: Rok Biček Editing: Rok Biček, Yulia Roschina Sound: Julij Zornik Production: Cvinger film Co-production: Zwinger film Festivals and awards: • Semaine de la Critique Award, Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland (2017)
How can you create a stable life for your family if your own father, mother and brother all struggle with mental disability? Nevertheless, Matej is determined that his children will have it better than he did. Still a teenager himself, Matej decides to start a family of his own as soon as he gets the chance. But just when that ideal seems to be coming within reach, life gets in the way. The film follows Matej over the course of a decade, as he grows from a teenager into a brave young adult, trying to make the best of things, even though he hardly knows how.
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Serbia, France, Qatar/ 2017/ 103’
The Other Side of Everything Druga Strana Svega
A locked door inside a Belgrade apartment has kept one family separated from its past for over 70 years. As the filmmaker begins an intimate conversation with her mother, she reveals that their house – as well as the country itself - is haunted by history. In a film that rarely leaves this space, the filmmaker paints a poignant portrait of her mother, a prominent political activist, questioning the responsibility of each generation to fight for their future.
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Mila Turajlić Script: Mila Turajlić Photography: Mila Turajlić Editing: Sylvie Gadmer, Aleksandra Milovanović Sound: Aleksandar Protić Music: Morali Jonathan Production: Dribbling Pictures, Survivance Festivals and awards: • Special Jury Mention for Best Cinematography in a Documentary Film, SEEfest Los Angeles, USA (2018) • Best Director, RiverRun International Film Festival, USA (2018) • Best Editing Award/Best Sound Design Award, Martovski Festival - Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, Serbia (2018) • L’Objectif d’Or - the Grand Prize, Millenium Film Festival, Belgium (2018) • Big Stamp for Best Film in Regional Competition/ Audience Award, Zagreb Dox, Croatia (2018) • Fipresci Award for Best Serbian Documentary (2017) • IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary, IDFA, The Netherlands (2017) Selected Filmography: • Cinema Komunisto (2011)
Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina/ 2017/ 74’
When Pigs Come Kada Dođu Svinje
Dragoslava has four TV sets, three grandchildren, two best friends and one husband with whom she fights over the remote control. She has lived in five countries without ever moving from her flat in a small border town in Serbia. Media and politics seep into the family life but she tackles it with humor and determination. She recounts tales from real life to the kids, instead the make-believe of fairy tales, powered by her desire to create a future of hope. For her, every single gesture from morning till night is an act of responsibility which sparks changes in the world.
Director:
Biljana Tutorov Script: Biljana Tutorov Photography: Orfeas Skutelis Editing: Thomas Ernst, Ana Lagator, Nataša Pantić Sound: Frano Homen Music: Voki Kostić Production: Wake Up Films Co-production: Kinematograf, Al Jazeera Balkans, HRT - Croatian Television Festivals and awards: • Special Jury Mention, Sofia Independent Film Festival, Bulgaria (2017) • Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2017) Selected Filmography: • Plum Wars (1999)
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Poland/ 2016/ 73’
Communion
Director:
Anna Zamecka
Komunia
Script: Anna Zamecka Photography: Małgorzata Szyłak Editing: Agnieszka Glińśka, Anna Zamecka, Wojciech Janas Sound: Kasiński Marcin Music: Kasiński Marcin Production: Otter Films Co-production: Wajda Studio, HBO Europe
When adults are ineffectual, children have to grow up quickly. Ola is 14 and she takes care of her dysfunctional father, autistic brother and a mother who lives separately; but most of all she tries to reunite the family. She lives in the hope of bringing her mother back home. Her 13-year-old brother Nikodem’s Holy Communion is a pretext for the family to meet up. Ola is entirely responsible for preparing the perfect family celebration. This film reveals the beauty of the rejected, the strength of the weak and the need for change when change seems impossible.
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Festivals and awards: • Best Documentary Award, TRT Documentary Awards, Turkey (2017) • Best Documentary for Feature or Medium-Length Competition, It’s All True - International Documentary Film Festival, Brazil (2017) • SOS-Kinderdorfer Weltweit Award, DOK.fest International Documentary Film Festival, Munich, Germany (2017) • Alpe Adria Cinema Award, Trieste Film Festival (2017) • Young Eyes Film Award, DOK Leipzig, Germany (2016) • Best Documentary Film, Bratislava International Film Festival (2016)
Poland/ 2016/ 24’
Daniel
Director:
Anastazja Dąbrowska
Daniel
Script: Anastazja Dąbrowska Photography: Robert Lis Editing: Agata Cierniak Sound: Katarzyna Bialas Music: Marcin Nierubiec Festivals and awards: • Best Short Documentary, FerFilm International Film Festival, Kosovo (2017) • Award for Best Director, Bosifest, Serbia (2017) • Verzio Film Festival, Hung ary (2017) • Poitiers Film Festival, France (2017) • DOK Leipzig, Germany (2016) • Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2016)
The camera follows Daniel, a young boy who spends his holiday on a camp organized for people with Down syndrome. The camera also follows the conversations of Daniel and his friends. Boys as boys, they talk about girls. And they do so absolutely seriously. Searching for an answer about closeness and love is not just an issue for teenagers but for all of us.
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Poland/ 2017/ 85’
Festival
Directors:
Anna Gawlita, Tomasz Wolski
Festiwal
Script: Anna Gawlita, Tomasz Wolski Photography: Tomasz Wolski Editing: Tomasz Wolski Sound: Anna Gawlita, Paulina Sacha Production: Kijora Films Festivals and awards:
• Jecheon International Music & Film Festival, South Korea (2018) • Beldocs, Serbia (2018) • Seeyousound Film Festival, Italy (2018) • Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2017)
For a musician with absolute hearing and above average sensitivity, each performance in front of the audience is a lesson and an attempt to confront the great predecessors and themselves. The camera takes us behind the scenes at the 12th International Music Festival “Chopin and His Europe” where musicians approach artistic perfection, enjoying each and every musical phrase they rehearse. Everyone strives for the perfect performance of the pieces, but sometimes, after the concert, they feel something that Artur Rubinstein called – demi-succès.
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Избрана филмографија: Tomasz Wolski: • Córka/ Daughter (2015) • Pałac/ The Palace (2012) • Lekarze/ Doctors (2011)
Poland/ 2016/ 39‘
How to Destroy Time Machines
Director:
Jacek Piotr Bławut Script: Jacek Piotr Bławut Photography: Adam Palenta Editing: Aleksandra Gowin, Katarzyna Spioch Sound: Radoslaw Ochnio Music: Jeph Jerman Production: Studio Filmowe Rabarbar Co-production: NInA, Chimney Pot
How to Destroy Time Machines
Festivals and awards: • Docudays UA International Human Rights Film Festival, Ukarine (2018) • DOK Leipzig, Germany (2017) • Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2017)
This one is a film for your ears. It focuses on Jeph Jerman, an Arizona-based experimental musician, on his passion for sounds and his unique perception of the world. Jeph doesn’t want to get into time machines, where most people are stuck, worrying about the future or dwelling on the past. Limited by such restrictions, we rarely enjoy the current moment. This is a story about being here and now. It is not only a movie about an extraordinary composer but also a parable for life.
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Selected Filmography: • Samotność Dźwięku/ The Loneliness of Sound (2012) • Jezioro/ The Lake (2011)
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Poland/ 2017/ 18’’
Leocadia’s Dream
Krzysztof Nowicki
Sen Leocadii
Script: Krzysztof Nowicki Photography: Xavier Casas Editing: Jakub Sladkowski Sound: Julita Hoffman Production: Ragusa Films Co-production: Stowarzyszenie KolorOFFon
Leocadia has been running a small family music shop on Las Ramblas for many decades. Of all those years, the camera observes only the last months of work, which are very hard because the shop is about to be closed down. She begins to throw away her old records, leaving them on benches along Las Ramblas as she takes her beloved little dog for a walk. With every record of classical music she leaves traces of her past behind her.
