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Directed by Boris Kozlov

2016 | Spain | 7:51

Animation, Documentary, Experimental

In 1973 Carl Sagan created the Pionner Plaque for the NASA Pioneer 10 mission. It was Humanity’s first message for extraterrestrial civilizations. Today, four decades later, the World gets together to collectively compose a new message…

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2019Human Rights

A Democratic Proposal

Directed by Chandana Prasanna
Country of Origin Sri Lanka

Just after a proposed suitor and his family had visited and left, Kanchana’s whole family start to try and pitch her the marriage proposal. Kanchana, who didn’t like the idea of seeing proposed suitors in the first place, is annoyed, but find it hard to argue with the elders who aren’t ready to listen to her. Amid one- sided arguments and emotional blackmailings from her family and relatives, she tries to build up some courage and figure out a way to escape.

Director Biography – Chandana Prasanna

Chandana Prasanna started his film career as an editor, Chandana currently working as a writer and a director as well. His first short film, Ape Kale Weerayek (2005) was selected best film in short film competition held by Sri Lanka National Film Corporation. He has worked in several TV and film projects. Being a multi-potentiate, he has also worked as a journalist, designer and an advertising copywriter and political activist. He is also a foodie and love to cook whenever he is free.

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2020Human Rights

If I Were President

Directed by Andrea Arteaga Cote, Andrei Ramos Puerto
Country of Origin Mexico

The women of Tahdziú, Yucatán speak about their right to vote as indigenous women, they demand to be heard and taken into account in the decision-making of the community, where they have been despised because of the macho traditions and corrupt political parties. They get organized and speak about how to educate the next generations so there is gender equality and the voices of women are heard and respected.

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2018Documentary, Human Rights

ENOUGH | The Empowered Women of Korogocho

Directed by Brent Foster
Country of Origin Canada

Beatrice Nyariara lives in Korogocho. It’s widely considered to be Nairobi’s most dangerous slum. More than 150,000 people are packed into the shanty town which is less than two square kilometers. Crime is high. Gangs are active. Addiction is rampant. A while back, men in her community started to attack the “grandmothers” of Korogocho at night. Most of the women attacked are sexually assaulted, and some have been killed. The men believe that the elder women were less likely to be HIV positive. They also saw them as vulnerable. A few years ago, Beatrice decided enough was enough. It was time to fight back. It was time to develop a community. The result of that decision empowered the group and taught their community to respect them, value them, and to know how to be there for them. Together, they are taking back Korogocho.

Director Biography – Brent Foster

As kids in small towns sometimes do, Brent Foster left to explore the world and didn’t look back. His work has led him to more than 35 countries where he’s eaten white ants in Uganda and been tattooed by monks in Thailand. Most importantly, though, he has had the chance to tell incredibly powerful stories ranging from conflict in the Gaza Strip to doctors fighting for access to pain relief for the chronically ill in India, for editorial clients such as The New York Times, TIME Magazine, and Canadian Geographic.

Photojournalism taught Brent a lot about creating authentic content and helping subjects quickly become comfortable in front of the camera. It was also during his time in the editorial world that Brent recognized the significance of telling stories through cinematic work. It was the power of hearing a subject’s voice, and seeing the way they interact and move with the world that led him to a career shift into filmmaking. Brent has since acted as Director/DOP on projects for global brands such as Nike, DJI, The NBA, and Purolator to help them create authentic pieces of content that resonate with viewers.

This year, Brent has been shortlisted for The Young Director Awards and The Saatchi and Saatchi New Directors Showcase in Cannes, as well as The Shots Awards for New Director of the Year. Alongside his branded projects, Foster’s passion project entitled “While I’m Here | The Legacy Project” profiles everyday heroes passing on a legacy. The project has picked up Vimeo Staff Picks and multiple awards along the way.

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2019Human Rights

The Lost Pen

Directed by Beraat GOKKUS
Country of Origin France

Karam is a Syrien poet and journalist who is in exile in France. He is living at the Maison des Journalistes, an association that hosts exiled journalists around the world in Paris. One day Karam has a new poem but he can not write it. Because he lost the pen that he uses when he is writing a poem. That pen a gift from his mother who lost her life during the Syrian civil war. Without this pen, Karam doesn’t write any poem. So he starts to search his pen in the Maison des Journalistes to be able to write again.

