The European Competition Blok 1 / Discussion
Szczecin European Film Festival 2014: 02.10.2014, Thursday, 20:00
Kino Zamek, Korsarzy 34 (where is that?)
Blok tematyczny: Competition
Films
- Există gânduri21'
Există gânduri / And There Are Thoughts
Production: Romania 2013An old house in a Romanian village, simple farm buildings. They have probably been here for many years. Time that froze in place. The owner bustles slowly about the homestead. It's Maria, who lives alone but does not let solitude transform into sadness. The camera accompanies her in everyday activities, words, songs. Maria is old and wise. She neglects nothing that she can still take care of in her life.
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- Never Be Clever19'
Never Be Clever
Production: Holland 201330-year-old Wouter, who suffers from autism, loves drawing erotic comics. He lives on a quiet farm with his brother, who spends his time painting gloomy landscapes. Wouter is fascinated with Daria Morgendorffer, a character of MTV animated series (Beavis and Butt-Head, Daria). Throughout the years, the animated character made a great impact on his erotic comics. When Wouter starts publishing his works in the Internet, people begin to develop prejudice towards him. He, however, becomes more aware of what he is presenting, and would like to be recognised for it. Will he achieve his goal?
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- Odchod na korze21'
Odchod na korze / The Stop on Main Street
Production: Slovakia 2013A documentary not necessarily about an Oscar-awarded film, but rather about what happened after the fact. The camera follows the people, places, adventures, and feelings accompanying that production: The shop on Main Street from 1965. The Czechoslovakian film made cinema history as the first central-European film to win an Academy Award. One of its stars was Ida Kamińska – Polish, Jewish, and international actress and theatre director. The nostalgically black-and-white documentary The stop on Main Street returns to the atmosphere of The shop on Main Street, also appreciating those who couldn't play in the Oscar-winning film due to important life matters.
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- Odwiedziny11'
Odwiedziny / A visit
Production: Poland 2013Somewhere near a beautiful forest there are leisurely but careful preparations taking place. Festive outfits, tables being covered by sheets, a vase of fresh flowers from the field or the woods. Someone is dusting, a clock is ticking, beautiful weather, woods, fairytale serenity. Time goes by. Dressed in their best, the people wait. The documentary was shot in Sokole, in a nursing home on the Polish-Belarusian border.
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- Swallow9'
Swallow
Production: UK / Scotland 2013In this film, food (which seems to be something specific and down-to-earth on a day-to-day basis) gains an entirely different meaning than satisfying one of life's most basic needs. The footage of food, caught on 8- and 16-mm tape, evokes memories and emotions. Personal stories told by various voices are imposed on the different shots, also including food, and merged by the narrators' memories. A multi-layered story created this way is simultaneously existential and emotional.
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- Vi Bast Bindu18'
Vi Bast Bindu / Bet Obey
Production: Albania 2014In the days of a multibillion glorified soccer business, through the voice of an Albanian soccer gambling addict, we take a tour on the world of soccer, gambling and loosing, words that could sound conspirative, but that underline a bitter truth, not only in Albania, but especially in the international arena. Accusation are being made, and the finger pointed. A realistic view of the International soccer gambling phenomena.
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Associated artists
- Carmen Tofeni
Romanian-born, the director left for Italy to study cinematography at the Italian National Film School following the courses of Fellini’s master of light, Giuseppe Rotunno.
