Films
Films of the 4th
Annual
Petaluma International Film Festival®
All films are in English or have English subtitles
The Symmetry of the Butterfly
Director: Paul Scheuer & Maisy Hausemer, 2012, Luxembourg, 93 minutes, Cast: Marie Jung, Frédéric Frenay, Luc Schiltz, Marc Olinger, Marie-Paule von Roesgen[Friday, October 19 @ 10:00 PM]
The Syldavian world chess champion Gregori Sczyrkutah, known for his misogyny, is defeated by the young Luxembourgish chess player Sophie Latour, and withdraws from public life in bitterness and anger. Max von Allmen, a computer scientist in Switzerland, has developed a high-performance chess software. He suggests to Gregori to take his revenge against Sophie with the assistance of the revolutionary quantum computer. While programming his software with Gregori’s help in order to checkmate Sophie, Max falls in love with her...
Paul Scheuer
Paul Scheuer and Maisy Hausemer have collaborated on several films including Wat huet e gesot? (1980), Congé fir e Mord (1984), Mumm, Sweet Mumm (1988), Dammentour (1992). The Symmetry of the Butterfly is their latest film.
Under African Skies
Director: Joe Berlinger, 2012, USA, 102 minutes, Cast: Paul Simon, Maya Angelou, Harry Belafonte, David Byrne, Peter Gabriel, Philip Glass, Whoopi Goldberg, Quincy Jones
[Saturday, October 20 @ 10:10 PM]
Under African Skies follows musician Paul Simon as he reunites with his South African collaborators and revisits the controversy behind the Grammy-winning album Graceland. Luminaries like Oprah Winfrey, Quincy Jones, Lorne Michaels, David Byrne and Sir Paul McCartney share their thoughts on what the album meant to them.
Joe Berlinger
Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger has been a leading voice in nonfiction film and television for two decades. Berlinger’s films include the landmark documentaries BROTHER’S KEEPER, PARADISE LOST, and METALLICA: SOME KIND OF MONSTER, a film that re-defined the rockumentary genre. CRUDE, about oil pollution in the Amazon Rainforest, won 22 human rights, environmental and film festival awards and recently triggered a high-profile First Amendment battle with oil-giant Chevron. Five of Berlinger’s documentary features, including his 2012 Paul Simon documentary UNDER AFRICAN SKIES, have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, earning three Grand Jury Prize nominations. He has also received multiple awards from the Directors Guild of America, the National Board of Review and the Independent Spirit Awards.
Aicha, Crazy Holiday
Director: Yamina Benguigui, 2012, France, 89 minutes, Cast: Sofia Essaidi, Amidou, Biyouna, Marcel Amont, Priscilla Attal-Sfez
[Friday, October 19 @ 8:00 PM]
In the Boumaza family the holidays are all about home-come. But this year, with the spring-revolution in the Arab-countries the family-plans fell through. Aïcha managed to organize a stay in a B&B in Aquitaine. For them it’s the first time that they’re going on holidays in France. As for Aïcha, she accepted a week of vacation alone with Patrick on the sly. But the day of the big departure, disaster: her family refuses to leave, unless she doesn’t come with them.
Yamina Benguigui
Muslim-French from Algerian descent, and born on this side of the Mediterranean Sea, she was a witness -like millions of others- of the humiliating condition of North African mothers who came to France, giving her the spirit to fight for something better. Stuck between two cultures, torn between tradition and religion, she managed to emancipate herself from the unimaginable conditions that were placed upon her. Yamina Benguigui is a pioneer who, for more than fifteen years, has dedicated all of her work as director and producer to exploring the human side of immigration, tackling such issues as the marginalization of women, the development of ghettos and the insidious apartheid and discrimination found there. With each of her movies, she shines a light on the mutation of today’s European societies, especially the cultural and religious questions raised in France since the decolonization, the resulting economic and the human consequences. Each of her films is a precursor of cultural debate. Yamina Benguigui brings her “tool-movie’s message” to the public and shows them how to start the debate and to let everybody speak, so that each spectator feels concerned. She was appointed Vice-Minister in charge of Francophony this year.
Siberia Monamour
Director: Slava Ross, 2011, Russia, 105 minutes, Cast: Petr Zaichenko, Misha Protsko, Nikolay Kozak, Sonya Ross, Sergey Novikov, Lidiya Bayrashevskaya, Maxim Emelyanov
[Sunday, October 21 @ 4:15 PM]
Siberia. In taiga, in an abandoned village an old man & his grandson wait for the boy’s father, who will never come back. A man & his wife raise three daughters, and that is the only thing that still ties them. A captain, who’s passed through two Caucasian wars, tries to find his place in peace life. The fates of these heroes interlace unexpectedly & dramatically. They need to make their choice again & again, uncovering inward humanity & compassion, that had been forgotten long ago. Mercy is beyond justice.
Festivals & Awards:
Best Film, 9th “SPIRIT OF FIRE” International Film Festival
Best Foreign Film, Rome International Film Festival
Best Director: Brooklyn International Film Festival
Best Film, Moon Dance Film Festival
Slava Ross
Member of the Director’s Guild of Russia. He was a lead actor in the Novosibirsk “Red Torch” theatre in 1989-1996. Then he entered Russian State Institute of Cinematography, directing faculty. While studying he got grants from the “Sergey Eisenstein Fund” and the “Russian Federation President Fund” and after graduating from the institute he was included into the “Intellectual Resources of Russia” guide. Slava made his first student short film “Meat” in 2002. The film has won over 30 awards including several grand prizes. SELECT (the center of film & TV schools communications under UNESCO) has included “Meat” into the international program of studying cinema as a school supplies. In 2003 Slava founded a film company “Tundra Film”, which has produced his first feature film – a sad comedy “Fat Stupid Rabbit”. The film has won several awards at international festivals, including awards for the “Best film”. “Siberia Monamour” – is his second full-length film, the result of ten-year work, also produced by “Tundra Film”.
Raw Opium
Director: Peter Findlay, 2011, Canada/India/Tajikistan/Afghanistan/Portugal, 84 minutes
[Friday, October 19 @ 12:00 PM]
Raw Opium is a feature length documentary about a commodity that has tremendous power – both to ease pain and to destroy lives. The opium poppy is the raw material for heroin, fueling a vast criminal trade larger than the economies of many countries. Raw Opium is a journey around the world and through time, where conflicting forces do battle over the narcotic sap of the opium poppy. From an opium master in southeast Asia to a UN drug enforcement officer on the border of Afghanistan hunting down the smugglers of central Asia; from a former Indian government Drug Czar and opium farmer to a crusading Vancouver doctor and Portuguese street worker who daily confront the realities of drug addiction.
