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EnaMOREd

Director Biography – Petri Puroaho
I love creating something with zero-budget, with naive but exciting attitude. Few years ago, I started to feel that I have something to say and share to the world through visual arts and music, so I learned by myself all aspects of film making and music composing. Since the start I have completed philosphical sport-documentary ”M for…” (2019), dramatic sport-shortfilm ”Sport(ables) (2020), cultural music-videos ”Depress devestation” and ”Nae yuilhan” (2020-2021), comedic web-series with 4 seasons ”We Sock” (2020-2022) that eventually turned into feature film ”We Sock – the movie” (2022) and dramatic employment -documentary shortfilm ”The Disassociate” (2022) that was based on true story.
With my latest shortfilm ”EnaMOREd” (2023) I wanted to explore the relationship between reality vs. dreams. Film shows what is it like to live in parallel world at the same time while coping with the real life events. And things are not always as they seem to be, when watching from the outside. I have lots of personal experience on this films thematic material, emotions, reactions, sadness and joy. I hope viewers of this film will be able to reflect their own thoughts against the expectations and possible prejudices, and what it is to live between these two worlds: reality and dreams. What we carry in our minds eye can be different than what society assumes from us and even tries to conform us to so called normality.
”Blessed are the guilty ones, who dare to overcome their expected needs and love one another without limitations.”
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”EnaMOREd” (2023) explores the relationship between reality and dreams. Film shows what is it like to live in parallel world at the same time while coping with the real life events. What we carry in our minds eye can be different than what society assumes from us and even tries to conform us to so called normality when dealing with a persons sexuality, love-life and relationship.

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A Companion for Amateur Cinematographers: Vol. I

Director Biography – Federico Di Corato
Born in Andria in 1991, he lives in Milan. He graduated from NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, where he now teaches film editing. He is one of the founding partners of the Re-framing Home Movies association, which works to safeguard and promote amateur film heritage. His short films “The Shack” and “(s)words” both explore the theme of private memory, through the aesthetic of video tape devices; both were presented in competition at the Locarno Film Festival. “A Companion for Amateur Cinematographers: Vol. I” is the result of his research into Fascist-era manuals for amateur cine enthusiasts, and was made using footage from the Augusto Gandini Collection (Archivio Cinescatti – Lab 80 film); the film was developed with the support of Re-framing Home Movies and the French association, Vidéadoc.
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Set against the backdrop of Italy in the years of the fascist dictatorship, a man of means, yet unknown to history, scrutinises the world through his small cine camera. Guiding him and teaching him is a manual; the buds of ideology are detectable beneath the seemingly impartial tone it uses to describe technique. But in his films, the ineffable signs of resistance still rise to the surface.

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Emerge

Director Biography – Neven Dužanec
Neven Dužanec član je Kinokluba Zagreb od 2001. godine. Autor je brojnih eksperimentalnih i kratkometražnih igranih filmova s kojima je sudjelovao je na domaćim festivalima poput Dana hrvatskog filma, Revije hrvatskog filmskog stvaralaštva, kratkog programa Pulskog filmskog festivala, programa Kockice Zagreb Film Festivala, One Take Film Festivala te nekoliko stranih (Cluj Comedy Film Festival, Tuzla Film Festival).
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Director Biography – Jeronim Jandrić

Rođen 1999 u Zagrebu završio preddiplomski studij Povijesti umjetnosti i Komparativne književnosti na FFZG. Diplomski upisao ove godine na UMAS Film i video. Amaterski se bavi glazbom i zvukom, koje translatira u eksperimentalni video.

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Audiovizualni uradak/eksperimentalni video realiziran u sklopu radionice Modularni film Kino kluba Zagreb. Otprilike se bavi se odnosom budućnosti i napretka. Je li kauzalno povezivanje njih dvoje samo nuspojave određenog, možda preoptimističnog, viđenja svijeta? Je li takav sentiment u modernom duhu zaista moguć, ili su za nas već stvar prošlosti? Ako je tako, čemu se okrenuti?




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jogginggodard

Director Biography – Lara Badurina
Lara Badurina (Rijeka, 1968) is a visual artist whose experimental artistic projects explore themes from everyday life. In them, the artist creates conceptual frameworks of different approaches to developing a sense of space and its specificities, as well as the interdisciplinary methodology for its shaping and perception.
She earned her Master’s degree in 2003 on the topic of “Documents in art” at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana. Since the late 80s she has continually been the author of various exhibits, theatre scenographies and light designs both in theatres and in other venues. She has been rewarded for her work with multiple national and international rewards.


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As part of her Hommage series, visual artist Lara Badurina presents a new work, this time in the form of an experimental film. After her tribute to Dan Flavin (2015), Badurina now pays homage to Jean-Luc Godard. Hommage series is generally inspired by artists who explored space and influenced Badurina’s work. With this work specifically, Badurina refers to Godard’s use of narratives (“Weekend” (1967), ”Band of Outsiders” (1964), ”Sympathy for the Devil” (1968)) and his innovative jump cuts. By realizing the work on non-typical locations and by dividing the scenes based on what is near and what is far, Badurina reveals the fragility of the picture itself.Throughout “jogginggodard, removie” the artist develops and explores various female roles inspired by Godard’s heroines (Anna Karina and Anne Wiazemsky).The concept of the film was based around the idea of the live performance inside a museum, which premiered in 2019 at the Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art. It had a continuous linear order from beginning to end, that was then changed when the author inserted edited scenes into surveillance camera frames, and by doing so, she contrasts different dramatic compositions. The synchronized surveillance cameras suggest that the events happened simultaneously.