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Festivals and awards: • Jecheon International Music & Film Festival, South Korea (2018) • Krakow Film Festival (2018) • HotDocs, Canada (2018) • Camerimage, Poland (2017) Selected Filmography: • Homestay (2012) • Tu było kino/ The Cinema was Here (2011) • Basen/ The Swimming Pool (2009) • Najstarszy człowiek świata/ The World’s Oldest Men (2008)
Poland/ 2017/ 41’’
Opera about Poland
Director:
Piotr Stasik
Opera o Polsce
Script: Piotr Stasik Photography: Piotr Stasik, Adam Palenta, Paweł Chorzępa Editing: Dorota Wardęszkiewicz, Piotr Stasik Sound: Katarzyna Bialas Music: Artur Zagajewski Production: Anna Gawlita Kijora Co-production: Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe, Instytucja Filmowa Silesia Film Festivals and awards: • Best Central and Eastern European Documentary Film, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic (2017) • Moscow International Film Festival, Russia (2018) • ZagrebDox, Croatia (2018) • Cottbus Film Festival, Germany (2017) • Warsaw Film Festival, Poland (2017) • Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2017)
Pole, who are you? This is the question that this film collage tries to answer, combining archival and contemporary materials, documentary and staged pictures, press reports, social announcements, sale offers and speech excerpts. Referring to the Polish tradition of a creative documentary, the film presents various manifestations of Polishness: patriotic and religious rituals, everyday traditions as well as characteristic landscapes or intimate memories from childhood.
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Selected Filmography: • 21 x Nowy Jork/ 21xNew York (2016) • Dziennik z podróży/ Diary of A Journey (2013) • Andrzej Wajda: Róbmy zdjęcie/ Andrzej Wajda: Let’s shoot (2008) • „7 x Москва“/ 7 x Moskwa/ 7 x Moscow (2005)
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Poland/ 2017/ 20’
Sisters
Director:
Michał Hytroś
Siostry
Script: Michał Hytroś Photography: Janusz Szymański Editing: Marcin Wojciechowski Sound: Bogdan Klat Production: Polish National Film School in Łódź Festivals and awards:
• GoShort, The Netherlands (2018) • Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2017)
Behind the mighty eighteenth-century wall of the oldest enclosed convent in Poland, located near Krakow, the life of twelve nuns in their 70s goes on. Despite their age and the world of rapid change, they try to comply with the rule set over ten centuries ago ‘Ora et Labora’ each day. Nuns for 40 years in this convent, Anuncjata and Benedykta introduce us to the world behind the wall telling us about their lives and decisions in a specific way. They show us the world of convent in true colors, without stereotypes, often touching and amusing at the same time. This is a film about silence said aloud.
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Poland/ 2017/ 40’
Zhalanash – Empty Shore
Director:
Marcin Sauter Script: Marcin Sauter Photography: Marcin Sauter Editing: Michał Marczak, Ziemowit Jaworski, Katarzyna Orzechowska Sound: Marcin Lenarczyk Music: Jerzy Rogiewicz Production: Studio Filmowe Kronika
Żalanasz – Pusty Brzeg
Festivals and awards: • Grand Prix, TRT Documentary Awards, Turkey (2018) • Best Film Award, Budapest International Documentary Festival, Hungary (2018) • Golden Frog for Best Documentary Film, Camerimage, Poland (2017) • Award for Best Short Documentary, IDFA, The Netherlands (2017) • Award of the Polish Filmmakers Association, Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2017)
Zhalanash is a port city over the Aral Sea, which used to be one of the four biggest lakes in the world. Along with the lake, drained due to various irrigation projects initiated by the former Soviet Union, disappeared the glory that once had the port of Zhalanash as a prosperous link of the Soviet economy. Nowadays, Zhalanash harbors the fates of people who invested their hopes and expectations into the place between the sea and the desert and now ponder over their solitude among the wrecks of ships and port cranes.
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USA/ 2017/ 7’
Canada/ 2017/ 6’’
A Night at the Garden
Bonfires
A Night at the Garden
Bonfires
In 1939, 20.000 Americans rallied in New York’s Madison Square Garden to celebrate the rise of Nazism – an event largely forgotten from American history. Using striking archival fragments recorded that night, the film shows how modern audiences were transported into this gathering and shines a light on the disturbing fallibility of seemingly decent people.
Huge bonfires are lit by Protestants in Northern Ireland on July 12 each year, as part of the celebrations of the 1690 Battle of the Boyne. They are made from wooden pallets, tires, and garbage. To the Protestants, they are symbols of identity affirmation; to the Catholics, they mean arrogance and humiliation.
Director:
Martin Bureau
Marshall Curry
Director:
Script: Marshall Curry Editing: Marshall Curry Sound: Marshall Curry Music: Baxter James
Script: Martin Bureau Photography: Martin Bureau, Émile Bureau Editing: Martin Bureau, Émile Bureau Sound: Martin Bureau, Émile Bureau Music: Érick d'Orion
Festivals and awards: • Sundance Film Festival, USA (2018)
Festivals and awards: • Hot Docs International Film Festival, Canada (2018)
Selected Filmography: • If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011) • Racing Dreams (2009) • Street Fight (2005)
Selected Filmography: • L’Enfer marche au gaz!/ Hell runs on Gasoline! (2015) • Ils n’ont demandé à personne (2014)
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Belarus, Germany/ 2017/ 26’
Belgium, Ukraine/ 2017/ 8’
Country of Women
Girls and Honey
Kraj Žančyn
Holky a Med
The Belarusian village Lubeiki is inhabited solely by women. They have outlived not only their husbands, but their children as well. Nevertheless, they have immense vitality and will to live. In the film, they sift through their memories and songs, sharing with us their secrets of overcoming the fears.
For two years, Anatoli and Svetlana have been living under bombardments in their village, Pesky, not far from Donetsk Airport. Aged 72, they spend a large part of their days in the cellar of their house. They are the only ones that stayed in Pesky, where once lived more than 3.000 people before the war broke out between the pro-Russian rebels and the Ukrainian army. They no longer have water, or gas or electricity. But they have passion - about their bees which are the only ones that can fly freely from one side to the other.
Director:
Aliaksei Paluyan Script: Aliaksei Paluyan Photography: Aliaksei Paluyan Editing: Aliaksei Paluyan Sound: Konrad Jende Production: Aliaksei Paluyan Festivals and awards: • Special Prize "For adherence to moral ideals in cinema art" • Minsk International Film Festival Listapad, Belarus (2017) • International Documentary Film Festival ZagrebDOX, Croatia (2018) Selected Filmography: • Sofia (2014)
Director:
Pieter-Jan De Pue Script: Pieter-Jan De Pue Photography: Pieter-Jan De Pue Editing: Grégoire Verbeke Sound: Charo Calvo Music: Roevens Yoerik Production: De Chinezen Festivals and awards: • Hot Docs International Documentary Festival, Canada (2017) • Vision du Réel International Film Festival, Switzerland (2017) • Jihlava International Film Festival, Czech Republic (2017) Selected Filmography: • The Land of the Enlightened (2015)
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France, Italy/ 2017/ 17’
Russia/ 2017/ 7’’
Happy Today
In Between Takes
Happy Today
Между Кадрами
Patricia lives in a small remote village in Northern Uganda. In the shadow of Mount Oret, which dominates the landscape of the village, Patricia is learning each day to accompany new mothers through the physical pain and the immense emotion of giving birth.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Give a man a video camera and you will have a film in twenty years.
