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Greetings ...................................................................................................................................................................................2 International Competition Jury - Feature Films ......................................................................................................11 International Competition Jury- Documentary Films ...........................................................................................17 International Competition Jury - Short Films...........................................................................................................23 Opening Film .........................................................................................................................................................................29 International Competition - Feature Films ..............................................................................................................31 International Competition - Documentary Films ..................................................................................................43 International Competition - Short Films...................................................................................................................53 Georgian Panorama ............................................................................................................................................................67 Masters’ Collection ..............................................................................................................................................................73 Retrospectives .......................................................................................................................................................................81 “SHORT MATTERS!” - European Film Academy’s Short Film Tour ................................................................89 BIAFF 2015 Master classes................................................................................................................................................97 BIAFF 2015 Industry Platform “Alternative Wave” ...............................................................................................101 BIAFF 2015 Program Outline ........................................................................................................................................104 BIAFF Team ..........................................................................................................................................................................109 Acknowledgements..........................................................................................................................................................112
different additional components are added. However, its goal remains the same - to contribute the development
Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection is traditional supporter of festival. I congratulate all the winners and wish good luck to them in advance.
MIKHEIL GIORGADZE Minister of culture and monument protection of Georgia
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DEAR FRIENDS, I am pleased that our city hosts X Batumi international Art House Film Festival. The festival has progress year by year and we are delighted that this event will be especially interesting. The warm welcome to the guests of the festival and I wish good luck to all participants.
GIORGI ERMAKOVI Mayor of Batumi
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National Film Center, as usual, supports Batumi International Art-House Film Festival.
introduce and develop their projects, meet professionals from around the world, establish business relationships. This year Batumi Film Festival offers professionals a new industry platform “Alternative Wave” which allows So far, Batumi had an active festival year: Jazz Festival, Folk Festival, Electronic Music Festival, Classic Music Festival, Fashion Week etc. It is nice that BIAFF, with it’s 10-year tradition, participates in this beautiful initiative. I wish Batumi International Art-House Film Festival to set European standards and further develop. NANA JANELIDZE Director of Georgian National Films Centre
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Ladies and gentlemen, to introduce to our viewers interesting program – new releases of contemporary cinema, master classes of famous cinematographers or iindustry meetings platform. With the proper support, the festival will be of a great potential. Batumi’s pronounced festival facture, geographical and geopolitical location, transportation hub, growing international background and fantastic landscape – these factors create the great guarantee for it. I would like to thank sponsors and supporters, because their support will be very useful to the future of the new Georgian cinema and integration of the one to the world cinema space. I’d like to thank the viewers, who really loves this festival – and their activity also very important, anyone who participate – organizational groups or bloggers; Batumi International Art-House Film Festival is the result of their good job. I’d like to welcome festival’s guests, juries and participants of the industrial part, it’s a great honor for me. I’d like to wish viewers to spend the festival days interestingly.
GIORGI GOGIBERIDZE, Director of the Festival
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Already 10 years passed since BIAFF festival started in Batumi city. From little event it has grown to major
which will have important outcomes for future. “Alternative Wave� - the new concept developed by BIAFF close media. With further local and international support, BIAFF industry platform has an excellent potential to become part traditionally are Ministry of Culture, Education and Sports of Ajara AR and Georgian National Film Center. Its tenth anniversary BIAFF meets with accumulated experience, networking of festival supporters and friends, etc. And from next year will start another, much more interesting decade of further development of BIAFF festival. We would like to thank all of our partners and supporters, who provided their generous support and contributed to development of BIAFF, all our long-term media partners who ensured media coverage and our dedicated bloggers who are effectively promoting BIAFF in social media networks. And of course special thanks goes to all BIAFF team members and volunteers without whom BIAFF festival will not be so interesting and will not have chance for further development. ZVIAD ELIZIANI Festival Manager
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JURY OF INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION - FEATURE FILMS
ALEXANDER MINDADZE
HEAD OF JURY
BIOGRAPHY awards and international prizes, including a Silver Bear at the Berlinale for the “idea and adaptation”
biografia
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CHRISTOPHER GOODWIN BIOGRAPHY
the Zagreb Film Festival 2012 and the Pula Film Festival 2015.
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NIKI KARIMI BIOGRAPHY for which she won the best actress award at the San Sebastian Film Festival and at the Nantes Film and internationally, like at the Taormina Film Festival in Italy, the Cairo Film Festival in Egypt and the
biografia
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NICOLAS RONCHI BIOGRAPHY
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GEORGE OVASHVILI BIOGRAPHY
biografia
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JURY OF INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION - DOCUMENTARY FILMS
ZELIMIR ZILNIK
HEAD OF JURY
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IRYNA GORDIICHUK BIOGRAPHY
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DENNIS WHEATLEY BIOGRAPHY
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LASHA KHALVASHI BIOGRAPHY
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JURY OF INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION - SHORT FILMS
NENAD DIZDAREVIC
HEAD OF JURY
BIOGRAPHY
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SIEGFRIED BIOGRAPHY
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HELEN YANOVSKY BIOGRAPHY
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TINATIN KAJRISHVILI BIOGRAPHY
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OPENING FILM
WINTER SONG
France/Georgia, 2015; 117 min.
