I've Seen Films

I’ve Seen Films 

International Short Film Festival

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INTRODUCTION 

I’VE SEEN FILMS 2009 

International Short Film Festival 

Welcome all of you to our second edition of ‘I’ve Seen Films’! 

The Rutger Hauer Starfish Association is producing this event to raise awareness and lift the stigma of 

aids. 

Filmmakers, let me address you as your work is the focus of our efforts and you are our VIP’s for this 

event. 

The short films you sent us have exceeded all our expectations. You have surprised us all very much! 

Congratulations! 

The link between this film festival and the internet is proving to be successful. By embracing 

this medium we are creating an increasing number of connections between filmmakers 

worldwide, in the effort to update and explore new venues. 

‘I’ve Seen Films’ is also becoming a delightful chance for filmmakers to confront themselves in 

the language they feel so close to: the language of film. Some filmmakers from the USA and from 

Spain, who attended last years’ edition, have joined forces in setting up a film project that is being 

developed over long distances as we speak. This is another dream of mine come true! 

Short films are one of the few places for artistic freedom. The art in short film is undergoing a revival 

and turning into a new renaissance and ‘I’ve seen Films’ is proud to help water these fresh visual 

flowers. 

I’m also proud to say that ‘I’ve Seen Films’ is the first festival in which a short film competition is judged 

by an International Jury, formed by my own inspirational mentors, who are artistic talents and experts of 

cinematography. 

As part of the awareness campaign goals, we continue focusing our attention on social issues. We have 

established a competition film category called ‘Social Awareness’, prompting filmmakers to send us their 

works focusing on the most thorny and topical subjects of worldwide societal problems, encompassing 

all issues: health, environmental, jobs, racism and so on. 

This is additional proof that success always passes through imagination, inventiveness, creativity and - 

most of all - the heart. 

Rutger Hauer 

President and Founder 

I’ve Seen Films - International Film Festival



INTRODUCTION 

Once again, we can proudly say that the response to our second ‘call’ from filmmakers all around the 

world has been overwhelming; not only because of the huge quantity of works received, but for their 

amazing artistic quality! 

Due to the exceptionally high number of beautiful works, and thanks to the cooperation of Mr. Finazzer 

Flory and the Milano Municipality, ‘I’ve Seen Films’ has broadened this year’s Festival program, expanding 

from five days last year, to a ten-day screening presentation for this year’s edition of ‘I’ve Seen Films’. We 

have also increased the number of our screening venues and now there are three! 

In addition to this, because of the cooperation agreement reached with the Microcinema Digital Network, 

‘I’ve Seen Films’ will arrive at theaters via satellite. The goal of this project is to promote and diffuse 

the works of filmmakers to a larger and larger extent and thus offer extremely powerful visibility to their 

films. This agreement also allows us to broadcast the Gala Award Evening, along with its prestigious filmmakers 

and guests, live and in high definition in both Italian and European theaters. 

Our thanks, also, to the European Space Agency satellite technology. Their involvement clearly paves an 

innovative path in the international film festival world by offering an increasingly expanding audience 

the opportunity to enjoy, in digitalized theaters, the best original works originating from authors all over 

the world. 

As part of this special attention bestowed on new technologies, during the past edition, the authors’ 

works were screened, for the first time ever during any short film festival, in a masterful, high-definition 

digitalized version. This aspect is quite uncommon in other film festivals since it requires a high degree 

of professional technical knowledge. This format garnered enthusiastic praise from audience and film 

authors alike and we will continue pursuing this ground-breaking path in all our editions. 

For this edition, ‘I’ve Seen Films’ is also expanding its program to include two Masterclasses, attended by 

Rutger Hauer, Lech Majewski and our artist guests. One class will deal with the subject of festivals and the 

short film promotion, and the other with the issue of Art, Poetry and Literature transposed to the filmic 

language. 

As I was saying, the response from filmmakers has been really encouraging! So much so, that it is to the 

point that we are taking into consideration the possibility, for our third edition, to extend the Festival’s 

competition to feature films: it is a request coming directly from the filmmakers and ‘I’ve Seen Films’ 

always listens with an open ear… 

So, let me extend a huge and heartfelt thank-you to all the Individuals, Organizations, Government institutions 

and Companies who have contributed to make ‘I’ve Seen Films’ such a successful initiative. Our 

warm appreciation also applies to our Jury, our Staff and our tireless Volunteers. All of this could not 

happen without you. 

PierPaolo De Fina 

Director and Artistic Co-Director 

I’ve Seen Films - International Film Festival 

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THE SAME? NO! DIFFERENT! 

In 2008, when Rutger Hauer envisioned and started the ‘I’ve Seen Films International Short Film Festival’ 

people may have thought: “Another short film festival? The same old story...” No! This is really a new story 

because a mainstream and Independent Film Star chose Milano for a Film Festival that is truly different: 

Different because Hauer pulled together a Jury of top international level peers and asked them to find the 

excellence in the selection of short films that we show to our audience. 

‘’I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched cbeams 

... glitter in the dark near Tannhäuser Gate. All those ... moments will be lost ... in time, like tears ... 

in rain. Time ... to die”. Now there is something different. It is time to screen the genius of new screenwriters, 

actors and directors. Rutger believes in filmmakers and we believe in them as he does. So, you are attending 

a really different short film festival. 

We have received more than 3,000 short films, sent from more than 90 different countries. We have made 

our selection and we can assure you that the quality of the selected films within the different genres is really 

high. 

Every short will receive the highest respect from us. This respect means that every single film will be shown 

at his best, thanks to the sophisticated audio and video technology in the three venues located in downtown 

Milan. 

Aleksàndr Puskin once wrote a letter of many pages to a friend. He ended apologizing for its length explaining: 

“I didn’t have time to write a shorter one”. This sounds like a paradox but it contains a deep 

truth. In making our selection, we have found that there are filmmakers, all over the world, who know the 

meaning of those words. They are the protagonists of our ‘different’ festival. 

Giancarlo Zappoli 

Artistic Co-Director 

I’ve Seen Films - International Film Festival



INTRODUCTION 

The perception of time takes you to a world 

of processes, in moving images that represent the 

movement of the human conscience. If light 

is the basic material of the painter or 

photographer, then length is the raw material of 

time-based arts, such as cinema and video. 

Bill Viola, Statements 

‘I’ve Seen Films’ works on Time; on having seen and wanting to tell. Because in the intensity of short 

film time experience, the Festival offers a particular standpoint in the way visual stories are told, firmly 

believing that this is already a show about the thorough look at it. 

‘I’ve Seen Films’ is, since its inception by versatile Rutger Hauer, a place for probing the filmic language. 

This international short film Festival is also an opportunity to promote a gathering of authors and artists 

from all over the world, and to diffuse works that usually, with difficulty, only get into the commercial 

theater circuit. In other words, to take these works to boundaries populated by desire rather than actual 

use. 

Thanks to the implementation of innovative platforms, the ‘shorts’ will in fact be screened in HD quality 

and via satellite with the Microcinema Digital Network and the support of the European Space Agency. 

Furthermore, in parallel with the prestigious jury that elects the award winners, comes an intriguing 

‘Internet Contest’ operation that grants increased visibility and access to the competing authors of the 

various Festival sections. 

All of these characteristics make ‘I’ve Seen Films’ a precious opportunity to experience, in Milano, an 

important week of interaction between international artistic realities, and to enjoy a taste of the eye of 

the camera (by this time, digital), focused on ‘small stories’. 

It is a look that becomes uneven, plural, articulated, surprising, conflicting. 

André Bazin in ‘What is Cinema?’ wrote, “How vain a thing is Pascal’s condemnation ‘of painting which 

attracts our admiration for representation of objects that we do not admire in the original’, since the 

photograph allows us on the one hand to admire in reproduction something that our eyes alone could 

not have taught us to love […] On the other hand, of course, cinema is also a language”. 

And all of this is even more true for those short films that in their ‘contes philosophiques’ wealth are 

able to give us back the man’s travel between memory and imagination, realism and illusion, word and 

image. 

Massimiliano Finazzer Flory 

Culture Councillor of the Milano Municipality 

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Last year, when I received the invitation to prepare a small text for the introduction to the catalogue of the 

very first edition of the ‘I’ve Seen Films’ Festival, I wrote that I hoped that 2008 would be the first edition of 

many more. Now, 2009 has arrived and I am very happy to be able to introduce the second edition, which 

is even more promising. 

In a time of restrictions to our budgets, more than ever, cultural events have gone through hard times. 

Unfortunately many initiatives in the field of charity have not survived the economic crisis the world is 

currently facing. However, obstacles and complications could not stop Rutger Hauer’s belief in what he 

was doing: giving young filmmakers a chance to expose their short films and, at the same time, help 

people in desperate need, i.e. AIDS victims in the third world. 

Well, after such a difficult year, I personally think that Rutger Hauer and his staff have achieved the impossible 

if we consider that the second edition of ‘I’ve Seen Films’ presents itself with very important 

achievements such as: more than 200 short films screened, coming from 70 countries; an agreement with 

‘Microcinema Digital Network in order to reach a bigger audience; again a high-profile jury, and three 

locations in the center of Milan. 

What can I add? What more could we have hoped for a year ago? 

Therefore, I prefer to simply congratulate Rutger Hauer and his staff for their accomplishments, while 

wishing a very pleasant time to the public. Enjoy ‘I’ve Seen films’ 2009 ! 

Nora Stehouwer-van Iersel 

Consul-General of the Netherlands in Milan



FESTIVAL PARTNERS 

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International Jury



Bill Bristow (UK) 

producer, director and writer 

‘’Who Are They?’’, ‘’Prosit Ermanno!’’ (documentary); ‘’The Swan’’ (theater production); 

‘’Fleas’’(theater direction); ‘’A Game of Moles’’ (writer); ‘’The Whaler’’ (screenwriter); 

‘’Granny’s Wish’’ (theater production). 

Eugenio Cappuccio (ITA) 

director, screenwriter and producer 

‘’Ginger & Fred’’ (Federico Fellini’s Assistant Director); ‘’Towards the Moon with 

Fellini’’ (documentary - director), ‘’Il caricatore’’ (writer and director), ‘’Just One Life’’, 

‘’Sleeping on Her’’ (director); ‘’One out of Two’’ (writer and director), 

‘’Like Flies’’ (in progress – writer and director). 

Daniela Catelli (ITA) 

film essayist and TV author 

INTERNATIONAL JURY 

‘’Ciak si trema. Guida al cinema horror’’ (1996 and 2007), ‘’Friedkin. Il brivido 

dell’ambiguità’’ (1997), ‘’L’Esorcista 25 anni dopo’’ (1999). Writer for the satellite TV 

Coming Soon Television, and author of the ‘’Horror Night’’ program. 

Teresa Cavina (ITA) 

Film festival artistic director, international film program manager and writer 

Head of Program (1998-2000) and vice-director (2001-2005) at the Locarno 

International Film Festival, member of the Sundance/NHK Filmmakers Award 

selection committee. Artistic Director of the Roma International Film Festival 

(2005-2008), responsible for competive section ‘’Cinema’’ and New Cinema Network-Lab director. 

‘’Spielberg su Spielberg’’ (writer). 

Anton Corbijn (NL) 

photograher, director, producer and writer 

‘’Strange’’, ‘’Strange Too’’, ‘’Personal Jesus’’, ‘’Heart-Shaped Box’’, ‘’U2: Achtung Baby’’, 

‘’Depeche Mode: One Night in Paris’’, ‘’U2: The Best of 1990-200”, “Linear”, ‘’Some YoYo 

Stuff’’(director); ‘’Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn”, ‘’Control’’ (director and 

producer); ‘’Famouz’’, ‘’Strangers’’, ‘’Allegro’’, ‘’Star Trak’’, ‘’33 Still Lives’’, ’’Everybody Hurts’’, ‘’U2 & I’’, ‘’In 

Control’’ (writer). 

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Rutger Hauer (NL) 

actor, director and writer 

‘’Turkish Delight’’, ‘’Soldier of Orange’’, ‘’Nighthawks’’, ‘’Blade Runner’’, ‘’Ladyhawke’’, 

‘’The Hitcher’’, ‘’The Legend of the Holy Drinker’’, ‘’Confessions of a Dangerous 

Mind’’, ‘’Batman Begins’’, ‘’Sin City’’ (actor); ‘’The Room’’, ‘’Starfish Tango’’ (director); 

‘’All Those Moments’’ (writer). 

Lech Majewski (POL) 

artist, director, composer, poet, stage director 

‘’The Knight’’, ‘’Wojaczek’’ aka ‘’Life Hurts’’ (director and writer); ‘’The Flight of the 

Spruce Goose’’, ‘’The Prisoner of Rio’’ 1988, ‘’Gospel According to Harry’’, ‘’The Mill and 

the Cross’’ (director, writer, producer); ‘’Basquiat’’ (writer and producer); ‘’The Roe’s 

Room’’, ‘’Angelus’’ (director, writer and composer); ‘’The Garden of Earthly Delights’’, ‘’Glass Lips’’ aka 

‘’Blood of a Poet’’ (director, writer, producer and composer). 

Roberto Nepoti (ITA) 

film critic for ‘La Repubblica’ newspaper, Cinematography and Film History 

lecturer at the Trieste University, writer 

‘’Alain Robbe-Grillet’’, ‘’Jacques Tati’’, ‘’Marcel Carné’’, ‘’Storia del documentario’’ 

(‘’History of Documentary Film’’), ‘’Brian De Palma’’, ‘’Dario Fo’’, ‘’L’ illusione filmica. 

Manuale di filmologia’’ (‘’The Film Illusion. Cinematography Manual’’) (writer). 

Christopher Nolan (UK) 

writer, producer, director 

Photo by Paul Rider 

‘’Insomnia’’ (director); ‘’Doodlebug’’, ‘’Memento’’, ‘’Batman Begins’’ (writer and director); 

‘’Following’’, ‘’The Prestige’’, ‘’The Dark Knight’’, ‘’Inception’’ (writer, director and 

producer). 

Miranda Ricahrdson (UK) 

stage, film and television actress 

‘’Cinderella’’, ‘’Moving’’, ‘’A Lie of the Mind’’, ‘’Orlando’’, ‘’Grasses of a Thousand 

Colours’’ (theater); ‘’Secret Friends’’, ‘’A Dance to the Music of Time’’, 

‘’St. Ives’’, ‘’Absolutely Fabulous’’, ‘’The Lost Prince’’, ‘’Fatherland’’, ‘’Merlin’’, 

‘’Rubicon’’ (TV); ‘’Dance with a Stranger’’, ‘’Empire of the Sun’’, ‘’The Crying Game’’, ‘’Damage’’, 

‘’Tom & Viv’’, ‘’Sleepy Hollow’’, ‘’Enchanted April’’, ‘’Spider’’, ‘’The Phantom of the Opera’’, 

‘’Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’’, ‘’The Rage in Placid Lake’’, ‘’The Young Victoria’’ (film).

Robert Rodriguez (USA) 

director, producer, screenwriter 



‘’El Mariachi’’, ‘’From Dusk Till Dawn’’ (director, screenwriter, production); ‘’Spy Kids’’, 

‘’Once Upon a Time in Mexico’’, ‘’Grindhouse Planet Terror’’ (director, screenwriter, 

music, production); ‘’The Faculty’’, ‘’Sin City’’, ‘’Shorts’’ (director). 

Ridley Scott (UK) 

director and producer 

‘’The Duellists’’, ‘’Alien’’, ‘’Blade Runner’’, ‘’Legend’’, ‘’Gladiator’’, ‘’Hannibal’’ (director); 

‘’Thelma & Louse’’, ‘’1492: Conquest of Paradise’’, ‘’G. I. Jane’’ , ‘’Black Hawk Down’’, 

‘’Matchstick Men’’, ‘’Kingdom of Heaven’’, ‘’A Good Year’’, ‘’American Gangster’’, 

Paul Verhoeven (NL) 

writer and producer and director 


‘’Body of Lies’’ (director and producer). Photo by Paul Rider 

‘’Soldier of Orange’’, ‘’Flesh & Blood’’, ‘’Black Book’’ (writer, director), ‘’Jesus - the man’’, 

‘’Jesus of Nazareth: A Realistic Portrait’’ (writer), ‘’The Fourth Man’’, ‘’Turks Fruit’’, 

‘’Robocop’’, ‘’Total Recall’’, ‘’Basic Instinct’’, ‘’Showgirls’’, ‘’Starship Troopers’’, ‘’Hollow 

Man’’ (director), ‘’The Winter Queen’’ (director, producer). 

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FESTIVAL LOCATIONS 

MILAN - Italy 

Milan is one of the largest cities in Italy, located in the plains of the Lombardy 

region, and is one of the most highly developed urban centers in Europe. It is 

also a major artistic center and is renowned as one of the most important financial 

and business centers of the world: the Milan metropolitan area has the 

4th highest GDPs in Europe. Were it a country, it would rank as the 28th largest 

economy in the world, almost as large as the Greek economy. 

Milan is a major center for the production of textile and garments, automobiles, 

chemicals, industrial tools, heavy machinery, book and music publication. 

Milan is also considered to be the fashion center of the world, housing the 

headquarters and businesses of some of the leading international designers. 

Thenew fair ground, in the north-western suburb of Milano-Rho which was 

opened in April 2005, makes the Fiera Milanothe largest trade fair complex in 

the world. In this complex, Milan will host ‘EXPO 2015’ (the Universal Exposition). 

I’ve Seen Films 2009, in addition to being featured on the Internet for many 

months (beginning in May), runs from the end of September into October, in 

the following three venues located downtown Milan: 

Centre Culturel Français (September 24, 26 and October 1). Founded in 1949, 

the Centre Culturel Français in Milano is located in the renowned Palazzo delle 

Stelline, across from the Santa Mariadelle Grazie Basilica. This institution, directly 

linked with the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs, promotes the French 

language and culture. In addition to the famous French language courses, 

it offers a rich cultural season, held both in-house and ‘hors les murs’, which 

ranges from arts to music, from theater to dance and from lectures to design. 

The Centre Culturel Français cooperates with the major institutions, theaters 

and festivals in Milan and northern Italy. Its screening room offers a comprehensive 

French language film season along with other special events such as 

premieres and retrospectives. 

THECA (September 28 and October 3), is a brand-new, prestigious and technological 

venue located downtown Milan, at #5 Castello Square. The exclusive 

‘’still light’’ system allows the walls to be tinged with colorful cascades of lights, 

creating ever-changing backdrops. The rows of LEDs, embedded in the resin 

floor, form a very suggestive perception lightning effect. A videowall is formed 

by nine plasma monitors for high-definition seamless displays. 

Gnomo Milano Cinema (September 24 - October 3) is a film theater very 

near the Sant’Ambrogio church and the city center. This area contains many 

restaurants, shops and many useful services. The subway system, the public 

transport service and the parking areas offer the best comfort to the tourists. 

This theater is built to meet the audience needs with all the advantages of 

a modern and new-concept theater including sophisticated audio and video 

technology as well as comfortable seats, providing an emotion-packed feeling 

to its audience. The theater offers a very keen programming structure, which 

includes not only commercial hits, but also author’s works, special initiatives, 

retrospectives, premieres, original language movies, meetings with directors, 

etc. It is the Milano Municipality’s film theater which addresses quality short 

films and author’s works screenings.

Short Films 

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Competition 



International Section 

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Genre: Documentary 

Year of Production: 2008 

Runtime: 19’ 

Country: Belgium 

Original format: HDV 

Language: Dutch 

Director: Jorge Leon 

Screenplay: Jorge Leon 

Cinematography: Jorge Leon 

Editing: Marie-Hélène Mora 

Production: Niels Asbl 



A young woman is promised a good job as a nurse for an old woman only to learn that the job that 

is waiting for her is prostitution. She flees her window place, and goes back to Bulgaria where the 

trafficking mafia finds her. 

Director’s Biofilmography 

Jorge Leon studied at L’Insas (National Institute of Arts and Spectacle) in Brussels until 1990. 

As head operator and photographer he worked with different directors, among 

them Xavier Lukomski, Thierry De Mey and Mary Jimenez. He also worked as a videographer, 

photographer and playwright with important choreographers such as Meg Stuart, Stefan Putcher, 

Wim Vna de Keybus, Olga de Soto and Simone Augtherlony. 

Filmography 

2008 - 10 min. 

2007 - Between Two Chairs 

2006 - Vous êtes ici 

2003 - De Sable et de Climent



18 segundos 

18 Seconds 

Genre: Fiction 


Runtime: 7’ 

Country: Spain 


Language: Spanish 

Director: Bruno Zacharias, Miguel López 

‘Macgregor’ 

Screenplay: Bruno Zacharias 

Cinematography: Macgregor 

Editing: Macgregor 

Music: Aaron Marshall 

Cast: Jack Daniel Stanley, Amy Kim Waschke, Jordi Boixaderas (narrator) 

Production: Ciudadano Frame 

Amy and Jack do not know each other. They live in two different cities. They are devoted to absolutely 

different things. Neither of them like the same things but they both take the same amount of time 

doing the same things. Today they will meet for the first time. 


Bruno Zacharias and Miguel López Ximénez ‘Macgregor’ are two Spanish filmmakers. 

Bruno Zacharias was born in 1977. He is a graduate in Advertising from the Complutense 

University of Madrid. Bruno has written and 

directed several commercials and multimedia 

exhibitions. 

Filmography 

2008 - 18 segundos 

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26.4 

26.4 

16 





Original format: 16 mm. 



Director: Nathalie André 

Screenplay: Nathalie André 

Cinematography: Sébastien Koeppel 

Editing: Nathalie André 

Music: Wixel 

Cast: Lisa Da Boit 

Production: On Move Productions 

We are lost in the great landscape on the side of the road. 


Nathalie André was born in Köln (Germany) in 1965. She graduated in Set Designing in 1990 and in 

Scriptwriting in 1993. 

She is also a photographer, art director, and author of installations and performances. In 1997 

Nathalie founded Brussels’ Cinema Nova. 

Filmography 

2008 - 26.4 

2003 - Chaque jour est un jour du mois d’août 

1995 - La Noce à Thomas



A Casa dos Mortos 

The House of the Dead 




Country: Brazil 

Original format: DVCam 

Language: Portuguese 

Director: Debora Diniz 

Screenplay: Debora Diniz 

Cinematography: Billa Franzoni 

Editing: João Neves 

Production: ImagensLivres 

Jaime, Antonio and Almerindo are anonymous men, considered dangerous to society, 

whose punishment choices are: the tragedy of suicide, the unending cycle of being committed 

to an asylum, or surviving being imprisoned for life in the house of the dead. 


Debora Diniz is a filmmaker, born in 1970. She is an anthropologist, with Masters and Doctorates 

in Anthropology and a PhD in Bioethics. She is a professor at the University of Brasilia (Brazil) and 

director of Anis (Institute of Bioethics, Human 

Rights and Gender). 

Filmography 

2009 - A Casa dos Mortos 

2007 - Solitário Anônimo (Alone and 

Anonymous) 

2006 - À Margem do Corpo (A Disembodied 

Woman), Quem são elas? (Four Women) 

2005 - Uma História Severina, Habeas Corpus 

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A Conditional Truce 

A Conditional Truce 

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Country: India/Sri Lanka 


Language: Sri Lankan, Tamil 




Director: Prithvi Konanur 

Screenplay: Prithvi Konanur 

Cinematography: Dinesh Prasanga 

Editing: Pradeep Naik 

Music: Premkumar Sivaperuman 

Cast: L. Darshan, Sampath Jayaweera 

Production: Prithvi Konanur 

A Singhalese fisherman in Sri Lanka, diagnosed positive with HIV, decides to end his life on a remote 

island but accidentally becomes a witness of gun smuggling by Tamil Tigers supporters. Captured, he 

tries to regain his freedom by appealing to their better nature, but when the coast guards appear on the 

horizon the events take a dramatic turn. 

Prithvi Konanur is a filmmaker from Bengaluru (India), born in 1979. Prithvi started his career as a 

software engineer before the passion for filmmaking took over. A graduate from the New York Film 

Academy, Prithvi has written several feature 

screenplays. ‘The Abiding’ - a teen thriller - was 

optioned by a UK production company with 

Rob Schmidt (‘Wrong Turn’) attached to direct 

it. ‘Conditional Truce’, shot in Sri Lanka, marks 

Prithvi’s debut as a film director. 

Filmography 

2008 - A Conditional Truce



A Day in a Life 

A Day in a Life 




Country: Hong Kong 

Original format: 16 mm 

Language: Cantonese 

Debut Work 

Director: Kwok Zune 

Screenplay: Kwok Zune, Leung Pui Pui 

Cinematography: Szeto Yat Lui 

Editing: Mak Chi Kwan 

Cast: Liu Chui-Jan, Chan Suk-Ngai 

Production: School of Film & Television, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts 

She gets up early every morning. She works hard everyday. For her, a day is like a lifetime, but she 

lives on.. 


Kwok Zune is a filmmaker, born in 1985. He attended Directing courses for Film and Television at 

the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. 

A Day in a Life is his debut work. 

Filmography 

2008 - A Day in a Life 

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A Long-Distance Call 

A Long-Distance Call 

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Genre: Animation 



Country: China 

Original format: Betacam 

Language: Chinese 




Director: Joe Chang 

Screenplay: Joe Chang 

Cinematography: Joe Chang 

Editing: Joe Chang 

Music: Rishi Zhuo 

Production: Joe’s Film / China Academy of Art 

The emotions between a farmer’s parents and their children who all live in a rural area. 

Joe Chang is a filmmaker, born in China in 1958. He is an award-winning director, animator and artist. 

He studied at the Lu-Xun Academy of Fine Arts (China) and at the Tama Art University (Japan). 

Joe moved from China to Canada in 1990. He is currently working at the China Academy of Art as a 

Professor and Chairman of the Animation Department. 

Filmography 

2008 - A Long-Distance Call 

2002 - Chinese Violin



A Man of Letters 

A Man of Letters 



Runtime: 7’ 

Country: UK 

Original format: HDTV 

Language: English 

Debut Work 

Director: Tom Turley 

Screenplay: Patrick Thomson, Tom Turley 

Cinematography: David Procter 

Editing: Peter King 

Music: The Chocolate Dandies 

Cast: Ian Attfield, Nick Von Schlippe, Laura Steel 

Production: Agenda Collective 

A disagreement about the nature of love between a postman and his friend leads to an 

unexpected confession about a love letter that was never sent. 


Tom Turley is a filmmaker from the UK, born in 1983. Tom worked as a freelance stills photographer 

and assistant director, before spending two years as a camera technician for a West London facilities 

company. Alongside this intense period 

of technical education, Tom moonlighted in 

the camera department. Cameras became a 

passion and the never-ending quest to 

‘make stuff look pretty’ had begun. This is 

Tom’s debut film on the festival circuit. 

Filmography 

2008 - A Man of Letters 

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A Perfect Day for Golf 

En perfekt dag for golf 




Country: Norway 


Language: Norwegian 

Director: Eric Magnusson 

Screenplay: Eric Magnusson 

Cinematography: Calle Børresen 

Editing: Ida Kolstø 

Music: Marcus Paus 

Cast: Nicholas Hope, Kristofer Hivju, Jon Erling Wevling, Ragnhild Mønness 

Production: Feil Folk 

The two ambulance drivers, Gudmund and Frode, are on their way to the hospital with a patient when 

their ambulance breaks down. Meanwhile, Julius has arrived at the green with his caddie Alfred. 

It´s a perfect day for golf, but at the crucial stroke, it turns out that this is about a lot more than just a 

round of golf. 

Eric Magnusson is a filmmaker from Norway, born in 1977. Eric studied at L’Ecole Internationale de 

Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris. He continued his studies in Denmark where he studied Theater and 

Film Dramaturgy at the Aarhus University. He 

has written and staged plays since the age of 

18, and starred in various features and short 

films as an actor. 

Filmography 

2008 - A Perfect Day for Golf 

2007 - Dager av kjærlighet (Days of Love)

He graduated from the prestigious Institut 

Sainte Geneviève in Paris and is currently 

studying animation art at Gobelins, l’Ecole 

de l’Image (Paris). A fan of Paul Grimault, 

Nick Park, Wallace Gromit, Miyazaki, Pixar 

and Jacques Tati, Rémy loves to see his 

drawings move on the screen and to hear his 

audience laugh out loud. 

‘A Sheep on the Roof’ is debut work. 

Filmography 

2008 - A Sheep on the Roof 



A Sheep on the Roof 

Quidam dégomme 



Runtime: 7’ 

Country: France 

Original format: DVD 

Debut Work 

Director: Rémy Schaepman 

Screenplay: Rémy Schaepman 

Cinematography: Rémy Schaepman 

Editing: Rémy Schaepman 

Music: Bratsch (Label Network), 

Taraf des Trois Becs (Saillans), 

Benny Goodman 

Production: Institut Sainte Geneviève 

A man is confronted with the change of his day-to-day life after a sheep lands on the roof of the house 

opposite his. 


Rémy Schaepman was born in 1986 in the south of France. 

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A Time and a Time 

A Time and a Time 

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Genre: Experimental 


Runtime: 3’ 

Country: UK 


Director: Sarah Cox 

Screenplay: Sarah Cox 

Cinematography: Sarah Cox 

Editing: Sarah Cox 

Music: Take Time - ‘The Books’ 

Production: Arthur Cox 



A re-creation of three locations in Bristol from 100 years of discovered archive footage; a filmic archaeology. 


Sarah Cox is a filmmaker from the UK, born in 1968. She studied Animation at the Royal College of Art 

graduating in 1992. She has since worked as a director of short films and commercials. As a director, 

Sarah has won various awards at international Film Festivals. 

Filmography 

2005 - Heavy Pockets 

2001 - Plain Pleasures 

1997 - 3 Ways to Go



Action 

Action 



Runtime: 9’ 

Country: Italy 


Language: Italian 

Debut Work 

Director: Giorgio Caputo 

Screenplay: Giorgio Caputo 

Cinematography: Raoul Torresi 

Editing: Andrea Maguolo 

Music: ‘Action’ - Marco Trombin 

Cast: Ivano De Matteo, Giada Fradeani, Pierpaolo Lovino 

Production: TUP 

Two men are violently beating another man. A voice-off says ‘cut’: we are on a movie set. The violence 

of the first scene turns into comedy in the second one, where a caricature of a set takes place.. 


Giorgio Caputo was born in 1974 in Naples (Italy). Since 1998 he has been working as an actor on 

many important feature film and television productions, but during this time he has continued 

working as a screen-writer on several 

projects. 