Peter Findlay
Peter Findlay is an award-winning director and writer with strong story-telling skills and a keen interest in the convergence of popular culture and social change. After working for 10 years at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, he’s spent the past decade working in independent documentary production. A past winner of a Canadian Science Writer Award - and finalist for a HotDocs Documentary Award - Findlay was honored with a Gemini Award in 2003 for directing “The Olympians” for CBC-TV. In 2005 he also won a Special Jury Award for investigative journalism from the Houston Worldfest Film Festival. A graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Findlay’s work is based on an interest in making films that speak to the human condition in the age of globalization. He has directed documentaries across North America and Europe, as well as in Southeast and Central Asia, India and Antarctica. Whether drawing on investigative journalism or political analysis, verite or historical reconstruction, finding the small story that reveals the larger truth lies at the core of his work.
Hunt for Bin Laden
Director: Leslie Woodhead, 2012, Germany/UK, 90 minutes
[Saturday, October 20 @ 12:00 PM]
The Hunt for Bin Laden is the inside story of the greatest manhunt in US history. It spans decades, sparks wars, and defines presidencies. Now, with interviews with those who were in the center of the action or in charge of the pursuit and the war on terror during three administrations, this film tells the definitive story of the twenty-year cat and mouse game, and the attempts to bring the world’s most notorious terrorist to justice. For the first time, America’s intelligence chiefs, politicians, military leaders and diplomats come together in this psychological thriller to tell their story. Some of the best minds in the US government recall how they raced against time, to learn the methods of their enemy in an attempt to prevent attacks which could cause even more devastating losses.
The film uses rare and startling archive material, directly relevant to every specific moment in the story. This immersive approach takes the viewer on a journey from the mountain caves of Bin Laden’s Afghan hideout, through the corridors of power in Washington, to crime scene investigations of the terrorists attacks carried out by bin Laden around the world. The viewer will witness some of the defining moments of the 21st century to date: the raid at Abbottabad, the attacks on US Embassies in Africa, the USS Cole, and the war in Afghanistan, plus the chilling moment when the Twin Towers fell at the hands of 19 hijackers.
Leslie Woodhead
From 1961 to 1989, Leslie Woodhead was a staff Director/Producer with Granada TV of Manchester, England. All his films during this period were made for Granada. From 1964 to 1973, Woodhead directed and produced more than 100 films for Granada’s “WORLDINACTION” current affairs series. He was also Series Editor from 1967 to 1969. 1961‐1962 Researched and directed scores of short films including the first film of THE BEATLES in the Liverpool Cavern Club.
Love Free or Die
Director: Macky Alston, USA, 2011, 82 min, Cast: Gene Robinson
[Sunday, October 21 @ 2:10 PM]
In June 2003, the Episcopal Church in New Hampshire came under fire when it became the first to elect an openly gay man, Gene Robinson, as a bishop. Since that flash point, Robinson has been at the center of the contentious battle for LGBT people to receive full acceptance in the faith.
Macky Alston
Director Macky Alston (whose film, Family Name, won the Freedom of Expression Award at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival) follows Robinson into the breach in the struggle for equality. While resolute in his calling, Robinson grows increasingly critical of the central role that religious institutions have played in fostering homophobia and hatred. He is pointedly not invited to a once-a-decade convocation of bishops and courts controversy by attending. His presence the next year for the Episcopal General Convention underscores the impact of its impending decisions about the church’s stance on the consecration of future gay bishops and the performance of same-sex marriage ceremonies. Macky Alston’s award‐winning documentary films include Hard Road Home (2007), The Killer Within (2006), Questioning Faith (2002), and Family Name, which won the Freedom of Expression Award at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival and aired on P.O.V. on PBS. Most recently, Alston executive-produced Off and Running (2009), which won the WGA Documentary Screenplay Award at the Silverdocs documentary film festival. His films have earned a Gotham Open Palm Award and three Emmy nominations. Alston also serves as director of media at Auburn Theological Seminary.
Ever Loving Ocean of Blues
Director: Zheng Zhen, 2012, China, 97 minutes, Cast: Han Dong, Zhang Ruyi, Wang Xiao, Liu Enyou, Li Xinyi, Huang Haibing
[Sunday, October 21 @ 8:30 PM]
Ye Qingtong, the daughter of a real estate mogul, comes back to China after studying abroad in France. She is engaged to Mo Keshen—the eldest son of her family's business partner. Both of them are well-aware that this marriage has nothing to do with true love. Rather it is simply a deal for family interests and relatively a smooth life. Her life totally changes after she travels to Sanya, where she meets Zhan Muyang. Zhan Muyang is one of her family's business partners, and he came here for two reasons—for the renegotiation of a hotel management contract and to find his girlfriend who mysteriously ran away four years ago.
Zheng Zhen
Zheng Zhen is a Chinese director and screenwriter who was born in Jincheng, Shanxi Province in 1977. Skilled in designing urban love stories, revealing family ethics as well as portraying romantic relationships, she aims to present her movies with beautiful images and to explore the distance between reality and our ideals. Communication University of China, Bachelor of Arts in Television Writing and directing Beijing Film Academy, Major in Film Studies, postgraduate program for working Professionals, Peking University's Culture Industry Institute, Major in Cultural Industries Management, postgraduate program for working professionals. From 2001 to 2010, Zheng wrote and directed nearly one-hundred various types of trailers, documentaries, and promotional videos. 2007: 23 episodes of The Wife of The Miner executive producer 2008: TV movie Yearning in August producer and director 2009: TV movie The Seven Year Itch producer and director 2010: TV movie The Joy of Loving producer and director 2011: TV movie Life of You producer and director 2012: Theatrical film Ever Loving Ocean of Blues screenwriter and director
My Bow Breathing
Director: Enrico Maria Artale, 2011, Italy, 11 minutes, Cast: Giulia Bertinelli, Roberto Antonelli, Michele Botrugno, Gianluca Vicari
[Friday, October 19 @ 6:15 PM ~ Screening with: The Bella Vista]
A girl tries to attune her breathing to the movement of her bow. Arrow after arrow. Her instructor counsels her to stay calm, to maintain her concentration during the training; she is too tense. But what he doesn't know is the reason behind her nervousness; the girl has a secret plan, a raging dream she wants to transform into reality. Behind her sporting talent, in a sanitized discipline that has been reduced to the pull and release of the arrow, is hidden her need to retrieve a primitive, violent instinct.
