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Chaytu (Fantasma)

SPECIAL MENTION
JURY STATEMENT:
Film narration built with intentionally limited procedures. Static shots, narration in the text, and singing function in a simple and meditative way as a comforting tool. Throughout the film, we are faced with a barrier of dense and impassable vegetation. The sky is almost never seen. Human voices and flute sounds echo through the noise overpowering the birdsong. The serenity and harmony of the rain-soaked landscape dominates the film, making the human presence spectral and absorbing it into the all-encompassing reality of the forest. This is a film that would surely fit a big screen well.

AUTHOR CV
Ecuadorian director, screenwriter and producer. His debut documentary “La Tola Box” had its theatrical release on Ecuador’s main theaters and was screened at festivals such as Havana IFF, Mostra de Sao Paulo, EDOC and FILMAR (Switzerland). His first feature film “Sansón” was selected for the Amiens Writing Fund and the Produire au Sud lab at the 3 Continents Nante’s Film Festival, both in France; as well as in Ibermedia’s “Hero’s Journey” workshop, held in La Paz, Bolivia. The project won Ecuador National Film Institute’s Film Fund in Development and Production and Ibermedias Co-production Film Fund. It was also selected by Film In Progress (Ventana Sur), Bolivia Lab’s Finalization Lab, Malaga’s IFF WIP and FIC Viña’s WIP where it was awarded first prize. “Sansón” is currently finished and about to begin its distribution stage. Nowadays, he is developing the scripts for “I shall not speak of death”, winner of Ecuador’s National Film Fund in the Writing category; and the documentary essay “The Cougar’s Jaguar”. In 2021 he will direct the short film “The Sacred fire of the dead” as an exploration of the themes and aesthetics he plans to develop in “I shall not speak of death”. This short film was the winner of Ecuador’s National Fund as well. Pavel studied film at the National Film and Documentary School of Argentina at the Popular University of Mother’s of Plaza de Mayo. He also studied music, specializing in piano. In 2000 he won the International Poetry Award “Valentin Arteaga” from Spain. He often teaches in labs and workshops about screenwriting and directing in several countries and directs the Cosmonautalab. He is the conductor of “Tropical Framing” a radio show about Latin American film broadcasted in San Jose, Costa Rica.
SYNOPSIS
A furious and silent hurricane is about to reach a village in the Latin American tropical forest. A grandmother and her grandson are elected to travel and give themselves as offerings. Sacred songs and an arduous walk revive the hope of the commune to survive the natural disaster.

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Retired

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JURY STATEMENT:
Personal things vibrate memories of accumulated time. In them, by using the imprinted traces of life, they are testifying of the former human presence, just like analog devices for recording nostalgia.
A film thinks about people, things, abandoned objects, that draw memories, events and places. in a gentle and poetic way.

AUTHOR CV
Vojtěch Domlátil is Czech independent filmmaker, animator, illustrator, graphic designer and teacher. In his last films he works with non-narrative possibilities of stopmotion, oscilating between genres of animation, documentary and experiment. He lead the studio of animation in the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic, together with Jiří Barta
SYNOPSIS
Retired life inside the lonely family cottage. A shake made from love, care and family history. Short poetical anidoc using simple stopmotion animation. A tribute to my parents and their stuff they left there.

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Holiday in the Sea of Supremacy

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The well-known and once relaxing scenes now have a completely new meaning. The sea is no longer a sea for swimming and diving, it is a sea of ​​drowning and loss. Racial and class segregation is underlined under all elements of life like the ambient sound present in the film. Motives of tourist utopias that pass from the sphere of the known to the sphere of the eerie.