DIRECTOR: Otar Iosseliani PRODUCERS: Productions - France) SCREENPLAY: Otar Iosseliani CINEMATOGRAPHER: SOUND: EDITING: MUSIC: CAST: Rufus, Amiran Amiranashvili, Pierre Étaix, Mathias Jung, Mathieu Amalric, Enrico Ghezzi Production Co.: Co-production France-Georgia; Pastorale Productions / Studio 99
BIOGRAPHY learnt the job as an assistant director and then as an editor of documentaries at the Gruzija Film studios in Georgia was censored by the Soviet authorities. He worked as a sailor and as a factory worker for a time. SYNOPSIS Some resemblances are disturbing. That between a guillotined viscount, pipe in his mouth, during the Terror; an army chaplain with a tattooed chest like a gangster, baptizing soldiers, looters and rapists, as if on an assembly large apartment block. A building where the lives of nearly all these characters intersect, except for the homeless who are roughly dragged from one place to the next by the police. And yet in the midst of all this chaos, there are
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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION - FEATURE FILMS
Director: Aleksey German Jr. Screenwriter: Aleksey German Jr. Cinematographer: Evgeniy Privin, Sergey Mikhalchuk Editor: Sergey Ivanov Composer: Andrey Surotdinov Actors: Gasowski
UNDER ELECTRIC CLOUDS
Russian Federation / Ukraine / Poland 2015, 138 min
Producer(s): Production company:
BIOGRAPHY
Donated By The City Of Wiesbaden at goEast 2006. SYNOPSIS Russia, 2017. The world is on the verge of a great war. A bizarre riverbank in fog and snow. The skeleton of a arm points into nothingness. People drift aimlessly through this surreal world. Old certainties no longer count, friends and relatives have disappeared, ideals have been blown away by the wind. Returning home from abroad, is searching his colleagues; an architect with glowing red skin on his forehead; a tour-guide who once stood next
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Director: Avishai Sivan Screenplay: Avishai Sivan Cinematography: Shai Goldman Sound: Aviv Aldema, Alfred Tesler Editing: Nili Feller, Avishai Sivan Cast: Producers: Ronen Ben Tal, Avishai Sivan
TIKKUN
Israel, 2015; 120 min. BIOGRAPHY
seven-part series “The Soap Opera of a Frozen Filmmaker”, which won an award at the Jerusalem Film Festival in
SYNOPSIS
by all. One evening, following a self-imposed fast, Haim-Aaron collapses and loses consciousness. The paramedics announce his death, but his father takes over resuscitation efforts and, beyond all expectations, Haim-Aaron comes back to life. After the accident, try as he might, Haim-Aaron remains apathetic to his studies. He feels overwhelmed by a sudden awakening of his body and suspects this is God testing him. He wonders if he should and tries to forgive him. He is tormented by the fear of having crossed God’s will, the night he resuscitated his son.
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Director: Abdolhassan Barzideh Cast:
MAZAR E SHARIF Iran, 2015, 87 min.
BIOGRAPHY Abdolhassan Barzideh was borne in 1960. He began his work in cinema since 1988 as an actor and director SYNOPSIS This is the story of Taliban’s attack to Iranian Consulate in Mazar-e Sharif (1998) that results in the martyrdom of some Iranian diplomats.
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MUSTANG
France/Germany/Turkey/Qatar, 2015, 97 min.
Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven Screenplay: Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Alice Winocour Dir. of Photography: David Chizallet, ErsinGök Music: Warren Ellis Editor: Producer: Charles Gillibert Production: Coproduction: Doha Film Institute Cast: Günes Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu, Elit Iscan, Ilayda Akdogan, Tugba Sunguroglu
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this year’s festival in Cannes. SYNOPSIS
innocently with some boys. The immorality of their play sets off a scandal that has unexpected consequences. The family home is progressively transformed into a prison; instruction in homemaking replaces school and marriages constraints imposed on them.
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Director: Sharunas Bartas Scenario: Sharunas Bartas Producer: Photo: Eitvydas Doskus Production: Cast: Edvinas Goldsteinas
PEACE TO US IN OUR DREAMS Lithuania/France/Russia, 2015; 107 min.
BIOGRAPHY
SYNOPSIS One summer day, a man, his new wife and his daughter arrive to their countryside house to spend a weekend. Despite the fact the man and his wife love each other, their relationship is tensed, on the brink of collapse. The in the countryside starts.
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Dirctor: Ole Christian Madsen Producer: Screenplay: Bo hr. Hansen, Ole Christian Madsen Cinematographers: Editors: Music: BIOGRAPHY
Ole Christian Madsen is one of Scandinavia’s top directors. ITSI
ITSI BITSI
Denmark, Croatia, Sweden, Argentina, 2014, 107 min
has also left a strong mark in tv helming the acclaimed series THE SPIDER (2000) and having directed installments directors. SYNOPSIS
entire life turned upside down when he falls head over heels in love with the beautiful peace activist Iben Nagel Rasmussen, and she falls in love with him. But Iben is a child of the times, and freely accepts the order of the day: free love and sex. She renounces personal right of ownership and will not settle for one man when she can have several. In typically romantic fashion, he begins a struggle to win all of her love. As a poet, writer and singer he constantly confesses his love to her. But Eik must accept defeat, and in 1968 he travels without his beloved ItsiBitsi
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Director: Eva Neymann Screenplay: on a story by the same name by Sholem Aleichem Dir. of Photography: Editor: Gennadiy Popov, Ilya Iovu Producer: Production: 1+1 Production, Milena Tsibulskaya, Cast:
SONG OF SONGS Ukraine, 2015, 76 min
BIOGRAPHY
Times / Wsepo-staromu / Allen beimalten, 2004; Das Meer sehen, 2005; God’s Ways / PutiGospodni / WegeGottes,
SYNOPSIS whose third picture offers a markedly stylized vision of the lost world of the Jewish shtetl at the beginning of the 20th century. Poetic scenes created using truly magical images are loosely connected via the motif of childhood
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CHEMO
Poland, 2015, 105 min.
Director: Bartek Prokopowicz Screenplay: Dir. of Photography: Jeremiasz Prokopowicz Music: Editor: Producer: Production: Produkcja, Film illumination Coproduction: Soundplace, Polish Film Institute Cast: Danuta Stenka
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(1995). He has made more than a hundred programmes for Polish and foreign television companies. He was and demonstrates the strength of love, determination and faith in a story of a couple having to cope with terminal illness. SYNOPSIS
and death, they decide to defy the natural order by having a baby. A mournful yet lightly-rendered tale about the
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Director: Bakur Bakuradze Screenwriter: Bakur Bakuradze, Ilya Malakhova Cinematography: Cast: Marko Nikolic, Misa Tirinda Production:
BROTHER DEJAN
Russia/Serbia, 2015, 113 min. BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1969 Tbilisi, Bakur Bakuradze graduated from the directors’ program at the Russian State Institute of
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from extreme isolation, Dejan will not only have to face a new environment and a new reality but won’t be able to escape his past.
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Director: Josh Mond Screenwriter: Josh Mond Cinematographer: Matyas Erdely Editor: Matt Hannam Music: Scott Mescudi Cast: Christopher Abbott, Cynthia Nixon, Scott, Mescudi
JAMES WHITE USA, 2015; 86 min.
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Ebay. Josh Mond was the recipient of the 2010 Annenberg Film Fellow grant from the Sundance producers’ lab. In 2015, his feature JAMES WHITE, won the Audience Award at Sundance FF and the 2nd Junior Jury Prize at FF SYNOPSIS into a hedonistic lifestyle, his mother’s battle with a serious illness faces a series of setbacks that force him to imploding completely.
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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION - DOCUMENTARY FILMS
Director: Marek Tomasz Pawlowski Writer: Marek Tomasz Pawlowski cast: Zuzia Dudek, Jacek Flasz, Miroslaw Ganobis
THE TOUCH OF AN ANGEL Poland/Germany, 2015; 60 min.
