12.MakeDox Catalogue - 2021 by MakeDox

12. Creative Documentary Film Festival

12.MakeDox

Creative Documentary Film Festival

19 - 26 August 2021

Contents

Where Do We Go Now Country in Focus: Ukraine Awards and Juries at MakeDox Main Program Newcomers Short Dox Kids and Youth Program MakeDox + MakeDox Layers MakeDox Family Index of Films Impressum

WHERE DO WE GO NOW?

Our leaves may change, yet our roots never will. When they’re planted deep enough, there’s no fear of winds or storms. We water these roots again and again, so each year, we see new lustrous leaves growing. A new story with each new leaf. Our 12-year-old-and-thick branches were swayed by the global storm that became a part of everyone’s story. And while we long to see how the canopies of trees burst into leaves in other places, we are naturally wondering where do we go now- individually and together. But to recall the things that gave us strength to get here, we must first remember where we were and recur to those roots. In the 16th century, spoken tales of merchants would meet beneath the steel roof of Kurshumli An. Today, a film screen is stretched under this celestial arch, glimmering stories that each time, from the very same outlook, take us somewhere new. Will we continue to see the world from the same perspective after the screen goes down? Will we ever learn from the storms and the droughts of others? Will we ever learn that the canopy above earth’s ground cannot survive without what’s underneath it? Will we dare to determine the path that we’ll walk on hereafter? And when, if not now? And who, if not us?

#WHEREDOWEGONOW

MAKEDOX DELIGHT WITH UKRAINIANS! “Buffalo Soldier in the heart of Carpathians”, hums the hero in one of the Ukrainian documentaries that MakeDox – the Creative Documentary Film Festival has taken great delight in choosing this year as part of the “Country in Focus” program, this time dedicated to Ukraine. Truly, the last couple of years have seen Ukrainians advancing on the world documentary map like real soldiers, making ardent breakthroughs on the front of the most renowned documentary film festivals worldwide, winning numerous awards and great accolades from film critics and audiences alike, thanks to their latest documentary production and the received support from the most distinguished Ukrainian documentary film festival Docudays UA (International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival) and the Ukrainian Institute. This is best witnessed in the documentary film “This Rain Will Never Stop” directed by Alina Gorlova, who won the First Appearance Award at the IDFA - International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam in 2020, opening the “Country in Focus: Ukraine” program on MakeDox. The film takes the audience on a powerful, visually arresting journey through humanity’s endless cycle of war and peace where the 20-year-old Andriy Suleyman, a Syrian immigrant, tries to secure a sustainable future albeit with brief moments of joy and happiness, while navigating the human toll of armed conflict. The film is shot using a black and white technique and

COUNTRY IN FOCUS: UKRAINE

the camera is operated by the brilliant hand of DoP Viacheslav Tsvietkov, who has also signed as the DoP of the documentary film “The Earth Is Blue as an Orange” that won an award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020 and was later shown at MakeDox. Moving forward, we expand our Ukrainian cinematic odyssey even further, in the heart of the Carpathians, with the film “As Far As Possible” directed by Ganna Iaroshevych. Through the film portrait of the 33-yearold German, Michael, a prosperous young man coming from a wealthy German family who goes to live in the Ukraininian Carpathians to fight the extinction of an endangered buffalo species, the director tells the story of an alternative way of life close to animals and in unity with nature. Finally, this is a story about understanding one’s freedom, a topic that becomes more and more relevant for a lot of people on Earth today. From there, we’re off to another Carpathian village where we’ll face the magical world of the photographs taken by a woman called Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit, in the film “A Portrait on the Background of Mountains” directed by Maksym Rudenko, who, in the course of thirty years, captured the faces and places in the village where she used to live. Her work creates a mysterious link between the past and the present, when a box of her negatives was found by accident in 2015 by a group of artists from Kiev. Next, we’ll stretch our legs to Olena’s village, located on the frontline in the “grey zone” of the Donetsk region, in the film “Mustard in the Gardens” directed by Piotr Armianovski. In the garden where Olena spent her childhood, her brother has planted mustard to protect it from weeds. Lying in the prickly grass, she recalls the peaceful times when the apricots, cherries and pears used to be bigger and tastier, painting a nostalgic picture of her carefree childhood that serves to remind us of the real human values.

We’ll also visit the small town of Mariupol where the parents of director Zoya Laktionova have been residing after World War II, in the short film “The Territory of Empty Windows”. There, we’ll find ourselves in a territory where the aftermath of the war with Russia and the disintegration of the factory where they used to work will play a crucial role in their future life. Afterward, we’ll assimilate into the urban atmosphere of contemporary Ukrainian cities like Kiev, Odessa and Lviv in the documentary films “Don’t Worry, The Doors Will Open’’ directed by Oksana Karpovych, “Facade Colour: Blue’’ by Oleksiy Radynski, “The Diviners” by Roman Bordun and “My Father Is My Mother’s Brother” directed by Vadym Ilkov. The films’ protagonists are residents of these Ukraininan cities where their daily life is a struggle between good and evil, humanity and cruelty, mercy and frigidity, where they fight against the destruction of the socialist architectural and cultural heritage for the purpose of satisfying the greediness of the merciless capitalism which seems to want to turn the whole world into a giant shopping mall. In these multilayered kaleidoscopic stories, the heroes seem to be living in an inconsistent reality where fragility and power, light and shadow, misery and joy live harmoniously under the same sky. These are the heroes of the new Ukrainian documentary scene, who invite the audience to join their creative struggle and partake in their cinematic realizations, so that enjoying their heroic feat, we, too, become part of it and earn the praise “Praise the heroes!”, a phrase we’ll often hear echoed on the big screen while watching the documentary films of the program “Country in Focus”, this year dedicated to Ukraine. So, let’s enjoy while we can… together with the Ukrainians and their heroic feats! Petrula Veljanovska

COUNTRY IN FOCUS: UKRAINE

M AX RU D ENKO

Script: Max Rudenko Photography: Max Rudenko Editing: Petro Tsymbal Sound: Oleg Golovyoshkin Music: Sviatoslav Luniov Production: T.T.M. (Ukraine)

Ukraine / 2019 / 85’

A PORTRAIT ON THE BACKGROUND OF MOUNTAINS Портрет на тлі гір

In the depth of the Carpathian Mountains, a woman photographer captured for thirty years the life of the rural people. After she died, a box with thousands of negatives was found under her bed. A mystical journey of connecting the past with the present starts. In capturing the authentic life of the mountain people, the film tells life stories of the forgotten region of the Carpathian.

COUNTRY IN FOCUS: UKRAINE

Selected Filmography: Elevation (2021) Between the Wolf and the Dog (2008) I did what I wanted (2008) Festivals and Awards: Carpathian Mountain International Film Festival - Grand Prix, Ukraine (2020), Docudays UA, Ukraine (2019), Festival de Cinema de Alter do Chão, Brazil (2020), OKO International Ethnographic Film Festival, Ukraine (2020)

GANNA IARO SH EV YC H

Script: Ganna Iaroshevych Photography: Serhii Kireiev Editing: Kateryna Ptashka Sound: Pavlo Berezin Music: Panivalkova Production: Tabor Production, Mental Drive

Ukraine / 2021 / 71’

AS FAR AS POSSIBLE Май далеко – май добре

This is a story of a young German man Michel, whose dream is to lead a simple life far from civilization. He lives in the Ukrainian mountains and is taking care of endangered animals – water buffaloes. After 10 years of being a loner, Michelt falls in love with Vera, a woman from his hometown in Germany, who has two small kids from the previous relationship. Michel moves back to Germany and is trying to create a new family with Vera. After all Michel has to decide – is love worth a broken dream?

COUNTRY IN FOCUS: UKRAINE

Selected Filmography: Hospital/ Госпіталь (2014) Diana/ Діана (2015) Where’s our home?/ Де наш дім? (2015) One year in Izum/ Рік в Ізюмі (2015) Festivals and Awards: Docudays UA - Andrii Matrosov Award, Ukraine (2020)

O KSANA KARP OV YCH

Script: Oksana Karpovych Photography: Christopher Nunn Editing: Lessandro Socrates, Dominique Sicotte Sound: Simon Gervais Production: Ina Fichman, Judith Plamondon

Canada / 2019 / 75’

DON’T WORRY, THE DOORS WILL OPEN Не хвилюйся, двері відчиняться

Shot over summer and winter seasons on ‘elektrychkas’- typical Soviet commuter trains that travel between the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and small provincial towns, this story invites us to share a ride with working class, mostly marginalized passengers and vendors. Following a number of people from one grimy wagon to another, from station to station, from day to night, we are immersed in the daily struggles of their lives in a post-Soviet country.

COUNTRY IN FOCUS: UKRAINE

Selected Filmography: Temporary/ Тимчасово (2017) Lost/ Втрата. Знахідка (2015) Festivals and Awards: Hot Docs, Canada (2020), RIDM - New Visions Award, Canada (2019)

O L EKSIY RADY NSKI

Script: Oleksiy Radynski Photography: Max Savchenko, Oleksiy Radynski Editing: Mykola Bazarkin, Oleksiy Radynski Sound: Andriy Borysenko Music: Dispersive Light Production: Lyuba Knorozok

Ukraine / 2019 / 22’

FAÇADE COLOUR: BLUE Колiр фасаду: Синiй

Florian Yuriev is an architect who quit his job decades ago to develop his visionary ideas on the music of colour. At the age of 90, he’s compelled to make a comeback into his original occupation and breathe a new life into his architectural masterpiece that’s threatened with destruction.

Selected Filmography: Circulation/ Колообіг (2020) The Film of Kyiv. Episode One/ Київський фільм. Перший епізод (2017) Landslide/ Зсув (2016) People Who Came to Power/ Люди, які прийшли до влади (2015) Integration/ Інтеграція (2014) Festivals and Awards: Docudays IFF, Ukraine (2020), Molodist IFF, Ukraine (2019), Kyiv International Short Film Festival - Audience Award, Ukraine (2019), Oberhausen IFF, Germany (2019), Artdocfest, Latvia (2019)

COUNTRY IN FOCUS: UKRAINE

PIOT R ARM IANOVSKI

Script: Piotr Armianovski Photography: Piotr Armianovski Editing: Piotr Armianovski Sound: Sergiy Kulbachny Music: Yazz Ahmed Production: Piotr Armianovski

Ukraine / 2018 / 37’

MUSTARD IN THE GARDENS Гірчиця В Садах

Olena is going home, to the village on the frontline in the ‘grey zone’ of the Donetsk region where she spent her childhood. In the garden, her brother has planted mustard to prevent weeds from getting into their neighbors’ garden. The girl lies down in the prickly grass and recalls how big and tasty the apricots, cherries, pears used to be.

Selected Filmography: Pan Tadeusz, 2020 People’s Museum of Avdiivka/ Народний музей Авдіївки (2018) Me and Mariupol/ Я і Маріуполь (2017) Miner’s Stories/ Шахтарські історії зі сходу і заходу (2016) Festivals and Awards: Docudays - Andriy Matrosov Award, Ukraine (2018)

COUNTRY IN FOCUS: UKRAINE

VADY M IL KOV

Script: Vadym Ilkov Photography: Vadym Ilkov Editing: Vadym Ilkov Sound: Borys Peter, Andriy Rohachov Production: Garmata Film

Ukraine / 2018 / 76’

MY FATHER IS MY MOTHER’S BROTHER Тато - Мамин Брат

The artist and singer Tolik is alone taking care of his five-year old niece Katya. Her mother Anya suffers from psychological problems, she is unemployed and lives on welfare. Katya’s biological father disappeared and Tolik became a real father for the little girl – that is why Katya says, “My mother is my father’s sister”. Tolik’s art is about personal freedom and sexual openness. He lives on occasional fees, spends his time at parties, in galleries and nightclubs. With Katya his world gets filled with day-to-day responsibilities of a single parent: to feed, to read a bedtime fairy tale, to play together… Meanwhile, Anya continues to lose her connection with reality - her disease is progressing irreversibly.

