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Director Biography – Mia Martinović
Mia Martinović was born in 1993 in Zagreb. She graduated at the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb with the project Archive of Arts. Since 2019, she is a member of Kinoklub Zagreb.
SYNOPSIS
She enters the Archives to hand over her memories. How much time can she get in return for the things she experienced?
Film essay that combines videos and photographs, reality and fiction, where author explores the value of her memories and her imagination.

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A poet is dead

Director Biography – Mattia Biondi
Mattia Biondi is an italian independent filmmaker who works at the end of the images. His research is based on the use of minimal and essential technical instruments and it is oriented at the development of creative processes concerning the fusion of archival material and autobiographical elements. He is also one of the curators of the Laterale Film Festival in Cosenza (IT).
SYNOPSIS
When death enters the home, the poet imagines being elsewhere.

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A Crooked Path Through The Dark

Director Biography – David Franklin
David Franklin is an Irish visual artist and film maker currently based in Barcelona. He has exhibited internationally and received grants from various institutions in Spain and Japan. He works at the crossroads of art, cinema, literature, and performance, utilising a range of media from painting to video to explore irrational and chaotic realities. “A Crooked Path Through The Dark” is the first work from his ongoing project “Out of Earth and Sky”, made in collaboration with some of the world’s leading butoh dancers, including members of the internationally-renowned groups Dairakudakan and Sankai Juku.
SYNOPSIS
A butoh dancer (Atsushi Matsuda, of the internationally-renowned group Dairakudakan) travels across Tokyo on his way to rehearsals, traversing a subconscious landscape that bridges the interior world of the self with an exterior world that extends through the city to the cosmos. In reflecting on a dancer’s creative process, “A Crooked Path Through The Dark” offers a phantasmagorical look at the ties that bind the individual to the world around them, the connections we form with our environment, and the role of personal experience in shaping both lives and artwork. As storms boil and earthquakes rattle, we witness the visceral and moving process of destruction and renewal needed for the creation of a new performance.

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Feel The Change

Director Biography – Luka Tokić
Luka Tokić was born in 1990. He graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb in 2022, with a focus on editing. He develops film and TV scripts and works as a director and editor. His short film “Jazavci” (2012), which he wrote and directed, won a Special Mention at the Croatian Film Festival in 2013. As an editor, he has worked on documentary projects with many renowned authors, such as Ivona Juka, Dario Juričan, Sandra Basso, and others. Among the projects he has edited, he highlights the editing of the feature-length documentary film “Kumec” (Dario Juričan, 2020) and the film “Hipokritovi sinovi” (Anton Mezulić, 2019), which was co-financed by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC) and on which he also worked as a screenwriter. He is a co-author and director of the popular YouTube talk show “Gradonačelnik svemira” (Mayor of the Universe), produced by Tibor Keser. He worked as an assistant director and editor on the documentary film “Pravilo zlatnog sata” (The Golden Hour Rule) (Ivona Juka, 2023), directed by Ivona Juka in the production of the Center for Cultural Activities, which is scheduled to be broadcast on HRT in November 2023. He is currently working as a director and screenwriter on the pre-production of the documentary series about street art “Pred zidom” (Behind the Wall), produced by Anita Juka and Mihovil Pirnat for HRT.
SYNOPSIS
The Ever-Changing Shape speaks to us about change and what change really means to it.