BIOGRAPHY Born in 1963. Director, screenwriter, producer and educator. Graduated from the National Theater Academy in Warsaw, Heartbroken Circus” (2009), all played at the PFFA. He now completes “A Touch of an Angel.”
SYNOPSIS policies of many foreign countries kept more lives from being spared.
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Director: Producer: James Gay-Rees Editor: Music: Antionio Pinto Cast: Amy Winehouse, Mark Ronson, Tony Bennett, Salaam Remi
AMY
Uk, 2015, 127min. BIOGRAPHY
SYNOPSIS Senna) that charts the amazing highs and terrible lows in the life of the wonderfully talented but terribly troubled Amy Winehouse, who died in 2011. Great use of home video, camera phones, archive footage and interviews combine to craft wonderful talent.
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Director: Matthew Heineman Producer: Editor: Matthew Hamachek, Matthew Heineman, Bradley J. Ross, Pax Wassermann Cinematographer: Matthew Heineman, Matt Porwoll Executive Producer: Debitetto Composer: H. Scott Salinas, Jackson Greenberg
CARTEL LAND
U.S.A./Mexico, 2015, 98 min. BIOGRAPHY Festival and won the Best Director Award. SYNOPSIS
Mexican drug cartels. In the Mexican state of Michoacán, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small-town physician known as “El goal is to stop Mexico’s drug wars from seeping across our border. Filmmaker Matthew Heineman embeds himself in the heart of darkness as Nailer, El Doctor, and the cartel each vie to bring their own brand of justice where institutions have failed.
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ONCE MY MOTHER
Australia/Poland/Ukraine, 2014, 75 min.
Direction: Script : Cinematography: SCHEDING Art Direction: Music: Editing: Sound: Produced by: Producer: ROD FREEDMAN
BIOGRAPHY City�, which won 3 AFI Awards, and Best Film at the Sydney Film Critics Awards. She lectured in the Directing Department at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. SYNOPSIS her mother left her in an orphanage many years ago. Born in pre-war Poland, Helena experienced orphanhood and homelessness herself, went through a gulag and a period of wandering around the world. Reconstructing her biography at the backdrop of the 20th century history, the director discovers the circumstances that determined the lives of both women. Will she be able to forgive her mother now?
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DOUBLE ALIENS
Latvia/Georgia, 2015, 60min.
Director: Co-producer : Scriptwriter: Cinematographers: Editor: Sound: Original Music: Producers: Supported by: Company:
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SYNOPSIS The Samtskhe-Javakheti region in South Georgia, with a mostly Armenian population, suffers under silent ethnic
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Director: Chad Gracia Producer: Cinematography: Artem Ryzhykov Editing: Chad Gracia, Alan Berliner, Devin Tanchum MUSIC:
THE RUSSIAN WOODPECKER USA/Ukraine, 2014, 82 min.
BIOGRAPHY Gilgamesh, a drama based on the Sumerian epic, and has long collaborated with the American verse playwright SYNOPSIS FedorAlexandrovich was 4 years old in 1986, when he was exposed to the toxic effects of the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown and forced to leave his home. Now he has a singular obsession with the catastrophe - why did it actually happen? Was there more to the story than the Soviet government let on? And, most importantly, what did this all have to do with the giant, mysterious steel pyramid now rotting away 2 miles from the disaster site, “The Russian Woodpecker�? In this documentary thriller Alexandrovich tries to decide whether to risk his life amid growing
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DIRECTOR: Sean McAllister PRODUCERS: Elhum Shakerifar, Sean McAllister
A SYRIAN LOVE STORY United Kingdom, 2015, 80 min.
BIOGRAPHY graduating in 1996. After several awardwinning television documentaries he founded his own production company, Tenfoot Films, in the year 2000. SYNOPSIS Amer met Ragda, when both were locked up in a Syrian jail for speaking out against an oppressive regime. Twenty has once again been imprisoned. When she is unexpectedly released, the family is overjoyed - they need her, particularly three year-old Bob. McAllister and his subjects’ lives become irrevocably intertwined when McAllister nothing but their children.
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Director: Screenplay: Screenplay: Mark Bailey Producer:
THE LAST DAYS IN VIETNAM USA, 2014, 98 min.
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abuse, poverty, drug addiction, labor struggle and political corruption. SYNOPSIS
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Director: Dominic Gagnon Screenwriter: Dominic Gagnon Producer: Dominic Gagnon
OF THE NORTH Canada, 2015, 74 min.
BIOGRAPHY Dominic Gagnon is an inventor, director, installer and active performer on the international scene. He considers cinema as a technique for measuring the immeasurable or as a discipline of chaos. Since 1996, he has made public presentations of moving images, invent machines and concepts, performs sound works, built facilities and creates performances in various galleries, festivals and biennials around the world. SYNOPSIS
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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION - SHORT FILMS
OGASAVARA
Georgia, 2015, 8 min.
Director: Screenplay: Nikoloz Mdivani, Cinematography: Production:
BIOGRAPHY
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Murad and Masha decide to get married, but before achieving their goal, life has some unbelievable and sad stories in store for them.
THE PREPARATION Georgia, 2015; 20 min.
Director: Giorgi Tsilosani Editing: Giorgi Tsilosani Screenplay: Giorgi Tsilosani Cinematography:
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This is the story of the family living in the small village One evening during the dinner grandmother feels bad, doctor’s diagnose increases tension. Grandmother is afraid of death, sees phantom of the death everywhere, everything predicts that end is very close. relatives to see her last time. But grandmother is still alive.
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THE WASTE LAND 2015, Georgia, 31.41 min. Director: Script:
BIOGRAPHY main characteristic of his work is a deep and conceptual reference to the various areas of artistic and philosophical world.
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Most important poems of 20th century, it has different layers of symbolic interpretations and cultural allusions. First of all, it following the legend of the Holy Grail, but at the same time it has also the direct and very close connections on contemporary society. It is an adventure of the poet into different locations, time and space.�
THE BEAR USA, 2015; 10 min.
Director: Avtandil Chachibaia Writer: Avtandil Chachibaia Editor: Ben Remetz Director of photography: Ronald Wrase Stars: Richard Waterhouse, Monica Blaze
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A moral fable about a bear trying to get revenge on humans who took the life of his mother. A moral fable about a bear trying to get revenge on humans who took the life of his mother.
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CATKINS
UK, 2015; 9’33 min.
Director: Alexander Derby Script: Alexander Derby
BIOGRAPHY Arts and the Rustaveli Theatre, Tbilisi. SYNOPSIS about a divorce. Whilst going for a walk near his parents’ house, he takes comfort from rural freedom, beauty, and spaciousness, and spies a young girl waiting alone. Moved by the girl’s sorrow, Mark makes a decision about divorcing his wife.