COUNTRY IN FOCUS: UKRAINE

ZOYA L AKT IO NOVA

Script: Zoya Laktionova Photography: Zoya Laktionova Editing: Zoya Laktionova Sound: Andrii Borysenko Production: Zoya Laktionova

Ukraine / 2020 / 10’

TERRITORY OF EMPTY WINDOWS Територія пустих вікон

War and abandoned ecology are two themes that permeate the everyday life of Mariupol residents. World War II and the local plant became the reason for Zoya`s family to move to Mariupol. And the war with Russia along with environmental consequences of the plant`s operation have played a dramatic role in her future life.

COUNTRY IN FOCUS: UKRAINE

Selected Filmography: Lighthouse/ Маяк (2020) Diorama/ Діорама (2018) Festivals and Awards: Docudays UA, Ukraine, (2020) Molodist IFF, Ukraine (2020)

RO M AN B O RD U N

Script: Roman Bordun Photography: Roman Bordun Editing: Roman Bordun Sound: Roman Bordun Music: Roman Bordun Production: Roman Bordun

Ukraine / 2019 / 60’

THE DIVINERS Божественнi

The main characters of the film are the inhabitants of the contemporary Ukrainian cities of Kyiv, Odesa, and Lviv. Their reality is multi-layered, unvarnished, deprived of unambiguous interpretations of good and evil, humanity and cruelty, charity and indifference. This story is a kaleidoscope, which features all of us: the righteous, the merciless, the funny, the naïve. The honest.

COUNTRY IN FOCUS: UKRAINE

Selected Filmography: Power & Truth (2020) I, Robot (2019) Festivals and Awards: Berlin Revolution Film Festival - Grand Prix, Germany (2021), Astra Film Festival, Romania (2020), Ji.hlava IDFF, Czech Republic (2019)

AL INA GO RLOVA

Script: Alina Gorlova, Maksym Nakonechnyi Photography: Vyacheslav Tsvetkov Editing: Olha Zhurba, Simon Mozgovyi, Alina Gorlova Sound: Vasyl Yavtushenko Music: Goran Gora, Serge Synthkey Production: Maksym Nakonechnyi Co-production: Ilona Bicevska, Patrick Hamm

Ukraine, Latvia, Germany, Qatar / 2020 / 104’

THIS RAIN WILL NEVER STOP This Rain Will Never Stop

A powerful, visually arresting journey through humanity’s endless cycle of war and peace. The 20-year-old Andriy Suleyman tries to secure a sustainable future while navigating the human toll of armed conflict. From the Syrian civil war to strife in Ukraine, Andriy’s existence is framed by the seemingly eternal flow of life and death.

COUNTRY IN FOCUS: UKRAINE

Selected Filmography: No Obvious Signs (2018) Invisible Battalion (2017) Kholodny Yar. Intro (2016) Babushka (2014) The First Step in the Clouds (2012) Festivals and Awards: IDFA- Award for Best First Appearance, Netherlands (2020), Festival Dei Popoli- Best Feature Length, Italy (2020), DocuDays UACurrent Time Award, Ukraine (2021) Las Palmas International Film Festival- Golden Lady Harimaguada Award, Spain (2021), goEast Festival of Central and Eastern European Film- Golden Lily Award for Best Film, Germany (2021)

RO M AN B O NDARCH U K

Script: Idea - Dar’ya Averchenko, Roman Bondarchuk Photography: Roman Bondarchuk Editing: Roman Bondarchuk, Kateryna Gornostai Sound: Borys Peter Music: Borys Peter Production: VFS Films Co-production: SOUTH, Taskovski Films

Ukraine, Latvia, Germany / 2015 / 85’

UKRAINIAN SHERIFFS Українські Шерифи

Like a bird, the Ukrainian flag flies perched on the car of two affable ‘sheriffs’ appointed by the mayor of a village in southern Ukraine. There’s a sly bum whose talent is not to work. There’s a guy who puts an anaconda in his woman’s shed. The Euromaidan arrives, and draft-dodgers abound. The townsfolk are dipping in icy water and laughing, but are they divided in their loyalties? These sheriffs are taking you along for the ride…

COUNTRY IN FOCUS: UKRAINE

Selected Filmography: Wasteland Tour (2019) Dixie Land (2016) Euromaidan. Rough Cut (2014) Radunytsia (2007) Festivals and Awards: IDFA- Special Jury Award, Netherlands (2015)

Onion Award Jury - for the Best Film in the Main Program

AD EL E KO HO UT

EDI M A OTU OKON

HE LLE HA NSE N

Born in Prague in 1981, Adele studied New History and Art History with a focus on film at the Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf and at the University of Zurich. During her studies in 2004 and 2005, she worked as an assistant director for Czech television for long and series formats. In 2008, she became an Assistant in Project Management at Stein Promotion and Master Study of Cultural History and Cultural Management in Ludwigsburg. From 2008 to 2010, she was in charge of public relations at DOK.fest. She became an assistant to the festival management in 2010 and took on tasks in the areas of financing and project coordination. She has been a permanent member of the program committee since 2010 and has also been responsible for sponsoring and partner communication since 2012. From 2015 to 2017, she headed the office of the Kunstareal München and has been deputy managing director of DOK.fest München since 2016.

Edima is an experienced communications specialist, creative sector reform expert and humanitarian and conflict analyst with over 25 years of experience. In the last decade, she co-founded the Ladima Foundation, a not for profit organisation established with the aim of contributing to correcting the major gender imbalances within the film, TV and content industries across Africa. Through training and networking programmes, Ladima uplifts, connects and includes. Ladima operates in the spirit of positivity, excellence and integrity. Across Africa, Edima has worked in the Creative Sector, providing advisory and program management services to organizations such as the Afrieximbank, DW Akademie, DISCOP Markets, Zanzibar International Film Festival, Cape Town International Film Festival, and Nairobi Film Market.

Journalist and director of numerous documentary films for TV. From 20112016 Film Commissioner for documentaries at the Danish Film Institute. From October 2016 – 2020 Film Commissioner for documentaries at the Norwegian Film Institute. From 2021 Film Commissioner at Filmfond Nord in Northern Norway.

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Young Onion Award Jury - for the Best Film by First or Second-Time Director

M ARIO N S C H MIDT

CHRISTINE CAMDESSUS

VICTORIA LESHCHENKO

Marion is a freelance project manager and consultant for individuals and organisations. Her field of expertise is in project management and organisational development in the international documentary, arts and development sector. Marion is the co-director of the Documentary Association of Europe (DAE) and co-founder of DOX BOX e.V., where she held several positions till April 2020 and was the project director of the international Documentary Convention 2018 and 2019. Marion is a consultant to the film department of DW Akademie, and has contributed her expertise to projects of the Goethe-Institut and elbarlament GmbH. Marion sits on the board of several organisations in the film world, and is part of initiatives that champion anti-racism, equality, fair working conditions and representation in the film and NGO sector, and the society at large.

Formerly lawyer-in-firm and film finance banker, Christine launched ALEGRIA PRODUCTIONS in 2001, having more than 60 creative documentaries distributed around the world. Among them are Five Broken Cameras, from Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, which won the Sundance director’s prize in 2012, received an Oscar Nomination in 2013, and won the International Emmy Award in 2013, and Forman vs. Forman, part of Cannes Classics in 2019. Vice president of USPA between 2014 and 2018, and chairwoman of Nipkow jury, she was nominated FIPADOC’s Managing Artistic director in 2018.

I am a dreamer, maker, and connector. I have 11 years of experience in project and team management, creating and managing cultural events. My background is Kyiv-Mohyla education, cultural studies. The world of film festivals began for me with “Molodist”. I worked here from 2007 to 2011, working as an editor in chief, production manager, and later coordinator of film programs. In 2010 I joined the team of Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, where I was promoted to program director in 2019. Areas of current interest: documentary, psychology and psychotherapy, online education, sports, delicious food, and I love growing cactuses.

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Sliced Onion Award Jury - for the Best Short Film

IVA N A TO DO ROV IĆ

MAJA NOVA KOVIĆ

M ICHE LE SI NI

Ivana Todorović is a director of short, socially engaging films in Belgrade and New York City. Her fiction film “When I’m at Home” (2020, Belgrade) won numerous awards such as the Best Narrative Short and Best International Filmmaker Award at the LA Independent Woman Film Awards, Best Director Award at Jelly Fest in American Film Institute, LA, Best Woman Film Award at the Independent Shorts Awards Festival in LA, Best Student Film Award at the Short to the Point Festival in Bucharest etc. The film was screened at the Brooklyn Film Festival and at the exhibition “The Principle of Migration” at The New York Foundation for the Arts Gallery in New York City. The documentaries “When I Was a Boy, I Was a Girl”, “A Harlem Mother”, “Rapresent”, and “Everyday Life of Roma Children in Block 71” were screened at more than 150 international film festivals and won over 20 awards. Ivana is currently finishing a new documentary film and is working on a new fiction film.

Maja Novakovic holds a Master’s degree in Art History and is working on a Ph.D. with a registered thesis “Poetics of heritage in the works of Sergei Parajanov”. She works as a research assistant at the Mathematical Institute of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. “Then comes the evening” is her directorial debut that has been at over 100 festivals and won more than 40 awards. She is Sarajevo Talents alumni.

Michele Sini worked in international cooperation and humanitarian aid in Latin America from 2005 to 2014. In 2010 he organized his first documentary “Books and Cloud” by Pierpaolo Giarolo in Perù. In 2014 he came back to Sardinia, and since then he has had numerous roles in the production department, such as production assistant in many films, such as “Perfidia” and“Ovunque proteggimi” by Bonifacio Angius, “La Stoffa dei sogni “ by Gianfranco Cabiddu, “Loro” by Paolo Sorrentino, “Catch 22” by George Clooney etc. Also, he worked as a production coordinator ,location manager and supervisor in the films “ Era d’estate” by Fiorella Infascelli, “Mi chiedo quando ti mancherò “ by Francesco Fei, “I Giganti” by Bonifacio Angius, “Scallop” by Paul Marshall, etc. Sini has also worked as commercial location manager for numerous companies like Apple, Moto Guzzi, Grimaldi Lines, Ermes, Easy jet and others.

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Onion Seed Award Jury - for the Best Student Film

P ET E R Z AC H

YULLI A KOVA LE NKO

Peter Zach was born in 1960 in Graz. He studied Media, Sociology and Ethnology at the Karl-Franzens University. In 1984, he co-founded the film journal BLIMP. Since 1990, he has been living and working in Berlin as author, director and DoP. He has worked as a camera operator for ORF and as an editor for the WDR. In 1999, he both worked on the script and was the executive producer for Sasha Waltz’s film “Allee der Kosmonauten”. Peter has worked on numerous feature-length documentaries, including the documentary “Malli – Artist in Residence“ nominated for Austria’s best film in 1994, “Gestern Mitte Morgen” (1995), a film about the youthful, artistic life in Berlin Mitte after the fall of the Wall, “Der Abendlaender” (2000), an essayistic documentary about Helmut Eisendle, “Die Netzarbeiter” (2000), about start-up companies in Berlin followed by “The City Named Desire“ in 2007/8, “Bohemia Is Greek to Me“ (2013), “Brezmejno“ (2016) and “Life Is Bigger“ (2018).