‘Action’ is Giorgio’s debut short film. 

Filmography 

2008 - Action 

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Admission to Paradise for €3.20 

Eintritt zum Paradies um 3€20 




Country: Austria 

Original format: DVCAM 

Language: German 

Director: Edith Stauber 

Screenplay: Edith Stauber 

Cinematography: Edith Stauber 

Editing: Edith Stauber 

Music: Edith Stauber 

Production: Edith Stauber 

The myth of paradise has inspired people for time eternal. Modern leisure facilities attempt to recreate 

this illusory place. The guests at an outdoor pool jump from the ten-meter tower, sit at the café, swim 

or sleep. Satiety and prosperity define the atmosphere. The outdoor pool turns out to be a kind of 

democratic paradise, institutionalized and, in contrast to the exclusivity of the Garden of Eden, it is open 

to all. 

Edith Stauber is a filmmaker, born in Linz (Austria) in 1968. After a carpenter apprenticeship, Edith 

worked as film projectionist. She graduated in Visual Media Design, Film and Video, at the Linz 

University of Fine Arts and since 1995 she has 

been working in the documentary and 

animation fields. She lives and works in Linz. 

Filmography 

2007 - Admission to Paradise for €3.20 

2004 - Über eine Strasse 

2002 - Der englische König 

2001 - Die Zeit ist da 

1995 - Die Filmverfilmer / Oma’s Stimme



Affair 

Affair 




Country: Australia 


Language: English / Italian 

Director: Lav Bodnaruk 

Screenplay: Lav Bodnaruk 

Cinematography: Paul Seipel 

Editing: Lav Bodnaruk 

Music: Jonathan Bruno - ‘Affair’ 

Cast: Amanda Grillini, Mirko Grillini, Evert McQueen, Nicole Dixon 

Production: Lav Productions 

An intimate look at a married couple’s relationship.. 


Lav Bodnaruk is a filmmaker from Australia. He earned his Bachelor Degree in Film and Television 

at the Queensland Collage of Art in Brisbane, majoring in direction and camera. Lav is a member of 

AWG, ACS and AFI. He has written and 

directed numerous short films, TV 

commercials and music video clips. Lav’s 

love for filmmaking extends to other fields 

as well. He is an experienced camera 

operator and a film editor. 

Filmography 

2008 - Affair, Pain of the Macho 

2007 - Almost Aussie 

2006 - Translation 

2005 - The Pink Box 

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AfterVille 

AfterVille 

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Language: Italian / English 



Director: Fabio Guaglione, Fabio Resinaro 

Screenplay: Fabio Guaglione 

Cinematography: Paolo Bellan 

Editing: Fabio Resinaro, Fabio Guaglione 

Music: Andrea Bonini, Livio Magnini - Sala 

zooo Srl/Warner Chapel, ‘L’ultima Risposta’ - Subsonica, Casasonica/Emi Music 

Cast: Roberto Laureri, Giorgia Wurth, Paolo Giangrasso, Bruce Sterling, Deanna Orienti, Anthony 

Smith, Enzo Mazzullo, Miko Cantù, Magdalena Struchman, Natsumi de Vito Chirico, Fabirizio 

Viganò, Enzo Giraldo, Jaqueline Flous 

Production: FastForward, BB Productions 

The year is 2058. Huge unknown structures fell upon our planet 50 years ago, 

devastating it. TV shots from the future parallel the life of a group of ordinary people as the last 

hours of mankind tick swiftly by. Will Sam be able to find his lost love, Lisa? 


Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro are two Italian filmmakers. 

Filmography 

2008 - Afterville 

2006 - The Silver Rope 

2004 - E:D:E:N 

2001 - Ti chiamo io



Alice 

Alice 



Runtime: 8’ 




Director: Stefano Anselmi 

Screenplay: Stefano Anselmi 

Cinematography: Daniele Baldacci 

Editing: Shara Spinella 

Music: Mauro Buttafava - ‘Dossi’, ‘Alice’ 

Cast: Isabella Ragonese, Mariella Valentini 

Production: Movie Factory 

Every Sunday, Alice goes to visit her mother Giulia, who lives in a mental hospital. As the story unfolds it 

turns out that Giulia is not Alice’s mother and Alice is not really a visitor. 


Stefano Anselmi is an Italian filmmaker, born in Cinisello Balsamo (Italy) in 1974. 

In 1999 he graduated from the Civica Scuola di Cinema in Milano. In 2002 he worked as second 

director on various TV movies. In 2004 he worked with Carlo Vanzina on ‘In questo mondo di ladri’ 

and in 2007 with Sergio Martino on 

‘L’allenatore nel pallone 2’. 

He also directed many documentaries and in 

2008 he was one of the directors of RAI 

Fiction’s soap-opera ‘Agrodolce’. 

Filmography 

2008 - Agrodolce 

2003 - In store Marketing 

2001 - Opinioni di un clown 

2000 - Una visita in fabbrica 

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And Then She Was Gone 

And Then She Was Gone 



Runtime: 7’ 

Country: USA 



Debut Work 

Director: Jacqueline Pennewill, Pete Konczal 

Screenplay: Jacqueline Pennewill 

Cinematography: Pete Knoczal 

Editing: Hugo Buffino 

Music: Michael Andrews, Clint Mansel 

Cast: Diana Scarwid, Jacqueline Pennewill, Renee St. Gelais, Judit Fekete, Rachel St. Gelais 

Production: AspireHigher Productions 

As a girl sits on a park bench to relive a moment in time, all of her fears are taken away through a 

chance meeting with a stranger. 


Jacqueline Pennewill and Pete Konczal are two filmmakers from the USA. 

Jacqueline Pennewill is Director of the 57th Street/Showcase Theatre in New York City as well as a 

film actress and aspiring screenwriter. Her scripts have been in competition at Nantucket and Slamdance. 

This is her first time stepping behind the camera. In addition, she penned the script for 

‘And Then She Was Gone’. She also teaches 

acting in the New York area. 

Pete Konczal is a cinematographer whose 

credits include the prolific short ‘Bullet in the 

Brain’ and the Feature Film ‘Urbania’ 

(Sundance 2000/Lion’s Gate Films). His commercial 

credits include Maybelline, Sony, 

Calvin Klein, Nestle. 

‘And Then She Was Gone’ is their debut short 

film.



Aqua 

Aqua 




Country: Portugal 



Debut Work 

Director: Leonardo António de Brito Reis 

Manuel 

Screenplay: Leonardo António de Brito Reis 

Manuel 

Cinematography: Tiago Dias 

Editing: Edgar Alberto 

Music: Nuno Monteiro, André António 

Cast: José Wallenstein, Inês Castel-Branco, Ami Hizagi, Paulo Silva, José de Oliveira 

Production: Utopia Filmes 

Before a nuclear holocaust, a scientist develops three robots with human appearance that have orders 

to survive to tell the story of mankind to other survivors. 


Leonardo António is a filmmaker from Portugal, born in 1981. He began directing and producing 

amateur movies with schoolmates and friends. At 19, he graduated in TV and Film Directing at 

Escola Técnica de Imagem e Comunicação. 

At 25, he graduated in Architectural Sciencies 

at Universidade Lusíada. Afterward, he held 

various jobs in the television and film 

industry and wrote several screenplays, 

Leonardo also produced a TV show for SIC 

Radical called ‘Noctivagus’ with his own 

production company Recycled Films. 

‘Aqua’ is his debut short film 

Filmography 

2008 - Aqua 

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aQua ad lavandum - in brevi 

aQua ad lavandum - in brevi 




Country: Germany 



Director: Florian Metzner, Helge Balzer 

Screenplay: Florian Metzner, Helge Balzer 

Cinematography: Benjamin Bayer 

Editing: Florian Metzner 

Music: Stefan Maria Schneider 

Cast: Alexander Schubert, Mirko Hannemann 

Production: HFF Konrad Wolf Potsdam/Babelsberg 

A man tries to free himself from his guilt after an unintentional murder, but becomes more and more 

trapped in the situation until there seems to be no way out. 


Florian Metzner and Helge Balzer are two filmmakers from Germany. 

Florian Metzner was born in Berlin in 1977. After working as a caricaturist and cartoon artist at a 

local newspaper, he got into filmmaking as an editor, technical assistant, author and director. 

Filmography 

2008 - aQua ad lavandum – in brevi 

2002 - LUDUS 

2001 - Mea Culpa 

Helge Balzer is a filmmaker, born in Husum in 

1979. He attended classes for the study of ani 

mation at the Konrad Wolf University for Film 

and Television, where he received a Diploma of 

Animation for VFX and Concept Art. He works 

in the filmmaking industry as a producer, 

author, director, designer and animator. 

Filmography 

2008 - aQua ad lavandum - in brevi 

2006 - LUDUS



Arafat & I 

Arafat & I 




Country: UK/Palestine 



Director: Mahdi Fleifel 

Screenplay: Mahdi Fleifel, Steven Bloomer 

Cinematography: Daniel Stafford-Clark 

Editing: Lawrence Huck 

Music: Original score by Stuart Earl 

Cast: Mahdi Fleifel, Zein Jafar, Ximena Garcia Vera 

Production: The National Film and Television School 

Marwan is a Palestinian in love. He has finally met Lisa, the girl he is going to marry. Everything about 

her is perfect. She was even born on the same day as Chairman Arafat! Does Lisa know the meaning of 

this coincidence and how far Marwan will go to make her understand it? 


Mahdi Fleifel was born in 1979 in Dubai. He is of Palestinian origin. In 1988, his family migrated to 

Denmark. He settled in the small town of Elsinore where he continued his education. Mahdi 

received a Danish baccalaureate in classic linguistics in 1998. With a passion for filmmaking, Mahdi 

earned a diploma in Film Studies from the Media School in Copenhagen in 1999 and then went on 

to study for a BA in Film Production at the International Film School of Wales, from which he 

graduated in 2003. In 2006 he received grants 

from the Danish Arts Fund and the David Lean 

Foundation to study for an MA in screenwriting 

at Royal Holloway, University of London. 

Mahdi is currently based in London where he 

specializes in directing at the National Film 

and Television School. 

Filmography 

2008 - Arafat & I 

2005 - Hamoud & Emil 

2003 - Shadi in the Beautiful Well 

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Asade 

Asade 

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Original format: DV 

Language: Italian, Persian 




Director: Daniele Balboni 

Screenplay: Daniele Balboni, Irene Caselli 

Cinematography: Giovanni Favia 

Editing: Francesco Bona 

Music: Original score by Pericle Odierna 

Cast: Shideh Kish, Lara Brucci, Zeinab Heidary Firooz, Giordano Leoni, Giampietro Guerrieri 

Production: Associazione Culturale Medicine 

The attempts to integrate in a foreign country: torn between one’s own culture and language and 

the actual habits of the new place, looking for tolerance and understanding. 

Daniele Balboni was born in Bologna (Italy) in 1976. He has a doctorate in Arts of Music and Performance. 

Since 2004 Daniele has been working as a director of shorts, documentaries, music videos 

and TV commercials. 

Filmography 

2008 - Asade




Jon Garaño was born in San Sebastian (Spain) in 1974. He studied Journalism and Advertising at 

the University of the Basque Country and Cinema in Sarobe and in San Diego (USA). In 2001, he 

founded a production company called Moriarti with other four colleagues, and he has worked as 

film director and/or screenwriter for many audiovisual projects. 

Filmography 

2008 - Asämara, On the Line, Alamitou, FGM 

2007 - Tex Norton 

2006 - Miramar St 

2005 - The Dragon House 

Raúl López was born in San Sebastian (Spain) 

in 1971. Raúl is a videogame graphic designer. 

He completed his audiovisual training with 

filmmaking and video courses in the Cultural 

Centre of Larrotxene. Since then, he has been 

working as editor, graphic designer and 

director on many productions. 

Filmography 

2008 - Tras los visillos, Autorretrato, Asämara 

Asämara 

Asämara 



Runtime: 9’ 



Director: Jon Garaño, Raúl López 

Screenplay: Jon Garaño, Raúl López 

Cinematography: Javi Agirre 

Editing: Raúl López 

Music: XX 

Production: Kimuak - Filmoteca Vasca 

The reality, despite their extreme youth, facing millions of children in today’s Africa: in the cities or in 

in the countryside, they are fighting for the same thing - their survival. 

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Bab Al Samah 

Bab Al Samah 

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Country: Italy / Tunisia 


Language: Arabic 

Debut Work 



Director: Francesco Sperandeo 

Screenplay: Moez Ben Hassen, Nizar Kaabi, 

Francesco Sperandeo 

Cinematography: Giovanni Galasso 

Editing: Michele Sblendorio 

Music: Original score by Ziad Trabelsi (Piccolo Apollo Edizioni) 

Cast: Mohammed Sayari, Mohammed Kouka, Fabrizio Bucci 

Production: Francesco Sperandeo 

Mehdi’s desire for redemption from a humiliating past, symbolized by a heavy, old door leads him on 

a cathartic journey that results in the destruction of the door with purifying fire. 


Francesco Sperandeo was born in Palermo (Italy) in 1979. 

Bab Al Samah is his debut short film. 

Filmography 

2008 - Bab Al Samah



Bathing 

Badetag 







Director: Philipp Batereau 

Screenplay: Philipp Batereau 

Cinematography: Marlen Schlawin 

Editing: Katrin Suhren 

Music: Joachim Steffenhagen 

Cast: Harry Blank, Bela Batereau, Antje Mönning 

Production: Philipp Batereau Film 

A peaceful summer day: A little bit too peaceful. Birds are not bird singing. There is nothing to hear 

at all. Jakob leaves the lake and his dog is gone. The water at home is running but nobody is taking 

a shower. His wife and his son have disappeared. The neighbor’s doors are locked. The whole city 

seems dead. It may be a dream but Jakob does not wake up. 


Philipp Batereau is a German filmmaker, born in 1973. From 1994 to 2001 he studied philosophy in 

Frankfurt and worked as an assistant director 

in various theater productions. 

In 2003 he received the ‘Cast & Cut’ scholarship 

for young filmmakers. Presently Philipp 

is working as a video designer and developing 

the script for his first feature film. 

Filmography 

2008 - Bathing 

2004 - Ich 

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Bill and Bob 

Bill and Bob 

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Runtime: 9’ 





Director: Nicolas Fong 

Screenplay: Medhi Hussain 

Editing: Nicolas Fong 

Music: Thomas Giry 

Production: Atelier de Production de la 

Cambre 

Poor Bill and Bob are seperated at birth. Born with the most bothersome of birth defects, each of their 

lives take a truly different and yet somehow very similar path! 


Nicolas Fong is a filmmaker, born in 1982. 

Filmography 

2008 - Bill and Bob 

2006 - Choléra



Bir Kaplumbağa ile Tavşan Hikayesi 

A Tortoise and Rabbit Story 




Country: Turkey 

Original format: AVCHD 

Language: Turkish 

Director: Abdulbaki Yavuz 

Screenplay: Abdulbaki Yavuz 

Cinematography: Abdulbaki Yavuz 

Editing: Abdulbaki Yavuz 

Music: Original score by Mert Oktan 

Cast: Sait Genay, Merve Dagli, Müsfik Kenter 

Production: Abdulbaki Yavuz 

Funda wakes up to a new day to go visit her father whom she has not seen for a year because of 

her business commitments. Unfortunately, time doesn’t pass the same way for both of them. 


Abdulbaki Yavuz was born in 1985 in Turkey. He worked as a director for several production 

companies before attending a University. 

Filmography 

2008 - Bir Kaplumbağa ile Tavşan Hikayesi 

2007 - Hipokrat 

2006 - Yüzsüzler, Fosil, Macrocosmic Minimal 

Yaşamlar, Kumbara 

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Birthday Girl 

Birthday Girl 

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Runtime: 7’ 






Director: Angie Black 

Screenplay: Michael Harden 

Cinematography: Richard Hosking 

Editing: Mary-Jeanne Watt 

Music: David Chisholm 

Cast: Sarah Bollenberg, Michaela Teschendorff-Harden 

Production: HUB Productions 

Waiting for an elevator in a hospital foyer is torturous for Rachael who just wants to escape and 

find some privacy to mourn the recent death of her child. Finally inside the elevator Rachael grapples 

with the reality of leaving after an extraordinary encounter with her past. 


Angie Black is an Australian filmmaker, born in 1968. She has worked in film since graduating from 

Swinburne Film and Television School in 1990. 

Angie lectures in Media Production at La 

Trobe University and is completing her Masters 

in Media. Currently, she is also writing 

and developing feature film scripts and an 

8-part television series. She directs TV 

commercials for Hub Productions in 

Melbourne. 

Filmography 

2008 - Birthday Girl 

2000 - Bowl Me Over




Aziz Sattorov was born in 1986 in Dushanbe (Tajikistan). Aziz graduated from the VGIK Institute of 

Filmography 

2008 - Bobo 

2007 - Without Return 

2005 - In the Past About the Future, A Mask 

Bobo 

Bobo 




Country: Russian Federation/Tajikistan 


Language: Russian and Tajik 

Debut Work 

Director: Aziz Sattorov 

Screenplay: Artur Kurash 

Cinematography: Ivan Phinogeev 

Editing: Aziz Sattorov 

Music: Daler Nazarov 

Cast: Rustam Babaliev, Khairullo Nasriddinov, Yelena Uleeva 

Production: Producer’s Cut 

In a cotton field in sunny Tajikistan, a young boy, named Bobo, is working for his greedy and 

insidious Uncle. Nothing extraordinary happens in his life until one day he meets a young woman, 

Maria, who turns his world around. 

Cinematography in Moscow (Russian Federation). 

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Bon Anniversaire 

Happy Birthday 

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Language: French 



Director: Hichem Yacoubi, Daniel Kupferstein 

Screenplay: H. Yacoubi, D. Kupferstein 

Cinematography: Lucas Bernard, Nicolas 

Bitaud 

Editing: Nicolas Sarkissian 

Music: Nadhem Oueslati 

Cast: Hichem Yacoubi, Samia Haddjaj, Karine Huguenin, Olivier Mansart 

Production: Neyrac Films 

The difficulties of children of North African immigrants in France, poised between two cultures: Walid 

lives in Paris, has a French girlfriend and observes Ramadan. When his sister goes to live with a Frenchman, 

Walid is depressed. He feels responsible. What will he tell his parents? 


Hichem Yacoub started his film training by attending acting courses, including some at the Actor’s 

Studio. He began his acting career in 1984 and in parallel worked in theatre and dance. He has 

appeared in many films, including ‘Munich’ by Steven Spielberg. 

Filmography 

2008 - Bon anniversaire 

Daniel Kupferstein is a filmmaker who, since 

2004, has been teaching Documentary Writing. 

Since 1990 he has dedicated himself to 

documentaries which have been presented 

at festivals and shown on many 

French TV channels. 

Filmography 

2008 - Bon Anniversaire 

2007 - Derrière les murs... 

2005 - Banlieue rouge



Bon Voyage 

Bon Voyage 




Country: USA 



Debut Work 

Director: Francoise Gralewski 

Screenplay: Francoise Gralewski 

Cinematography: Joe Broderick 

Editing: Lee Ginsberg 

Music: Original score by Thierry Caroubi 

Cast: Francoise Gralewski, Scott Gerard, Michael Immel 

Production: OM Pictures 

A couple is running a business to answer the demand of desperate people. When a new case comes in 

the woman has second thoughts. She can’t help but think about the righteousness of their purpose. 

Nevertheless, they pursue their mission, which is to set up a client and kill him. 


Francoise Gralewski is a filmmaker from France, born in 1970. Françoise began her acting career in 

Paris. She began performing in plays as a child and by her late teens she went on tour throughout 

Europe. Afterwards, she worked for the leading Voice Over/Dubbing studios in Paris, lending 

her voice to many American and European features and TV series, including animation projects. 

While acting, Françoise started to write 

screenplays. She has now written over a 

dozen screenplays on various subjects. In 

1998, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue 

her acting and writing career. Francoise is 

currently producing a short animation ‘Little 

Fish’ and another short film ‘Ariel’, which she 

wrote, and will also direct. ‘Bon Voyage’ is 

her debut short film. 

Filmography 

2008 - Bon Voyage 

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Brudhlaup 

Brudhlaup 

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Runtime: 9’ 



Language: Norwegian, Swedish 

Director: Karin Pennanen 

Screenplay: Karin Pennanen 

Cinematography: Anders Overgaard 

Editing: Karin Pennanen 

Music: Mika Koivusalo, Terje Brun 

Cast: Maria Salomaa, Frida Serine Pedersen, Håvard Arnhoff, Philip Zandén 

Production: Nordland kunst-og filmfagskole 

A mental trip through the eyes of a woman on her wedding day.. 


Karin Pennanen is a filmmaker from Finland, born in 1977. 

Filmography 

2009 - Brudhlaup 

2008 - Rakkain huone, Small Blue




Massimo Cappelli was born in Ascoli Piceno (Italy) in 1966. He moved to Rome after obtaining his 

University Law Degree. He has directed many 

short and feature films. 

Filmography 

2008 - Bulli si nasce 

2006 - Il giorno più bello 

2002 - Sei come sei 

2001 - Ampio, luminoso, vicino metro, 

Il Sinfamolle 

1999 - Toilette 

Bulli si nasce 

Natural Born Bully 







Director: Massimo Cappelli 

Screenplay: Federica Pontremoli 

Cinematography: Raoul Torresi 

Editing: Fabio Nunziata 

Music: Original score by Giuliano Taviani 

Cast: Fabio Troiano, Chiara Francini, Edoardo De Gennaro, Martina Lombardi 

Production: Galaxia Digital Video, Nuvola Film 

A little story about little men who learn to grow up in a world of proud parents, understanding teachers, 

stolen snacks and blown-away kisses.. 

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Camille e Mariuccia 

Camille and Mariuccia 

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Country: Italy / UK 






Director: Samuele Romano 

Screenplay: Samuele Romano 

Cinematography: Rob WIlton 

Editing: Marco Battiloro 

Music: Original score by Roby Meola 

Cast: Maurizio Tabani, Umberto Terruso 

Production: Invisibile Film 

Piero, an intrusive old man, knocks on his young neighbor’s door. He needs to go to a certain police 

station that is by a river, a long way away. Reluctantly, Elio agrees to drive him, but he takes 

someone else with him on the trip, Layla, his ex-girlfriend’s ferret. During the trip, these two men 

help each other to accept the loss of their women but not without misunderstandings and many 

funny moments. 

Samuele Romano is a director and scriptwriter born in Milan (Italy) in 1980. He moved to London 

(UK), where he studied at the London Film School. Since graduation, he has worked on different 

projects, from short films to music videos. 

Filmography 

2008 - Camille e Mariuccia, La mensola di 

Giulia, Who am I, Ora d’aria 

2006 - Free Hugs, The Borsalino Experiment



Candy Darling 

Candy Darling 







Director: Silvia Defrance 

Screenplay: Silvia Defrance 

Cinematography: Steven Van Volsem 

Editing: Silvia Defrance 

Music: Tom Daniels,Yves De Mey 

Cast: Ruth Van den Eeden, Christian Mergan, Silvia Defrance, Daan Van den Eeden 

Production: The Framed Pony’s V.Z.W. 

In a small, isolated matriarch community reigns Mother. To keep her power she deliberately creates a 

psychological inferno. 


Silvia Defrance is a filmmaker from Belgium, born in 1967. She studied Animation Film at the 

Faculty of Fine Arts in Ghent, where she obtained a M.A. in Audiovisual Arts. Currently she is 

working on a personal PhD research project: an Arts Doctorate. She is exploring and questioning 

structures of filmmaking by pushing these 

codes to their limits in her film practice. 

Silvia is developing a new film project, ‘Spy 

Movie’. 

Filmography 

2008 - Candy Darling 

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Casting 

Casting 

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Country: Bulgaria 


Language: Bulgarian 




Director: Nikolay Vasilev 

Screenplay: Nikolay Vasilev 

Cinematography: Dian Zagorchinov 

Production: Screening Emotions Ltd 

I slept with a girl once and never met her again. How many girls? Many, I’m telling you! I almost never 

used condoms when I had sex with them. I thought differently then. Let me tell you what happened.. 

Nikolay Vasilev was born in 1975 in Kazanluk (Bulgaria). In 2004 Nikolay graduated as a Director at 

the New Bulgarian University. 

Filmography 

2008 - Casting, The Rise of the Warrior 

2007 - Flight in a Cage, Live with Me 

2006 - Giant, Die Fast 

2004 - The Way of Wisdom




Marie-Louise Sarr is a filmmaker from Senegal, born in 1982. She recently obtained her Documentary 

Direction Master Degree. 

‘Chaine Alimentaire’ is her short film debut. 

Filmography 

2008 - Chaine Alimentaire 

Chaine Alimentaire 

Chaine Alimentaire 




Country: Senegal 


Debut Work 

Director: Marie-Louise Sarr 

Screenplay: Marie-Louise Sarr 

Cinematography: Ousseynou Ndiaye 

Editing: Hervé Brindel 

Production: Gsara Cinema(s) d’Afrique 

The Gaston Berger University in Senegal has nearly 5,000 students. The University canteen provides 

all these people their daily food. It is a food chain, operating each day from daybreak until dusk. 

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Chasing Chekhov 

Chasing Chekhov 

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Country: USA 





Director: Peter Sands 

Screenplay: Anna Simone Scott 

Cinematography: Marco Fargnoli 

Music: Antonio Vivaldi, Mark Allaway 

Cast: Neil Dickson, Anna Simone Scott 

Production: VisionFire Films, Inc. 

The contemporary story of Nicole and George, husband and wife filmmakers who are grappling with 

their own problems as they attempt to make the period film ‘Chasing Chekhov’. It is a story about a 

woman in love with Chekhov and in trouble with her husband in 1890’s Russia. 


Peter Sands is a filmmaker from England and now lives in Hollywood working in film and TV. 

He wrote and directed ‘Blacktop Afternoon’ which opened the UK’s Channel 4 Shooting Gallery TV 

series and directed the multi-award winning short film ‘Coming Into Money’. In 2008 ‘Chasing 

Chekhov’ won the Platinum Award for Best 

Film at the BAFTA/LA Short Film Festival . 

Filmography 

2008 - Chasing Chekhov 

2006 - Late Night Girls (producer) 

2005 - The Red Scarf 

1998 - Coming Into Money 

1995 - Blacktop Afternoon



Chimbumbe 

Chimbumbe 




Country: Colombia / Mexico / India 


Language: Palenquera 

(mixture of Spanish, Portuguese and Bantu 

languages) 

Director: Antonio Coello 

Screenplay: Antonio Coello 

Cinematography: Andrés Pineda 

Editing: Antonio Coello 

Music: Stevenson Padilla 

Cast: Indira Salgado, Moraima Cimarra, Abel Cassiani, Ana Benilda Cáceres, Evaristo Márquez 

Production: La Sombra Negra 

A mythical love story between a girl and a fish. 


Antonio Coello is a filmmaker, born in 1977 in Mexico City (Mexico). He studied Screenplay Writing 

at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC), Mexico City; Cinematography at the Escola 

Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya 

(ESCAC), Spain; and Actors Direction at 

the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión 

(EICTV), San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. 

Filmography 

2008 - Chimbumbe 

2001 - Tramíte, tramíte 

2003 - El Rey de Zinacantán 

1999 - Te vimos un segundo 

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China 

China 

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Country: USA 





Director: Jacob Hatley 

Screenplay: Jacob Hatley 

Cinematography: Charlene Wang 

Editing: Tarik Soliman 

Music: Daryl White 

Cast: Danny Vinson, Danny Nelson, Alex Velazquez 

Production: Jacob Hatley Productions 

An aging country boy sets out to track and capture a senile prize bull. 


Jacob Hatley is a filmmaker from the USA, born in 1978. Jacob graduated from the USC School of 

Cinema-Television and has made several 

short films that have played at festivals 

internationally. He has directed music videos 

for Shawn Mullins and Yonder Mountain 

String Band. 

Filmography 

2009 - Levon Helm Documentary 

2008 - China



Christmas with Dad 

Christmas with Dad 




Country: UK 



Director: Conor McCormack 

Cinematography: Becky Bell 

Editing: Matt Meech 

Music: Theo Waywood 

Production: Clarity Productions 

22-year-old AJ and his family prepare for the festive season and the arrival of an eighth child. 


Conor McCormack is an Irish filmmaker, based in Bristol (UK), working in both documentary and 

fiction that deal with contemporary social and ethnographic themes. Since he first picked up a 

Super-8 camera, he has gone on to write and direct a number of shorts and music videos that have 

screened at film festivals around the world, picking up several awards. Conor is currently 

developing a drama project, while working 

on several community-based documentaries 

together with young offenders involved in car 

crime and teenagers from the Somali 

community. 

Filmography 

2008 - Christmas with Dad 

2000 - Shoplifter 

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Ciao Tesoro 

Bye Bye Darling 

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Director: Amedeo Procopio 

Screenplay: Amedeo Procopio 

Cinematography: Alessandro Zonin 

Editing: Amedeo Procopio, Duccio Servi, 

Gabriele Alfieri 

Music: Ganjamama Group ‘Dub’, Greg Garaffa ‘Carillentovecchiostile’and ‘Marchveloce’, Hossam 

Ramzy ‘El gamal wel gammal’, Horror & Suspence ‘Entities’, Mario Kirlis ‘Tabla Solo 

Cast: Andrea Tibaldi, Marina Remi, Elisabetta Ferrari, Gerardo Maffei, Gaia Scuderi 

Production: Amedeo Procopio, Associazione Cinelife 

A night-club with some mysterious logos, a belly dancer playing with two golden veils, two 

acrobatic barmen.. 


Amedeo Procopio is a filmmaker, born in Catanzaro (Italy) in 1959. He moved to Bologna after his 

High School diploma to matriculate at DAMS. 

There he attended a course in Filmmaking 

and Television. He gathered some experience 

in TV as a scriptwriter and cameraman; he 

wrote movies reviews and taught Filmmaking 

and Television Language at ITSOS in Milan. 

Filmography 

2008 - Ciao Tesoro 

2002 - Giancarlo Giannini 

2001 - Valentina Cortese 

1998 - Occhiali Neri




Takehito Kuroha is a filmmaker born in 1977 in Tokyo (Japan). He is a director, writer and film editor. 

Takehito is currently based in London and 

Milan, mainly working as a music video and 

commercial director. 