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Theta

Director Biography – Lawrence Lek
Based in London, Lawrence LEK (1982, Germany) is a Malaysian-Chinese artist, musician and filmmaker working in the fields of virtual reality and simulation. He was educated at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, the Architectural Association in London, and the Cooper Union in New York. He creates site-specific virtual worlds and speculative films using gaming software, 3D animation, installation and performance. His work has been exhibited at galleries, museums and festivals around the world.

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This CGI animation follows a self-driving police car in a desolate landscape. In dialogue with a built-in therapist, they contemplate the meaning of freedom and lament their uselessness. As their conversation ensues, it becomes increasingly clear in what kind of world our protagonist is living. Theta is part of Lawrence Lek’s Sinofuturist cinematic universe, in which he explores the psychological impact of technology on emerging forms of non-human life



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Lotus-Eyed Girl

Director Biography – Rajee Samarasinghe
Rajee SAMARASINGHE (1988, Sri Lanka) was born and raised amidst the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka. He later left for the United States where he is now based. Much of his work examines sociopolitical conditions in Sri Lanka through the scope of deconstructing ethnographic practices and the colonial gaze in contemporary media. Samarasinghe’s films have been screened at venues internationally including the Ammodo Tiger Short Competition at IFFR in 2020.
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A haunting collage of pomegranate arils, rural and urban landscapes, family history and mandalas undulate at a crossroads between death and longing. Inspired by the love poem Caurapañcāśikā by Bilhana, Lotus-Eyed Girl unfurls the impacts of colonialism on human desire with a pulsating, ambient eeriness.


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Blinded by Centuries

Director Biography – Parinda Mai
PARINDA Mai (1990, Thailand) is filmmaker who studied at Princeton University and gained a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, specialising in cinematography and film production. Her work has been screened at festivals and galleries around the world. Inspired by the folk story Twelve Sisters, learned across multiple platforms as a child, she reinterpreted the moral of the story and its implications with 12 Kalpas – A Beginning of Beginning (2021). Blinded by Centuries stems from the same project, and was selected for IFFR 2023
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The Buddhist tale Twelve Sisters forms the basis of this speculative folk tale that scrutinises our existence on this planet, depicting a generation adrift between mythical and earthly realms. Parinda Mai questions the effects of globalisation, technological progress, and humanity’s place within an endless cycle of exploitation and destruction. Blinded by Centuries captures the confusing times we are living in, culminating in a synergy of image and sound.

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As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night

Director Biography – Larissa Sansour, Søren Lind
Soren LIND (1970, Denmark) is a Danish author, artist, director, and scriptwriter. With a background in philosophy, Lind wrote books on mind, language, and understanding before turning to art, film, and fiction. He has published novels and short story collections. His children’s books are translated into several languages. Lind screens and exhibits his films at museums, galleries, and film festivals worldwide. His work was shown at the Danish Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennial. Other venues and festivals include Copenhagen Contemporary, MoMA, Barbican, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Berlinale, BFI London Film Festival, and International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Larissa Sansour is a Palestinian artist who currently resides in London, England.[1] Her practice includes photography, film, sculpture, and installation art. Some of her works include Tank (2003), Bethlehem Bandolero (2005), Happy Days (2006), Cairo Taxilogue (2008), The Novel of Novel and Novel (2009), Falafel Road (2010), Palestinauts (2010), Nation State (2012), In the Future, They Ate From the Finest Porcelain (2016), and Archaeology in Absentia (2016).
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Steeped in black and white, Palestinian soprano Nour Darwish delivers an Arabic-language aria about intergenerational sorrow and maternal grief. The haunting composition, based on Gustav Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder and the Palestinian traditional song Mashaal, traces a century of loss and harrowing conflict with extraordinary power and grace.

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Cave Paintings

Director Biography – Siegfried A. Fruhauf
Siegfried A. FRUHAUF (1976, Austria) studied experimental visual design at the University of Art and Design in Linz. He has been experimenting with video, film and photography since 1993 and his short films have been shown at IFFR and other major film festivals, including Cannes, Venice and Sundance. In his work, Fruhauf explores the perception of cinematographic movement through the exposure and structural montage of individual film frames and photographs. In 2002, Fruhauf received the Supporting Award for Film Art from the Austrian Federal Chancellery. His most recent film Cave Painting was selected for IFFR 2023.
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It’s all the rage to evoke spectacular ‘immersive’ cinema today, but nothing matches the immersion effect of a Siegfried A. Fruhauf film. Agglomerating the textures of cave surfaces with the material traces of filmic processes, Cave Painting offers a trippy visual and sonic journey for the senses that evokes an avant-garde, grunge version of the psychedelia in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Oydssey. Don’t blink, or you’ll miss something good. As always, Fruhauf conjures a new world.