Yullia Kovalenko is a film critic and programmer at Docudays UA IHRDFF in Kyiv. She was a lecturer at the Department of Cultural Studies and Arts History of Odesa National Polytechnical University. In 2017, she received a Ph.D. degree in Cultural Studies. From 2015 to 2017, she was a program director at the independent movie theatre ‘Inotheatre’ in Odesa, where she held the special program of Ukrainian art cinema ‘We Are Here’. As a film critic, she publishes her works in Ukrainian and international journals (Korydor, LB.ua, Filmar.online, Cineticle, La Furia Umana, etc.). Between 2016 and 2018, she was an editor of Cineticle Magazine devoted to art cinema. In 2019, she joined the program department at Docudays UA.

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I NGI BJÖRG HA LLDÓR SDÓT TIR Ingibjörg studied Film- and Art Theory and History at the University of Iceland before working at Reykjavik International Film Festival where she stayed for several years. There she wore several hats, including that of Festival-, Program- and Box office coordinator, she also programmed several film programs and her final position at the festival was as its Production manager. In 2019, Ingibjörg co-founded Iceland Documentary Film Festival (IceDocs), with her colleagues. She’s been the festival’s director since the first edition and is on the festival’s program selection committee. IceDocs is the only film festival in Iceland that focuses on international documentaries and it aims at bringing creative documentaries to the local market as well as being a creative hub for filmmakers in the near future.

Moral Approach Award Jury - for the Film with Best Moral Approach

K RI ST I N A GO ROVSK A

TANCR È DE R I VI È R E

ACO PA LI TOV

Kristina Gorovska was born in Skopje, 1983. She is a philosophy graduate from the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, and was the best student of her generation, from all the 12 institutes on the Faculty of Philosophy. For this, she also received the “26th July” award from the Frankie Manning Foundation. She is one of the organizers of the first Anarcho-feminist festival on the Balkans, which is held in Skopje since 2005. In 2013 she participated as a performance artist and a part of the team of authors who wrote the text for the theatrical performance “Skrip Inc” (Ljubljana, Slovenia), with which she has participated in several eminent theater festivals. She is a member of several music bands. From 2007 to 2020 she was part of Bernays Propaganda, contributing with lyrics, music, album cover designs as well as concepts for the video projections during live gigs. With Bernays Propaganda, she has several studio albums and has played in more than 800 concerts.

Tancrède Rivière (b. 1989) focuses on both theoretical and creative writing. In recent years, alongside a PhD research in comparative literature at the University of Paris and the publication of poetry and essays, he has been collaborating in the development and writing of documentary films with various production companies in Paris and Marseille. He also joined producer Victor Ede at Cinéphage in 2020.

Aco Palitov was born in 1965 in Skopje. From 1994 to 2003 he was the editor of documentary newsrooms in the television channels Sitel, Telma and Kanal 5. He is the author of over 50 documentary projects. Palitov participated and was awarded at several television and film festivals in Europe. Since 2003, he has been working as an independent producer and a director of documentary projects.

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PIOT R STASIK

Script: Piotr Stasik Photography: Piotr Stasik Editing: Dorota Wardeszkiewicz Sound: Pawel Uszynski Music: Matthieu Safatly, Hania Rani Production: Running Rabbit Films Joanna Ronikier

Poland / 2020 / 52’

ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS Odmienne Stany Swiadomosci

A poetic journey deep into the world of thoughts of people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome. Where do the boundaries of our minds lie and how much does culture confine or even extinguish our creativity in everyday life and even in love? Meet these autistic people of various ages, each of them a unique world, seeking their own path in life.

MAIN PROGRAM

Selected Filmography: 21 x New York (2016) Diary of Journey (2013) The Last Day of the Summer (2010) 7 x Moscow (2005) Festivals and Awards: Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2020) EnergaCAMERAIMAGE, Poland (2020)

H EL ENA T ŘEŠT ÍKOVÁ

Script: Helena Třeštíková Photography: David Cysař Editing: Jakub Hejna Sound: Richard Müller Production: Kateřina Černá, Pavel Strnad (Negativ Film Productions) Co-production Alena Müllerová (Czech Television)

Czech Republic / 2020 / 66’

ANNY Anny

She is never down and out. Anny has three grown-up kids, divorced twice, working as a toilet attendant. At 46, she is taking to the streets as a hooker to make Christmas happier for her grandchildren. We see 16 years of the life story of one peculiar woman, whose eyes always stare towards the sky rather than to the ground. She is searching for love, defying misfortune and illness, taking all her difficulties with terse humor and a practical point of view.

MAIN PROGRAM

Selected Filmography: Forman vs. Forman (2019) A Marriage Story (2017) Doomed Beauty (2016) Mallory (2015) Katka (2010) Festivals and Awards: IDFA, Netherlands (2020), Dok.fest Munich Main Award, Germany (2021), Docpoint Helsinki, Finland (2021), Docpoint Tallinn, Estonia (2021), IFF Sofia, Bulgaria (2021)

V IKTO R KO SSAKOVSKY

Photography: Viktor Kossakovsky, Egil Håskjold Larsen, Editing: Viktor Kossakovsky, Ainara Vera Sound: Artyom Busel, Alexander Dudarev, Alexandr Jeygalo Production: Anita Rehoff Larsen Co-production: Susan Rockefeller

Norway, Switzerland, Iran / 2020 / 93’

GUNDA Gunda

This story reminds us that we share our planet with billions of other animals. Through encounters with a mother sow, two ingenious cows, and a scene-stealing, one-legged chicken, our moral universe is movingly recalibrated, and we are reminded of the inherent value of life and the mystery of all animal consciousness, including our own.

MAIN PROGRAM

Selected Filmography: Aquarela (2018) Graine de champion (2016) Sports Kids: Varicella (2015) Demonstration (2014) Festivals and Awards: Dublin International Film Festival - Best Cinematography Award, Ireland (2021), Sofia International Film Festival - Best Documentary Film, Bulgaria (2021), Stockholm Film Festival - Best Documentary Film, Sweden (2021)

GERO VO N B O EH M

Script: Gero von Boehm Photography: Uli Fischer, Alexander Hein, Sven Jakob-Engelmann, Pierre Nativel, Pauline Pénichout, Marcus Winterbauer Editing: Tom Weichenhain Sound: Elie Aufseesser, Marco Zachalsky, Moritz Springer, Hardy Hergt Production: Lupa Film Co-production: Monarda Arts, ZDF/3sat

Germany / 2020 / 89’

HELMUT NEWTON: THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful

Women were clearly at the core of legendary photographer Helmut Newton’s work. The stars of his iconic portraits and fashion editorials – from Anna Wintour to Grace Jones, Charlotte Rampling to Isabella Rossellini – finally give their own interpretation of the life and work of this controversial genius. A portrait by the portrayed. Provocative, unconventional, subversive, his depiction of women still sparks the question: were they subjects or objects?

Selected Filmography: Farah Diba Pahlavi: The Last Empress/ Farah Diba Pahlavi: Die letzte Kaiserin/ (2018) Exodus? – A History of the Jewish People in Europe/ Exodus? - Eine Geschichte der Juden in Europa (2018) Henry Miller – Prophet of Lust/ Henry Miller Prophet der Lüste (2017) On the Trail of Unity/ Auf den Spuren der Einheit (2015) Isabella Rossellini – From the Life of a Butterfly/ Isabella Rossellini - Aus dem Leben eines Schmetterlings (2010) Festivals and Awards: DOK.fest Munich, Germany (2021), Berlinale, Germany (2020), Stockholm Film Festival, Sweden (2020)

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F IRO U Z EH KH O SROVANI

Norway, Switzerland, Iran / 2020 / 81’

RADIOGRAPH OF A FAMILY

Script: Firouzeh Khosrovani Photography: Mohammad Reza Jahanpanah Editing: Farahnaz Sharifi, Rainer Maria Trinkler, Jila Apachi Farahnaz Sharifi, Rainer Maria Trinkel, Jila Apachi Sound: Alireza Nekulal Music: Peyman Yazdanian Production: Fabien Olivier Greenberg for Antipode Films, Bård Kjøge Rønning for Antipode Films Co-production: DV Films, Rainy Pictures

Radiograph of a Family

I am the result of Iran’s struggle between tradition and modernization.. For my religious mother, living in Europe was a challenge. My father came from a liberal and secular family. He was a lover of culture, fine arts, and classical music. After I was born, we moved from Switzerland back to Tehran where the Revolution turned everything upside down. My mother forged a new identity for herself: she became a religious activist, school principal, and did military training. My father sat quietly in his favorite chair at home and listened to Bach. My mother censored the past, while my father dreamt of a different future.

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Selected Filmography: Fest of Duty (2014) Profession: Documentarist (2014) The Archive to East/ L’archivio a oriente (2012) Rough Cut (2008) Festivals and Awards: IDFA- Best Feature-Length Documentary & Best Creative Use of Archive Award, Netherlands (2021), Göteborg Film Festival, Sweden (2021) Human Rights / Human Wrongs Film Festival, Norway (2021), FIPADOC, France (2021), Oslo Films From The South -The Silver Mirror Audience Award, Norway (2020)

M O H AM ED EL AB O U DI

Script: Mohamed El Aboudi Photography: Hannu-Pekka Vitikainen, Marita Hällfors, Päivi Kettunen Editing: Lizi Gelber, Florence Bresson, Mohamed El Aboudi, Mikko Sippola Sound: Pietari Koskinen, Kirsi Korhonen, SoundeFilm Music: Richard Horowitz &amp; Andrew Silagy Production: Illume Ltd Co-production Bellota Films, La Prod, Vulcan Productions

Finland, France, Morocco / 2020 / 78’

SCHOOL OF HOPE Toiveiden Koulu

An intimate and charming portrait of optimism in the harshest of environments. In the vast expanse of desert East of Atlas Mountains in Morocco, seasonal rain and snow once supported livestock, but now the drought seems to never end. Hardly a blade of grass can be seen, and families travel miles on foot to get water from a muddy hole in the ground. Yet the children willingly ride donkeys and bicycles or walk for miles across rocks to a “school of hope” built of clay

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Selected Filmography: Netizen Mo (2016) Dance of Oulaws (2012) Fight of Fate (2010) City Folk Helsinki (2007) Inside/Offside (2006) Festivals and Awards: Tampere Film Festival- Special Prize, Finland (2021), Docpoint, Finland (2021), Hot Docs, Canada (2021), DOK. fest Munich, Germany (2021), FIPADOC, France (2021)

SALO M É JASH I

Script: Salomé Jashi Photography: Goga Devdariani, Salomé Jashi Editing: Chris Wright Sound: Philippe Ciompi Music: (Music Supervisor) Celia Stroom Production: Mira Film, CORSO Film, Sakdoc Film

Switzerland, Germany, Georgia / 2021 / 92’

TAMING THE GARDEN Motviniereba

A powerful and anonymous man has developed an unusual hobby. He buys century-old trees, some as tall as 15-story buildings, from communities along the Georgian coast and has them excavated to collect them for his private garden. In order to transplant trees of such dimensions, the landscape surrounding them is ripped apart and the people living around them are forced to adapt to the disruption. A portrait of the needs and values of today’s Georgian society, reflecting on the theme of forced migration, where “uprooting” is more than a metaphor.