Director Biography – Beraat GOKKUS

Beraat GOKKUS is a Turkish director and journalist who lives in Paris France since 2016. He studied Political Science at the University of Marmara in Istanbul, Turkey. Gokkus is an award-winning director. With The Lost Pen, he won SmartFone Flick Fest 2020 Best Director and Best Film Awards. The Lost Pen also won African Smartphone International Film Festival Grand Jury Prize. With his short documentary Breakfast of Champions (2017/Paris) Gokkus won Best Short Short Film award in Berlin Independent Film Festival 2018 and Best Short Short Film award in Berlin Short Film Festival 2017. Gokkus’s short films are selected many times by international film festivals. Nowadays he is working on his feature film projects, a documentary and a short film project too.

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2021Human Rights

13 Square Meters

Directed by Kamil Bembnista, Ayham Dalal
Country of Origin Germany

In 2015, Berlin received thousands of refugees over night. To accommodate them, new types of refugee camps called “Tempohomes” were constructed and new typologies of shelter were designed. In this short documentary, the notion of the refugee camp as space of “care and control” is explored and gives a provocative perspective on the meaning of shelters today, and how their issues are linked to everyday architecture in cities and the production of mass housing. By juxtaposing the initial design of shelters to refugees’ rearrangments of space, the documentary questions the role of architecture: how can we offer displaced populations a better conditions to dwell? Can shelters be spaces of “care” without “control”? How can architecture empower people to express their culture, background and identities in camps and beyond? Within these camps, how did refugees navigate the meanings of a “home”, and how did the camp managers responded to refugees’ appropriations?

The film “13 Square Meter” weaves a tapestry of contemporary topics that deal with the ideas of displacement, space, and architecture while opening up the discussion on the similarities and differences between refugees’ shelter design and the production of modernist mass housing in cities.

Director Biography – Kamil Bembnista

Kamil Bembnista, born in 1987 in Poland, grew up in Hamburg, based in Berlin. He holds a Master degree in sociology and, besides filmmaking, he works as an sociologist. In 2018 he took part in the DOK PRO directing program for documentary filmmakers in the WAJDA SCHOOL & Studio in Warsaw. His short films Djibril (2016) and Three Days in Berlin (2018) where screened at several film festivals around the world.

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2017Animation, Documentary

Blue Light

Directed by Harriet Francis Croucher
Country of Origin United Kingdom

Emergency service personnel talk about the realities of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and its impact on their lives and their families.

Director Biography – Harriet Francis Croucher

Recently Graduated for UCA Farnham BA Animation, with a 1st Class Hons. I specialise in traditional hand drawn animation, as well as experimental and documentary film.

Director Statement

This film was incredibly important to me. My father was a firefighter in the London Fire Brigade for more than 20 years, before being medically retired with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. PTSD is still a condition which is overlooked and misunderstood, and effects the emergency services all over the world, so it was important for me to present a platform for their stories to be heard. I interviewed firefighters, police officers and paramedics from all over the UK, all of whom had been affected by PTSD.

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2020Animation, Experimental

Lizard Ladder

Directed by Ted Wiggin
Country of Origin USA

Animals encounter a ball that gives magical powers and sows conflict between them.

Director Biography – Ted Wiggin

Ted makes short films and software for animation. He strives to create new techniques through custom software and to explore their expressive and narrative potential.

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2017Animation

Shahkboy

Directed by Jake Peckar
Country of Origin United States

Shahkboy is a typical Boston high school kid, doing drugs and getting busted for graffiti. Oh, and he’s half shark.

Director Biography – Jake Peckar

Jake Peckar is a Boston-based animator, illustrator, and filmmaker. He graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2017 with a degree in animation. His senior film “Shahkboy” qualified for the Academy Awards in the Best Animated Short category in 2018.