Filmography 

2008 - Clacson 

Clacson 

Clacson 



Runtime: 6’ 




Director: Takehito Kuroha 

Screenplay: Takehito Kuroha 

Cinematography: Carlo Miggiano 

Editing: Cecilia Falsone 

Music: Original score by Andrea Rainoldi and 

Fabio Vitiello 

Cast: Francesca Faiella, Cristiano Di Vita 

Production: The Family & Artea Film 

Each morning, every woman gets up knowing she will have to make her way through the traffic to 

the clacson music in order to survive and every man gets up knowing he will have to be very, very 

patient in order to survive.. 

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Clothes for Her 

Saty pre nu 

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Country: Slovakia 


Language: Slovak 

Director: Jana Szabóová 

Screenplay: Maša Kubišová 

Cinematography: Otto Geyer 

Music: Slavo Solovic 

Cast: Ivan Krivosudský 

Production: Jana Szabóová 




Created with sand animation, the life of a grandfather is depicted through three key periods of his life: 

childhood, youth and old age. During all this time, he was guided by a woman who was willing to 

sacrifice herself for him. 

Jana Szabóová is a filmmaker from Slovakia, born in 1978. She graduated at the Bratislava 

University of Music and Dramatic Arts, Film Faculty, in 2004. Currently Jana teaches animated film 

at the University. 

Filmography 

2008 - Clothes for Her 

2003 - Steblá trávy 

2002 - Do dna



Coda 

Coda 



Runtime: 9’ 



Debut Work 

Director: Marcos Camargo 

Screenplay: Marcos Camargo 

Cinematography: Marcos Camargo 

Editing: Analúcia Godói 

Music: Eduardo Santanna 

Production: Primo Filmes 

Three ballerinas are in their homes, alone in their delirium: or could this be their truth in fantasy? 


Marcos Camargo is a filmmaker from Brazil, born in 1978. He has been a photographer since 

1996 and he loves animation. ‘Coda’ is 

his debut short film. 

Filmography 

2008 - Coda 

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Con Dos Años De Garantía 

Two-year Guarantee 







Director: Juan Parra Costa 

Screenplay: Juan Parra Costa 

Cinematography: Leopoldo J. Soto 

Editing: José Manuel Jiménez 

Music: José Sánchez-Sanz 

Cast: Antonio Espigares, Sonia De La Antonia, Alex Tormo 

Production: PCosta Films 

Berta, fed up with her husband’s bad treatment, decides to leave him. He substitutes her instantly 

but the substitute doesn’t satisfy him at all and he asks his wife to come back. 

Juan Parra Costa was born in Barcelona (Spain) in 1969. When he was 14 years old, he moved to 

Granada where he lived until he was 37, working as a lawyer. In 2006, Juan decided to move to 

Madrid, where he started his screenwriting, 

filmmaking, editing, theater and production 

studies. 

Filmography 

2009 - Con Dos Años De Garantía 

2008 - Psycofooting Therapy 

2007 - La Bailarina



Cowboy 

Cowboy 







Director: Till Kleinert 

Screenplay: Till Kleinert 

Cinematography: Martin Hanslmayr 

Editing: Karsten Weissenfels 

Music: Niklas Kammertöns 

Cast: Oliver Scherz, Pit Bukowski 

Production: Deutsche Film-und fernsehakademie Berlin / Schattenkante 

Real estate agent, Christian, travels the countyside scouting business. In a seemingly deserted village 

he gets entangled with a young farmhand who has his own agenda and several things to hide. 


Till Kleinert was born in 1980 in Berlin (Germany). He was drawing comics until, at the age of 15, a 

VHS camera fell into his hands. That’s when his first steps in film began, with a clay animation 

space adventure. Till graduated from school in 2000 and then he started an internship at the 

Volksbühne Berlin theater. He has written and directed several self-financed and awardwinning 

short films. Since 2004, Till has 

studied Directing at the German Film and 

Television Academy in Berlin. 

Filmography 

2008 - Cowboy 

2007 - Hundefutter 

2004 - Kohlensäure 

2002 - Rückstände 

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Crescendo 

Crescendo 

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Debut Work 



Director: Pierre Terrade, Didier Woldemard 

Screenplay: Aurélie Cuchicancgueras 

Cinematography: Guillaume Faure 

Editing: Philippe Pereira 

Music: ‘La vie qui va avec’ Sefyu, ‘Crescendo’, Ricoelectrosound 

Cast: Didier Woldemard, Julie Gauvain 

Production: Regard’Ailleurs 

Steph, a young mother, lives in precarious conditions with JB, her abusive boyfriend. How will she 

get out of this nightmare that is drifting her towards violence? 


Pierre Terrade and Didier Woldemard are two filmmakers from France. ‘Crescendo’ is 

their debut short film. 

Filmography 

2009 - Crescendo



Danzak 

Danzak 




Country: Peru/USA 


Language: Spanish, Quechua 

Debut Work 

Director: Gabriela Yepes 

Screenplay: Gabriela Yepes 

Cinematrography: Naiti Gamez 

Editing: Laura Kincaid, Gaby Yepes 

Cast: Hellen Sly Sanchez, Frank Aroni, Liliana Trujillo 

Production: Kunay Films 

Nina is a 10 year old girl whose life changes when her father asks her to fulfill her last wish. 


Gabriela Yepes is a filmmaker, born in 1975. She is based in Peru and the USA. She works in 

documentary and narrative. Her films have played on national television and in various festivals. 

Gabriela has also worked as a production 

manager, script and post supervisor in 

short and feature films in Peru, USA and 

Eastern Europe. She holds a B.A. from the 

Communications School at the University 

of Lima, Peru, and an MFA in Film and Video 

Production from the University of Texas at 

Austin, USA. ‘Danzak’ is her debut short film. 

Filmography 

2008 - Danzak 

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Death Alive 

Death Alive 

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Country: Taiwan / China 


Language: Chinese 



Director: Yang Li-chou 

Cinematography: Yang Li-chou,Yuki Chu,Wu 

Yiao-dong 

Editing: Li Nian-xiou 

Music: Wen Zi-jie 

Production: Backstage Studio Co., Ltd. 

His yearning to write to his dead grandma took Director Yang Li-chou to the Arctic where he thought 

he’d get closer to Heaven. Despite finding nothing beyond the fringe, Yang retrieves his 

passion for life and his film-making. He endured all the hardships there just to stay alive. 


Yang Li-chou is a filmmaker, born in 1969. 

Filmography 

2008 - Death Alive, Beyond the Arctic 

2007 - Grandma Peach



Désanimée 

Désanimée 

Genre: Animantion 


Runtime: 8’ 



Director: Anne Leclerq 

Cinematography: Raùl Fernandez 

Editing: Thomas Baudour 

Music: Antonin Debemels 

Production: Frakas Productions 

No longer a young woman, she sits in her dirty and dusty flat. She does nothing: she only thinks. 


Anne Leclerq is a filmmaker from Belgium, born in 1975. She studied filmmaking at the Institut 

des Arts de Diffusions. After working in television as a director, she worked in theater as a 

video-art filmmaker, set designer and actress. She is now directing animation and fictional 

short films. 

Filmography 

2008 - Désanimée 

2006 - La survivante 

2003 - Le besoin pressant d’une occupation 

amoureuse quelconque 

1998 - La nature morte 

1997 - Le legume 

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Desaparecer 

Desaparecer 

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Runtime: 7’ 

Country: Argentina 





Director: Javier Cortiellas 

Screenplay: Sebastián Calabia, Javier Cortiellas 

Cinematography: Jose Soengas 

Editing: Emiliano Fiorentino, Javier Cortiellas 

Music: Norro Camerlatti 

Cast: Claudio Charra, Carolina Marquez, Milton Charra, Tamara Leiva 

Production: Hasta 30 minutos 

Argentina 1976-1983, last Military Dictatorship: thirty thousand missing persons. What did they 

think about in the last instant before dying? 


Javier Cortiellas was born in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 1977. He has been working in the filmmaking 

industry as assistant director, editor, 

director and producer. 

Filmography 

2008 - Desaparecer 

2002 - Niños en el mar, Heroes del silencio




Sören Hüper and Christian Pretti are two filmmakers from Germany. Sören studied Business 

Economics and Film Production at Hamburg 

University. He is a writer, producer and director. 

Christian, after medical studies, 

co-founded Honnom Filmproduktion with 

Sören, and now works as medicaldramaturgical 

counsellor for TV series. 

Filmography 

2008 - Die Klärung eines Sachverhalts 

2005 - Bisschen Schwund ist immer 

2004 - Anna und der Soldat 

Die Klärung eines Sachverhalts 

The Clarification of a Situation 







Director: Sören Hüper, Christian Prettin 

Screenplay: Sören Hüper, Christian Prettin 

Cinematography: Markus Kanter 

Editing: Nikolai Hartmann 

Music: ‘Jürgen and Sybille’ by Marian Lux 

Cast: Josef Heynert, Horst-Günter Marx, Julia Brendler, Joachim Kappl 

Production: Leitmotiv Film GmbH 

East Germany, 1985. During a 24-hour interrogation, an officer of the East German secret police 

STASI is trying to force engineer Jürgen Schulz to withdraw his exit permit application to leave the 

country. 

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Die Rote Kapelle 

The Red Chapel 

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Director: Alexander Boehle, Andy Bittner 

Screenplay: Alexander Boehle 

Cinematography: Alexander Boehle BVK 

Editing: Andy Bittner 

Music: Alex Komlew 

Cast: Lina Rabea Mohr, Johannes Hauer 

Production: Heureka!film / Delirium Entertainment 

Germany in the 30’s: in a small town seven miners lose their lives in a devastating mine disaster. 

Many years later, everything seems forgotten. Nicole, a young journalist, investigates the disaster 

with the help of her good friend Ben. They discover strange contradictions and the tragedy 

suddenly appears in an entirely different light. 

Alexander Boehle and Andy Bittner are two filmmakers from Germany. 

Filmography 

2009 - Die Rote Kapelle



Dirty Bitch 

Dirty Bitch 




Country: Singapore 


Language: Mandarin, English 

Director: Sun Koh 

Screenplay: Sun Koh 

Cinematography: Roszali Samad 

Editing: Sun Koh 

Music: Original score by Felix Huang 

Cast: Serene Chen, Kevin Tan Song Liang, Loretta Chen 

Production: Lucky7 Film Company Pte Ltd 

Chen Ming Zhen is about to start law studies at the University but there’s one problem: she is very 

pregnant. Determined to be a success in life, she goes on a violent spree to silence anyone who 

threatens to reveal her secrets, only to realize that everyone else in power carries secrets like hers. 


Sun Koh is a filmmaker from Singapore, born in 1977. She didn’t speak a word until age 4 and 

now she is making up for lost time. She has 

been working extensively in the filmmaking 

business and in 2009 Sun was commissioned 

by IFF Rotterdam to make a short film under 

the program “Meet the Maestro”. 

Filmography 

2008 - Dirty Bitch, Lucky7 

2006 - Bedroom Dancing 

2002 - The Secret Heaven 

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Dish 

Dish 

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Country: USA 





Director: Brian Harris Krinsky 

Screenplay: Brian Harris Krinsky 

Cinematography: Tom Camarda 

Editing: Geraud Brisson 

Music: Soundtracks by Dennis Hamlin, La 

Marisoul, La Santa Cecilia, Ruido De Fondo El-Haru Kuroi 

Cast: Damian Christian-Howard, Caroline Scott, Robert Reina 

Production: Brian Harris Krinsky 

Emo kids, Israel and Louie, walk around their East Los Angeles neighborhood dishing and ‘sexting’ 

about their high school classmates. After listening to Louie boast about his sexual escapades, Israel 

decides he has some catching up to do. 


Brian Harris Krinsky is a filmmaker from the USA. In the early 90’s, Brian worked at the foreign news 

desks of ABC News and the Associated Press TV in Moscow, Russia. He directs and produces TV 

programs for networks such as ABC, Bravo, MTV, BET, PBS and Discovery. Currently, he 

resides in Los Angeles writing screenplays and 

developing TV programs for both Russian and 

American television. He is a graduate of the 

MFA Program in Film and TV Production from 

the University of Southern California. 

Filmography 

2009 - Dish 

2007 - Flipping Out 

2006 - Child Star Confidential TV series 

2004 - College Hill TV series 

2003 - Fraternity Life: Santa Cruz TV series




Valdimar Jóhannsson is a filmmaker from Iceland, born in 1978. Valdimar has been active in the 

Icelandic film industry since 1999. 

Filmography 

2008 - Dolor 

Dolor 

Dolor 




Country: Iceland 


Language: Icelandic 

Director: Valdimar Jóhannsson 

Screenplay: Hrönn Kristinsdóttir 

Cinematography: Tuomo Hutri 

Editing: Kristján Loðmfjörð 

Music: Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson 

Cast: Ingvar E. Sigurðsson, Beate Bille 

Production: TCfilms 

An unexpected and unexplainable loss, due to an accident, turns the life of a happy family into 

a larger-than-life tragedy. 

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Dossie Rê Bordosa 

Dossie Rê Bordosa 

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Director: Cesar Cabral 

Screenplay: Cesar Cabral, Leandro Maciel 

Cinematography: Marcelo Trotta 

Editing: Cesar Cabral, Leandro Maciel 

Music: Inocentes, Los Pirata, Grinders 

Cast: Grace Gianoukas, Laert Sarrumor, Paulo Cesar Peréio. 

Production: Coala Filmes 

The reasons behind Brazilian cartoonist Angeli’s decision to kill one of his most famous 

creations; the underground diva Rê Bordosa.. 


Cesar Cabral is a filmmaker from Brazil, born in 1971. He graduated in Filmmaking and Video from 

the Superior School of Communication and 

Arts at the University of São Paulo, and since 

1997 he has been working in the animation 

film industry. 

Filmography 

2008 - Dossie Rê Bordosa



Years after a virus wipes out most of humanity, two estranged friends travel to the edge of a 

desolate, quarantined Europe. 


Stefan Kubicki is a Polish filmmaker, born in 1983. He studied Cinematography at the Polish 

National Film School in Lodz. ‘East’ is his 

debut work. 

Filmography 

2008 - East 

East 

East 




Country: Poland 


Language: Polish 

Debut Work 

Director: Stefan Kubicki 

Screenplay: Stefan Kubicki 

Cinematography: Yura Dunay 

Editing: Stefan Kubicki 

Music: ‘Yearning’ by Mono, ‘Perfect Neglect in a Field of Statues’ by Eluvium, original score by 

Radoslaw Ochnio 

Cast: Karol Bialas, Marcin Brzozowski 

Production: Cynium 

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Easy, Easy 

Easy, Easy 

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Country: Palestine 



Director: Riyad Deis 

Screenplay: Riyad Deis 

Cinematography: Mario Zugair 

Editing: Rebekah Wingert 

Music: Kamal Habash 

Cast: Ruba Bilal, Saleh Bakri 

Production: Janan 




At the end of the Palestinian revolt against the British Mandate, a Palestinian farmer and his 

family’s traditional and stagnant lives are turned upside down when a Palestinian resistance fighter 

decides to hide out at their small farm, challenging their traditional way of life. 

Riyad Deis is a filmmaker from Palestine, born in 1969. He studied film production at the San 

Francisco City College in the United States. 

Riyad currently resides in Jerusalem where 

he has directed documentaries, TV spots, and 

promotional films. He also managed a 

mobile film group and screened films in 

villages and refugee camps throughout the 

West Bank. Riyad is currently writing the 

script for his first feature film. 

Filmography 

2008 - Easy, Easy




Chema Garcia Ibarra was born in 1980 in Elche (Spain). He works as a copywriter for advertising and 

has directed various short films. 

Filmography 

2008 - El ataque de los robots de nebulosa-5, 

Flashback al Revés 

2007 - Miaau 

2004 - El camino de carne 

2000 - Aneurisma 

El ataque de los robots de nebulosa-5 

El ataque de los robots de nebulosa-5 



Runtime: 7’ 




Director: Chema Garcia Ibarra 

Screenplay: Chema Garcia Ibarra 

Cinematography: Alberto Gutierrez 

Editing: Chema García Ibarra 

Cast: Jose Manuel Ibarra, Carmina 

Esteve, Leonor Díaz, Pedro Díez 

Production: Chema García Ibarra 

Almost everybody is going to die very soon.. 

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El Empleo 

The Employment 

74 



Runtime: 6’ 





Director: Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso 

Screenplay: Patricio Gabriel Plaza 

Editing: Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso 

Music: Patricio Gabriel Plaza 

Production: Opusbou 

A man takes his usual route to work, immersed in a world in which the use of people as objects is 

part of everyday life. 


Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso was born in 1979 in Buenos Aires (Argentina). He obtained a Designer in 

Visual Communication degree in 2003 at the Faculty of Fine Arts, National University of La Plata. 

Santiago is an illustrator, animator and comic book artist. With his independent animated short 

films he participated in many animation festivals, receiving more than 30 international awards. He 

currently lives in San Carlos de Bariloche, Rio Negro, working as a freelance illustrator and making 

independent animation. 

Filmography 

2008 - El Empleo, Padre 

2007 - Hola? 

2006 - El Pájaro y el Hombre 

2005 - La Cara de La Luna 

2004 - Nuevas Tecnologías



El Pasajero 

El Pasajero 




Country: Venezuela 



Debut Work 

Director: Andrés Faucher 

Screenplay: Kevin A. Jackson, A. Faucher 

Cinematography: Raquel Fernández Nuñez 

Editing: Eduardo Jiménez 

Music: Soundtracks by Aldredo Naranjo, Eliel Rivero, Jordan, Thelonious Monk 

Cast: Jorge Palacios, Dimas Gonzáles 

Production: Producciones Norte del Sur 

On New Year’s Eve in Caracas, Venezuela, a desperate cab driver attempts to rob a wealthy passenger, 

but when the passenger offers to buy the driver’s gun, it leads to a night neither of them will ever forget. 


Andrés Faucher was born in Caracas (Venezuela) in 1969 and grew up in Washington, D.C. (USA). 

Before joining Moctesuma Esparza in Los Angeles, he produced two documentaries for The Youth 

Orchestra of the Americas. Besides his producing credits, Andrés has worked as a cameraman, 

director, writer, sound engineer and actor. He holds a B.S. in Political Science from Mt. St. Mary’s 

College and an M.F.A degree from the Actors 

Studio in New York. Andres is the 

Artistic Director and founder of Lobo Theatre 

Group in New York, with which he produced 

and acted in the highly acclaimed production 

of ‘Orphans’, as well as producing the world 

premiere of Tennessee William’s first play, 

‘Spring Storm’. 

Filmography 

2009 - Sonero, The Legacy 

2008 - El Pasajero 

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Embrio 

Embrio 

76 




Country: Slovenia 


Language: Slovenian 



Director: Boris Dolenc 

Screenplay: Sandra Ržen, Boris Dolenc 

Cinematography: Miloš Srdić 

Editing: Boris Dolenc 

Music: Luka Vehar, Mitja Kavcic - Studio 100 

Production: Agrft & Invida TV 

Tim meets Dana and they find that they are both interested in the ‘Project Child’. It becomes a 

project of life for them. 


Boris Dolenc is a filmmaker from Ljubljana (Slovenia), born in 1982. 

Filmography 

2008 - Embrio 

2007 - Thumbelina 

2004 - Lulaby 

2003 - Better Than an Orgasm 

2001 - Last Hour



Endstation Heimat 

Endstation Heimat 




Country: UK 



Director: Jan-Christian Hesse 

Screenplay: Jamie Hamilton 

Cinematography: Luis Posada 

Editing: Emilijia Vilkyte 

Music: ‘Davon Geht Die Welt Nicht Unter’, 

Michael Jary & Bruno Balz, Lili Marleen, Hans Leip and Borbert Schultze 

Cast: Gabriele Fritz, Bastian Conradi, Sebastian Boje, Ronja Struck 

Production: Exploitation Films 

During WWII Germany, the relationship between a young boy, Karl, and his mother becomes 

complicated. During the absence of his father, who drives a train, the boy keeps a model railway 

running meticulously on time, believing his efforts will hasten his father’s return. 


Jan-Christian Hesse is a filmmaker from Germany, born in 1981. Jan started his search for the Holy 

Grail - that is directorship - in the Cologne Film Haus. He then moved to Paris to spend a 

year working on feature film productions for 

Ognon Pictures. In 2005 he moved to London 

where he worked for the TV commercial 

production company ‘Production International’ 

while completing a BA in Film and TV 

Production at the London College of Communication. 

Jan is also working on his debut 

feature ‘Obsession’ and is currently employed 

by Tiger Aspect as an AP for a German show. 

Filmography 

2008 - Endstation Heimat 

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Eroico Furore 

Eroico Furore 

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Director: Francesco Afro de Falco 

Screenplay: Francesco Afro de Falco, 

Giammarco Serao 

Cinematography: Mirco Sgarzi 

Editing: Francesco Afro de Falco, Alessio 

Perisano 

Music: Gianfranco Barbera 

Production: Libera scena Ensamble 

The heroic wrath of a man who fought against the power of the Church until his death: 

Giordano Bruno. 


Francesco Afro de Falco is a filmmaker from Napoli (Italy), born in 1983. He works extensively in the 

filmmaking industry as an editor, writer, 

director and producer. His works have been 

awarded in various film festivals. 

Filmography 

2008 - Eroico Furore, Quinto 

2007 - Juda, Cyclvm 

2006 - Antichi mestieri di Napoli



Esperando Mujeres 

Waiting for Women 




Country: UK / Chile 



Debut Work 

Director: Estephan Wagner 

Screenplay: Estephan Wagner 

Cinematography: Estephan Wagner 

Editing: Lawrence Huck 

Music: Roger Goula 

Cast: Gregorio Chimeno 

Production: WagnerDocs 

In the remote Spanish village of ‘Riofrio’, most women have left. The men are left without the 

slightest possibility of finding a relationship. Unable to bear the disaster any longer, they come up 

with the most incredible idea.. 


Estephan Wagner was born in Viña del Mar (Chile) in 1976. After attending Photography and Art 

Theory courses at the Universidad Católica and Theater Director courses at the International 

School of Image and Motion in Santiago (Chile) he worked as theater actor and director. From 

2002 to 2008 he attended the Film and 

Television Editor courses at the Northern 

German Broadcast School in Hamburg 

(Germany) and the National Film & Televion 

School in the UK. There he earned a MA in 

Documentary Direction. In 1999 Estephan 

moved to Germany to work as film AP 

and in Post Production. He has also worked 

in France as an editor for ‘ARTE’. 

Filmography 

2008 - Esperando Mujeres 

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Family Therapy 

Semeyna terapiya 

80 




Country: Bulgaria 





Director: Petar Valchanov 

Screenplay: Kristina Grozeva 

Cinematography: Krum Rodrigues 

Editing: Petar Valchanov 

Music: Hristo Namliev 

Cast: Filip Trifonov, Ivanka Bratoeva, Elen Koleva, Leonid Iovchev 

Production: NATFA 

Travelling in their car, the Radoslavovi family is quarrelling again. Arriving at home, they are 

attacked by thieves. The burglars are quite adolescent, doped and aggressive. The little hooligans 

teach a cruel life lesson to the old couple. 


Petar Valchanov is a filmmaker from Bulgaria, born in 1982. He has directed various short films. 

Filmography 

2008 – Family Therapy 

2005 - Captured 

2003 - Resurrection 

2001 - Shock



Fatoush 

Fatoush 



Runtime: 9’ 



Language: Arabic, Hebrew, English 

Director: Hisham Abdel Khalek 

Screenplay: Olivier Delesse, Hisham 

Abdel Khalek 

Cinematography: Ramses Marzouk 

Editing: Franck Pierrone 

Music: Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Cascade GmbH 

Cast: Hiam Abbass, Salim Kechiouche, Elias Abboud, Nasri Sayeg, Mayriam Guergous, Rebecca 

Rieth 

Production: So Freakantastik 

What if Palestine and Israel formed one country and lived in peace ? As an Arab lady arrives in 

this new country, she is faced with a reality that will upset her expectations. 


Hisham Abdel Khalek was born in Giza (Egypt) in 1980. Hisham is a producer, director and 

scriptwriter who lives in Paris. He studied Computer Science and graduated from the Modern 

Academy in Maadi (Egypt). At the age of 18, he started his career in the art field and opened the 

first Arabic e-magazine named ‘Alam El 

Fonoun’. He produced and distributed more 

than 20 films, short movies and documentaries. 

In 2008, he set-up his own production 

company ‘So Freakantastik’. 

Filmography 

2009 - Salam Ya Joe 

2008 - Fatoush, Destinée 

2006 - Ramses the last pharoh of Al 

Rahamesa 

2004 - Images of war, short documentary 

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Feliz Navidad 

Merry Christmas 

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Director: Ezequiel Yanco 

Screenplay: Marcelo Pitrola, Ezequiel Yanco 

Cinematography: Diego Poleri, 

Federico Sande 

Editing: Andrea Kleinman, Alan Martín Segal 

Music: Patricia Casares 

Production: Hasta 30 minutos 

It is Christmas Eve and everyone is celebrating the arrival of the holidays. Alberto, a 50-year old 

man, invites Pedro, a homeless 9-year old child he hardly knows, to have lunch with him in a 

downtown restaurant. A strange lunch, filled with questions: who are these people? What does 

Alberto want and what is the reason for his invitation? 


Ezequiel Yanco is a filmmaker from Argentina, born in 1976. 

Filmography 

2009 - Feliz Navidad



Flax 

Scratch 







Director: Bård Ivar Engelsås 

Screenplay: Kristoffer Hivju 

Cinematography: Kristian Karlsen 

Editing: Kristian Karlsen, Bård Ivar Engelsås 

Music: Sanders Stenfeldt Olsen 

Cast: Kristoffer Hivju, Eric Magnusson, Morten Rudå, Erik Hivju 

Production: Engelsås Media, Ekkofilm 

Two part-time hit men are waiting for their next victim: a guy who owes money to the wrong 

associate. While sitting in the car, in a parking lot, the two buddies get into a discussion that 

revolves around a scratch ticket. Soon it develops into an argument on debt, winner chances and 

the meaning of friendship; but then the victim arrives.. 


Bård Ivar Engelsås is a filmmaker from Norway, born in 1975. He is working as a freelance director 

and scriptwriter. He was educated in Trondheim and has worked in television for several years. 

Bård is currently making short films as well as 

developing new projects and scripts for both 

television and films. 

Filmography 

2008 - Flax, Silkespinner (Silkmoth) 

2006 - Moonshining, Borderpatrol 

2004 - Elg (Elk) 

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Float - Flogging Molly 

Float - Flogging Molly 

Genre: Videoclip 


Runtime: 4’ 

Country: UK 


Director: Karni and Saul 

Screenplay: Karni and Saul 

Music: Flogging Molly 

Production: Flynn Productions 

A stick figure man ventures out into the world to collect all sorts of discarded debris in order to fashion 

himself into a boat, hopefully, to sail across a very stormy sea. 


Karni and Saul are the collaborative talents of art and fashion photographer Karni and 3D director 

and animator Saul. Their combined practices 

have created a unique live action and animation 

crossover style where real worlds are 

often fantasy-based and the animated 

elements very tangible. 

Filmography 

2008 - Float - Flogging Molly 

2006 - Beneath the Rose, AM



Fly 

Fliegen 







Director: Piotr J.Lewandowski 

Screenplay: Finn-Ole Heinrich, 

Jan Oberleander 

Cinematography: Lars Peterson 

Editing: Dan Olteanu, Dirk Schreier 

Music: Original score by Patrick Waizmann 

Cast: Sandra Hüller, Jacob Matschenz, Peter Moltzen, Oktay Özdemir, Carsten Strauch 

Production: Carsten Strauch Filmprodution 

Dima, a young petty criminal, is about to be deported from Germany when he meets a young 

student, Sarah, who is working on a documentary film about the lack of opportunities available to 

young foreigners. She offers him sanctuary in her garret. Becoming aware of the attraction 

between them, Dima plays more than a role in Sarah’s documentary .. 


Piotr J.Lewandowski was born in Warsaw (Poland) in 1975. He studied at universities in Poland, 

England and Germany. Since 1999 he 

has worked as a short film director. 

Filmography 

2009 - Fly 

2004 - Heavy Pregnant 

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François 

François 

86 







Debut Work 



Director: Dario Gorini, Iacopo Zanon 

Screenplay: Dario Gorini 

Cinematography: Michele D’Attanasio 

Editing: Paolo Vanghetti 

Music: ‘François ‘ by Giancarlo Russo 

Cast: Luca Lionello, Diane Fleri, Maria Sole Mansutti, Sergio Albelli, Rosa Sironi, Tommaso Ramenghi 

Production: Riccardo Neri LupinFilm 

In a classy nightclub, three men and three women always choose the same table to look for their 

soul mate. The game goes on until a mysterious French-speaking entity arrives.. 


Dario Gorini and Iacopo Zanon are two Italian filmmakers. 

Since 1999 Dario has been working as a producer on various TV Series. He has written several 

conceptual and basic stories for TV series and films. He also worked as a theater actor in 

Italy and France. ‘François’ is his debut 

film as a director. 

Filmography 

2008 - François 

Iacopo Zanon was born in Roma and graduated 

at ‘La Sapienza’ University. He has directed 

many short films. 

Filmography 

2008 - François



Funkoma 

Funkoma 






Language: English, Turkish, French 

Director: Aysegul Guryuksel 

Screenplay: Aysegul Guryuksel 

Cinematography: Aysegul Guryuksel 

Editing: Aysegul Guryuksel 

Music: Manna, Ochre, Mu 

Cast: Aysegul Guryuksel, Ece Gozmen, Nilufer Alptekin, Eray Gitgel 

Production: Subvoid 

Every eternity is a different big bang and this bang is a ‘dimensional downward’ and therefore an 

‘imaginary’ starting. 


Aysegul Guryuksel is a filmmaker, born in Istanbul (Turkey) in 1980. She graduated from 

MSU Istanbul State Conservatory of Performing Arts in 2001. In 2006, she created Subvoid with her 

first evening length work called ‘Dependent 

Independences’. Later on with her strong 

interest in editing, she decided to transform 

her stage-art work into an experimental 

film-art production. 