Festivals & Awards: Locarno International Film Festival / New York Film Festival / AFI Film Festival / Melbourne International Film Festival
Enrico Maria Artale
Enrico Maria Artale: (Rome, Italy; 1984) is graduated in Philosophy in 2007. He studied guitar, piano, and musical composition. Since 2006 he has worked as an essayist for Effettonotteonline, a cinema magazine which is based in Turin. He has worked in theatre, realizing some screening projects; he has also won two competitions for experimental videos in Rome. His first narrative short film has been selected in over 30 film festivals in Italy, UK, USA, winning the Melqart for best short film at the Sciacca Film Festival. His first documentary feature, I Giganti dell'Aquila, has been presented at Arcipelago Festival in Rome. He is currently attending Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, studying with Marco Bellocchio and Daniele Luchetti.
Bring Me Sunshine
Director: Rachel Durocher, 2011, UK, 4 minutes, Music Video, Cast: Ian Clarkson, Ken Smith, Alex Douglas, Vince Hurley
[Saturday, October 20 @ 2:10 PM ~ Screening with: Worldwide Shorts]
The Jive Aces, regarded as UK’s No 1 jive & swing band. Bring Me Sunshine is the band's latest single release. The song is an upbeat version of the much loved theme tune from Britain's best loved comedy duo Morecambe & Wise, to which the Jive Aces added a Louis Prima beat and made it vibrant and fresh with their unique touch of hot jive – guaranteed to lift your spirits!
Rachel Durocher
Lynch
Director: Krzysztof Łukaszewicz, 2010, Poland, 78 minutes, Cast: Leszek Lichota, Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Wiesław Komasa, Maciej, Mikołajczyk, Łukasz Simlat
[Sunday, October 21 @ 10:30 PM]
Justice and morality are questioned in this story from writer-director Krzysztof Lukaszewicz. After repeated pleas to the ineffectual, and underfunded police department in their county, three brothers take the law into their own hands, going after a man who has viciously terrorized them and their families. The brothers are arrested and tried for the man's murder, thrown into the slow and bureaucratic legal system that failed to protect them in the first place. Against a relentless machine which treats them as common criminals, the brothers try to stick together, preserving their integrity and sense of righteousness. With the help of an idealistic lawyer, we watch them make their defense, illuminating the stark contrast between law and justice.
Magic Hour
Director: Costas Kapakas, 2011, Greece, 95 minutes, Cast: Renos Charalambidis, Tasos Natoniou
[Sunday, October 21 @ 6:20 PM]
Diomidis and Aristeidis, two completely different people meet randomly with each other and they start a crazy journey into the Greek country.
Is death like take off or a landing? When we are being cheated do we have to laugh or cry? Is it better to owe or to be indebted? Since there is enough money around why are we broke? And if there is not enough money around why do we still make movies? The film comes to a conclusion that life is no more than a continuous fight against the formidable force of gravity. The surreal part of a personal crisis during the financial crisis time in Greece.
Costas Kapakas
Born in Rhodes, Greece, 1953. He studied cinema at the Academy of Arts of West Berlin and Architecture at the Technical University of West Berlin. He has been involved with film direction and the production of movies and advertising films since 1993. Filmography: Magic Hour (2011/111), Uranya (2006), Peppermint (1999), Le baton dans I'eau (1995), Rige (1988), perasei (1986), Skines (1984)
The Piano
Director: Lévon Minasian, 2011, Armenia/France, 26 minutes
[Friday, October 19 @ 2:00 PM ~ Screening with: He Was a Giant]
13 years after the earthquake in Armenia. A piano is delivered for a talented orphan pianist. However, the trailer where she lives is too small to hold a piano.
Lévon Minasian
Love Love Love
Director: Bruno Mercier, 2012, France, 88 minutes, Comedy, Cast: Jean-Yves R Lemoine, Albert Delpy, Alicia Roda
[Saturday, October 20 @ 6:20 PM]
Anti is painfully shy. When he discovers his girlfriend is having an affair with his boss, he is unable to express his anger. Instead, he packs his bags and sets off, determined to start a new life elsewhere. His life is saved in the nick of time by a chance meeting with a brave woman, a jogger, who stumbles across Anti in the process of digging for his own demise. The jogger, Lou, and Anti, are now linked by fate; and together experience more never ending disasters…!
Bruno Mercier
Bruno Mercier (1960, France) obtained his degree in Architecture and for the past twenty years worked as an architect. At the same time he attended courses in Cinema and Theater with Anne Bogart at the New York University, did stages at the laboratory Éclair and directed a short film on 35mm. After leaving architecture, he wrote and directed, in 2009, a theatre piece Container 606 represented at the theater Nord Ouest in Paris and he started to write and direct feature films produced and financed independently within his Parisian company Les mûres sauvages. Love Love Love is his first feature fiction followed, in the same year (2012), by Six zero six, an adaptation of his theatre piece Container 606. Currently he is preparing his new film Do you remember, a love encounter between a young musician and his muse.
Filnography: (1989) Entre le ciel et la terre, fiction, 35mm, 9’ / (2012) Love Love Love, fiction, HD, 88’ / (2012) Six Zero Six, fiction, HD, 75’
Filnography: (1989) Entre le ciel et la terre, fiction, 35mm, 9’ / (2012) Love Love Love, fiction, HD, 88’ / (2012) Six Zero Six, fiction, HD, 75’
The Devil
Director: Jean-Gabriel Periot, 2012, France, 7 minutes
[Saturday, October 20 @ 4:05 PM ~ Screening with: Sing Your Song]
“You don’t know what we are.”
Jean-Gabriel Périot
Jean-Gabriel Périot is a French director, born in 1974. He has developed his own editing style: a mix of documentary, animation and video creation. He often questions history and violence through its creation, which has been awarded many times in internationals festivals. He is currently working on a feature documentary.
Luminaris
Director: Juan Pablo Zaramella, 2011, Argentina, 6 minutes, Cast: Gustavo Cornillon, Maria Alche, Luis Rial
[Saturday, October 20 @ 2:10 PM ~ Screening with: Worldwide Shorts]
In a world controlled and timed by light, an ordinary man has a plan that could change the natural order of things.