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Selected Filmography: The Tower (2018) The Dazzling Light Of Sunset (2016) Bakhmaro (2011) The Leader Is Always Right (2010) Speechless (2009) Festivals and Awards: Ficmec - Festival Internacional De Cine Medioambiental De Canarias- Best Documentary Feature Award, Spain (2021), Sundance Film Festival, USA (2021), Berlinale, Germany (2021), Cinéma du réel, Switzerland (2021), DOK.fest Münich, Germany (2021)

M AIT E AL B ERDI

Script: Maite Alberdi Photography: Pablo Valdés Editing: Carolina Siraqyan Sound: Boris Herrera, Juan Carlos Maldonado Music: Vincent van Warmerdam Production: Micromundo Producciones Co-production: Motto Pictures, Sutor Kolonko, Volya Films, Malvalanda, ITVS, American Documentary | POV, SWR, EOdocs

Chile / 2020 / 90’

THE MOLE AGENT El Agente Topo

When a family becomes concerned about their mother’s well-being in a retirement home, private investigator Romulo hires Sergio, an 83-year-old man who becomes a new resident and a mole inside the home and who struggles to balance his assignment with becoming increasingly involved in the lives of several residents.

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Selected Filmography: God/ Dios (2019) The Grown-Ups/ Los niños (2016) I am Not From Here/ Yo no soy de aquí (2016) Tea Time/ La once (2014) Propaganda/ Propaganda (2014) Festivals and Awards: Cinema Eye Honors - The Unforgettables Award and Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score, USA (2021), Academy Awards, USA (2021), Festival de Cine de Lima - Audience Award, Peru (2020), Festival de San Sebastián Audience Award for Best European Film, Spain (2020)

NIKO L A IL IĆ, CO RINA SCH W INGRU B ER I LIĆ Script: Nikola Ilić, Corina Schwingruber Ilić Photography: Nikola Ilić, Corina Schwingruber Ilić, Pablo Ferro Živanović Editing: Myriam Flury Sound: Vladimir Rakić, Ivan Antić Music: Heidi Happy Production: Franziska Sonder for Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG

Switzerland / 2021 / 78’

DIDA Dida

Fifteen years ago Nikola left Serbia to follow his heart to Switzerland. Since then his life is shared between two countries and three women: his mother Dida, his grandmother and his wife. His mother has learning disabilities and has been dependent on the grandmother since forever. As grandmother is getting older, Belgrade is now calling Nikola back home. He can’t let his mother down, but he doesn’t want to give up his life in Switzerland. This forces him to face a moral dilemma: How can he help his mother live a life of independence without losing his own? A heartwarming and amusing documentary about a son who’s trying to step into his grandmother’s shoes.

Selected Filmography: Nikola Ilić Rakijada (2016) Just Another Day in Egypt (2015) Canton of Yugoslavia/ Kanton Jugoslawien (2013) Corina Schwingruber Ilić All Inclusive (2018) Just Another Day in Egypt (2015) Excavating - Tons of Passion/ Baggern - Tons of passion (2013) Festivals and Awards: Visions du Réel, Switzerland (2021), Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival, Ukraine (2021)

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NATAL IJA Y EF IM KINA

Script: Natalija Yefimkina Photography: Axel Schneppat, Konrad Waldman Editing: Nicole Fischer, Lucia Gerhardt, Markus Schmidt, Barbara Toennieshen Sound: Alexey Antonov, Ivan Arapov Production: TamTam Film

Germany / 2020 / 93’

GARAGE PEOPLE Garagenvolk

In post-Soviet Russia there is a phenomenon beyond ice fishing, matryoshkas, and vodka: the garage settlement. Seemingly inhospitable tin sheds from the outside, they offer refuge to a large number of Russians most of them men. Scrap collector Ilja uses the garage as a production site, Roman for his quail breeding, Pavel carves sculptures of saints and Viktor has added four underground floors in decades of work. Here you can find everything, and everything seems possible.

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Festivals and Awards: One World Prague, Czech Republic (2021), DocPoint Helsinki, Finland (2021), IDFA, Netherlands (2020), Doc Aviv, Israel (2020), Berlinale, Germany (2020)

NAT H AN GRO SSM AN

Photography: Nathan Grossman Editing: Hanna Lejonqvist, SFK, Charlotte Landelius, Sound: Andreas Andersson, Calle Buddee Roos Music: Jon Ekstrand, Rebekka Karijord, Johan Johnson Production: Cecilia Nessen, Fredrik Heinig

Sweden / 2021 / 98’

I AM GRETA I Am Greta

The story of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is told through compelling, never-before-seen footage. Starting with her one-person school strike for climate action outside the Swedish Parliament, the camera follows Greta- a shy student with Asperger’s in her rise to prominence and her galvanizing global impact, along her extraordinary wind-powered voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to speak at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York City.

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Selected Filmography: Zlatan- For Sweden - With the Times/ Zlatan för Sverige i tiden (2018) Live Flesh/ Köttets lustar (2017) Festivals and Awards: 77th Venice International Film Festival, Italy (2020), Toronto International Film Festival, Canada (2020), Filmfest Hamburg, Germany (2020)

M ARIJA Z IDAR

Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo / 2021 / 82’

Script: Marija Zidar Photography: Latif Hasolli Editing: Uroš Maksimović, Co-editor: Mariana Kozáková Sound: Miloš Drobnjaković, Julij Zornik, Jovo Kljajić Music: Dimitrije Vasiljević Production: Vertigo Co-production: RTV Slovenia, Dera Film, Film House Baš Čelik, Seagull Entertainment

RECONCILIATION Odpuščanje

An 18-year-old girl is killed in a bitter family feud in the Albanian highlands. Her bereaved father is torn by the pressures from a local bishop and an NGO chairman from the capital, not only to forgive the imprisoned killer and his family, as a Christian, but to reconcile with them – as the age-old tribal code, Kanun, once required. A poignant and insightful account of a patriarchal society caught between a lingering past and a precarious present.

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Selected Filmography: The Contrabandits of Identity/ Tihotapci Identitete (2016) Festivals and Awards: CPH:DOX - Next:Wave Award, Denmark (2021), One World FF, Czech Republic (2021)

M AT T H EW SO M ERV IL L E

Script: Mira Furlan Photography: Dan McCrum Editing: Gorjan Atanasov Sound: Rick Blything Music: Robin Schlotermeier Production: 2021 Co-production: Ortak Films (mk)

United Kingdom, North Macedonia / 2021 / 74’

SAVA Sava

Sava is a river movie, a documentary film and a 990km journey through countries once united under the umbrella of Yugoslavia. In this film, nature has a voice (Mira Furlan) and conversing with her people, they explore a complex relationship between borders, water and nationhood.

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Selected Filmography: Mothman (2018) Foita (2016)

M IGU EL EEK

Script: Miguel Eek, Aina Calleja Cortés Photography: Jordi Carrasco Editing: Aina Calleja Cortés Sound: Carlos Novoa, Rubén Pérez, Sergio Testón Production: Mosaic, Miguel Eek, Marta Castells, Virginia Galán Co-production: IB3, Nacho Tejedor

Spain / 2020 / 77’

THE FIRST WOMAN La Primera Mujer

Eva’s being allowed to leave the psychiatric institution she’s lived in for six years. After a long year of waiting, she gets a place in an assisted living residence. Eva takes the first steps towards the “normal” life she longs for: to find a job, earn an income of her own, visit her mother... even find love. She also fixes firmly on her main goal: to reconnect with the son she lost custody of 20 years ago and ask him to forgive her.

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Selected Filmography: Coming Soon Last Days (2020) City of the Dead (2019) Life and Death of an Architect (2017) Divine Life (2015)

AL EX AND RA PIANEL L I

Script: Alexandra Pianelli Photography: Alexandra Pianelli Editing: Alexandra Pianelli Sound: Alexandra Pianelli Music: Olaf Hund Production: Quentin Laurent

France / 2020 / 78’

THE KIOSK Le Kiosque

A video diary filmed by Alexandra, a young artist who has come to help her mother who runs a newsstand in a chic Paris neighborhood. While fulfilling her old childhood dream of playing at a keeping shop, she discovers the business of selling newspapers and gets to know the customers. Now Alexandra holds the till of the newsstand, as members of her family have done for a hundred years. But the printed press is in crisis and this game turns out to be a little more complicated than she expected.

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Festivals and Awards: Sheffield DocFest, UK (2021), Champs Elysées Film Festival, France (2020)

DIANE SARA B O U ZGARROU T H O M AS JENKO E Script: Diane Sara Bouzgarrou, Thomas Jenkoe Photography: Thomas Jenkoe Editing: Théophile Gay-Mazas Sound: Diane Sara Bouzgarrou, Pierre Armand Music: Jay Gambit Production: Jean-Laurent Csinidis

France, Quatar / 2020 / 80’

THE LAST HILLBILLY The Last Hillbilly

Low-skilled hillbillies, poor and violent. Brian Ritchie knows very well what the rest of the US thinks of the inhabitants of the Appalachian region. This intimate portrait shows that the simple-looking life is anything but simple. Into the mountains of Kentucky, Ritchie is musing over the beauty of nature, his love for his children and the increasing rarity of his lifestyle. Three generations ago, the hillbilly was still an independent pioneer, but the coming of the coal mines brought an end to that way of life.

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Selected Filmography: I Remember Nothing (2017) Le femme enfant (2011) Festivals and Awards: IndieLisboa, Portugal (2021) Hong Kong International Film Festival, Hong Kong (2021), Belfort Entrevues Film Festival, France (2020), Torino Film Festival - Best International Documentary Film, Italy (2020), IDFA - Best First Documentary (2020)

AL INA GO RLOVA

Ukraine, Latvia, Germany, Qatar / 2020 / 104’

THIS RAIN WILL NEVER STOP This Rain Will Never Stop

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Selected Filmography: No Obvious Signs (2018) Invisible Battalion (2017) Kholodny Yar. Intro (2016) Babushka (2014) The First Step in the Clouds (2012) Festivals and Awards: IDFA - Award for Best First Appearance, Netherlands (2020), Festival Dei Popoli - Best Feature Length, Italy (2020), DocuDays UACurrent Time Award, Ukraine (2021), Las Palmas International Film Festival - Golden Lady Harimaguada Award, Spain (2021), goEast Festival of Central and Eastern European Film- Golden Lily Award for Best Film, Germany (2021)

AICH A M ACKY

Script: Aicha Macky Photography: Julien Bossé Editing: Karen Benainous Sound: Abdoulaye Adamou Mato Music: Dominique Peter Production: Clara Vuillermoz Co-production: Tabous production, Corso films

Niger, France, Germany / 2021 / 82’

ZINDER Zinder

In the town of Zinder in Niger, in the poor area of Kara-Kara which used to be the lepers’ district, a culture of gang violence reigns. A group of youths is trying to break free from this violence, some are trying to start a family and make a life for themselves rather than end up in prison. Aicha Macky, who comes from Zinder, films their daily lives divided between their gangs and their families. We discover how they skilfully cope with life’s challenges and witness their desire to break free from the cycle of violence which has built their identities.

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Selected Filmography: The Fruitless Tree/ L’arbre sans fruit (2016) Me and My Thinness/ Moi et ma maigreur (2015) Know How to Make the Bed/ Savoir faire le lit (2014) Festivals and Awards: Visions du Réel - Switzerland (2021), CPH:DOX - Copenhagen, Denmark (2021), DOK.fest, Munich, Germany, (2021)

Poland / 2020 / 19’

A LITTLE BIT OF PARADISE Trochę Raju

A story from the borderlands of realism and fairy tale. In an outof-the-way corner of a metropolis, a family reveals their world to the watcher and share moments from their lives, which are inextricably bound up with the nature around them.