ADAM Belarus, 2014, 34 min. Director: Script: Producer:
BIOGRAPHY Born in Molodechno, Belarus, 29.06.1986 Graduated from Belarusian State Academy of Arts Master’s degree (FilmSYNOPSIS Every individual has his or her own understanding of an ideal place for living. For some people it is desperation, for others – a norm. Some perish in such environment, others live by virtue thereof. It’s a story of an 80-year old man, Adam by name, remaining alone in the land abandoned by people several decades ago. All hardships and pleasures that Adam experiences in the abandoned and at the same time his dear land.
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PEOPLE ON EARTH Belarus, 2015; 15 min.
Director: Producer:
BIOGRAPHY videos in Minsk at the moment. SYNOPSIS Two people walk along the road. He is a strolling actor and she is suffering from the psychological blindness. He rescued her from the starvation and now they make their way with the only suitcase and the last piece of bread to and no one driver stops to pick them up. Except one…
VIOLONCELLO Ukraine, 2014; 23’10 min.
Director: Olesya Morgunets-Isaenko Producer: Nataliya Tsegelnyk Script: Marina Stepanska Director of Photography: Serhiy Stetsenko Cast: Isaenko, Mukola Boklan, Irma Tzareva Production companys: National Dovzhenko Film Studio BIOGRAPHY
and comedy theatre SYNOPSIS prevented by many events, which we would know at the end of their journey.
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THE VAST LANDSCAPE - PORCELAIN STORIES Croatia, 2014, 11 min.
Director: Screenplay: Cinematographer: Editor: Animation: BIOGRAPHY
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A fox hunter and a porcelain shopkeeper lady, the scientist brothers, a seal, a boy and a music box. Six characters in their rooms
THE TRANSLATOR Uk/Turkey, 2014; 23 min. Director: Screenplay: Director of Photography: Nick Cooke Editor: Ricardo Saraiva Producer: Production: Turkish General Directorate of Cinema BIOGRAPHY
and themes such as immigration and the outsider in a community.
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a position that gives him unique power. He has to make a decision between using this power wisely and abusing it.
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WHAT THE NIGHT BRINGS Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2014, 20 min.
Director / Screenplay: Director of Photography: Andre Gil Mata Editor: Tomas Baltazar Production: Film Factory
BIOGRAPHY en scene for several production companies. In 2013, she joined the Film Factory, international program leaded by the hungarian director Bela Tarr in Sarajevo.
SYNOPSIS really need. We become ghosts alike.
CAROUSEL
Ukraine / 2015 / 15 min.
Cast:
Director: Nikon Romanchenko Producers: Nikon Romanchenko, Iryna Romanchenko Writer: Nikon Romanchenko DOPs: Oleksandr Snizhko, Nikon Romanchenko Anatoliy Chumachenko
BIOGRAPHY Cinema”) SYNOPSIS
A young couple wants to leave the country. The girl’s parents have divorced long ago. They mind her relationship with the young
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THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WATER Turkey, 2015; 18’44 min.
Director: Resul Sakinmaz Producer: Communication Faculty Film Atelier)
BIOGRAPHY variety of Cinematography. SYNOPSIS of a family that separates continuously because of the border. As the time alienates the family to the other side of the water, it also accustoms them to the place where they live. The father is aware of the situation, after his wife’s death he passes to the other side of the water.
SEVENTH HEAVEN Israel, 2014; 10’30 min.
Director: Or Tilinger Screenplay: Or Tilinger Director of Photography: Or Tilinger Music: Editor: Or Tilinger
BIOGRAPHY at Minshar Art College, Tel Aviv.Majors in 2d animation, Flash and After Effects. His short movie “Strangers’ Faces” participated in the “2012 Maratoon”.His work was chosen to be presented in the “MiniArt” exhibition at the Jaffa Antique Museum. SYNOPSIS Somewhere on faraway China in a huge rock forest, lives a shepherd named Jasio on the edge of a cliff with his separate parts. Jasio would do anything to return home.
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SLAUGHTERHOUSE Iran, 2015, 24 min.
Director: Behzad Azadi Producer: Behzad Azadi, Elmira Arzanipoor Cinematography: Shahin Araqi Editor: Fereshteh Parnian Director of Photography:
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Film Festival. SYNOPSIS Four teenage friends have big plans for their lives. They want to be rich in a short time by dealing drugs in the neighborhood. First, they have to test the drug they’ve got from the smuggler. But there’s an unexpected twist in the plan and the situation goes out of control
TAPROBANA
Portugal/Sri Lanka/Denmark 2014, 24 min.
Director: Gabriel Abrantes Producer: Gabriel Abrantes Screenplay: story Editor:NatxoCheca Cinematography: Gabriel Abrantes
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artist has been exhibited in Boston, Tokyo and Paris. SYNOPSIS
the frontier of Heaven and Hell, where he is confronted by his fantasy: fame and immortality.
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SWEET HOME
Portugal, 2014; 14’53 min.
Director: Nuno Baltazar
BIOGRAPHY
SYNOPSIS In an abandoned prison complex, without any basic conditions, a man survives like a wild animal. When his security and tranquility are threatened, he resorts to violence to defend his home.
FLANKERS
Canada, 2014; 14’10 min.
Director: Justin Oakey Production:
Biography His work has screened internationally and has been described as atmospheric and tense, with a quiet sense of Synopsis
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FRAGMENTATION Russia, 2015, 12min.
Director: Anna Ovanesova Producer: Natalia Makhanko (“ART-N production”)
BIOGRAPHY from Nikita Mikhalkov’s Summer Film academy. SYNOPSIS A young photographer suddenly catches some strange object with his camera.Dreams and reality trade places.The photographer becomes a fair game for someone.
CHIAROSCURO USA/Brazil, 2014; 7’48 min.
Director: Daniel Drummond Music: Sound: Carson FRENCH
BIOGRAPHY Education, and moved to California to attend Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. Through his studies in composition, color and movement, Daniel developed a passion for honest storytelling through striking visuals. SYNOPSIS As two organisms compete for the one light amid the darkness, their story reveals the volatile nature of power.
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RATE ME
UK, 2015, 15 min.
Director: Final Boulifa Director of photography: Taina Galis Producer: Too True Films BIOGRAPHY ‘Rate Me’. The last time he attended was in 2012 with his Moroccan-set fable ‘The Curse’, which was screened at BIAFF festival too. SYNOPSIS A portrait of teenage escort, ‘Coco’
WITHIN
Portugal/Hungary, 2015; 3 min.