Filmography 

2009 - Funkoma 

2007 - Nobody’s Pet 

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Gaandeweg 

Away 

88 




Country: Netherlands 



Debut Work 



Director: Margot Schaap 

Screenplay: Margot Schaap 

Cinematography: Casper Brink 

Editing: Wouter van Luijn 

Music: Cocorosie, Sunshine 

Cast: Gaite Jansen, Saskia Temmink, Bobby Dekker, Lodewijk Dirks, Ella Keyser del Ferro, Kian Lander 

Production: Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academie 

Sophie has finished high school and is now going away to study. Since she will live on her own, she 

has to say goodbye to her mother, brothers, sisters and her ancestral home. 


Margot Schaap was born in Utrecht (The Netherlands) in 1986. In 2004 she finished High School. 

During her final year there she made several 

short films and worked on a video-installation 

project. In 2004 Margot began to study 

Directing at the Dutch Film and Television 

Academy, where she directed some short 

films, mostly fiction. ‘Gaandeweg’ is her 

graduation and debut work. 

Filmography 

2008 - Gaandeweg (Away)



Galetten 

Galetten 




Country: Sweden 

Original format: AVCHD 

Language: Swedish 

Director: John Hellberg 

Screenplay: Bernhard Rasmusson 

Cinematography: Johan Helmer 

Editing: Peter Wendin 

Music: Linus Söderlund 

Cast: Bernhard Rasmusson, John Hellberg, Matias Padin Varela 

Production: Randolph Scott 

Simon has asked his two best friends to take a day off from work because he has something very 

important to tell them. 


John Hellberg is a filmmaker from Sweden, born in 1976. He studied Filmmaking at the Stockholm 

Film Academy. He is now Head of Production for the Randolph Scott production company. 

Filmography 

2008 - Galetten 

2007 - Driftstörningar 

2004 - Bakomsjukan 

2003 - Mwelekeo Mzuri, Göran & Bertil 

2000 - Hajk 

1999 - Iron Pyrate 

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Genghis Khan’s Dreams 

Genghis Khan’s Dreams 




Country: UK / Armenia 


Director: Danny Winkler 

Cinematography: Danny Winkler 

Editing: Emilia Loseva, Danny Winkler 

Music: ZGA - Nick Soudnick, Vetrophonia - 

Nick Soudnick, Alexander Lebedev-Frontov 

Production: Danny Winkler Productions 

Sculptured as a poetic movement with a desire to catch that dreamy state of breath and to visualize 

the rhythm of the substance pulsating between the real and unreal.. 


Danny Winkler is a filmmaker from the UK, born in 1976. 

Filmography 

2009 - Genghis Khan’s Dreams 

2007 - Ebir Nari, Nomads of the Desert Bloom



Gone Fishing 

Gone Fishing 




Country: UK 



Director: Chris Jones 

Screenplay: Chris Jones 

Cinematography: Vernon Layton 

Editing: Eddie Hamilton 

Cast: Bill Patterson, Devon Murray, James 

Wilson, Lin Blakley, Ruth Gemmell 

Production: Living Spirit Pictures 

A boy and an old man are coming to terms with bereavement through their shared love for fishing, 

and the legend of Goliath, the biggest pike ever caught! 


Chris Jones is a filmmaker and writer from the UK, born in 1967. He has directed three 

feature films. ‘Gone Fishing’ stars Bill Paterson and Devon Murray (‘Harry Potter’ series). Chris 

is also the author of the best sellers ‘The 

Guerilla Film Makers Handbook’, ‘The Guerilla 

Film Makers Hollywood Handbook’ and ‘The 

Movie Blueprint’. 

Filmography 

2009 - Gone Fishing 

1998 - Urban Ghost Story 

1994 - White Angel 

1990 - The Runner 

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Green 

Green 

92 




Country: USA 





Director: Boris Schaarschmidt 

Screenplay: Boris Schaarschmidt 

Cinematography: Ali Moghadas 

Editing: Julia Franklin 

Music: Patrick Kirst 

Production: Heavy B Production & Anchored Alliance 

Walter, a simple unimposing football field groundskeeper, presides over yards and yards of 

perfectly sculpted blades of grass, surrounded by a majestic stadium. It is football practice for the 

big game. The grass is destroyed by the careless football players and Walter’s attempts to protect his lush 

green grass are futile. One day he takes action to protect what he loves so much! 


Boris Schaarschmidt was born in Düsseldorf (Germany) in 1972. In December 2007, Boris 

graduated from the American Film Institute (AFI) in Los Angeles, earning a MFA in Directing. 

Being an annual grantee of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and having received 

the Pat Hitchcock O’Connell Scholarship, Boris was one of only a few directors at AFI who was 

given the opportunity to direct two thesis 

films. Before starting at AFI, he earned his 

Bachelor Degree in Film & Television Design in 

Germany. 

Filmography 

2008 - Return to Sender, Elenora, Spent 

2007 - Green 

2006 - His own, real element, The Challenge 

2005 - Muffin? 

2004 - Projektionen (Projections) 

2003 - Nassrasur (Wet Shave) 

2001 - A big game?




Irmgard Walthert is a filmmaker from Switzerland, born in 1984. She finished her Animation studies 

in 2008 with a Bachelor Degree from the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences, Arts and Design. 

Filmography 

2008 - Grosse Pläne 

Grosse Pläne 

Grosse Pläne 



Runtime: 4’ 

Country: Switzerland 


Director: Irmgard Walthert 

Screenplay: Irmgard Walthert 

Cinematography: Irmgard Walthert 

Editing: Irmgard Walthert 

Music: ‘Grosse Pläne’ by Reimar Walthert 

Production: HSLU Animation 

Despite well-developed plans, it is very hard to build a machine that sells apples, but a great idea 

solves the problem. 

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Guisado de Galinha 

Chicken Stew 

94 



Runtime: 5’ 

Country: Portugal 



Director: Joana Toste 

Screenplay: Joana Toste 

Cinematography: Joana Toste 

Editing: Joana Toste 

Music: Pedro Jóia 

Production: Gomtch-Gomtch 



What a mess a harmless chicken stew can create between two neighbours! 


Joana Toste is a Portuguese filmmaker, born in 1970. She earned a degree in Industrial Design, followed 

by a post-graduation in the same area at the Glasgow School of Art and Centro Português de 

Design. During this period she studied painting at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes de 

Lisboa. In 1992 Joana interrupted her studies to undertake animation studies at Tobistoon. Since 

then, she has not stopped working in animation, 

cooperating with several studios and 

developing her own projects. 

Filmography 

2008 - Guisado de Galinha 

2006 - Serão 

2005 - Piu-Toc-Nham, Menu 

2004 - A Dama da Lapa 

1999 - Cães Marinheiros (Sailor Dogs)



H2O Corporation 

H2O Corporation 



Runtime: 4’ 




Director: Iader Giraldi 

Screenplay: Roberto Pagliara, Iader Giraldi 

Cinematography: Marco Mensa 

Editing: Elisa Mereghetti 

Music: Giovanni Dalmonte 

Cast: Iader Giraldi, Mauro Leuce, Craig Peritz, Xi Le, Andrea Bosi, Andrea Rastelli, Valentina Caggio 

Tatonetti, Damiano Folli, Francesco Quarneti, Viola Emaldi, Paolo Ghiselli 

Production: Ethnos 

In 2020 water is a business; a real investment that only few can afford. Mr Abbagnato is a victim 

of the cruel market laws. 


Iader Giraldi is an Italian filmmaker, born in 1972. Iader is an actor, screenwriter, format and theater 

play author. He set up a small audiovisual production company called Zeranta Edutainment and 

has directed various short films. 

Filmography 

2008 - H2O Corporation 

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A stranger came by long ago.. 




Hace Tiempo Pasò un Forastero 

A Stranger Came By Long Ago 







Director: Jose Carrasco Romero 

Screenplay: Jose Carrasco Romero 

Cinematography: Andres Torres 

Editing: Francisco Cubas 

Music: Emilio Aragòn 

Production: Sabela Producciones SL 

Jose Carrasco Romero was born in Madrid (Spain) in 1975. He is a film director and writer, educated 

at the Madrid Complutense University, Madrid European University and New York Film Academy. He 

has directed ten short-films and he has worked as a DOP in New York. He currently lives in Madrid 

where he is slated to write and direct several projects in the next year. 

Filmography 

2008 - Hace Tiempo Pasò un Forastero, Our 

World 

2006 - About, The Dilemma, Portrait, Sangre, 

Composition 

2005 - Captive, The Average, Sadness, 

Dreaming Awake



Happiness 

Happiness 




Country: Cuba 


Language: Spanish, English 

Director: Sandra Vigil Fonseca 

Screenplay: Sandra Vigil Fonseca 

Cinematography: Javier Labrador 

Music: Miguelito Valdez y Puro Son, Ahi 

na mas, Pensar en Ti, Reflejo, Mala Cabeza, 

Pacha, Guaguason, Freeway, Caminao de Lola 

Production: Piso 13 

The parallel observation of two contemporary cities, Havana and Vancouver, is seen through the 

life and lens of two female characters. 


Sandra Vigil Fonseca is a filmmaker from Cuba, born in 1976. Sandra is a graduate of Film 

Production at the Columbia Academy in Vancouver (Canada). She has directed various short 

films. 

Filmography 

2008 - Happiness 

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He - Helium 

He - Helium 

98 



Runtime: 8’ 

Country: Serbia 


Language: Serbo 



Director: Giuseppe Schettino 

Screenplay: Giuseppe Schettino 

Cinematography: Miona Bogovic 

Editing: Marjia Matovic, Ivan Tanovic 

Music: ‘Asia’ Deaf Center, ‘When I Leave’ 

Biosphere, ‘The Club’ Biosphere, ‘Milk’ Kukmek, ‘12-18’ Global Communication, ‘Journey To The 

Centre Of The First 1.1’ Biosphere Deathprod 

Production: Filmart Independent Film Centre 

Serbia is isolated and wounded more by people’s forgetfulness than by the still visible wounds of 

ten years of craziness. 


Giuseppe Schettino was born in 1980 in Castellammare di Stabia (Italy). In 2001 he worked for four 

months as social operator with orphaned children and drug addicted people in Nicaragua. In 2004 

Giuseppe started attending courses on Directing and Projects Development at Zelig, the 

Documentary, Television and New Media School in Bolzano. In 2005 he worked on a theatrical and 

documentary project with HIV-positive people 

in Malawi. In 2009 he began working 

as Artistic Director for the ‘Paperinotto Film’ 

production company. 

Filmography 

2008 - He-Helium 

2006 - Cecità 

2005 - Pang’ono Pang’ono, Los Quinchos, 

Schule machen




Damian Mc Carthy is a filmmaker from Ireland born in 1981. He studied Scriptwriting at St. 

Johns College in Cork. 

Filmography 

2008 - He Dies at the End 

He Dies at the End 

He Dies at the End 



Runtime: 5’ 

Country: Ireland 



Director: Damian Mc Carthy 

Screenplay: Damian Mc Carthy 

Cinematography: Seamus Hegarty 

Editing: Alan Mehigan 

Music: Original score by Damian Mc Carthy 

Cast: Fintan Collins 

Production: Damian Mc Carthy 

A man and the shock that awaits him when he responds to some questions suddenly posed by his 

computer.. 

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Hers at Last 

Hers at Last 

100 






Country: South Korea 


Language: Korean, English, Mongolian 

Director: Helen Lee 

Screenplay: Helen Lee 

Cinematography: Leigh Kangmin 

Editing: Um Yoonzu 

Music: Jung Chashik 

Production: IWFFIS 

Two women living as outsiders in Seoul, strangers to each other, have a brief, magical connection 

through a 10 year old girl. 


Helen Lee was born in Seoul (South Korea) in 1965. She immigrated to Toronto (Canada). Helen 

attended classes at the University of Toronto, 

New York University, Whitney Independent 

Study Program and the Canadian Film Centre. 

Currently she is living and working as 

independent filmmaker in Seoul. 

Filmography 

2008 - Hers at Last




Guy Ben Shetrit is a filmmaker from Israel, born in 1972 He has worked as an animator for 

commercials, TV programs and computer games for the last ten years. In 2008, with the Aiko 

studio, he won the MTV international art 

break competition. ‘Hey’, a full 3D animation 

music video for the song by the Eatliz band, 

is his first independent project as a director. 

Filmography 

2008 - Hey 

Hey 

Hey 



Runtime: 4’ 

Country: Israel 


Debut Work 

Director: Guy Ben Shetrit 

Screenplay: Guy Ben Shetrit 

Editing: Guy Ben Shetrit 

Music: ‘ Hey’ by Eatliz, Anova Music 

Production: Anova Music 

The journey of a little girl with a special pet and friend, a huge toad. 

101

Homeless 

Homeless 

102 






Language: Hebrew 

Debut Work 



Director: Dotan Naveh 

Screenplay: Dotan Naveh 

Cinematography: Mahyan Goldstein 

Editing: Kati Diakova 

Music: Alfred Tesler 

Production: The Film & Television School, Sapir College 

An initiated and one time encounter between the director and the members of the children’s group 

at the kibbutz where he grew up, turns into a personal journey following his childhood. 


Dotan Naveh was born in 1978 in Lehavot Haviva (Israel). From a young age, he has been attracted 

to the production, filming and editing of short movies. At 23, Dotan worked as the producer of an 

independent Spanish film, ‘La Herencia, shot in Israel, ’. Dotan has a B.A. in Film and Television Art 

from the Sapir Academic College in the 

Western Negev, as well as a teaching 

certificate in Communications and Film from 

the College for Teaching Technology in Tel 

Aviv. Upon graduating, Dotan filled a variety 

of production positions in the film and 

television industry. ‘Homeless’ is his directing 

debut short film. 

Filmography 

2008 - Homeless



I Live in the Woods 

I Live in the Woods 



Runtime: 4’ 

Country: USA 



Director: Max Winston 

Screenplay: Max Winston 

Cinematography: Max Winston 

Editing: Max Winston 

Music: Chris Votek, Dominic Bisignano 

Cast: Dillon Markey, Mark Gagliardi 

Production: Hunt Each Other 

A Woodsman’s frantic journey driven by happiness, slaughter and a confrontation with America’s 

God. 


Max Winston is a filmmaker from the USA, born in 1964. He is a graduate from the Experimental 

Animation program at California School of Arts. He has also worked abroad on 

feature films. Max’s film, ‘I live in the 

Woods’, was funded by the Princess Grace 

Foundation and it won an honorable 

mention at Sundance 2009. He has directed 

a short film for ’Sesame Street’ and is currently 

working in the animation industry in Los 

Angeles. 

Filmography 

2008 - I Live in the Woods 

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Ida y vuelta 

Round Trip 

104 




Country: USA / Spain 





Director: David Martín-Porras 

Screenplay: David Martín-Porras 

Cinematography: Phil Klucsarits 

Editing: David Martín-Porras 

Music: Isaac Sprintis 

Production: UCLA Film School 

The Customs Department at an American airport place a mother and her son in a revealing 

situation when his luggage is inspected. Forced to deal with their past, they come to a point where 

lying to each other is no longer an option. 


David Martín-Porras was born in Salamanca (Spain) in 1982. From an early age David felt a strong 

passion for storytelling. He studied Mass Media Communication at the University of Salamanca and 

worked for the local newspaper. From 2003 to 2006 he shot three short films with famous 

Spanish actors and worked for Pedro 

Almodovar’s Production Company. In June 

2006 he entered the Directing Program at 

UCLA Film School. 

Filmography 

2008 - Ida y vuelta (Round Trip), Portrait of a 

Couple 

2006 - The Breakfast



Ikaros 

Ikaros 



Runtime: 7’ 




Debut Work 

Director: Sakaris Stora 

Screenplay: Sakaris Stora 

Cinematography: Eivind Larssen 

Editing: Sakaris Stora 

Music: ‘Hitin í tokuni’ by Rasmus Rasmussen, ‘Fish techno’ by by Kjartan Magnussen, Sakaris Stora 

Cast: Martin Klim Kyllingmark, Ole Jørgen Farstad, Håkon Karlssen, Torild Winther, Juha 

Suomalainen 

Production: Nordland Kunst og Filmfagskole 

Olav lives with his father and terminally ill mother in a small town on a desolate island in Northern 

Norway. One day, when Olav comes home from work, his father confronts him with a letter. 

Olav now faces a dilemma. Should he leave everything he has for his own life and future? 


Sakaris Stora is a Norwegian filmmaker, born in 1986 and raised in the Faroe Islands. At the age of 

21 he moved to Lofoten to study at the 

Nordland Kunst og Filmskole. ‘Ikaros’ is his 

debut short 

film. 

Filmography 

2009 - Ikaros 

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Il Cappellino 

Il Cappellino 

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Debut Work 



Director: Giuseppe Marco Albano 

Screenplay: Giuseppe Marco Albano, Carla 

Marcialis 

Cinematography: Michele D’Attanasio 

Editing: Francesco De Matteis 

Music: Danilo Caposeno 

Cast: Aurora Di Giorgio, Regina Orioli, Antonio Andrisani, Antonella Genga, Lucio Montanaro 

Production: Basiliciak 

It is an ordinary sunlit day in a small village in South Italy. Clara, a 9 year old child, is coming back 

to school after a long leave. 


Giuseppe Marco Albano was born in 1985 in Cisternino (Italy). Giuseppe is a final year student in 

Artistic, Theater, Film and New Media 

Heritage at the University of Parma. He is a 

writer, screenwriter and director. In 2008 he 

funded, along with friends, ‘Basiliciak’, a 

cultural organization whose purpose is to pro 

mote the Lucania film industry worldwide. 

‘Il Cappellino’ is his debut short film. 

Filmography 

2009 - Il Cappellino




Riccardo Cesarini is an Italian filmmaker, born in 1982. ‘Il Passaggio’ is his debut work. 

Filmography 

2008 - Il Passaggio 

Il Passaggio 

Il Passaggio 



Runtime: 7’ 




Debut Work 

Director: Riccardo Cesarini 

Screenplay: Marco Biagioni 

Cinematography: Giancarlo Lancioni 

Music: ‘Il Passaggio’ by Marco Schiavoni 

Cast: Massimo Menna, Agnese Giovanardi 

Production: Marco Biagioni 

A different and poetic way to look at the world as seen through the life of a beggar. 

107

Il Re dell’Isola 

The King of the Island 

108 









Director: Raimondo Della Calce 

Screenplay: Ivano Baldassarre 

Cinematography: Raimondo Della Calce 

Editing: Raimondo Della Calce 

Music: Corrado Carosio , Pierangelo Fornaro 

(Bottega del suono) 

Cast: Giancarlo Magalli, Angelo Marini, Maria Piera Mannu, Alex Polidori, Luciano Cardaci 

Production: artFive 

Gioannin is a 6 year old boy who lives in Genoa, Italy, at the beginning of 1900. He always dreams 

of the strong and wonderful father he never knew, who was lost at sea and never returned. He is 

going to discover that his dreams are not worth what real life, despite its difficulties and 

disappointments, can offer. 


Raimondo Della Calce was born in 1973 in Salerno (Italy). He studied Engineering at the Genoa 

University and Animation at the European 

Institute of Design in Milano. He works as an 

animator and director in the production of 

commercials, TV series and short films. 

Raimondo set up the artFive Studio and he 

directed the ‘Ondino’ (‘Ripples’ TV 

series, produced by Rai Fiction. 

Filmography 

2009 - Il re dell’isola 

2003 - Heterogenic!

Filmography 

2009 - Il Velo 

2007 - X9 



Il Velo 

Il Velo 



Runtime: 7’ 




Director: Mario d’Anna 

Screenplay: Mario d’Anna 

Cinematography: Mario d’Anna 

Music: Mario d’Anna 

Cast: Silvia Benedini, Stefano Mangoni 

Production: Mario d’Anna 

A bride recalls, first in her delirium, then in her memories, the moment that caused her deep 

sorrow: when her husband died on their wedding day. 


Mario d’Anna is an Italian filmmaker, born in 1977. 

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Into the Woods 

Into the Woods 

110 



Runtime: 6’ 

Country: UK 


Language: English, Serbian 




Director: Matt Taabu 

Screenplay: Matt Taabu 

Cinematography: Neil Oseman 

Editing: Anton Short 

Music: Heather Fenoughty 

Cast: Branko Tomovich, John Barber, Penny Capper, Bradley de Cruz 

Production: The South Yorkshire Filmmakers Network 

Walking through the woods, a British family encounters a stranger who doesn’t speak English. 

While their son senses something is wrong, the parents fall victim to their own prejudices, 

misreading the stranger’s intentions, and setting upon a course of action that has far-reaching 

consequences for them all. 

Matt Taabu is a filmmaker from the UK, born in 1971. He is an editor and director of several short films. 

Matt is very experienced at drama and corporate films. In 2007 he established Angel Ego Films, 

Ltd. to make issue-based fiction and 

non-fiction films. 

Filmography 

2008 - Into the Woods, Stoney: Sheffield’s 

Secret Weapon 

2006 - Borders & Barricades 

2005 - Black Blue 

2002 - Causing Grief, Tribal Vibe 

1999 - The Village




Anton Steel is a filmmaker from New Zealand, born in 1974. He has 12 years experience as 

Assistant Director on feature films. 

Filmography 

2008 - Isosceles 

2007 - Blessed Are They, Ride With the Devil 

Isosceles 

Isosceles 




Country: New Zealand 



Director: Anton Steel 

Screenplay: David De Lautour 

Cinematography: Grant Mackinnon 

Editing: Gary Young 

Music: Original Score by Brett O’Goreman 

Cast: David De Lautour, Mia Blake, Edwin Wright 

Production: Cine del Mar 

Look at the harsh side of love through the eyes of three people. One has everything they want, one 

has lost what they wanted and one has no idea what they want. 

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Izorane 

Izorane 

112 




Country: Morocco 




Director: Alaoui Lamharzi Azlarabe 

Screenplay: Mohamed Abarda 

Cinematography: Fadel Chouika 

Editing: Ghizlane Assif 

Music: Hicham Amdress 

Production: Saissmedit 

In an old country cottage in the mountains, Titrite, half paralysed, suffers silently after a car 

accident in which she lost her father. 


Alaoui Lamharzi Azlarabe is a filmmaker from Morocco, born in 1967. He has directed 26 

documentaries on the great artistic 

personalities who visited Morocco between 

1930 and 1998 and other various short films. 

Filmography 

2008 - Izorane 

2007 - Appointment at Volubilis 

2006 - The island of a certain day, Les grains 

de cedre 

2005 - Bidouza




Isha Hening is an Indonesian filmmaker, born in 1986. ‘Jali Joni’ is her debut short film as a director. 

Filmography 

2008 - Jali Joni 

Jali Joni 

Jali Joni 




Country: Indonesia 


Language: Indonesian 

Debut Work 

Director: Isha Hening 

Screenplay: Rayya Makarim 

Cinematography: Angela A. Rieca 

Editing: Orlow Seunke 

Music: Isha Hening 

Cast: Aji Santosa, Pipien Putri, Gusti Laskar, Jack Babon 

Production: Ecco Films Indonesia 

A boy who befriends a goat discovers that it will be slaughtered at a Muslim religious ceremony. 

113

Jazz 

Jazz 

114 



Runtime: 7’ 

Country: Greece 


Language: Greek 



Director: Alexandros Kakaniaris 

Screenplay: Alexandros Kakaniaris 

Cinematography: Alexis Iosifidis 

Editing: Apostolos Milionis 

Music: ‘Knowing noone’ by Kostas Daskaleas, 

Effie Moumtzi, Phillip Bouraimis 

Cast: Vaggelis Mourikis, Vicky Lekka 

Production: Alexandros Kakaniaris 

A strange lonely man enters a Jazz club where he meets a woman. 


Alexandros Kakaniaris is a filmmaker from Greece, born in 1980. He studied Filmmaking and has 

directed three short films. 

Filmography 

2008 - Jazz 

2005 - Souvenirs, For Whom the Bell Tolls



Jazzed 

Jazzed 



Runtime: 7’ 

Country: Belgium / Netherlands 


Director: Anton Setola 

Screenplay: Anton Setola 

Editing: Anton Setola 

Music: Frederik Segers 

Production: Lumière 

Jack’s introspective journey to release his most mysterious, profound and imperceptible emotions.. 


Anton Setola is a filmmaker from Belgium, born in 1976. He has studied traditional animation for 

several years at the KASK Institute in Ghent. After this, he settled in a professional CGI-environment 

and worked on various 3D-projects, ranging from commercials to developing formats for animated 

series and character-animation for feature 

films. From 2003 to 2005 he worked at the 

Netherlands Institute for Animation, where 

he made, among other projects, two 

experimental films. 

Filmography 

2008 - Jazzed 

2005 - Out of Sight, Mirror, Mirror 

2003 - Where the Buffalo Once Roamed 

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Je viens 

I’m Coming 

116 









Director: Teddy Lussi Modeste 

Screenplay: Teddy Lussi Modeste, 

Olivier Nicklaus 

Editing: Albertine Lastera 

Cast: Matthieu Cham, Ornella Boulé 

Production: Kazak Production 

Driss, 19 years old, has his first role in a porno film. Egged on by the filmmaker, Driss assaults 

Joana, his partner. After the shoot, Driss decides to follow the young woman through Paris. 


Teddy Lussi Modeste is a filmmaker from France, born in 1978. 

Filmography 

2009 - Je viens, Jimmy Rivière 

2004 - Embrasser les tigres



Jun Ducat, ¿héroe o terrorista? 

Jun Ducat, ¿héroe o terrorista? 




Country: Spain / Philippines 


Language: English / Tagalog 

Director: Adaia Teruel 

Screenplay: Adaia Teurel 

Cinematography: Adaia Teurel 

Editing: Gilles Thomat 

Music: Jens Neumayer, Mike Alemany 

Cast: Rissa Ducat, Orlando Yebra, Marcelino Pedroso 

Production: Adaia Teruel 

Jun Ducat, a 57 year-old Filipino, hijacks a school bus in Manila holding it hostage for more than 10 

hours. The hijacking divides Pilipino public opinion as Ducat is considered a terrorist by a lot of people, and a 

hero by many others. Who really is Jun Ducat? 


Adaia Teruel was born in Barcelona (Spain) in 1978. She studied journalism at the Ramon Llull 

University in Barcelona. Since then she has 

been working on television, writing news 

and reports. 

Filmography 

2008 - Jun Ducat, ¿héroe o terrorista? 

2007 - Lo Fil 

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Kamikaze 

Kamikaze 

118 









Director: Leandro Bartoletti 

Screenplay: Leandro Bartoletti 

Cinematography: Carlos Malder 

Cast: Raúl Teba, Osmar Núñez 

Production: Hasta 30 Minutos 

An unknown epidemic spreads across a city, causing thousands of deaths. A wall is built to prevent 

access to the place. An organization sends a hundred scientists to different areas of the city to 

investigate the cause of the tragedy. 


Leandro Bartoletti is a filmmaker from Argentina, born in 1977. 

Filmography 

2008 - Kamikaze



Kudan 

Kudan 



Runtime: 9’ 

Country: Japan 


Debut Work 

Director: Taku Kimura 

Screenplay: Taku Kimura 

Cinematography: Taku Kimura 

Editing: Taku Kimura 

Music: Karin Nakano 

Cast: Keigo Sena, Rina Koduru 

Production: Taku Kimura 

A man is accidentally transformed into the Japanese monster Kudan. 


Taku Kimura is a filmmaker from Tokyo (Japan), born in 1963. He has worked as a 3D computer graphics 

artist and a director in Links Corp in Tokyo since he graduated the Nihon University in 1985, 

creating 3D computer images and visual 

effects for various works, including feature 

films, computer game cinema art, TV 

programs, commercials and graphic designs. 

‘Kudan’ is his debut short film. 

Filmography 

2008 - Kudan 

119

La Boule d’Or 

La Boule d’Or 

120 









Director: Bruno Deville 

Screenplay: Bruno Deville 

Cinematography: Bastien Genoux 

Editing: Bruno Deville 

Music: Christian Garcia 

Cast: Philippe Saire, Günther Schmidt, Gaetano Paratore, Marc Hueber, André Mercier 

Production: Le Flair Production Sàrl 

On a tranquil little island, hidden away under a bridge in Lausanne, the bowling club of La Boule 

d’Or is home to a team of retired people who, under the direction of a choreographer, join in a very 

strange game.. 


Bruno Deville was born in 1976 in Belgium. From 1995-2000 he attended the ECAL (École 

Cantonale d ’Art de Lausanne). In 2000 Bruno obtained a degree in Directing. He has directed 

over 100 episodes of ‘La minute kiosque’, a TV-series. His short films have won awards at a 

number of international festivals. He lives and 

works in Switzerland. 

Filmography 

2008 - Cartographie 9, La Boule d’Or 

2006 - Momo 

2005 - Le dieu du stade 

2003 - Viandes



La Carrera 

The Run 





Original format: HVD 


Director: Alam Raja 

Screenplay: Alam Raja 

Cinematography: Alberto Borque 

Editing: Lynn Poh 

Music: Manu Riveiro 

Cast: David Tisera, Tito Gomez, Ariel Gauma 

Production: Ciudadano frame 

A kid from the streets does everything possible to obtain some new sneakers. Running is the only 

thing that he has; his only way out of social alienation. 


Alan Raja is a filmmaker from Barcelona (Spain), born in 1980. Alam studied at ESCAC (Superior 

School of Cinema and Audiovisuals of Catalonia) and obtained a Graduate Degree in direction 

filmmaking and audiovisuals. After his 

studies and together with some course 

mates, he set up Bipolar Films, a production 

house specializing in the production of music 

videos and commercials. He also directed 

some musicals, documentaries and two 

additional short films. He currently works in 

the USA and Canada. 

Filmography 

2008 - La carrera 

121

La culpa del otro 

The Other’s Fault 

122 






Debut Work 




Director: Ivan Ruiz Flores 

Screenplay: Ivan Ruiz Flores 

Cinematography: Carmelo Barberà 

Editing: David Pelegrín 

Music: Alejandro D. Montemayor 

Cast: Francisco J. Marín, Montse Ortiz, Roberto Áron, Rodrigo Suárez 

Production: Aniur - Creativos Audiovisual 

If you look straight at pain, life forces you to end your childhood. 

Iván Ruiz Flores is a journalist, scriptwriter and director from Spain, born in 1980. He earned a 

Degree in Journalism at the U.C.M. (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Iván is a member of 

ALMA and he is director of the Aniur 

Creativos Audiovisuales, where he is 

responsible for Script, Direction and 

Production departments. ‘La 

culpa del otro’ is his debut short film. 