Director Statement

I love making animations and trying to make people laugh with my films. Comedy is really challenging but really rewarding.

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2019Animation

IHR

Directed by Amélie Cochet, Louis Möhrle
Country of Origin Switzerland

IHR (THEM) is the story about a building with an inner courtyard an its inhabitants. While the different character follow their everyday routines, trash slowly begins to pile up in the courtyard. What seems harmless in the beginning, one night escalates to a total disaster.

Directors Biography – Amélie Cochet, Louis Möhrle

LOUIS MÖHRLE

Born 1993 in Lucerne. After an apprenticeship as draughtsman, he finished his Bachelor degree in Animation 2D at Hochschule Luzern Design & Kunst in 2019. Co-Founder of the creative collective „KulturKonsumEnten“ in 2017 and of the VJing collective „Teichprojektionen“ in 2018. Since Summer 2019 he works as a freelanced Animator and is co-founder of the collective “Studio PIAF” in Bern together with Amélie Cochet.

AMÉLIE COCHET

Born 1996 in Bern, raised bilingual (de/fr). After the preliminary course in arts at the art academy of Bern (HKB) in cooperation with the Talentförerung Arts & Crafts at Highschool Hofwil, she finished her Bachelor degree in Animation 2D at Hochschule Luzern Design & Kunst in 2019. 2018 she was an Intern for five months at YK Animation in Bern where she worked on the film „The Germans“. Since Summer 2019 she works as a freelanced Animator and Illustrator and is co-founder of the collective “Studio PIAF” in Bern together with Louis Möhrle.

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2021Animation

Eternal Demise

Directed by Dan Rule
Country of Origin United States

Wherein a powerpoint presentation at a business meeting details some thoughts and ideas about individual and collective death.

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2019Animation

Per Aspera Ad Astra

Directed by Franck Dion
Country of Origin France

The daily life of a little hen housekeeper, torn between her work, her children and her old mother.

Director Biography – Franck Dion

Franck Dion has made good use of his talent in multiple areas along the years. He first took lessons to become an actor in the American Center, then in the “Théâtre de l’Archet”.At the same time, he became passionate about cinema and learned by himself to sculpt, to draw and to paint. He worked with editors and magazines, designed theatre sceneries and animations for documentary films. Franck Dion is now working on several new projects.

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2021Human Rights

13 Square Meters

Directed by Kamil Bembnista, Ayham Dalal
Country of Origin Germany

Director Biography – Kamil Bembnista

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2018Documentary, Human Rights

ENOUGH | The Empowered Women of Korogocho

Directed by Brent Foster
Country of Origin Canada

Director Biography – Brent Foster

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2018Documentary, Experimental

Winter of my life

Directed by Batteault Remy
Country of Origin France

Directed for the Straight 8 film contest, filmed in Super 8 without editing, this is the story of my father, a former butcher in Burgundy. Now a super 8 director. At 78, in the winter of his life, isn’t Super 8 take him back to springtime?

Director Biography – Batteault Remy

Since his childhood in Burgundy, France, Remy has two passions : cinema and musicals. Thanks to his father and his Super 8 camera, Remy has learned to love this format, in which he directed his first films. Later on, after working as an assistant director, he’s started directing documentaries in 1997 (The Funny Face of Broadway). He’s directed 16 documentaries for TV so far and is still fond of Super 8…

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2016Documentary

108 Unknown People

Directed by Jens Nagels
Country of Origin Germany

A black & white Video of 108 Portraits of people I met in the streets of Dawei, (Tavoy), Myeik (Mergui) and the Tanintharyi-Division in Southern Myanmar (Burma). The people are friendly, polite and courteous and not averse, to give opportunity to the photographer, to take a short video recording and, if possible, to say a few words. Yes, also enjoyed being photographed. There were kids, boys and girls, men and women, nuns and monks, young and old people.

the number 108

108 is a sacred number in Hindu and Buddhist-influence culture area of Asia. In the Thai language, the number 108 represents an incredibly large number of things. 108 beads on the rmala. Hindu deities have 108 names. 108 volumes of the collected teachings of the Buddha.