Director: NatáliaAzevedo Andrade Script/Editing: Natalia Azevedo Andrade
BIOGRAPHY the animation department of Moholy-Nagy university of art and design budapest (2012-2014)volunteer at several
SYNOPSIS A dancer loses her rhythm. an expedition through the interior of fear, guilt and shame.
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MY BONNIE BUTTERFLY UK, 2015; 8’31 min.
Director: Producer:
BIOGRAPHY and directing. She likes to tell stories inspired by interesting people and hope to share such inspiration with people all over the world. SYNOPSIS Anne starts to doubt her relationship with Chris, who seems to be more interested in sexual pleasure than spiritual turn over a new leaf?
OLD
Columbia, 2014; 9’20 min. Director:
Producers:
BIOGRAPHY since then she has developed her own projects experimented with the combination between traditional techniques SYNOPSIS A bar in which nothing works... the owner sleeps… a dog at her side attends the place… an old man steals the last drops of the drinks left on the tables. At the end everything gets lost, even the reason ... one last drink will make them human.
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THE CHICKEN
Germany/Croatia 2014, 15 min.
Director: Composer: Bernd Schurer Producer: JelenaGoldbach Screenplay: Editor: Anja Siemens Cinematography: Matthias Pilz
Sound: Production company: Zak Film Productions BIOGRAPHY
SYNOPSIS As a present for her 6th birthday, Selma gets a live chicken. When she realises the animal is going to be killed to feed the family, she decides to save it and set it free, unaware of the high stakes such action will lead to. While trying to bring back the missing chicken, Selma’s mum becomes the target of a sniper shoot. It’s Sarajevo, year running 1993.
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Georgia France / Germany, 2014, 85 min.
Director: Salome Alexi (Nutsa Alexi-Meskhishvili) Screenplay: Salome Alexi (Nutsa Alexi-Meskhishvili) Cinematography: Music: Editing: Salome Alexi (Nutsa Alexi-Meskhishvili) Sound: Salome Alexi (Nutsa Alexi-Meskhishvili) Producer: Togonidze Cast: Chkheidze, Nino Arsenishvili, Tamar Mamulaishvili, David Production: 3003 Film Production Georgia/3003 Film Production Germany
BIOGRAPHY Born in 1966 in Tbilisi, Georgia. She graduated from Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts. In 1988-1992 Nutsa worked
Festival 2014, section Orizzonti. SYNOPSIS into debts, which becomes a vicious circle she cannot escape.
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Director: Screenplay: Cinematography: Shalva Sokurashvili Production Editing: Nodar Nozadze Sound: Paata Godziashvili Producer: Nodar Nozadze Cast: Tsotne Barbakadze, Soso Tarqashvili, Zaza Salia, Nanuli
I AM BESO
Production: Pansional Film
Georgia, 2014; 92 min.
BIOGRAPHY
production house, which can’t be completed because of lack of funds. I AM BESO is his feature debut. It was SYNOPSIS Beso is a boy of 14 who lives in an abandoned village. Beso’s family has numerous problems: his father is an old man, disabled as at home. Beso and his friend Beka are often insulted by their classmates. Despite these problems, Beso and Beka have a good time and playing childish games. Beso composes and records rap music. His dream is to become rich and famous an to help his family.
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CATTLEMEN
Director: Salome Alexi (Nutsa Alexi-Meskhishvili) Screenplay: Salome Alexi (Nutsa Alexi-Meskhishvili) Cinematography: Music: Editing: Salome Alexi (Nutsa Alexi-Meskhishvili) Sound: Salome Alexi (Nutsa Alexi-Meskhishvili) Producer: Togonidze Cast: Chkheidze, Nino Arsenishvili, Tamar Mamulaishvili, David
Georgia, 2015; 25 min.
Production: 3003 Film Production Georgia/3003 Film Production Germany BIOGRAPHY Zurab was born in 1953, in Tbilisi. He graduated Shota Rustaveli State Theatre Institute in 1983 majoring in Theatre of Arts. SYNOPSIS This movie is about the cattlemen work during the summertime on pastures. About the life of two families living in the alpine region of Adjara
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Director: Script: DOP: Mamuka (Chochi) Chkhikvadze Music: Solomon Makharadze Designer: Editors: Zurab kavtaradze, Solomon Makharadze Cast:
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Minerva Putkaradze, Eduard Musaelyan, Jemal Tedoradze, Zaza Zoidze, Zaur Gedenidze.
Georgia, 2015; 65 min. BIOGRAPHY
- 12 series, 2003), “Solomon” (2015) 70’ SYNOPSIS the provincial Black Sea cities of post-Soviet Georgia, which is characterized by nihilism and indifference. Solomon’s music can only be heard during feasts, in the basements or on the beach. The only person, who understands him, for whom his existence is essential, is his small daughter, who lives in the orphanage and rarely sees her divorced parents.
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Director: Screenplay: Nino Chutkerashvili Cinematography: Music: Nika Machaidze Editing: Sound: Tinatin Nikuradze Producer: Nino Chutkerashvili Production: EBC studio (Georgia)
SOMALI CAPTIVES Georgia, 2015, 47’37 min.
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and Discovery channel, won him an Emmy for outstanding individual achievement in research in 2002 SYNOPSIS that the ship-owner had given them false documents and the wrong coordinates. The ship was captured by Somali pirates who
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Director: Teona Mghvdeladze, Thierry Grenade Screenplay: Teona Mghvdeladze, David Chubinishvili Cinematography: Julie Grunebaum Production Editing: Pauline Rebière Sound: Thomas Fourel, Antoine Bailly, Pierre Bariaud Producer:
Magalashvili, Suliko Tsulukidze Cast: Irakli Basil Ramishvili, Zuka Tsirekidze, Natasha Shengelaia,
BROTHER
France / Georgia, 2014, 94min.
Production:MPM Film (France), Cinetech (Georgia), Millimeter Film (Georgia),in co-production with: Arte France Cinema
BIOGRAPHY Teona Mghvdeladze throughout the world and won 5 awards. Thierry Grenade also produced a documentary trilogy shot in China.
SYNOPSIS Tbilissi, early 1990’s. A few families living in the old part of town must each in their own way confront the changes taking place in their city. Maia witnesses her eldest son, Giorgi, slipping away from her while her youngest son, Datuna, a young and very talented pianist, must cope with the violence that is little by little becoming a part of their daily lives. In the building across the street, another tragedy has struck: young Datuna’s dear old friend, Archil, has lost his grandson in the war. The old man is bedridden, sick the close-up of individuals, their emotions and hopes are shown against the background of the concrete jungle.