Director:
Giulio Tonincelli Script: Giulio Tonincelli Photography: Giulio Tonincelli Editing: Alessandro Capuzzi, Emanuele Dainotti Sound: Giulio Tonincelli Music: Giulio Tonincelli Festivals and awards: • Palm Springs Short Film Fest, USA (2018) Selected Filmography: • Di Là (2015) • ABC del Sur (2015)
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Alexei Dmitriev Script: Alexei Dmitriev Photography: Vyacheslav Dmitriev Editing: Alexei Dmitriev Sound: Alexei Dmitriev Music: Alexei Dmitriev Festivals and awards: • London Short Film Festival, UK (2018) • Moscow International Film Festival, Russia (2017) • Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden (2017) • BFI London Film Festival, UK (2017) Selected Filmography: • The Sadness Will Not Last Forever (2016) • The Shadow of Your Smile (2014) • Hermeneutics (2012)
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Canada, Haiti/ 2017/ 12’’
France, Italy/ 2017/ 16’
In the Heart of Viviane Gauthier
Mon Amour, Mon Ami
Dans la Cœur de Vivianne Gauthier
Director:
Daniela and Fouad had a tough life and a severe dependence from alcohol. They met by chance and started to take care of each other, growing a profound and healing bond. Fouad moved to Daniela’s place and they have shared the same roof for two years. Fouad needs a residency permit and in order to get access to the health assistance he needs, he proposes to Daniela. She seems fine with the idea but just a few days before the wedding, the ambiguity of Fouad’s feelings starts worrying her.
Marie-Claude Fournier
Director:
« No regrets », says Viviane Gauthier - a strong, energetic and unique woman, real goddess of the Haitian dance. The film is a portrait of this lovely choreographer, painted at her iconic Villa in Port-au-Prince where she lived almost all her life.
Script: Andrew Bigosinski Photography: Marco Saint-Juste Editing: Véronique Barbe Sound: Marc Tawil Production: Artists Institute Festivals and awards: • International Tanzfilm Berlin, Germany (2017) • Bucharest International Dance Film Festival, Romania (2017) • Women Media Art Film Festival, Australia (2017) • Festival de cinéma de la Ville de Québec, Canada (2017) Selected Filmography: • Femme centaure (2014) • Le Hold up de ma liberté (2014) • La Portera (2011)
Mon Amour, Mon Ami
Adriano Valério Script: Adriano Valério Photography: Diego Romero Suarez-Llanos Editing: Alice Roffinengo Sound: Enrico Ascoli Music: Ascoli Enrico Production: Dugong Films, Films Grand Huit Festivals and awards: • Bridging the Borders Award, Palm Spring s International ShortFest, USA (2018) • Filmfest Dresden, Germany (2018) • Nomination for Orizzonti Award for Best Short Film, Venice Film Festival, Italy (2017) • Toronto International Film Festival, Canada (2017) • Zagreb Film Festival, Croatia (2017) • Annecy International Animated Film Festival, France (2017)
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Germany/ 2017/ 27’
Syria, Germany/ 2018/ 22’
Oh Brother Octopus
People of the Wasteland
Oh Brother Octopus The sea nomads of Indonesia believe that every newborn child has a twin brother in the form of an octopus. Various rituals are carried out in order to live in peace with the twin and prevent misfortune. According to myth, if something terrible does happen, it is said to be the octopus taking apocalyptic revenge. The apocalypse comes in the form of a new artificial world about to be constructed on the water. Would they be able to adapt to it? Director:
Florian Kunert
Heba Khaled
Festivals and awards: • Special Mention, Doker Moscow International Documentary Film Festival, Russia (2018) • Best international Short, Ânûû-rû Âboro Film Festival, France (2017) • Short Film Prize in Gold, German Short Film Price, Germany (2017) • Nomination for Golden Bear, Short Film Competition, Berlin International Film Festival, Germany (2017) Selected Filmography: • Die Mehrzahl einer Person/ The Plural of One Person (2013)
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Using footage filmed and gathered during more than two years through a GoPro camera placed on the heads of different Syrian fighters in the enemy region, the film presents the violence, the horrors and the absurdity of war in a first-perspective point-of-view. In the chaos of war, the lines between good and evil become blurred and the location is intentionally left unclear to remind us that war affects us all, not only Syrians. Director:
Script: Florian Kunert Photography: Florian Kunert Editing: Florian Kunert, Ian Purnell Sound: Stefan Voglsinger Music: Galler Stefan Production: Florian Kunert Co-production: Highway Spirit
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Script: Heba Khaled Photography: Ahmad Nasser Editing: Alex Bakri Sound: Ansgar Frerich Music: Mohammad Bazz Production: Jouzour Film Production, Cinema Group Production Festivals and awards: • Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Greece (2018)
Portugal, Brazil/ 2018/ 20’’
USA/ 2017/ 11’
Russa
The Kodachrome Elegies
Russa
The Kodachrome Elegies
Russa returns to Porto, visiting her sister and friends with whom she celebrates her son’s birthday. In this brief reunion, Russa returns to the collective memory of her neighborhood where three of the five towers still remain standing.
Kodachrome was a film stock noted for its rich tones and vibrant colors. "The Kodachrome Elegies" is a short experimental documentary that evokes the bygone era of Kodachrome’s pinnacle.
Directors:
Jay Rosenblatt
João Salaviza, Ricardo Alves Jr. Script: Salette Ramalho, Ricardo Alves Jr.,Renée Nader Messora, Germano Melo Photography: Renée Nader Messora Editing: João Salaviza, Ricardo Alves Jr. Sound: Léo Bortolin Production: Karõ Filmes Co-production: Entrefilmes, Material Bruto Festivals and awards: • Berlin International Film Festival, Germany (2018) Selected Filmography: João Salaviza • Altas Cidades de Ossadas/ High Cities of Bone (2017) • Strokkur (2011)
Director:
Script: Jay Rosenblatt Photography: Jerome Rosenblatt Editing: Jay Rosenblatt Sound: Jay Rosenblatt Music: Ludwig van Beethoven Production: Jay Rosenblatt Films Festivals and awards: • Visions du Réel, Switzerland (2017) Selected Filmography: • When You Awake (2016) • A Long Way from Home (2015) • The Claustrum (2014) • Inquire Within (2012) • The D Train (2011) • The Darkness of Day (2009) • Beginning Filmmaking (2008) • Four Questions for a Rabbi (2008) • Phantom Limb (2005) • I Used to be a Filmmaker (2003)
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USA/ 2017/ 12’
Switzerland, Cuba, Spain/ 2017/ 3’’
Rabbit Hunt
Wifi Plaza Cuba
Rabbit Hunt
Wifi Plaza Cuba
Rabbit hunting has long been a rite of passage for young men growing up in the rural farming communities of central Florida. As much for sport and bragging, the rabbit hunt allows boys to learn to catch, process, market and sell the day's catch. We enter the rabbit hunt on Sunday morning with 17-year-old Chris who along with his mother, three brothers and two sisters all work to put food on the table.
The Cuban soprano singer Maria Dolores Garcia no longer has an audience. These days, the residents of her town San Antonio de los Banos prefer to spend their evenings in the central plaza, where they have access to Wi-Fi. Since the audience won’t come to the theatre, Maria Dolores Garcia decides to go to the Wi-Fi plaza and sing a song for the people gathered there.