ANDRZEJ CICHOCKI Script: Andrzej Cichocki Photography: Andrzej Cichocki Editing: Hubert Pusek, Andrzej Cichocki Sound: Krzysztof Kicior Music: Pawel Gorniak Production: Munk Studio – Polish Filmmakers Association Co-production: Unlimited Film Operations, Limes Avenue Produkcja Filmowa

Festivals and Awards: DFA, Netherlands, (2020), FIPADOC, France (2021), FICMEC Festival Internacional de Cine Medioambiental de Canarias, Tenerife (2021), Krakow Film Festival- Best Short Documentary, Poland (2021), Pärnu Film Festival, Estonia (2021)

Spain / 2020 / 15’

DAKHLA: CINEMA AND OBLIVION Dajla: Cine y olvido

Life is going on in Dakhla, one of the Sahrawi refugee camps in southern Algeria, forgotten for 45 years. The celebration of a film festival, the Fisahara, breaks the monotony. The event ends, life (and oblivion) continues.

ARTURO DUEÑAS HERRERO Script: Arturo Dueñas Herrero Photography: Álvaro Sanz Pascual Editing: Arturo Dueñas Herrero Sound: Miguel Sánchez González Production: La Esgueva Films

Selected Filmography: The Flashes of the Memory / Los destellos de la memoria (2020) Built Lands/ Tierras construidas (2019) Mission: Sahara/ Misión: Sahara (2016) Corsairs/ Corsarios (2015) SHOR DOX

Festivals and Awards:

Moscow Shorts ISFF - Best Documentary Short Film, Russia (2021), Eurasia International Monthly Film Festival - Best Documentary, Russia (2021), Milan International Short Film Festival - Best Documentary and Best Editing, Italy (2021), Festival Villa del Cine - Best International Short Film, Colombia (2020), Festival de Cine de Madrid PNR - Best Short Film PNR, Spain (2020)

UK / 2020 / 19’

E14 E14

A study in human behavior in the densest and overdeveloped residential area in the UK during the coronavirus pandemic. The camera peeps through the window in the first two weeks of the lockdown and discovers the phenomenon of empty apartments.

PEIMAN ZEKAVAT Script: Peiman Zekavat Photography: Peiman Zekavat Editing: Nick Bridge Sound: Rob Szeliga Production: Sanam Jehanfard

Selected Filmography: Speaking for the Dead (2019) Timbo (2017)

Festivals and Awards: Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, USA (2021), Dok Leipzig, Germany (2021), Busan International Short Film Festival, Korea (2021), FIPADOC, France (2021), Indy Shorts International Film Festival, USA (2021)

Armenia / 2019 / 12’

EMBERS OF THE SUN Embers of the Sun

A journey into the sacred landscapes of prehistoric Armenia and an evocation of the spirit of a primeval world transfigured by monuments of mysterious origin. The aesthetics of analog video express the otherworldly presence of the monuments and the numinous, terrifying beauty of the spaces they address. At once lyrical documentary and archeological sci-fi- an apocalyptic vision of the future in the past.

ZAREH TJEKNAVORIAN Script: Zareh Tjeknavorian Photography: Vahagn Ter Hagopian Editing: Alina Tjeknavorian Sound: Alina Tjeknavorian Music: Urthona Production: Living Antiquity / Analogue Films

Selected Filmography: Vorkuta Tales (2017) Elegy in Light (2016) Tigranakert: An Armenian Odyssey (2007) Enemy of the People (1998)

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Festivals and Awards: Psychedelic Film and Music FestivalBest Visionary Short, USA (2021), Rassegna internazionale del cinema archeologico, Italy (2019)

Brazil, Spain / 2019 / 12’

FLESH Carne

Rare, medium rare, medium, medium well and well done. Through intimate and personal stories, five women share their experiences in relation to the body, from childhood to old age.

CAMILA KATER Script: Camila Kater, Ana Julia Carvalheiro Photography: Samuel Mariani Editing: Samuel Mariani Sound: Xabier Ferreiro, Julia Teles, Luis Felipe Labaki Music: Sofia Oriana Infante, Julia Teles Production: Chelo Loureiro, Livia Perez

Festivals and Awards: Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland (2019), Toronto International Film Festival, Canada (2019), Hamptons International Film Festival, Canada (2019), Philadelphia Film Festival, US (2019)

North Macedonia / 2021 / 26’

FLOWERS OF THE WATER Цвеќиња на водата

TANJA BALAC

A story about Ratka, a woman that her love of life and art turns into making flower arrangements, thus solving the existential issue. One summer night, Skopje Valley is hit by a catastrophic storm and Ratka’s home suffered great damage. The first and the following days after the storm show the circular cycles of Nature and the new beginning.

Script: Tanja Balac Photography: Kiril Shentevski Editing: Kiril Shentevski Sound: Kiril Shentevski, Sergej Sarchevski Music: Aleksandar Pejovski, Duke Bojadziev, Vlado Manchevski Production: Kiril Shentevski, Tanja Balac

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Italy / 2021 / 12’

FORGET ME NOT Non ti scordar di me

Gilda is a middle aged woman, mother and wife. One day she realizes she’s having problems setting the table. These are her first symptoms of Alzheimer’s. The stages of the disease become a stream of images on the breach of oblivion.

FABIO MARIN GIUSEPPE PETRUZZELLIS Script: Fabio Marin, Giuseppe Petruzzellis Photography: Francesco Saverio Valentino, Giuseppe Petruzzellis Editing: Giuseppe Petruzzellis Sound: Davide Saggioro, Giuseppe Petruzzellis Music: Wang Fan, Yaprak Kurtsal Production: APLYSIA

Selected Filmography: Indian Flow (2011) Fiumara d’Arte (2010) Industrial Bay (2009) Vida Loca/ The Crazy Life (2007)

Germany / 2020 / 28’

HOTEL ASTORIA Hotel Astoria

Leipzig, GDR, 1980s: The Hotel Astoria is a magical, almost sacred place. Business people, prostitutes, the elite of the Socialist Party, and from time to time ordinary people meet here. But lobster, salmon and caviar are not always on the menu – extravagance is also on ration. And the Stasi are always watching. Memories of former staff and guests are brought to life in a mix of archive footage and animation. Constant ambiguities show that different historical experiences can co-exist, and that there are gray areas between propaganda and reality. Because truth is always a matter of opinion.

ALINA CYRANEK FALK SCHUSTER Script: Alina Cyranek Photography: Falk Schuster Editing: Alina Cyranek Sound: Florian Marquardt Music: Florian Marquardt Production: Alina Cyranek & Falk Schuster / hug films Co-production: MDR

Festivals and Awards: DOK Leipzig, Germany (2020), IDFA, Netherlands (2020)

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Poland / 2020 / 11’

MASKS AND MEN Maski i ludzie

PAWEL LOZINSKI Script: Pawel Lozinski Photography: Pawel Lozinski Editing: Bartlomiej Piasek, Piotr Wojcik Sound: Pawel Lozinski Production: HBO Europe Co-production: ŁOZIŃSKI PRODUCTION, IDFX

The passage of time during the pandemic has grown to become my character. The world froze, together with the camera on my balcony. I’m watching a shard of the world in a frame and a unique slice of time we have all found ourselves in. I listen intently to abrupt silence. But life that has slowed down continues under my balcony. New characters are moving along like on the stage. I’m asking people questions I cannot answer myself - what will come next? Selected Filmography: Festivals and Awards: You Have No Idea How Much I Love You Norwegian Short Film Festival, Norway (2016) (2021) Werka (2014) Father and Son (2013) Father and Son on a Journey (2013) Inventory (2013)

Spain / 2021 / 17’

MIST Brétema

After infinite paths of dust, mists, and hills; inhabit the heirs of David Thoreau’s philosophy. Three generations who felt the call into the wild, walk in a rhythmic way in the same direction: the reconnection with nature.

GEMA MIGUEZ RODRIGUEZ Script: Gema Míguez Rodríguez Photography: Josué López Vaz Editing: Gema Míguez Rodríguez, Josué López Vaz Sound: Gema Míguez Rodríguez, Josué López Vaz Production: Gema Míguez Rodríguez

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Canada / 2019 / 18’

MUTTS Clebs

In a stray-dog refuge in Morocco, time seems to stand still for the 750 animals waiting to be adopted, their lives following a precise, monotonous routine.

HALIMA OUARDIRI Script: Halima Ouardiri Photography: Anna Cooley Editing: Xi Feng Sound: Bruno Pucella Production: Halima Ouardiri

Selected Filmography: Berberian Wedding (2013) Mokhtar (2010) La robe (2009)

Festivals and Awards:

Berlinale - Crystal Bear, Germany (2020), FICFA - Best Canadian Short, France (2020), Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur - International Jury Prize, Belgium (2020), Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma - Best Short Documentary Film, Canada (2020), Cinema Under the Stars - Student Favourite Award, USA (2020)

Portugal / 2021 / 26’

TALIA Tália

Natália is a 75 year old Portuguese craftswoman, who struggles to maintain the art of the bulrush mats. Ever since her early days, in a time and place that knew no abundance, the bulrush was a central piece of a simple way of living. Her life and her craft intertwine and blend in a magic realism documentary.

DAVID GOMES PEDRO CRUZ Script: David Gomes, Pedro Cruz Photography: David Gomes Editing: David Gomes, Pedro Cruz Sound: Pedro Cruz Production: David Gomes & Pedro Cruz Co-production: CM Albergaria-a-Velha, CLDS 3G Albergaria-a-Velha SHOR DOX

Selected Filmography: Farewell to the River (2017)

Spain / 2020 / 11’

THE BODIES Os Corpos

ELOY DOMÍNGUEZ SERÉN Script: Eloy Domínguez Serén Photography: Eloy Domínguez Serén Editing: Eloy Domínguez Serén Sound: Juan Carlos Blancas Music: Juan Carlos Blancas Production: Filmika Galaika

In Galicia, Spain’s most northwestern region, one of the oldest forms of Carnival takes place every year. Spread over several days are parades with ‘felos’ and ‘peliqueiros’, characters who wear spectacular outfits, including a striking mask and a belt strung with large cowbells. Another tradition is the ‘farrapada’, in which participants pelt each other with rags covered in mud. The peculiar celebrations, lit by torches and accompanied by drums, immerse us into the age-old pagan ritual, filmed just ten days before the first confirmed case of Covid-19 in the region.

Switzerland / 2020 / 18’

THE GAME Das Spiel

ROMAN HODEL

A whistle. The stands of the stadium get loud. The players protest angrily. The presenters follow the action on the field. In the middle of it, the referee. The whole stadium watches him. Now he has to decide. With the referee Fedayi San we experience the highs and lows of a football game, what it means to earn respect on the field and direct the energy of an entire stadium.

Script: Roman Hodel Photography: Lukas Gut Editing: Rolf Hellat, Roman Hodel Sound: Oscar Von Hoogevest Production: Franziska Sonder

Selected Filmography: Bluelight (2014)

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Festivals and Awards: Venice International Film Festival, Italy (2020), Toronto International Film Festival, Canada (2020), Hamptons International Film Festival, Canada (2020), Internationale, Sulmona International Film Festival - Best Documentary Short & Best Editing, Italy (2020)

Poland / 2021 / 15’

THE PRISONER The Prisoner

One night with an ex-convict on the streets of Vancouver. Inspired by cinéma-vérité.