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Director: Peter Greenaway Screenwriter: Peter Greenaway Producer: San Fu Maltha Cinematographer: Reinier van Brummelen Editor: Cast:
EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO Belgium, Finland, Mexico, Netherlands, 2015, 105 min.
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Iconoclastic provocateur Peter Greenaway creates cinema that is a collage of academia and art. Rejecting devotion exhibitions, and installations instead utilize visual language. The resulting works are richly realizes explorations of
SYNOPSIS
Palomino, he explores the ties between sex and death in the ten days that would ultimately shape his life and career. Greenaway splits screens, shoots from unusual angles, and creates a sensual and visually immaculate world. The result is enthralling, sometimes shocking and raucously funny: a worthy addition to the body of work of one
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Director: Script / Dialogue: Music: Editor: Sound: Director of Photography: Cast: DONG Zijang
MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART China, Japan, France, 2015, 131min. BIOGRAPHY
in 2003 in order to promote young talented directors from all over China. He directed SHIJIE (The World) in 2004 SYNOPSIS
decides to marry the wealthier Zhang. They soon have a son he names Dollar… From China to Australia, the lives, loves, hopes and disillusions of a family over two generations in a society changing at breakneck speed.
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DIRECTOR: Nanni Moretti PRODUCER: Nanni Moretti, Domenico Procacci WRITERS: CAST: Moretti, Beatrice Mancini, Stefano Abbati PRODUCTION:
MY MOTHER
Italy, France / 2015 / 106 min. BIOGRAPHY
Festival in 1981. He is The Palme d’Or winner forThe Son’s Room in 2001, in 2012 he was the President of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival. Among his other prizes are Silver Bear at Berlin International Film Festival (The Mass Is Ended, 1986), FIPRESCI Prize at European Film Awards (Dear Diary, 1994), Best Film from Cahiers du cinema (We Have a Pope, 2011). SYNOPSIS on set. Away from the shoot, Margherita tries to hold her life together, despite her mother’s illness and her daughter’s adolescence.
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Screenplay: Cinematography: Editor: Producer: Executive producer: Music: Cast:
ONE ON ONE
Production:
South Korea, 2014; 122 min. BIOGRAPHY
career as a screenwriter. He made his directorial debut with a low-budget movie, Crocodile, in 1996. Since then, he has been hailed by both critics and audiences for his hard-to-express characters, shocking visuals, and
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A high school girl is brutally raped and murdered and the men responsible for the heinous act get off scot-free. That is, until one of them gets abducted by a shadowy group of highly trained assailants. Tortured and forced to that others involved in the murder have also gone through the same ordeal. Eager for answers, he tails the next person he expects to be victimised, and discovers the hideout of his tormentors.
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WINTER SONG
France/Georgia, 2015; 117 min.
DIRECTOR: Otar Iosseliani PRODUCERS: Productions - France) SCREENPLAY: Otar Iosseliani CINEMATOGRAPHER: SOUND: EDITING: MUSIC: CAST: Rufus, Amiran Amiranashvili, Pierre Étaix, Mathias Jung, Mathieu Amalric, Enrico Ghezzi Production Co.: Co-production France-Georgia; Pastorale Productions / Studio 99
BIOGRAPHY learnt the job as an assistant director and then as an editor of documentaries at the Gruzija Film studios in Georgia was censored by the Soviet authorities. He worked as a sailor and as a factory worker for a time. SYNOPSIS Some resemblances are disturbing. That between a guillotined viscount, pipe in his mouth, during the Terror; an army chaplain with a tattooed chest like a gangster, baptizing soldiers, looters and rapists, as if on an assembly large apartment block. A building where the lives of nearly all these characters intersect, except for the homeless who are roughly dragged from one place to the next by the police. And yet in the midst of all this chaos, there are
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Director: Alexander Mindadze Screenplay: Alexander Mindadze Director of photography: Oleg Mutu Music: Cast: JakobDiehl, AndryusDaryala, BirgitMinichmayr,
MY GOOD HANS
Germany/Russia, 2015, 110 min.
Rimashevskaya Production company: Ma.Ja.De. Filmproduktions GmbH (Berlin), Passenger Film Studio (Moskau) Producer: Blavatnik
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SYNOPSIS Exceptionally private, full of emotional experiences story of an engineer Hans F. who arrived with a business trip spot of the European history when soon after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact had been signed a short period of countries confronted each other in the mortal combat.
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Director: Gaspar Noe DOP: Benoît Debie Script: Cast: Benoît Debie Producers: Rodrigo Teixeira, Edouard Weil PRODUCTION: Productions, Wild Bunch
France/Belgium, 2015
BIOGRAPHY 2001: A Space Odyssey at the age of seven changed his life, without which experience he would never have the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. SYNOPSIS January the 1st, early morning. The telephone rings. Murphy wakes up next to his young wife and 2-year-old child. He listens to his voicemail: Electra’s mother, sick with worry, wants to know whether he has heard from her daughter. Electra’s been missing for a long time. She’s afraid something really bad has happened to her.
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Culture of France.
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ENDLESS ESCAPE, ETERNAL RETURN Armenia/The Netherlands/ Switzerland, 2014, 87 min.
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extraordinary storyteller.
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DOCUMENTARIST Armenia, 2003; 80 min.
Production company(-ies): Production: Golden Apricot Fcd
SYNOPSIS a whole country that is facing hardships and challenges. An acute snapshot of Armenia shortly after the collapse
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WHITE TOWN
Armenia, 1988; 37 min.
SYNOPSIS and sketches that depict life in Akhalkalaki in a way that is both burlesque and tragic. The White Town is one of
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DIR/SCR/PROD: SCR: Erlom Akhvlediani, Zaira Akhvlediani
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SEVERAL INTERVIEWS ON PRIVATE ISSUES USSR/Georgia 1977; 95 min.
cinematography. In 1954, she earned degree of candidate of philological sciences. Has worked in “Georgian Film Studio” since
Since 1999 was the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of Georgia to the Council of Europe and in 2004, international awards. Turmoil at the Feast” (1975); “Few Interviews on Personal Issues” (1978); “The Night has Changed by Day” (1984); “The Turmoil” (1986); “The Waltz on Pechora” (1992). SYNOPSIS sent letters of complaint to the editor. One of the women she converses with is her mother, and the pair’s onscreen Combining documentary technique and psychological drama, this becomes a powerful testament about women,
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Director: Baadur Tsuladze Writers: Revaz Gabriadze, Gogi Charkviani Cinematography: Iuri Fednev Production design: Giorgi Aleqsi-Meskhishvili Music: Chkhaidze, Jemal Ghaghanidze, Shota Gabelaia, Sergei Filippov, Producer:
PEOLA
Georgia, 1970, 36 min. BIOGRAPHY
SYNOPSIS A House Management worker Bondo is assigned to form a teenagers’ football team. Bondo approaches this task winning. Bondo starts putting all his efforts into the team. Boys call him Peola. After winning a gold medal the team is sent to France for the championship but a professional coach is sent with them instead of Peola.