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Roger Horn is an unconventional filmmaker and professor at HMKW Berlin in the Visual and Media Anthropology program. His PhD in Social Anthropology titled, “Memories, material culture, and methodology: Employing multiple filmic formats, forms, and informal archives in anthropological research among Zimbabwean migrant women” included several accompanying films which have screened widely at festival such as the 65th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 2020 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, and the 21st & 22nd Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festivals.
SYNOPSIS
Upon completion of his PhD and relocation to Germany all that filmmaker Roger Horn wanted was a relaxing family holiday in Spain, but he quickly became consumed with troubling emotions while swimming in the site of countless migrant deaths, the Mediterranean Sea. Adding to his concerns a trip into Barcelona with his wife revealed a city plastered in banners demanding Catalonian independence, cash machines covered in protest slogans, and African migrant vendors constantly under threat from local police.

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PROGRAM Winners

See My Ghost Passing Away

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JURY STATEMENT:
The film is a little masterpiece. Perfect in every performance segment. Precise and seductive compositions, suggestive color-soaked scenes and visualized emotions, longing and regret. A feeling of nostalgia that gently pulsates through the film image. Sound and noises are almost coming out of their ambience, creating a tactile sense of presence.

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Yann Pichot was born 1992 in Brittany, France. At 18 years old, he directed his first short film. During his film studies in Rennes, he directed LA PASSEUSE, selected at Brest European Film Festival and which won the Cinematography Prize in Angoulême. Always in search of aesthetic authenticity, in 2019 he shot REGARDE PASSER MON FANTÔME (See my ghost passing away). Alongside his personal projects, he works at Aurora Films.
SYNOPSIS
Between dreams and nightmares, Lilith sees the ghost of her lost love.

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Devil’s Chapel

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JURY STATEMENT:
Auras, reflections, glares, frictions. What kind of light breaks through the film?
What’s below?
Using archival material, the author creates an extremely dynamic and tense atmosphere with a simple film trick.
The sound contributes in a good way to the creation of the structure and intensifies the experience of the documentary material.
Black light.

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Nicolás de Bórtoli was born in Goya, Argentina in 1991. He is a musician and image and sound designer (FADU-UBA). In 2020 he directed the short film ″Capilla del Diablo″ (winner of the CIBA Cilect Prize 2020).
SYNOPSIS
After finishing building his Chapel, Lorenzo suffered a depression and locked himself in it for three years. When he opens the doors, he calls his children to show what he did: good and evil.

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Io ho fissato il fuoco per sempre

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JURY STATEMENT:
Many looks.
People with ideas in their look
An expression of the eyes in which the inner state is reflected.
What is the difference between looking into the lens and through the lens?
Looking and observing imply active thinking, cognitive action.
Mental effort and fixation of the subject.
Anticipation.
Each of these looks is full of riddles / meanings that we cannot decipher.
 
Visible mental currents towards the camera.
 
Direct view of the camera.
A direct look from history into us, a look that causes discomfort,
Something is expected from us, we know something we don’t want to tell them, disappointment.
Workers, peasants, citizens, protesters.
Views and hopes for a better future.
 
This film makes us universal witnesses.

AUTHOR CV
Salvatore Insana attended the University of Roma Tre concluding his studies in 2010 with a paper on the concept of Useless. With Elisa Turco Liveri, actress and performer he has created in 2011 the collective Dehors/Audela, producing video-theatrical works, audiovisual projects, site-specific installations and photographic investigation, experimental workshops. He continued his research in motion pictures, photography and other media forms, interested in moving bodies in their elusiveness, in their metamorphic and tragic ability to elude us, interested to probe deeper on the limits of vision, on the “visual spectra”, and collaborating with several sound artists, composers and theater companies. His works has been screened at several institutions and festivals around the world.
SYNOPSIS
A collective hypnosis, an invisible, subliminal enemy, an impalpable energy on the verge of exploding. The gaze of the filmed subject, that of the camera and that of the spectator trigger a participatory obsession, made of eyes in action. Eyes that stare, emptiness or neighbor. Crossings. Missed encounters. Sudden starts. Between fear and desire. Is the threat out of range? If there is a subjective, it is that of whom? Ways to see. To be aware of being seen. There is someone, off the pitch, who acts as an underground device, a mechanism not revealed to the viewer’s eye. Someone threatens or affects the quiet of our vision and taking your eyes off too early, you know, could be fatal.