LUKAS GIERANCZYK FILIP DRZEWIECKI Script: Lukas Gieranczyk Photography: Lukas Gieranczyk Editing: Filip Drzewiecki Sound: Franciszek Kozlowski Production: Lukas Gieranczyk, Filip Drzewiecki

Selected Filmography: Odprawa/ The Briefing (2018)

Philippines, United Kingdom / 2020 / 19’

THOSE WHO WAIT Those Who Wait

What does it take to live when you are surrounded by death? That’s a question Tony faces every day. After calling Manila North Cemetery home and working as a mausoleum caretaker for more than 30 years, life amongst the dead is not just normal, it is a necessity to survive. With dreams of being able to one day leave Manila North behind, Tony works hard to provide a stable life for his growing family. But as time passes on, the prospect of an existence beyond the cemetery gates withers.

STEPH BEESTON Photography: Steph Beeston Editing: Lisa Cazzato Vieyra Sound: Adam Woodhams Music: Ben Price Production: Steph Beeston

Festivals and Awards: Ethnocineca Film Festival - International Short Award, Austria (2020), Cheap Cuts Documentary Film Festival - London Emerging Award, UK (2020)

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Estonia / 2021 / 28’

VINYL WHISPERER Muusika, mida ma veel ei tea

A vinyl archeologist armed with encyclopedic knowledge and unbound passion for obscure music, embarks on a journey to find the rarest vinyl records of the Soviet era.

ALEKSANDR HEIFETS Script: Aleksandr Heifets Photography: Taavi Arus, Aleksandr Heifets, Madis Ligema, Margus Talvik Editing: Aleksandr Heifets Sound: Indrek Soe Music: Various Production: Well Well Co-production: Taiga Film

Festivals and Awards: Selected Filmography: Border Youth/ Noored piiril (2019) Beat Film Festival, Russia (2021) War on Boring Walls/ Sõda igavatele seintele (2019) Reception/ Vastuvõtt (2018) St. John’s Day/ Jaanipäev (2017) Canvascity/ Lõuendilinn (2015)

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Germany / 2021 / 18’

AN OCEAN An Ocean

PAUL SCHEUFLER Script: Paul Scheufler Photography: Jakob Grasböck Editing: Daria Wörmann Sound: Eva Perháčová Production: Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

A daily struggle for survival between the past and the view of the ocean horizon. The trembling starts in his neck when Markus is getting closer to the images that have chased him for 49 years. Now he steers his motor home south, as far away from his past as possible. First a tingling in the neck, then the trembling spreads through Markus’ whole body. The abuse happened over 45 years ago, but only now can Markus put it into words.

Festivals and Awards: Docudays UA - Best Short Film, Ukraine (2021), FiSH - Best Short Film, Germany (2021), Leiden Shorts, Netherlands (2021), Fünf Seen Filmfestival, Germany (2021), Achtung Berlin, Germany (2021)

Belgium / 2020 / 15’

I DON’T FEEL AT HOME ANYWHERE ANYMORE I Don’t Feel At Home Anywhere Anymore

A wistful but witty account of a trip to Beijing by an art student who has been abroad for ten years. Her stay with her family mercilessly exposes how uprooted she has become by her life abroad.

VIV LI Script: Viv Li Production: Viv Li Selected Filmography: All Our Night (2019) She Dyes Her Hair Pink (2019)

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Festivals and Awards: IDFA, Netherlands (2020), Docudays UA, Ukraine, (2021), Leiden Shorts, Netherlands (2021), Filmfest Dresden, Germany (2021), Beijing International Short Film Festival, China (2020)

Italy / 2020 / 7’

LAND/SCAPE Land/Scape

The word ‘landscape’ is made of two parts: ‘land’, from the Old English lond, land, meaning “ground, soil” and -skap, related to the word ‘shape’ from the Old English “scieppan,” meaning “to create, to form.” A collaboration between humans and donkeys, in the permacultural site of Centre Thar dö Ling, in the Valley of Sagana (Sicily, Italy), where the land is being regenerated, and regenerative, through human and other-than-human ecological interactions.

MICHAL KRAWCZYK Script: Michal Krawczyk and Giulia Lepori Production: Michal Krawczyk and Giulia Lepori

Selected Filmography: In the Natural Apiary (2021) Yuyos (2018)

Festivals and Awards: Kinesthesia Film Festival, UK (2021), OpenEyes Film Fest Marburg, Germany (2021), Regard Bleu Ethnographic Film Festival, Switzerland (2020), Festival de Cine FENACIR, Mexico (2020)

Croatia / 2020 / 78’

ONCE UPON A YOUTH O Jednoj Mladosti

Thirteen years after the unexpected death of his once best friend, the filmmaker tries to reconstruct his late friend’s life and their friendship, using just the photographs and video material his friend shot back then.

IVAN RAMLJAK Script: Ivan Ramljak Photography: Marko Čaklović Editing: Ivor Šonje Sound: Borna Buljević Production: Matej Merlić

Selected Filmography: Mezostajun/ Mezostajun (2018) Home of the Resistance/ Dom boraca (2018) Ships Still Don’t Come Ashore/ Brodovi i dalje ne pristaju (2017) Islands of Forgotten Cinemas/ Kino otok (2016) STUDENT DOX

Festivals and Awards: Dokufest - Best Balkan Documentary Award, Kosovo (2020), Trieste Film Festival - OBC Transeuropa Award, Italy (2020), Days of Croatian Film Grand Prix, Croatia (2020), Poitiers Film Festival - Grand Prix, France (2020) 67

Germany / 2021 / 29’

SIGURIMI Sigurimi

LUIGJINA SHKUPA Script: Luigjina Shkupa Photography: Teresa Renn Editing: Sophie Oldenbourg Sound: Andrew Mottl Music: Karim Shalaby Production: HFF München

From 1944 to 1990 Albania suffered from the dictatorship of Hoxha, which turned Albania into an extremely isolationist, Stalinist, anti-revisionist and communist state. At that time, the communists built 750,000 bunkers. The bunkers are everywhere: in cities, yards, cemeteries and playgrounds across the country. After communism, the bunkers were used in different ways by the albanian citizens: they became pizzerias, bars, museums and hostels. Selected Filmography: Theatre of Albania (2020) Shoot and stay quiet (2019) Seare (2017)

Festivals and Awards: Dokufest, Kosovo (2021)

France / 2020 / 20’

STORGETNYA Storgetnya

Yerevan, capital of Armenia. 230 meters underground, in the Avan salt mine, men and women walk to breathe easier. Physical activities and medical consultations set the rhythm of the timeless world of this underground clinic, where lives intersect and stories are told.

HOVIG HAGOPIAN Script: Hovig Hagopian Photography: Hovig Hagopian Editing: Lucie Brux Sound: Hayk Israelyan, Benoît Gargonne, Sylvain Adas Music: Vardan Harutyunyan Production: Astrig Chandèze-Avakian

Festivals and Awards: FIPADOC, France (2021), IDFA, Netherlands (2020), Clermont ISFF, France (2021), Go Short, Netherlands (2021), Docaviv, Israel (2021)

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Lebanon / 2020 / 31’

THE PERFECT PICTURE Can a single traumatic event be the fatal blow that disrupts the notion of an ideal family? The filmmaker creates a therapy session setting to confront her parents about a traumatic event, and interrogates them over the course of five days. But the moment that “changed everything” for her seems to have made far less impact on her parents. The conversation takes an unexpected turn.

HALA EL KOUCH Script: Hala El Kouch Photography: Michel Labaky Editing: Hala El Kouch Sound: Nanor Baghdassarian Music: Emir Diab Production: Nanor Baghdassarian and Hala El Kouch

Selected Filmography: Festivals and Awards: Short term exile (2019) IDFA, Netherlands (2020), Hot What happens at home stays at home Docs, Canada (2021), Gabès (2019) Cinema Fen, Tunisia (2021) Interlude (2018) Trial and Error (2018) Fishing out of the sea (2017)

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North Macedonia / 2020 / 21’

AFTER MARKO После Марко

The story presents all the threats to the critically endangered Balkan lynx, the people who stand for its survival, and the challenges they are facing. Can one put a price tag on a national invaluable wealth of nature in an ecosystem?

MILA MAKAROVSKA Script: Mila Makarovska Camera: Oliver Mileski Editing: Leon Shumanski Music: Adi Imeri Production: MakeDox Film School

Spain / 2021 / 29’

ANIMA ANIMAE ANIMAM Anima Animae Animam

JULIETA GASROC JOSÉ (PUTXA) PUCHADES MARTÍNEZ

A tribute to the people who dedicated their lives to sharing their soul with beings who never had one. To the people who gave their voices to objects that had so much to say. To tell old forgotten stories. To the puppeteers, who due to their profession were not allowed to be buried in cemeteries, as they were considered soulless.

Script: Julieta Gasroc, José Puchades (Putxa), David Maqueda, Marc Costa Photography: Marc Costa Editing: Marc Costa Sound: Alba Vega, Jorge Da Rocha, David Maqueda Music: Jean Du Voyage, Lisa Madsen, Rober Gonzalez, Arnaud Spicq, Daniel Lopez Production: Julieta Gascón Roque, José Antonio Puchades Martínez, David Maqueda Pavo 72

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North Macedonia / 2021 / 46’

ART OF ALL ARTS Уметност над уметностите

A story about the touch of the human bare soul with the Prime Creator. Fulfillment of art that encompasses all the art forms, perfectly intertwined, unaltered, transformed into their essence. A rapper, a musician and a former journalist amalgamate their natural gifts and change their nature. Devoted to long forbearance and diligence, today they stand as a living testimony of the Art of All Arts.

DAVID STOJANOVSKI Script: David Stojanovski Camera: Petar Trgachevski Editing: Lea Dimitrova Sound: Naum Kutleshovski Design: Philip Ivanishevich Music: Goran Trajkoski Production: MakeDox Film School

Mexico / 2020 / 22’

AT ELEVEN A Los Once

Best friends Isa and Zoe are both eleven. In their video diaries, they tell us about the changes and freak-outs that come with being pre-teens. Humorous perspectives onto a friendship that abounds in laughter and innocence. A testament to being friends, growing up, and exploring all the related adventures.

CAROLINA ADMIRABLE GARCÍA Script: Carolina Admirable García, Aldo Alejandro Ter-veen Calderón Photography: María Fernanda Islas Montero Editing: Aldo Alejandro Ter-veen Calderón Sound: Zahira Aldana Ramírez Production: Nancy Samara Guerrero Miranda

Festivals and Awards: IDFA, Netherlands (2021), Festival de cine de Morelia, Mexico (2021), EBS International Documentary Festival, Korea (2021), Festival de cine Austral, Brazil (2021)

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North Macedonia / 2020 / 11’

CINEMA “MORTUS” Кино „Мортус”

Time travel into the scene of cinema halls in Skopje. The testaments of two film connoisseurs, Ilindenka Petrusheva and Vlatko Galevski, tell the story of its glory days. A cocktail of anecdotes served with a hint of nostalgia reflects the irony of the condition in which these cinema halls are left today.

IVANA CVETANOVSKA Script: Ivana Cvetanovska Camera: Antonio Misirkoski, Matea Kozovski Editing: Oliver Mileski Sound: Leon Shumanski Production: MakeDox Film School

Norway / 2019 / 8’

DAD Pappa

ATLE BLAKSETH EINAR DUNSÆD

Larger than life, dressed in suit and tie, dad appears at the window one evening, with a gift for his son. Daddy is strong and brave – he frees animals from captivity, wins races with his superfast car, dives down into the depths of the ocean. Dad is a sorcerer who can make himself appear and disappear magically. The film tells of a child’s poignant longing for his absent father.