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Director:
Patrick Bresnan
Adrian Kelterborn
Script: Ivete Lucas Photography: Patrick Bresnan Editing: Ivete Lucas Sound: Eric Friend Production: Patrick Bresnan, Ivete Lucas Co-production: Genuine Article Pictures
Script: Adrian Kelterborn Photography: Melanie Charbonneau Editing: Adrian Kelterborn Sound: Koch Tobias Music: Koch Tobias Production: Prismago GmbH
Festivals and awards: • Grand Jury Prize, Shorts Competition, SXSW Film Festival, USA (2017) • Short Doc Award, Sheffield Doc/Fest, England (2017) • Best Documentary Short, Chicago International Film Festival, USA (2017) • Short Film Award, BFI London Film Festival, UK (2017) • Best Documentary Short, San Francisco Film Festival, USA (2017) • Short Film Awards, Vienna Shorts Festival, Austria (2017) • Best Documentary Short, Melbourne Film Festival, Australia (2017) • Environmental Rights Center Belona Award , Message to Men International Film Festival, Russia (2017) • Sundance Film Festival, USA (2017) • Berlin International Film Festival, Germany (2017)
Festivals and awards: • Documentary Short Jury Award, Viewpoint Documentary Film Festival, Belgium (2018) • Moscow Documentary Fest Doker, Russia (2018) • Landshut Short Film Festival, Germany (2018) • Doc'n Roll Film Festival London, UK (2018)
Selected Filmography: • Roadside Attraction (2017) • The Send-Off (2016) • The Curse and the Jubilee (2011)
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USA/ 2017/ 15’
Spain, Cuba/ 2018/ 11’
After/Life
Bat
After/Life
Murciélago
There is a fictional two-thousand mile line that divides the idea of the US from the memory of Mexico. It is right there, in the Arizona desert by the Mexican border where the US simulates war and practices bombing fake Middle Eastern villages. Border Patrol checkpoints push migrants walking across the border directly into these military areas and other dangerous regions. Meanwhile, a group of volunteers from San Diego comb the vast desert monthly, seeking lost and missing family members, friends, and strangers.
Inside a black hole, rapid movements fill the void. Macroscopic corporal landscapes follow one after the other to percussion in crescendo. White skin pulsates serenely and black skin wiggles, showing a face, a shining eyelid and then an eye. The film is a a sensory essay through body and sound; a composition made from the trance and the vibration of macroscopic figures seen at a millimeric distance from the skin of eight people in Cuba.
This isn’t a film about personalities or individual outcomes, but rather fragments from a collective nightmare of permanent war and racism.
Claudia Claremi
Director:
Puck Lo Script: Puck Lo Photography: Puck Lo Editing: Puck Lo Sound: Lyntoria Newton Music: Stefan Christoff Production: Puck Lo Productions
Selected Filmography: • (Almost) Freedom (2016)
S T U D E N T
Script: Claudia Claremi Photography: Flávio Rebouças Editing: Juan Quirós Sound: Vitor Coroa Music: Vitor Coroa Production: Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión de San Antonio de Los Baños EICTV Festivals and awards: • DocumentaMadrid, Spain (2018)
Festivals and awards: • Special Mention, Palm Springs International Shortfest (2018) • Berlin International Film Festival, Germany (2018)
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D O X
Selected Filmography: • Centella/ Firefly (2018) • El Monte/ The Woodland (2017) • Patio de butacas/ Audience (2016)
Poland/ 2017/ 62’
United Kingdom/ 2018/ 14’
Call Me Tony
Fake News Fairytale
Call Me Tony Konrad is an 18-year-old bodybuilder who fights desperately for his absent father's attention. Konrad lives in a small mining town in southern Poland. In his attempts to get noticed he looks up to his favorite action movie heroes, spends hours on the gym and signs up for a body building competition. An inner conflict between who he is and who he thinks he should be to get people's acceptance soon leads to a depression. His life changes after he revisits his childhood passion for acting. Will he find his own way? This is a coming-ofage story about the time when the whole world expects us to have answers but all we have is questions. Director:
Klaudiusz Chrostowski Script: Klaudiusz Chrostowski Photography: Michał Łuka Editing: Sebastian Mialik Sound: Olga Pasternak Music: Frycz Wojciech, Matuesz Hulbój Production: Michał Łuka, Klaudiusz Chrostowski Co-production: Look At Films Festivals and awards: • Special Mention, Zagreb Dox, Croatia (2018) • ARRI IDFA Award for Best Student Documentary, The Netherlands (2017) • DOK Leipzig, Germany (2017) • Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival, Israel (2018) • Moscow International Documentary Film Festival DOKer, Russia (2018)
Fake News Fairytale This fairytale takes us to the unlikely epicenter of fake news: Veles, Macedonia. In Veles, since the run-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, teenagers have been creating fake news stories that generate thousands of hits on social media. These young entrepreneurs have made money off of advertising revenue generated from their fake stories going viral, introducing a ‘digital gold rush’ to Veles. The film absorbs us in the ever-evolving world of fake news, where fake stories have real impact, and the truth is constantly shifting. In doing so, the film explores the idea of what makes stories believable. Director:
Kate Stonehill Script: Kate Stonehill, Hristijan Mitrov Photography: Kate Stonehill, Ronnie McQuillan Editing: Conor Meechan Sound: Alex Collin, Odinn Ingibergsson Music: Scopinaro Pablo Production: Kate Stonehill, Samir Ljuma, Jimmy Campbell Smith Festivals and awards: • Sheffield Doc/Fest, USA (2018) Selected Filmography: • Unspeakable (2017)
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Russia, Guatemala/ 2017/ 31’
Portugal/ 2018/ 22’
Film for Carlos
Histories of Wolves
Kino Dlya Karlosa
Histórias de Lobos
My son Carlos has been just born. He is the sweetest of the babies, but his grandmother is very sorry that he was born dark skin. Carlos’s grandfather wants to drink to the health of his grandson and celebrate this event, but his grandmother does not allow him to drink. Grandfather wants Carlos to know that he was born in the Great Russian Empire. This is Carlos's first new year, and I made a movie so that he would remember it, so that he would talk about hilarious and painful things happening in my new family.
Before TV, stories of blood-sucking werewolves ran rampant in one rocky Portuguese village. At nightfall, shepherds gathered to tell tales about men and wolves. These days, only a handful of them remembers or practices the oral tradition. Along with it are gone the forgotten ancient instincts to remain alert and fearful.
Director:
Script: Agnes Meng Photography: Agnes Meng Editing: Agnes Meng Sound: Mário Gajo de Carvalho Production: Mário Gajo de Carvalho, Agnes Meng
Renato Borrayo Serrano Script: Renato Borrayo Serrano Photography: Renato Borrayo Serrano Editing: Renato Borrayo Serrano Sound: Renato Borrayo Serrano Production: Marina Razbezhkina, Renato Borrayo Serrano Festivals and awards: • Best Short Film Award, Docudays International Human Rights Film Festival, Ukraine (2018) • Honorary Mention, DOK Leipzig, Germany (2017) • Special Mention, Open International Documentary Film Festival Artdocfest, Russia (2017) • Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2018) Selected Filmography: • Another Country (2014)
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Director:
Agnes Meng
Festivals and awards: • IndieLisboa International Film Festival, Portugal (2018) • Hot Docs, Canada (2018)
Poland/ 2017/ 16’’
Germany/ 2017/ 45’
How to Become a Pope?
I Don’t Care Doesn’t Count
Jak Zostać Papieżem? A warm-hearted comedy about a ten-year-old boy who wants to become a Pope. Once he finds out about an audition for a part of John Paul II in a musical, he approaches this task as if it was a holy mission, but his parents do not treat him seriously. What is he going to learn? Director:
Justyna Mytnik Script: Justyna Mytnik, Milosz Kasiura Photography: Milosz Kasiura Editing: Dorota Ros Sound: Ewa Bogusz Production: Polish National Film School in Łódź Festivals and awards: • Best Short Documentary, Warsaw Film Festival, Poland (2017) • PÖFF Shorts Short Film and Animation Festival, Estonia (2017) • ZagrebDOX, Croatia (2018) • Brooklyn Film Festival, USA (2018) • In The Palace International Short Film Festival, Bulgaria (2018)
Egal Gibt es Nicht A crash course in politics: Paulina is the spokeswoman of an initiative, committed to preventing hard-right populists getting elected into the German House of Parliament. But she has her own internal struggles. Although fired by commitment and a sense of mission, she is lost in a political maze, trying to juggle the very different demands of message and marketing, of dialogue and didactics and her private and public lives. Director:
Florian Hoffmann Script: Florian Hoffmann Photography: Carmen Treichl Editing: Wiebke Hofmann Sound: Florian Hoffmann Production: Tara Biere Media Production Selected Filmography: • Arlette. Courage is a muscle (2015) • The Dictators´ Hotel (2015)
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Switzerland, Hungary/ 2017/ 9’
Belgium, Poland/ 2018/ 14’
Sun Cream
The Song of Trees
Sun Cream
Le Chant des Arbres
A blanket transforms into a castle, a swamp becomes quick sand: the world is a playground for 5 and 6-year-olds Morné and Carey. It is a dual travel: a trip to the forest for these children and a time travel for the viewers, who are transported back to their own childhood.