Luminaris is an animated short film made using the pixilation technique, combining
real actors interacting with animated objects and time-lapse sequences. The film tells the story of a man living in a world controlled and timed by light. Every morning, the inhabitants of that world are woken up and pulled to their jobs by sunlight, as if this was some sort of magnet. The main character has a routinely job in a factory that makes electric bulbs. But he has something else in mind that could change the order of things.
Juan Pablo Zaramella
After his graduation at the Instituto de Arte Cinematografico de Avellaneda as an Animation Director, he started directing and animating his own films. All his independent shorts have been awarded all around the world. In 2010, Annecy International Animation Festival presented a special program with all his works. His last short film “Luminaris” has won the Audience Award and Fipresci Award at Annecy 2011, and is included in the Oscars Shortlist for Best Animated Short.
Unfinished Spaces
Directors: Alysa Nahmias & Benjamin Murray, 2011, USA/Cuba, 82 minutes
[Friday, October 19 @ 4:15 PM]
Cuba’s ambitious National Art Schools project, designed by three young artists in the wake of Castro’s Revolution, is neglected, nearly forgotten, then ultimately rediscovered as a visionary architectural masterpiece. In 1961, three young, visionary architects were commissioned by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara to create Cuba’s National Art Schools on the grounds of a former golf course in Havana, Cuba. Construction of their radical designs began immediately and the school’s first classes soon followed. Dancers, musicians and artists from all over the country reveled in the beauty of the schools, but as the dream of the Revolution quickly became a reality, construction was abruptly halted and the architects and their designs were deemed irrelevant in the prevailing political climate. Forty years later the schools are in use, but remain unfinished
and decaying. Castro has invited the exiled architects back to finish their unrealized dream.
Unfinished Spaces features intimate footage of Fidel Castro, revealing his devotion to creating a worldwide showcase for art, and it documents the struggle and passion of three revolutionary artists whose inspiration and ideals could ultimately destroy them.
Alysa Nahmias
Alysa Nahmias [co-director, co-producer] is founder and executive director of Ajna Films. Unfinished Spaces, her feature directing debut, won a 2012 Independent Spirit Award. Her producing credits also include The Listening Archive and Outside the Giardini. She has received numerous grants and awards from government agencies and private foundations, including the New York State Council on the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, and the Graham Foundation. Nahmias holds a Masters degree in architecture (M.Arch) from Princeton University and a B.A. from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
Benjamin Murray
Benjamin Murray [co-director, co-producer, director of photography] started his post production company, The Room, in 2010 and currently partners with Technicolor through two Flame Premium suites. His regular clients include major networks and numerous independent production companies. Murray’s recent projects include: No Direction Home, directed by Martin Scorsese; Capitalism: A Love Story, directed by Michael Moore; The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town, directed by Thom Zimny; Client 9, directed by Alex Gibney; Reagan, directed by Eugene Jarecki; Fog of War, directed by Errol Morris; My Architect, directed by Nathaniel Kahn; Born Into Brothels, directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman; and Once In a Lifetime, directed by Paul Crowder. Murray's feature directing debut, Unfinished Spaces, won a 2012 Independent Spirit Award. Murray holds a BFA in Film and Television Production from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Sing Your Song
Director: Susanne Rostock, 2011, USA, 105 minutes, Cast: Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Paul Robeson, Nat King Cole, Julian Bond, J Edgar Hoover, Ed Sullivan, Dinah Shore, Steve Allen, George Schaltter, Adrienne Belafonte Biesemeyer
[Saturday, October 20 @ 4:05 PM]
Wonderfully archived, and told with a remarkable sense of intimacy, visual style, and musical panache, Susanne Rostock’s inspiring biographical documentary, SING YOUR SONG, surveys the life and times of singer/actor/activist Harry Belafonte. From his rise to fame as a singer, inspired by Paul Robeson, and his experiences touring a segregated country, to his provocative crossover into Hollywood, Belafonte’s groundbreaking career personifies the American civil rights movement and impacted many other social-justice movements. Rostock reveals Belafonte as a tenacious hands-on activist, who worked intimately with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., mobilized celebrities for social justice, participated in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, and took action to counter gang violence, prisons, and the incarceration of youth.
Because of his beliefs, Belafonte drew unwarranted invasions by the FBI into both his personal life and career, which led to years of struggle. But an indomitable sense of optimism motivates his path even today as he continues to ask, at 84, "What do we do now?" His example may very well inspire you to action.
Susanne Rostock
Long esteemed as “an aural and visual poet”, Susanne Rostock’s filmmaking is a stunning 37 years of some of the most compelling documentaries of each decade. Her most recent film, SING YOUR SONG, about Harry Belafonte’s life as an artist and activist, was chosen to open the U.S. Documentary Competition section of the Sundance Film Festival. Susanne’s 20 year multi–award winning collaboration as editor with director Michael Apted has produced such richly provocative films as: THE LONG WAY HOME, INCIDENT AT OGLALA, ME & ISAAC NEWTON, MOVING THE MOUNTAIN. Susanne has achieved recognition for her editing on a myriad of films that continue to endure and resonate. Her films have garnered Emmy’s, IDA awards, Cable Ace awards, a Gold Hugo and acknowledgement from multiple national and international festivals. Some of her other work as an editor includes: PASSIN’ IT ON, CALLING THE GHOSTS, THE UPRISING OF ‘34 and PATERNAL INSTINCT. Susanne studied anthropology and ethnographic filmmaking with Margaret Mead at Columbia University and received an MFA in Filmmaking from New York University.
With My Little Bouquet
Director: Stéphane Mercurio, 2011, France, 11 minutes, Cast: Zazie, Xavier Mathieu
[Sunday, October 21 @ 6:20 PM ~ Screening with: Magic Hour]
She runs, slight. Then the cold and violent jail reality grabs her. She will have to leave shoes, camera, sugar almond at the entrance. Prohibited. But she will marry at all costs the man she loves. She leaves the jail both victorious and defeated.
Stéphane Mercurio
Director, Author of original work, Screenwriter, Director of Photography, Sound Recordist
1937
Director: Svetozar Golovlev, 2011, Russia, 18 minutes, Cast: Eva Aveeva, Ivan Pachin
[Sunday, October 21 @ 2:10 PM ~ Screening with: Love Free or Die]
1937. A young couple is going to a village somewhere outside Moscow to baptize their child secretly. They see a train with convicts passing by the station they just arrived at. Suddenly a letter falls out of one of the cars. The main characters understand that it is a letter to send home. The follow-up boils down to painful struggle between their conscience and fear. They are well aware that helping the letter reach the addressee will be regarded as collaborationism, for which they may be prosecuted.