Filmography 

2009 - La culpa del otro



La Glacière Rouge 

La Glacière Rouge 




Country: Canada 



Debut Work 

Director: Michel Tremblay Jr 

Screenplay: Michel Tremblay Jr 

Cinematography: Simon Villeneuve 

Editing: Michel Tremblay Jr 

Music: Original score by Christian Richer 

Cast: David Champagne, Benoît Mauffette, François Aubin, Michel Tremblay Jr 

Production: ByPass Films 

Charles learns he has lung cancer. Science is there to help him and he takes advantage of it. 


Michel Tremblay Jr. is a filmmaker from Canada, born in 1978. Michel studied filmmaking at the 

University of Montreal from 2001 to 2003. He co-founded ByPass Films with three friends he met 

at film school. “La Glacière Rouge” is his first 

short film as a director. 

Filmography 

2009 - La Glacière Rouge 

123

La piecita 

The Small Apartment 

124 









Director: Carmen Colino 

Screenplay: Carmen Colino 

Cinematography: Carlos Malder 

Editing: Luciana Gozar, Carmen Colino 

Music: Dodo 

Cast: Guillermo Sosa, Lauren Houtin, Raúl Teba 

Production: Hasta 30 Minutos 

A man is showing a small apartment for rent and various characters visit it. Each one of them has a 

solution to a problem.. 


Carmen Colino is a filmmaker from Argentina, born in 1978. 

Filmography 

2009 - La piecita



La preda 

The Prey 







Debut Work 

Director: Francesco Apice 

Screenplay: Francesco Apice 

Cinematography: Agostino Vertucci 

Editing: Giuseppe Trepiccione 

Music: ‘D-moll Session 1’ by Richard Dorfmeister, Rupert Huber - Tosca, ‘Mamma non c’è’ by 

Federico Forleo, ‘Dungtitled’ by Stars of the Lid, ‘Chronicle of Early Failures’, Pt. 1 by 

Dead Texan, ‘Dot Eye’ by Sam S Prekop 

Cast: Paolo Sassanelli, Cecilia Dazzi 

Production: Mood Film Srl 

A father meets his children, Giulio, who is 11 and Lorenzo, who is 9, outside their school. They 

speed out of town in a shining convertible, going to their house in the mountains, where they want to 

spend the week-end without their mother’s knowledge. 


Francesco Apice was born in Rome (Italy) in 1976. In 2005 he graduated in Screenwriting at the 

Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in 

Rome and in 2006 he graduated in 

Contemporary Art History at La Sapienza 

University. ‘La preda’ is his debut short film. 

Filmography 

2009 - La preda 

125

La route du Nord 

The North Road 

126 




Country: France / Lebanon 


Language: Arabic, French 

Debut Work 



Director: Carlos Chahine 

Screenplay: Carlos Chahine 

Cinematography: Jacques Bouquin 

Editing: Gladys Joujou 

Music: Sonate en Fa mineur L118 Scarlatti by Cynthia Zaven 

Cast: Carlos Chahine, Camille Figuereo, Matthieu Marie, Fadi Abi Samra, Abla Khoury 

Production: Samuel Chauvin 13 Production 

Karim, mid forties, has lived in France since his early teenage years. For the first time in many 

years he returns to Lebanon to transfer the remains of his father, who died during the war, from 

Beirut to his home village. 


Carlos Chahine was born in Lebanon in 1959. Carlos migrated to France in 1975 and, after obtaining 

a diploma in dentistry, he decided to study 

theater at the TNS school of Strasbourg. 

Since the 90’s, he has been working 

exclusively as an actor, especially in theater, in 

France. ‘La route du Nord’ is his first short 


Filmography 

2008 - La route du Nord




Agnès Patron is a French filmmaker, born in 1984. ‘La valse du pendu’ is her first short film. 

Filmography 

2008 - La valse du pendu 

La valse du pendu 

La valse du pendu 



Runtime: 2’ 



Debut Work 

Director: Agnès Patron 

Screenplay: Agnès Patron 

Music: Pierre Oberkampf 

Production: Ensad 

Bob died yesterday... 

127

128 



L’amertume du chocolat 

L’amertume du chocolat 







Director: Lucile Chaufour 

Screenplay: Lucile Chaufour 

Cinematography: Anne Mustelier 

Editing: Lucile Chaufour 

Music: Lucile Chaufour 

Cast: Thibault Leturcq, Louise Charpentier, Marie Luhner. 

Production: Supersonicglide 

A young mother, two children, and the fragments of a day in a Parisian suburb. 


Lucile Chaufour is a filmmaker from France, born in 1966. 

Filmography 

2008 - L’amertume du chocolat, 

East Punk Memories 

2004 - Violent days 

1985 - T’34



La Syndrome de Stockholm 

The Stockholm Syndrome 







Debut Work 

Director: David Mabille 

Screenplay: David Mabille 

Cinematography: Benoit Feller 

Editing: Jérome Pey, Olivier Aufauvre 

Music: ‘Tender Touch’ by Armando Trovaioli , ‘Café D’Tango’ by Andreas Oberg, ‘Via Brazil’ by Luiz 

de Aquino, Michael McGregor, ‘Vagabond’ by Christian Toucas, MIchel Herblin, ‘Redonne moi ma 

chance’ by Dany Brillant, ‘Riv’ Gauche’ 

Cast: Laurent Mouton, Elsa Kikoïne, Jean-Pierre Martins, Husky Kihal 

Production: La Boite 

It is not that easy to win back a girl who dumped you. The first time Anna left him, he managed to 

do so, though. It didn’t last for long: she dumped him once again! So he got an idea.... 


David Mabille is a French filmmaker, born in 1971. He entered UCLA in Los Angeles for training in 

filmmaking in 2003, and in 2006 he took part in the workshop ‘Writing of Feature Films’ at La Femis 

(France). He directed videoclips and 

corporate films, and then worked as a 

free lance production manager for important 

brands. ‘La Syndrome de Stockholm’ is his 

first short film as writer and director. 

Filmography 

2008 - La Syndrome de Stockholm 

129

L’enveloppe jaune 

The Yellow Envelope 

130 



Runtime: 9’ 




Director: Delphine Hermans 

Screenplay: Delphine Hermans 

Editing: Delphine Hermans 

Music: Garrett List 

Production: Camera-etc 



Paul was Anna’s ideal man. He deflated.. 


Delphine Hermans is a Belgian filmmaker, born in 1981. Delphine has studied Animation Filmmaking 

at the Animation Cinema Department of 

the National Superior School ‘La Cambre’ in 

Bruxelles. Since 2006, she works at Camera-etc 

(ex Caméra Enfants Admis), a Belgian animation 

workshop where children, teenagers and 

adults come to make their own animation 

shorts with the help of professionals. 

Filmography 

2008 - L’enveloppe jaune




Daniel Texter is a filmmaker from Luxembourg. ‘Lingo Vino’ is his debut short film as a director. 

Filmography 

2009 - Lingo Vino 

Lingo Vino 

Lingo Vino 




Country: Luxembourg 



Debut Work 

Director: Daniel Texter 

Screenplay: Daniel Texter, Georg Ludy 

Cinematography: Carlo Thiel 

Editing: Misch Bervard 

Music: Gast Waltzing 

Cast: Fernand Fox, Marc Olinger 

Production: Iris Productions 

Two old wine producers, Leo and Jakob, have been bickering for 40 years over who produces the 

best wine until a letter coming from America upsets this ritual. 

131

Listen to Me! 

Listen to Me! 

132 



Runtime: 4’ 

Country: Hungary 




Director: Elena Rogova 

Screenplay: Elena Rogova 

Editing: Elena Rogova 

Music: Peter Erdelyi 

Production: Amix Film Studio Ltd. 

One fidgety dog desperately wants to be heard by people and finally gets the chance.. 


Elena Rogova is a filmmaker from Russia, born in 1967. Elena graduated from the Faculty of Painting 

and Graphics in Moscow State Teacher’s 

College. Beginning in 1993, she 

studied animation at Pilot Studio. 

Since 2000, she has worked in 

Hungary at Varga Studio and at Studio 

Baestarts as director, storyboard and 

layout artist. ‘Listen to Me!’ is her first short 

film. 

Filmography 

2008 - Listen to Me!



Los Señalados de Dios 

Los Señalados de Dios 




Country: Uruguay 



Debut Work 

Director: Juan Manuel Fodde 

Screenplay: Juan Manuel Fodde 

Cinematography: Daniel Machado 

Editing: Juan Manuel Fodde, Lucía Ferreira 

Music: Various tracks by Nicolás Davis, ‘La Yarará’ by José Luis Guerra and Braulio López. 

Cast: Sergio Gorfain, Sergio Mautone, Micaela Gatti 

Production: Rabiar Cine 

After being bitten by the deadly Yarara’ snake, a man sails down the river in search of help and is 

rescued by the Alvez family, who is torn apart by ‘cursed genetics’ and deep running grudges. He 

will witness the tragic unfolding of the family and its rotten progeny’s final act. 


Juan Manuel Fodde was born in Montevideo (Uruguay) in 1982. Juan Manuel took an early interest 

in movies and visual arts and attended several film courses, workshops and seminars. In 2000, he 

moved to Canada where he worked on 

several productions in different positions 

which were the core of his film training. In 

2004 he returned to Uruguay where he 

began to work professionally as a storyboard 

artist. At the same time, he works as a stage 

designer and makes video production for 

several plays. 

Filmography 

2008 - Los Señalados de Dios 

133

Lost Paradise 

Lost Paradise 

134 









Director: Mihal Brezis, Oded Binnun 

Screenplay: Mihal Brezis, Oded Binnun 

Cinematography: Oded Binnun 

Editing: Mihal Brezis 

Music: Ronen Shapira 

Cast: Moris Cohen, Rotem Cohen Zisman 

Production: Divine Productions 

A man and a woman are tenderly making love in a one star hotel room. A moment later when they 

are both dressed, the idyllic situation that seemed authentic is now gone. 


Mihal Brezis and Oded Binnun are two filmmakers from Israel. They graduated from the Sam 

Spiegel Film Institute in Jerusalem. From their 

film studies period they moved directly on to 

award-wining music videos and TV 

commercials. Presently, Mihal and Oded are 

developing a feature film with the support of 

the Israel Film Fund. 

Filmography 

2008 - Lost Paradise



Lotta 

Lotta 







Debut Work 

Director: Daniele Anzellotti 

Screenplay: Daniele Anzellotti 

Cinematography: Daniele Anzellotti 

Editing: Salvatore Allocca 

Music: Two tracks by Vega’s Project , ‘Ogni giorno’ by Jagermasterz 

Cast: Danilo De Summa, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Paolo Briguglia, Filippo Nigro, Rocco Papaleo, 

G Max, Massimo De Santis 

Production: Vega’s Project 

In the hard and ruthless world of clandestine combat, where rules do not exist and money 

dominates, only the strongest man will win. 


Daniele Anzellotti is an Italian filmmaker, born in 1980. After a ten-year career as a film grip, he 

specialized as operator and director of photography. He has, in fact, worked on the filming of a 

number of short films, videoclips, 

commercials and documentaries. 

With Salvatore Allocca and Giuseppe Silipo, 

Dainele founded the production and 

audio-visual post-production company 

Vega’s Project, based in Rome. “Lotta” is his 

short film debut. 

Filmography 

2008 - Lotta 

135

Love Child 

Love Child 

136 



Runtime: 6’ 







Director: Daniel Wirtberg 

Screenplay: Daniel Wirtberg, Tobias Norén 

Cinematography: Martin Matiasek 

Editing: Daniel Wirtberg, Tobias Norén 

Music: Bengt Nilsson 

Cast: Tindra Nordgren, Magnus Krepper, Cecilie Nerfont Thorgersen 

Production: Daemon Film 

A young girl enjoys the perfect life of being the only child, when one day a new family member 

arrives. 

Daniel Wirtberg was born in Karlstad (Sweden) in 1983. He started filmmaking at the age of twelve. 

At 18 he was admitted to the Czech Film Academy FAMU’s international program. Since his 

graduation in 2003 he has been freelancing 

as a writer, director and producer and has 

been teaching filmmaking. 

Filmography 

2008 - Love Child 

2006 – The Intruder 

2004 – Julia

Filmography 

2008 - Love It Like It Is 

2005 - Vincent 



Love It Like It Is 

Love It Like It Is 



Runtime: 3’ 



Director: Giulio Ricciarelli 

Screenplay: Giulio Ricciarelli 

Cinematography: Ian Blumers 

Editing: Wolfgang Weigl 

Cast: Ottmar Engel 

Production: Naked Eye Filmproduction 

How to deal with life’s problems is an ancient question. The mystics have an answer: love it like it 


Giulio Ricciarelli is a filmmaker from Germany, born in 1965. 

is. 

137

Lyckoruset 

Lyckoruset 

138 







Debut Work 



Director: Anders Ahlberg 

Screenplay: Anders Ahlberg 

Cinematography: Nils-David Carlsson 

Editing: Anders Ahlberg, Anna Östh 

Music: Peter Bengtsson, Nils Olsson, Hans Carlsson, Unique Tracks 

Cast: Henri Kokko, Eva Öhlin, Göran Frost, Patric Ljunggren, Charlotta Magnusson, Marcus Högwall 

Production: Katrinebergs Folkhögskola 

In a not too distant future, the absurd live televised annual competition ‘Lyckoruset’ is about to start. 

The stakes are high and the risks greater. All that matters is to win. 


Anders Ahlberg is a filmmaker from Sweden, born in 1967. ‘Lyckoruset’ is his debut short film. 

Filmography 

2008 - Lyckoruset



Ma Bar 

Ma Bar 




Country: UK 



Director: Finlay Pretsell, Adrian McDowall 

Cinematography: Blair Scott, Filip Sycynski 

Editing: Mark Jenkins 

Music: Matthew Aldworth 

Production: Imagine Pictures 

Bench-pressing is not a hobby for 73 year old Bill McFadyen: it’s a way of life. Stranraer’s very 

own bench press champion is on a quest to be the best in the world.. 


Finlay Pretsell and Adrian McDowall are two filmmakers from the UK. 

Finlay began working for the Scottish Documentary Institute in 2005, where he was 

Production Assistant and Production Manager on a number of short films. In 2005, he also worked 

with the BBC as a researcher on Maps for Britain and as a Production Assistant for BBC Radio. 

Filmography 

2008 - Ma Bar / 2007 - Standing Start / 2006 - Butterfly 

Adrian directed his first film as part of his honor’s degree at Edinburgh College of Art in 

1999. In 2001 he graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a Masters Degree in Visual 

Communication and soon afterwards established 

the screenwriting company Imagine 

Pictures with Fox Searchlight award-winning 

filmmaker Joern Utkilen. Since then, Adrian 

has continued to write and direct numerous 

short films. He has a feature film in development 

and is currently creating a cop series. 

Filmography 

2008 - Ma Bar 

2007 - Myself Only More S 

2003 - Wise Guys 

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Maggoty 

Maggoty 

140 



Runtime: 6’ 






Director: Maya Galluzzi, Nino Christen 

Screenplay: Maya Galluzzi, Nino Christen 

Cinematography: Maya Galluzzi, Nino 

Christen 

Editing: Tabea Rothfuchs 

Music: Nino Christen 

Cast: Maya Galluzzi, Nino Christen, Tabea Rothfuchs 

Production: HSLU Luzern Design & Kunst 

In the mighty jungle, the professor and his clumsy assistant make a marvellous discovery. A 

breakthrough in evolution! 

Maya Galluzzi and Nino Christen are two filmmakers from Switzerland. 

Maya Galluzzi was born in 1984 in Italy. She is an Animation student at the University of Arts and 

Design in Lucerne. 

Filmography 

2008 - Maggoty, I didn‘t Save Mine 

2007 - Among Blinds 

Nino Christen was born in 1984 in Nepal. He 

is an Animation student at the University 

of Arts and Design in Lucerne. 

Filmography 

2008 - Maggoty 

2007 - Mikro.Kosmos



Magic Show 

Magic Show 






Debut Work 

Director: Milan Hulsing 

Screenplay: Ruud den Drijver 

Editing: Milan Hulsing 

Production: Cineventura 

An illusionist and his assistant perform a series of incredible acts and then they reveal to the 

audience how their tricks work. However, this explanation is even more astonishing than the tricks, 

which only enhances the illusion. 


Milan Hulsing is a filmmaker from the Netherlands, born in 1973. He graduated in Illustrations at 

the Willem de Kooning Academie and has been published as an illustrator in various magazines and 

newspapers. He created animations for ‘The 

Paul Verhoeven DVD Box’. Milan also did 

animations and backgrounds for ‘Topor et moi’ 

by Sylvia Kristel. ‘Magic Show’ is his debut 

work as a short film director. 

Filmography 

2009 - Magic Show 

141

Mama, L’Chaim 

Mama, To Life! 

142 






Runtime: 5’ 

Country: USA / Belgium / Germany 


Language: English, German 

Debut Work 

Director: Elkan Spiller 

Screenplay: Elkan Spiller 

Cinematography: Virginie Saint Martin, 

Ron Ramirez 

Editing: Brendan Kruse 

Music: ‘Live Song’ by Chaim Lubelski 

Cast: Chaim Lubelski, Nechama Lubelski 

Production: Elkan Spiller Film PRoduction 

Chaim, 62, has been living with his mother, a concentration camp survivor, for the past three years. 

The 95-year-old lady has experienced terrible things that surface again and again in her memories. 

‘L’Chaim’ is a Jewish toast meaning: ‘to life!’. 

Elkan Spiller was born in Cologne (Germany) in 1963. As the son of Holocaust survivors, his interest 

in Jewish history was sparked at an early age, and he went on to write his Master thesis on 

anti-Semitism in German television at the 

University of Arts in Berlin in 1992. Since then 

he has worked as a freelance journalist and 

documentary filmmaker for Deutsche Welle 

and various ARD broadcasters. He lived and 

worked many years in New York, Tel Aviv and 

San Francisco. He recently moved back to 

Germany. ‘Mama, L’Chaim’ is his debut short 

film. 

Filmography 

2008 - Mama, L’Chaim




Hana Geissendorfer is a filmmaker from France, born in 1984. 

Filmography 

2008 - Marion 

2007 - Play Time 

Marion 

Marion 







Director: Hana Geissendorfer 

Screenplay: Hana Geissendorfer 

Cinematography: Adrew Brooke 

Editing: Khaled Salem 

Music: Daniel Werner 

Cast: Nathalie Nell, Claire Montgermont 

Production: Strawberry Vale Productions 

Marion would do anything to save her terminally-ill mother but having accepted her fate, all her 

mother wants is a dignified death. Marion learns to come to terms with a situation out of her control. 

143

Mary 

Mary 

144 



Runtime: 7’ 

Country: UK 



Debut Work 



Director: Tsubasa Maruno 

Screenplay: Tsubasa Maruno 

Cinematography: Tsubasa Maruno 

Editing: Tsubasa Maruno 

Cast: Amy Lennox, Stephanie Farrell 

Production: Amy Lennox, Stephanie Farrell 

A teenage girl is living in a haunted house. 


Tsubasa Maruno is a filmmaker from the UK, born in 1980. ‘Mary’ is his directorial debut. 

Filmography 

2009 - Mary

Filmography 

2009 - Mi vida en tus manos 

2004 - Para Lá Das Nuvens 



Mi vida en tus manos 

Mi vida en tus manos 



Runtime: 8’ 

Country: Portugal / Spain 


Director: Nuno Beato 

Screenplay: Nuno Beato 

Cinematography: Diogo Caravalho 

Editing: Ricardo Cardoso 

Music: Joana Brandao 

Production: Ib Cinema S.L. Lampadacesa, 

Sardinha Em Lata 

A very well known Portuguese bullfighter arrives in Spain. El Matador will execute a long awaited 

‘faena’. His son, Pedrito, accompanies him on this trip. He dreams of becoming just like his father. 

However, just before the bullfight starts, in the backstage hustle and bustle, Pedrito meets the Bull 

that his father will fight. 


Nuno Beato is a filmmaker from Portugal, born in 1977. 

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Migración 

Migration 

146 




Country: Colombia 





Director: Marcela Gómez Montoya 

Screenplay: Marcela Gómez Montoya 

Cinematography: Oscar Ruiz Navia, 

Marcela Gómez Montoya 

Editing: Paul Donneys, M. G. Montoya 

Music: Original score by Holman Alvarez 

Cast: Fernando Gómez Velásquez, Marta Luisa Montoya Borrero, Juliana Gómez Montoya 

Production: Contravía Films 

A Colombian immigrant family in the USA. 


Marcela Gómez Montoya is a filmmaker from Colombia, born in 1983. Marcela has degree in Social 

Communications from Universidad del Valle. 

She is Art Director and partner of the 

production company Contravia Films. 

Filmography 

2008 - Migración 

2007 - Hideout




Roger Bastien is a filmmaker from France, born in 1982. He graduated from Supinfocom. 

Filmography 

2008 - Milk 

2006 - Ego 

Milk 

Milk 



Runtime: 9’ 



Director: Roger Bastien 

Screenplay: Roger Bastien 

Cinematography: Baggio Raphael 

Music: Picture Shop, Christophe Menassier, 

Quentin Le Roux 

Cast: Laurent Mabusa Nekembaa, Sacha 

Peiffer, Nell Dieu 

Production: Clon 

Images and color have invaded the life of a man with tired eyes. 

147

Milovan Circus 

Milovan Circus 

148 



Runtime: 9’ 






Director: Gerlando Infuso 

Screenplay: Gerlando Infuso 

Editing: Gerlando Infuso 

Music: Philippe Tasquin 


Cambre 

Iakov, once the star of the Milovan Circus and now a mere mime, puts on his face of illusion while 

recalling his glorious past.. 


Gerlando Infuso is a filmmaker from Belgium, born in 1986. 

Filmography 

2008 - Milovan Circus 

2007 - Margot



Miyan-e 2 Khab 

Between Two Dreams 



Runtime: 9’ 

Country: Iran 


Director: Omid Abdollahi 

Screenplay: Omid Abdollahi 

Editing: Mohammad Shirvani 

Production: Omid Abdollahi 

A young woman goes to her neighbor in the middle of the night and asks her to help her have an 

abortion. 


Omid Abdollahi was born in Shiraz (Iran) in 1978. After passing a Filmmaking Course at the Iranian 

Youth Cinema Society, in 1998 he started making short films. He has been extremely active in the 

film industry, and his works have achieved important results in domestic and international festivals. 

Omid is a member of the Iranian Short Film 

Association and he is studying for his MA in 

Film Editing. 

Filmography 

2008 - Miyan-e 2 Khab 

2007 - The Lost Moment 

2006 / The Wind Blows 

2004 - A Whispering with Earth 

2003 - Elegy for the Last Upright Tree 

2001 - The Day We Had Persian Lesson 

149

Moltonel 

Moltonel 

150 



Runtime: 2’ 



Debut Work 



Director: Nora Juncker 

Screenplay: Nora Juncker 

Music: Maxime Garcia Moreno 


Cambre 

A crazy journey in a colorful world.. 


Nora Juncker is a filmmaker from Belgium, born in 1986. ‘Moltonel’ is her debut short film. 

Filmography 

2008 - Moltonel



Monarch 

Monarch 






Debut Work 

Director: Shane Willis 

Screenplay: Shane Willis 

Cinematography: Simon Morris 

Editing: Gabriel Dowrick 

Music: Tim Pope, Erik Miehs 

Cast: Stephen Leeder, Paul Knott, Stephanie Son 

Production: Cornershop Productions 

A man trapped in a room with a caged butterfly endures the CIA’s mind control program 

‘Monarch’. A young girl and fellow victim may be his only hope for escape. 


Shane Willis is a filmmaker from Australia, born in 1980. After having graduated from the Film 

School at the end of 2007, Shane immediately began work on his first film and he is now working 

on his first feature film. ‘Monarch’ is his debut 

work. 

Filmography 

2008 - Monarch 

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Mother, Mine 

Mother, Mine 

152 




Country: UK 





Director: Susan Everett 

Screenplay: Susan Everett 

Cinematography: Luke Palmer 

Editing: Anton Short 

Music: Heather Fenoughty 

Cast: Kelly Harrison, Barbara Marten, David Fleeshman 

Production: SYFN 

Adoptee Alison sends out a video as she tries to track down her natural mother. 


Susan Everett is a filmmaker from the UK, born in 1965. She is a writer, director and novelist. Susan has 

directed 4 short films. 

Filmography 

2008 - Mother, Mine 

2003 - Puss Puss 

2002 - Moose 

1994 - White Rabbits



My Dear Grandma 

My Dear Grandma 



Runtime: 5’ 



Language: English, Spanish 

Debut Work 

Director: Marta Abad Blay 

Screenplay: Marta Abad Blay 

Music: Bart van de Lisdonk 

Production: Netherlands Institute for 

Animation Film 

In her dreams, Dolores is an ordinary grandmother who enjoys peace and quiet and her family. The 

reality, however, is quite different: she feels that she is a slave to her family. One day it all 

becomes too much for her and she decides to opt for a better life. 


Marta Abad Blay is a filmmaker from the Netherlands, born in 1980. She obtained a Fine Arts 

Degree at the Faculty of Bellas Artes in Valencia (Spain) and attended various courses 

at international animation institutes. 

‘My Dear Grandma’ is her debut work. 

Filmography 

2008 - My Dear Grandma 

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Nero Apparente 

Nero Apparente 

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Runtime: 8’ 




Debut Work 



Director: Giuseppe Pizzo 

Screenplay: Giuseppe Pizzo 

Cinematography: Flaco Gaete Vega 

Editing: Jan Michelini 

Music: Rosario Di Bella 

Cast: Kassim Yassin, Giovanni Capalbo, Alessandro Giallocosta, Giorgio Santangelo, Leonarda 

Imbornone 

Production: Bla Bla Production 

A girl steps outside a small restaurant to smoke a cigarette and a thief steals her purse. The waiter 

and a group of young men passing by start to run after the thief. 


Giuseppe Pizzo was born in 1963 in Italy. He is a policeman and a writer. He has published 

novels such as ‘Scriptorium, caccia a un 

serial killer’ , ‘Imago’ and ‘Il tocco di Caino’. As a 

screenwriter, he cooperated in writing Matteo 

Garrone’s ‘Gomorra’ screenplay. ‘Nero 

apparente’ is his debut short film. 

2008 - Nero Apparente



Noémie 

Noémie 







Director: Eric Chaussé 

Screenplay: Eric Chaussé 

Cinematography: Gabriel Gervais Caron 

Editing: Michael Roy 

Music: Guilaume St-Laurent 

Cast: Rose Adam 

Production: GypsyX Films 

A little girl named Blanche has nothing to do except stare at her music box. She decides to explore 

the basement of her grandmother’s house. Through the darkness, she meets a little girl from her 

imagination: Noémie. 


Eric Chaussé is a Canadian filmmaker, born in 1979. From a very young age, he was 

fascinated by television and film. One of his first attempts in film directing was for a school project 

called ‘The Neighbors’. This was a 55 

minute film about a guy tomented by twisted 

religious beliefs. As of 2005, he had 

created and directed more than 20 shows, 

including school ensembles, dance shows 

and corporate videos. 

Filmography 

2008 - Noémie 

2007 - Eleven Years Old 

2006 - Judith 

2001 - Please, don’t hang up! 

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Nostalgico Avvenire 

Nostalgico Avvenire 

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Director: Emanuele Policante, Vieri Brini 

Screenplay: Emanuele Policante, Vieri Brini 

Cinematography: Damiano Andreotti 

Editing: Arturo Fatin Prino Mello, 

Oreste Limonelli 

Cast: Valentina Ottino, Alessandro Portalupi, 

Rodolfo Mongitore, Gianfilippo Caligaris, Piero D’andrea. 

Production: Ta ma produzioni - Anarkanoid inc. 

A group of rebels aims to control the country’s demographic situation. The only way to solve the 

overpopulation is to ship all old people into space. Afterward, other measures will be taken as well.. 


Emanuele Policante and Vieri Brini are two Italian filmmakers. 

Vieri Brini was born in 1979 in Gattinara. He has directed events and theater play videos and has 

cooperated with the Teatro Stabile in Turin. 

Emanuele Policante was born in 1978 in 

Biella. He is a director of events and shows 

and was co-author of the Biblioetica videos 

by Luca Ronconi. 

Filmography 

2008 - Nostalgico Avvenire 

2007 - Mantra d’attesa 

2006 - Alla fine è solo una torta al cioccolato 

con farcitura



Ode Ober 

Ode Ober 



Runtime: 9’ 




Director: Hiba Vink 

Screenplay: Hiba Vink 

Cinematography: Wouter Westendorp 

Editing: Annelies van Woerden 

Music: Frank Wienk 

Cast: Joop Keesmaat, Roelant Radier, Nelleke Zitman, Hunter Bussemaker, Arjen Lubach 

Production: Pal AV - Motion Pictures 

The waiter has been serving perfect strangers food and drinks for as long as he can remember. His 

murmured maelstrom of acute observations reveals an acquired omniscience regarding his clients’ 

preferences and character traits. One day something makes him ponder the concept of life beyond 

the doors of his restaurant. 


Hiba Vink was born in 1977 in the Netherlands. She is the grand-daughter of famed Dutch stage 

actor Cor Ruys. From 1996-1998 she studied Theatre, Film and Television Sciences at the University 

of Utrecht and from 2000-2004 Photographic 

Design at the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in 

The Hague. Hiba has also worked as assistant 

director to Karim Traïdia and now she teaches 

Film History and Film Theory at the Royal 

Academy for Visual Arts in The Hague. 

Filmography 

2008 - Ode Ober 

2005 - Ish 

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Old Man Peter 

Starik Peter 

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Country: Russian Federation 


Language: Russian 



Director: Ivan Golovnev 

Screenplay: Ivan Golovnev 

Cinematography: Ivan Golovnev 

Editing: Yuri Yatsencko 

Music: ‘Old Man Peter’ by Evgeni Schmidt 

Production: Ethnographic Bureau Studio 

Peter Sengepov, the last surviving Shaman of the Kazym River, lives completely alone in the deep 

forests of the Siberian taiga. The only company he keeps in his humble dwelling are two cats, a 

small dog and a young moose, that he found injured in the woods and nursed back to health. 