This is the story of a land where the sun never shines. Olga, a young singer, escapes the fog of the city to rediscover the sunshine and her faith – otherwise she will not be able to keep on singing. Where is the line between the dream and the reality?
Director:
Director:
Aylin Gökmen
Sophie Halpérin
Script: Aylin Gökmen Photography: Aylin Gökmen Editing: Aylin Gökmen Sound: Quan Nguyen Production: Mobile Film School “Docnomads”
Script: Sophie Halpérin Photography: Kasper Lorek Editing: Alice Godart Sound: Barbara Juniot Music: Kozieł Olga Production: INSAS - Higher National Institute of Performing Arts, Lodz Film School
Festivals and awards: • DOKer Moscow International Documentary Film Festival, Russia (2018) • DocFeed Documentary Festival, The Netherlands (2018) • Minsk International Film Festival 'Listapad', Belarus (2017)
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Festivals and awards: • Asolo Art Film Festival, Italy (2018) • FIDÉ / Festival international du documentaire émergent, France (2018)
Germany/ 2017/ 30’
Croatia/ 2017/ 12’
Turtle Shells
White Trash
Schildkröten Panzer
White Trash
European animal protection laws, German Armed Forces and a seized turtle, whose shell was painted with the flag of the Syrian rebels – they all converge at a reptile rescue centre in Munich. A multi perspective film in the midst of glass terrariums exploring the connections between animal, man and war.
It’s a foggy winter morning on the junkyard Jakuševec where hundreds of gulls are feeding on human trash. The whiteness of their flying bodies is the complete opposite to the garbage beneath them. The biologists are using the opportunity of their massive meeting to test them for diseases transmitable to humans.
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Director:
Tuna Kaptan
Sunčica Ana Veldić
Script: Tuna Kaptan Photography: Rebecca Meining Editing: Sophie Oldenbourg Sound: Viktor Aleksandrovich Music: Koziol Aleksandra, Yulin Masha Production: Donaukapitän
Script: Sunčica Ana Veldić Photography: Ante Cvitanović Editing: Jan Klemsche, Sunčica Ana Veldić, Marta Broz Sound: Martin Semenčić, Lana Horvatić Music: Zdravko Medvešek Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti (ADU)
Festivals and awards: • Healthy Workplaces Film Award, DOK Leipzig, Germany (2017) • Short Film Week Regensburg, Germany (2018) • Istanbul Film Festival, Turkey (2018)
Festivals and awards: • Tampere International Short Film Festival, Finland (2018) • FeKK Ljubljana Short Film Festival, Slovenia (2017)
Selected Filmography: • Subsuelo (2017)
Selected Filmography: • Festival Tourism (2016)
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Poland/ 2017/ 15’
One Two Zero Raz Dva Zero Justyna is a 9-year old girl who is training professionally rhythmic gymnastics. Her life is filled with trainings and competitions, where she often has to exceed her own limits and weaknesses. Every day she needs to be stronger and more determined if she wants to beat her colleagues in all competition races. Despite all the enormous efforts, she not always manages to stand on the podium. When she loses her hopes for wining, she decides to start training by herself. Director:
Anna Pawluczuk Script: Anna Pawluczuk Photography: Piotr Źurawski Editing: Alan Zejer Music: Rafał Nowak Production: Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna w Łodzi Festivals and awards: • Miradas Doc International Documentary Film Festival, Spain (2018) • Valencia International Film Festival Cinema Jove, Spain (2018) • Minsk International Film Festival "Listapad", Belarus (2017) • Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2017) Filmography: • Bojownik/ Fighting Fish (2015)
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D O X
KIDS AND YOUTH PROGRAM
Macedonia/ 2018/ 14’
Poland/ 2016/ 8’
Adolescensorship
Ally the Cat
Adolescenzura
Ala Ma Koty
Three girlfriends talk their problems out over coffee. And look for a way to stop censorship.
Six-year-old Ally lives in a colorful house in the suburbs - with her parents and two peculiar cats. The black one is called Id and the white one Ego. Nobody knows that when Ally is alone, her cats start speaking. Plus, she also grows cat ears and a cat tail. Id and Ego both have tough characters and are not scared to express their opinion no matter how special some occasions are.
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Lea Dimitrova Script: Lea Dimitrova Photography: Gorjan Atanasov, Stefan Bzonovski Editing: Gorjan Atanasov, Lea Dimitrova, Sevdalina Damevska Music: Palindrom Palindrom Sound: David Damjanovski, Gorjan Atanasov Production: MakeDox Film School
Director:
Jacek Rokosz Script: Bartosz Wierzbięta Sound: Michał Fojcik Production: Letko Co-production: Animoon Festivals and awards: • Ale Kino! International Young Audience Film Festival, Poland (2017) • T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland (2017) • Cartoon Forum, France (2016)
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Poland/ 2016/ 13’
USA/ 2018/ 14’
Apolejka and Her Donkey
Baby Brother
Apolejka i Jej Osiołek
A story about a young man experiencing a summer impasse after moving back in with his parents.
Princess Apolejka lives in a high tower. Since one hundred seventy six twisting stairs lead to her chamber, Apolejka really does not like going down to her garden. However, one day she hears a song about her and sees a Prince but when she runs down the stairs, instead of the Prince, she finds a donkey standing next to the well. Director:
Joanna Jasińska Koronkiewicz Script: Joanna Jasińska Koronkiewicz Photography: Joanna Jasińska Koronkiewicz Editing: Anna Gałązkowska Sound: Jan Jakub Milencki Music: Makulski Michał Production: TV Studio of Animation Films in Poznań
Baby Brother
Director:
Kamau Bilal Script: Kamau Bilal Photography: Kamau Bilal Editing: Kamau Bilal Sound: Kamau Bilal Festivals and awards: • True/False Film Fest, USA (2018) Selected Filmography: • Crown Candy (2016)
Festivals and awards: • Children Audience Award ‘Golden Centipede’, Kinojazda Film Festival for Children and Teenagers Poland (2016) • St. Vojtech Award for the Best Film of the Visegrad countries, Biennial of Animation Bratislava, Slovakia (2016) Selected Filmography: • It’s Quite True! (2016) • The Flax (2005)
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Netherlands, Belgium/ 2018/ 73’
Macedonia/ 2018/ 24’
Ceres
Different
Ceres
Poinakvi
Piglets are born, and calves, lambs and chicks too. Crops are sown, planted and harvested. Animals are slaughtered. The camera stays close to the action, following four kids growing up on farms that have been passed down from generation to generation. From a young age they pitch in, learning to bear responsibility and say goodbye. Will they take over their parents’ farms one day? The film shows us young people, their intimate bond with nature, their perceptions and wishes – during all four seasons.
Yordan takes us into the world of autistic children who also know how to enjoy life despite the strange looks and narrow views of their fellow citizens.
Director:
Janet van den Brand Script: Janet van den Brand Photography: Timothy Wennekes Editing: Sam Sermon Music: Roeland Harrold Sound: Tim Taeymans Production: Diplodokus Festivals and awards: • Special Mention, FICMEC - Festival Internacional de Cine Medioambiental de Canarias, Spain (2018) • Hot Docs, Canada (2018) • Visions du Reel, Switzerland (2018) • IFFF Docville, Belgium (2018) • Berlin International Film Festival, Germany (2018)
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Roze Simonovska Script: Roze Simonovska Photography: Roze Simonovska Editing: Petar Krstevski Music: Roze Simonovska Sound: David Stojanovski Production: MakeDox Film School
Brazil/2017/ 16’
France/ 2018/ 67’
Mini Miss
Out
Mini Miss
Out
Filmed entirely from the perspective of a 4-year-old, the film provides insight into early childhood experiences and children’s innate capacity for resistance in a world dominated by adult norms & desires. As they walk down the runway, the 4-to-5-year-old contestants of Mini Miss Baby Brazil beauty pageant don’t really understand why they needed to have their hair styled or their faces made up, or how come they got to ride in a limousine. “I’m nothing like a Barbie”, one of the girls says. “Barbies are quiet, and I’m not”.