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Stray Home

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Luca Tornato (b. 1997 in São Paulo, BR) is currently studying at the ArtScience department at the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague (NL). With a background in electrical engineering, and heavily influenced by expanded cinema and early computer graphics, he hoards old analog video equipment giving them a second and final chance to create videoart, oscillographics and installations.
SYNOPSIS
STRAY HOME is a short film and a exploration of the reality in which the world was torn into during the COVID-19 global pandemic.

This moment of crisis is intensifying the
polarization of people and the state, misinformation is institutionally spread by my brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and the overall system is going towards a failure; we are forced to live by negligent decision-makers.

STRAY HOME is a study on these themes. The works of Marshall McLuhan (the concept of the
Global Village) and Nam June Paik (the electronic manipulation of imagery as means of media and political criticism) served as a major influence for this work. Errors are introduced in the video chain, either at the video signal or by capturing images on a tube tv while changing shutter speeds on the camera and so on. A collection of quotes and footages from political leaders is sequentially corrupted, recaptured and merged with a human-like character, forced to walk among these errors.

Misinformation encoded in data transmission is key in a post-truth world.

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Ramerrame

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Inês T. Alves (Portugal, 1987) holds a MA in Cultural Narratives, completed in the New University of Lisbon (FCSH), Santiago de Compostela University and Bergamo University. She has a MA in Documentary Film from the University of the Arts London (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s Scholarship). Inês is a filmmaker, video editor and cultural producer. She is experienced in developing film workshops for children and youngster. Her films were exhibited in international film festivals and exhibitions like: INDIELISBOA; PORTO/POST/DOC; QUEER LISBOA; IN THE PALACE Short-Film Festival Sofia (Bulgaria); URBAN LENS Bengaluru (India); FEST Espinho; FUSO – International Video-Art Festival Lisbon; Her latest short documentary, Around Corners, won the New Cinema Award in Porto/Post/Doc Festival.
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A visual and rhythmic composition based on the repetition of daily gestures and the nuances of routine actions, which we develop mechanically, like a loop that sometimes is physical, sometimes mental.

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SELF

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Dina Karadžić (1986) — Born and resides in Zagreb, CRO. Mastered in Art (MFA, Sculpture) from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2012. A member of the Croatian Association of Artists since 2011, of Croatian Association of Professional Artists since 2018, and the Art Director of Format C art org (an artist organization focused on digital art, experimental multimedia research and collaborative creation) since 2014. (Co)works as an independent lecturer; active as an organizer and an artist in the areas of visual | digital | net art; works in stop-motion animation and character design; employed 2017-19 by the ACC Attack NGO as a project assistant, and was a Web-Based Media Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2018-19. A member of CTHR workgroup and a Board Member at the Operation City Association Alliance since 2019.
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A short experimental built by compressing a personal archive of own and other’s images into one media file. The sequence consists of all the photos found in the images folders of the author’s device at the time (Sept 2020), both private and public content included. The files are pillarboxed into a fragmented “slideshow” video and then databent; i.e. the code of the video is edited to re/deconstruct the video into a colorful and displaced fusion of self and others selves. The video does not progress by a single narrative but in multiple asynchronous happenings, scattered by the deconstructed code of the file, interleaved by both time and space (the sequence is defined by the date the media files were delivered to or created by the origin device, regardless of their original purpose). The whole process is created by CLI software, text-editing and simple processes automation.

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Your Security

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Elias ZX’s experimental, narrative and documentary short films have found recognition around the world. They have won awards in South Korea, they’ve been available in public libraries in Berlin. They have screened in Egypt, Australia, India, Serbia, Brazil and back around to Time Square in New York City.
SYNOPSIS
A film about romance, scams, and romance scams