Ivan Golovnev was born in 1978 in Omsk, Siberia (Russian Federation). His father is a scholar of 

history, ethnography, and anthropology who teaches at universities around the world, including the 

United States. Ivan graduated from a music school with a degree in Piano Performance. In 2000, 

he graduated from the History Department of the Omsk State University, where he majored in 

Ethnography. From 2000 to 2002 he took classes at the School of Sverdlovsk (now Ekaterinburg) 

Film Studio. In addition to studying theory, he 

worked as an assistant director during the 

filming of documentary and feature films. 

In 2002, Golovnev entered a Graduate 

Program for Screenwriters and Directors in 

Moscow. He directed the documentary TV 

series ‘The Time of Myths’. 

Filmography 

2008 - Starik Petr 

2006 - Perekrestok 

2004 - Malenkaya Katerina



Oleg & Olga 

Oleg & Olga 






Debut Work 

Director: Sergei Voevodin 

Screenplay: Sergei Voevodin 

Cinematography: Vitaliy Patrushev 

Editing: Sergei Voevodin 

Cast: Vitaliy Patrushev, Evguenia Luchikhina 

Production: Olesya Teploukhova 

It is an (im)possible love. They live in small Russian town and work at a plant. They even have similar 

names and they could be a nice couple. 


Sergei Voevodin is a filmmaker from the Russian Federation, born in 1971. He is a student 

of Higher Courses for Screenwriters and Directors. ‘Oleg & Olga’ is his debut short film. 

Filmography 

2008 - Oleg & Olga 

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Ombre 

Ombre 

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Director: Alberto Meroni 

Screenplay: Alberto Meroni, Sara Beltrame 

Cinematography: Michael Bonito 

Editing: Alberto Meroni 

Cast: Pietro Ghislandi, Gaia Fossani 

Production: Imagofilm Lugano 

In a not too distant future, the dreams of little Gaia are destroyed by evil men who dwell in the city. 

Her grandfather tries to amuse her by teaching her to use her imagination. 


Alberto Meroni is a filmmaker from Switzerland, born in 1978. 

Filmography 

2008 - “Ombre” 35mm 

2003 - “Stanza 209” Digi Beta

Filmography 

2008 - Opptur, Betydningen 



Opptur 

Riding High 







Director: Ketil Høegh 

Screenplay: Endre Lund Eriksen, Ketil Høegh 

Cinematography: Pål Bugge Haagenrud 

Cast: Torfinn Nag, Iren Reppen, Maria Grazia 

Di Meo, Espen Renø Svendsen 

Production: Original Film AS 

A middle aged man takes the cable car to the top of the mountain above Tromsø. He has no plans 

to return. The freshman conductor and two cheerful sisters are also riding along, and the journey 

takes several unexpected turns. 


Ketil Høegh is a filmmaker from Norway, born in 1956. 

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Order 

Order 

162 




Country: USA 





Director: Daniel Cava 

Screenplay: Caleb Stewart 

Cinematography: Mitch Lusas 

Editing: Anthony Cece 

Cast: Michael Woods, Ashley Larsen, Justin 

Glinn, Monique Coleman 

Production: Regent University School of Communication and Arts. 

An unorthodox manager intervenes in the lives of his customers. 


Daniel Cava is a filmmaker from the USA, born in 1981. Daniel is studying for a Master of Fine Arts in 

Directing at the Regent University School of 

Communication and Arts. 

Filmography 

2008 - Order 

2007 - Penance



Oudoille Oville 

Karelian Cowgirls 




Country: UK 


Language: Finnish 

Debut Work 

Director: Minttu Mantynen 

Cinematography: Scott Ward 

Editing: Minttu Mantynen 

Music: Traditional 

Production: Pulkka Films, Skyline Productions 

At the start of the bitter Winter War the Soviet Red Army invaded Finnish-Karelia, forcing thousands 

of civilians deep into Finland. Teenagers Annikki, Inkeri and Hilkka left their families to drive 

cattle through deep snow and hostile lands. A lifetime later they look back on their adventures. 


Minttu Mantynen is a filmmaker from Helsinki (Finland). She has lived in Scotland for 10 years. 

Minttu has a background in literature, stills 

photography and design and has worked as a 

cinematographer for the past seven years in 

both drama and documentary productions. 

‘Karelian Cowgirls’ is her first documentary 


Filmography 

2008 - Oudoille Oville 

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164 



Our Wonderful Nature 

Our Wonderful Nature 



Runtime: 5’ 




Debut Work 

Director: Tomer Eshed 

Screenplay: Tomer Eshed 

Editing: Tomer Eshed 

Music: Stefan Maria Schneider 

Production: HFF ‘Konrad Wolf’ Potsdam 

The mating habits of the water-shrew like never seen before.. 


Tomer Eshed is a filmmaker, born in Israel in 1977. He attended the Arts School in Jerusalem until 

1995. Since 2004 has been studying 

Animation at the Film & Television Academy 

(HFF) ‘Konrad Wolf’ in Germany. ‘Our 

Wonderful Nature’ is his first short film. 

Filmography 

2008 - Our Wonderful Nature



Palíndromo 

Palíndromo 



Runtime: 7’ 



Language: Galician 

Director: Eva Quintas Froufe 

Screenplay: Eva Quintas Froufe 

Cinematography: Xacobe González 

Editing: Jorge Fernández 

Music: Piti Sanz 

Cast: Mariña Sampedro, Luis Iglesia 

Production: Natalia Quintas 

Ana is a 10-year-old girl whose world seems to disappear when she misinterprets some of the 

words used by adults. 


Eva Quintas Froufe was born in Maceda (Spain) in 1982. She studied Audiovisual Communications 

at the Facultade de Ciencias Sociais e da 

Comunicación in Pontevedra. 

Filmography 

2007 - Palíndromo 

2006 - Prize 

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Panca Popolare Italiana 

Panca Popolare Italiana 






Director: Werther Germondari 

Screenplay: Werther Germondari 

Cinematography: Werther Germondari 

Editing: Werther Germondari 

Music: Paolo Pizzi 

Production: Werther Germondari 

The story of a bench over a six-year period. 


Werther Germondari was born in Rimini (Italy) in 1963. He graduated in Art and Performance at the 

University of Bologna and at Centro 

Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. 

He works in the painting, installations, 

photography, film, video and live 

performances fields. 

Filmography 

2008 - Panca Popolare Italiana 

2000 - Triedro 

1999 - Stesso posto, stessa ora 

1996 - Frantumi 

1994 - Una strada diritta lunga



Patience of the Memory 

Patience of the Memory 



Runtime: 7’ 

Country: Germany / Spain 


Director: Vuk Jevremovic 

Screenplay: Vuk Jevremovic 

Cinematography: Vuk Jevremovic 

Editing: Vuk Jevremovic 

Music: Xabi Erkiziaz 

Production: Canvas Productions 

A romantic and expressive trip into the history of the city of Dresden. 


Vuk Jevremovic was born in the former Yugoslavia in 1969. In 1984 he graduated in Architecture at 

the Technical University in Belgrade. Afterwards, Vuk moved to Germany and in 2002 he 

graduated from the Academy of fine Arts in 

Munich. 

Filmography 

2009 - Patience of the Memory 

2002 - Faces 

2000 - Tagebuch 

1998 - Panther 

1996 - The Wind Subsides 

1995 - Eon 

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Paul Rondin est...Paul Rondin 

Paul Rondin is...Paul Rondin 







Director: Frédérick Vin 

Screenplay: Frédérick Vin 

Cinematography: Laurent Tangy 

Editing: Frédérick Vin 

Music: Tom Poisson 

Cast: François Berland 

Production: 1/33 Productions 

Paul Rondin is looking for love but he suffers from job conditioning. 


Frédérick Vin is a filmmaker from France, born in 1969. After graduating from the Ecole Supérieure 

d’Etudes Cinématographique de Paris (E.S.E.C.), Frederick became Assistant Director on several 

feature films before directing his own short films, each one investigating a different genre (film noir, 

period film, comedy). 

Filmography 

2008 - Paul Rondin est... Paul Rondin, 

La Consultation 

2007 - Affection 

2006 - Bourreau 

2004 - Le Personnage 

1996 - Mieux vaut s’en aller la tete basse que 

les pieds devant




Stanca Radu is a filmmaker from Rumania, born in 1984. She graduated in Directing at the National 

University of Drama and Film I.L. Caragiale in Bucharest , in 2007. 

Filmography 

2008 - Pentru el 

2005 - Subjective Angle, Third Encounter, 

Heavy Heat, Stefan 

2004 - Accident, Please Turn Your Mobile 

Phone Off 

Pentru el 

For Him 



Runtime: 9’ 

Country: Rumania 


Language: Rumanian 

Director: Stanca Radu 

Screenplay: Elisabeta Manea 

Cinematography: Istvan Bordi 

Editing: Gabriel Basalici 

Music: ‘Feel the Rush’ , by Shaggy, Trix and Flix 

Production: National University of Drama and Film I.L. Caragiale Bucharest 

Whether lonesome, clumsy, embarrassing or painful, everything is done out of love and for love, 

‘for him’. 

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Pizza 

Pizza 

170 







Debut Work 



Director: Ivan Cazzola 

Screenplay: Ivan Cazzola 

Cinematography: Alessandro Dominici 

Editing: Stefano Perlo 

Music: Madaski, Moby, Disco Drive, Gianluca Petrella 

Cast: Fabrizio Nicastro, Francesco Carnelutti, Fabio Troiano, Francesco Bolo Rossini, Xena Zupanic 

Production: Illegalfilm 77 Ouvert 

Elio, a 24 year-old, delivers pizzas in order to make a living. A hectic work night and some out-ofthe-ordinary 

people will upset his plans. 


Ivan Cazzola is an Italian filmmaker, born in 1974. ‘Pizza’ is his short film debut work. 

Filmography 

2008 - Pizza



Porque Hay Cosas Que Nunca Se Olvidan 

Because There Are Things You Never Forget 







Director: Lucas Figueroa 

Screenplay: Lucas Figueroa 

Cinematography: Javier Palacios 

Editing: Lucas Figueroa 

Music: Lucas Figueroa 

Cast: Fabio Cannavaro, Amadeo Carboni, Nicolo Urbinatti, Giulio Baldari, Emiliana Olmedo 

Production: LMF Films 

Naples (Italy), 1950. Four friends are playing soccer out on the street when their ball is accidentally 

kicked into an evil old lady’s yard. They will never play with their ball again: for that the revenge 

will be deadly. 


Lucas Figueroa was born in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 1978. Before working as a film director he 

worked as a screenwriter, post-producer, editor, producer and cameraman. He has filmed in more 

than 20 countries. He has directed many commercials 

for television and movie theatres. He 

currently lives in Madrid (Spain). His short films 

have been awarded dozens of prizes. 

Filmography 

2008 - Porque hay cosas que nunca se olvidan, 

Boletos por favor 

2004 - Con que 24 

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Post! 

Post! 

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Director: Christian Asmussen, Matthias Bruhn 

Screenplay: C. Asmussen, M. Bruhn 

Music: Alex Flucht, Quasimono 

Production: Trickstudio Lutterbeck GmbH 

In a village at the end of the world, a postman burns the incoming letters and delivers letters he has 

personally written. They are romantic letters, coming from his heart. No wonder the villagers love 

him and do not want to let him go! 


Christian Asmussen and Matthias Bruhn are both filmmakers from Germany. Christian, 

also known as Jon Bon Goesel, was born in Elmshorn in 1971. Since 1994, he has been 

working as a director, animator and production supervisor for the TrickStudio in Cologne. 

In addition to his creative work, since 2004 Christian has been teaching as an independent lecturer 

at the International Film School in Cologne. 

Filmography 

2008 - Post! / 2007 - Don Quijote / 2005 - Mediawacht / 2003 - Staubi, die Hausstaubmilbe 

Matthias was born in 1962. From 1986 to 1992, 

he studied Graphic Design at the Technical 

College in Düsseldorf, and until 1998 he 

worked as a freelance animator for the 

cartoon studio TrickStudio, where he is now 

the co-director. From 2003 to 2004, he taught 

animation at the GHK in Lucerne. 

Filmography 

2008 - Post! 

2006 - The Story of the Little Mole Who Knew 

It Was None of His Business 

2005 - Maria’s Little Donkey-Esacape to Egypt



Pour Maman, à lire si je me réveille pas.. 

Dear Mom, To Read if I don’t Wake Up… 







Debut Work 

Director: Anton Iffland Stettner 

Screenplay: Anton Iffland Stettner 

Cinematography: Aurélian Pechmeja 

Editing: Chloé Tytgat 

Cast: Quentin Dussart, Agathe Cornez, Jerome d’Orjo de Marchevolette 

Production: Atelier de Réalisation INSAS 

Alex, a twelve year-old boy, learns on arriving at the emergency room that he has to undergo 

surgery. He is immediately plunged into a new world which is not easy to get used to: exams, the 

lack of privacy, and the separation from his mother. 


Anton Iffland Stettner was born in New York City in 1982 and raised in the suburbs of Paris. Anton 

schooled in the art of directing at INSAS-Brussels (Belgium) and graduated in June 2008 with the 

completion of his autobiographical short film 

‘Dear Mom, to Read if I don’t Wake Up’, which 

is his debut work. 

Filmography 

2008 - Pour Maman, à lire si je me réveille pas.. 

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Purple Sunrise 

Purple Sunrise 

174 









Director: Nina Vukovic 

Screenplay: Nina Vukovic 

Cinematography: Amrin Dierolf 

Music: Tom Morse, At The Drive-In 

Production: German Film and Television 

Academy Berlin (DFFB) 

A boy and a girl approach each other at a party and play the game of which one is risking an open 

commitment to the other first. What begins light-hearted has its downside in the inability of the boy 

to have an emotional commitment towards the girl after a night spent together. 


Nina Vukovic is a filmmaker from Germany, born in 1978. 

Filmography 

2009 - Purple Sunrise 

2008 - Miki’s Ballad 

2007 - Hannas Schweigen 

2005 - Serenade 

2004 - Taners Welt 

2003 - Rendez-Vous



Quio - Rising Tide 

Quio - Rising Tide 



Runtime: 6’ 




Director: Christine Lang 

Screenplay: Christine Lang, Maria Schöpe 

Cinematography: Rasmus Sievers 

Editing: Christine Lang 

Music: Quio, AGF, Lise, Audiotaxi 

Cast: Ina Rotter, Irina Potapenko 

Production: L-R-S Filmproduktion 

Two female gangs compete in a hip hop battle, whereby altered gender-specific modes of action 

are taken as a matter of course. 


Christine Lang was born in 1972 in Germany and grew up in Bremen. She works as a filmmaker, DJ 

and curator in Berlin and Cologne. In 2002 she obtained her M.A. in History of Art and German 

Literature from the Humboldt University in 

Berlin. In 2006 Christine received her Diploma 

at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. She 

is currently working on the script for her first 

feature length film. 

Filmography 

2008 - Quio - Rising Tide 

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Ra, the Mechanic 

Ra, the Mechanic 

176 




Country: Mali 





Director: Mamadou Cisse 

Screenplay: Mamadou Cisse 

Cinematography: Eric Rivot 

Music: Toumani Diabate 

Production: Farafina Danbé Productions 

In a busy street of Bamako (Mali), an engaged young girl, about 25 years old, mother of a child, 

repairs generators. She does ‘a man’s job’ and, along with her male colleagues, Ra works with the 

rhythm of seasons. She also supervises young boys from 12 to 15 years of age. 


Mamadou Cisse is a filmmaker from Mali, born in 1967. 

Filmography 

2008 - Ra, the Mechanic 

2006 - Les Elus



Rastanak 

Rastanak 




Country: Croatia 


Director: Irena Skoric 

Screenplay: Irena Skoric 

Cinematography: Bojana Burnac 

Editing: Borna Buljevic 

Music: Pere Istvancic 

Cast: Ivan Brkic, Asim Ugljen 

Production: Academy Of Dramatic Art Zagreb 

A ‘Zastava 101’ car was one of the symbols of socialism in Yugoslavia, a country which was 

destroyed by war. Many years later, in the independent Croatia, father and son are going on a trip 

in their old ex-Yugoslav car, Zastava 101. Sometimes it’s hard to say goodbye to people and things 

they loved, and the former country in which they lived. 


Irena Skoric was born in Zagreb (Croatia) in 1983. She graduated in Film and TV Directing in 2008 at 

the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. Irena directed a number of short and feature films, documentaries 

and experimental films. 

Filmography 

2008 - Farewell, Rastanak 

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¡Recibí flores hoy! 

¡Recibí flores hoy! 

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Country: Mexico 





Director: Wilfrid Massamba 

Screenplay: Wilfrid Massamba 

Cinematography: Luis Adan Castillero 

Editing: Wilfrid Massamba 

Music: Wilfrid Massamba 

Cast: Paola Iquierdo, Juan Carlos Vives, Antonio Lojero 

Production: BaSango Productions 

Mary is 30 years old, has been married for 2 years and has two children. She tries to keep up 

appearances but her husband is a violent man who hits her every day. 


Wilfrid Massamba is a self-taught globetrotting filmmaker from Mexico, born in 1970. In 2003 he 

made his first documentary, ‘Brève rencontre à 

Brazza’. 

Filmography 

2008 - ¡Recibí floress hoy! 

2003 - Brève rencontre à Brazza



Reconstructing Mayakovsky 

Reconstructing Mayakovsky 



Runtime: 3’ 

Country: USA 


Debut Work 

Director: Pelin Kirca 

Screenplay: Illya Szilak, Pelin Kirca 

Editing: Pelin Kirca 

Music: Itir Saran 

Cast: Ivan Brkic, Asim Ugljen 

Production: Pelin Kirca 

An animated interpretation: ‘Reconstructing Mayakovsky’. 


Pelin Kirca is a filmmaker from the USA, born in 1982. She went to New York to study Design and 

has been working in the city as a freelance designer since graduating from the School of Visual 

Arts. Kirca also holds a BFA Degree in Graphic 

Design from Bilkent University, Ankara. She 

divides her time between animations, short 

films, books, and self-generated projects. Her 

work has been exhibited in number of venues 

in New York, Istanbul, and Ankara. 

‘Reconstructing Mayakovsky’ is her debut 

short film. 

Filmography 

2008 - Reconstructing Mayakovsky 

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Ripples 

Ripples 

180 




Country: Nigeria 





Director: Tunde Aboderin 

Screenplay: Tunde Aboderin 

Cinematography: Ayoola Ireyomi 

Editing: Tade Olagboye 

Music: Obed Ekele 

Cast: Paul Walman, Ajuma Anawo, Chioma Vincent 

Production: Mobile Cinema Crew 

Nelson’s only girlfriend, Cynthia, kills herself when she cannot bear the agony of being 

discriminated against as an HIV victim anymore, but Nelson has to hide the source of the infection. 


Tunde Aboderin is a filmmaker from Nigeria, born in 1979. From 2003 to 2007 he attended the 

National Film Institute. 

Filmography 

2009 - Ripples 

2007 - Faceless



Sale Timing 

Sale Timing 







Director: Olivier Barma 

Screenplay: Julien Lambroschini 

Cinematography: Reynal Capurro 

Editing: Aurélien Dupont 

Music: Chris Canavaggio, Sean Henry 

Cast: Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus, Vinciane Millereau, Stefan Elbaum 

Production: Kouba/Job 

A depressed cop is about to put an end to his life. A stranger wants to help, for better or for worse.. 


Olivier Barma was born in Paris (France) in 1969. He graduated in 1992 from Hautes Etudes 

Commerciales School. Attracted by the filmmaking world, he started his career as an Assistant 

Director. Since 2000 he has been active as an 

independent film director for TV series, 

publicity and short films. He also is a co-writer 

and develops other movies projects. 

2008 - Sale Timing, Bad Timing 

2002 - Le Pied 

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Saving Mom and Dad 

Saving Mom and Dad 




Country: India / USA 



Director: Kartik Singh 

Screenplay: Kartik Singh 

Cinematography: Christophe Larue 

Editing: Louise de Prémonville 

Music: Olivier Tshimanga 

Cast: Aditya Bhagirath, Nirupama 

Nityanandan, Joachim Staaf 

Production: Kartik Singh 

A Sikh boy attempts to prevent his parents from going to Hell. 


Kartik Singh was born in 1973, a hundred miles west of Kansas City (USA) to East Indian parents. He 

spent his High School and college years on stage in plays and musicals. In 1996, Kartik moved to 

France to study film and received an MFA from 

the Sorbonne. He has made eight narrative 

shorts, 30 commercials and industrials and is 

an active screenwriter. ‘Saving Mom and Dad’ is 

based on his childhood. A feature-length 

script version is slated for 2009. 

Filmography 

2008 - Saving Mom and Dad 

2004 - The Wreck, Falling Organs 

2001 - Good News, Bad News



Sektou 

Sektou 




Country: Algeria 



Director: Khaled Benaissa 

Screenplay: Khaled Benaissa 

Cinematography: Mohammed Soudani 

Editing: Malik Benyounes 

Music: Mourad Guechoud 

Cast: Hichem Mesbah, Zahir Bouzrar, Kamel Bouakez, Nabil Lassel 

Production: Patio Prod. 

Every day at dawn, a radio conductor returns home after work, hoping to be able to fall asleep. 

While his eyelids try to close, the road is waking up… The screams and noises of the neighborhood 

become protagonists of his dream. His sleep is a dream and his awakening will become a nightmare. 


Khaled Benaissa was born in 1978 in Annaba (Algeria). He spent his childhood in a theater with 

his father, who is an actor. While acting in some short films, Khaled discovered his desire to 

tell stories, not only through his own body, but also through the directing medium, so he 

attended a course on Filmmaking at the 

University La Fémise in Paris (France). In 2007, 

along with Samir Messaoudi, he set up his 

own production company, Patio Pro. 

Filmography 

2008 - Sektou 

2007 - Où? Quand? Comment? 

2006 - Peur Virtuelle, Babel 

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Selezione 

Selection 

184 









Director: Simone Andrizzi 

Screenplay: Matteo Leotta, Daniela Nava 

Cinematography: Michele Naldi 

Editing: Manuel Donninelli, Simone Andrizzi 

Music: Original score by Mario Berlinguer 

Cast: Maurizio Desinan, Giovanni Cirfiera, Andre Bonati, Antonio Fesce, Carmen De Gironimo, Sita 

Spada, Sara Rapelli, Pedro Sarubbi 

Production: Scuola di Cinema Televisione e Nuovi Media di Milano 

Michele Vaga loses his job and tries with all his might to find another one. When this situation 

becomes obsessive, Michele kills another man. Despite that, he faces the job interview. 


Simone Andrizzi is an Italian filmmaker, born in 1983. 

Filmography 

2008 - Selezione 

2007 - Killers

Filmography 

2009 - SE-RA-TE 

2008 - F.D.P. 

2007 - Crack 



SE-RA-TE 

SE-RA-TE 



Runtime: 8’ 




Director: Paolo De Lucia 

Screenplay: Lucia Leoni 

Cinematography: Francesca Cucchiarelli 

Editing: Alice Ranzato 

Music: Claudio Cavallaro, Amycanbe 

Cast: Matteo Baiardi, Franco Mescolini, Lelia Serra, Aaron Pagliarani, Frei Rossi, Marco Lucchi 

Production: Cholla Bros 

A surreal moon shines down on people and shadows that move around a well. Led by a strange 

orchestra director, a chorus of voices chant toward a window. Who is Teresa? Why is everybody 

calling her name out loud? 


Paolo De Lucia is an Italian filmmaker, born in 1981. 

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Sesils 

Sesils 

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Country: Latvia 


Language: Latvian 

Director: Robert Kulenko 

Screenplay: Robert Kulenko 

Cinematography: Janis Eglitis 

Editing: Oleg Alekseyev 

Music: Aleksandr Vaicahovsky 

Cast: Aleksandr Vaicahovsky 

Production: Vilks Studio 



A regular guy with an unusual problem: he is being followed around by a tiny foe, a dung fly that 

just won’t leave him alone. It makes his daily encounters with colleagues and other people around 

him uncomfortable to such a degree that the tiny buzzing creature becomes a serious nuisance. 


Robert Kulenko is a filmmaker, born in Riga (Latvia) in 1975. He attended the European Film College 

in Denmark. Robert is now studying Directing 

and Editing at the Vilks Studjia. 

Filmography 

2008 - Sesils 

2000 - A Perfect Morning, The Good, the Bad 

and the Afro, Zappa’s Underwear



Shock 

Shock 




Country: Hungary 


Language: Hungarian 

Director: Marcell Gero 

Screenplay: Miklós Madl 

Cinematography: Attila Csoboth 

Editing: Bernadett Tuza-Ritter 

Music: László Melis 

Cast: Gergely Blahó, Béla Gados, Michael Mehlmann, Piroska Molnár, Gábor Szabó, Eliza Sodró 

Production: University of Drama, Film and Television, Budapest 

Shock is not a special boy. He goes to school to learn how to behave. Revolt only makes time 

longer and complaints are going down the drain but there is a time to learn. 


Marcell Gero was born in 1978 in Budapest (Hungary). He started his studies at the Academy of 

Film and Drama Budapest in 2002. He has worked as the Assistant Director of Kornél Mundruczó. 

With two of his former classmates he founded 

a production company called Campfilm. He is 

preparing his first feature. 

Filmography 

2008 - Self Portrait, Shock 

2006 - Laughter 

2005 - The Patent of Mr Lux 

2005 - Secret Miracle 

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Signalis 

Signalis 

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Runtime: 5’ 





Director: Adrian Flückiger 

Screenplay: Adrian Flückiger 

Cinematography: Adrian Flückiger 

Editing: Marina Rosset 

Music: ‘Naughty Hula Eyes’ by Andy Iona 

Production: Hochschule Luzern 

Erwin the Weasel and its hard everyday life.. 


Adrian Flückiger was born in 1982 in Altdorf (Swtzerland). He is attending the Animation course at 

HSLU (Design & Kunst Hochschule in Luzern). 

Filmography 

2008 - Signalis



Six Unfinished Scores for a Pathetic Character 

Six Unfinished Scores for a Pathetic Character 



Runtime: 7’ 

Country: Ukraine / France 

Original format: DVDCAM 


Debut Work 

Director: Irina Gontchar 

Screenplay: Irina Gontchar 

Cinematography: Jean Marie Delorme 

Production: Irina Prod 

Six accounts, that’s all that is left of a woman.. 


Irina Gontchar was born in Kiev (Ukraine) in 1972. She was a student in Architecture and Art History 

at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kiev. She moved to France in 1995. Irina is an art gallery owner in the UK 

and France. In 2006 and 2007 she attended the 

ESEC in Paris. ‘Six Unfinished Scores for a 

Pathetic Character’ is her directorial debut 

work. She is now working on her first feature 

film. 

Filmography 

2008 - –1+1=1, Six Unfinished Scores for a 

Pathetic Character 

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Skhizein 

Skhizein 

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Director: Jeremy Clapin 

Screenplay: Jeremy Clapin, Stéphane Piera 

Cinematography: Jeremy Clapin 

Editing: Jeremy Clapin 

Music: Original score by Nicolas Martin 

Production: Dark Prince 

Having been struck by a 150-ton meteorite, Henry has to adapt to living precisely 91 centimeters 

from himself.. 


Jeremy Clapin is a filmmaker from France, born in 1974. He is a Paris’ Arts Décoratifs graduate. Jeremy 

has worked as a graphic artist and illustrator for 

various publishers and as an indie advert 

director. In 2004, he directed his first animated 

short film. 

Filmography 

2008 - Skhizein 

2004 - A Backbone Tale




Sigi Kamml and Fred Breinersdorfer are two filmmakers from Germany. Sigi was born in 1967. After 

obtaining his Masters in Communications, he has worked as a producer, director and author for 

many TV-Entertainment Shows, Live Shows and Commercial Productions. Since 2007, Kamml has 

worked as an independent producer. 

Filmography: 2008 - Sommersonntag / 2005 - Blackout Journey / 2004 - Murder by Numbers 

Fred was born born in 1946. In 1980 his first 

crime novel, ‘Abel’, was published by Rowohlt. 

In the meantime, he has written various TV 

movies. In 2005, ‘Sophie Scholl - The Last Days’ 

was his debut film, as a producer. The film 

was nominated for the 2006 Academy Award 

for Best Foreign Language Film. 

Filmography 

2008 - Sommersonntag, Andula 

2007 - Between Today and Tomorrow 

Sommersonntag 

Summer Sunday 







Director: Sigi Kamml, Fred Breinersdorfer 

Screenplay: Fred Breinersdorfer, Sigi Kamml 

Cinematography: Anton Klima 

Editing: Tanja Petry 

Music: Gert Wilden 

Cast: Axel Prahl, Janos Giuranna, Stephan A.Tölle 

Production: Caros Films Breinersdorfer Kamml GbR 

An enjoyable afternoon at the railroad station for a signal operator and his son quickly takes a 

drastic turn. 

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Sores & Sîrîn 

Sores & Sîrîn 

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Director: Katrin Gebbe 

Screenplay: Serkal Kus 

Cinematography: Moritz Schultheiß 

Editing: Ulf Albert 

Music: Ergin Music 

Cast: Aram Arami, Jasemin Soltau, Ulrike Folkerts, Brader Musiki, Ahmet Algül, Emilie Ermler 

Production: Hamburg Media School - Filmwerkstatt 

Kurdish siblings, Sores und Sîrîn, are growing up as war refugees with their foster mother in 

Hamburg. Years after the war, their grandfather wants to take them back to their home country 

with him. Now the two have to decide where their home is. 


Katrin Gebbe is a German filmmaker, born in 1983. She graduated in Design and Visual 

Communication at the Enschede Academy of 

Visual Arts in the Netherlands. From 2006 to 

2008, Katrin attended the specialization in Film 

Direction at the Hamburg Media School. 

Filmography 

2008 - Sores & Sîrîn, Doves of Peace, Peplow’s 

Dream 

2007 - Daffodils, Invitation 

2006 - How do you want it?, Koi



Spaghetti Western 

Spaghetti Western 







Director: Sami Natsheh 

Screenplay: Gonzalo Bendala, Sami Natsheh 

Editing: Sami Natsheh 

Music: Felipe Milano 

Cast: Paco León 

Production: Aralan Films S.L. 

A troubadour spaghetto, accompanied by his banjo, tells us the adventures and misfortunes of the 

intrepid Spaghetti Kid, the fastest cowboy in the West, and his fierce enemies: the fearsome 

Macaroni Indians and evil Jack Noodle. 


Sami Natsheh was born in Seville (Spain) in 1978. He has obtained his license in Audiovisual 

Communication from the Seville University. He has directed some short films and he is also a 

Graphic Designer. 