Through a montage of compelling and breathtaking videos posted on the Internet by young gays, bi, lesbians or transsexuals, the film makes us experience from within the groundbreaking moment of their coming out – after which their intimate and social life shall be forever changed.
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Editing: Denis Parrot Sound: Olivier Laurent Production: Upside Films Co-production: Dryades Films
Rachel Daisy Ellis Script: Rachel Daisy Ellis Снимател/ Photography : Pedro Urano Editing: Rachel Daisy Ellis, Pedro Melo, Eva Randolph Music: Maurício d'Orey Sound: Victoria Franzan Production: Desvia
Director:
Denis Parrot
Festivals and awards: • Sheffield Doc/Fest, England (2018) • Biografilm - Contemporary Lives, Italy (2018) • Atlàntida Film Fest, Spain (2018)
Festivals and awards: • Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival, Israel (2018) • It's All True International Documentary Film Festival, Brazil (2018) • Sheffield Doc/Fest, UK (2018)
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Poland/ 2017/ 7’
Poland/ 2016/ 11’
Pompik - Black Flies
Tales of Tappi the Viking - the Mess with the Winter Stores
Żubr Pompik – Meszki Somewhere in the depths of a vast, wild and green forest lives Pompik the bison. Actually one should call him a little bison, because Pompik is much smaller than any other bison. Not to mention that he is weaker, slower and not as agile as all the others. He is not the perfect match for traditional bison games. But he does not care because his curiosity keeps him - and his parents! - busy. Director:
Wiesław Zięba Script: Tomasz Samojlik, Ewelina Gordziejuk Animation: Agnieszka Czachór, Krystyna Pisarska, Marcin Czerniawski, Paweł Garbacz, Zuzanna Trącewicz Editing: Mateusz Michalak, Piotr Furmankiewicz Sound: Rafał Rozmus Music: Rozmus Rafał Production: EGoFILM
Wiking Tappi - Zamieszanie z Zimowymi Zapasami In the magical Whispering Forest lives Viking Tappi. He is not a true Viking because his greatest weapon is not the sword but rather his smile, kindness and ingenuity. Tappi is in fact a defender of the Whispering Forest and all its inhabitants and is ready to help anyone who is in trouble. Director:
Andrzej Piotr Morawski Script: Marcin Mortka Animation: Grażyna Firlag, Krystyna Pisarska, Paweł Garbacz Editing: Adam Dominiewski Sound: Rafał Rozmus Music: Rafał Rozmus Production: EGoFILM
Festivals and awards: • Tarnów Film Award, Poland (2017) Selected Filmography: • David och de magiska pärlorna/ David and the Magic Pearl (1988)
Festivals and awards: • New Horizons Film Festival, Poland (2017) • Tarnów Film Award, Poland (2017) Selected Filmography: • Obietnica dziecinstwa/ The Promise of a Happy Childhood (2014) • Secret Tapes (2002) • Tata, I Love You/ Daddy, I Love You (1999)
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Macedonia/ 2018/25’
Poland/ 2016/ 6’
The look in the eyes
Hug Me. New Neighbour
Pogled vo ochite
Przytul Mnie. Nowy Są Siad
This is a film about life before and after experiencing sexual violence. One of the protagonists is anonymous and the other one is the filmmaker herself, both teenagers. What does it mean to experience and survive an act of sexual violence? How does one cope with the consequences, especially at a young age?
Father and Teddy live in a forest. The father is charismatic and a bit clumsy, Teddy is unstoppable and caring. One day, a new and very noisy resident comes to the forest. His loud behavior makes life difficult for the bears. Will they solve this problem civilly?
Director:
Mateusz Jarmulski
Joana Arsovska Script: Joana Arsovska Photography: Matea Kozovski, Stefan Bozhinovski Editing: Bisera Atanasova Music: Bisera Atanasova Sound: David Stojanovski Production: MakeDox Film School
Director:
Script: Bartosz Wierzbieta Animation: Pigeon Studio Illustration: Pigeon Studio Music: Targosz Lukasz, Tarkowski Jacek Production: Studio Spot Festivals and awards: • Zlín Film Festival, The Czech Republic (2018) • Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2017) • Annecy International Film Festival, France (2017) Selected Filmography: • Przytul mnie. Ten wyjątkowy dzień/ Hug me. That Special Day (2017) • Przytul mnie. Operacja weekend/ Hug me. Operation Weekend (2016)
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Poland/ 2016/ 6’’
Poland/ 2016/ 6’
Hug Me. Operation Weekend
Hug Me. That special Day
Przytul Mnie. Operacja Weekend
Przytul Mnie. Ten Wyjątkowy Dzień
Teddy and Daddy set on a secret mission. Hidden in the bushes they get ready to enter the house of humans and start a top-secret operation „Weekend'. Inside the house, they find a couple of very mysterious objects which purpose they will have to discover for themselves. By the end of the day, the mission is completed but the house collapses. What will they do?
Teddy is excited about his birthday from the early morning. He’s been waiting the whole year for it! But Daddy has some other activities in store for today. He takes his son to the apiary to teach him how the bears get their honey. Teddy feels upset that Daddy seems to have forgotten about his birthday. But not everything is as it seems.
Director:
Director:
Mateusz Jarmulski
Mateusz Jarmulski
Script: Bartosz Wierzbieta Animation: Pigeon Studio Illustration: Pigeon Studio Music: Targosz Lukasz, Tarkowski Jacek Production: Studio Spot
Script: Bartosz Wierzbieta Animation: Pigeon Studio Illustration: Pigeon Studio Music: Targosz Lukasz, Tarkowski Jacek Production: Studio Spot
Festivals and awards: • Zlín Film Festival, The Czech Republic (2018) • Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2017) • Annecy International Film Festival, France (2017)
Festivals and awards: • Zlín Film Festival, The Czech Republic (2018) • Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2017) • Annecy International Film Festival, France (2017)
Selected Filmography: • Przytul mnie. Ten wyjątkowy dzień/ Hug me. That Special Day (2017) • Hug me. New neighbour (2016)
Selected Filmography: • Hug me. Operation Weekend (2016) • Hug me. New neighbour (2016)
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МАКЕDOX
WORKSHOP
Reality is Directing, We Make Films — Workshop with Pirjo Honkasalo
During her 3-day long workshop (17-19 August), organized in cooperation with Creative Europe MEDIA Desk Macedonia, Pirjo Honkasalo takes us into the world of directing reality on the film screen. On this journey, the participants will have the opportunity to not only discuss but also witness the art of using documentary language in her films “The 3 Rooms of Melancholia”, “ITO” and “Concrete Night”. The discussions afterwards will try to answer how to choose the subject and the protagonists and when the ethical responsibility towards them ends.
Biography Pirjo Honkasalo is a highly established and multi-awarded director and screenwriter of documentary films as well as Finland’s first female cinematographer to shoot a feature fiction. Hers are the prize-winning “The Trilogy of the Sacred and the Satanic (Mysterion, Tanjuska and the 7 Devils and Atman)” and the stunningly beautiful “The 3 Rooms of Melancholia”. Member of the American Film Academy, she has had well over thirty retrospectives of her work worldwide.