Production: Gimpeville AS

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Norway / 2009 / 6’

FISHING WITH SAM Isfiske

Catching fish on the North Pole can be challenging. Some have more luck than others. The unfortunate ones may need a totally different fishing approach.

ATLE T. BLAKSETH Production: Spooking the Horses

Estonia / 2021/ 28’

FOR TOMORROW PARADISE ARRIVES Homme Saabub Paradiis

The world is suffering from the flood of food waste, to save the environment and the future of their children, young mothers decide to feed their families by diving into the dumpsters of the enormous supermarkets.

ANNA HINTS Script: Anna Hints Photography: Erik Põllumaa Editing: Marion Koppel Sound: Ekke Västrik Music: Ann Reimann Production: Stellar Film

Selected Filmography: Roots: With Mum At The Monastery/ Juured: Emaga kloostris (2018) Estonian Natural Sacred Grounds/ Eesti looduslikud pühapaigad (2015) Tide (2014) Tiiu’s Story (2014) Flesh and bone/ Lihast ja luust (2013) KIDS AND YOUTH PROGRAM

Norway / 2014 / 8’

HERMAN’S HEART Hermans Hjerte

ANNE KRISTIN BERGE

Herman lives in peaceful harmony with his teddy bear inside a large tree surrounded by a beautiful garden. One night an unexpected and, for Herman, unwelcome visitor arrives. When Herman throws the visitor out, it gets stormy outside, and he realizes that he has to go out on a rescue mission. We follow Hermans journey through thick fog before he eventually understands that a heart can accommodate many and the fog clears.

Production: AN-Imation

Serbia / 2021 / 77’

LIFE OF A MUTT Prizori iz života džukca

TANJA BRZAKOVIĆ Script: Tanja Brzaković Photography: Boško Đorđević, Aleksandar Kalezić, Tanja Brzaković Editing: Branka Pavlović, Irena Domazetović, Mina Nenadović, Jelena Bosanac, Srđan Mitrović-Hitch Sound: Miloš Drobnjaković Music: Janja Lončar Production: Nebojša Miljković

Authentic and intimate stories from the perspective of stray dogs. Combining documentary material with hand drawn animation and voice over, we are crossing between genres and forms of documentary, fiction and animation, giving our silent heroes a voice.The inspiration comes from ancient Indian, Russian, British stories. Combining seven scenes in one life story- from birth to a birth again, we witness their dignifying fight for survival. By talking about existential questions, such as the marginalized groups, nature and the environment, and highlighting esteemed values such as love, friendship and trust. Selected Filmography: The Chinese Will Come (2017) Jovica and His Teeth (2015) Jelena’s World (2008)

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Festivals and Awards: FEST, Serbia, 2021

Norway / 2014 / 8’

MORNINGBIRD AND MURMELTON ON WINTER HOLIDAY Morgenfugl Og Murmeldyr På Vinterferie

ANNETTE SAUGESTAD HELLAND

It is summer, but the rain is pouring down. Mathilde is bored. Had it been winter, it would be snowing instead. Mathilde wants to go on a winter holiday right away. Morningbird and Murmelton are tiny enough to go on a winter holiday in the freezer. It becomes quite the adventure.

Production: Mikrofilm AS

Norway / 2016 / 11’

ODD IS AN EGG Odd er et Egg

K RISTIN ULSETH

Seven-year-old Odd is so worried about crushing his head that his entire life has come to a standstill. Everyday life is colored by fear of what might happen to him, on the way to school or in the schoolyard. One day he meets the bee girl Gunn. She is both fearless and happy in life. Through meeting Gunn, Odd’s life is turned upside down, and most unexpectedly, he is freed from all worries.

Production: Qvisten Animation

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Norway / 2009 / 10’

PUPIL’S CONCERT Elevkonsert

Evan is going to play Beethovens ”Fr Elise” at a student concert. He finds practicing very boring and is daydreaming about his own music instead.

JAN OTTO ERTESVAAG Production: Pang Produksjoner AS

Russia / 2020 / 22’

SHADOWS OF YOUR CHILDHOOD Shadows of Your Childhood

MIKHAIL GOROBCHUK Script: Mikhail Gorobchuk Photography: Mikhail Gorobchuk Editing: Mikhail Gorobchuk Sound: Dmitry Nazarov Music: Domenico Scarlatti, J. S. Bach Production: Ekaterina Vizgalova, Irina Kalinina, Vladislav Shuvalov

The house becomes shrouded in the silence of night. It grows long shadows accentuated by the random sparks of the kerosene lamp. For little Stesha, the darkness becomes a way into another world that is both frightening and fascinating. Fragments of elusive memories, voices and shimmers of light – these are the flickering sensations of childhood, and they stay with us forever.

Selected Filmography: Katya and Stephanie. Portrait in the Interior (2018) Janker (2017) The Breath Of The Tundra (2012)

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Festivals and Awards: Tampere Film Festival - Best Documentary, Finland (2021), Russian Film Festival “Window to Europe” Special Prize, Russia, (2020), Visions du Réel, Switzerland (2020), EnergaCAMERIMAGE, Poland (2020)

Switzerland / 2021 / 23’

SUÑU EKOOL suñu ekool

After staying in Switzerland for fifteen years, earning a living in construction, “Bouba” returns to Senegal to help shape the future of his motherland.

ARON MARTY MARIA BÄNZIGER Script: Andi Bänziger Photography: Aron Marty Editing: Aron Marty Sound: Aron Marty Music: Philip Bartels Production: Andi Bänziger

Selected Filmography: Transition - “Xbuk Alo?”/ Übergang „Xbuk Alo?“ (2019)

Festivals and Awards: South African International Documentary Festival, South Africa (2021), International Ethnofilmfestival, Croatia (2021), International Festival of Cinema and Audiovisual of Burundi, Burundi (2021), Kinosaray Positive Film Festival, Ukraine (2021), OKO International Ethnographic Film Festival, Ukraine (2021)

Spain / 2020 / 29’

THE INVISIBLE MONSTER El Monstruo Invisible

Aminodin’s father always smiles because he says “happy people live longer”. That’s why, at eight years old, Aminodin puts his best smile while working at the Papandayan dump, where he lives with his family. Her cousin Aliman, on the other hand, lost his when bombs started falling from the sky in the city of Marawi.

JAVIER FESSER GUILLERMO FESSER Script: Javier Fesser, Guillermo Fesser Photography: Jairo Iglesias Editing: Antonio Frutos, Pablo Mas Sound: Armando Ciudad, Charly Schmuckler Music: No No Production: Luis Manso KIDS AND YOUTH PROGRAM

Norway / 1987 / 9’

THE MAGIC TIME Den Magiske Tiden

A film inspired by the Sami culture, history, legends, and fairy tales. A story of a reindeer-calf and his journey to becoming a grown, white buck which, according to Sami culture, also represents a shaman.

KINE AUNE Production: Kinefilm As Coproduction: Qvisten Animation

Norway / 2017 / 10’

THE WORLD’S MIDDLEST FISH Verdens mellomste fisk

Ingeborg is a young girl who enjoys fishing. As always, she signs up for the annual fishing competition. And this year, Ingeborg happens to catch an unusually medium sized fish. As a matter of fact, she has caught The World’s Middlest Fish. Ingeborg and her fish become a huge media phenomenon. But what happens when the fish gains weight?

CATHINKA TANBE RG Production: Mikrofilm

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Spain / 2020 / 21’

ULISSES Ulysses

JOAN BOVER Script: Joan Bover, Javier G. Lerín Photography: Toni Payeras Editing: Jaume Carlos Moranta Sound: Miquel Llinàs, Tolo Prats, Xavier Antich Music: Tolo Prats Production: Joan Bover

On November 19 of 1980, a baby orca was captured in Icelandic sea. They named him Ulisses. He began his captivity in a water park in Tarragona and became one of the stars of the Barcelona Zoo for more than 10 years. Finally, in 1994, he was transferred to the Sea Word in San Diego (USA), where Ulisses continues to spin around in a pool.

Selected Filmography: Kyoko (2018)

Festivals and Awards: FICMEC, Spain (2021), MECAL PRO Festival of Short and Animated Films, Spain (2021), Festival de Cinema de Menorca, Spain (2020), International Festival IbizaCineFest, Spain (2020)

Norway / 2018 / 13’

WANDA Wanda

Wanda escapes running into the woods. Luckily, she has good company. Wanda ’s life is filled with conflicts at home and at school, and she escapes into her imaginary world. But as the problems grow, help comes from an unexpected place to make her confront reality.

DENISE HAUSER Production: Klipp &amp, Lim Media AS

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WHAT SALES AGENTS DO Masterclass with Heino Deckert

A short introduction what to do with a documentary when it is finished with the film “Honeyland” as an example

Heino studied law and subsequently graduated from the Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB). In 1991, he founded Ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions GmbH. Since 2003, he has been the managing director of Deckert Distribution, his own world distribution company for documentary films. He is also a partner in Blinker Filmproduktion in Cologne and the world distribution company Pluto Films.

menced with the Caligari Prize of the Berlinale. The film was also nominated for the German Film Award 2020. In 2020, Ma.ja.de.’s co-production The Cave by Feras Fayyad got a nomination for an Oscar in 2020. In 2021 Invisible Demonds by Rahul Jain premiered in Cannes. Heino is a member of the German and European Film Academy and a member of Ampas.

Heino has produced over 120 films to date with filmmakers like Sergei Loznitsa, Victor Kossakovsky, Ai Weiwei, and Thomas Heise. In 2018 he premiered two films in Cannes, Donbass by Sergei Loznitsa and his co-production Chris The Swiss by Anja Kofmel. The same year, Adam & Evelyn by Andreas Goldstein and Aquarela by Victor Kossakovsky, both premiered in Venice. In 2019 the successful festival tour of Thomas Heise’s Heimat Is A Space In Time com-

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MAKECOPRODOX FORUM #3 It is hard not to be in love with MakeDox. The location, the films, and the people. After nine years as a Film Commissioners for documentaries in Denmark and Norway, it makes sense to share knowledge, and I am happy to learn more about the way Balkan is doing things. I am also moderating a network of key persons from the Balkan film agencies and centers and it is a privilege being together with a group who wants to exchange, innovate and work for the best conditions for filmmakers and films in the future. - Helle Hansen

MakeCoProDox Forum is a forum whose main goal is to develop a strategic plan to increase documentary film co-production between the Balkan countries. The Forum welcomes representatives from 12 regional film agencies, documentary associations, documentary professionals, and 10 projects in different stages of production selected through an open call. In anticipation of an economic crisis, culture and the film industry are often most affected by budget cuts. Only by acting in solidarity by increasing regional co-productions can the Balkan countries increase the number of funded projects during the reduced funds. The first documentary film co-production forum took place within the 10th edition of the Creative Documentary Film Festival MakeDox in 2019, and the second one within the 11th edition in 2020. Our objective with this project is to establish a new alliance sector in the Balkan region for the first time, as the only way to amortize the consequences of the crisis. Within the online sessions we will present the problems that regional countries are facing, and try to find possiMAKEDOX+

Moderators: Helle Hansen (Former Film Commissioner documentary at Norwegian & Danish Institute) Brigid O’Shea (Documentary Association of Europe) Zeynep Güzel (Documentary Association of Europe)

ble ways of overcoming them, while emphasizing their not specific regulations dedicated to supporting the development and production of documentary films. Due to the uncertainty of the government’s measures of the COVID-19 pandemic, the third edition of the MakeCoProDox Forum will be held online, with the moderators present in Skopje. The Forum is organized & supported by: MakeDox, North Macedonia Film Agency, Goethe Institute Skopje & Youth Cultural Center Skopje.