Filmography 

2009 - The Legend of Sir Owen McKinley 

2008 - Spaghetti Western 

2006 - UFO Project 

2004 - Attack of the Incredible Hands-Melting 

Man From Outer Space 

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SPEkTR Things That Go Bump in the Night 

SPEkTR Things That Go Bump in the Night 



Runtime: 3’ 

Country: Denmark 


Director: Thomas Pors 

Screenplay: Thomas Pors 

Editing: Thomas Pors 

Music: SPEkTR 

Production: Simulakrum 

There are things that are known and things that are unknown. In between is exploration. 


Thomas Pors was born in 1973 in Copenhagen (Denmark). Thomas graduated from the National 

Film School of Denmark as Animation Director in 2004. He has done visual effects, animation and 

title sequences on various films. 

Filmography 

2007 - SPEkTR: Things That Go Bump in the 

Night 

2004 - Cirkus 

2002 - Tvilling 

2000 - Instanotron 3000



Sperm Saves the World 

Sperm Saves the World 



Runtime: 9’ 

Country: Thailand 


Director: Amorn Harinnitisuk 

Screenplay: Amorn Harinnitisuk 

Cinematography: Dusit Kaewjumnong 

Editing: Gumparnart Pasaganon 

Cast: Thotsaporn Ampasathien, Nontalee 

Punjaisee 

Production: A Morning Pictures 

A family housewife loves the world so much that she tries to save it.. 


Amorn Harinnitisuk is a filmmaker from Thailand, born in 1960. He worked as a copywriter for 

two years and then as a creative director. 

Filmography 

2008 - Sperm Saves the World, Made in 

Heaven 

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Starokar 

Starokar 

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Debut Work 



Director: Thomas Kaufmann 

Screenplay: Thomas Kaufmann 

Cinematography: Sebastian Matthias 

Editing: Carlos Fleischer, Ronald Scharf 

Music: Thomas Galad 

Cast: Stella Denis 

Production: Thomas Kaufmann 

Aleks lives in a dark and murky world that is controlled by mysterious creatures called the ‘grey 

men’ who accumulate more and more power and wealth and seem to share one single mind. In a 

crowded underground station she is overwhelmed by them. She passes out and awakes in a 

wonderland, where she meets an old friend and long forgotten memories begin to creep into her 

mind. 


Thomas Kaufmann was born in 1979 in Schweinfurt (Germany). He studied ‘Media-Design’ at the 

University of Applied Sciences in Mainz, 

focusing on Animation. He has worked on 

several short films. ‘Starokar’ is his directorial 

debut. 

Filmography 

2008 - Starokar



Sunrise 

Sunrise 







Debut Work 

Director: Alessandro Tresa 

Screenplay: Alessandro Tresa, Luciana Caprara 

Cinematography: Riccardo Tonni 

Editing: Fabrizio Baglio 

Music: Fabrizio Bondi 

Cast: Andrea di Vincenzo, Chiara Bartoletti, Federico Moccia, Salvatore Li Causi 

Production: Riccardo Gatto for Lotus Production 

A father, a son and the cycle of life.. 


Alessandro Tresa is an Italian filmmaker, born in 1974. He started his career as operator with RAI TV. 

Since 2005, he has been a TV director. 

‘Sunrise’ is his debut short film. 

Filmography 

2008 - Sunrise 

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Take the Moon for Me 

Take the Moon for Me 






Director: Omar Maestroni 

Screenplay: Omar Maestroni, Aurora Crippa 

Cinematography: Dario Simone 

Editing: Auroma 

Music: Roberto Gardelli 

Cast: Kevin Colleoni 

Production: Auroma 

A country kid finds some strange stones on the road. Not knowing their origin, he thinks they have 

fallen to Earth from the Moon. Weeks go by and stones increase. 


Omar Maestroni is an Italian filmmaker, born in 1989. 

Filmography 

2009 - Take the Moon for Me 

2008 - The Life that I know

Filmography 

2008 - Tant que tu respires, Blood Reason, 

Game Society 

2007 - Free Will 

2006 - In a Blink of an Eye 



Tant que tu respires 

Tant que tu respires 







Director: Fara Sene 

Screenplay: Nathalia Vallée-Schoenherz 

Cinematography: Vincent Vieillard-Baron 

Editing: 4lim Productions 

Music: Frédéric Petit, 4lim Productions 

Cast: Kevyn Diana, Djena Tsimba, Patrick d’Assumçao, René Carvalho-Sire, Samir Trabelsi, Julien 

Prévost 

Production: 4lim Prodcutions 

Every morning Samuel commutes to work by subway and every morning, he exchanges glances 

with Ima, who is always seated in the same subway car. For a year he hasn’t had the courage to 

speak to her, let alone tell her how he feels about her. 


Fara Sene is a filmmaker from France, born in 1975. 

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Tempter 

Tempter 

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Runtime: 5’ 




Debut Work 



Director: Gianluca Zenone 

Screenplay: Gianluca Zenone 

Cinematography: Daniele Ninivaggi 

Editing: Gianluca Zenone 

Music: Mallory Switch 

Cast: Mallory Switch 

Production: Echelon_Inc 

A videoclip of the song ‘Tempter’ with the Mallory Switch band. 


Gianluca Zenone is an Italian filmmaker, born in 1982. ‘Tempter’ is his directorial debut. 

Filmography 

2008 - Tempter, The Dissolved Time



The 7 Brothers 

The 7 Brothers 

Genre: Fiction/Animation 



Country: Netherlands / Belgium 


Director: Kaj Driessen 

Screenplay: Paul Driessen 

Cinematography: Edwin Donders 

Editing: Els Voorspoels 

Music: Bo Spaenc 

Cast: Michel Dewitte, Frans Sweerts, José van 

Holderbeke, Roland de Jonghe, André Bracke, Albert Vermeeren, Frans Neefs 

Production: CinéTé Filmproduktie BV 

The seven Grimm brothers (mistakenly, we always assumed there were only two) are looking for 

inspiration for their fairy-tales, but the new stories they are writing (in live action) end (in animation) 

differently from the tales we know. 


Kaj Driessen was born in Montreal (Canada) in 1970. In the nineties, he graduated from the 

Academy of Arts Utrecht (Netherlands). Afterward, he worked as a director in training with actors. 

For many films, television series and 

commercials, Kaj was first assistant. Since 

1997, he has written and directed several 

short films and TV episodes. 

Filmography 

2008 - The 7 Brothers 

2007 - Spangas, Lotte 

2005 - Goede tijden slechte tijden 

2003 - Open Minded 

2002 - Bon Bini Beach 

2001 - Baas Boppe Baas, Corus By Night 

1999 - Laat Me Vrij Om Te Gaan 

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The Arrow’s Paradox 

The Arrow’s Paradox 

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Runtime: 6’ 

Country: Spain/Colombia 




Director: Jorge Caballero Ramos 

Screenplay: Jorge Caballero, Miguel León 

Cinematography: Carles Francitorra 

Editing: Fernando Calvi, Jorge Caballero 

Music: The Arrow’s Paradox by Barnier 

Geerlingh 

Cast: Ricky Artis 

Production: Gusanofilms 

At 6 a.m. the day in Arrow’s house begins. Get up, take a shower, have breakfast, dress and leave. 

Day after day, the same programmed actions. The life is scheduled and it is impossible to escape. 


Jorge Caballero was born in Bogota (Colombia) in 1979. For many years he has lived and 

worked between Colombia and Spain. He studied Electronic Engineering at the Universidad 

Javierana, Photography in Bogotá and Film 

Direction and Post-production in Barcelona 

(Spain). Jorge is a producer, editor and 

coordinator of film festivals and is 

managing 

Gusanofilms. 

Filmography 

the production company 

2008 - The Arrow’s Paradox



The Assassin’s Wife 

The Assassin’s Wife 




Country: USA 


Language: English, Russian 

Director: Daniel R. Solomon 

Screenplay: Daniel R. Solomon 

Cinematography: Kirby Hamilton 

Editing: Dale Dickison 

Music: Scott Whittier 

Cast: Judit Fekete, Nick Shepherd 

Production: Somantic Productions 

It is the early morning hours before assassin Lee Harvey Oswald shoots John Fitzgerald Kennedy. 

A suicide letter found in Oswald’s personal effects after his murder by Jack Ruby reveals that.. 


Daniel R. Solomon is a filmmaker from Columbus, OH (USA), born in 1973. He is an award-winning 

writer and director with more than fifteen screenplays, feature documentaries and short films to 

his credit. In 2003 he was named one of the top 250 directors in Miramax/HBO’s Project Greenlight. 

Throughout 2005, he immersed himself in the hill country of North Carolina and the world of stock 

car racing. Daniel is now developing a TV 

series pilot entitled ‘Dirt Track Dreams’. 

Filmography 

2009 - The Assassin’s Wife 

2007 - Easter Bunny Super Hero 

2006 - Natalija 

2002 - Stoplights 

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The Bake Shop Ghost 

The Bake Shop Ghost 




Country: USA 



Director: Lorette Bayle 

Screenplay: Bob Gibbons 

Cinematography: Alice Brooks 

Editing: Shilpa Sahi 

Music: Original score by Russ Howard III 

Cast: Kathryn Joosten, Marianne Jean-Baptiste 

Production: Bake Shop Productions 

A baker’s battle to unlock the secrets of the perfect recipe and a lonely heart. 


Lorette Bayle is a filmmaker from the USA, born in 1961. She graduated from Brigham Young 

University in 1987 with a degree in Communications and went on to complete an MFA in film 

and theater directing at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in 1999. Lorette is an awardwinning 

documentary and narrative filmmaker. She has traveled to three continents to produce 

and shoot various documentaries. In 2009, she finished ‘The Bake Shop Ghost’ based on the beloved 

children’s book, starring Kathryn Joosten 

(Emmy winner for ‘West Wing’ and 

‘Desperate House wives’) and Marianne 

Jean-Baptiste (Academy Award nominee for 

‘Secret and Lies’). 

Filmography 

2009 - The Bake Shop Ghost 

2001 - Mariela’s Kitchen




Michael Humphrey is a filmmaker from New Zealand, born in 1982. He received a Master of Art 

Degree at Auckland University. ‘The Big Happiness’ is his directorial debut. 

Filmography 

2008 - The Big Happiness 

The Big Happiness 

The Big Happiness 




Country: New Zealand 



Debut Work 

Director: Michael Humphrey 

Screenplay: Michael Humphrey 

Cinematography: Ian McCarroll 

Music: Peter van de Fluit 

Cast: Cutis Vowel, Chelsie Preston-Crayford 

Production: Two Kats and a Griffon 

When Jackson is mistaken for a famous sculptor he goes along with the lie, but is the object of his 

desire everything she seems? 

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The Black Dog’s Progress 

The Black Dog’s Progress 



Runtime: 3’ 

Country: UK 


Director: Stephen Irwin 

Screenplay: Stephen Irwin 

Music: Sorenious Bonk 

Production: Small Time Inc. 

A series of flipbooks tell the sad story of the Black Dog. 


Stephen Irwin is a filmmaker from the UK, born in 1980. He is a graduate of Central St. Martins College of 

Art & Design, with an MA in Communication Design, specializing in Animation. Since 2005 Stephen 

has received commissions from the UK Film Council & Film London, BBC New Talent and Animate 

Projects. 

Filmography 

2008 - The Black Dog’s Progress 

2005 - Dialog



The End 

The End 







Director: Eduardo Chapero Jackson 

Screenplay: Eduardo Chapero Jackson 

Cinematography: Juan Carlos Gomez 

Editing: Ivan Aledo 

Music: Pascal Caigne 

Cast: Samuel Roukin, Natalie Press, Ewan Beatie, Charlie Creed Miles, Elieen Walsh, Evie Duncan 

Production: Prosopopeya Producciones 

A middle-class American family must fight for survival in a nation being torn apart by the lack of 

water. 


Eduardo Chapero Jackson was born in Madrid (Spain) in 1971, of a Spanish father and an American 

mother. He studied Fine Arts and Filmmaking in New York. In 1996, Eduardo returned to Spain as a 

freelance and started exhibiting his artwork. From 1997 to 2004 he worked at one of Spain’s leading 

production companies, Sogecine. In the 

meantime, he spent for four years studying 

Acting and Directing. 

Filmography 

2009 - The End 

2007 - Alumbramiento 

2005 - Contracuerpo 

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The Evening 

The Evening 

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Language: Russian 



Director: Yuriy Bykov 

Screenplay: Yuriy Bykov 

Cinematography: Anton Zenkovich 

Editing: Yuriy Bykov 

Music: Yuriy Bykov 

Cast: Ivan Isyanov 

Production: Mnogotochiye 

An ordinary unhappy person’s evening turns into a terrible tragedy.. 


Yuriy Bykov was born in Novomichurinsk (Russia) in 1981. In 2001 he entered the Moscow University 

of Cinematography (VGIK), attending Acting Courses. After completing his studies Yuriy worked in 

Moscow theaters. He founded a production 

company called Mnogotochiye. 

Filmography 

2009 - The Captain 

2008 - The Evening 

2006 - The Line




Dale Hayward is a filmmaker from Canada, born in 1980. He attended a school for classical 

animation in Toronto. ‘The Flower’ is his 

directorial debut. 

Filmography 

2008 - The Flower 

The Flower 

The Flower 



Runtime: 2’ 




Debut Work 

Director: Dale Hayward 

Screenplay: Phil Dubrovsky 

Editing: Dale Hayward 

Music: Original score by Dale Hayward, 

Phil Dubrovsky 

Cast: Dale Hayward, Phil Dubrovsky 

Production: La Moustache Productions 

It is the flower’s birthday and the presents are not always pleasant. 

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The Gynecologist 

The Gynecologist 

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Language: Galician 

Debut Work 



Director: Alfonso Camarero 

Screenplay: Alfonso Camarero 

Cinematography: Pablo Mangiarotti 

Editing: Manuel Macou 

Music: ‘Entr’acte’ by Erik Satie 

Cast: Camila Bossa, Esteban Yáñez 

Production: Plofessional Productions 

A gynecologist is working in her office at the hospital as she does everyday but the next patient is a 

boy! 


Alfonso Camarero was born in La Coruña (Spain) in 1972. He studied Philosophy at the University of 

Santiago de Compostela. Alfonso is a musician, sound designer, director and producer. ‘The 

Gynecologist’ is his directorial debut. 

Filmography 

2008 - The Gynecologist



The Herd 

The Herd 



Runtime: 4’ 

Country: Ireland 



Director: Ken Wardrop 

Screenplay: Ken Wardrop 

Cinematography: Ken Wardrop 

Editing: Ken Wardrop 

Music: Denis Clohessy 

Cast: Trevor Wardrop, Ethel Wardrop 

Production: Venom 

A farmer and his mother discuss the arrival of a strange animal amongst their herd of Limousin 

cattle. 


Ken Wardrop is a filmmaker from Ireland, born in 1973. Ken has gained experience in documentary, 

commercials and short film direction. His films have won accolades at festivals throughout the 

world including the prestigious Sundance Film Festival. Ken’s latest projects include a collaboration 

with the artist Robbie Williams and a series of short films for Channel Four Television in the UK. He 

co-founded Venom in 2004. 

Filmography 

2008 - The Herd 

2007 - Contagious, Farewell Packets of Ten, 

Scoring 

2006 - Bongo Bong 

2004 - Ouch!, Useless Dog, Love Is Like a 

Butterfly, Undressing My Mother 

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The Kolaborator 

The Kolaborator 

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Country: Australia / Rumania /USA 


Language: Serbo-Croatian 

Debut Work 

Director: Chris Bessounian 

Screenplay: Chris Bessounian, Tianna 

Langham 

Cinematography: Shawn Grice 

Editing: Mannix Rickenbacher 

Music: Syncmasters - Dig Lewis, Salvador Juan Carrasco 

Cast: Mark Simich, Jerry Hoffman, Marko Malic, Blas Kisic, Jagoda Spoljaric, Elizabeth Clemmons 

Production: Out of Exile Films, LLC. 

During the conflict in the Balkans, a young soldier is forced to choose between his own life and the 

life of a dear friend. 


Chris Bessounian was born in Sudan in 1970 to Armenian-Egyptian parents. When the Sudanese 

government was overthrown, Chris and his family fled Africa to start a new life in Australia. After 

finishing high school, Chris focused on acting and went on to perform in TV and on stage throughout 

Australia. While acting, Chris became 

interested in working behind the camera. Chris 

currently lives in Los Angeles and has recently 

completed his first feature film, ‘Detached’. ‘ 

The Kolaborator’ is his directorial short film 

debut. 

Filmography 

2009 - Detached 

2008 - The Kolaborator

Filmography 

2008 - The Land 

2006 - Christmas 

2002 - Not a Dull Garden of Foma Voronetsy 

1999 - I Wanted to See Belarus 

1987 - Talents and Admirers 



The Land 

The Land 




Country: Belarus 


Language: Russian, English 

Director: Sergej Katier 

Screenplay: Sergej Katier 

Cinematography: Yury Tikhanovich 

Editing: Alena Kalentchits 

Music: Viacheslav Ovchinnikov , Vivaldi, 

Chaikovski 

Production: Belarusian TV and Radio Co. (BTRC) 

The remake of the famous film by Aleksandr Dovzhenko with the same title. 


Sergej Katier is a filmmaker from Belarus, born in 1954. 

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The Last Day 

The Last Day 

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Language: Turkish 



Director: Semih Menda 

Screenplay: Semih Menda 

Editing: Semih Menda 

Cast: Deniz Güzelmeriç, Aytaç Arman 

Production: MSGSÜ Turkish Film & TV Institute 

The last day of a suicide bomber.. 


Semih Menda was born in Istanbul (Turkey) in 1984. He attended the Beşiktaş Atatürk Anatolian High 

School and the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts Univercity Cinema & TV Institute. 

Filmography 

2008 - The Last Day 

2007 - Way to Victory 

2006 - Life Goes On 

2005 - At the Place Where We Always Meet



The Long Journey Home 

The Long Journey Home 



Runtime: 7’ 




Director: Billie Mintz 

Screenplay: Billie Mintz, Jeffrey Stewart 

Timmins 

Music: Igor Vrabac, Sparrow Music 

Cast: Igor Vrabac 

Production: Artists Raising Consciousness Inc. (ARC) 

In a village that never knew sickness, a boy is sent into the wilderness to find the cure to his illness. 

He returns from his great journey to a village that does not recognize him because of the changes 

he has endured. 


Billie Mintz is a Canadian filmmaker, born in 1973. He is the president of Artists Raising Consciousness 

Inc. (ARC), a media company formed in 

1999 with a mission to identify issues in our 

society that were not being addressed to 

their full potential. 

Filmography 

2009 - The Message in the Bottle 

2008 - The Long Journey Home 

2005 - The Fool 

2003 - The Shadow and the Clown 

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The Pond 

The Pond 

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Country: UK 





Director: Sonja Phillips 

Screenplay: Sonja Phillips 

Cinematography: Mary Farbrother 

Editing: Jon Harris 

Music: ‘Peter & The Wolf ‘ by Andy Connell 

Cast: Theo Hodkin, Rory Bain, Beth Pope, Alan Stacks 

Production: andSOME Films 

Maisie, Tom and Joe are three children who regularly visit a pond in the village on their way home 

from school. For Maisie, the pond is a place to escape her troubled home life and explore her 

strengthening allure to the boys. It is the place where she holds all the power over them. What she 

doesn’t know is that the pond also holds its own deep dark secret. 


Sonja Phillips is a filmmaker from UK, born in 1971. She started directing promos in the 90’s and 

with her ‘The Knickerman’ work she won the LA Short Film Festival. Sonja is also an award 

winning promo-director, having worked with 

the likes of Paul Weller, Swing Out Sister and 

Blackbox. 

Filmography 

2008 - The Pond 

2004 - The Knickerma




Samuel Orti Marti is a filmmaker from Spain, born in 1971. After various short films, Sam is now 

preparing his first feature film. 

Filmography 

2008 - The Werepig 

2007 - El ataque delos Kriters asesinos 

2005 - Semantica 

2004 - Hermetico 

2003 - Encarna 

The Werepig 

The Werepig 







Director: Samuel Orti Marti 

Screenplay: Samuel Orti Marti 

Cinematography: Samuel Orti Marti 

Editing: Samuel Orti Marti 

Music: Ramón Giner 

Cast: Sam Bill, Carmen Carpintero, Miguel Varela, Rubén Casaña 

Production: Ignacio Benedeti Cinema 

Two American tourists who want to go to Benidorm accidentally journey toward Galicia. Their lack 

of manners and hygiene get them kicked out and, as luck would have it, into deserts of Castilla. 

Just when they lose heart, they are taken in by an affectionate elderly couple. 

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This Little Piggy 

The Little Piggy 

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Language: English, French 



Director: Sarah Quinn, Sébastien Rist 

Screenplay: Sarah Quinn, Sébastien Rist 

Cinematography: Chady Awad 

Editing: Sarah Quinn, Sébastien Rist 

Music: Etienne Dupuis-Cloutier 

Cast: Jeanne Ostiguy, Oliver Koomsatira, Nicholas B.York 

Production: 3 1/2 Productions 

A young Anglophone with a cash flow problem arrives at his subletting situation to discover that his 

new roommate is a 60-year-old Québecoise woman. Tensions rise as he moves in his belongings 

until things take a sudden and surprising turn.. 


Sarah Quinn and Sébastien Rist are filmmakers from Canada. 

Sarah was born in Mississauga in 1984 and she is an undergraduate student at Concordia 

University. She shot her first video when she was 13 years old and has since written and directed 

several short films. She is also an award-winning essayist and a published photographer. 

Sébastien was raised in Pointe-Claire. He has 

recently graduated with distinction from 

Concordia University. His passion for media arts 

quickly transcended itself into film and video, 

creating numerous independent fictional and 

documentary shorts. 

Filmography 

2008 - This Little Piggy



Three of Us 

Three of Us 




Country: India 


Director: Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni 

Screenplay: Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni 

Cinematography: Shariqua Badar Khan 

Editing: Abhijeet Deshpande 

Cast: Yogendra Dattatray Thakar, Usha Dattatray 

Thakar, Dattatray Krishna Thakar, Shobha 

B. Kulkarni, Chinmay Patwardhan 

Production: Film And Television Institute of India 

An ordinary day in the life of a family that is far from ordinary. The mother cooks, the father 

delivers newspapers, and the son reads the newspaper with the aid of a magnifying glass he holds with 

his feet. 


Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni was born in 1976 in India. He graduated from the Film and Television 

Institute in Pune, India, and started out as a 

director of short features and documentary 

films. He drew the attention of the critics 

three years ago with his 22-minute film The 

Grinding Machine. 

Filmography 

2009 - The Well 

2008 - Three of Us, The Wild Bull 

2005 - The Grinding Machine 

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To Begin and to End 

Alkaa ja päättyä 

220 



Runtime: 3’ 

Country: Finland 


Language: Finnish 




Director: Ville Kerimaa 

Screenplay: Ville Kerimaa 

Cinematography: Päivi Kettunen 

Editing: Ville Kerimaa 

Cast: Kaisa Leppänen, Samuli Vauramo 

Production: Filmi-Visio 

It is the end of a relationship, the end of a phase in a person’s life and the beginning of a new one. 

A woman makes a life-changing decision: to have a baby against the will of the father. 

Ville Kerimaa is a filmmaker from Helsinki (Finland), born in 1983. 

Filmography 

2008 - Alkaa ja päättyä (To Begin and to End), 

Agape



Tous les enfants 

Tous les enfants 







Debut Work 

Director: Nicolas Silhol 

Screenplay: Nicolas Silhol 

Cinematography: Claudine Natkin 

Editing: Juliette Kempf 

Music: Alexandre Saada 

Cast: Lou Buslot, Violaine Fumeau 

Production: Kazak Productions 

Carole learns that her son, Quentin, suffers from ‘behavioral disorders’ after he takes a psychological 

test at school. The way she sees him is progressively contaminated by this worrying diagnosis. 


Nicolas Silhol is a filmmaker from France, born in 1976. He attended FEMIS Film School. Nicolas is 

also a scriptwriter. ‘Tous les enfants’ is his 

debut work. 

Filmography 

2008 - Tous les enfants 

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Trazos 

Sketches 

222 




Country: Cuba 




Director: Daniel Baldotto 

Screenplay: Daniel Baldotto, Luis Briones, 

Pablo Arellano 

Cinematography: René Martínez 

Editing: Fabricio Deza 

Music: Juan A Leyva y Magda Galbán 

Cast: Alicia Hechavarría, Luis Alberto García 

Production: Andre Leao 

A beautiful and attractive young girl initiates a game of seduction with her neighbor, a solitary painter 

who hides a secret. The strange relationship between the two hit a turning point when the protagonist, 

pushed by her curiosity to know the mysterious man, understands that his world is not as alluring as she 

had imagined. 


Daniel Baldotto was born in Tiassale (Ivory Coast) in 1977. He grew up between Italy and Colombia 

and graduated in Direction at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión of San Antonio de los 

Baños in Cuba. 

Filmography 

2008 - Trazos (Sketches) 

2007 - Night Patrol, The course of Canasí 

2006 - Guinea: between Susu and Malinké 

2003 - Chiquitanía - The Music Among the 

Indios, This Is My Land



Tutto o niente 

All or Nothing 







Debut Work 

Director: Christophe Fustini 

Screenplay: Christophe Fustini 

Cinematography: Martin de Chabaneix 

Editing: Vanessa Bozza 

Music: Marisa Sannia, Jean Sébastien Bach 

Cast: Alice Pol, Fabio Zenoni 

Production: Rézina Productions 

A young female student falls deeply in love with a married man who has a short relationship with a 

young female student. Is it the same story? 


Christophe Fustini is a filmmaker from Marseille, born in 1978. In 1999 he started his film career as a 

production assistant. Soon he took interest in other film areas: screenwriter, line producer and 

director assistant. He worked in different 

fields and for different genres: commercial 

advertisement, institutional and corporate 

movies, series, short, middle and feature 

movies. ‘Tutto o niente’ is his debut short 

film. 

Filmography 

2008 - Tutto o niente 

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224 



Un 1500 muy familiar 

Un 1500 muy familiar 



Runtime: 3’ 

Country: Spain / Argentina 


Director: Samuel Domingo 

Screenplay: Samuel Domingo 

Cinematography: Adrian Bergamin 

Editing: Samuel Domingo 

Music: Joan Martinez 

Cast: Dario Tripiccio 

Production: La madre del cordero films 

Sometimes one feels that it is not alone when, apparently, it is.. 


Samuel Domingo is a filmmaker, born in 1974. He started his career in 1995 as a photographer and 

audio-visual producer. Since then he has worked on a freelance basis. His fictional works have received 

many awards in various international film 

festivals. 

Filmography 

2009 - El Papa de Xavi 

2008 - Un 1500 muy familiar 

2007 - Cross Platz, Coliflor con bechamel 

2005 - Menú del día, No hay faso, Sisirc 

2003 - El callo en el embudo 

2002 - T-36 

2000 - Linea 3



Uncle 

Uncle 



Runtime: 8’ 

Country: Poland 



Debut Work 

Director: Maciej Sznabel 

Screenplay: Marcin Jazynski, Maciej Sznabel 

Cinematography: Maciej Sznabel , Marcin 

Jazynski 

Editing: Maciej Sznabel , Marcin Jazynski 

Music: Jakub Orlowski 

Cast: Aaron Jan Los 

Production: Serafinski Studio 

A story about change, devotion and what happens when you cross the thin line between friends. 


Maciej Sznabel was born in 1977 in Warsaw (Poland). He attended courses on filmmaking at the 

Fine Arts Academy and at the Film and TV Academy in Warsaw. He started his career as a 

videographer and conceptual designer, and 

then became an animator and film editor. 

‘Uncle’ is his directorial short film debut. 

Filmography 

2008 - Uncle 

225

Unverwundbar 

Invulnerable 

226 









Director: Felice Goetze 

Screenplay: Felice Goetze 

Cinematography: Namche Okon 

Editing: Frank Mueller 

Music: ‘Pull Out Your Cut’ by DJ Hype, film 

tracks by Michael Frank Augustin 

Cast: Vanessa Krueger, Christian Heiner Wolf, Odine Johne, Liv Lisa Fries 

Production: Toccata Film Boehm & Nuri GbR 

Nadine is new in town. The pretty girls here make her aware of that fact every moment. They are 

quick-witted, beautiful and invulnerable. To gain their friendship, Nadine is ready to do anything but 

suddenly, an ordinary day for the teenager twists into a spiral of violence and betrayal. 


Felice Goetze is a filmmaker from Germany, born in 1975. In 2005 he graduated in Production, and in 

2008 in Direction, at the University of Television and Film in Munich. 

Filmography 

2009 - Unverwundbar 

2008 - Soko 5113 - Vater ist der Best 

2006 - Tougher Yet



For a long time Urs had been taking care of his aging mother but now he sets out on a dangerous 

journey. He carries her up a mountain to find a better place for both of them but there is a problem: 

his mother doesn’t want to leave her home. 


Moritz Mayerhofer is a German filmmaker, born in 1981. From 2003 to 2009 he studied Animation 

at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg. To learn more about Animation, Design and Layout he 

attended courses at Le Gobelins Institute in 

Paris. His animation works have won awards 

in various international film festivals. He is 

now working on his next project, a feature 

film. 

Filmography 

2009 - Urs 

2006 - Caps 

2005 - The Christmas-Hitler 

2003 - The Last Tree 

Urs 

Urs 






Director: Moritz Mayerhofer 

Screenplay: Moritz Mayerhofer 

Cinematography: Moritz Mayerhofer 

Editing: Moritz Mayerhofer 

Music: Original score by Peter Gromer 

Cast: Thomas Hinke, Ellen Schäuble 

Production: Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg 

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Urubus têm Asas 

Vultures Have Wings 

228 







Debut Work 



Director: Marcos Negrão, André Rangel 

Screenplay: Marcos Negrão, André Rangel 

Cinematography: Marcos Negrão 

Editing: André Rangel 

Music: Pedro Igel 

Production: Enigma Filmes Produções Cinematográficas 

Anything can be recycled: ideas, actions and destinies can be adapted to a new reality. This is how 

a Brazilian faces the damages caused by waste disposal, which is slowly destroying the source of 

their survival: the mangrove swamp. 