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17 — 19.08.2018 Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje Moderator: Petra Selishkar Language: English Free Entrance
WORKSHOP
Directing Reality — Workshop with Wojciech Staroń
20 — 22.08.2018 Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje Moderator: Petra Selishkar Language: English Free Entrance
During Wojciech Staroń’s Masterclass, which lasts for 3 days (20-22 August), the participants will learn how to converse with the audience using moving pictures and simplicity. The art of capturing relations and emotions will only be the beginning of it. Since he believes that the screen reflects not only the actors’ emotions but also those of the cinematographer, Wojciech will talk about photography in the documentary, which is only one of the ingredients needed for a true story. Excerpts of his films “Siberian Lesson”, “Argentinean Lesson”, “Brothers” and “Don Juan” will bring closer the Polish art of directing the reality as it is. This workshop is made possible through the support of the Krakow Film Foundation.
Biography Wojciech Staroń is a Polish cinematographer and documentary director who graduated from the prestigious Łódź Film School’s Faculty of Cinematography. His “Argentinean Lesson” is among Poland’s most awarded documentaries in recent decades. Member of the European Film Academy and the Polish Society of Cinematographers, he received the Silver Bear at the 2012 Berlinale for Best Artistic Achievements in the cinematography category and the Bronze Camera at the 2013 Manaki Brothers Film Festival for the film “Papusza”.
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РАБОТИЛНИЦИ
Wet-Plate Collodion Workshop
This year we are reviving, out of sheer delight and fascination, the early photo-techniques. The “wet-plate” is a photographic process that dates back from the 19th century. Many steps must be done within a very short period to obtain a wet-plate photograph. Firstly, the aluminum plate is coated with collodion emulsion and then sensitized in silver nitrate. The plate is then put back into the camera's film, in a dark box with minimal red or amber light. The photograph must be taken within a minute or so, while the plate is still wet. The plate is then taken back to the dark box and developed. The image always appears inversely with beautiful imperfections, as if it were created long time ago and not today. This 4-day long workshop will be held on August 18-21 at the charming Kurshumli An by Sasho N. Alushevski, photographer and Predrag Uzelac, independent photographer and assistant at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Serbia. This exhibition is under patronage of the Photo Association of Macedonia. PAM: 2018/20
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18 — 21.08.2018 Kurshumli An Lectors: Sasho N. Alushevski and Predrag Uzelac Free Entrance
Doc Talks under the Fig Tree
Schedule: 18.08. (Saturday) Marta Prus, Boris Mitić Biljana Todorov, Aliaksei Paluyan 19.08. (Sunday) Simon Lereng Wilmont, Chase Whiteside, Erick Stoll, Hanka Kastelicova, Jack Blout 20.08. (Monday)
When forces of nature spoil what the soul holds dear, then we move the chairs and the big pillows a bit further, looking for a shade. Thought we know that the new one will probably be unnatural and scentless, we do it still simply because we cannot not doc-talk. We feel as if we are under our one and only fig tree every time the thoughts on documentary ventures flow freely, with no reserve. Standing where we left it last year, eternally thirsty for water, our precious fig tree becomes the symbol of our thirst for storytelling and sharing, for learning from one another, for cherishing other peoples’ art and aesthetics and for looking through other people’s eyes to see layers of reality that make us shiver, layers that we didn’t know existed. See you there at 6 pm!
Mila Turajlić , Martichka Bozhilova , Mariam Chachia, Juliana Antunes, Xavier Marrades 21.08. (Tuesday) Anastazja Dobrowska, Giulio Tonincelli, Krzysztof Nowicki, Ana Pawluczuk, Matjaž Ivanišin 22.08. (Wednesday) Talal Derki, Hebha Khaleb, Damian Nenadich, Rok Bichek, Viktor Jakovleski, Arvani Rai 23.08. (Thursday) Meet the Poles!
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PHOTO EXHIBITION
The Faces of MakeDox
Number 9 is all about the Sagittarius and the self-awareness, which is why we have decided, after a long process of self-reflection, to show ourselves - sincerely, openly, simply and pretty deeply with the help of and in honor of the nine muses. This year we are presenting the faces of the people behind MakeDox using the wet-collodion process – an early photography technique brought back to life by our photographer Sasho N. Alushevski. The audience will have the opportunity to see them during the festival while those with curious eyes would be able to see how the wet plate photography comes to life and even have their faces photographed during the Wet-platce Collodion Workshop at MakeDox – ultimately becoming part of an exhibition in the making.
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MakeDox at MCA
Makedox Warm-Up with “The Polish Picnic”
Panel Discussions
For the 9th time we perform a Copernicus-like overturn, creating a new concept for a better, onion-centric universe, as responsive as Lem’s “Solaris” and as significant as the radio signals of Marie Sklodowska. This year, Poland is in our heart and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje another favorite meeting point, so we decided to open the ninth season right there, with an art-picnic and some Polish music. The MCA’s cinema hall will screen a selection of 10 documentary shorts that have been awarded between 1961 and 2000 at the Krakow Film Festival.
Panel discussion: “Revolutions are fine, it is what you do the day after that really matters” | 14:00 - 16:00
The Polish Picnic is organized in collaboration with the Krakow Film Foundation, the Embassy of Poland in Macedonia and the Film and Video Program of the Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje.
Workshops for Filmmakers We envisaged these as a reflection on the professional experiences, ideas and visions of well-established filmmakers, as a rare opportunity to have inspiring and open-minded conversations about the documentary language as a means of expression and to exchange opinions on complex issue of directing reality.
20 August (Monday)
23 August (Thursday) Panel discussion “The role of the film in the process of deinstitutionalization” | 14:00 - 16:00 Vito Flaker, social work professor from Slovenia, tackles this important issue together with representatives of NGOs working towards deinstitutionalization of culture in Macedonia, directors Damian Nenadić (“Days of Madness”), Anna Zamecka ( “Communion”) and the authors of docu-shorts of our first Documentary Film School “DocuSprouts”.
Youth Program 20 August (Monday) 18:00 - Screening of "The Ancient Woods" (86')
21 August (Tuesday)
17-19 August
18:00 - Premiere of "Adolescensorship" (MakeDox Documentary Film School "DocuSprouts" (15')
Reality is Directing, We Make Films, Workshop with Pirjo Honkasalo | Museum’s cinema hall and balcony | 10:00 - 13:30
18:30 - Screening of "Out" (63')
20-22 August Directing Reality, Workshop with Wojciech Staroń | Museum’s cinema hall and balcony | 10:00 - 13:30
22 August (Wednesday) 18:00 - Screening of “Baby Brother” (14’) 18:15 - Screening of “Ceres” (73’)
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Skopje - Warsaw… with Love via Maluch
Glossary of the happening
Action:
1.Kurshumli an, one of the oldest preserved inns in Europe, which also served as a prison and a museum. Today, it is the main venue and the nest of the MakeDox festival.
Тhe “Peglica” is one of MakeDox 2018 trademarks. It will be given a place of honor at Kurshumli An, ready to transport the pictographs - the friendly messages from Skopje to Warsaw. Tzar and MakeDox DocuSprouts have created pictographs on a self-adhesive red and white foil and have glued them on the “Peglica” bodywork. Loaded with onions, MakeDox’s trademark, the car will be ready to carry the visual and olfactory messages on the traveling cinema all the way ţo Warsaw.
2. Maluch, a small car but a great traveler. A Polish icon! The Balkans has nicknamed it and recognizes it as “Pegla” (eng. clothes iron) or “Peglica” (eng. clothes iron, diminutive). By this car, the friendly Poles came from the north, driving around to the farthest southern point in Europe, bringing love and friendship. The “Peglica” is a real attention catcher that puts a smile on any face! 3. Pictograph is the first pictorial representation of words that transmits a complete message through a drawing and the only mean of communication that overcomes all the language barriers.