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How much does the child’s reality differ from the reality of the adults, and how do they see the world? Will the child’s curiosity and tendency to regroup and rename things save the adult from feeling burdened, lost, from the sense of collapse? These are important questions when we inquire what goes on in those small, albeit smart and lucid heads. Often, by posing seemingly naïve questions, they bring us to a state where we realize that we lack an answer, that everything is not finished, that we should go on, searching, creating, playing…

the Kingdom of Norway and the Norwegian Film Institute, will please the curious child’s eye. According to us, it is the most sincere critic of all, pushing us to keep developing the children’s visual world in the future so that their ideas, desires and needs will become a part of reality, even if it is only the reality of the projection screen. And so, dear children, big or small, be curious, watch films and open the window to your creative reality!

That is why MakeDox pays special attention to the Kids and Youth festival program this year once more. We have selected several child documentary short films in combination with short animated films of the utmost quality, this time coming from the far north that is Norway. We hope that this carefully curated program of documentaries and animated films, part of which we received through the collaboration with the Embassy of

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DOC TALKS UNDER THE FIG TREE

The day is slowly going away and if the mind becomes silent for a moment, and takes the body along, you may hear the words of the song which the muezzin sings in a language indecipherable for many of us. But what does it say, really? To slow down, to let go, to lighten up our heavy steps while walking down the cobblestone alleys in the Old Turkish Bazaar in Skopje, rushing toward the An in order to escape the scorching August heatwave. Suddenly, a relief! Behind the massive stone walls a cool breeze embraces us, our thoughts become clear, water is flowing in the center… All is well. We hear the sound of children’s laughter and a distant echo of dogs barking. It’s just a few minutes before 6 p.m, so that means that it’s too early for screenings for it’s still daylight. However, it’s time to talk, to listen, and then talk and listen a bit more… We are sitting in a circle. For a moment we become silent, all of us are here and we may begin. А summer scent is gently spreading in the air- black Turkish tea,

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wild figs, and watermelon. The tiny metal spoon is making a swirl, melting away the sugar cube. Ching, ching, the spoon goes, announcing the beginning of our discussion. We are talking about characters who live lonesome lives in the middle of mountains, ice deserts, and oceans, then for some others who found luck midst unfortunate, next we turn toward the new forms of communication and technology, then we are listening about the craziness of going shooting when everyone tells you that you shouldn’t, then someone shares their aches and pains about the time when realizing that their entire recorded material had simply vanished, then we hear about the joy to see that all the nonsense finally made sense when revealed on the film screen… Dear dreamers, this year we will, once again, talk in person under the shadow of our fig tree. May we live long and have stories to tell!

NIGHT STORIES

The docu-nights at MakeDox prove that where words fail, music speaks… When the day is done, after hours of working, indulging into film screenings, or maybe digesting personal stories, we stop for a moment to rest and feel that the An is also taking a breath. Then, the film canvas turns black, so our menu offers a hot spot that links directly to emotions- we dwell upon them, feed their inside, share them or let them go wild… It’s time for our version of Scheherazade and 1001 Nights, our bedtime stories. While the guitar, the oud, the kemane, and the accordion echo around, one should just carefully listen, and they will hear all the stories that were once told in the dark nooks of this place- all the adventures, misfortunes, boastful lyrics of personal praises and hard fates. And all those who played here prompted by joy, delight, grief, or for the sake of shelter or bread. See you at night, in the stories…

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MAKEDOX TRAVELLING CINEMA

This year, MakeDox’s donkey will slowly begin its journey through the main artery which unites the eastern region. It will pass through all the colors and smells of the Bregalnica river basin that enchant all senses, through the old beech trees reveling in the endless murmur symphony of waterfalls synchronized with the birds. The donkey will begin its voyage in the heart of the extinct volcano chronicled in Homer’s “Iliad” and will steadily stretch the film canvas on the medieval bridges between the towers for the first screening under the stars. It will drop by the oldest neolithic settlement and by Slave the Macedonian, and also by the populated area on the “rocky river bed” which only recently had been declared a city, in the new millennium. The donkey will tell stories, but it will also collect new and old ones, like the one about the migrant worker Kocho who smuggled white gold in goose intestines. So come and let’s exchange stories under the stars in the Osogovo Mountains, at a table full of forest blueberries and blackberries, to encounters bathed in the scent of thyme and St John’s-wort, where our paths may even cross with a doe or a mouflon.

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DOC AROUND EUROPE NETWORK

It is a perfect moment in history to start new collaborations with already acclaimed European festivals from Germany, France, Spain. Festivals are meant to be celebrations of life and a meeting place for creativity, a market where opinions and ideas are exchanged and where collaborations come to life. Festivals are necessary for filmmakers to meet their audience, to celebrate films. Since documentaries usually take a long time before they reach their viewers, festivals acknowledge the filmmaker’s achievement and mark an important moment in the film completion process. This is why it is important to establish strong festival bonds and even more in times of social crisis. Now it is time to strengthen the ties, help each other with advice and thus support the art of filmmaking. At the moment, one such network is the Doc Around Europe Network which helps us to make the best of the new forms of festivals we have been facing and to take advantage of the new online reality. Moreover, it gives us the opportunity to engage documentary filmmakers from faraway places to understand the differences of the European realities. Doc Around Europe started spontaneously between the German Dok.fest Munich, the French FIPADOC from BiMAKEDOX LAYERS

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arritz, the Spanish DocsBarcelona and MakeDox which decided to join their creative forces and different festival experiences so as to bring to the screen films from France, Spain, Germany and the Balkans, France, Spain and Germany before audiences that don’t have the opportunity to see realities from these countries. Which is why we will organize screenings locally but will also cross borders to reach the audiences from rural and other urban areas. This collaboration strengthens our festival markets and seeks possibilities for co-production of documentary films. We’ll therefore involve all three festivals in the CoProDox Forum pitching session and the discussions under the fig tree we will open the question, ‘Where do we go now?’, referring to the festivals in Europe where the next logical step would be the exchange and screening of films from each country and attending to other’s festivals.

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Events: MakeDox in Classroom introduced the documentary film into 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 North 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[1]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 one hundred of participants from North 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 North Macedonia.

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Events: ACTive is a regional creative documentary film school open to 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. Last year, we planted the DocuSprouts seeds for the fourth time. DocuSprouts is a project aiming to provide education and film literacy to young people, namely high school students aged 15-19 years. It seeks to offer a program - in an informal way, outside of the schools - to young people through which they will not only get acquainted with the basic stages of documentary filmmaking but also get hands-on experience. Driven by the idea of active youth participation in the creation of new cultural values, DocuSprouts recognizes and brings together the weak points in terms of culture availability among young people allowing for new cultural initiatives to emerge. Over the four sessions that take place during MakeDox Traveling Cinema, the film festival and during the autumn and winter months, the future young filmmakers acquire knowledge and develop skills in the field of documentary filmmaking mentored by MakeDox creative team members and acknowledged docu[1]professionals from abroad. So far, three short documentaries have been produced by young people for young people, conveying their messages to a wider audience and at the same time motivating the young audience to proactively contribute to the development of the cultural scene. So far, through MakeDox in Cinema, we have shared 75 exceptional documentary stories with nearly 15,000 primary school pupils in Skopje.

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DISTRIBUTION MOVING DOCS

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In 2017, MakeDox became 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.

The most beautiful stories deserve to travel and the docu-audiences deserve 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).

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 – Czech Republic Rise and Shine Cinema – Germany Take One Action Film Festivals – United Kingdom Taskovki Films – Bosnia and Herzegovina

www.restartlabel.net www.freezonebelgrade.org www.dokufest.com www.makedox.mk www.underhillfest.me www.deltavideo.rs www.demiurg.si www.petrapan.com

COFFEE AND ONION We often stretch our film canvas at the most unexpected places - in the middle of a meadow, in a library, at a playground and sometimes even in some old or new cinema, garden or backyard. Last year, we launched a collaboration with the multimedia venue “Film and Coffee Kotur”, whose menu also offers “Coffee and Onion”. So far, we have screened 10 documentary films but we are looking forward to see you at many more screenings and “Coffee and Onion” hang outs soon.

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INDEX A A Portrait on the Background of Mountains After Marko Altered States of Consciousness An Ocean Anima Animae Animam Anny Art of All Arts As Far as Possible At Eleven C Cinema Mortus D Dad Dakhla: Cinema and Oblivion Dida Don’t Worry, the Doors Will Open E E14 Embers of the Sun F Façade Colour: Blue Fishing with Sam Flesh Flowers of the Water For Tomorrow Paradise Arrives Forget Me Not

I I Am Greta I Don’t Feel At Home Anywhere Anymore L Land/Scape Life of a Mutt M Masks and Men Mist Morningbird And Murmelton On Winter Holiday Mustard in the Gardens Mutts My Father Is My Mother’s Brother O Odd is an Egg Once Upon a Youth P Pupil’s Concert R Radiograph of a Family Reconciliation

G Garage People Gunda

S Sava School of Hope Shadows of Your Childhood Sigurimi Storgetnya suñu ekool

H Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful Herman’s Heart Hotel Astoria

T Talia Taming the Garden Territory of Empty Windows

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The Bad and the Beautiful The Bodies The Diviners The First Woman The Game The Invisible Monster The Kiosk The Last Hillbilly The Magic Time The Mole Agent The Perfect Picture The Prisoner The World’s Middlest Fish This Rain Will Never Stop Those Who Wait U Ukrainian Sheriffs Ulisses V Vinyl Whisperer W Wanda Z Zinder

MAKEDOX FAMILY 2021

Alicia Ferro, Aleksandra Stojanovska, Anastasija Popovska, Angela Stojanovska, Andrijana Papić Mancheva, Brand Ferro, Branko Avramovski, Valentino Apostolovski, Vasil Manchev, Vladan Carichich-Tzar, Galina Strachkova, Gorjan Atanasov, Gracija Atanasovska, Darko Nabakov, Dimitar Shopov, Dorijan Milovanovik, Dorian Krivičič Popovski, Dragan Mishevski, Dushica Lazova, Ena Alushevska, Ivan Alushevski, Igor Delov, Ilindenka Petrusheva, Jelena Belic, Kira Gjorgjieska, Kiro Shopov, Kirijana A. Nikoloska, Kiril Shentevski, Kosta Nechovski, Lea Dimitrova, Lena Mancheva, Magda Origjanska, Marija Angelovska, Martin Ivanov, Malik Krivičič Popovski, Mia Ferro, Nada Nikoloska, Natasha Shopova, Nil Ferro Selishkar, Pavle Ignovski, Petar Krstevki, Petra Selishkar, Petrula Veljanovska, Ramona Kochishka, Ruse Arsov, Samir Karahasan, Sara Ferro, Sasho N. Alushevski, Sirma Shopova, Stela Popovska, Terra Ferro Selishkar, Toni Dimkov And all our wonderful volunteers...

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IMPRESSUM

Publisher: MakeDox For the Publisher: Pavle Ignovski Editor: Magda Origjanska Collaborators: Darko Nabakov, Petrula Veljanovska Translation: Gracija Atanasovska, Dushica Lazova, Magda Origjanska Proofreading: Suzana V. Spasovska Editorial design: Natasha Shopova Art Direction and Graphics: Samir Karahasan Print: ProMedia Circulation: 400 ISBN- 978-608-66051-4-8 MAKEDOX LAYERS

CALL FOR ENTRIES: 1 NOVEMBER 2021