documentary short

This documentary is about Iranians who decided to have no children.

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Award Winner

narrative short

Serge is an old car mechanic in the country. He is a middle-class French, in his forties, and divorced from his ex-wife, Isabelle. With this woman, he had a daughter, Rose, whom Serge keeps every other week. Both share a fusion love and are inseparable. However, little by little, Serge saw growing in him a particular attraction for children. He tries every day to control his emotions which overwhelm him more and more and fights against himself not to lose control.

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Special Award

time

After giving birth to their child on a beach during the dead of night Sine runs into the darkness leaving her husband Magnus in a state of anguish. Journeying into the past we discover the answers behind Sine’s behaviour and witness the harrowing events that brought her into the realm of the selkie, mythological creatures that take the form of seals known to shed their skin to reveal a human form.

diary film

Mating three generations, Polish culture and Christmas with coming out of a homosexual granddaughter / daughter / sister.
A film made with a VHS camera set in a traditional Polish house where an old lady (88) lives with her adult children: Danuta (55) and Jerzy (61). The parochiality of the inhabitants of the post-communist bloc clashes with the newly-wave artist and filmmaker. A document about ignorance and fear of what is new is packed into the quintessence of simple words, patterns and stereotypes.

poetry film

This short film is based on a poem I wrote remembering the two weeks I spent in New York in 2004, on occasion of my first photo exhibition overseas. I almost forgot this piece of writing, which I had strangely written directly in English during a feverish night, until it resurfaced to my mind almost fifteen years later during a trip in Portugal. Then I started taking filmic shots inspired by the poem, dreaming about America beyond the long hypnotic waves and the old corroded wharves, at the other end of the lone Atlantic. In the editing, I added some of the pictures taken 15 years before together with a single and especially painful picture taken in a Dutch hospital in 1997, interlacing thus through film-making different periods of my life and different artistic languages in what is more a portrait of psychic interior than a documentary.

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Honorable Mention

memory

Tinged with melancholy, this tightly staged short film follows a nostalgic Lebanese widow grappling to honor her late husband, despite her life being at stake in the walls of her own home.

Andrea wrote in a journal all her thoughts and anecdotes from the ages 7 to 30.
When she reread it as an adult, she begins a journey into her past that confronts her once again with the harshness of growing and the passing of time.
On this journey, she discovers constant themes throughout his life that she had forgotten and that have direct implications in the person she is today.
This allows her to reconnect with herself from a new place: acceptance.

Film tells a story of 30 year-old Krzyś and his mother Danuta. Protagonists spent their free time playing checkers and watching tv. At first glance Krzyś seems to be an uncaring person but it turns out that he is very sensitive. He is an alcoholic who mourns the death of his father, Janek who also have been an alcoholic. “Krzyś” is a documentary short film, about the loss of a loved one and how that impacts a person.

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Winter 2021