Director Biography – Jens Nagels

1970-1975 Completed painting studies in Düsseldorf at Professors Andre Thomkins and Alfonso Hüppi.

1981-1986 Completed studies in Visual Communications at the University of Kassel at Prof. Gunter Rambow

1990-1995 Photography university teaching position

Lives and works in Kassel.

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2020Experimental

Silence

Directed by Dmitry Zakharov
Country of Origin Germany

Political conflicts and arguments are deadlocked and often represent personal interests, economic superiority, and a gain of power rather than the interests of the people and the environment.

The problems of globalization demand the rejection of a misinterpreted concept of individualism. They demand a rethinking of our stuck concepts and ideologies that led us to this self-scourging, almost self-destructive mindset that has replaced the essence of our existence.

What happens when we create a momentum which silences politics, economics, and the ego of each individual? A deliberate silence of each individual as well as a collective silence of all human beings as an expression for a unified system.

How would we encounter ourselves in such a space and how would we encounter our environment? Would we be able to reform society with this deliberate silence? If you blot out sound and sense, what would you hear?

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2021Videoart

Inside

Directed by Yann Chapotel
Country of Origin France

Inside unrolls a mosaic of windows, those of the building that I regularly filmed from my own window. Along this border where the interior opens onto the exterior, a multitude of moments of everyday life overlap and respond to each other, forming a choreographic fresco of simple gestures.

Director Biography – Yann Chapotel

After studying cinema at the University of Saint-Denis (France), Yann Chapotel directed his first experimental short film shot in India with a super 8 camera. Then, with the help of the Pays de la Loire Regional Council, he directs a second short film in 2000. The democratization of video creation tools will then lead him to gradually free himself from traditional modes of production and narration, his language then taking the path of formal experimentation, in particular around the theme of time and its representation.

Along with his personal work, he edited films by artist Camille Henrot between 2007 and 2017, including Grosse Fatigue which won a Silver Lion at the 2013 Venice Film Festival.

He has also been creating video scenographies since 2012, mainly for operas.

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2019Experimental

Topiaskop

Directed by Josephin Boettger
Country of Origin Germany

A city builds itself. Demolition follows construction follows demolition. In “Topiaskop“ dimensions and relations are dissolved, the certainty of place and time is dismantled: the concrete city of Hamburg becomes the site of an absurd tale of growth.

Director Biography – Josephin Boettger

Josephin Böttger is a video artist who lives and works in Hamburg, Germany. In her early career, she produced various short films such as experimental and drawn-animation works, shown at international film festivals. Since receiving her diploma at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg 2002, she has worked on multi-channel video installations and single-channel videos, shown at international exhibitions and projections in public spaces. Her work examines the metamorphosis, chronology, and aesthetics of urban space.

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2020Experimental, Fiction

Cyberpunk USSR

Directed by Alexey Khazov
Country of Origin Russian Federation

USSR. 2077. An American billionaire inventor arrives at an exchange for the sale of dissident merch, hoping to meet an eccentric gangster to buy the stolen body of Lenin, but a special KGB cyber squad is secretly lying in wait.

Director Biography – Alexey Khazov

He was born in the last millennium. His childhood hobby for plasticine cartoons with dubious overtones marked the beginning of a new era in Russian cinema. Under the threat of the destruction of the planet, he was admitted to VGIK, which he successfully graduated, receiving 5 (with honors) and gaining a rich cinematic experience in various fields and genres for money. At the present time, he is developing and shooting the comedy series “Cyberpunk USSR” in which secret mechanisms of audiovisual influence will be protected for enslaving the will of people and the subsequent seizure of the world. Cute puppies will be treated like hard drugs.

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2016Animation, Documentary, Experimental

The Postmodern Pioneer Plaque

Directed by Boris Kozlov
Country of Origin Spain

Director Biography – Boris Kozlov

Born in Belgrade (Former Yugoslavia). Living in Madrid (Spain). Combines creative work in advertisement with experimental filmmaking. Has directed five short films so far. Obsessed with the 21st-Century sociocultural psychosis and the future of Humanism.

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2019Human Rights