Epilogue: Once the mission is finally completed, the “Peglica” will be given as a present to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje, which was built according to the plans of Polish architects and remains until today the most eminent symbol of the friendship between Poland and Macedonia. Vladan Carichick - Tzar
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Music at MakeDox
Ninth year in a row, open air dancing is still in vogue! Kurshumli An is the best dance floor, the sky above the best view, and the energies among the people dancing warm, goodhearted, set free. If only these docu-nights could last a bit longer… For this year, we have prepared a series of ethno jazz surprises and on the opening night, we will dance to the music of Jimmy Barka Experience.
For this year, we have prepared a series of ethno jazz surprises and on the opening night, we will dance to the music of Jimmy Barka Experience. Jimmy Barka Experience is a rhythmic tour de force from Ljubljana, a trio of two DJs and a drummer. Named after Džimi Barka, a character that Dragan Nikolić played in the old Serbian film When I'm Dead and Gone, Jimmy Barka Experience first appeared in 2010. Though its members, DJ Bakto, DJ Borka and Marjan Stanić, are coming from different music backgrounds, they have found a bond in combining live drumming with electronic samples and turntablism. What comes out are mash-ups of funk, breakbeat, Balkan rhythms, rock and Afro sounds, escorted by powerful live performances, highly suitable for wild dancing.
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MAKEDOX LAYERS
Traveling Cinema No money can buy the pleasure of lying on a meadow, all stretched out, in an improvised auditorium under the starry sky, surrounded by brand-new acquaintances who feel like longtime friends. This year we roamed through the region of Struga and we listened to stories impossible to overhear in the concrete jungle of Skopje, stories about the unwritten rules and the beautiful coexistence between - believe it or not! - Macedonians and Albanians, about the bear that will either eat you alive or “bring you honey all year round”, about the lake and the emigration… About some unheard fishing tricks and the herds that now make for nostalgic memories. Our mouths still water when we think of all the homemade cheeses, eggs, fish soups and breads that we’ve tried. We brought along wreaths of onion and moving pictures and instead of laurel ones, we brought back wreaths of impressions. The traveling cinema recharges one’s batteries; it is an instant dose of optimism. Living as they do, in harmony with nature, close to water, working hard, has given the locals a simple direct and points of view on life, as sharp as a knife. Cruel, too. But their eyes do sparkle… While the Drim River flows by…
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Schedule:
12.07. Kalishta 13.07. Radolishta 14.07. Oktisi 15.07. Mislodezhda 16-19.07. Eco-action preparations 20.07. Tashmarunishta 21-28.07. Eco-action on the shore of Struga Lake 21.07. Radozhda 22.07.
Mali Vlaj
25.07.
Struga, Eco-docu-marathon
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Events:
MakeDox in Classroom introduced the documentary film into the formal education. With the support of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), we have published two toolkits consisting of 19 creative documentary films for high school teachers in Macedonia. Today, this program is implemented by 140 trained Sociology and Civic Education teachers in 80 high schools throughout Macedonia, reaching at least 30.000 students every year since 2013! We are Visual! Education and Audio-Visualization of Human Rights (WAVE) is a two-volume story. In the first volume we were looking for ways to bring closer documentary stories to teachers and students aged 12-16. Supported by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), we have published a set of 12 documentary films and a handbook for their use within the formal and informal education. Last year we closed the second volume: training of 139 educators and NGO representatives who implement this program in 56 cities and villages across the country. We reached the end of this story in December 2017 when we organized the international conference “Audiovisual Education – future or present” which gathered around hundred of participants from Macedonia and abroad, including 80 teachers and students, eager to share their experiences and talk about the need of introducing audiovisual content in today’s education system. Youth Film Clubs is a story we began telling together with the Youth Educational Forum. The media clubs in Skopje, Bitola, Resen, Debar, Gevgelija, Kumanovo, Veles, Kichevo, Negotino, Struga, Tetovo and Kratovo were the first to host small temporary cinemas and vast discussion forums. Nowadays, young people’s horizons widen and strong opinions soften as a chopped onion in a heated pan in a few more youth associations and organizations in Macedonia. ACTive is a regional creative documentary film school open to the young people from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbia. This fantastic story that we’ve told twice so far, together with “Pravo Ljudski” from Bosnia and Herzegovina and “DokuFest” from Kosovo, inspired 11 short doc stories, signed by 30 ACTive participants.
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Supporters:
Events:
We planted the first DocuSprouts seeds last year and will enjoy the yield at this year’s MakeDox. Three very brave and meaningful films are the first matured fruits of our engaged documentary production program open to docu-lovers at the age 13-19. Over the four sessions that take place during MakeDox Traveling Cinema, the festival itself in the autumn/ winter period, the young filmmakers-to-be acquire knowledge and develop skills in the field of documentaristics under the guidance of members of MakeDox creative team and acknowledged docu-professionals from abroad. We continued telling the story about the DocuSprouts this year as well, with the support of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the Macedonian Film Agency. Through MakeDox in Cinema we have shared so far 75 exceptional documentary stories with nearly 15,000 primary school pupils in Skopje.
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Distribution BDDM
MOVING DOCS
The most beautiful stories deserve to travel and the docu-audience deserves to hear them. This is why we have founded the Balkan Documentary Distribution Network (BDDN), together with Restart (Croatia), Free Zone and Delta Video (Serbia), DokuFest (Kosovo), UnderhillFest (Montenegro), Demiurg and Petra Pan (Slovenia).
In 2017, MakeDox has become a partner in the Moving Docs – a partnership founded for the purpose of joint distribution of documentaries across Europe. As a new EDN initiative supported by Creative Europe, Moving Docs aims to create innovative outreach strategies and to provide opportunities for urban and rural European audiences to enjoy regular screenings of documentary films through a wide variety of media and platforms.
www.restartlabel.net www.freezonebelgrade.org www.dokufest.com www.makedox.mk www.underhillfest.me www.deltavideo.rs www.demiurg.si www.petrapan.com
Apart from MakeDox, Moving Docs partners are:
Against Gravity – Poland, ARTE – France, Autlook Film Sales – Austria, Berlin Documentary Film Club – Germany, CineDoc – Greece, Demiurg Distribucija – Slovenia, Doc Lounge – Sweden, DocPoppies, Docs Barcelona – Spain, Doc.Fest Munich – Germany, DOXBiO – Denmark, European Documentary Network – Denmark, Five Stars Film Distribution – Serbia, Lemesos International Documentary Festival – Cyprus, Film and Campaign и New Notions Cinema from the United Kingdom, One World Human Rights Film Festival – the Czech Republic, Rise and Shine Cinema – Germany, Take One Action Film Festivals – The United Kingdom and Taskovki Films – Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Index of Films
A
A Night at the Garden Adolescensorship After/Life Ally the Cat America Apolejka and Her Donkey
B
Baby Brother Baronesa Bat Bonfires Brimstone and Glory
C
H Happy Today Histories of Wolves How to Become a Pope? How to Destroy Time Machines Hug Me. New Neighbour Hug Me. Operation Weekend Hug Me. That Special Day
I I Don't Care Doesn't Count In Between Takes In Praise of Nothing In the Heart of Vivian Gauthier Island of the Hungry Ghosts
Call Me Tony Ceres Communion Country of Women
K
D
Leocadia's Dream Licu, a Romanian Story
Daniel Days of Madness Different
F
Faces, Places Fake News Fairytale Festival Film for Carlos
G
Girls and Honey Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami 9 6
Kedi
L M Mini Miss Mon Amourt, Mon Ami
O Of Fathers and Sons Oh Brother Octopus One, Two, Zero Opera about Poland Out Over the Limit
P
People of the Wasteland Playing Men Pompik – Black Flies
R
Raghu Rai – An Unframed Portrait Russa
S
Sisters Sun Cream
T
Tales of Tappi the Viking – The Mess With The Winter Stores The Ancient Woods The Distant Barking of Dogs The Family The Kodachrome Elegies The Look in the Eyes The Other Side of Everything The Rabbit Hunt The Song of Trees Turtle Shells
W
White Trash Wifi Plaza Cuba
Z
Zhalansh – Empty Shore
W
When Pigs Come
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