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SHIPWRECK
The Netherlands 2014, 15 min.
Director: Composer: Carlos dalla-Fiore Producer: Jos de Putter Editor: Cinematography: Production company: Deepfocus
BIOGRAPHY
SYNOPSIS people drowned. Abraham, one of the survivors, walks through a graveyard of shipwrecks and vividly remembers the nightmarish
THE MISSING SCARF Ireland, 2014, Colour, 7 min.
Director: Eoin Duffy Producer: Jamie Hogan Cinematography: Eoin Duffy Sound: Editing: EoinDuffya
BIOGRAPHY independent work that has gone on to secure multiple accolades including a dozen major festival wins, 3 Oscar accredited festival wins, a nomination for the upcoming European Film Awards, an IFTA nomination and a shortlisting for the 86th Academy Awards SYNOPSIS George Takei narrates this multi-award-winning fable about a wise squirrel on an increasingly existential quest to
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DINOLA
Georgia 2013, 14’38 min.
Director: Producer: Screenplay: Editor: Cinematography: Production company: 20 Steps Productions BIOGRAPHY
Festival, 37th Norwegian Short Film Festival in Grimstad nominee to EFA...
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The mountains, strict law doesn’t give a chance to be together mother with her child. In the harsh mountainous countryside of his hand and leave her child.
WHALE VALLEY
Denmark/Iceland, 2013, Colour, 15 min.
Director: Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson Producer: Máni Svansson, Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson Cinematography: Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson Sound: Gunnar Óskarsson Editing: Anders Skov
BIOGRAPHY GudmundurArnarGudmundsson was born in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1982. He has a Fine Arts Degree from the teacher in screenwriting, directing and video art. SYNOPSIS their world through the eyes of the younger brother and follow him on a journey that marks a turning point in the brothers’ lives.
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WALL
Hungary 2013, 11 min.
Director: Simon Szabó Composer: Ekaros Ekaros Producer: Screenplay: Simon Szabó Editor: Albert Czomba Cinematography: Albert Czomba Production company: Proton Cinema BIOGRAPHY
SYNOPSIS unusual revelation for him.
STILL GOT LIVES Germany 2013, 23 min.
Director: Jan-Gerrit Seyler Composer: Stefan Paul Goetsch Screenplay: Editor: Max Mittelbach Cinematography: Sound:
BIOGRAPHY Jan-GerritSeyler (*1979), committed to visual as well as performing arts since childhood. He has taken part in a including camera and directing work, sound, editing, lighting technician, assistant director, production manager and actor. SYNOPSIS
strength and courage to really meet each other.
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DAILY BREAD Israel 2014, 19’42 min.
Director: Idan Hubel Producer: Cinematography: David Stagmeister Sound: Moshe Silver Editing: Idan Hubel
BIOGRAPHY wrote and directed two student shorts that have been screened at festivals all over the world, and won several awards. and world wide. SYNOPSIS Jonathan loves chocolate. One day he steals the last remaining chocolate in the jar. When his stepmother catches him and his brothers ostracize him, he decides to run away.
EMERGENCY CALLS Finland 2013, 15 min.
Director: Screenplay: Editor: Cinematography: Producer: Production company: Pohjankonna Oy BIOGRAPHY worked with animation and illustrations since 2000. SYNOPSIS
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PRIDE
Bulgaria/Germany 2013, 30 min. Director: Producer:
Screenplay:
Editor: Cinematography: Orlin Ruevski Production company: Portokal BIOGRAPHY provocative ideas exploring the degradation of contemporary Bulgarian society. SYNOPSIS in his household. But on this day he learns that the boy he raised is gay. The life choices of his loved ones challenge his values in a battle he has lost by default.
TAPROBANA
Portugal/Sri Lanka/Denmark 2014, 24 min.
Screenplay:
Director: Gabriel Abrantes Producer: Gabriel Abrantes
Editor: Natxo Checa Cinematography: Gabriel Abrantes BIOGRAPHY
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allegorical elephants and rhyming macaques, to the frontier of Heaven and Hell, where he is confronted by his fantasy: fame and immortality.
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A TOWN CALLED PANIC: THE CHRISTMAS LOG
Belgium/France 2014, 26’30 min. animation Director:
Producer: Steven de Beul Screenplay:
Production company: Beast Animation
SYNOPSIS their life.
LITTLE BLOCK OF CEMENT WITH DISHEVELLED HAIR CONTAINING THE SEA Spain 2013, 16 min.
Director: Composer: Carlo Marchionni Screenplay: Editor: Cinematography: Carlos Mora Producer: BIOGRAPHY personal video projects. During this time, he attend a Filmmaking International Workshop in the San Antonio de SYNOPSIS A dog and a mare embark upon a voyage together. With every step they take, the differences between them become inevitably clearer, and yet the profound mutual knowledge they develop over time shows the potential to suddenly produce a luminous moment between the two.
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THE CHICKEN
Germany/Croatia 2014, 15 min.
Director: Composer: Bernd Schurer Producer: Jelena Goldbach Screenplay: Editor: Anja Siemens Cinematography: Matthias Pilz
Sound: Production company: Zak Film Productions BIOGRAPHY
SYNOPSIS As a present for her 6th birthday, Selma gets a live chicken. When she realises the animal is going to be killed to feed the family, she decides to save it and set it free, unaware of the high stakes such action will lead to. While trying to bring back the missing chicken, Selma’s mum becomes the target of a sniper shoot. It’s Sarajevo, year running 1993.
SUMMER 2014
Poland 2014, 12 min, animation
Director: Wojciech Sobczyk Composer: Bartosz Chajdecki Producer: Wojciech Sobczyk Screenplay: Wojciech Sobczyk BIOGRAPHY
SYNOPSIS A pessimistic view of the human fate, a universal tale of the world possessed by evil. The same piece of land is shown multiple times in different scenes. However, the repetition is painful and pessimistic, the world, trapped in a vicious cycle of evil, is unable to break free.