Svetozar Golovlev
(Born 1983, Klin, Russia) In 1998 moved to Germany, in 2004 graduated from Academy of Scene Arts in Ulm. Then he moved to Russia and graduated from the Film Directing Department of Moscow All-Russian State University of Cinematography (VGIK, Sirenko A. and Skuybin N.’s workshop) in 2010. Filmography: Viktoria (2010), 1937 (2011).
Sssh!
Director: Laura M. Campos, 2012, Spain, 19 minutes, Cast Aura Garrido, Ramón San Román, Jesús Olmedo, Lluvia Rojo, Antonio de Cos, Nerea Garmendia
[Sunday, October 21 @ 12:00 PM ~ Screening with: This is Not an American Movie]
Olivia has a mutation that gives her unique superhuman abilities. She has been identified by The Corporation and an elite squad now surrounds her house to recruit her. Hugo, who seems to be a stranger, offers to help her escape.
Laura M. Campos
Laura M. Campos (Malaga, 1976) is a new film director who started her career working in the direction team of short films, advertising and TV shows. Sssh! (2012), is her first short film, it’s meant to break stereotypes: an action film directed by a woman.
Koyaa - The Extraordinary
Director: Kolja Saksida, 2011, Slovenia, 3 minutes, Animation
[Saturday, October 20 @ 2:10 PM ~ Screening with: Worldwide Shorts]
Koyaa tackles everyday situations in his own wacky way. In the morning, he wants to tie his shoes but the naughty laces won't listen. Luckily, he's not alone on the remote mountain ledge: when things start getting crazy, his friend the wise Raven is always ready to help.
Kolja Saksida
Kolja Saksida is active in the field of film as a director, actor and producer. As an assistant director he participated in the making of Academy Award winning film No Man's Land. Together with Marko A. Kovačič, he directed three animated short films featuring the Plastos Civilization. Until now his most notable production was an animated series Koyaa that has been shown on the Slovenian national television throughout the 2005 season. In 2009 he realized a short puppet animation entitled Kiddo - slingshot as director, co-writer and co-producer.
A Morning Stroll
Director: Grant Orchard, 2012, 7 minutes, UK, Animation
[Saturday, October 20 @ 2:10 PM ~ Screening with: Worldwide Shorts]
A New Yorker passes a chicken out for its morning stroll.
Festivals & Awards: 2012 Sundance, BAFTA, Annecy…
Grant Orchard
He started his art college life as a Graphic Design student but was a little crap and also not especially content with summing up a notion with one image. His tutor eventually suggested animation as a route he should take, which pretty much married two of his favorite things at the time: comics and film.
Memory
Director: Victor Suñer, 2011, Spain, 8 minutes, Cast: María Tamarit, MªÁngeles Máñez, Eva Pertusa, Blanca Moltó, Silvia Rodríguez, Carles Calabuig
[Friday, October 19 @ 8:00 PM ~ Screening with: Aicha, Crazy Summer]
A man sitting in a coffee house makes mental review of all the failures of love.
Victor Suñer has built his career to date especially in the field of advertising and music videos with extensive experience in designing motion graphics. He directed commercials for brands such as: Rexona, Pepsi, Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Ruralcaja, Palau de la Música, Valencia C.F., Generalitat Valenciana, Norauto, Falomir juegos, Valencia Basket y Ketchup Prima. He has worked as a freelance for agencies and production companies such as Publips, Engloba, Malvarrosa Media, SorollaFilms, VG Communication, Canal 9, Dvila, Crespo Gomar, Insomnia and Audio Millennia.
Neukolln Berlin Wake Up Dance
Director: Victor Meliveo, 2011, Spain/Germany, 5 minutes, Cast: Rebeca Gomez
[Friday, October 19 @ 10:00 PM ~ Screening with: Symmetry of the Butterfly]
Feet. dance, expression, reality, tenderness and rhythm. Sunrise at Berlin and dreams are launched. Drear awake and imagining a journey, an escape ... desires. This piece of video dance transfers us to a middle ground between the mental and the physical, the psychic the tangible. The body as a means of communication without words, full of emotions and feelings, where each symbol comes alive and becomes material. The senses and intellect are one, to read a story as abstract as human heart.
Implosion of Light & Sound II: Smith
Director: Huckleberry Lain, 2012, USA, 4 minutes, Animation
[Saturday, October 20 @ 2:10 PM ~ Screening with: Worldwide Shorts]
The second iteration of a series of "Implosion of Light and Sound" a delicate play of music and simple shapes. Evoking imagery
of classic mosaics from Roman artwork shapes. In this piece spheres drop like rain spilling across the screen playing to light, delicate and soothing music.
Huckleberry Lain
Huckleberry (normal life name Paul Shepherd) obtained Master in Fine Arts from the University of Southern California in Digital Arts and Animation. He has been making films for over 10 years with more than 20 films completed within that time. He usually sticks to experimental and animation, but he has made documentaries, live-action comedies, stop-motion tragedies and many other styles and genres. He has performed in the films of underground film legends Mike and George Kuchar, rising filmmaker Marie Losier and established artist Katja Loher as well as other individuals.
A Few Kilometers
Director: Ebrahim Irajzadeh, 2012, Iran, 17 minutes
[Saturday, October 20 @ 8:25 PM]
The film tells the story of two women who came across each other on the road and it turns out that…
Ebrahim Irajzad
Ebrahim Irajzad was born on July19, 1981. He majored in Directing at Sooreh University in 2005.In the same year; he directed his first short film called " Love, a Sorrowful Tale". The movie appeared at: Khaneye Cinema Festival (2005), Short Film Festival in Tehran (2005), Saye Student-Film Festival (2007) and Razavi Short Film (2007), in order, it was nominated for Best Short Film; also it was awarded for Best Picture, Best Edit, Best Directing, Best Music and Best Screenplay.
In 2007, he directed his first short documentary called ' Just Look at Our Hands, Would You' And in 2012, he finished directing his third short film called" A few kilometer's Away".