Marcos Negrão and André Rangel are two filmmakers from Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). After having 

acquired vast experience working with social environmental projects, they decided to unite their 

talents and create a work methodology that 

would unify the documental cinematograghy 

applied to the social act. ‘Vultures Have Wings’ is 

their debut short film. 

Filmography 

2008 - Urubus têm Asas



Vae Soli 

Vae Soli 



Runtime: 2’ 

Country: Croatia 


Debut Work 

Director: Neva Ivanec, Filip Rozic 

Screenplay: Neva Ivanec, Filip Rozic, R.B. 

Editing: Neva Ivanec, Filip Rozic 

Music: Original score by Filip Rozic, Luka 

Ortolan, Jurica Jakic 

Production: Tri Ruke Animation Studio 

Mine fields told through memories of a man sitting on a destroyed planet which was once the home 

of beautiful butterflies. 


Neva Ivanec and Filip Rozic are filmmakers from Coatia. 

Neva was born in 1982 in Zagreb. She graduated from the University of Zagreb in 2007 with a 

Master in Art History and Sociology. At the 

same time, she started working with Filip 

Rozic. 

Filip was born in 1982 in Zagreb. He studied 

Graphics Design at the University of Zagreb 

and he graduated in 2005 with a thesis on 

Animation Editing and Design. While still in 

college, he started his own Graphics Design 

Company, Tri Ruke. 

‘Vae Soli’ is their debut short film. 

Filmography 

2008 - Vae Soli 

229

Vault 

Vault 

230 




Country: Luxembourg 





Director: Fred Neuen 

Screenplay: Fred Neuen 

Cinematography: Carlo Thiel 

Editing: Amine Jaber 

Music: Philippe Schirrer 

Cast: Michael Hardt, Juliane Gibbins, Leon Kern 

Production: Iris Productions 

When a young head of security and a psychic try to find what can be behind the strange noises 

heard in a bank vault, they face terrifying secrets. 


Fred Neuen is a filmmaker from Luxembourg, born in 1976. Fred is very active in the artistic field: he 

works as a director, editor and scriptwriter for film production, advertising and TV companies. 

Filmography 

2008 - Vault 

2006 - Derrière la tête, IN a Dark Place 

2005 - Trinity 

2004 - No Take Out 

2003 - Geldschesser




Jan Cvitkovic is a filmmaker from Slovenia, born in 1966. Jan is an archeologist, actor, scriptwriter 

and director. He received many domestic and international awards for his work. 

Filmography 

2008 - Vem 

2005 - Gravehopping 

2003 - The Heart Is a Piece of Meat 

2001 - Bread and Milk 

Vem 

I Know 



Runtime: 7’ 

Country: Slovenia 


Director: Jan Cvitkovic 

Screenplay: Jan Cvitkovic 

Cinematography: Jure Cernec 

Editing: Milos Kalusek 

Cast: Niko Novak, Medeja Novak, Miha Guli 

Production: Staragara 

While the Man builds a masterpiece in his cellar, the Woman and the Boy watch him. God watches 

all three of them. 

231

Vietato fermarsi 

No Stopping 

232 



Runtime: 9’ 






Director: Pierluigi Ferrandini 

Screenplay: Pierluigi Ferrandini 

Cinematography: David Suarez 

Editing: Jose Manuel Jimenez 

Music: Tracks by Martorana, Ferrandini 

Cast: Antonio Iandolo 

Production: Carlo D’ursi 

A young peasant gets up every morning at 4:30 to go to work in the fields. One day he has to fight 

for his rights, just as his grandpa did in 1948. 


Pierluigi Ferrandini was born in Bari (Italy) in 1975. For the last ten years he has been working in the 

filmmaking industry as actor, soundtrack composer, screenplay writer and director. 

Filmography 

2008 - Vietato fermarsi, Accettare, La piccola 

guardia 

2007 - Il sogno di Remi 

2006 - Lumière, Dolya – le donne del destino 

2005 - Via dell’arte




Gonzalo Zona is a filmmaker from Spain, born in 1976. He has also published a book of poems. 

Filmography 

2008 - Vigilancia 

2005 - Nauseating Bird 

2001 - The Scarecrow 

Vigilancia 

Surveillanced 






Director: Gonzalo Zona 

Screenplay: Gonzalo Zona 

Cinematography: Pablo Rosso 

Editing: A doración G. Elipe 

Cast: Jack Taylor, María Gómez De Castro, Luis 

G. Gámez 

Production: Prospekt Mira 

Different characters are looking at each other in many different ways. None of them can avoid 

being turned into an object at the same time. 

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Vikruti 

In Negative 

234 



Runtime: 9’ 

Country: India 


Language: Telugu 

First Work 



Director: Viplove K 

Screenplay: Viplove K 

Cinematography: Mohan Chandra 

Editing: Bhuvan 

Music: Santosh Kumar Nanda 

Cast: Sreeroja, Shireen, Meenakshi, Phani Kumar Mtv, Patrick, Agneishka, Kaliachelvi 

Production: L.V. Prasad Film & TV Academy 

A woman from the lower middle class of southern India agrees to be a surrogate mother for a 

foreign couple. When the child is born and it is diagnosed as having a congenital problem, the baby 

becomes a burden for everyone involved in this situation. 


Viplove K is a filmmaker from India, born in 1981. He graduated in Film Direction from L.V. Prasad 

Film & TV Academy in Chennai. ‘Vikruti’ is his directorial debut. 

Filmography 

2008 - Vikruti 

2007 - Kuchipudi 2007



Viola: the Travelling Room of a Little Giant 

Viola: The Travelling Room of a Little Giant 



Runtime: 9’ 

Country: Taiwan / USA 



Debut Work 

Director: Shih-Ting Hung 

Screenplay: Shih-Ting Hung 

Cinematography: John Harrison 

Editing: Shih-Ting Hung 

Music: Natasha Miren, Cynthia Simonian 

Cast: Erin Fleming 

Production: USC 

After stumbling on slippery moss at the 4 o’clock bus stop, seven-year-old Viola, tries to discover 

the world, puts solitude in her suitcase and begins her dreamy journey. 


Shih-Ting Hung was born on a fisherman’s island, Pescadores (Taiwan), in 1980. Shih-Ting went 

into her Fine Arts studies at the National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei. ‘Viola : the Traveling 

Rooms of a Little Giant’ won her the 2008 Student Academy Award©. In 2007, she received her 

MFA in Animation and Digital Arts from the 

University of Southern California. She has 

also been broadly involved in various 

film productions as a production designer 

and art director. ‘Viola: The Traveling Rooms 

of a Little Giant’ is her directorial debut. 

Filmography 

2008 - Viola: The Traveling Rooms of a Little 

Giant 

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Vita 

Vita 

236 



Runtime: 9’ 







Director: Gabriele Schwark 

Cinematography: Dieter Reifarth 

Editing: Gabriele Schwark 

Music: Jutta Hoppe 

Production: Strandfilm 

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not but now, my faculties 

are decaying and soon it shall be that I cannot remember anything but the things that never 

happened! 

Gabriele Schwark is a filmmaker from Germany, born in 1958. She has directed many short films. 

Filmography 

2008 - Vita 

2005 - Werkstatt Ehrlich 

2003 - Vlado Vlado 

2002 - Taubentage 

2001 - Grüße aus Brugge 

2000 - Jiku



Wading 

Wading 




Country: Haiti / USA 



Director: Fred Guerrier 

Screenplay: Fred Guerrier 

Cinematography: Nicole Michaelis 

Editing: Fred Guerrier 

Music: Original score by Andrew Barkan 

Cast: Kim Page, Dave Vescio, Zenobia Lewis, Rodney ‘Bear’ Jackson 

Production: Anywhere But Here Productions 

Martha finds out that she has a lot in common with her creepy co-worker when the two go in 

search of love. 


Fred Guerrier is a Haitian filmmaker and photographer, born in 1981. Fred grew up in New York 

City. He holds a BA from Yale University and is currently a thesis student at New York University’s 

graduate film program. He has worked in New York, Los Angeles and Barcelona as part of 

production and post-production crews on fiction features, documentaries and television shows. 

His shorts have played in festivals and on 

television in Spain, France and Mexico. He 

has also had work exhibited at Red Saw 

Gallery in the US. He is now writing his first 

feature, a neo-noir about an aging escape 

artist, entitled ‘Winter’. 

Filmography 

2008 - Wading 

2005 - Party Girl 

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Wanted in Rome 

Wanted in Rome 

238 









Director: Rossella De Venuto, Ji Un Choik 

Screenplay: Rossella De Venuto 

Cinematography: Gianni Cigna 

Editing: Cecilia Zanuso 

Music: Luke Winslow King 

Cast: Jacqueline Lustig, Luke Winslow King, Mary Louise Gray, Pietro Ragusa 

Production: Interlinea Film 

A foreign composer in Rome struggles to find a home. With special help during the night, she moves 

her piano to a new home. When the day breaks, she realizes that what happened is not that simple. 


Rossella De Venuto was born in Trento (Italy) in 1967. In 1992 she graduated from the Università 

Statale in Milan, obtaining a degree in Philosophy. In 1995 she lived in New York for several months, 

where she studied Film Direction and Creative Writing at the New York Film Academy. She is the 

author of many scripts including ‘Mai dire gatto’, directed by Giorgio Tirabassi. 

Filmography: 2008 - Wanted in Rome / 1995 - Bambi 

Ji Un Choi, born in Kyung-Ju (South Korea), 

came to the United States when she was eight. 

She obtained an English Literature degree at 

the University of Virginia, and a Poetry and 

Creative Writing Degree at the New York University. 

She has written, directed and produced 

various short films. Her credits also include lead 

in the independent film ‘Ignorant Bliss’. 

Filmography 

2008 - Wanted in Rome



We Call Her Daisy 

We Call Her Daisy 




Country: UK 


Director: Stefan Georgiou 

Screenplay: Stefan Georgiou 

Cinematography: Stefan Georgiou 

Editing: Stefan Georgiou 

Music: Eleni Hassabis 

Cast: Elizabeth Kentea, Sebastian Armesto 

Production: National Film & Television School 

A young woman in London, struggling to make the life she wants, must deal with an unexpected 

circumstance the only way she knows how and must come to terms with the fact that it will affect 

her more than she realizes. 


Stefan Georgiou is a filmmaker from UK, born in 1981. Since graduating from University in 2003 he 

has directed a number of award winning short films that have screened on television (BBC, 

Channel 4, ABC Australia) and at festivals around the world. Stefan worked at Pathe Distribution 

and Capitol Films prior to studying Fiction Direction at the National Film & Television School. 

Filmography 

2008 - We Call Her Daisy 

2007 - Lemonade 

2006 - My Last Cigarette, 

Dear Steven Spielberg 

2005 - Tiny Dancer 

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Why? 

Leeh? 

240 




Country: Egypt 





Director: Shady Ishak 

Screenplay: Shady Ishak 

Cinematography: Shady George 

Editing: Ahmed Dawoud 

Cast: Khaled Nasr, Mohamed Marei 

Production: Egyptian Film Center 

A guy is feeling disconnected and confused in the city he is living in, on the edge of the 

underground life. Consequently, he lives inside his head and creates his own world with his mp3 

plugged into his ears. 


Shady Ishak is a filmmaker from Cairo (Egypt), born in 1983. In 2006 Shady obtained a degree in 

Film Directing at the Egyptian High Cinema Institute. He started his career in the film industry as 

an assistant director on short films, as well as an 

editor. 

Filmography 

2007 - Leeh? (Why?) 

2005 - A Visit 

2004 - The Accident



Window an Eye of the Heart, Into an Eye of a Soul 

Oko oknem serca, oko oknem duszy 




Country: Czech Republic 


Language: Czech 

Debut Work 

Director: Dominik Krutsky 

Screenplay: Dominik Krutsky, David Krutsky 

Cinematography: Dominik Krutsky 

Editing: Dominik Krutsky 

Music: Dominik Krutsky, David Krutsky 

Cast: David Krutsky, Anezka Krutska, Marie Brousilova 

Production: Famu 

Beyond the borders of human perception there is only further human perception, but the subsequent 

interpretation of a thing depends to a large extent on the way in which it is viewed. 


Dominik Krutsky is a filmmaker from Czech Republic, born in 1985. ‘Window an Eye of Heart, Into 

an Eye Window of a Soul’ is his directorial debut. 

Filmography 

2009 - Window an Eye of Heart, Into an Eye 

Window of a Soul 

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Wunderkammer 

Wunderkammer 

242 




Country: USA 



Debut Work 



Director: Andrea Pallaoro 

Screenplay: Andrea Pallaoro, Orlando Tirado 

Cinematography: Thomas Burns 

Editing: Andrea Pallaoro 

Cast: Lilia King, Josh Perry 

Production: Keyhole Productions 

An elderly woman and her son struggle to coexist in a house that shelters a spectacular menagerie 

of birds. Surrendering to their co-dependence, inside a world that bears no exit, they go about their 

bedtime ritual resisting and succumbing to each other’s needs. Within the everydayness of their 

gestures and movements lurks a secret .. 


Andrea Pallaoro was born in Trento (Italy) in 1982. He is a film and theater director whose recent 

work investigates the human perception of alienation and its relationship to intimacy. Andrea holds 

an MFA in Film Directing from the California Institute 

of the Arts. Presently he lives in Los 

Angeles, where he is working toward the 

realization of his future film projects. 

‘Wunderkammer’ is his directorial debut. 

Filmography 

2008 - Wunderkammer



Your World 

Your World 




Country: South Korea 


Language: Korean 

Debut Work 

Director: Suh Jaekyung 

Screenplay: Suh Jaekyung 

Cinematography: Suh Jaekyung 

Production: Suh Jaekyung 

The girl wants to run forward, infinitely, but on the day of the track race, she has an accident. 


Suh Jaekyung was born in New York (USA) in 1981. In 1987, Suh’s family moved to Korea where he 

is now pursuing his academic and film 

career. He is studying Filmmaking at the 

Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA). ‘Your 

World’ is his debut short film. 

Filmography 

2008 - Your world 

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Zoey 

Zoey 

244 



Runtime: 6’ 






Director: Günther Franke 

Screenplay: Patrick Brunken 

Cinematography: Kai Miedendorp 

Editing: Günther Franke 

Music: Reimut van Bonn 

Cast: Felix Mengel, Nele Jonca, Zoe Beesen, Eva Günther, Norbert Kentrup 

Production: Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin 

A young couple sells their second child to secure the future of their first. 


Günther Franke was born in Münster (Germany) in 1976. In 2005 he started studying film directing 

at the German Film and Television Academy in 

Berlin (DFFB). 

Filmography 

2008 - Zoey 

2007 - Martin 

2006 - Augenblicke

Special Events 

and 

Screenings 



SPECIAL EVENTS AND SCREENINGS 

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Special Screenings 

Flesh & Blood 

Year: 1985 


Country: Spain/USA/Netherlands 

Cast: Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason 

Leigh, Brion James, Tom Burlinson, 

John Dennis Johnston, Susan Tyrrell, 

Kitty Courbois 

Directed by Paul Verhoeven 

A rarely screened cult favorite from 

Paul Verhoeven. A band of medieval 

mercenaries take revenge on a 

noble lord who decides not to pay 

them by kidnapping the betrothed 

of the noble’s son. 

As the plague and warfare cut a 

swathe of destruction throughout 

the land, the mercenaries hole up 

in a castle and await their fate. 

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Starfish Tango 

Year: 2006 

Runtime: 6’ 

Country: Italy / Netherlands 

Cast: Angela Bandini, Sara Farinelli, 

Francesca Matrundola, Francesco 

Borelli 

Narration: Rutger Hauer 

Directed by Rutger Hauer 

Starfish Tango is a jewel due to 

its gentle touch, its awareness 

purpose, and not in the least, due 

to the marvelous involvement of 

so many artists who donated their 

skills and time in a joint effort to 

carry forward the message that 

AIDS is still rampant and is taking 

its terrible toll. It ravages the 

lives of so many people: children, 

women and men alike and creates 

a staggering number of orphans 

worldwide. The two suggestive 

music pieces were donated by 

Maestro Ludovico Einaudi. 

The Garden of Earthly 

Delights 

Year: 2004 


Country: UK/Italy/Poland 

Cast: Claudine Spiteri, Chris Nightingale, 

Barry Chipperfield 

Directed by Lech Majewski 

Claudine is a British art scholar 

who has a terminal case of throat 

cancer. She is in Venice to give a 

lecture on the Bosch triptych from 

which the film gets its name. Claudine 

is accompanied in Venice by 

her lover, Chris, a nautical engineer. 

Together they explore the canals of 

Venice. Chris has brought his video 

camera, and the audience watches 

Claudine and Chris hang out, make 

love, swim, converse, rent an apartment, 

and recreate vignettes from 

the triptych. It is one of the most 

powerful films ever made.

The Rhapsody 

Year: 2008 


Country: USA 

Cast: Nick Bennett, Katherine Pawlak, 

Rutger Hauer, Tristan Price 

Directed by Max Cusimano 

Exasperated at being stuck on a 

piano rhapsody he’s been writing 

for seven years, Sol pushes himself 

over the edge, having a hallucination 

of a mysterious young woman. 

Soon, Sol discovers that he has 

brain tumors, and a risky operation 

is his only means of survival. Things 

change when he physically meets 

Sofia, the woman from his hallucination. 

Ridley Scott’s comments 

about the film and its director Max 

Cusimano, “A work of sensitivity and 

insight. Refreshingly clever. Watch 

out for this guy in the future - he’s 

the real thing.” 



Hidden Features 

Year: 2007 

Runtime: 2’ 

Country: UK 

Directed by Tom Robinson and 

Mark Wilkinson 

‘Hidden Features’ was filmed 

entirely on a cellular phone. 

Little Jimmy pushes daddy too far 

this time. But dad has a secret 

surprise. Never again, Jimmy... 

never again! 


Rutger Hauer Film 

Factory Masterclass 

Year: 2009 

Runtime: 4’ 


Cast: Participants and Coaches 

Directed by Mark Wallaard 

and Matthijs Treurniet 

This is a documentary of the 

Rutger Hauer 2009 Masterclass. 

It is a playful visit to some basic 

elements in digital filmmaking 

and its tools: Directing, Acting, Photography, 

Lighting, Editing, Sound, 

and what else which catches the 

eye, is the focus of this ten day 

masterclass for up and coming 

filmmakers from across the world. 

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Special Screenings RHFF 

Butterflies 

Year: 2009 

Runtime: 7’ 


Cast: Yonan Orjubin, Erna Omercic, 

Erdem Cavlak, Yosha Bakkers 

Directed by Jacob Perk 

While waiting for the girl he has 

a date with, a young boy considers 

how to declare his love for her; 

something he hasn’t been able to 

do with any other girl until now. 

He imagines different situations 

and how things may or may not 

work out. Then she shows up up. 

What will he do? 

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Communication Flies 

Year: 2009 

Runtime: 3’ 


Cast: Alexis Porter, Geerteke van 

Lierop 

Directed by Kristjan Knigge 

What happens when a Dutch and 

English speaking girl communicate 

with each other in their own language? 

Miscommunication... 

Lonesome 

Year: 2009 

Runtime: 5’ 


Cast: Nicole Moerland, Turan Furat 

Directed by Lex Schmeets 

A priest is sick and tired of the violence 

that surrounds him. He feels 

he failed to convince people to 

have faith and therefore he lost faith 

himself. Right before he decides to 

commit suicide he walks into this 

girl, Girleen. The scene that follows 

is a collision between the youthful 

and playful innocence of Girleen 

and the bitterness of the Priest.

Mr. 

Year: 2009 

Runtime: 4’ 


Cast: Yosha Bakkers, Yonan Orjubin, 

Rutger Hauer 

Directed by Petra Spreij 

An ordinary teenager is having 

ordinary fun with a friend from 

school. Behind her smile the girl is 

hiding something. Between sweet 

milkshakes and colorful windows 

a secret will slowly be revealed. 



Incapability 

Year: 2009 

Runtime: 6’ 


Inholland Team 3 

Cast: Jeroen Bos, Aida Mussach 

Directed by Jan Stadhouders 

While waiting for the girl he has a 

date with, a young man mulls over 

how to declare his love to her. It is 


with any other girl until now. He 

imagines different situations and 

how things may or may not work out. 

Then she shows up. What will he do? 


Song of Childhood 

Year: 2009 

Runtime: 3’ 


Inholland 

Cast: Abdembi Azzaoui, Marwan 

Azzaoui, Mounira Hadj Mansour 

Directed by Birgit Stamhuis 

Based on the poem ‘Song of 

Childhood’ by Peter Handke: 

When the child was a child... 

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Something’s Got to Burn 

Year: 2009 

Runtime: 4’ 


RHFF Team 1 

Cast: Alexis Porter, Teun Kuilboer 


It is almost evening when the light 

fades and city sounds get muffled. 

Colors and shapes are changing. 

The relationship between two people 

seems to have changed. It is a 

moment when anything can 

happen… 

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Something’s Got to Burn 

Year: 2009 

Runtime: 5’ 


RHFF Team 2 

Cast: Francesca Leoni, Loek Peters 

Directed by Tal Mor 

It is almost evening when the light 

fades and city sounds get muffled. 

Colors and shapes are changing. 

The relationship between two 

people seems to have changed. It 

is a moment when anything can 

happen… 

Incapability 

Year: 2009 

Runtime: 3’ 


RHFF Team 3 

Directed by Dieneke van der 

Meulen 


date with, a young man mulls over 

how to declare his love to her. It is 


with any other girl until now. He 

imagines different situations and 

how things may or may not work 

out. Then she shows up. What will he 

do?

On the Ledge 

Year: 2009 

Runtime: 5’ 


Cast: Laurien VandenBroek, 

Yannick van de Velde 

Directed by Jeremiah Culinane 


date with, a young boy thinks over 

how to declare her his love, something 

he hasn’t been able to with 

any other girl up till now. He imagines 

different situations and how 

things may or may not work out. 

Then she shows up. What will he 

do? 



3 

Year: 2009 

Runtime: 3’ 


Cast: Nicole Moerland, Geerteke 

van Lierop, Monic Hendrickx 

Directed by Dorota Zglobicka 

Interpretation of the poem ‘Song 

of Childhood’ by Peter Handke: 

‘When the child was a child..’ 


Participants 

Year: 2009 

Runtime: 2’ 


Cast: Participants of the Rutger 

Hauer FilmFactory 

Directed by Mark Wallaard, 

Matthijs Treurniet 

Introduction of the participants 

of the 2009 edition of the Rutger 

Hauer FilmFactory, a ten-day master 

class for up and coming filmmakers 

from all over the world 

in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. 

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Smart Short #1: 

The Proposal 

Year: 2009 

Runtime: 1’ 


Cast: Alexis Porter, Marc Nochem 


How big can a small car be.. 


Bonnie & Klijd 

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Year: 2009 

Runtime: 1’ 


Cast: Laurien VandenBroek, Joey Schouwer 

Directed by Jeremiah Culinane 

Smart cars have the lowest consumption. 


Smart Safe Efficient 

Year: 2009 

Runtime: 1’ 


Cast: Francesca Leoni, Mike Weerts 

Directed by Tal Mor 

Smart cars are safe and efficient. 


Lowest CO2 emission 

Year: 2009 

Runtime: 1’ 


Cast: Caroline de Cristofaro, Emile 

Jansen 

Directed by Dieneke van der Meulen 

Smart cars are the CO2 champions. 


Be Smarter 

Year: 2009 

Runtime: 1’ 


Cast: Nicole Moerland, Geerteke van 

Lierop, Chris Meder 

Directed by Dorota Zglobicka 

Smart cars seem to be very popular



Bill Bristow 

Bill Bristow was born in England in 1955. In school, he majored in English 

Literature, History and Economics and after graduation, he set up a 

London-based company that specialized in Commodities, Future Market, Stock 

Brokers and Trades. During his teen-age years, Bill developed a considerable 

interest in acting and filmmaking. 

He co-produced and acted in “The Swan”, a student film for the B.F.I. (British 

Film Institute). Bill soon discovered that due to his artistic gifts, his career 

would be oriented toward the film industry. He finally made the decision 

to completely abandon his commercial activity in order to lend his 

considerable skills and his time to his true passion and the rest, they say, is 

history and a fascinating one at that! 

Bill moved to the U.S. and started working in the artistic world (TV, 

commercials, films and theater), strengthening his 360° experience for a wide 

array of expertise, such as production assistant, location manager and set coordinator on various small productions, 

such as ‘The Ratings Game’, a show-time feature directed by Danny DeVito. 

In 1986 Bill was on the set of ‘The Hitcher’ acting as Rutger Hauer’s Stand-In/Stunt-Double while attending Film 

Direction/Production and Camera courses at the Los Angeles City College. 

He produced the ‘Granny’s Wish’, a theatrical play, and directed a Video Diary for Rutger Hauer on the film ‘Wanted 

Dead or Alive’. Always keeping a keen and critical eye on complex and troubling social matters, Bill directed, wrote 

and produced a 16-minute film documentary about a homeless man living in Los Angeles, called ‘Who Are They?’. 

This documentary received a nomination at the Seattle Film Festival and at the Anthropus Film Festival. 

No subject too daunting, Bill also worked as a Production Coordinator and Sound Assistant on the Italian documentary 

‘Meltdown’ (1987) just after the Chernobyl disaster, about the dangers of Nuclear Power during and after a nuclear accident. 

Then he focused his attention as Director on the documentary film of the making of ‘The Legend of the Holy Drinker’, 

by Ermanno Olmi. 

At the end of 1980’s and beginning of the 1990’s Bill worked for Rutger as Director, Interviewer and Cameraman on Video 

Diaries of behind the scenes footages of Rutger’s very notable films, ‘Blind Fury’, ‘The Blood of Heroes’ and ‘Split Second’. 

In the same vein, Bill worked with Rutger on a 30-minute promotional documentary related to the making 

of ‘On a Moonlit Night’, directed by Lina Wertmuller. 

In 1990 he was the Director and Producer of a documentary about the effects of Malathion Pesticide Spray on the population 

of Los Angeles. In that period Bill also returned to his passion for theater by directing ‘Fleas’, starring Michael Ironside. 

Bill’s literary skills led him to write scripts, such as ‘The Whaler’ and articles for the Los Angeles based ‘Venice’ magazine. 

At this time, writing became his focus. He co-authored the book ‘A Game of Moles’, about the life of his father, the head of 

M16, who was living in Spain and North Africa during and after the war. The National Theatre in London and The BBC are now 

looking into developing ‘A Game Of Moles’ into a stage performance or a play for TV, with Snoo Wilson writing the script. 

Having decided to make Spain his home, Bill was the Director and Presenter for the ‘For News at Two’ program broadcast 

by a local TV station. Bill has also started developing a documentary series about Islamic Spain and Ibn Battuta, 

a 14th century Muslim traveler, but with the present terrorist climate it is on hold. 

For the last 9 years he has owned and operated Locations Spain Ltd, a production 

service company for advertising. He has produced both commercial 

photography and industrial films for Nissan, Toyota, Land Rover, BMW, 

Volkswagen, Lexus, Opel, Range Rover and Canon. 

In 2001, he produced the Spanish episodes of the British TV series ‘The Knock’. 

He also organized and presented two rock festivals in Southern Spain with 

‘The Pretty Things’ and Arthur Brown, Bad Company and Tim Rose. 

He wrote an outline treatment for a project called ‘Reluctant Hero’ about a Dutch 

Banker who lost his life by financing a large part of the Dutch resistence and saving 

many Dutch families from starvation at the end of the 2nd World War when 

the Germans blockaded the North Holland. Bill is working as the co-producer on 

this project, with Rutger who will be the director. 

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The Blue Dolls 

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The Blue Dolls Trio was formed in Turin, Italy, in 2005. 

The Trio is currently composed of first soprano Viviana Dragani, second soprano 

Angelica Dettori and alto singer Flavia Barbacetto. 

The trio is accompanied by a rhythm section formed by piano, guitar, acoustic 

bass and drums. 

The repertoire of The Blue Dolls ranges from 30’s and 40’s American standards 

(Andrews Sisters style) to Italian Swing of 30’s (Trio Lescano style) to 50’s songs. 

Since their debut, the Blue Dolls have performed in major clubs, festivals and 

theaters in Italy and in Europe. Included are performances in: the Blue Note 

in Milan, Montreux Jazz Festival, The Brass Group in Palermo, The Cotton Club 

in Rome, L’Inoui in Luxembourg, The National Theater in Podgorica, Teatro 

Accademia delle Arti in Tirana, Sheraton Hotel in Ankara (Unicef Ball) and the 

Netherlands Consulate in Milan. 

The Blue Dolls have climbed the ladder of success thanks to several appearances on Italian nationwide TV programs, including 

‘Markette’, hosted by Piero Chiambretti, the ‘Maurizio Costanzo Show’, ‘Stella’ hosted by Maurizio Costanzo, ‘Cominciamo bene 

- prima’ hosted by Pino Strabioli (Rai3), ‘Cominciamo bene - Estate’, hosted by Michele Mirabella (Rai3), ‘Cantando Ballando’ 

hosted by Marco Predolin (Milano+), ‘Musica Insieme’ hosted by Roby Di Nunno (Milano+), ‘L’Italia sul 2’ (Rai 2) and ‘Sanremoff’ 

(Rai 1). 

The Blue Dolls were nominated as ‘Best Jazz Singers’ during the Italian Jazz Awards 2008.



Festival Credits 

Organization: The Rutger Hauer Starfish Association 

Technical Organization & HD Video production: CortoWeb 

President: Rutger Hauer 

Director: PierPaolo De Fina 

Artistic Directors: Pier Paolo De Fina and Giancarlo Zappoli 

Organization Responsible: Flavia Costa 

Coordination: Angela Di Candia 

Press Office: Alessandra Izzo 

Publishing and Editorial Coordination: Janet Hutchins 

Hospitality: Giusy Stery, Leo Mattiello 

Assistant to Mr. Hauer: Grazia De Fina 

Video & Photo: Giovanni Lorini, Wilma Lorini 

Website and online videos: CortoWeb 

Creative Coordination: Grazia De Fina 

Special Thanks go to the Milano Municipality Cinema and Culture Departmens teams. 

‘I’ve Seen Films’ would like to give heartfelt thanks to all the wonderful people who, for their precious 

assistance and generosity in helping with the organization, have played a determinant role in making this 

festival so very successful. 

PierPaolo De Fina 

Director and Artistic Co-Director 

I’ve Seen Films - International Film Festival 

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