Lâchez les chiens / Release the Dogs
France, Belgium, fiction, 2017, 21'
Director: Manue Fleytoux
Screenplay: Manue Fleytoux
Cinematography: Florian Berutti
Editing: Adrien Pagotto
Scenography: Emmanuel Borgetto
Costumes: Kim Nguyen
Sound: Thomas Hatcher
Music: Jules Ribis, Xavier Tabard (SEC)
Cast: Alice De Lencquesaing, Yoann Zimmer, Simon Boyle
Production: Chevaldeuxtrois (Jeremy Forni), Wrong Men North (Benoit Roland)
Anouck is a resigned girl, torn between two loves, two violences : her man, an attractive watchdog, and her little brother, a young mad pup. The night of the boy’s 18th, this delicate triangle explodes, Anouck's revolt is on its way...
The Years / Gli anni
Italy, France, documentary, 2018, 20'
Director: Sara Fgaier
Screenplay: Sara Fgaier
Editing: Sara Fgaier, Davide Minotti
Sound: Riccardo Spagnol
Production: Dugong Films (Marco Alessi), Sara Fgaier
A woman gives voice to Annie Ernaux The Years's text, a few collected fragments on the shores of a timeless Sardinia. Neither the words, nor the images, drawn from the family films, are expected to complete the narration of her story: places from her past. The details in each gesture, in each face become expressive elements of a confession that is both personal discovery and collective narration.
Shame
Bolgarija Bulgaria, fiction, 2017, 24'
Director: Petar Krumov
Screenplay: Petar Krumov
Cinematography: Georgi Georgiev
Editing: Elena Seimenova
Scenography: Sabina Hristova
Costumes: Svetla Dionisieva
Sound: Valeria Popova
Cast: Zdravko Moskov, Monika Asparuhova, Emilia Panova
Production: KLAS Film (Rossitsa Valkanova)
Macho is a poor boy, who skips school to work on a construction site. The only ray of light for him is his girlfriend, Donna .Yet, she is ashamed of his mother, who works as janitor in their school. Macho has to chose between his mother and his love, and he finds his own way to deal with his emotions.
What's The Damage
United Kingdom, experimental, 2017, 7'
Director: Heather Phillipson
Screenplay: Heather Phillipson
Cinematography: Heather Phillipson
Editing: Heather Phillipson
Animation: Heather Phillipson
Scenography: Heather Phillipson
Sound: Heather Phillipson
Music: Heather Phillipson
Cast: Heather Phillipson
Production: Heather Phillipson
What’s The Damage is a proposition and provocation, answering back to ongoing crises under white patriarchy, relaying and augmenting feelings and gestures of chronic unease, protest and dissent. Phillipson’s summons and riposte storms in via menstrual blood, rising up against leadership circle-jerks, weeping vortexes, seared orangutans, animal-fat banknotes, and advancing supermoons, pizzas and drones.
Ujetnik družbe / Sociumis patimari / Prisoner of Society
Georgia, Latvia, fiction, 2018, 16’
Director: Rati Tsiteladze
Cinematography: Rati Tsiteladze
Editing: Rati Tsiteladze
Sound: Rati Tsiteladze
Production: ArtWay Film (Rati Tsiteladze, Nino Varsimashvili)
What it means to be a stranger in your own home and country? Prisoner of Society is an intimate journey into the world and mind of a young transgender woman, trapped between her personal desire for freedom and traditional expectations of her parents that threatens their unity.