This is Not an American Movie
Director: Sasho Pavloski, 2011, Macedonia, 87 minutes, Cast: Senko Velinov, Ky Evans, Tanja Mickov, Slavisha Kajevski, Igor Stojcevski, Toni Naumovski, Igor Angelov, Zlatko Mitrevski
[Sunday, October 21 @ 12:00 PM]
The Boss is a middle-aged man leading a motley gang of petty criminals, who live off of minor scams and rackets. While he and his gang dream of the big time, their daily existence is rather unglamorous, mostly spent in cafes exaggerating their importance while talking about American films. However, this constant fascination with the movies, while exposing their own irrelevance, does actually endow the Boss with special talents: he has mastered the ability to make a scene end with a “fade out” and can also deliver a “voice-over” narration. Indeed, with these skills the Boss is partially controlling the film he is inside, and informs the audience of such.
Sasho Pavloski
Studied at Academy for Television and Film Arts “Krstyo Sarafov”, Sofia - Master of Film and Television Arts – 1998, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Filmography: 2011 – Director & Producer: This is not an American Movie, 2000 – Director of the TV film “Play with the letters”
1999 – Director of the featured Television movie “Emigranti” for Macedonian National Television; Participant on Biaritz Film Festival (France); Participant on RAI UNO TV Festival (Italy); Participant on Berlin Film Fest (Germany)
1998 – Director of the short film – “Punk’s not dead”
1999 – Director of the featured Television movie “Emigranti” for Macedonian National Television; Participant on Biaritz Film Festival (France); Participant on RAI UNO TV Festival (Italy); Participant on Berlin Film Fest (Germany)
1998 – Director of the short film – “Punk’s not dead”
Sidewalk
Director: Binevsa Berivan, 2011, Belgium, 17 minutes, Cast: Nazmi Kirik, Gaia Saitta
[Friday, October 19 @ 4:15 PM ~ Screening with: Unfinished Spaces]
This is the story of Mémo, a Kurdish immigrant living with his wife in the basement of a Brussels house. To avoid eviction from Belgium, Mémo remains secluded in his basement, peeping on passers-by through the window and waiting for his wife to return. In this dance of feet walking in front of his basement window, Mémo finds himself witness to stories and daily dramas without having the opportunity to take a stand.
Binevsa Berivan
Born in Istanbul, Berivan Binevsa arrives in Belgium in 1997 as a Kurdish political refugee. After studying at Brussels’ INRACI film school, she’s directing the short films La mélodie du petit château and Phone Story, as well as the documentary Trace – Le peuple du Paon, each being showed in many international film festivals.
He Was a Giant With Brown Eyes
Director: Eileen Hofer, 2012, Switzerland/Azerbaijan, 80 minutes: Cast: Sabina Aghamaliyeva, Narmina Aghamaliyeva, Namik Aghamaliyev, Vagif Aghamaliyev
[Friday, October 19 @ 2:00 PM]
After her parents' divorce, Sabina followed her mother to Switzerland while her sister, Narmina, stayed with their father in Baku. Five years later, the 17 and 19 year old sisters are reunited when Sabina comes to spend her summer vacation in Azerbaijan. Yet Sabina's vacation has a secret motive: she wants to move back home to live with the father she loves so deeply. He, too, has a project of his own: he wishes to marry for the third time and has to break the news to his daughters. Sabina, torn between two cultures, ends up following her father's advice and leaves for the countryside with her uncle. She sets out on a journey of discovery, while her sister, Narmina, is left to lament her boyfriend's departure for the army. This film paints the portrait of the coming of age of two Azerbaijani teenagers and their quest for answers.
Eileen Hofer
Eileen Hofer was born in 1976 in Zurich. She worked as a press officer for a film festival and then began her career as a journalist for a Swiss daily newspaper in 2005. She spent two years as chief editor of a Swiss magazine before starting off her career as a self-taught filmmaker. Her first short film, "Roots" (2008) was screened in 70 festivals (Locarno, Clermont-Ferrand, Palm Springs) and received over 10 awards. Her second short, "The Mourning of the Marry Stork" (40 festivals such as Rotterdam) won the Suissimage/SSA New Generation Prize for Best Short Film. "He was a Giant With Brown Eyes" is her first self-produced film. The world premiere of the movie took place in Rotterdam Film Festival in January 2012.
Red River, Song Hong
Directors: Stéphanie Lansaque & François Leroy, 2012, France/Viet Nam, 15 minutes, Animation
[Saturday, October 20 @ 2:10 PM ~ Screening with: Worldwide Shorts]
The early hours in Hanoi of three young brothers newly arrived from their native village. Around the Long Bien Bridge, they cross the path of a young cop and a street vendor.
Festivals & Awards: Cannes Film Festival
Stéphanie Lansaque
Stéphanie Lansaque was born in1978. François Leroy was born in 1978. Filmography: 2012 RED RIVER, SONG HONG (S) / 2009 MEI LING (S) / 2005 BONSOIR MONSIEUR CHU (S)
Loop
Director: Aritz Moreno, 2011, Spain, 3 minutes, Cast: Kepa Errasti, Jon Calvo
[Saturday, October 20 @ 2:10 PM ~ Screening with: Worldwide Shorts]
A man gets up and prepares coffee. A man gets up and prepares coffee. A man gets up and prepares coffee. And then…
ARITZ MORENO. Donostia-San Sebastián, 1980. He studied photography, video and cinema at the School of Film and Video in Andoain. In 2003 he directed his first short film, Portal Mortal, which he won over twenty awards for. He is also responsible for the absurd San Sebastian Surfilm Festival campaigns.
Filmography: 2003 Portal Mortal (Mini DV, 8 min. Fiction), 2008 Cotton Candy (35 mm, 11 min. Fiction), 2010 Mutante (HD, 3 min. Videoclip), 2010 ¿Por qué te vas? (HD, 8 min. Fiction), 2011 Bucle (HD, 3 min. Fiction)Borderline
Director: Dustin Rees, 2011, Switzerland, 7 minutes, Animation
[Saturday, October 20 @ 2:10 PM ~ Screening with: Worldwide Shorts]
A border guard tries to take his own life, but not all barriers can be crossed.
Dustin Rees was born in Switzerland in 1981. Spending his childhood in the UK, he returned to Switzerland at the age of 11. After studying at the Mathematisch Naturwissenschaftliches Gymnasium in Zurich, he attended the foundation course at University for Art and Design in Zurich. Following his love for animation he graduated with distinction in this field at the University in Lucerne four years later in 2007. Since then he has directed numerous commissioned and short films and clips. His films have traveled the globe through numerous film festivals and have been screened in cinemas and broadcasting stations. He also teaches digital editing and animation at the University of Art and Design in Lucerne, he freelances, as well as running animation workshops for schools and children.