She had an early interest in the documentary genre, which led her to shoot various docu-projects. Her previous documentary as DoP, “Building no. 6” (23min.), realized with the support of ARTE and the MEDIA PROGRAMME through the training center Aristoteles Workshop 2010, won the Best Documentary Award and Jury’s Prize at Faces of Poverty Film Festival Budapest 2010. In 2009 she had her documentary, again as DoP, “What Traian Couldn’t See” (6 min.) screened at the Short Film Corner – Cannes Film Festival. Carmen’s graduation short-fiction film “They Are Nobody” as DoP has been nominated for the prestigious David di Donatello award at its 2014 edition. She chose a private story as her directing-debut. The longtime relationship with the main character gave birth to a very intimate footage.Filmography:
“Non sono nessuno” (fiction, Italy, 22 min, 2013), DoP:
2014-Nomination Premi David Di Donatello for best short film
“Existã gânduri” (documentary, Romania, 23 min, 2013), DoP and director:
2013 - Documentarist – Documentary Film Festival Istanbul– screening
- DocuART – Documentary Film Festival Bucharest–in competition“Blocul nr. 6” (documentary, Romania, 23 min, 2012), DoP:
2012 - Aristoteles Workshop & ARTE Romania-Best Documentary Film and Film Critic Jury Award
- Faces of Poverty Film Festival Budapest, Blocul nr. 6 – Jury Award
- Film.dok– Documentary Film Festival Miercurea-Ciuc– Best Debut Film Prize“Ce Traian nu putea sã vadã” (documentary, Romania-USA, 6 min, 2009), DoP:
2009 - Short Film Corner, 62nd Cannes International Film Festival– screening
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- San Gio Video Festival – screening - Genevieve Bicknell
Genevieve Bicknell, an artist and film maker based in Edinburgh, Scotland, came to film by way of social anthropology and then painting. Her work explores themes of family, memory and of how we relate to others and to ourselves. During her studies she did camera and sound on a feature documentary (currently in production) in Yemen. The film explores the effect of the revolution on the dynamics within a family. Her MFA graduation film The Bicknell was a personal documentary about her relationship to her family. The experience led her to work more closely in collaboration with her subjects, an approach which she has developed further in Swallow. Outside of film, Genevieve paints, writes occasional pieces for radio and works in mental health. Swallow is her first film since graduating from Edinburgh College of Art.
genbicknell@hotmail.com
Filmography:
“Sightlines”, 2014
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“The Bicknell”, 2014
“Swallow”, 2013
“Tree Dreaming”, 2013 - Kelmend Karuni
Kelmend Karuni (aka Zino Raza or Mas O Ze) is an albanian filmmaker.
Filmografia:
Vi Bast Bindu (2014)
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Vlora - the beauty unveiled (2014)
Pijanecet e Ajrit te Eger (2014)
Sibyls of our times (2013)
Fresk Fare (2013)
Homofobia (2013)
Epical Legendary Songs of the Highlands (2013)
The Doors of Hell (2013)
ADA (2013)
The Mysteries of Xhubleta (2010)
Scorcher Heat (2010)
Frigidance (2010)
Story from the Ferry (2009)
Der Albaner (2009)
Alive (2008) - Matej Bobrik
Matej Bobrik is a young filmmaker from Slovakia, Matej graduated from the Leon Schiller National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz and the DOK PRO Programme at the Wajda School in Warsaw.
Filmography:
2009 When the sun doesn’t rush
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2010 House of death
2013 Self(less)-portrait
2013 A Visit - Peter Zakutansky
Peter Zákuťanský (b. 1988) studied in Academy of Performing Arts Bratislava, Film and Television Faculty, Department of Art criticism and Audio Visual
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studies. „The Stop on the Main Street” is his first unassisted movie. Currently Zakuťanský cooperates with artistic group Aliens and Herons, which focuses on Czechoslovak monumental sculptures for the public areas from the socialist period. - Tamino Parren
Tamino Parren (1988) was born and raised in the Netherlands. He went to the Graphic Design School in Utrecht to study Film and Animation Techniques. There he developed an interest in documentary film. After his graduation he enrolled the Academy of Art and Design in Breda to study documentary filmmaking. During this study he got interested in portraying the life of the ‘individual’. Tamino observes the ordinary man whose life is usually insulated. Yet he tries to reveal the value of that way of living. The result is a closer and intimate look in a person’s life.
Filmography:
Never be Clever (2013)
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De Laatste Akte (The Last Turn) (2012)
Recht op Acceptatie (Entitled to Acceptance) (2010)
how to get there
02.10.2014
- 11:00 - 12:30, Studio TVP3 Szczecin, The Faces of Westpomeranian Cinema
- 13:00 - 13:30, Brama Jazz Cafe, Media Corner
- 13:00 - 15:00, Studio TVP3 Szczecin, The Faces of Westpomeranian Cinema
- 16:00 - 17:00, Studio TVP3 Szczecin, New Visegrad Cinema
- 17:30 - 19:00, Multikino Galaxy, The Best Films In The World
- 19:00 - 21:00, Český film, Final West Pomerania Shorts
- 19:00 - 21:00, Kana's Cellar, videoART - Multimedia Installations
- 20:00 - 23:00, Kino Zamek, The European Competition Blok 1 / Discussion
- 21:00 - 01:00, Český film, Český film: Fact-based film by..., Martin Scorsese , Ron Howard , Roman Polański
- Never Be Clever19'