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BATUMI INTERNATIONAL ART-HOUSE FILM FESTIVAL (BIAFF) 2015 EVENTS MASTER CLASSES / Q & A OTAR IOSSELIANI Date: 15 September, 13.00-15.00 PM Location: Harutyun Khachataryan Date: 15 September, 16.30-18.00 PM Location: MAIA KOMOROWSKA - Master class in Acting Date: 16 September, 12.00-14.00 PM Location: NIKI KARIMI – Date: 16 September, 15.30-17.00 PM Location: MERAB NINIDZE become an Actor” Merab Ninidze with Marika Bakuradze Date: 17 September, 12.00-14.30 PM Location: ANDREW VIAL Date: 17 September, 14.30-16.30 PM Location: LANA GOGOBERIDZE & BAADUR TSULADZE achievement awards) Date: 18 September, 12.00-13.30 PM Location: ZELIMIR ZILNIK – Master class about Documentary Film Making Date: 18 September, 13.30-15.00 PM Location: Presentation of “Creative Europe” Program – by Noshre Chkhaidze, representative of Creative Europe’s MEDIA sub-program in Georgia Date: 19 September, 12.00-13.00 PM Location: Q & A with “Georgian Panorama” Section participants Date: 19 September, 13.00-14.30 PM Location: NASSTASJA KINSKI Date: 19 September, 15.00-17.00 PM Location: Notice: The date and the time of Master classes may change due to some changes in travel plans of directors. page (www.facebook.com/biaffbatumi) and also will be printed and spread in cinema “Apollo”
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forced by the lack of alternatives or by the pure ignorance of or disbelief in the standard practices. by introducing and presenting not only the work they have done but also to talk and present future ideas. It is a lab to explore and to exchange. Also it is a place to learn from mistakes and fail. The event will take place in the week between the 15th and the 19th of September in Batumi/ Georgia on the Black Sea. Filmmakers will introduce and discuss their project amongst each other within a group and together with professionals coming from the background of crowd-funding, story-development, (online) marketing, production, distribution and immersive media. Further, each project will be in focus of each professional, to hands-on discuss potential further story-development, new approaches, the potential funding capacity and marketing strategies. Case-studies and Master classes will enrich the schedule and will be open to all interested industry members. Selected projects for Alternative Wave, Batumi Art-house International Film Festival industry platform: 1. Nirvana, France - by Benoit Fouassier 2. Help Maya, Georgia - by Tamta Gabrichidze 3. Baloons, Georgia - by David Mirtskhulava 4. Women Swimming Enguri, Georgia - by Ana Bukia 5. Translator In Paris, Serbia - by Iva Brder and Dunja Petrovich
Alternative Wave organizers and moderators: Tutors: Case-studies by:
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BIAFF 2015 LINE-UP OPENING FILM – Winter Song, Otar Iosseliani, France/Georgia, 2015; 117 min. INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION – FEATURE FILMS 1. 2. 3.
Brother Dejan, Bakur Bakuradze, Russia/Serbia, 2015, 113 min. Chemo, Bartek Prokopowicz, Poland, 2015, 105 min. Itsi Bitsi, Ole Christian Madsen, Denmark/Croatia/Sweden/Argentina, 2014, 107 min.
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Mazare Sharif, Abdul Barzideh, Iran, 2015, 87 min.
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Tikkun, Avishai Sivan, Israel, 2015; 120 min.
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Of the North, Dominic Gagnon, Canada, 2015; 74 min
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Touch of an Angel, Marek Pawlowski , Poland/Germany, 2015; 60 min.
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION – SHORTS FILMS 2.
Preparation, Giorgi Tsilosani, Georgia, 2015; 20’18 min.
9. Flankers, Justin Oakey, Canada, 2014; 14’10 min. 10. Fragmentation, Anna Ovanesova, Russia, 2015; 12min.
15. Seventh Heaven, Or Tilinger, Israel, 2014; 10’30 min. 16. Slaughterhouse, Behzad AZADI, Iran, 2015; 24 min. 17. Sweet Home, Nuno Baltazar, Portugal, 2014; 14’53 min.
20. The Other Side of the Water, Resul Sakinmaz, Turkey, 2015; 18’44 min.
25. Within, Natália Azevedo Andrade, Portugal/Hungary, 2015; 3 min.
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Cattlemen, Zura kavtaradze, Georgia, 2015; 20 min.
MASTERS COLLECTION 1.
Eisenstein in Guanajuato, Peter Greenway, Netherlands/Mexico/Finland/Belgium/France, 2015; 105 min.
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My Good Hans, Alexander MIndadze, Germany/Russia, 2015; 110 min. My Mother, Nanni Morreti, Italy/France, 2015; 106 min.
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Winter Song, Otar Iosseliani, France/Georgia, 2015; 117 min.
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Gladiator, Baadur Tsuladze, Georgia, 1972, 16 min. Pheola, Baadur Tsuladze, Georgia, 1970, 36 min.
SHORT MATTERS! EFA SHORT FILMS TOUR 2.
Daily bread, Idan Hubel, Israel 2014, 19’42 min.
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Wall, Simon Szabó, Hungary 2013, 11 min.
9. Still got lives, Jan-Gerrit Seyler, Germany 2013, 23 min. 10. Summer 2014, Wojciech Sobczyk, Poland 2014, 12 min.
13. The Missing Scarf, Eoin Duffy, Ireland, 2014, Colour, 7 min.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Mikheil Giorgadze – Minister of Culture and monuments protection of Georgia Giorgi Ermakov – Mayor of Batumi city Irakli Cheishvili – Chairman of Batumi city hall Giorgi Tavamaishvil – Minister of Education, Culture and Sports of Adjara AR Nana Janelidze – Georgian National Film Center Gia Mikeladze – director of Batumi State Musical Center Aurelio Garcia – Manager of Batumi International Container Terminal Zaza Purtseladze, Maya Darchia - British Councils Georgia
Nana Evgenidze, Gvantsa Goradze, Manana Tabidze – Interco Travel
Robert Ferdman, Mikheil Doborjginidze – Metro Georgia Gia Mikeladze – Director of Batumi State Musical Center Thibault Carterot Nika Tarielashvili Zaza Pirtskhalaishvili Giorgi Meskhidze Shota Gujabidze David Chkonia Zaza Gabelaia Irma Chkhaidze
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Sponsored by POLISH FILM INSTITUTE, POLISH FILMMAKERS ASSOCIATION, VISEGRAD FUND, SLOVAK AUDIOVISUAL FUND, ESTONIAN FILM FOUNDATION, SOLOVENIAN FILM CENTER, ROMANIAN NATIONAL FILM CENTER, LITHUANIAN INDEPENDENT PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION, BULGARIAN NATIONAL FILM CENTER, GEORGIAN NATIONAL FILM CENTER, CZECH MINISTRY OF CULTURE, CROATIAN AUDIOVISUAL CENTRE With the support of
MEDIA PROGRAMME OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
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