The Bella Vista
Director: Alicia Cano, 2012, Uruguay/Germany, 73 minutes
[Friday, October 19 @ 6:15 PM]
If you take a house that started as a football club, turned into a transvestite brothel and then became a Catholic Church and add two transvestites, one (professional) Madam, a gaucho football player, and a charming old lady then you have documentary THE BELLA VISTA by Alicia Cano (Uruguay). Also from a first-time director, the film’s producer is Thomas Mauch who is best known for being a prominent cinematographer working on such films as Werner Herzog’s Fitcarraldo, Aguirre: The Wrath of God and Stroszek.
Festivals & Awards: Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Zurich Film Festival
Alicia Cano
Alicia Cano was born in Uruguay in 1982. After completing her Media Studies, in 2006 she moved to Italy to take a Master in Documentary Film, continuing in later years to make documentaries for Italian television. Today she lives in Montevideo, teaches film at the University and coordinates the Pitching Forum at DocMontevideo, the documentary meeting between Latin American television networks. El Bella Vista is her first documentary feature.
At the Museum
Director: Susanne Wiegner, 2011, Germany, 3 minutes, Animation
[Saturday, October 20 @ 2:10 PM ~ Screening with: Worldwide Shorts]
A surprising game with the relationship between an artwork and the imaginations of the viewer.
Susanne Wiegner
Susanne Wiegner studied architecture at the Academy of fine Arts in Munich and at Pratt Institute in New York City. She works as an architect and 3D-artist in Munich, Germany. In addition to projects in real space, for several years she has been creating 3D computer animations dealing with literature and with virtual space. Venues where her work have been shown include the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, the Jenisch Haus in Hamburg, the Art + Technology Center EYEBEAM in New York City, festivals in Marseille, Rotterdam, Berlin, Athens, Lisbon, Copenhagen, Budapest, Damascus, Ramallah and Vienna.
In 2011 her film "just midnight" was the winner of the festival award "la parola immaginata" in Bergamo, Italy and in 2012 her film "at the museum" won the Ballon-Prize at crosstalk 2012, Budapest.
In 2011 her film "just midnight" was the winner of the festival award "la parola immaginata" in Bergamo, Italy and in 2012 her film "at the museum" won the Ballon-Prize at crosstalk 2012, Budapest.
Strawberry Fields
Director: Esther Bialas, 2011, Germany, 12 minutes, Cast: Olga von Luckwald, Vincent Redetzki, Regina Stotzel, Stefan Schiebleder
[Saturday, October 20 @ 6:20 PM ~ Screening with: Love Love Love]
Marie hates the strawberry stall next to the field where she has to sell fruit after school.
Stefan loves sleeping with her in the strawberry. Only he does not love Marie. And Philip hates that Marie doesn’t love him.
Esther Bialas
Esther Bialas was born in Wiesbaden Germany, in 2003 as assistant-editor to Siberia. Various internships, assistant director at the theater and in film projects. First own short film projects; 2006 Studies of Audiovisual Media/ Bachelor of Arts in Berlin; 2008 Foundation of the film production company and film-collective: "Das Kind mit der goldenen Jacke."; Since 2010 postgraduate film studies in directing at Hamburg Media School (GER); 2004 "Anna and Lusia" (short, 16 mm); 2007 "Briefgeheimnis" (Short, HD); 2009 "Gone Fishing" (ger: „Nichts von Bedeutung“; medium length, HD); 2009 "Beyond fortune" (International Film Festival in Cannes, Short, HD), 2011 Hamburg Media School “Cat’s dance" (short, 35mm), "Strawberry Fields" short S16m
Riddle of the Black Cat
Director: J. W. Rinzler, 2012, USA, 5 minutes, Animation
[Saturday, October 20 @ 2:10 PM ~ Screening with: Worldwide Shorts]
The horrifying 150-year-old mystery of Edgar Allan Poe’s perverse masterpiece—solved at last! Legendary detective C. Auguste Dupin matches wits with mastermind Prisoner X. After several brutal crimes have been committed, Dupin must reveal whether the perpetrator is an insane victim of the supernatural—or a psychotic genius.
Elegant visuals and haunting melodies intertwine to breathe new life into an eerie tale of rotting flesh.
J. W. Rinzler
Author of the The Making of Star Wars and The Complete Making of Indiana Jones, New York Times and London Times Bestsellers, Rinzler has written for the animated CG TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. He is currently writing a novel and adapting a film script for Dark Horse Comics. Trivia: The evil henchman “Rinzler” in Tron: Legacy was named after him.
The Thirst
Director: Francois Vogel, France, 2011, 4 minutes, Experimental
[Saturday, October 20 @ 2:10 PM ~ Screening with: Worldwide Shorts]
This Thirst" drives us into an hypnotic journey along the sky train in Dubai. The disproportionate architecture bordering the tracks is trapped by a camera that will twist roads and buildings. The singer Reham accompanies this trip, with a disturbing message.
Francois Vogel
Francois Vogel’s crazy audiovisual inventions come from the experiments he has conducted with cameras and from his work in digital arts. He manipulates images and concepts, by twisting them like clay ("Cuisine”, “Tournis”, “Trois petits chats"), or by fragmenting them like crystal ("Rue Francis”, “Faux plafond”, “Les Crabes").
Filmography: “Les Poissons me connaissent” (1991), “Le Bruit de la vrillette” (1992), “Estouffade” (1993), “La Sieste sous les cocotiers” (1995), “Un cirque vraiment extraordinaire” (1995), “Cueillette” (1995), “Riante contrée” (1996), “Monitor Awards 97” (1997), “Rue Francis” (1997), “La Poule Gérard” (1997), “J‘apparaitrai quand tu seras tout triste” (“Poetica” serie, 1997), “Faux plafond” (1999), “Les Crabes” (codirected with Stéphane Lavoix, 2002), “Trois petits chats” (2003), “Les 7 hommes de Mireille Poukisse” (2004), “Tournis” (2006), “Cuisine” (2007), “Rébus”, “After the Rain” (2008), “Stretching” (2009), "Slippery Grounds" (2010).
Filmography: “Les Poissons me connaissent” (1991), “Le Bruit de la vrillette” (1992), “Estouffade” (1993), “La Sieste sous les cocotiers” (1995), “Un cirque vraiment extraordinaire” (1995), “Cueillette” (1995), “Riante contrée” (1996), “Monitor Awards 97” (1997), “Rue Francis” (1997), “La Poule Gérard” (1997), “J‘apparaitrai quand tu seras tout triste” (“Poetica” serie, 1997), “Faux plafond” (1999), “Les Crabes” (codirected with Stéphane Lavoix, 2002), “Trois petits chats” (2003), “Les 7 hommes de Mireille Poukisse” (2004), “Tournis” (2006), “Cuisine” (2007), “Rébus”, “After the Rain” (2008), “Stretching” (2009), "Slippery Grounds" (2010).
Private Sale
Director: Gaizka Urresti, 2012, Spain, 15 minutes, Cast: Asuncion Balaguer, Andres Gertrudix, Carmen Barrantes
[Sunday, October 21 @ 10:30 PM ~ Screening with: Lynch]
Laura and Guille are a young couple who visit of Amparo´s flat, a widow who lives alone, on Christmas Eve to buy the house. They will find an old woman who seems more interested in knowing about their lives that to sell her home. Among them it will establish a relationship that will affect their lives.
Gaizka Urresti
Born in 1967 in Bilbao. Bachelor of Information Sciences at the UPV/EHU. Is a producer, director, script writer, cultural manager and teacher of both film and television. With his production company IMVAL has produced 15 short films and 7 feature films "CHEVROLET" (1997) "EL REGALO DE SILVIA" (2003) "ANTONIA" (2004) "LIFE AND COLOR" (2006) "ONE METER FROM YOU " (2009) "THE LAST SCRIPT” Remembering BUÑUEL (2008) “THE INVISIBLE GAZE” (2010) Diego Letteman. As director and screenwriter the shorts "THE MALICIOUS WONDERLAND" (2004), "ROOT" (2003) and "THE MEMORY OF THE HEART" (2001), “A GOD THAT NO LONGER SHELTER” (2010) ,nd his first feature documentary "THE LAST INDENT. BUÑUEL IN MEMORY "(2008) with Javier Espada presented in more than 50 international festivals and have won some prizes. Now he has finished the short “PRIVATE SALE” (2012).
Glucose
Directors: Mihai Grecu & Thibault Gleize, 2012, France, 7 minutes, Animation
[Saturday, October 20 @ 12:00 PM ~ Screening with: Hunt for Bin Laden]
Using 3d technology and live shooting, Glucose reshapes our surrounding domestic environment. It depicts a place where physical distortions happen. The camera becomes the microscope of a slow mental slideshow and catches precious moments of perception disorder. Inspired by the quantum theory where particles can be in two places at the same time in an overlapping state, this anxiogenic and humoristic short gives birth to new types of relationships between objects and their own physical particularities.
Mihai Grecu & Thibault Gleize
Mihai Grecu and Thibault Gleize form a multidisciplinary artistic duo, activating in Paris. Their practices articulate themselves around various media such as digital video, installation, graphic design, photography and drawing. Chaotic sensations, alienated cities, polluted beings and noisy atmospheres mark the boundaries of these hallucinatory spaces. Collaborative filmography: Freon 2004, Orcaille 2006, Glucose 2012
Who Lasts Longer
Director: Gregorio Muro, 2011, Spain, 12 minutres, Animation
[Saturday, October 20 @ 2:10 PM ~ Screening with: Worldwide Shorts]
A dangerous children’s' game will disrupt the lives of Ander and his family forever.
Gregorio Muro
GREGORIO MURO. Donostia-San Sebastián, 1954. Cartoonist, screenwriter and film and TV director. After several years publishing his works mainly in France, he began in the audiovisual industry as a screenwriter of the animated feature film La leyenda del viento del Norte (The Legend of the North Wind) (1992). Since then he has been contributing as a writer for numerous productions and as a director in the film El rey de la granja (King of the Farm) and in the short films Tras los visillos (Behind The Curtain), Perros de presa (Hunting Dogs) and Zeinek gehiago iraun (Who Lasts Longer).
Filmography:
2001 El rey de la granja (35 mm, 84 min. Fiction, animation)
2008 Tras los visillos (35 mm, 16 min. Fiction)
2009 Perros de presa (HDV, 8 min. Fiction)
2011 Zeinek gehiago iraun (HD, 12 min. Animation)
Prinz Ratte
Director: Albert Radl. 2011, Germany, 15 minutes, Animation
[Sunday, October 21 @ 8:30 PM ~ Screening with: Ever Loving Ocean of Blues]
"Prinz Ratte" is a fairy tale with all the ingredients needed: A castle, a princess, a prince, a dragon, a secret admirer and deep emotions, but also with an unexpected ending and an uncommon truth about little heroes and big desire...
Albert Radl
1971 born in Düsseldorf / 1991-1994 studied Grafik-Design at the University of Applied Sciences, Augsburg / 1994-1998 studied Grafik-Design at the University of Applied Sciences, Düsseldorf / 1998 Graduation film / 2000-2001 Artistic and scientific assistant at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg, Ludwigsburg / 2002-2004 Political Caricaturist for German newspaper Handelsblatt / since 1999 Lecturer at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg, Ludwigsburg / 2004 - 2007 Lecturer for illustration/animation at the University of Applied Sciences, Mainz / working as an illustrator, animator (flash, stop motion) and director for film, serial and internet / 2008-2010 working on a 15 min short animation called “Prinz Ratte”, funded by Filmfundation North Rhine Westphalia, Filmfundation Hamburg and German Government / 2010 working as an animator for the feature film “oapostolo”
Fly Mill
Director: Anu-Laura Tuttelberg, 2012, Estonia, 7 minutes, Animation
[Saturday, October 20 @ 2:10 PM ~ Screening with: Worldwide Shorts]
The miller who lives in an old water mill bakes daily bread and raises ducklings that he wishes to one day set free. But on the field next to his home, hunters go to shoot birds.
Anu-Laura Tuttelberg
Anu-Laura Tuttelberg (1984) is an MA student of animation in Estonian Academy of Arts. She made her first animation Fly Mill a puppet film as her graduation film. Currently she is working as a set designer for a short stop motion animation for children in Nukufilm studio in Estonia. She is also developing the story for her new puppet film.
